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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1911
Page
10
The Boston Post dated October 24 1911 appears as a daily edition from Post Publishing Co with offices at 250 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts. The issue number and volume indicate a continuing daily newspaper publication in early 20th century New England.
The advertisement lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions including one year six months and monthly rates. It notes Canada postage 1 cent per copy and warns readers to mail checks or drafts to Post Publishing Company. It includes contact numbers and the editor publisher name B A Grozier and instructions about payment and delivery.
John R. Walsh, once a Chicago banker jailed at Leavenworth for fund manipulation, died shortly after his parole, his frail condition cited in mercy pleas. The piece notes the common push for clemency and the swift end that often follows.
Sympathisers in San Francisco post a proclamation urging all who feel with them to cut off their queues at once. The flyer even appears on the door of the Imperial Chinese Consulate, signaling a bold stance against Manchu rule and symbolizing the push by a rising China to reclaim its ancient heritage.
A Rome financial paper warns that during September 300 joint stock companies reported at least 40 suffering heavy losses prompting drastic capital write downs. The critic notes Italian practice contrasts with the bullish capital watering common elsewhere and questions learning in high finance.
The Good Government Association condemns Mayor Fitzgerald in Boston while urging a recall vote. It warns against renewed election excitement and argues voters should record judgment without pushing for a decisive verdict, calling the manifesto a humorous but effective document.
The article discusses Taft’s potential choice to fill Justice Harlan’s seat. It notes rumors of a Republican nominee and mentions calls for locality to balance regional representation. It emphasizes that merit should prevail over regional origin.
Descriptive fragment reports a lynching of a Black boy by a mob described as vastly superior, noting praise from prominent men. The incomplete text mentions Victor Cheshire and a local lynching context in Honeypath.
The Intelligencer notes a man boasting of helping in a killing calling it the happy event and saying he would do another. Joshua W. Ashley a legislator admits party ties while the coroner reports the victim died at the hands of persons unknown amid Southern mob lawlessness.
Dr. Wiley argues the producer gets little and the consumer pays too much for farm goods. He cites Virginia beef costs from $45 to $65 before sale and about $300 at retail, blaming middlemen or trusts for the gap and urging closer farm to public links to curb prices.
A recent California plebiscite extended rights to women, enabling jury service. Los Angeles faces repeated jury pool shortages for the dynamite case, with objections to talesmen hindering the trial and some urging women be included, as in Colorado and Washington. The defense leader once opposed suffrage now says he trusts mixed juries.
The Wachusett aqueduct supplies water that also generates electric power for a transportation company and lighting. Power may be reused at the Sudbury river before release into Chestnut Hill reservoirs, supporting Boston and nearby municipalities. Massachusetts could lead in this industrial use of water resources.
Dr. Cook and his wife arrived in Copenhagen after his North Pole claim. A threatening crowd forced police to shield him to his carriage as jeers and taunts followed the procession through the city streets.
The narrator recalls a homecoming in a cold reception, wandering to the old swimmin hole and a past with Ab Ward. A confrontation over land ends with a trek off the land and a two week stay before meeting the Doctor who sells him a sea voyage for five dollars. The tale ends with a cliffhanger tease for tomorrow.
A letter-writer reports cats and a hound at the Common. A young man is accused of coaxing a squirrel into an overcoat pocket. Other items note motor and harbor work, a toy railway in a window, Edwin Cotton’s aviation talk, a teamster’s clever truck maneuver, and a Roxbury Mission Church retreat led by Rev. Peter Doyle. Mary Garden wears a metallic green gown at Symphony Hall.
The article discusses Dore’s Bible pictures of the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem, the angelic destruction of 185,000 invaders, and Byron’s Hebrew Melodies. It recounts Nebuchadnezzar’s capture of Jerusalem in 686 B C, the exile to Babylon, and the decline of Judah and Israel under Manasseh. It notes Boston Post’s Dore pictures series and back-number sales.
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