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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1898
Page
4
The notice outlines subscription rates for In Y One FORE and AB Sunday Post with prices listed for monthly and multi month terms. It instructs Babseriders to provide current and future addresses and notes second class matter status. Payments should be made payable to the POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
The Boston Post announces subscription terms and office addresses in Boston and a New York distribution note. Readers are urged to pay subscriptions, secure the Post, and notify the office if the paper is unavailable via a gestal message. Editor and Publisher E A Grozifer signs the notice.
The text questions who commanded Santiago and who proposed troop removal, arguing the real issue is accountability for a failed military administration that has become a global scandal.
City celebrates the subway as the Transit Commission nears completion of the underground line. By next week cars will run regularly and surface traffic will shift, with East Boston tunnels yet to come. Officials note lower costs than projected and rapid progress despite public inconvenience.
The arrival of the hospital ship Bay Blate with sick soldiers highlights efficient relief work. Massachusetts citizens backed the vessel as the War Department’s care for troops drew sharp criticism for poor conditions and scant medical support.
The Common Council approves a public welcome for the victorious navy upon their arrival in Boston Harbor. The plan calls for entertaining officers and men in a proper city hospitality setting, echoing past admirals’ visits, with timely action to avoid delays by the Board of Aldermen.
The piece endorses General Miles for criticizing War Department actions and Alger's fever order. It argues a court martial would likely find a violation but that Miles bears heavier responsibility for speaking out, and suggests General Wiles may reveal systemic methods behind the department's decisions.
The peace commission for a U S Spain treaty nears completion with Spanish nominees including Senor Leon y Castillo as ambassador to Paris and Senor Urutia as minister to Belgium. The article notes Spain may field strong diplomats, but the U S negotiators hold the upper hand as victors in the conflict.
The Observant Citizen notes a brief autumn tease as overcoats return then vanish. George H. Norman reports his son Corporal Max Rough Rider improving while London-style readers see S December get a boost from local hotel hopes and a Montauk camp visit. Leland Powers plans a Western trek with Boston Star dates, and Edward Ratcliffe’s six month sentence ends amid talk of a stage comeback. A reader pleads not to be named again after a depot incident.
Roy L. McCardell recounts a stowaway aboard transports to Santiago and Montauk. He describes dust and rough seas, crowded berths, filth, disease, and blame shifting between officers as wounded soldiers endured neglect and pestilence.
Menu notes breakfast items including blueberries wheat cakes and cream toast coffee and cocoa. Dinner lists White Swiss Soup roast beef brashea potatoes poached eggs with spinach green peas green corn rice meringue lemon and apple pies cheese crackers beef patties Supper features cold lamb cutlets potato roly poly Graham bread fig cake and cakes with marmalade. Recipe for White Swiss soup with chicken or veal broth and eggs.
A poor Virginia family of seven children endures hardship on a small farm. Lyda, the eldest daughter, longs for riches but learns through Nellie Wilson and Dr. Wayde's broken engagement that money cannot buy happiness. A dream vision leaves her resolved to seek virtue over wealth.
A collage of light humor and witticisms quotes from the Chicago Record Truth Cincinnati Enquirer Brooklyn Life Cleveland Plain Dealer Tit Bits and the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph about President McKinley sailors golf wives and sailors. The snippets reflect playful chatter and jests from late nineteenth century newspapers.
A shop display features umbrellas with shaft handles now selling for 1 25, far below prior five dollar minimums. White bone handles with nickel tracery appear practical and stylish, with novelty horse head designs shown but unlikely to appeal to businesswomen. Medium size umbrellas require careful rolling quality to ensure straight use. The Latest.
An editorial verse praises a savior figure who freed Cuba from Spanish rule and declares Cuba belongs to Cubans. It thanks a benefactor for lifting chains and asks divine protection for the land, noting a historic shift from distrust of Spain to sovereign independence. August 26. ED WALSHE.
Munyon's Dyspepsia Pellets advertised to cure digestion and constipation and all forms of stomach trouble. Munyon's Doctors free.
Letters in the Post urge decisive action on the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. Authors argue for strong measures, favoring full control or cession of Luzon and the archipelago, with Manila as a strategic hub. The debate weighs duty, cost, and long term risks of partial conquest versus entire acquisition.
Editorial warns that addressing the Philippine issue will trigger wide opinion shifts and a lengthy discussion possibly ending in a deadlock unless representatives press the majority view firmly.
A Civil War veteran from Boston argues for Philippine self determination with Luzon kept as a naval station, voters choosing their government free from ward heelers, and U.S. protection as they begin a path to national freedom, marking Dewey’s victory as a new start.
The column references Jules Cambon the French ambassador to the United States and Saratoga. the Garczynski family of Ripon Wisconsin. Faure and Montjarret in French society. Roosevelt, DeArmond, and Shafter in U S political and military circles. Kitchener’s Nile expedition press limits. Prince Bismarck anecdotes. Bishop Cowell well known as Harrow headmaster. Goethe monument in Vienna by Edmund Hellmer. Vicomte de Castex, ex imperial servant. Humphrey prize proposed at Kingston grammar school. Michelet and his wife Franco German cultural ties. Guttstadt preparing a study for the Paris exposition on hospital care.
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