Boston Post in Boston, Massachusetts

News items and curiosities from a historic paper

A collage of brief notes and sensational items: rail capacity in Colorado, Mexican diamond finds, a bowled-out bowler, Bonapartist intrigue, a Missouri ox weighing two and a half tons, Fort Klamath soldiers performing theater, coal trade dulness blamed on a comet, Michigan University adding a dental department, Limestone’s pace in a race, France’s laureled capital, Fort Sill reference, Androise Thomas at work on an opera, Detroit needing enlightenment, delirium tremens misnaming, Delaware peach crop forecast, Flatbush Hospital dispute over a theory, Monarch of the Air in water, Alaska discov eries, American possessions questioned, Black Hills versus White Mountains, insurance life policy and scaffold death remark, St. Paul oil output, miller convention in Indianapolis with somber resolutions, a Kansas sheriff killing a Mexican and inquest in one day.