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  Boston Post Cane
The Auburn Board of Selectmen presented the Boston Post Cane to Gertrude Wood on November 21, 2006.
The presentation of the “Boston Post Cane” began in 1909 as a marketing gimmick to increase the circulation of the Boston Post.
The cane, or staff, is an ancient symbol of deference to age and reverence for ancestors.
www.auburnnh.us /boston_post_cane.htm   (195 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Boston Post Road
The Boston Post Road was a system of roads from New York, New York to Boston, Massachusetts, containing some of the first major highways in the United States.
In the 1910s and 1920s, the Lower Post Road alignment (and realignments made to the route) was a National Auto Trail known as the Boston Post Road.
In some towns, the area near the Boston Post Road has been placed on the National Register of Historic Districts, since it was often the first road in the area, and buildings sprung up along it.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Boston-Post-Road   (690 words)

  
 Boston Post Road -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It began as a path in 1673 to deliver the post, and developed into a wagon, or (A large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience) stage (An open way (generally public) for travel or transportation) road in later colonial times.
In some towns, the area near the Boston Post Road has been placed on the (Click link for more info and facts about National Register of Historic Districts) National Register of Historic Districts, since it was often the first road in the area, and buildings sprung up along it.
The Post Road is also famous for its (Stone post at side of a road to show distances) milestones from the (Click link for more info and facts about 18th century) 18th century, many of which remain to this day.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/boston_post_road.htm   (903 words)

  
 Special Delivery Markings of Boston, Ma. Post Office
While none of the recorded first day covers of the first special delivery stamp are known from Boston, that post office utilized numerous early markings and continued to have an influence on the special delivery markings of various post offices which copied or followed the directions of the Boston office.
When mail could not be delivered, a few cities, including Boston, printed a label which told the addressee that the mail was returned to the post office and would then be treated as regular mail; the carrier, however, received his eight cents for the first delivery.
San Francisco and Oakland, California, pre-dated Boston by seven years, starting in November 1885 and early in 1886, respectively, to be machine marking devices; but the Boston area did have a lot of neat and color markings and is to be given credit for setting a fine standard for the new service.
www.usspecialdelivery.com /library_sd/boston_markings.html   (913 words)

  
 BOSTON GARDEN POST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Our BOSTON GARDEN POST is a full size reproduction of the handsome posts and caps that line the walkways of America’s oldest park, the Boston Botanical Garden.
Both the post and caps are coated with a high quality fl polyester powder coat finish.
We also supply a 72 inch post for installations requiring the chain to be at waist level.
www.snugcottageimports.com /bostongardenpost.htm   (212 words)

  
 The Boston Post Cane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Boynton, when informed that he was eligible to receive the Post cane which was presented to the Town of Hampton.
The canes, made of African ebony and capped with 14-carat gold heads, were given to the selectmen of the towns, with a request that they be distributed to the oldest male resident in the town.
In Hampton, however, the Boston Post cane has been residing in the vault at the town office building for the past several years.
www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/history/pamphlets/bostonpostcane.htm   (799 words)

  
 Boston Gold Post Cane Recipients
The Boston Post has forwarded to the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen a gold-headed ebony cane with the request that it be presented with the compliments of the Boston Post.
The Boston Post Cane is not merely an ornamental cane.
In 1909 the Boston Post newspaper distributed over 431 ebony, gold-capped canes among towns in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island that asked for one.
www.geocities.com /fryeburghs/bostonpost.htm   (325 words)

  
 Boston Post Road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Boston Post Road runs from New York City to Boston Massachusetts.
It began as a path in 1673 to deliver the post and developed a wagon or stage road in later colonial times.
of the route of the Boston Post Road is now designated as United States Highway Route 1 although in some sections the modern deviates from the historic road.
www.freeglossary.com /Boston_Post_Road   (247 words)

  
 Boston Post Cane Presented To Woolwich Resident
The Boston Post Cane has been a part of the New England tradition since 1909, when the publisher of the Boston Post decided to distribute 431 canes to towns in New England as a circulation promotion.
The canes, made of African ebony and capped with 14-carat gold heads, were given to the selectmen in the towns, with a request that they be given to the oldest resident of the town.
The Boston Post folded in 1957, but the name still lives on through the presentation of the canes.
wiscassetnewspaper.maine.com /2002-11-21/boston_post_cane.html   (326 words)

  
 Boston Post Gold Cane presented to Cape Elizabeth's oldest resident
Leola Adams Jordan is the holder of the Boston Post Gold Cane for her years of citizenship.
Town Council Chairman Anne Swift-Kayatta presented the Boston Post Gold Cane, and a Town Council proclamation, to Leola Adams Jordan, Cape Elizabeth's oldest resident at age 101.
Upon the death of the holder, the family shall return the cane to the Town Clerk and it shall be presented to a new holder pursuant to these guidelines.
www.capeelizabeth.com /news/goldcane4_2.html   (641 words)

