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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1911
Page
10
Publication details show issue number volume and date for Qelvet Daily from Post Publishing Co Boston Massachusetts. No events or articles are readable in the provided text.
The Sunday Post advertises subscription rates: six months 1.50, three months 75c, one month 25c, and yearly 8.90 with Canadian options. Notices advise prepayment, no cash, and payments to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY Boston office. Editor contact details and mailing instructions included.
The piece argues against moving William Loeb Jr. from his post as New York customs collector. It praises his courage and service, urging the President not to appoint him chairman of the Republican National Committee or make him a partisan politician.
The Durbar spectacle in Delhi will cost upwards of 2 million dollars. Indian subjects pay the bulk of the expense, while English readers see it as royal magnificence costing them nothing. The piece notes lingering protests over coronation costs but supports the imperial pageantry.
The court designates a five man to fill the clerk of courts vacancy after a dead man led in votes and a living man trailed. Nevins, a longtime Edgartown resident and lawyer, is sworn in with no disqualification. If other contested elections could be settled so clearly, it would be fortunate.
Justice Lighey of the Supreme Court notes a public figure refuses the £100,000 easily earned sum. The article frames the decision as an act of integrity and public service.
Justice Hughes declines a trustee role in the Pulitzer estate, citing potential impropriety due to his public position. He would fear conflict since major newspapers are central to the estate, and critics may call him quixotic, though supporters defend his stance as principled.
Marvin and about a dozen supporters meet in annual conclave to hail Republican majorities in Congress and Canada's rejection of reciprocity as vindication. The piece notes the pact was crafted and backed by Republicans, with broad U S support, and questions Canada's motive and impact on U S welfare and trade balance.
The article weighs a clash between a republican movement led by Wu Ting Fang and a Manchu regime under Yuan Shikai. Wu claims 14 of 18 provinces have declared independence and a constitutional convention is planned. Yuan rejects limited monarchy and vows to fight along traditional lines.
Laurier mocked the British custom of a long serving speaker as Sir Wilfrid charged that British institutions were sidelined after a government victory. He warned the head of the new government would clash with British policy and might even fight the Borden administration out of existence.
The Boston Young Men's Christian Association on Flyntington avenue outlines new buildings including track gymnasium tennis courts and other appurtenances. It presents a vision of a miniature university for making good citizens and expresses faith in the organization's future.
A rare view of Boston's Back Bay shows water covering the ground now occupied by the Public Garden and streets like Commonwealth avenue and Huntington avenue. Dams and the mill corporation transformed mud flats into land, enabling the rise of Copley Square, the Fenway, and landmark bridges while boosting Boston's growth and wealth.
A Livermore Falls Me newspaper item asks for help locating four missing ducks four weeks overdue. A. C. Trembly offers a reward but shows no strong concern for recovery, prompting readers to report any sightings. The lighthearted missive ends with the question Who saw the ducks.
A Boston column notes a man on a crowded Ariington Heights car paying a fare for a departing rider, plus a 120-year-old umbrella with stag horn handle. It recalls Longfellow and poets crying, horse riders on Washington Street, and a reformer’s hat in winter.
The Hartford Courant notes linen runners with insets of filet crochet medallions are popular for luncheons, with a six person table arranged by three runners. The writer prefers meat dishes over these linen delicacies and doubts the appeal of linen runners or dollies, while expressing a fondness for scallops.
A fragmentary notice mentions a green lawyer's bag with valuable papers and a reward to G. It ridicules a lawyer's appearance and shifts to speculation about illness, suggesting the ad is part of a gossiping or satirical classified snippet from a contemporary paper.
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