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Post Publishing Company
New York
Boston Post
Spain's Armada Heads to Cadiz Amid War Debates
An old commentary notes a Spanish fleet bound for Cadiz and warns that canal tolls of 116 699 dollars for round trips would burden a treasury unable to fund fortifications. It criticizes the expedition as wasteful with no strategic gain and urges prudent withdrawal before returning home.
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Cadiz
Spain
Camara
Mediterranean
Debacle of La Bourgogne Crew Recounted in Contested Claims
Commentary notes the contested accounts from the French consul general's interviews with surviving crew members after the La Bourgogne disaster off Sable Island. It questions overpowered sailors and steerage crowding as causes while highlighting the stark disparity: 104 company employees saved out of 165 total saved, and only one woman among the survivors, saved by her husband’s efforts.
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la Bourgogne
Sable Island
New York
France
Commo dore Watson to sail east amid wartime goals
The article discusses forming the Eastern squadron to cross the Atlantic, aims to force Spain to quit its unequal war, and notes Commodore Watson’s planned July 18 departure with plans for his mission. It recalls past U S naval actions under Decatur Bainbridge and Preble and mentions Cadiz Cartagena and Barcelona in relation to Camaya’s fleet.
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Atlantic
Wwratson
East
Spain
United States
Commodore Watson
Unitedates
Decatur
Bainbridge
Preble Dideir
Tripoli
Tunis
Famine Echoes in Ireland Prompt Aid Efforts
Reporting on distress in southern Ireland, observers note widespread suffering from inadequate food and disease among peasants. Dublin Mansion House committee feeds about 10,000 children daily, while Munster and Connaught suffer from a worse potato crop than 1879, highlighting urgent humanitarian need.
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Ireland
Dublin
Munster
Con
The Doom of Santiago and War Realities
Reports from the Santiago bombardment describe the city’s impending fall as U S forces press to compel Spain’s exit from Cuba. The piece defends the U S approach as lenient, notes armistice delays, references surrender terms, and urges decisive action for victory.
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Spain
Linares
Toral
Santiago
Cuba
Cuban
Shafter
United States
Market Holds Firm After Victory Over Cervera
The week closes with little change in stocks despite the decisive victory before Santiago. Traders cite midsummer dullness, rail rate cuts, weak railroad earnings, slow winter wheat, and a new two dollar tax as temporary drags, but sound business and rising money supply point to a potential major upward move in late 1898.
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Admiral Cervera
Cervera
The
Exchange
Observant Citizen Reflects on Wholesale Groceries Upswing
I met a friend who trades wholesale groceries and was frank about a dull period. He planned a month away to Buffalo but orders surged back, forcing his return to Boston before departing. He spent the fare and fears a repeat of the exhausting swing.
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Buffalo
Boston
Song of the Battleship Stokers
Katharine Coolidge in Harper's Weekly presents a poem celebrating coal fueled battle power. The speaker lauds the crew feeding the monster warship and the relentless cannons, amid smoke and fire, as nations wage a perilous ocean war.
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Katharine Coolidge
Harper's Weekly
Hell
Bystander Wits and Witless Quips Cited From Early Papers
Humorous exchanges and squibs from Free Press Chicago News and Chicago Record reveal playful taunts about photos graduates and social grades. Jests cover rivalries, talking dogs, whist counters, and domestic mishaps with light satire.
Letters to the Editor on Colored Voter Rights and Republican Apathy
Martin P. Stole denounces Republican inaction toward African American voters citing past nominations and rejections from Butler and O'Brien administrations. He argues colored Americans must resist political coercion and defend rights granted by the Fifteenth Amendment for posterity.
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C. Taylor Robinson
Republican Party
Butler
E. G. Walker
Charlestown
Walker
George L. Ruffin
George D. Robinson
Ruffin
Robinson
Democratic Party
James Mathews
New York
James Munroe Trotter
Cleveland
O’brien
Martin P. Stole
Thanksgiving proclamation praised as American literature
A reader from Stoughton Massachusetts lauds McKinley’s Thanksgiving proclamation and contrasts it with a critique of Spanish gunner ineptitude in an engaged battle, noting soldiers were drunk the night before and on the day.