  
 BOSTON POST ROAD: Milestones of history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The route from New York to Boston was blazed by order of King Charles II of England, who demanded better communication between his colonial governors.
And if you get lost as the Boston Post Road leaves the state highway to wander amid country lanes and old stone walls, you won't be the first.
BOSTON POST ROAD: For detailed directions on following the original route of the Boston Post Road, visit web.mit.edu/spui/www/boston/oldpost.html.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/09/07/travel1059EDT0291.DTL   (1176 words)

  
 Irving Blake Receives Boston Post Cane
Awarding of the Boston Post Cane is an honor bestowed on a town's oldest citizen.
The awarding of the Boston Post Cane to a town's oldest resident is a tradition begun in 1909 by the now-defunct Boston Post which gave canes to Boards of Selectmen in various towns throughout Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire for that purpose.
Both the Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor Boston Post Canes are currently at the Gregory Wing where their recipients live.
boothbayregister.maine.com /1998-02-05/oldest_resident.html   (424 words)

  
 Boston Marathon 2006 -- Post Race Transcripts
I had some tips from Moses and when we were traveling from home, he told me how to tackle, how to outrun Boston, to go some times, front runner.
Boston was the first one and definitely all of us here are delighted to be the initiators of that.
Boston, New York, that's all big marathons, and every junior wants to be there, to take place.
www.bostonmarathon.org /2006/cf/Public/PostRaceTranscripts.htm   (10391 words)

  
 Boston's Bloggers, Filling In the Margins (washingtonpost.com)
BOSTON, July 25 -- Jay Rosen sees a basic contradiction in the journalistic invasion of the Democratic National Convention.
All of which underscores the central paradox of Boston: huge media hordes for an event with shrinking political significance and shrinking audiences.
The Post, which was the first to report the findings July 10, has run two stories, an editorial and an ombudsman's column; the New York Times two stories and an op-ed column; and the Los Angeles Times two stories.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A14102-2004Jul25.html   (1256 words)

  
 Woolwich's Oldest Citizen Presented Boston Post Cane
Eleanor Jameson, 94, receives a replica of the Boston Post Cane Sunday evening, January 14 in recognition of her longevity.
An old New England tradition was carried on Sunday evening as Woolwich selectmen presented the Boston Post cane to the town's oldest resident.
The Boston Post Cane award was established by the Boston Post newspaper in 1909, with instructions that it should always be owned and carried by the oldest citizen of the town.
wiscassetnewspaper.maine.com /2001-01-18/cane_recipient.html   (416 words)

  
 The Boston Post Road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On January 22, 1673, the first postrider galloped off from New York on his way to Boston and established the first major overland route in the American colonies.
Soon after the Post Road’s establishment there was growing public interest in road improvement which, however, was slow in coming.
George Washington is said to have slept in 100 taverns alongside of it.
mysite.verizon.net /vze1k22h/road.htm   (380 words)

  
 Boston Terrier Breeders
Many people were finding it hard to read all of the congrats messages, and in the end, the majority voted to allow brag postings any time of the day of week, but to move the congrats to private e-mail instead of posting these on the list.
So that everyone can feel safe in posting their experiences, feelings and thoughts, we do not allow messages posted within this list to be forwarded to other people or lists, or read by or to other people without the permission of the Moderator.
Then you very quickly get the bostonterrier@yahoogroups.com list people (who may have originally subbed to lurk which we allow) cc'ing their posts to the showbostons list which may not follow the topics we are trying to keep the list to.
www.boston-terriers.com /list.htm   (1681 words)

  
 Post Gazette Online
One hundred and ten years ago, an Italian immigrant who arrived in Boston when he was only sixteen years old saw the realization of his fondest dreams, to establish an Italian language newspaper that would be the genuine voice of the increasing flow of Italians to the United States.
The newspaper had to fight vigorously against all forms of discrimination in employment and immigration laws, yet on the issue of loyalty and patriotism, there was never any question.
Throughout the United States and in Boston, especially where freedom began over 200 years ago, the GAZETTA or the POST-GAZETTE has played a vital part in history.
www.bostonpostgazette.com   (674 words)

  
 Boston Post Gold-Headed Canes
Picture of the Boston Post Cane headThe canes were all made by J.F. Fradley and Co., a New York manufacturer, from ebony shipped in seven-foot lengths from the Congo in Africa.
The head was engraved with the inscription, --- Presented by the Boston Post to the oldest citizen of (name of town) --- "To Be Transmitted".
Grozier died, and the Boston Post was taken over by his son, Richard, who failed to continue his father's success and eventually died in a mental hospital.
www.trcmaine.org /landmarks/bostonpost.php   (337 words)

