Boston Post issues daily publication details and rates
The Boston Post outlines subscription costs for daily and Sunday paper, with annual and short terms, including Canada delivery. It lists office addresses at 259 Washington Street Boston and notes payment in advance, plus editor contact and publication details for 1911.
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Post Publishing Co
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Boston
Mess
the Sunday Post
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Mass
Post Publishing Company
Treasury of nomination costs sparks fairness talk
The Boston Herald notes Hisgen spent 13 dollars on nomination expenses, while Walker spent 8839.88 and White 7778.22. The piece argues those totals were far higher for what they received and urges fairness in evaluating campaign spending.
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Hisgen
Boston Herald
Walker
White
Ida Lewis the Yankee heroine dies at Lime Rock Lighthouse
Ida Lewis, famed savior of sailors, died Tuesday night at Lime Rock lighthouse. Her brave skill earned national acclaim and reverence from seafarers who were saved by her, and her legacy will spur memorial plans with sailors’ support.
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Lime Rock
Grace Darling
America
Ida Lewis
A Just Decision on Textile Grading in Massachusetts
Attorney-General Swift rules that grading in textile factories is effectively prohibited by law and must be treated as such by state police. Statutes bar fining workers for imperfections, though overseers have evaded by paying second grade wages for lower quality cloth. The opinion condemns this practice as an evasion and declares it must stop.
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Massachusetts
Swift
City Pensions Faces Council Hurdles Over Boston Bill
The Finance Commission objects to a Boston city pensions bill, calling some points trivial while others are valid. The piece argues for a workable approach and urges presenting a revised measure to the next legislature with constructive input.
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Finance Commission
Boston
Commission
Call to curb Inauguration Week excess in Washington
Opinion argues against turning presidential inaugurations into a yearly festival with parades balls and shows. The writer warns such excesses erode presidential dignity and calls for returning to simplicity and restraint during a solemn national ceremony.
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Washington
United States
Wrights Glider Tests Edge Toward Bird like Flight
Orville Wright's glider trials show sustained aloft time near ten minutes with the craft remaining steady over a small area. A small bird sought refuge on the machine during a windy descent, underscoring practical prospects for controlled flight.
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Orville Wright
Wright
Man Finds Airborne Glide Possible Without Motor
The text asserts that a man can stay aloft without an engine if wind is sufficient. It notes that the next challenge is adapting wind and gliding principles to powered airplanes, focusing on stability, equilibrium, and control demonstrated as possible with gliding planes.
Massachusetts Manufacturers and Export Trade in Tariff Debate
The essay questions tariffs as a shield for Massachusetts manufacturers arguing the Payne Aldrich tariff harms workers. It highlights sizable export totals for cotton, farm implements, leather, copper, and rubber goods, totaling about 1.92 billion dollars, and challenges apologists who blame wages while exporting goods abroad.
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Massachusetts
Congress
Europe
The Cometary Portent Explores Cosmic Signs and World Turmoil
The article links a six comet spectacle to global upheavals from Africa to China and Britain and notes reactions in the United States. It argues the celestial omen mirrors political destabilization and the decline of a long ruling party, prompting reflection on modern democracy.
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Brooks
Mohammedan Africa
China
Great Britain
Commons
Retail Trade Board Elects Officers in Boston
Francis P. O Conn or chosen president and Charles H. Cross named vice president by unanimous vote at the Retail Trade Board meeting in Boston. John Shepard Jr. and Herbert R. Lane were elected to board vacancies as the group enters its third year of service to merchants.
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Chamber of Commerce
City Club
Francis P. O’connor
Tremont Street
Charles H. Cross
Regal Shoe Company
John Shepard, Jr
Shepard Norwell Company
Herbert R. Lane
Russia plans large school exhibition in St Petersburg
Joseph A. Conry, Russian consul of Boston, invites publishers and dealers in school supplies to an imperial government exhibition on education in St Petersburg from April 16 to July 15. American goods enter duty free and rail freight is half price. Russia aims to boost popular education with vast planned expenditures over the next decade.
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Russia
Joseph A. Conry
Boston
St. Petersburg
Monotony Aboard A Steamship Across Open Seas
A travel column recounts life at sea with Newton Newkirk's humor as the voyage from New York unfolds. The narrator endures bland horizons, saltwater baths, deck golf antics, mischievous encounters, and curious sea life while remarking on restless monotony and comic misadventures aboard the steamer.
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Old New York
Carnegie Hero Fund
H. P
Return to Jerusalem and rebuilding of the temple
The exiles return from Babylon under Zerubbabel and Cyrus restores Jerusalem and begins the new temple replacing Solomon’s. Wealthy patrons fund the rebuilding while elders weep and joy erupts as cedar from Lebanon and Tyre craftsmanship resume. Disputes with foreign settlers delay completion until 516 BC when dedication occurs. Jews.
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Babylonia
Solomon
Nebuchadnezzar
Cyrus
Jerusalem
Abraham
Syrian Desert
Joshua
Promised Land
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Jericho
Clark
Lebanon
Tyre
Solomon's Temple
Narbonidus
Merodach
Israel
Assyria
Sargon
Observant Citizen Observes Day in Boston Streets
A Boston reader reports a cab horse at Joy and Mt Vernon streets amused by a letter carrier, pawing the curb for sugar while riders ignore it. The piece also notes Ferdinand F French now works at White Company in Boston, and mentions shark meat offered by North Hind fish dealers. Residents on Dorchester avenues protest street mud and closures near Mary Hemenway School. The article laments the season’s end of swan boats in the Public Garden and records the cutting of a 170 year old elm on Meeting House Hill.
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Joy
Mt. Vernon
Ferdinand F. French
New England
White Company
Boston
Newbury Street
Dorchester Avenue
Neponset Avenue
Dorchester
Adams Street
Mary Hemenway School
Conservation Uncle Walt Sings Of Save the Forests and Coal
A humorous verse by Walt Mason urges meetings across the United States to plan conservation efforts. The spoof calls for gatherings from Kansas City to Seattle and Cincinnati with a group photo and speeches, ending with a film viewing, praising the noble cause and wartime rhetoric.
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Kansas City
Seattle
Morganheimers
Cincinnatty
Ypsilanti
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adama
Boston Notes on Dining Etiquette and Italian Study
The piece laments reserved chairs for regulars and urges welcoming casual patrons. It notes soon construction of a Blessed Sacrament church on Jeronian Plain with ground to be broken, led by Rev. Arthur T. Connolly. Also announced is an evening Italian course for Boston girls at Girls High School, tied to Dante Alighieri Society interests.
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Blessed Sacrament
Jeronian Plain
Arthur T. Connolly
Boston
Boston School Committee
Dante Alighieri
Ines
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