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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1915
Page
16
The Boston Post publishes its October 21 1915 rate table with daily Sunday and foreign rates. It lists prices for U S and Canada as well as foreign and Canadian delivery, plus postage and billing notes and contact details for the Post Publishing Co.
The Fourth Estate notes the Boston Post holds the largest daily morning circulation in the United States, asserting its leading position among newspapers.
President Wilson moves to embargo arms shipments into Mexico after recognizing Venustiano Carranza as head of the de facto government. Carranza is exempted by a supplementary order, aiming to strangle Villa and Zapata by halting new munitions. The act rests on congressional grant and supports peace efforts in Mexico.
Governor Walsh appointed Earnest E. Smith of this city to the State Minimum Wage Commission yesterday. Born in Brooklyn and Massachusetts raised, he is a Roxbury Latin School, Harvard College and Harvard Law School graduate and a former Boston City Council member. He is described as conscientious and capable for the important board.
City faces another delay in approving a high power pumping station behind South Station as War Department engineers weigh the site. Friction with Washington has delayed crucial fire protection measures, drawing continued scrutiny and cautious optimism.
The Navy Department seeks 217,652,173 for 1917 and 502,482,214 for a five year building plan. Proponents argue the increase is not 50 percent over 1916 and urge public support, asserting a 50 percent need for navy improvement and national willingness to pay.
The Cambridge Historical Association marked the birth centenary of Richard Henry Dana with a fitting tribute. Dana is praised as a skilled writer, capable lawyer, reformer, and honorable citizen, with "Two Years Before the Mast" cited as a lasting American classic.
A tentious and highly praised book entertains through truthful character drawing. It is celebrated for its universality and enduring appeal, earning praise as one of the few truly universal American works.
An editorial rebuts Republican claims on state expenses under Governor Walsh. It argues commissions submit budget needs to the Legislature, which approves or reduces items. the governor cannot veto individual items, only whole appropriations, tying responsibility to the Legislature which has been Republican for 50 years. The piece declares the issue unsustainable.
The Lowell Courier-Citizen critiques a Boston Advertiser attack on Wilsons foreign policy as unwise Republican campaigning. It argues appealing to the average man matters, warns such bursts may aid Governor Walsh, and notes independent Republicans may sway the coming race.
Governor Hiram Johnson of California urges Massachusetts Progressives to stay loyal and resist joining the Republicans. He notes that failing to poll three percent could dissolve the party and end its balance of power in 1916.
The United States contemplates detaining Kronprinz Wilhelm and Prinz Eitel Friedrich crews who broke parole and left their ships at Norfolk. The piece argues they should be treated as prisoners and confined if they refuse to honor agreements or show gratitude for asylum, predicting complaints from hyphenated newspapers.
The Portsmouth Times reprints an editorial from the Boston Post praising Portsmouth harbor. The piece notes repeated compliments from the Boston paper and expresses state wide gratitude for the harbor facilities.
A collage of light verse and reader notes on topics from suffrage gossip to fairy book illustrations. References to Henry Ford as a fairy tale illustrator and a postal stationery request appear among satirical jabs at etiquette, Carranza, and summer baseball fears.
A farewell piece lamenting Neponset and its scenes from a long view, with verses about the park, river, bridge, local sights, and a city bus and market life. The poem blends personal memory with social quips and ends with a humor column of readers’ jokes and opinions.
The fragment quotes AURIN F. HILL asserting a flat Earth within a British cabinet context. It includes oblique remarks from John Q. Hoozus Ludwig von Schut zenfest Alpheus Crimmins and others, expressing skepticism about rotation and empire decline in a dated, fictional tone.
In a dramatic retreat and feigned feints, Napoleon divides his forces to threaten Lorraine and rally garrisons while the Allies push toward Paris. A captured courier carrying his betrayal-laden letter to Marie Louise undoes the plan and signals the end of his bold gamble.
The column notes the Andros coggin in Boston harbor to be fitted as a hospital ship for fishermen and names Captain Van Bosbirck. It also covers winter garden coverings at Public Garden, a pheasant sighting near the Fenway, auto gypsies buying and selling cars, and elderly notables including C I Richardson of Maine and Mrs. Fowler of Concord Junction.
Edith mourns Jacky and resists a substitute son Peter until a road accident and recovery reveal her capacity to love. Peter, hurt but alive, wakes in a bedroom once Jacky’s and finds Edith kissing him good night as if he were Jacky.
The speaker laments rising coal costs and a tired furnace as April memories fade. He recalls shutting the furnace doors last spring to save coal and vows to endure hardship again, preparing to repair the boiler and adjust the grate as winter’s need returns.
The oldest resident quotes past records for October 21 in Boston noting extreme highs around 84 degrees in 189 and 1899, lows near 36 degrees, a warmest 78 degrees in 1914, average not rising past 60s, and rain in four of the last sixteen years, last in 1913.
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