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McKinley
Lincoln
Anna
L. Trauseau
Stoughton
Mass
Who Commanded Cervera’s Fleet In Santiago Fight
A reader questions the credited commander for the destruction and capture of Cervera's fleet. They argue Rear Admiral Sampson may not have been in direct command and suggest naming the actual leader who directed the action.
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Cervera
Sampson
Dewey
Dudley Street clerks win half holiday after protest
A local wage earner lauds grocery and provision clerks on Dudley Street near Dennis for securing a Wednesday half holiday in the last weeks with minor exceptions. Residents are urged to shop before 1 o’clock to support stores granting the clerks this request.
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Dudley Street
Dennis
Post Menu Prize Awarded to Miss Quimby
The Post awards a $5 prize for last week's menu to Miss Quimby of 267 Medford Street Somerville. Her menu appeared in the Post on Saturday July 9.
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Somerville
Post
Quimby
Medford Street
The
Admiral Dewey Aids British and German Merchants in Cavite
A Balti more Sun special correspondent notes Admiral Dewey maintains a vigorous blockade while allowing a British and German merchant delegation to move families to Cavite. He orders sanitation at Cavite with Consul Williams in charge, gaining popularity with Manila elites and British ship masters. Ship masters supply Dewey with 3000 tons coal when needed, aiding commerce without undermining duties.
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Manila
Admiral Dewey
Cavite
Consul Williams
Dewey
Far East
Teddy's Terrors A Civil War Ballad Facet
A poem recounting Teddy and Wood leading a regiment against Spaniards near Santiago with the speaker noting gentleness and brutality. The ballad mocks both sides and includes moralizing lines about soldiers and provocation, ending with a warning to “soak him on the cheek” and a call to remember a Bible upon rousing.
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Teddy
Gillant
Westen Stark
Five-Dollar Coin Restores Long-Lost Mother and Son
Mr. Brown, a junior partner at Brown Bayle & Co., finds a five-dollar gold piece and encounters a poor cleaning woman who reveals she is his mother, once wealthy and separated from him after a troubled past. He learns Walter Gooddell, his birth name, became Walter Davis, and their reunion unfolds as shared wealth and reunion arrive.
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Mr. Brown
Brown, Bayle & Co
America
Walter
Breakfast and Luncheon Menu Notes from Daily Table
Daily table hints list a full meal plan including breakfast items like fruit flaked rice sugar and cream and luncheon dishes such as tongue sandwiches and lemonade. The dairy lobster stew recipe appears with the note to boil milk and add chopped lobster meat, attributed to Mrs. M. A. Boudin of Box 371 Wiscasset Me.
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Graham
Crowded Nantasket Revere and Pines Enjoy Pleasant Beach Day
The coast drew large crowds as Nantasket Beach logged about 26000 bathers while Crescent Beach exceeded 50000 visitors. At Point of Pines the Lynn Cadet Band concerts and pleasant grove settings drew several thousand, with the entire reservation filled and a joyous day noted by beachgoers.
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Revere and
Point of Pines
Nantasket
Revere
Nantasket Beach
San
Lynn
Fixin
Parklands Strands Off Parrsboro In Thick Fog
The British steamer Parklands, 1627 tons, Captain Carty, from Boston for Parrsboro, ran ashore in fog two miles below West Bay. Pilot Pettis in charge. Bow hole caused forward compartment flooding. beached at West Bay and leaking a foot hourly. Tow likely for temporary repairs. carries deals for George McKean. About 2,000,000 feet of deals await in lighters at West Bay.
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Parrsboro
N. S
Parklands
Carty
Boston
West Bay
Pilot Pettis
George McKean
Derrick Fell Fatality at Southern Union Station Construction
A derrick collapse at the new Southern Union station site yesterday afternoon killed Joseph Rezell of Cambridge and injured Joseph C. Kelly of Tyler Street. Rezell died at Jones's undertakers. Kelly was hospitalized at Emergency Hospital with serious lung and back injuries but was expected to recover by midnight.
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Southern Union Station
Joseph Rezell
Ely Street
Cambridge
Joseph C. Kelly
Tyler Street
Salvation Army clash over open air meeting in Malden
Salvationists holding open air meetings in Malden face police pushback after tenants report them. Officers escorted four captains to the station as the group defied orders before being released on condition of staying within bounds.
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Salvation Army
Main Street
Costello
Emerton
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