Boston Post publishes date October 11 1913 notice and pricing
The Boston Post issue lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, including U S Canada foreign and special weekend terms. It provides office addresses at 259 Washington Street Boston and notes payment in advance, with editor and publisher A Grozier and contact channels.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
Met Ephones
Pencal
Baa Biusiness
Poa
Newedealer
Newsboy
A. Grozier
The Teacher and the Baby
The New York Board of Education decided not to renew the tenure of a married woman who served as a public school principal because she left her post to become a mother. The action prompts questions about motherhood and the demands of teaching duties.
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New York Board of Education
Above Suspicion on World Series Play
A speaker rebuts claims that World Series games are manipulated for gate receipts. He notes players receive no gate receipts after four games and that players’ own interest is to win quickly. He asserts the honesty of World Series play is above suspicion.
Countess of Warwick Denounces American If Approaches Introduce Women
The Countess of Warwick protests an American's attempt to arrange introductions of ambitious women into English society. She regards the move as insulting though noting that many English aristocrats have long profited from similar schemes. The countess hopes her stance may curb such practices and yield a corrective effect.
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Countess of Warwick
England
Poison Bottles Should Use Distinct Shape as Signal
A proposal argues poisons be kept in bottles of a distinctive triangular shape to prevent accidents. Death's head labels can be washed off or overlooked. a bottle shape would serve as a clear danger signal and reduce misidentification.
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Doc
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Wilson blows Gam boa Dike to open canal route
President Wilson detonated dynamite at Gam boa Dike near the isthmus, removing the final technical barrier to water communication. The act completes a historic engineering milestone, opening a route that unites the oceans and signals the near completion of the great canal project.
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Wilson
Washington
Gamboa
Thirty Three Percent in Boston Parade Honors
A Boston committee laments only 33 of 100 proposed eminent citizens meet the standard for Columbus Day display. The writer questions the selection and asks the public for better names, suggesting many would readily supply a longer list.
Holmes Name Sparks Debate On Boston as University Hub
A remark questions whether Oliver Wendell Holmes would accept Boston as the hub of the universe and asks if there are 100 spokes to that hub, reflecting a discussion on the city’s academic prominence.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Boston
The Prisoner’s Wife and Baby Moral Reform Proposal
Thomas Mott Osborne argues for maximum individual freedom in prisons based on his week as a voluntary inmate. He questions confinement while noting the suffering of a prisoner’s dependents and urges reforms that protect families of offenders alongside inmate welfare.
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Thomas Mott Osborne
Mr. Osborne
Osborne
Wages and Loyalty in Public Service Debate
The writer argues that James J. Hill overstated doubts about loyalty tied to government salaries. Loyal railroad men and bankers can remain devoted despite pay gaps, with true professionals serving the nation even when remuneration is lower and duties harsher.
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James J. Hill
Uncle Sam
Mr. Hill
Hill
Hunger strike tactic questioned by prison policy shift
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst plans to sail from Havre to explain voluntary starvation as protest against imprisonment. In England militants embraced hunger strikes with some impact, but Home Secretary orders forcible feeding for incendiaries and a starving man is attributed to natural causes, highlighting limits of the method.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Havre
United States
England
Home Secretary
Wagon Breaker Delays Hundreds on Massachusetts Ave Inbound
A heavy Bay State Fuel Company wagon broke its rear axle and collapsed on the inbound track at the crossing of Massachusetts Avenue and Beacon Street, blocking traffic for about an hour yesterday morning and delaying hundreds on their way to work.
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Massachusetts Avenue
Beacon Street
Bay State Fuel Company
Malden seeks new school chief as Dempsey resigns
A flood of candidates has presented their names to the Malden school committee to fill the position vacated by Superintendent Clarence Dempsey who will resign on November 1 to take a similar post in Haverhill. Nineteen names are on file and the selection process continues.
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Malden
Clarence Dempsey
Haverhill
ALL SORTS BY NEWTON NEWKIRK
A humorous poem by Vera E. Fogg titled Oh, Who Would Be A Typist. The piece riffs on typist stereotypes with quirky spellings and playful verse. It ends noting a Welch rare pit sees things at night while you sleep.
