Tom of Tob, A Slave's Faith Triumphs in Escape Tale
A condensed Uncle Tom story from Stowe’s novel portrays Tom's steadfast refusal to flog a fellow slave. Legree's brutal tyranny clashes with Tom's spiritual resolve, leading to Tom's death and George Shelby's vow to fight slavery. Copyright 1919 Post Publishing Co. Boston.
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Marie George
Uncle Tom
Christ
George Shelby
The
Post Publishing Co
Boston Post
Kingdom
Dominions
Boston
Mass
New York Welcomes Irish Leader De Valera At Madison Square Garden
Fifteen thousand Irish Americans pack Madison Square Garden to greet De Valera and protest the League of Nations. Speakers denounce Britain and call for Irish self determination while police cordon the streets outside. Inside, crowds cheer and hiss as demonstrations unfold amid patriotic pageantry and banners.
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New York
Wilson
League of Nations
Douglas Haig
England
de Valera
Madison Square Garden
United Irish Societies
165Th Infantry
Supreme Court
Daniel F. Cohalan
Francis P. Duffy
165Th
Archbishop Hayes
A. E. Henderson
Peter E. McGinnis
America
British Empire
Bolan
Coors
Catherine Kelly
Hempstead
Long Island
Madison Avenue
John Finnegan
Justice Cohalan
Ireland
Dunne
United States
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin’s Impact
Harriet Beecher Stowe born 1811 in Litchfield Connecticut from a famed abolitionist family. She married Calvin Stowe in 1836 and used her life in Cincinnati to fuel anti slavery writing. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold over half a million copies in five years and helped shape the world’s history of the struggle for freedom.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
The
Post
Harriet Beecher
Litchfield
Connecticut
Lyman Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Calvin Stowe
Cincinnati
Brunswick
Bowdoin College
The Fugitive Saga of Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin
An excerpt recounts Tom’s life from bonds to freedom within the Shelby and St. Clare households, detailing escape attempts, fragile bonds with Eva, and the rise of Simon Legree as the brutal auctioneer of Tom’s fate, ending with Tom facing a harsh new master. The passage underscores slavery’s cruelty and Tom’s fidelity amid tragedy.
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America
House of
Shelby
Kentucky
Uncle Tom
Lower
Mississippi
Ohio River
Sandusky
Canada
Eliza
Tom
George
Missy
Eva
Augustine St. Clare
New Orleans
St. Clare
Marie St. Clare
Simon Legree
Back issue pricing for Post newspapers announced
The notice states back numbers may be secured at regular prices: 2 cents per copy for the Daily Post, 6 cents in Greater Boston for the Sunday Post, and 7 cents elsewhere, provided application is made immediately.
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Daily Post
Greater
Boston
Sunday Post
Diversion of Night Cars Two Nights
Transportation chief Edward Dana announces night car diversions for Milton Brookline Huntington Avenue and Back Bay lines due to Huntington Avenue track work. Inbound Adams Square cars Thursday and Friday will use Columbus Avenue Berkeley Tremont streets then return to regular route. Saturday and Sunday mornings outbound cars will run a regular route to Boylston and Berkeley streets then Berkeley Columbus and Massachusetts avenues.
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Edward Dana
Milton
Brookline
Huntington Avenue
Back Bay
Dartmouth Street
Adams Square
Columbus Avenue
Berkeley
Tremont Streets
Boylston
Berkeley Streets
Columbus
Massachusetts Avenues
Shipping Board Refuses Increase in Wages and Reforms
The United States Shipping Board rejected the Marine Firemen and Sailors Union demand for a $15 monthly wage raise for firemen aboard its steamers. If unmet by July 15, the union threatens a general strike. They also seek the return of a two-watch system, three six-man deck watches, and an eight hour port day.
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United States Shipping Board
Marine Firemen and Sailors’ Union
Senate APT To Pass Swig Bill
Senate moves to allow monthly interest payments by savings departments of trust firms and banks with a penalty up to 1000 dollars and six months in jail for nonpayment. Simon Swig urges stricter penalties and threatens a voter referendum if enacted late.
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Senate
Cavanagh
Simon Swig
The
Tremont Trust Company
Swig
Reader Queries and Answers in Post Letters Box
The letter column answers reader questions about Lusitania as a Portuguese poetical name, sending $500 via five $100 postal money orders across the U S, the differences between asphalt and tar with Trinidad as a major source, Zane Grey’s real name and residence in Middletown New York, and the highest and lowest points in North America Mt McKinley at 20300 feet and Death Valley 276 feet below sea level.
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the Post
Boston
United States
North America
Mt. McKinley
Alaska
Death Valley
California
Park reservation reach toward Lynn at Revere Beach
Reader asks how far the metropolitan park reservation at Revere Beach extends toward Lynn. The reply notes that it reaches as far north as the old Point of Pines and identifies Crescent Beach as the old name for the section at the end of Revere Beach toward Beachmont.
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Sir
Lynn
Metropolitan Park
Revere Beach
Crescent Beach
Old Point of Pines
Beachmont
Boreas the north wind in English usage
The term Boreas stems from Grecian myth as the north wind god and entered English usage through 18th century poets like George A. Stevens in The Storm. The poem invoked Boreas to personify wild gales and warn landsmen and sailors alike about the dangers at sea.
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Boreas
England
George A. Stevens
Grampian Liner Hits Iceberg Off Cape Race
Two men were killed and two injured when the Allan liner Grampian collided head on with an iceberg six miles northeast of Cape Race near St John’s Newfoundland. The ship, Montreal bound for Liverpool, damaged five feet above the waterline and arrived for repairs with 750 passengers and 360 crew aboard.
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ST. John’s N. F
Montreal
Liverpool
Cape Race
St. John’s
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Mrs. Stowe
Gree
Legree
Cassie
Emmaline
Marie Legree
Marse
Satan
Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Newton Newkirk
Tomorrow’s Post
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David Copperfield
Pendennis
Dombey and Son
Omola
Une
Kenilworth
Gros
Marble Faune World
John Halifax
Gentlevenor
Pilgrim’s Progress
Pompeii
Nigel Ete
Vanity Fair
Heart of Midlothian Vicar of Wakefield
the Deemster
Ivanhoe
Hypatia Choir
Gulliver’s Travels
Gil Blas
He Newcomes
Robinson Crusoe
Monte Cristo
Henry Esmond
Stella Maris
White Company
Zenda
Ekyll
Richard Carvel
Westward Ho
East Lynne
Eae
Sea Wolf
Consuelo
Peg Woffington
Master of Ballantrae
Adam Bedeig i Gt Ae
Oliver Twist
Sens Jeeeteseten Ee
Tess of the D’urbervilles
Uly
Two Admirals
the Virginians
Don Quixote
Last of the Mohicans
Helena Paul
Virginia
Peewee Eeenesineds
Tom Town'school
Waterloo
Woman In White
Paris
Trish
Walsh
Ryan
President Wilson
Colonel House
Whites
Lansing
General Bliss
House
Belfast
Ulster
Armour
Dublin
American Commission
Ssecretary of State
London Times
American Federation of Labor
United States Senate
M. Clemenceau
Bedlam
Cork
Christendom
League
Franklin Park Zoo
Elephant House
Franklin Park
Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowr
S Cabin
Shipping Board
Zoo Aviary Area
Lusitania
Portugal
Trinidad
Zane Grey
Middletown, N. Y
Long
Frank Long
Coast Artillery Corps
Edwards
71St Heavy Artillery
Hayes
Healing Honey
Paris Medicine Company
Grove
Dept. 9-R
Resinol
Baltimore
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