Boston Post subscription rates and contact details 1919
The Boston Post offers daily and Sunday editions with various subscription rates for U S Canada and foreign readers. It lists prices for different durations, postage adjustments for Canada and the Boston district, and payment instructions including checks drafts and money orders to POST PUBLISHING CO.
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Post Publishing CO
Wellesley bans student smoking on campus
The college government association posts a rule that students may not smoke while living under its regulations. The notice draws national attention with mixed reactions as commentators weigh Puritan roots and campus life.
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Wellesley College Government Association
Royal peers take to work as train crew in England strike
During the railroad strike in England several members of the peerage served in ordinary railway roles. A royal duke drove a London passenger car, an earl was a convoy chauffeur, another served as fireman on a Liverpool express, and an earl and his wife helped with milk car duties at Paddington. The piece notes they did real work, not mere larks.
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England
London
Liverpool
Earl
Paddington Station
Bad manners and intolerance in public debate
A defense of free speech condemns hostile crowds in Oklahoma and Washington for booing senators over treaty positions. The piece argues such demonstrations are bad business, harm their own sides, and fail to show true Americanism. It calls for decent treatment and calm argument in the Senate and in Oklahoma towns.
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Reed
Oklahoma
Hitchcock
United States Senate
League
Senate
Washington
House Committee Recommends Unseating Fitzgerald
Reported by the House elections committee that Peter F. Tague is legally entitled to the 10th Massachusetts district seat, with unseating Fitzgerald likely to be acted on in the upcoming session. Flores on the floor may attempt to overturn, but such reversals are rare. The House alone governs its membership with no external appeal.
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Peter F. Tague
John F. Fitzgerald
Massachusetts
Washington
House Committee On Elections
Fitzgerald
Tague
House
Albert and Queen Arrive in New York in Royal Reception
Albert of Belgium and Queen accompanied by a grand welcome on arrival in New York. The couple, while moved by the display of enthusiasm, remained practical and human amid the tumult and acclaim.
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Albert
Belgium
New York
King Albert’s Welcome by New York Praised by Soldiers
The passage lauds King Albert of Belgium and his soldiers for courage shown against the Hun. It emphasizes that the city’s welcome honored the heart of bravery over royal trappings. America’s reception of Albert is described as deeply satisfying to him.
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Albert
Belgium
America
William Jennings Bryan
Gloucester
Senate Defeats Fall Amendments to Versailles Treaty
The Senate voted down Fall amendments delaying US participation in treaty commissions. The pile of hostile changes collapsed as 26 were defeated en bloc and the rest fell short. Support for the treaty rose from yesterday’s decisive victory, signaling gains for its friends.
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Committee On Foreign Relations
United States
Ohio Supreme Court Won't Finalize Prohibition Without Voter Review
The Ohio court's ruling says the Legislature must seek voter approval for the prohibition amendment to the federal constitution. If the U S Supreme Court agrees with Ohio, the January 29 proclamation by Assistant Secretary Polk would be invalid. A new proclamation and a possible one-year delay could follow. Several states with referendum systems threaten to delay nationwide prohibition.
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Supreme Court of
Ohio
Commonwealth
Supreme Court of the United States
Ohio Court
Polk
The Admiral Speaks on Trau Landing Controversy
The Post reports Admiral Knapp states American marines landed at Trau Dalmatia at Italian authority request to prevent a Serbian Italian clash. This refutes Senate claims that Britain ordered the action or that the Marines were at war with Italy. Senators who mocked Daniels and the President should accept the admiralty line.
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Dalmatia
Knapp
Navy Department
Italy
Daniels
University Fund Drive Aims to “Put Over the Top”
The appeal is made with hearty liberality its force is recognized its purpose is commended in the most practical way It remains not only to meet the suggestion of the needs of our great University but to put over the top the fund desired.
Thrift Day Observed to Promote War Savings Stamps
The article advocates Thrift Day in public schools to boost thrift and War Savings Stamps. It argues thrift supports national prosperity, guards against socialist ideas, and strengthens citizenship through government investment, urging Thrift Day to become a national institution.
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United States
Emmy Destinn Visits New York and Other War Era Notes
Emmy Destinn the Bohemian pianist arrives in New York unannounced, greeted by hundreds at the Savoy. Private Abraham Miskin of Hartford displays a war souvenir collection at the Connecticut State Library with coins from multiple ancient and modern lands. Painter Cummings Chase clashes with Marshal Woch over smoking. General Pershing and President Wilson converse with French leaders as English-learner Poincare and Clemenceau showcase language progress.
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New York
Savoy
Abraham Miskin
Hartford
Connecticut State Library
Rome
Holy Land
Russia
Mexico
Egypt
Spain
Miskin
Coblenz
Poincare
Clemenceau
Pershing
America
Wilson
Opera directors reach New York aboard Dante Alighieri
Giulio Gatti Carrera Galazza general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company and Cleonfonte Campanini director of the Chicago Grand Opera Company arrived in New York today aboard the Italian steamship Dante Alighiere from Genoa. A number of opera singers were aboard the vessel.
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New York
Giulio Gatti- Galazza
Metropolitan Opera Company
Cleonfonte Campanini
Chicago Grand Opera Company
Dante Aleghiere
Genoa
Remarkable tales evoke a postmaster’s advertising faith
A Brockton Enterprise clipping prompts Joseph Hatchfield at Whitman post office to seek the maker of a stem winding gold watch after a calf swallowed it, then a Maine pickerel returns the watch a year later as the author recalls a similar fateful fishing incident and a grateful fish.
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Whitman Post Office
Enterprise
United States
ABC
Baron Munchausen
Joe
Brockton
Maine
Fish
Boston
Pickerer
Deep sea sailor rows boat on Boston Public Garden pond
A snippet notes a deep sea sailor named Ignatz rowing a small craft on the Boston Public Garden pond, inviting curiosity about life’s mysteries.
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Newt
Boston Public Garden
Ignatz
Harvard Endowment Drive Tops Two Million In Gifts
Boston donors lead early push for the endowment fund with about $700000 in gifts as canvass opens. Local committee reports subscriptions near $1,000,000 and totals from other districts push toward $2,000,000. The effort shows strong community support and swift progress.
Eating and economy in a witty verse by Walt Mason
A humorous poem depicts indulgent dining and the cost of meals. The speaker recounts a heavy dinner of roast mutton beets sweet potatoes and pie and muses on digestion vanity and the urge to save wealth by eating less.
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Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Pilgrims and Separatists Seek Refuge Beyond England
The article recounts fugitives from many English counties escaping to Dutch soil to worship freely. It notes 102 Mayflower passengers with origins including London, Kent, and Suffolk, contrasts London 1607 with modern cities, and describes Puritans and Separatists facing ridicule yet persisting despite persecution.
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Holland
London
Kent
Suffolk
Shakspere
Whiting-Bostonian Turns 60 Amid Global Adventures
The Observant Citizen salutes Lilian Whiting Boston writer on her 60th birthday noting her lifelong pursuit of beauty with annual pilgrimages to Paris Rome Florence and London. The column also reflects on Boston figures named Gaston and a weather diary by J W Smith reporting four thunderstorms this past summer and a higher yearly average temperature.
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Lilian Whiting
Miss Whiting
Paris
Rome
Florence
London
Atlantic
Two Minute Talks for Americans by Charles Franklin Jones
Boston writer Charles Franklin Jones argues that the majority should guide national policy. He cautions that minorities should not override the will of the people and that mistakes are corrected by majority action.
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Charles Franklin Jones
Boston
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