Boston Post Subscription Rates and Policies
The Boston Post publishes subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions with terms for changes of address and payment. It notes second class matter status, advance payment required, and discontinuation on expiration without notice. contact details include Boston office at 259 Washington Street and telephone 428. Editor and publisher BE. A. Grozier.
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Washington Street
BE. A. Grozier
Ad Publsher
Health of Boston schoolrooms sparks reform talk
Dr. Durgin warns that unhealthful conditions in public school rooms in Boston threaten children. Mortality and preventable diseases from poor ventilation are higher than in other large cities, and crowding worsens the issue. Mayor Quincy proposes reform, but officials admit lasting change requires a remodeled system with executive oversight and qualified leadership.
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Durgin
Boston
Quincy
Buildings Department
A Powerful Vessel Massachusetts Tops World Class
The battleship named Massachusetts leads its class in speed and power. Official Saturday tests show sustained sixty two knot course speed, surpassing contract expectations and British battleships’ bursts of speed. The ship is a floating fortress, representing American naval prowess and continuous performance.
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Massachusetts
United States
Financial Market Strength and Railroad Reorganizations
The past week shows continued stock market strength amid efforts to push prices lower. Improved industrial outlook and rising trade support gains, with railroads like Erie and Atchison reorganizing successfully. Reading and Northern Pacific poised to solvency, others near completion. mining shares decline as a potential summer boom nears for Boston and nearby markets.
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Smalley
London
Congress
Erie
Atchison
Reading
Northern Pacific
Oregon
Boston
Mon“na
Mines and Popular Favor Revisited in Public Debate
A fragment discusses potential renewed access to mines and the prospect of share in popular favor. The note hints at political or economic tensions surrounding resource control and public opinion shaping policy outcomes. No names or dates are specified in readable text.
Republicans face tariff and currency clash in McKinley era
The piece argues Congressman Draper expects the tariff issue to decide the election and predicts Republicans must adopt McKinley style policy. It questions free coinage and warns business leaders rely on current tariff and fear upheaval from any shift. Patriotic citizens seek sound money candidates, else McKinleyism gains little support.
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Draper
Ohio
Pennsylvania
McKinley Maintains Edge in Republican Delegate Race
The latest delegate tally shows McKinley with 876 of 1,206 counted, 46 uncertain against him, Reed at 99, Morton 66, and Quay 50. With 208 delegates left to decide, McKinley’s lead could widen or spark late deal making amid Western resistance and party bosses.
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St. Louis
McKinley
Ohio
Reed
Morton
Quay
Baths All The Year Round In Boston
A preliminary report by a special committee endorses year round public baths in Boston. An experimental bath house is suggested perhaps in school basements and winter baths to open with cold weather. The plan aims to provide free city baths and place Boston as a leader in continuous public cleanliness.
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Boston
Observant Citizen Notes Breezy Bike Day and Lectures
A column observes a windy day for cyclists with many blue faced riders returning home from the countryside. It reports Miss Kingsley, daughter of the late Rev. Charles Kingsley, touring lectures in Copley Hall on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. It also mentions Jennie June and Mrs. Croly, a Boston woman, with wedding plans in Chelsea and New York.
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Leamington
Warwick
Stratford On Avon
Shakspere
Warwickshire
Jennie June
Boston
Croly
Alice Croly
Chelsea
New York
Matthews
What One Should Wear on the Golf Links
On the golf links, practical attire is advised for rough ground. stout shoes with square heels, or blue canvas shoes if wearing blue, a short skirt or knickerbockers, a shirt waist and jacket, and a red white striped shirt waist with a red silk bow. The illustrated gown uses blue mohair knickerbockers, skirt, and jacket with a Scottish plaid accent.
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A &P
The Miner’s Remark on Boston and Cripple Creek
A Cripple Creek miner visiting Boston notes better Denver institutions but mocks Boston hotels compared with the Brown Palace. He also criticizes early closing laws and irrigation limits at midnight. A Boston civil service tale follows about a city clerk appointment and exam rivalries among young women, ending in disappointment for the preferred candidate.
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Washington Street
Cripple Creek
Boston
Denver
Silver City
Civil Service
Lynn
Public Meeting Time Request From Single Taxers of Boston
A letter to the editor from Edward Doherty acting chairman urges extending Sunday band stand meetings on the Common from 2 to 4 p m to 6 p m or later. He notes large attendance, delays by a petty official, and defends free speech unless it harms others or public policy. April 25, 1896.
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Boston
Edward Doherty
Short Story Competitions At The Post Boston Weekly Prizes
The Post announces weekly prizes for original short stories with ten dollars for first, five for second, and two dollars each for four others. Winners are named and paid by check by mail each Monday for stories published the prior week. Only female writers receive prizes. stories must be under one thousand words, on one side, with name and address.
