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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1895
Page
4
A call invites sales of news papers by dealers and boys to verify counts, excluding unsold copies. The Globe and Herald are asked to participate, with a $1000 charity payment if the Post’s statement isn’t disproved by August 1, 1895. The Post urges editors to accept.
The Post asserts that true sales of morning papers in Boston and nearby would show the Boston Post nearly matches the Herald and Clothe combined within about ten thousand copies. It notes canvassing all 3000 New England news dealers is impractical, yet claims Boston and vicinity can yield exact facts independent of newspaper offices.
The Post continues its $1000 challenge to the Herald and other morning papers, stating the public can draw its own conclusions. It now extends the offer to any advertiser or ad agent in Boston, requiring no forfeiture, and will pay all canvassing expenses.
The Post asserts its enormous sales surpass rivals and stresses real circulation equals copies sold rather than printed. It promises specific daily dealer and newsboy sales figures for regions, noting figures exclude Herald and Globe.
An item notes daily sales at the corner of Massachusetts avenue and Boylston Street by Samuel Rodman. The fragment mentions a Globe Herald price of 80 and lists various oddities about copies printed or sold. The text is garbled but indicates a local sale notice for newspapers with distribution points in Back Bay.
A fragmented OCR item notes newsboys at East Boston and North ferry POST stands selling limited copies of the Globe and Herald. It records scattered counts like 400 copies and mentions few Heralds sold at East Boston ferries, with courtesy kept re figures.
Listings for O F Batchelder at 16 Winnisimmet street and F Banford at 24 Winnisimmet street reveal counts of Globe and Herald copies. Batchelder appears with 430 Globe copies and 60 Herald copies, Banford with 90 Globe and 580 Herald copies, indicating distribution tallies or subscription notes.
A brief notice lists P. J. Keenevaar at 318 Sumner Street with quantities of newspapers and copies: Globe and Herald counts for distribution or sale noted as 68 copies of Globe and 28 copies of Herald, with 309 shown as a post office reference.
Newsdealer G C Ingram at 26 Myrtle Street posts 20 copies of Globe and 12 copies of FhibRad and Newsdealer at Robbins & Co 175 Cambridge Street posts 12 copies of Globe 13 copies of Herald. Pillsbury at 118 Cambridge Street lists 120 copies. Herald figures not given.
The fragment lists several street corners and newspaper names with scattered copy counts including Newsdealer Ober Wolff at Washington Street and Broadway, Green at Tremont Street, and multiple copies noted. A concluding line mentions hundreds of similar cases that can be dive.
Boston and vicinity newsdealers report the Post leads morning paper sales. Many dealers and newsboys sell more Posts than all other morning papers combined. The Post’s daily Boston sales nearly equal the combined totals of the Globe and Herald.
The Boston Globe dodges the Post's cash based challenge by arguing against direct cash comparisons between papers and editions. The Post’s $1000 challenge remains open and can be raised if an acceptance would spur greater newspaper interest.
The article notes a liberal scale of holiday features including sports music oration fireworks and parades. It credits a city government branch for ensuring Independence Day is celebrated at a level with prior years and emphasizes it as a people’s democratic holiday to be enjoyed from morning bells to late rockets.
The new revenue cutter strengthens winter patrols and coastwise navigation around Boston. Built in East Boston, it supports local industry and the Charlestown rolling mill. It provides employment and wages, credit due to Congressman Joseph H. O'Neil for arranging the project.
The Lynn fire yesterday highlights risks of July Fourth celebrations in Boston. A boy’s careless act caused ruin and injuries, underscoring that the holiday strains fire and hospital resources. Police vigilance and individual restraint are urged to curb dangerous fireworks and keep celebrations within bounds.
The Valkyrie lost to Britannia by a clear margin in a fifty mile Clyde race yesterday. The result suggests Britain’s top designs may still be needed to challenge for the America's Cup, especially as the Valkyrie showed strength only in light winds. The defeat under fresh wind challenges the Valkyrie as a true representative of British capability.
The piece honors the Declaration of Independence and the patriotism of American citizens. It reflects on national unity, civil duty, and the enduring spirit shown in elections and national challenges, stressing citizenship beyond race, creed, or party.
