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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1913
Page
14
The Boston Post imprint notes a daily publication by Post Publishing Co. dated October 380 1913 from 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts.
Rates for Daily Post Boston and Sunday Post including Canada and foreign copies. Payment in advance. checks or money orders payable to Post Publishing Co. Do not send cash. Entered as Second Class matter at Boston Post Office. Subscription and postal details, contact numbers, and editor contacts included.
The Elevator Operators Union reported at least 35 violations of the city required licensing for passenger elevator operators in one day. The law aims to protect thousands of daily riders and should not become a dead letter. authorities must act to remedy this discreditable state of affairs.
For the first time in his political life Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany, denies the Hennessy charges involving Judge McCall, the Tammany mayoral candidate. The move signals the ferocity of the attack on the Murphy organization and suggests a court may decide the truth of the charges, though his surrender of silence endangers his campaign.
Mrs. Pankhurst calls suffragists law abiding. Critics argue the essence drives assault, arson, bomb plots, and attempted wrecks. The piece contrasts militant tactics with successful calm suffragists in America and urges militants to shed the destructive impulse to advance their cause.
The Boston Journal is urged to give all candidates fair coverage. The piece notes the Journal gave Gardner one third of a column Walsh one half Foss two thirds and Bird eight and a half columns in a single issue, arguing the paper should apply its ethics to itself and provide a square deal for all candidates.
The note to European powers asks them to suspend policy talks toward Mexico until the United States defines its own stance. England, France, and Germany have signaled compliance, and others may follow. The administration must promptly announce its Mexican policy to avoid perceptions of vacillation. Mexico’s conditions have not improved after the election, underscoring the need for a clear U.S. position.
The administration acknowledges the policy issue with Mexico and stresses the need to propose a concrete plan promptly. Officials warn delays could exacerbate tensions and impact regional stability, urging clear actions, timelines, and accountability.
Massachusetts Democrats are urged to abandon overconfidence ahead of next Tuesday’s election. The piece warns of lethargy, stresses unified effort in every city and town, and calls for active campaigning to ensure Governor Walsh is elected rather than winning by default. It emphasizes personal outreach, turnout, and a hard fought contest.
Dean Hurlbut of Harvard accuses a local political machine of corruption likening it to Tammany Hall. He claims city workers vote twice, and that such charges, backed by a university figure, must be proven or retracted with apology. The piece calls for Finance Commission, Ballot Law Commission, and the district attorney to act.
The article notes Britain offering a one year halt on battleship work if Germany does the same, while the United States plans to hold its own. It highlights the battleship Texas as the most powerful afloat and mentions a future Pennsylvania class battleship whose keel was laid at Newport News, two years from afloat. The piece stresses protection over aggression in U.S. naval building.
A playful verse laments the slow snowfall of Newton Newkirk Snow and calls for brisk weather, contrasting wishful speed with the current steady drift of flakes. The speaker laments the delay in winter’s arrival and bids snow to hurry.
A theater skit features Sam and Mr. Simpson debating why money is called wet goods. Sam declares it is due in the morning and missed at night, provoking audience laughter as a tenor from Kankskee prepares to sing a melodramatic piece.
In a street car a woman tells her friend that a man opposite is married. The man overhears and corrects her saying he has rheumatism, turning the quip into a light misdirection about the reason for his status.
Classified notice from Boston Newspaper seeking experienced and inexperienced girls for factory work and to learn dipping with a fork. Includes address for applications. Also contains satirical quotes on learning to eat soup with a fork, a drunkenness case in police court, Jamaica ginger as a joke, and a horse for sale with a paradoxical safety claim from Haverhill Newspaper.
A rambling, dated column on idea flashes and invention, paired with a comic travel vignette in a Boston Elevated car. The narrator recalls persuasive thoughts prompted by suggestion and muses on clever names for a train car while recounting a radiator heat, seat exchange, and a polite offer to a passing woman.
Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, noted Greenland and Labrador explorer, will deliver an illustrated lecture Wednesday evening, November 5, in Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music.
Richard Wagener conducts a bold revival of Tristan and Isolde retelling the Celtic tale with original verse. The plot follows Isolde’s transport to Cornwall, her love affair with Tristan sparked by a love potion, and a tragic Breton finale where Tristan dies and Isolde mourns. King Mark seeks reconciliation as Brangane reveals the potion ruse.
A reader proposes a heat efficient invention, the fireless cooker, to heat every room with no coal, furnace tending, ashes, sifting, or dirt. Start in fall, stop in spring, and dismisss any reward or fame as motives.
Dr. Charles W. Eliot president emeritus of Harvard was principal speaker at the Harvard Speakers' Club meeting in Agassiz House last night. He spoke on Public Speaking in the Orient drawing on experiences from his recent East travels. Dean LeBaron Briggs and Dean Byron Hurlbut attended as guests.
Washington Oct 29 President Wilson was invited to attend next year the centennial celebration of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major War of 1812 engagement. The invitation came from Howard P. D. Hadley of Plattsburgh and John A. Stewart of New York City, who called at the White House with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt.
The Smithsonian Institution announced that the Hodgins prize of 1500 dollars for the best treatise on the relation of atmospheric air to tuberculosis had been equally divided between Doctors Guy Hinsdale of Hot Springs Virginia and S Adolphus Kopf of New York City.
Farmers from Acton and neighboring towns asked the Public Service Commission to require the Boston and Maine railroad to run an iced milk car to West Acton station. They want cans kept cool during unloading when they bring milk to the station.
The will of the late Adolphus Busch filed for probate provides charitable bequests totaling 170000 to St. Louis institutions. The bulk of the estate is placed in trust with trustees Mrs Lille Busch Charles Nagel and August A Busch named to oversee proceedings.
The column surveys city streets in disrepair, palmists reappearing, and alumnae efforts at Wellesley. It notes Harvard Princeton game travel costs, state employee pensions debate, Panama Canal tourism, Senator Lodge’s recovery and vote, Longfellow statue progress, and naval nostalgia with Oregon sailors. Concludes with local reminiscence from J Currier on a police rattle.
An aged comic quip by Uncle Walt portrays a wearying shopping scene where domineering women paw through garments provoking frustrated salespeople. A bristling cartoonish monologue mocks a self styled crusade shopper who finds flaws in silks furs satins and muslins and angers clerks with endless comparisons and snappish remarks.
The Boston Port directors and the International Mercantile Marine Company Cunard Steamship Company and Hamburg American Line won approval for a dock project in Boston harbor. They seek federal action to deepen and widen approaches to 40 feet mean low water and 1200 foot channel, establish a lighthouse at Finns Rock, and enlarge harbor access.
Ralph Young, a Boston team driver, was fined ten dollars by Judge Parmenter after witnesses testified in Suffolk Municipal Court yesterday. The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals filed the complaint following alleged cruelty to four horses as commuters headed home Saturday afternoon.
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