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POST
THE
the Post
Boston
A Red Lamp Dimmed in Judge Winslow House
Dr Stepp visits Judge Winslow's library and contemplates a quieter life with Helen Winslow. Memories of his late wife Helen flood his mind as the locket reveals her likeness, and a sudden darkness falls when the red lamp goes out.
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L. Helen Martyn
Dartmouth Street
Boston
Stepp
Judge Winslow
Miss Helen
Law Library
Jerome
Minerva
New York
Helen Winslow
Helen
England
Sweet Meadows
Paris
Aucassin and
Nicolete
Fragmented clipped notes mix crime and theater quips
A collage of quotes from Detroit Tribune and Washington Star features a crime bearing line about murderers, Lillian Russell’s possible bond, social musings on silver and fashion, plus a city editor’s worry over the paper’s dullness and a plan to spur interest with an interview of Senator Chandler.
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Senator Chandler
Washington Star
Diversified Farming. Wild oats sowing and harvests reap Cain
Detroit Tribune quips on diversified farming noting seasonal cycles and the paradox of sowing wild oats while reaping varied outcomes in autumn harvests. It frames farming as a broader metaphor for effort and consequence, with a wry editorial tone.
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Detroit Tribune
Prize Winner Named in Best Menu Contest
Miss Louise Marston of 39 West Newton Street wins for the best menu published last week in the Post of Friday morning April 24.
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Louise Marston
West Newton Street
Dorchester Kitchen Receipts and Dinner Menu Tradition
Menu items listed include wheat bread butter doughnuts coffee dinner soup corned beef cabbage turnips parsnips carrots chili sauce rice pudding lemon pie tea cocoa supper cold meat baked potatoes macaroni and cheese hot rolls raspberry preserves cookies chocolate and ham omelet. A recipe note describes frying a ham omelet with two eggs in butter credited to Annie Kerrin of Long Meadow Street Dorchester.
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Annie Kerrin
Long Meadow Street
Dorchester
Breakfast and Dinner Menu and Recipes Featured in Beverly Notice
An old Beverly notice lists breakfast items including oranges rolled oats and cream broiled mackerel baked potatoes piccalilli corn muffins gingerbread parsnips coffee and more plus dinner courses such as macaroni soup stuffed leg vealyster sauce mashed potatoes ama beans sliced tomatoes scalloped asparagus olives celery crab apple jelly and cocoanut pudding with detailed recipes for cocoanut pudding custard sauce banana pie and chocolate cake concluding with the signature Mrs Elizabeth J. Wilson of 15 Union Street Beverly.
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Elizabeth J. Wilson
Union Street
Beverly
Boston Housewife Serves Mock Turkey Dinner Menu
A historical menu lists courses including strawberries and cream and mock turkey made from raw beef with bread and milk mixture. The recipe serves about one hour baking with a milk-soaked bread crust and a pan gravy. Named contributor MRS A N UPSON of Tremont Street Boston.
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California
A. N. Upson
Tremont Street
Boston
Luncheon Menu and Old Fashioned Meat Dumplings Recipe
A Hyde Park luncheon list featuring sliced oranges with nutmeg, baked potatoes, soups, and desserts accompanies a recipe for baked meat dumplings. The dumplings use finely chopped cold meat, seasoned pastry, and a gravy from stock, attributed to Mrs. W. H. Tuttle.
Boston Post Menu Competition Rules and Prizes
The Boston Post offers a weekly prize of 5 dollars for the best three meal bill of fare submitted by women readers. Bills must read like a menu with brief preparation directions. Meals may be breakfast dinner and supper or breakfast luncheon and dinner, for four or five persons, with a weekly food cost not exceeding 10 dollars for a family of five. Submissions must arrive by the Saturday deadline with the winning bill printed each Monday. address communications to Cook Editor, the Post, Boston. Do not send stamps and write only on one side of the paper.
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Boston Post
Post
Eulitor
the Post
Boston
Trailin g Arbutus Romance in April Woods
Poem describes blooming trailing arbutus in April woods. A robin nearby at sunset relates how the flower gained its rosy hue. An angel of spring drops a garland, and a newlywed maiden presses her cheek to the flowers, leaving blushes there.
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Dingle
Foraker Talks To Boston Press At Dinner Event
Ex Governor Joseph B Foraker of Ohio chatted with Boston reporters after checking into the Brunswick Hotel. He arrived to attend the Middlesex Club dinner in memory of Grant and answered rapid questions on Cuba policy, annexation, and the 1900 presidential contest, noting Grover Cleveland and McKinley prospects and plans to depart for New York.
