Post Publishing Company notices and payment terms
Communication details for the Boston Post include mailing instructions for payments and money orders, advance subscription requirements, and offices in Boston and New York. It cautions against sending cash and notes that subscriptions may be discontinued at expiration without notice.
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Post Publishing Company
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Boston Boston
Washington Street
New York
Boston Post
Boston Considers Municipal Electric Lighting Amid Monopoly Threat
The Common Council adopts an investigation into Boston Edison and Morgan led consolidation. The city debates a municipal lighting plant to avoid New York monopoly control and protect public interests, with possible enabling legislation if pursued. The Boston public roars to safeguard local illumination profits and control.
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Boston
Common Council
Edison
Mr. Morgan
New York
City Council urged to fund schools with 1.5 million order
The Boston Common Council is urged to approve a 1.5 million package for building and repairing schoolhouses. Proponents argue the city can borrow nearly six million more and that funds now spent on speedways and playgrounds should aid school facilities. The Mayor may veto, but supporters say a test of law is needed.
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Common Council
Boston
City Hall
Legislation on Kidnapping Penalties Across States
An editorial compares kidnapping laws in Nebraska New York Massachusetts arguing that harsher penalties may deter crime less than certain detection. It cautions that extreme punishments do not always reduce murder or kidnapping rates and notes concerns about enforcement and certainty of capture.
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Nebraska
New York
Massachusetts
Collins
The
Fish and Game Commission
Senator Bawley objects to printing of petition from Manila residents
An unseemly uproar in Congress centers on a petition from Milplaes in Manila. Senator Bawley calls the document an untransonable denunciation of the government and an assault on the soldiers, protesting its reading as unworthy of Senate consideration. The impulse reflects radical temper in Washington and opposition to wartime policy.
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Kuchey
Congress
Manila
Waehimeton
Stawley
Tle
Senate
Bawley
Plea for Filipino cooperation urged in pursuit of just government
The argument stresses fairness by presenting both sides and urges careful consideration of the petition from two thousand signers. It portrays signers as prominent Filipino professionals, lawyers, bankers, merchants, and educated citizens who would aid in governing if granted a hearing rather than subjugation.
Passage of Chandler Ends Chandler’s Senate Career
A New Hampshire caucus elected Judge Tenry E Burnham Republican nominee with 198 votes to 161 needed, signaling the likely end of Senator William J Chandler’s term. The piece labels Chandler’s career as marked by unscrupulous zeal and notes historic (and disputed) actions involving Hayes and the Florida electoral vote.
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Membe
New Hampshire
William J. Chandler
United States Senate
Judge Burnham
Senator Chandler
William E. Chandler
Chandler
Florida
Rutherford B. Hayes
United States
Samuel J. Tilden
Charles Francis Adams
Hayes
Boston Chronicle Notes Amid City Developments and Social Visits
The piece recounts Boston area tidbits including a new building planned at Washington and State streets, shifting rents to month-to-month terms, and the Old State House’s looming change. It mentions a mild snowstorm, predicted clear weather, and cultural notes on Hopkinson Smith and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It also covers dog breeder Dr. Kammerer and his exceptional Boston terrier, hotel chatter about Senator Depew lookalikes, and local political maneuverings at the Democratic State committee meeting.
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Washington and
State Streets
Ames
Sears
State House
Kammerer
City Dog Repository
Washington Street
Dot
New York
Chicago
Boston
Kr. Kimmerer
Washington Village
P. R. Lance
Parker House
Chevuncey M. Depew
Newton
Sitya
Mr. Lance
Lance
Depew
Mer. Lance
United States
Squirrels Endear Themselves To Harvard Yard Crowd
An amusing note describes Harvard students taming a growing army of gray squirrels in the yard. Students crack nuts for the rodents who roam among them, enter dormitory entries, and show no fear, drawing a steady rise in daily feeding. The piece also mentions local civic and social items including a Dorchester gatekeeper hero and a forthcoming Geneva Association party.
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Harvard Yard
Alree
Iumea
Starvard
Redmond Leads Irish Fund Drive at Dublin Meeting
John Redmond tells United Irish League in Dublin that Libs are split and conservatives pursue risky ventures, calling for a united Irish parliamentary party and a programme including compulsory land purchase. Thomas Wallace Russell and John Dillon back him, both criticizing Dublin authorities over Queen Victoria’s visit, as funds are urged to sustain parliamentary work.
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United Irish League
John Redmond
Irish Parliamentary Party
Liberal Party of
England
Ireland
China
South Africa
Cape Town
Redmond
Thomas Wallace Russell
Tyrone
House of Commons
John Dillon
Messrs
Russell
Dillon
Queen Victoria
Odd Bits of News From Distant Lands and Local Curiosities
A digest of varied items notes seven Turkish flutes and a Caucasus dulcimer, a rock’s sixty mile per hour flight compared with a hawk, Spain’s beet sugar push, and Darling Downs wheat yields up to fifty two bushels per acre. It also reports Hartford cats at risk from diphtheria fears, a proposed 1297 square mile national park at the Mississippi headwaters, California canned fruit shipments to England in 1895, France’s damage from hellstorms around 85 million francs, and an old world belief about wolves and omens in the Triol Mountains. Roadmaster Purdy shows a mammoth tusk at Two Crosse Wisconsin, seven feet long, which crumbled to dust after exposure.
