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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1892
Page
4
Daily posting service lists subscription notices and multiple office addresses. It directs readers to report delivery issues to the POST publishing company with offices at Corcoran Building Fifteenth Street and 160 Nassau Street, New York.
A letter argues that Cunard should deploy first class steamers on the Boston route to attract travelers from New York. It claims Boston could rival New York by offering faster transatlantic passage, reducing travel time by about two days and drawing passengers to Boston instead of competing lines.
A North End platform calls for a Democrat who truly represents the people not corporations. The new North End alderman should stand for public interests, resist monopolies, and avoid ties to the West End or any gas monopoly, ensuring fidelity to North End residents.
A political editorial urges the Democratic House to approve the World’s Fair appropriation in the sundry civil bill and adjourn. It argues the fight has no merit and criticizes the New York Sun for obstructing business and delaying the bill.
A columnist questions why aldermen fear public ridicule, arguing every public official faces critique and that fear implies an official fault. The piece claims officials must endure scrutiny as part of their duties and condemns avoidance as improper.
Readers mock the Aldermen for threatening to revoke licenses over stage humor. The piece says managers shrug off the risk and that the threat is a silly bluff that has backfired, leaving venues unfazed and the city’s authorities publicly humiliated.
The Boston Post asserts it ranks second in morning newspaper circulation in Boston and vicinity based on actual sales by newsdealers and newsboys. It pledges to rise to the top, inviting advertisers to verify the figures by checking streetcar and city storefront sales.
The piece argues that mining camp states lack capacity yet gain Senate and electoral votes, enabling GOP influence over national policy. It cites Homestead unrest, Idaho miner strikes, and federal troop use, claiming the Democratic House checked GOP autocracy while predicting mining camps will back Hargison in November.
A Beatrice Nebraska rally quoted Governor McKinley praising protection while critics accuse the tariff of suppressing wages and triggering widespread strikes. The piece notes iron and steel profits, granite industry impact, and mass labor unrest with hundreds of thousands affected.
A fragment notes Governor McKinney has not succeeded in vindicating protection. The statement implies ongoing political dispute over protective measures and governance, with no further context available.
The Boston Journal is pressed to back its tariff assertions with data. It urged Senator Aldrich to provide figures, and now faces demand to withdraw statements or prove coal costs, clothing prices, living costs, and steel billet rates, all under McKinley era policies, with clear quotations from law.
The Rev. Edward A. Horton gives an Old South course lecture on Leif Erikson for youths. George F. Knight returns from a Georgia coast cruise aboard his schooner Kittie. P A Dyer pursues business in Allston. Mrs Kate Gannett Wells writes on Free Summer Pleasures for the People in Boston. At Traveler office a man argues politics, touting Democrats, Republicans and Harrison. others ask, Who is General John L. Swift?
Judge Louis C Stearns of Bangor is ill but mobile again. Yale professor C H Smith, formerly of Bowdoin, wintering in Bath. Rev Dr J Aspinwall Hodge becomes pastor emeritus of Hartford First Presbyterian Church with no successor chosen yet. J B Hall of Rockland acquires General Henry Knoxs old three foot mirror. Dr Hampton E Hill of Saco, a leading state physician surgeon, is adjudged insane and committed to an asylum following overwork and the loss of his wife.
The Wyoming Thread Mills known as the Augustus Chace Thread Mills were sold at auction for 40000 dollars to J H Estes Bros after a lawsuit over capital stock reduction and an injunction prior to the sale. The three story mill plus land and storehouses were the plant sold with bidders from out of town attending.
Records show subscriptions and acknowledgments from multiple donors and locations. Totals indicate 82414.07 raised with contributions from A H Wilson J A Driscoll P A Larkin Chelsea Wakefield and others including a Potters firm and a local bookbinder.
A reverend friend mates a brief note from Lynn Acknowledged and Lydia Taft about remaining subscription opportunities. The total received is seven thousand six hundred fourteen dollars and sixty seven cents.
A Page of readers submissions for the Conundrum competition at the Boston Post. Entires range from original and non original conundrums to playful rhetorical questions about paper, dogs, and public figures with local names and addresses from Reading Winchester Dorchester South Boston Allston and Dorchester.
The Republican State committee began work at Avovsta with an active campaign to start August 17. Many speakers are engaged and campaign speaking will begin on the 17th. Chairman left for Ellsworth to consult Senator Hale and will go to Bar Harbor to consult Mr. Blaine. The services of both as speakers are desired.
Business leaders and travelers in Boston favor adding a Cunard fast liner like the Etruria to the port. Prominent importers and insurers say a quick crossing would draw travelers away from New York and benefit New England, with broad support for the move if realized.
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