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Joseph B. Foraker
Ohio
Brunswick Hotel Register
Joe” Foraker
Buckeye
Napoleon
McKinley
Boston
Boston & Albany
Middlesex Club
Grant
Dyar
Colonel Billings
Henry Turner
Howard Norris
Americas Club
Pittsburg
Penn
Congress
Cuba
Spain
Grover Cleveland
Massachusetts
Cleveland
New York
Books and authorship notes in Harper's circle and more
The piece reveals official authorship of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc as Mark Twain and May 1 book release by Harper & Brothers. It covers Wilkins new Madelon, Golf essays by Sutphen, consular tales by Ridgely, Longstreet praise, Adams editing, music and travel features, Cambridge Magazine, Puritan works by Gregory and Brown, Hughes death and new Tom Brown editions, and Boudinot’s Life volumes.
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Joan of Arc
Harper’s Magazine
Mark Twain
Clemens
Harper & Brothers
Mary E. Wilkins
Harper's Round Table
W. G. van Tassel Sutphen
Hawthorne, Howells
Donald G. Mitchell
Benjamin H. Ridgely
United States
Geneva
Ridgely
Longstreet
Manassas
Appomattox
London Telegraph
Charles Francis Adams
Court of St. James
Lowell Mason
America
Walter Clark
LL. D
Mexico
Cambridge
Prospect Union
Eliot
Republic
J. Gregory
Elias Boudinot
Continental Congress
J. J. Boudinot
Ever Faithful Henry E Lingham Honored by Dudley Street Church
Henry E Lingham of 251 Dudley Street Roxbury was celebrated by the Dudley Street Baptist Church Sunday school for forty years as a Sunday school teacher and twenty five years of perfect attendance with only four Sundays missed in all those years.
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Henry E. Lingham
Dudley Street
Roxbury
Lingham Receives Honoring Words and Gifts at Dudley Street Baptist
Mr E Daniel Downs opened the ceremony and praised Henry E Lingham for twenty five years of steady Sunday school attendance. He received an Oxford Bible with a fly leaf inscription from Dudley Street Baptist Church and five Matthew's Commentaries from Eliab Parker. Mrs Olmstead sang. The event highlighted Lingham's forty years in Roxbury retail grocery and his long life rooted in Boston's old North End.
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E. Daniel Downs
Lingham
Mr. Lingham
Henry E. Lingham
Dudley Street
Matthew
Kimball
Herbert R. Hunting
Guildrow
The
Baptist Church
Prudential Committee
Abandoned Cassidy Land Along Charles River Waived
Watertown April 26 The Metropolitan Park Commission votes to abandon land seized from John B Cassidy along the Charles River near the Western Avenue bridge. The land includes about an acre with buildings and a coal elevator valued at roughly $30 to higher assessments. Cassidy argues the price reflects his investment value at 6 percent. A hearing is set next Wednesday night before the local board to hear Cassidy and determine if state approval is enough or if the Governor's Council must sanction abandonment. The commission says the move will not affect Charles River improvement plans.
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Watertown
Metropolitan Park Commission
Charles River
John B. Cassidy
Park Commission
Cassidy
Boston Line
Western Avenue Bridge
Blaine Family Gossip Over Infant Name in Washington
In Washington on April 26 gossip swirls around the Blaine family. Mrs. Truxton Beale has named her infant Walker Blaine Beale after her brother, not her husband, the late minister to Persia. Details recall Mrs. Beale's divorce proceedings and her return to her mother, Mrs. James G. Blaine. concurrent chatter suggests Mrs. Walter Damrosch has gone home to her mother while Mr. Damrosch rooms in New York.
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Washington
Blaine
Truxton Beale
Walker Blaine Beale
United States
Persia
Beale
James G. Blaine
Walter Damrosch
Margaret Blaine
Mr. Damrosch
New York
Farewell Sermon for Rev Walter J Swaffield at Boston Bethel
The Rev Walter J Swaffield bade farewell to his congregation at the Boston Baptist Bethel North End. He served with the Seamen's Mission for nine years since 1887 and preached on A Finished Work tracing the mission's progress and praising Boston businessmen who supported the effort.
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Walter J. Swaffield
Boston Baptist Bethel
North End
Seamen's Mission
Mr. Hovey
Newton Theological Seminary
Boston
Dedication of Malden Y M C A Marks New Building
In Malden on April 26 consecration services led by Joseph C. Gordon completed the dedication week. Afternoon programs included a boys meeting with a chalk talk by W F Moore of Everett and singing by Miss Mabel Brown. Women and men’s meetings featured speakers Mrs F C Hastings Miss Pickering of Salem H M Moory of Somerville and solo by J B Robinson.
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Malden Y. M. C. A. Malden
Joseph C. Gordon
W. F. Moore
Everett
Mabel Brown
F.C. Hastings
H. M. Moory
Somerville
Solog
J. B. Robinson
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