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Spain
Darling Downs
Queensland
Trartford
Conn
Board of Health
National Park
California
England
France
Tral Mountains
Roadmaster & TD
Purdy
Purlington Railway
Twa Crosse
Wis
Hagar
Skater Learns Aging Limits Amid Old Plunkville Tales
A prologue of Dora Livingstone and Edgar Livingstone unfolds as a fraught marriage scene. A servant breaks a cherished memento, sparking Dora’s discontent with their modest life. An aging husband recalls his prime skating days and battles awkward failures on the ice, mixing nostalgia with humor.
Daily Table Hints and Breakfast Late 19th Recipes
The page offers a series of meal hints for breakfast lunch and dinner with recipes for an omelet and baked apples. It includes instructions for beating eggs folding in chicken and cream, plus a method for apple taploca with lemon peel nutmeg and sugar. Margaret Smith of 2792 Washington Street Boston signs the item.
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Margaret Smith
Washington Street
Boston
Typhoid Fever Tests Dora Livingstone’s Loyalty
Dora Livingstone endures six weeks of nursing her husband Edgar Livingstone, who suffers typhoid fever. The strain tests her love and patience while a loyal servant, Lialea, keeps the household running and hides the illness from Mr. Livingstone.
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Pele
Dora
Edgar
Edgar Livingstone
Miller
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Roke
Condr
Kbigar
Casey
Lialea
Mrs. Livingstone
Do You Have Any Trouble in Making Your Pegasus Go
A witty Detroit Free Press quip about handling a Pegasus with the spur of the moment. The remark imagines a horse perhaps as a metaphor for speed or imagination, reflecting light humor in the era's humor column.
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Detroit Free Press
Washington Drives Hero From Background in Historic Crossing
In a playful historical scene the commander-in-chief George Washington commands attention, shoving Algernon Fitz-Murgatroyd aside to declare his primacy in the telling of Washington crossing the Delaware at Trenton as described by the Chicago Tribune.
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Algernon Fitz-Murgatroyd
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Washington
Delaware
Trenton
Chicago Tribune
Hasn’t Cashed Him Year Old Bachelor Susceptible
Readable fragments show a flirtatious exchange quoted from the Chicago Record with a line about a bachelor being “mine for years” and a teasing refrain about “Susceptible.” The snippet presents social gossip rather than a full event.
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Agnes
Chicago
How to Draw a Crowd Joke from Chicago Record
A short quip notes a lonesome scene with a neighborly suggestion to nudge guests by napping on the couch. The item captures a light moment from urban humor in a Chicago publication tone.
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Chicago
Bargain Hunter Finds Match Despite Wealth Gap
A Chicago Post remark highlights a woman who secures a son-in-law with notable bargaining skill. The quote notes skepticism about marrying into wealth but praises her talent for making advantageous matches.
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Chicago Post
Witty Quips on Marriage and Politics Across Papers
A humorous exchange about marriage and cooking quality appears in the Indianapolis Press, Chicago Times-Herald, and Chicago Post. The young man jokes that two can live cheaply, while the old man questions the woman’s cooking, and another remark notes a politician building a “past” for future reference.
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Indianapolis
Chicago Times-Herald
Jordan, Marsh & Co. Two Big Bargains In Men’s Suits
Taney worsteds, Scotch devices and homespuns with hand worked collars and lapels offered in regular and stout sizes. Sold this fall at 48.50 to 55.00, now at January sale price.
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Taney
Men’s Dress Shoes Offered at One Price Monday
A local sale highlights men’s season shoes in varieties including patent calf box calf velour calf and waterproof leathers. Regular prices ranged from 3.50 to 5.90 but all are offered at 2.55 each for one day only, Monday.
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Tailored men s suits on sale in English and American fabrics
Hand tailored regular and stout size business suits offered in English and American wool options. Fancy worsteds and regular long fits listed with sale prices ranging from 21.00 to 22.00, advertised as desirable for business wear.
Ribbed Plaid Tose and Wool Styles Offered in Pairs
Advertisement lists boys' and girls' ribbed plaid tose in French cotton and wool with double knees high spliced heels and double toes priced at $1 per pair. Also notes Zoo School Nose toys with ribbed double knee heels and toes in black at 1230 cents per pair.
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Zoo School
Overstocked Children’s Clothing Drives Prices Down
Desirable styles reduced in a bulk sale with deep price cuts on girls long coats boys reefers skates coats and sailor suits. Items include 2.98 girls coats size 8 to 1 years 5.00 miss jackets 14 to 19 years 3.95 reefers 3 to 6 years 2.95 top coats 2.95 3.95 and sailor suits up to 12 years previously priced higher.
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