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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1895
Page
5
The Boston Post publishes 1895 subscription details for daily and Sunday editions, with rates for six months and three months. It warns subscribers to report address changes, notes payment methods, and states discontinuation without notice on expiration. Editor B. Grozirf signs as publisher.
A Louisiana Republican meeting notes warn that auctioning delegates to the June St Louis convention may harm buyers and sellers. The piece cites W H Osborne of Boston as an agent for Governor McKinley at the bidding, implying a serious error in the affidavits and auction process.
The article discusses a bill to create a commission to examine the Venezuela British Guiana boundary. It emphasizes the President will appoint members promptly but urges careful, deliberate work. It stresses integrity, knowledge, fairness, and discretionary judgment as essential for credible findings.
A fragment notes broad confidence from world and American audiences in ongoing efforts and leadership. It highlights shared resolve across nations and domestic support for policy directions without detailing specific actions or actors.
Analysts say a bloodless war over the Venezuelan question has unsettled global markets. London traders dumped over 100,000 American railway shares as rates surged and gold flowed out, signaling a market panic. Cash buyers are urged to step in, with fears prices may fall further before a rebound.
In response to the President's plea, a call for bipartisan action to protect public credit dominates. The piece condemns partisan gaming in tariff and currency debates and urges Congress to authorize short-term gold bonds and halt redeemable greenbacks to restore public confidence. It warns Republicans against political maneuvering and stresses unity for fiscal stability.
Senator Hoar calls for international arbitration of the Venezuelan dispute, citing English MPs who urged Boston to adopt arbitration. He argues Lord Salisbury opposes it against public sentiment in both nations, noting Gladstone’s view that only common sense is needed for peace.
The London Spectator argues that President Cleveland's message serves as a full excuse for those desiring to desert an unhappy people the Armenians. It notes that Great Britain fears challenges from America and cannot act decisively.
The speaker questions Britain's role in protecting Armenian Christians, accusing Lord Salisbury and the government of passive stance amid massacres, and wonders what Britain would do beyond Venezuela if not for the Armenian issue. The critique frames the concert of the powers as ineffective in stopping Turk barbarities.
After a flurry of bellicose opinions sparked by the Venezuela letter and Cleveland's message, financiers, businessmen, politicians, clergy, and writers rushed to publish hawkish views. Now many seek to explain or soften them as public tempers have cooled while remaining patriotic.
The New York World presses for peace with extraordinary effort and leads the press nationwide in antiwar sentiment. A Gladstone cablegram using the phrase Only common sense is required answers Pulitzer’s prompt, reflecting the paper’s role in calming the war scare.
The Observant Citizen admires the drummer on the extreme right of the orchestral leader, praising his skill beyond the snare drum and his foot powered bass drum contrivance. The piece also touches on slang, local notices, and brief bios of several figures including Norman F. Hesseltine, Thomas A. Mullen, Tommy Scott, Jo P. Hagan, and E. J. Dailey among others, with a short vignette about a Christmas present event and a sobering family moment.
In a Turin tenement, a sick boy Nino yearns for a hobby horse at Christmas. His painter father crafts a wall horse, but social envy from a wealthier neighbor cuts deep. A mother pawns her ring to buy medicine and a live donkey toy arrives, enabling a final, peaceful, bittersweet Christmas moment as Nino dies happy.
Miss Marguerite Merington author of Captain Lettarblair is in Boston at the Thorndike to correct proof sheets of her prize comedy which Lamson Wolff Co will publish in book form. Its first public performance will be by amateurs at the Waldorf New York later this season. I also met ex Mayor Breen of Lawrence at Hollis Street Theatre. he remains a prominent Essex County political figure.
An explosion from a coal stove in a three story apartment at Hyde Park avenue and Watch Hill street at 10 40 yesterday forenoon started a small blaze. Firefighters extinguished the blaze from Box 502 with about 100 dollars in damage. The apartment was occupied by Michael J Hickey in a building owned by Donald McDonald.
Mrs. S. O. Richardson wife of Dr S O Richardson of Wakefield died in Toledo while visiting her sons. Funeral services were held at the Universalist Church conducted by Rev L L Green and burial followed at Lakeside.
The Cooking Editor praises three excellent weekly menus from Wellesley Charlestown and Portsmouth, noting wholesome inexpensive dishes under the ten dollar limit. Mrs George H Mudge of Portsmouth is awarded the prize for her menu printed Thursday the 19th, with Christmas greetings. Hundreds of menus are being printed in regular order, those since December 1 not yet in type.
From Paris Maine a period cooking column lists breakfast dinner and supper menus with Concord grapes oatmeal fried cod baked potatoes and coffee for breakfast lunch and supper items include oyster soup boiled chicken cranberry sauce mashed potatoes canned corn pickles lemon pudding celery cheese and scalloped potatoes plus a graham roll and pudding recipes with sour milk graham flour and lemon pudding detailing ingredients and steps credited to Mrs Haughton South Paris and Margare Brooks Roxbury Mass as contributors.
The Boston Post offers a weekly prize of five dollars for the best three meals of a single day submitted by women readers. Bills of fare must read like menus with concise dish preparations, covering three meals for a family of five within ten dollars weekly. Submissions end each Saturday. winning menus are printed each Monday. Messages go to Cooking Editor, the Post, Boston. Do not send stamps and write on one side only.
A description of a royal blue velvet gown paired with a box pleated silver gray blouse and a chiffon collar sparkled with silver. A silver belt with a turquoise buckle cinched the waist, completing the elegant ensemble and accessory notes.
An excerpted verse reflecting on Christmas bells across snowy fields, recalling voices and past loves, urging universal worship of love over fear and sin. The lines praise love as the world’s beginning and invoke eternal God across all lands.
A collage of light column humor and quotes from Life Truth and Detroit Tribune pieces. Jokes about luck and wishes, bargaining, romance, clever children, and a sailor's far sighted glass lead a playful page.
Handel and Haydn oratorio The Messiah drew a strong audience as B J Lang filled Zerrahn’s baton role. The balanced chorus, clear sopranos and strengthened altos and tenors impressed. soloists Sapio Bloodgood Beresford Johnson and a large orchestra supported the performance. Proceeds note Emma Juch Vanderveer Green Rieger and Heinrich set for tonight’s reprise.
Samuel T. Shugert longtime Centre Democrat editor and former commissioner of patents under President Buchanan died last night in Philipsburg at age 87. The Bellefont community mourns the veteran journalist who shaped local coverage for nearly half a century.
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