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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1910
Page
8
Boston Post issues its September 2 1910 edition from 259 Washington Street Boston presenting city news briefs and notices in a compact newspaper card style.
The notice details subscription rates for the Sunday Post including one year $2.50 six months $1.25 three months 65 cents and rates for Canada at 9 cents per copy. It notes second class matter status in Boston Mass and advises payment terms and sender risk.
The Post reminds readers subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued at expiration. Readers without regular delivery should notify Postal at once. Editor and Publisher B E Grozier signs the notice.
Eyewitness accounts describe a car wreck in Wayland on Wednesday where a passenger died. The reader notes assert the disaster stemmed from excessive speed rather than the curve, urging common sense and safe driving in daylight.
The piece argues Massachusetts lags behind other states in publishing census results. It questions Director Gettemy about staffing and workload for counting 33 cities and 321 towns, urging quicker completion despite no immediate consequences.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce backs transportation improvements by the Boston & Eastern Electric Railroad but objects to a new tunnel unless the present East Boston tunnel is proven adequate. It calls the tunnel inadequate for car type and for forcing passenger transfers in East Boston, creating a nuisance terminal, and argues against any plan that prevents a fast direct line into downtown Boston.
The Osawatomie speech highlights Roosevelt’s plans but omits any note of Taft’s actions or intentions. The piece questions Roosevelt’s silence on the current president and whether the public will turn to Roosevelt or Taft in the next election.
Incomplete OCR fragment cites the will of the people beyond preferences or jealousies and the aspirations of Presidents and ex Presidents, reflecting a constitutional or rhetorical focus. The text lacks clear details for a full summary.
Observers on the Great White Way report a hovering aircraft with red and green lights refusing to answer signals from a skyscraper. The piece suggests Worcester aviator Tillinghast may be preparing a bold run from Worcester to New York, Boston, and Provincetown to claim a $10,000 prize and elusive fame.
The Buenos Ayres meeting concludes with formal recognition of continental ties and four conventions on pecuniary claims trade marks copyrights and patents. The United States initiated these steps and Mexico celebrates independence with a centennial note tied to Monroe doctrine principles. Ex Governor Curtis Guild Jr. acts as US ambassador for the event.
The article notes Vermont as the earliest state to vote in the 1912 election, with its traditionally Republican, "hidebound" split. It warns of possible defection if Republican margins shrink and highlights Maine's following vote as equally significant.
The Boston Post presents official photographs of the Oberammergau Passion Play scenes. It describes Pilate’s final decision to release Barrabas or Jesus, the crucifixion procession, and the meeting of Jesus with his mother as Roman centurions urge the crowd. Tomorrow’s image includes Veronica offering a handkerchief.
The narrative details the Herod Wing of Judea appeals to Pilate and his refusal to interfere, followed by Jesus being scourged to appease opponents. Roman soldiers crown Jesus with thorns as the Passion Play unfolds, continuing the dramatic sequence depicted in earlier photos.
A long column from Dorchester Massachusetts covers light local items. It includes playful verses about Mary the aeroplane, humorous letters and Battersea style quips, reports on Miss Abbott and Captain McWeeney, and notes on a Jamaica Plain barber shop incident and a fire alarm box mix up.
A humorous sketch argues dukes seek cash in the United States by selling titles to wealthy brides. The scheme ends with separations: the heiress loses money, the duke loses his fortune, and alimony becomes the remaining livelihood.
The piece extols Greater New York as a booming metropolis near Rosston, noting a ten year population surge of 1,329,681 and 387 percent. It compares cities, cites a 4,766,883 population, and muses on Liberty Island and urban life, contrasting Athens and Babylon as typologies.
The country holds 194,500,009 acres of national forests under federal management, an area comparable to the combined size of Texas and Ohio. This figures highlights the extensive public land holdings and reflects ongoing conservation and land use priorities.
A reader recounts three girls chasing a bat with towels and pillows in a boarder's room. They ask if the bat is a bird or a mouse, noting it hatched from an egg versus being born like a mouse. The letter ends with Millicent praised for the spectacle.
Press representative for the Boston Albany railroad leaves for a four month trip visiting Denver Pike's Peak Salt Lake Yellowstone Park San Francisco Southern California and Arizona. The article notes other Boston theater and local civic updates including engagements and new home celebrations.
A nostalgic poem recalls a police court scene where waifs and bums plead their stories, only to have the judge murmur ten dollars or ten days. The speaker mourns lost youth, asks who failed these men, and questions the system that shuffles them away.
J Edward T Mclean returns from Maine with wife to Somerville while crowds watch the sky near aviation tents. Boston Press Club president James D Hooley plans events for visiting reporters at Squantum meet and may fly over Boston. Alvin J Sherman of Somerville celebrates an upcoming marriage to Miss Mary Lalyv in Charlestown Catholic circles. A beach line ferry observers laugh at a shipboard fire drill as crew parade for the signal.
A female passenger grew angry as the ferryboat captain declined to pull away from the slip and instead chose to return to assist a fire on a steamer, prompting confusion at the harbor scene.
Orono Me Sept 1 Dr ory Fellows today closed his active work as president of the University of Maine after a term beginning Jan 1 1902. Upon resignation trustees granted a Sept 1 to Jan 1 leave of absence for rest and to consider proposals offered to him. George Em-
Japan furnishes 42 percent of tea imports, China 22.5 percent, the East Indies 1.5 percent, and the United Kingdom 3.4 percent.
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