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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1898
Page
4
Madrid proclaims war with the United States and declares adherence to parts of the Paris Declaration but rejects abolishing privateering. The piece contrasts Spain’s medieval warfare with American hesitation and President McKinley’s implied stance, framing the clash as civilization versus medievalism.
The article notes broad nationwide readiness to raise 125 000 volunteers with potential to expand to 186 000 including regular troops. It stresses militia preservation of identity, swift enlistment, and unity behind a humanitarian war aim. It also comments on copper stock optimism amid a maritime conflict and cautious Boston markets lagging others.
Analysts note Spain has moved naval forces away from Cuba and Porto Rico and concentrated torpedo boats at Cape Verde Islands. The strategy mystifies experts who cite weather, safety, or possible machinist mutiny as possible motives.
The piece notes Commodore Sampson’s squadron chasing prize ships from Key West and warns prizes could profit officers while risking losses. It states 139 American vessels sail at sea, mostly merchant ships, vulnerable to Spanish cruisers if encountered, and cautions luck may not continue.
Congress is urged to issue a formal declaration of war against pain. The measure is expected to have no real effect on the ongoing conflict, which has been present beyond theory for several days. A formal act would, however, order matters properly and acknowledge war in form for several reasons.
The phrase notes that acts may be lawful if they conform to the law of nations rather than seeming irregular. It discusses international practice, state consent, and customary norms guiding recognition and validity of such acts.
The piece argues that war should be swift and purposeful, not bogged down by a dilatory administration. It contends peace is impossible now, and only strategic delays are permissible, urging leaders to act with confidence and resolve.
Spain adopts the Paris Declaration framework for war trade, allowing safe passage of enemy and neutral goods on neutrally flagged ships and permitting searches under international law. Only blockade or naval attack could disrupt transatlantic commerce, which Spain cannot realistically enforce.
The stock market displays strength as optimism grows over a rapid, limited war with Spain. European demand for American stocks rises after Nashville fires a shot across Buena Ventura, with traders discounting a prolonged conflict and expecting quick peace.
A bustling Boston scene amid rain as readers crowd bulletin boards for war news. The piece notes rail traffic patterns, Florida travel, Judge Woodbury’s Florida sojourn, Nassau, Yale and Harvard color gifts for the Paris steamship, Gladys Wallis and Hetty Green’s son, Edward Burgess’s Dauntless, and Mrs. Sartoris regaining American citizenship with Algernon Volunteering under Lee.
A collage of humorous exchanges from various papers, including remarks on heirlooms rings and marriages to doctors orders and mineral baths. Witty lines on love, wealth, and vanity appear in quick exchanges attributed to Harlem Life Fliegende Blatter Detroit Journal and others.
Charlie Gatlin of the S A cattle ranch in Socorra county New Mexico shares a bear hunt tale from Mogollon Mountains. With his nephew Harvey Gatlin and three dogs they pursue a mother bear with two cubs, endure a fall from a pinon, and end the chase with three bears killed and loaded for return before nightfall.
Harrison Gray Otis Blake of Worcester Massachusetts has died at age 82. He descended from John Howland of the Mayflower and was a regular Concord Summer School of Philosophy attendee and a devoted student of Emerson Bronson Alcott and Thoreau.
A fragmentary religious lyric passage featuring the Battle Hymn of the Republic with a verse about Christ and a call to action. The text includes phrases such as Our God is marching on and mentions Julia Ward Howe as the author. It reads like poetic patriotic rhetoric rather than a news item.
Charles Linder Pope son of Colonel Albert A. Pope died at Peekskill Military Academy last Thursday. The funeral was held at 2 pm at the family residence with Rev. Dr. E Winchester Donald officiating. Large attendance. pallbearers included Pope relatives. a Hartford Pope Manufacturing delegation attended. numerous floral tributes noted.
Officials of the War and Navy departments labored at their desks handling a backlog of business. Secretaries Long and Alger were absent with Roosevelt and Meikeljohn overseeing duties. The War Department planned troop calls to governors and muster details for the volunteer army’s concentration points within about two weeks.
The passage presents a patriotic poem praising the Star Spangled Banner and Liberty. It names New Castle Kentucky and author Mattie A. Young, highlighting national identity and faith in freedom.
John J. Seaman of 52 Walker St New York City testifies that after four years of kidney trouble diabetes and severe constipation the Saratoga Lincoln Spring Water relieved insomnia head distress and constipation and reduced sugar in urine enabling a return to health after two months of use He attributes his recovery to the water and praises the Lincoln Spring Water.
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