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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1897
Page
4
The Boston Post lays out subscription prices for the Sunday Post and other editions, notes payment in advance, and warns subscriptions will be discontinued at expiration. It instructs subscribers on address changes, mailing risks, and to notify by mail if the paper is unavailable.
The Post reports a subway accident at Scollay Square occurring at 4 15 a m with rapid follow up. By 4 45 a m the accident story was sent from the composing room and by 5 o clock the papers were on street. The Post emphasizes quick, intelligent reporting as readers learned of the event first.
The late Henry L. Pierce leaves over 7000000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard College Boston Art Museum and the Massachusetts General and Homeopathic Hospitals. The bequest strengthens their public missions and augments their capacity for service. Pierce is lauded for prudent posthumous generosity and public spirit.
The piece links the Uruguay murder of President Idiarte Borda to a global surge of political violence including attacks on Canovas Faure and Diaz. It notes Uruguay’s long republic history, argues the act lacked patriotic motive, and cites imitative criminal behavior with anniversaries and religious ceremonies as triggers.
Senator Lodge urged extending protection from the Republican record to shipowners at a Sandy Bay celebration. He argued past protection for builders harmed the ocean carrying trade and asked whether extending such protection to owners would restore America’s freight business.
The passage argues that both shipowners and builders suffer not from patriotism but from government pressure forcing American merchants to sail under foreign registers. It critiques Senator Lodges plan for a discriminating duty favoring goods imported in American vessels, claiming it would harm domestic shipowners and asserts that true need is freedom rather than protection.
The piece critiques coal operators for delaying a settlement in a strike and blames them for famine wages during arbitration. Miners offered a plan to receive living wages while proceedings go on, with any excess returned after a final award. Operators reject it as ruinous. advocates say 69 cents per ton is unlivable. The Pittsburg conference failure is lamented.
The county recorder reports over sixty thousand dollars in mortgages released since August indicating farm prosperity as wheat remains largely unthreshed. Farmers pay debts, reinvest in land and improvements, and spur related industries, signaling a broad economic upturn rather than a temporary fortunate turn.
The Observant Citizen notes the Essex Club ladies champion event in Manchester despite heavy rain. The piece also mentions Boston visitor George H. Norman, benefactor Charles H. Bond, Illness of Charlie Metcalf, Isadore Rush’s whistle talent, Halifax trip preparations, and Edward T. Kelly’s appointment as chief clerk in the Board of Assessors.
A local column notes Barrett case lingering for investigators and city projects cash in on street signs. It profiles John Doherty ex president of Division 1 A O H and parish ties while recounting a jolly birthday for Michael Heagney of Mason Hamlin. A disturbing tale follows of a miner's revenge ending in a courtroom tragedy.
A Pennsylvania mining town faces a courtroom drama as John Kendal, once respected, stands accused after years of tragedy. He recounts his daughter May's elopement with Jack Ransone and his wife’s death, hoping to prove his innocence before the verdict is read in court.
The Post announces weekly prizes for Original Short Stories with $10 for first, $5 for second, and $2 each for four others. Winners named Sundays. payments by mail Mondays for stories published the previous week. Submissions must be anonymous and from female readers only. letters must be single sided, with concealed names, in a sealed envelope.
A compiled string of social notes mentions Professor March of Yale unpaid since 1866, George Vanderbilt renting a steam yacht for Arctic travel, Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s blunt Civil War remark in England, Dr. Fred W. d Evelyn claiming a cure for drunkenness, Miss Braddon’s dual talents, Queen Adelaide taking vows in France, Gladstone’s praise for Grant biography, and King Umberto’s Alpine habits. It also covers George Gould fleeing high New York taxes to New Jersey with his Atalanta yacht, raising questions about docking at Lakewood, New Jersey.
Miss Adeline Hendee daughter of Pay Inspector Commander George E Hendee U S Navy died after a two day illness. She was years old. Funeral from Inspector Hendee’s residence in the yard at 1 pm Saturday with burial at Forest Hill.
Fashion notes predict a radical outerwear shift this fall with jackets up to twenty seven inches long and hip braids echoing past styles. Russia inspired blouse shapes, velvet yokes, and front trim with bold black soutache frogs redefine coats, with tight fitting Etons and cape sleeves in the season’s model.
A collage of tiny jokes and captions from Tit-Bits and newspapers features dog humor, social missteps, a nurse’s clever essay, school fund raising, a clever caption, and a Lancashire yokel anecdote about courting with a lantern, reflecting lighthearted 19th century humor.
A fragmentary 19th or early 20th century supper menu lists foods like Wheat Germ Bread Minced Mutton Fricassee Potatoes Rye Drop Cakes and Lemonade Pudding. It includes rough cooking directions and mentions Evelyn in Dorchester with references to milk eggs butter and boiling steps.
Popular Post readers discuss whether an era of general prosperity will end the Free Silver movement. Letters are limited to about 200 words each and express frank opinions to the Editor of the Post.
Arthur Clare of Dedham Arg opposes the gold standard claiming it lowers prices and concentrates wealth. He says prosperity won’t settle the silver issue and urges a fair test of silver without conceding its necessity yet. He recalls Civil War tariff era and questions if history will repeat in finances.
In a letter the author argues that free silver is a reaction to monetary shifts not a cure for hard times. He contends the root cause is the removal of silver from money and predicts gold and silver prices will be distorted by those controlling crops and markets. He signs as J H Morse.
Mary A. Harrity Flanders, writing from 9 South Russell Street as a Second Adventist Thinker, argues for reciprocity in democracy and foresees a nearing era of revolution. She envisions the millennium dawn with allegorical hints of Mars filling the ocean and critiques one sided movements.
The Boston Post launches a weekly contest offering $5 for the best meal bill from readers. Entries must present a single menu with brief explanations and cannot exceed a $10 weekly food limit. Submissions should include directions for preparing the dish and be sent to Cooking Milton at the Boston office.
A letter to the editor argues that general prosperity will not end the drive to restore silver as money. The writer says labor and opportunity define prosperity, questions gold standard critics, and notes industrial panics arise from finance, not workers, insisting the silver cause remains valid regardless of economic highs and lows.
In Somerville Massachusetts on August 2% Robert Ashe argues the exportable value of money drives opposition to silver coinage. He contends free coinage protects business set to corner gold and warns the issue will not die out.
Horace A. Holman of Roxbury argues that a coming era of prosperity would not kill the free silver movement. He cautions against immigration, urges Congress to curb it, and predicts strong public opposition to any overturn of the nation’s financial system. The writer appeals to national unity under Old Glory.
In a letter to the editor Curtis Frank of Boston argues the bimetallic cause remains alive despite gold standard pressure. He defends free coinage at 16 to 1, praises William Jennings Bryan and the Chicago platform of 1896, and rejects any compromise.
A reader cautions that broad prosperity may not ease the free silver issue. He warns of higher living costs and stagnant wages, noting farmers’ wheat profits would largely fund wages, fearing economic hardship and a potential rebound for the silver movement.
Newburyport letter argues for restoring the 16 to 1 silver ratio and warns that prosperity will reveal the value of a firm global coinage. It notes Japan's silver experiment as a cautionary example and calls for mutual US Europe Britain agreements to back silver. Gold is praised as a rightful asset for Americans.
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