A fragment extolls a constant saturation with the spirit of patriotism. The line anchors a late nineteenth or early twentieth era rhetoric, invoking the ideals of liberty and national pride without concrete events or dates.
The Post reports a gambling like operation in the Hancock building that mirrors fare box schemes. It questions why authorities have taken no action, labeling investors duped by bogus stock quotes as participants in a swindle. Where are the police in Boston.
The piece recalls a jailhouse 1837 memoir by a drunkenness inmate, revealing 1833 to 1887 totals of 1477 men and 89 percent women confined, with 783 men and 4380 women classified as common drunks. It quips on old Boston ads, a Wandering wife defense, a dramatic Streetcar incident, and a Post staff celebration by the Columbus Associates in Newspaper Row.
A vain, imperious singer Miss Trixy Tremolo, famed on stage, awakes in a lavish room. A trim maid serves coffee and letters as the star peruses royal seals, club letterheads, and a cheap yellow envelope with an illiterate address, its postmark hinting at a hidden message.
The social queen Trixy Tremolo arrives in sorrow to honor a friend’s grave. She deserts Manhattan society after a yacht dinner promise, travels north by train, and kneels at a newly sodded grave expressing remorse and renewed tenderness. Edith Sessions Tupper is credited.
A collage of humorous notes and observations from the era lampoons officials and events. It jokes about the Weather Bureau chief, Metro Water Commission politics, Liberty Bell loan, Boston and Atlanta exchanges, and a range of social quirks. It ends with wild elk in Central Park reacting to a cyclist in bloomers.
The first Christian Endeavor delegate from Australia arrives in Boston. Rev W J Closs of Summer Hill discusses American adaptability and critiques sensationalist press while promoting Australian education, temperance movements, and the Young Endeavor union. He highlights Australia’s secular free but compulsory schooling, broad endowments, and strong club life, with 50 000 Endeavorers and 180 societies nationwide.
President E G Osgood announces Vermont Christian Endeavor’s plan to participate as a state body. Headquarters will be Maverick Hotel East Boston with arrival at Maverick Congregational Church. Vermont speakers to address welcome events at Central Square churches with a large attendance and much enthusiasm.
The Christian Endeavor excursion train from Oakland to Rosetown for the international meeting carried only about 10 percent of its intended travelers. Promises by Southern Pacific to issue three month round trip tickets were not kept, with tickets later valid for only three weeks. As a result only ten of about one hundred planned travelers departed for Boston today.
Chicago July 3 An excursion rate war looms for the Christian Endeavor convention in Boston. The Soo Line, accused by Minnesota and St Paul roads of violating the agreed time limits, began selling return tickets to Sept 16. A free for all scramble for the business on any terms is expected.
In New York on July 3, medical experts testified at the Tombs that barber Vincenzio Nino was likely insane when he killed his wife on February 19. They described rehearsed mock murder scenes using a razor and a dummy, with a wrist recorder showing no pulse change during the simulations.
In Depew New York Chauncey M Depew received a witty letter from an unknown admirer written on fine linen in a bold feminine hand The writer says she had designs on him and would have been disappointed if he wed someone else Mr Depew laughed heartily at the humorous missive and its Western origin signature dash attached.
Special Agent I. N. Mills of the Philadelphia Wilming ton Baltimore railroad estimates the peach crop at least three fourths of a full year. Delaware lines contribute 1 236 723 baskets plus 87 578 403 08 baskets from Queen Anne Kent, 764 030 from Delaware Maryland Virginia, 1 16 from Came ridge Seaford, 200 00 from Baltimore Delaware Bay, 60 000 from Baltimore Eastern Shore and N Y P N lines. Total 3 404 521 baskets.
New York July 3 On the American Line steamer New York sailing today for Southampton were Mr and Mrs John O K Bangs Chief Justice Daly and Mrs Daly Hon William F Harrity United States Senator Cabot Lodge and Mrs Lodge of Massachusetts Mrs George R Blanchard and many other prominent people aboard the New York bound for Europe
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