The Snake Car in Boston Subway Oddities
A first person account of riding Boston Elevateds new snake-car between 5 and 6 pm. The narrator describes crowded cars, unusual two-compartment design, and humorous mishaps with straps eggs and a swooning passenger amid a lively crowd at Park Street.
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No. 2
Boston Elevated
Jie
Harry
Butler
The Good Life Devil a Fairyland Play Summary
A fairyland tale about Charles MacLance the good little devil loved by Betsy and Juliette in Scotland. His cruel aunt Mrs MacMiche and two wicked professors plot to take him away, while fairies and Thought-from-Afar aid him. Charles reappears aged and softened, returns to Juliette, and defeats vanity to end in happiness.
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France
Scotland
Charles MacLance
Betsy
Charles
Juliette
Oliver
Mrs. MacMiche
Mary Pickford
Ernest Truex
Fairies
Little Devil
Mme
Maurice Rostand
Bell gift and civic notes from New England notables
The piece notes a 3000 pound bell donated by the Woodman estate for the First Church of Dover, and sightings of the Washington elm in Cambridge undergoing restoration. It mentions Harvard and Radcliffe souvenir chips, Columbus Day at Boston, and personnel moves at Youth's Companion, Highway Publications, and the Episcopal Theological School. It also covers Boston Almanac 1844, a Wakefield Elk lodge gift to Joe Shafer, and remarks by Colonel Gihon.
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First Congregational Church
Dover
N. H
Theodore W. Woodman
First Church
Walter A. Morgan
Washington
Cambridge
Harvard
Radcliffe
Joe Shafer
Boston Financial News
The
Elks' Journal
Wakefield Lodge
Joe
Gihon
Mildred Champagne Reflects on Ideals Romance and Life
Mildred Champagne discusses whether ideals exist and if romance is real. She argues ideals are inner hopes and soul forces not material things, and romance arises from a man’s perception of a woman shaped by his soul and character.
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Miss Champagne
Akein
Cash Then Jelly Boosts Riverton Grocery Business
Roger Stanton, owner of Riverton’s largest grocery, faces cash flow woes until his wife launches a plan. She runs a free jelly booth with every cash purchase and soon expands to orange marmalade, attracting steady cash customers. The venture ends with a storewide shift to a cash basis.
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Roger Stanton
Riverton
Stanton
Roger
Riverton Messenger
Stanton Grocery & Provision Market
Linandi
Custon
Human Folly and the Temptation of Easy Cures
A Walter Mason verse mocks seeking quick fixes for weight and health. The speaker ridicules consulting doctors for pills and patent cures while lamenting the lure of shortcuts over practical chores. The poem satirizes society’s gullibility and laziness.
Quail Shipment Charged Against Market Merchant
Antonio Valente of A Valente Co. was arraigned in federal court on a charge of receiving a dozen Kentucky quail shipped from Glencoe on November 23 1911 in violation of Kentucky game laws. Valente pleaded not guilty and posted a $20 bond.
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Antonio Valente
A. Valente & Co
North Market Street
Morton
United States District Court
Glencoe
Kentucky
Valente
Newton Man Is Married in South
John T. Kerens, formerly of Newton Massachusetts and now general Electric resident manager in Atlanta Georgia, wed Annie O Neill on October 2 in Charleston South Carolina. The couple are on their honeymoon and visiting the groom s father John Kerens at Gilbert street Watertown.
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John T.kerens
Newton
Mass
Atlanta
General Electric Company
Charleston
S. C
Annie O'Neill
Identified Riddle: Man Found Dead at West End Home
Police at Joy Street station seek to identify a poorly dressed man found dead in the basement of 2 Prospect Street West End yesterday. He was known to several saloon clerks but his name remains unknown.
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Joy Street Statio
Prospec Street
West End
Woman saved from death by dream at lodging house
Miss Flavia Caodaron 44 awoke in a gas filled room at 1 Flagg Street South End and crawled to the hall after a horror dream. Lodger Joseph Talini heard her scream and aided her. She was rushed to City Hospital where doctors revived her.
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Flavia Caodaroni
Flagg Street
South End
Joseph Talini
City Hospital
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Bob
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