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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1895
Page
4
In this Massachusetts note the suffrage movement is urged to seize an easy registration measure before the election. It claims the state offers to aid campaigning at no cost and argues parties with broad support should back women’s voting. Leaders are urged to act now to avoid a weak showing before the next Legislature.
Our store will be open until 10 P.M. offering seasonable goods for civilians boatmen yachtsmen bicyclists sportsmen military and firemen in Boston. For travelers we stock flags hammocks tents and for shore trips bathing suits tights shoes and straw hats in our furnishing department.
Local sale notice from Roxbury area runs unterminated in a clipped OCR fragment. Mentions daily sales at A H Gorgon on Pynchon Street with vague figures and copy counts. No clear date or full details available.
A brief front-page item from the Representative Democratic Paper of New England with July 3 publication date. No further readable details or events are present in the supplied OCR fragment.
The report of Prince Bismarck’s serious illness follows decades of public leadership. At eighty, he is deemed past active duty and Germany faces a future without his rugged, monumental presence. The writer notes the illness may be overstated and rues the day when the statesman is gone.
Yale responds to the English universities contest with hearty sportsmanlike enthusiasm. The Yale Athletic Association shows strong intent by accepting promptly and inviting the Oxford-C Cambridge winner if Harvard declines or blocks the HarvardOxford match. The piece praises Yale’s breezy spirit and calls for more decisive action in American college athletics.
The piece argues Britain acquired vast African lands through purchases and occupations by traders and colonists, followed by government absorption. It compares to how India and South Africa were acquired, condemning land grabs as driven by greed, while noting some so-called civilizing aims.
The fragment lists F. H. Leavitt a newsdealer and Gray, West Everett with various copy totals for GLOBE and HERALD. Specific counts include 128 copies for GLOBE and 298 copies for HERALD, with other lines showing multiple entries per title and dealer.
Newsdealer Ober Wolff on the corner of Washington and Broadway lists hundreds of similar cases with varying copy counts at 40 to 86 copies and a 0.98 price per item at 1146 Tremont Street.
The Boston Post outsells all other morning papers in the city. Newsdealers and newsboys collectively move more Posts than any rival papers. Actual Post sales in Boston and nearby areas nearly match the combined sales of the Globe and Herald.
A Boston Globe reply dodges the Post's 100 dollar challenge and proposes a cash-based comparison, arguing fairness issues between 2-cent and 1-cent papers and between morning and evening editions. The Post's challenge remains open to August 17 for response.
The rise in wages continues nationwide with 430 employers raiding wages since March, affecting at least 315 000 employees. In the Iron district wages rise 18 percent tied to iron prices, signaling a lasting recovery and better times for production, partly due to tariff changes and abolition of McKinleyism.
Residents of Roxbury complain of unequal street car fares compared with nearby districts. They describe five to eight cent differences to cross into Boston and Dorchester and call for a citywide free transfer system. The Post urged this remedy, noting the Legislature has not granted it. If Roxbury aligns with others, the next Legislature may fix the fare system.
The article reports that suffrage leaders including Mrs. Livermore and Miss Alice Blackwell are said to avoid urging votes or voting themselves on the fall plebiscite. It argues a neglect to mobilize supporters is a strategic error, noting unresolved actions tied to Chapter 436 of the Acts of 13%.
In a Boston area piece the Observant Citizen notes the top marks in a boiler inspectors exam with Mr Ferguson of Malden and Mr Phinney as high scorers while veterans may have deserved preference. It also recounts an old family burial plot memory and a shopfront misreading, then a comic tale of a missing overcoat stolen in broad daylight by a deceptive detective in a Mills building case. Leroy Armstrong
Collis P. Hunter, a wealthy man, scorns a beggar’s plea for help and offers harsh advice to invent or earn more. Later a scaffold mishap near his office leads to a fall of grace as the injured stranger vanishes, his wallet missing, leaving Hunter to confront the mystery of wealth and luck.
A collage of quips and jabs cites sunrise meetings by Christian Endeavorers in Boston, postal stamping changes in New York, Captain Howgate’s eight year sentence for government theft, vivisection quips about hospital fund boxes, Schleswig Holstein talk, Buchanan scandal fallout, Chicago Beef Trust grim notions, Stanley and parliament ambitions, and Saratoga’s village president clamping down on gambling. The column blends politics, crime, reform, and sensational asides.
The Boston Post offers a double gold eagle prize to the author of the best welcome poem for the Christian Endeavor convention. Submissions must arrive before the opening day and be limited to thirty two lines. Address Christian Endeavor Editor, The Post, Boston.
A long anthem extols Boston’s historic struggle for rights and welcomes foreign Christian Endeavor workers with praise for benevolence. The piece blends Revolutionary imagery with a modern call for peace, Christian unity, and aid to the needy across nations, concluding with a mass chorus.
In a heartfelt plea the author praises Boston for its warm welcome to Christ and the Church supporters. The piece honors Christian Endeavorers marching in as brothers and sisters, stressing love for the Master over grand display. Lillian Young of Chelsea, Massachusetts signs the message.
A religious tribute dated July 2 1895 from Minnie Edwards Holbrook Massachusetts welcomes readers to join in praise and prayer. The note expresses unity in grace and heavenly love as believers gather to grow together in faith.
Fragmentary hymn text praising Christian Endeavor members and faith. Mentions bright hopes and praise, welcoming in Christ, cross as enduring deeds, and themes of liberty via faith, with garbled phrases and unclear lines.
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