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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1900
Page
6
Special items taken from manufacturers offer deep discounts on coats capes and suits. Quality kersey cloth satin lining fur collars and up-to-date styling highlighted by price reductions from 39 cents to 4.50 a waist and 5.98 to 6.75 for capes and skirts. Includes eiderdown boleros and flannelette pieces with decorative details.
Rates listed for one year at $1.50, six months 75 cents, three months 40 cents. Readers are asked to provide current and future address details for delivery. Subscription desk details appear in the notice.
A Lourenzo Marques consul reports sixty to seventy Boer families totaling about 600 men and their families plan to emigrate to the United States with passages provided. They would join Western territories along transcontinental railroads, bringing farming and herding skills to new lands, adding liberty minded settlers to America.
A historical editorial argues the Common Council should kill a sweeping loan bill rather than purge it. It contends aldermen secured district favors through log rolling, masking many concealed expenditures and preventing proper scrutiny within time limits. The piece urges outright rejection to halt the proliferation of municipal grabs.
The speaker urges killing the current loan bill rejected by the Common Council. A fresh measure should provide only necessary items, free from aldermanic log-rolling stigma. Aim to clear the way for a new order and honest reform in finance.
The piece defends the Democratic nominees on the official ballot against a technical attempt by Public School Association to block them. It argues the nomination by committee risks deals, urges ratification by convention, and notes a bipartisan ballot commission decision likely to be upheld by the Supreme Court. It blends local civic politics with theater anecdote and social notes.
The Maine Law article questions Joseph H. Manley’s fitness for the U S post as commissioner of internal revenue. It argues Maine law bans liquor traffic and penalties are severe, and asks if Manley would license Maine drink sales or enforce state law versus federal policy, risking conflict with ethics and morality.
Washington opens the Fifty sixth Congress with prerogatives and expected messages. The key issue is the Democratic minority's course and unity to block Hanna McKinley plans such as the ship bounty bill. Frye aims to push it early, while battles loom over the army bill and war tax reductions as Democrats rally for the people.
Arnold C. C. Azemar of Croydon Hug will give a private reading tomorrow evening at the Colonial Club on Quincy Street in Cambridge. His fame as a reader has preceded him. The other evening at the Tremont Theatre, spectators were surprised to see him attract attention.
Boston Post fashions page guides women to choose attire from local Boston stores to match Paris trends. Ladies say the page helps pick outfits correctly and stay stylish without waiting for import fashion.
The Immaculate Conception feast will be observed in all city Catholic churches next Saturday. The patron church on Harrison Avenue hosts a novena begun Friday evening and continuing through the week, with other churches holding special services as this holy day of obligation is marked.
A collage of curious items: German experts test weapons on paupers’ concrete targets, a French physician touts yawning for health, and a giant oak lifts 123 tons of water monthly. Notes on voting rights, immigration, sanitation, and early telegraphy pepper the piece, with Rotterdam’s trade rise and a Canadian pulp mill plan.
Breakfast items include omelet cream toast and pea cereal with various sides. Supper features cold meat croquettes and date cake with prune jelly and whipped cream. A dessert recipe instructs soaking prunes with gelatine, then moulding and chilling for serving. Anna Hewes of Everett Massachusetts appears as the author.
The Rev Dr George C Lorimer preached at Tremont Temple Baptist Church after weeks of illness. Morning addresses culminated with his main sermon The Last Communion of the Century followed by the Lord's Supper. Evening he opened a five sermon series on Religious Aspects of the Nineteenth Century focusing on The Great Revivals of the Century.
Delia Leroy leaves wealth and privilege for a seaside romance with Gerald Malcolm a struggling lawyer. After a broken engagement and personal trials she becomes a nurse at B Hospital. Years later, in delirium care, Gerald recovers and asks to marry her, which she gladly accepts.
A fragmentary line of verse describes a calf among roses turning into a glum scene behind a barn. A speaker dwelling near a stove cracks nuts and pounds his thumb while wondering if the world is a vale of woe.
The Ward 18 Democratic committee of 1901 was organized for the coming year. J. P. Timilty was elected chairman, P. J. Shannon secretary, D. F. Shields treasurer, J. T. Sweeney executive committee, with meetings planned and contact kept with ward residents on key questions.
Special sale on wool dress fabrics featuring Lot I Lot 2 and Lot 3 with widths from 38 to 48 inches. Includes All-Wool Storm Serges Granite Cloth Crepe Cloth Jacquards Mohair Serges India Twils Henriettas Cheviots Fancy Perola Suilings French Serges English Brilliantines Sicilians Batiste Albatross and more at special yard prices.
Catalog of colored lot fabrics including camel hair tricot boucle and mixtures priced from 39c to 79c per yard. Items include 44-inch storm serge blues 46-inch wool blends and 52-inch imported Venetians with Ottoman stripes. Note purchases are neatly tied with ribbon on request.
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