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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1895
Page
4
The Boston Post announces subscription pricing for daily and Sunday editions dated December 21 1895. Rates include yearly and multi month options with several pricing tiers and a note urging readers to provide current mailing addresses and to avoid sending cash.
The Senate bill seeks a commission to investigate and report on the true divisional line between Venezuela and British Guiana. The move aims at peace and dignified statesmanship, to determine who is right without resorting to war or arbitration with Britain. The United States would uncover the facts and present them to the world.
The President informs Congress that authority to issue bonds for Treasury protection should be granted and urges no adjournment for holidays until legislation passes. He appeals to patriotism beyond the Venezuelan message, asking partisanship be set aside for prompt action to preserve the nation's credit amid ongoing gold withdrawals and market unease.
The Sunday Post will publish in full tomorrow the Olney-Salisbury correspondence in the Venezuela matter from the Congressional Record. It will include Cleveland’s famous message, a map of the disputed territory, Venezuelan sketches and portraits, and related materials. Demand is strong and advance orders are advised.
The message urges Congress to provide prompt aid to prevent any sacrifice of public funds or impairment of public credit during the current emergency. It highlights authority to issue short time, low rate gold bonds to replenish the gold reserve and calls for immediate congressional action.
The piece notes a post message reaction to the Venezuelan question that unsettles stocks but argues the danger is overstated. It cites London selling pressure and investor nerves yet insists real risks remain limited and war unlikely. It emphasizes Monroe doctrine foresight and negotiation to avert conflict.
The piece argues the gold reserve must be replenished by selling short term low rate bonds, urges Congress to repeal gold reissue limits, and criticizes the administration for costly long term debt. It also reflects on city life scenes, police conduct, street vendors, a jewel theft recovery, and social commentary.
The old State House again alarms lawmakers with reports of a floating Blue Room floor, out of plumb Doric Hall columns, rotting timber in the dome, and a sinking Green Room floor just before the new Legislature. Yet the building has stood a century and may endure.
The author frames the Turkish persecutions as a religious war not a political issue. Armenian Christians are described as victims of fanatics, with promises of immunity to Muslims and a policy of “believe or die.” Extermination and expulsion of Christian missionaries are cited as core aims. The piece condemns such religious warfare as barbaric and an anachronism in modern civilization.
A dated kitchen snippet lists breakfast items such as fried mush hot rolls coffee and toast with a later focus on a potato salad dish. It provides detailed steps for potato salad and lemon pie, plus a lemon jelly cake and jelly preparation, attributed to Mrs H E Bufton of Malden Massachusetts.
The Boston Post announces a weekly prize of 35 for the best three meal menu from women readers. Entries must show a menu style list with brief dish explanations, for a family of four or five, with a weekly food limit of 10 dollars. Submissions due Saturday November 9 and winners published each Monday.
A two shade brown cheviot gown features astrachan bands at the bottom, black passementerie, plain basque back, and a vest of dark velvet. The front opens over a velvet vest, with revers and godets, a Medici collar, and a large brown velvet hat. White gloves and white satin slippers complete evening wear. white remains favorite, jet fades, spangle trimming popular, gowns costly.
Lady Whichell schemes to break Bertie’s engagement to Miss Dornton, a chorus singer, by wooing the beautiful, well-bred Miss Dornton into her home and arranging social scrutiny. Bertie, surprised by his mother’s cordial reception, agrees to introduce Dornton, who proves capable of high style and poise, unsettling the widow’s plans as hidden motives surface.
A dramatic domestic scene unfolds as a son announces his engagement to Miss Dornton, confessing that Bertie jilted her previously. The mother, Lady Whichell, listens in shock while the narrator admits remorse and a vow to marry the woman he loves, crediting fate and warning of judgment on past plots.
Market page lists evergreen wreaths and trimming prices, turkeys and geese, game meats, and fish stalls with varied per unit costs. Also shows butter, eggs, cheese, potatoes, onions, and vegetables with per pound or per unit pricing. Scarcity noted for holly and laurel may push prices higher.
Artichokes 15 cents a quart. Crabberries 12 to 15 cents a quart. Oranges 2 1/2 to 50 cents a dozen. Lemons 15 to 25 cents a dozen. California grapes 60 to 6 cents a box. Grape fruit 1 to 1 10 a dozen. Table apples 35 to 60 cents a peck. Catawba grapes 16 cents a basket. Concord and Vergennes grapes 20 to 25 cents a pound.
A collage of jokes and wry lines from early 20th century papers includes a maid’s fire question, a masquerade quip, a coal weigh dispute, and pithy exchanges about mishaps and vanity. Notable snippets feature a new girl, a disguise joke, a two ton coal load, and a janitor joke reworked for humor.
A 19th century style quatrain warns that wealth invites affection, but misfortune exposes who stays true. It contrasts riches bringing pride with friends fading away like mist as fate rises, ending with a moral about loyalty. Ga. M. BY
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