Political currents and speeches stir Rhode Island politics
The piece notes shifting voter expectations with 50 000 ballots cast and uncertain party gains amid heavy Republican spending. It covers Josiah Quincy and Vey Holman delivering fiery addresses in Providence, the absence of General Corcoran, and Charles Hamlin praising Cleveland as tariff reform rallies unfold across Wakefield and nearby areas.
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Josiah Quincy
Boston
Olneyville
Major McKinley
John W. Corcoran
Vey Holman
Providence
Tooshaville
Dyer
Russell
Cleveland
Tris Burns
Missouri
Valley Falls
Kamlin
Wakefield
Elevator Strike Sparks Nervous City Tour Anecdote
A humorous portrait of an elevator workers strike at the State Street Exchange. Passengers fear risky rides, prefer stairs over unsafe lifts, and observe eight new, underpaid, inexperienced elevator boys who quit en masse after demands for higher wages.
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State Street Exchange
Earth
Exchange
Typical Boston Girl Contest Description Request
A historical notice invites writers to describe the Typical Boston Girl in under one hundred words. The Post offers a ten dollar gold piece for the best description judged by Miss Miriam O Leary, with Miss O Leary acting as judge. Submissions should be one side of the page and sent to Typical Boston Girl Contest The Post Boston.
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Boston
THE
POST
Miriam O'Leary
the Post
Boston Girl Beauty Contest Closes Tonight at 10
Hundreds of letters pour in as the Boston Post announces the contest will close at 10 o clock tonight due to space limits. Readers describe a pictured Boston girl seen near Washington and Winter, praising a smiling winning look while noting she won’t wear tutti-frutti.
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Post
Boston
Washington
Paris
Chicago
Annie Rooney
The Boston Girl: A Masterpiece of Womanhood Across Ages
A lengthy laudatory remark extols the Boston girl as unmatched in beauty and virtue, claiming she embodies the finest traits from many nations. The speaker asserts divine perfection in the Boston woman, praising lineage, intellect, wit, and patriotism as unparalleled across history.
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Boston
Heaven
God
Jehovah
Auicet R
MyLene
The Boston Girl: Who Amid Life’s Varied Plan
A poem praising a generous woman who offers aid and service. The verse questions who will act with a ready helping hand to do all the good she can, capturing a civic ideal of neighborly virtue as life’s measure.
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Brookline
Boston Girl
Boston
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