  
 Boston Post Cane Presented
Clara Storm, Boston Post Cane recipient, with (from left) Newcastle Selectmen Frank Juchnik, James Brinkler, Phillip Wright and George Cole, crafter of the Post Cane presentation replica.
Clara Storm, 101 years old on March 25 and Newcastle's oldest resident, was presented with the Boston Post Cane on Thursday, June 19.
The Boston Post, long one of New England's most widely circulated newspapers, began the tradition of presenting a cane to the oldest resident of each New England town in 1909.
boothbayregister.maine.com /2003-06-26/clara_storm.html   (288 words)

  
 Town of Scarborough - Boston Post Cane Criteria
The Boston Post Cane tradition was established in 1909 by the
There shall be a notice placed in the media looking for nominations for those residents who are 90 years old or older and have been a resident of Scarborough for a minimum of the last 20 years.
If the decision is made to no longer display the Boston Post Cane at the Town Hall, it would be placed in the custody of the Scarborough Historical Society.
www.scarborough.me.us /townhall/clerk/criteria_for_the_boston_post_cane.html   (502 words)

  
 Bertha Gray, 98, is awarded Boston Post Cane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Cumberland's Boston Post Cane had been missing for several years and was believed to have been misplaced when the town opened its new Town Hall.
The tradition of awarding the Boston Post cane to a town's oldest resident dates back to 1909, when Edwin Grozier, then publisher of the Boston Post newspaper, gave gold-tipped canes to 431 New England towns as part of an effort to increase circulation.
The canes were to be awarded to the town's oldest male resident and held until death, when the cane would be handed down to the next oldest resident.
www.chebeague.org /bertha.html   (405 words)

  
 Boston, Massachusetts MA, city profile (Suffolk County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Boston is on Massachusetts Bay, at the mouths of the Charles and Mystic rivers
After the Boston Globe published a series of articles in January 2002, incidents of sexual abuse by clergy and inaction by the church were uncovered across the country.
Post cards are vintage images from the early 1900s.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=2881   (994 words)

  
 The Boston Post Cane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The stylish walking sticks were made available to numerous northeastern municipalities by the former Boston Post newspaper.
If you would like to see Hooksett’s Boston Post Cane, it is on display in a handmade case on the first floor of the Municipal Building.
The glass encased display case was handmade by Lucien Duhaime, son-in-law of the current holder of the Boston Post Cane, Mrs.
www.hooksett.org /bostonpostcane.htm   (287 words)

  
 boston newspapers of 1916: the boston post, the lynn telegram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
boston newspapers of 1916: the boston post, the lynn telegram
The Boston Post has a short story column featuring stories submitted by readers.
Boston Post Sewing Circle, an advice column aimed at women, featured this reply to a woman who must have written in worried about having children.
artmonstergirl.typepad.com /boston_1916   (1094 words)

  
 The Boston Post Cane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
NH Bradford NH's Boston Post Cane was held Ruth Burckes Nelson from 1993 when she was 93 until her death in 2002 at the age of 102.
NH Martha Bond, was presented the Boston Post Cane by the town selectman of Cannan NH on Saturday Feb 11, 2006.
On September 22, 2002 The Boston Post Cane was presented to Aubrey Raye in recognition of being the oldest living resident of The Town of Vanceboro.
web.maynard.ma.us /history/bpcane.htm   (10155 words)

  
 Bedford Bulletin : Boston Post Cane tradition continues
Bedford is looking for a new oldest resident to be the 19th holder of the prestigious Boston Post Cane, which is given to the town’s oldest resident in perpetuity.
But before the next Boston Post cane holder is named, they have to qualify for the honor.
The gold on each was inscribed “Presented by The Boston Post to the oldest citizen of (name of town) To Be Transmitted.” The canes were originally presented to the oldest male in a community.
cs.newhampshire.com /blogs/bedford_editor/archive/2007/03/22/Boston-Post-Cane-tradition-continues.aspx   (723 words)

  
 Playing Facility Description
3/4 mile, past 5 lights, to intersection of Boston Post Rd and Weaver St. Left on Hommocks Rd. Follow signs to rink.
Make a left on Weaver St (south) to Boston Post Rd. approx.
Cross over Boston Post Rd. Hommocks School will be directly in front of you.
www.islandwavesgirlshockey.com /Facility.asp?ID=5200&Printable=True&org=ISLANDWAVESGIRLSHOCKEY.COM   (138 words)

  
 1763 - The Boston Post Road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1729, a horseback post ran from north of the Massachusetts Colony to Philadelphia.
The painting shows him on a post office tour in a one-horse chaise, accompanied by his daughter on horseback, while a post rider delivers an urgent message.
The transition from post riders to mail stagecoaches occurred during and after the Revolutionary War.
www.fhwa.dot.gov /rakeman/1763.htm   (125 words)

  
 Boston Post Light   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This lantern reflects the charm of Colonial Boston.
These post lanterns are now being used throughout Boston in the attempt to recapture a treasured era in colonial history.
This lantern is our top choice for a post lantern in most all landscapes.
www.shelburnelighting.com /bosposlig.html   (83 words)

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