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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1900
Page
6
A Boston Post brief identifies a Democratic paper serving the New England region as a voice for party supporters. The item underscores regional political media alignment and the paper’s role in local party discourse.
The data shows a range of listed prices and figures including 144000 143700 145000 144000 with related figures such as 1435 260 144000 152900 149900 143600 146700 148500 146100 118005 145000 145980 165100 149800 147300 138500. The fragment reads like an index or price list from a historical financial page.
Readers report early Sunday mornings all issues are sold out. The Sunday Post urges subscribers to ensure they receive their copy and objects to substitutions.
In Boston last night the national Democratic ticket received a strong send off at Faneuil Hall. Speakers framed the race as empire or republic, urging unity and a decisive turn at the polls in November amid anti imperial sentiment.
The Manila escape of the MeLey censorship prompts reports challenging McKinley’s second term pledge. General Del Pilar, freed on parole, returns with words that Filipinos seek independence not amnesty. Rebels show mercy to him and advise retreat as calls rise for more troops to secure major towns.
In a 36 hour span from Saturday sun to Monday dawn, Boston welcomed ocean steamers totaling 41 431 gross tons. The surge marks an extraordinary entry rate in the port’s foreign trade and signals a rising trend driven by railroad-linked growth and expanding imports.
A call is made to deepen and widen channels and expand terminals and docks. The speaker argues current harbors obstruct navigation and requires liberal aid from the general government, with local enterprise to gain significant rewards from improvements.
The piece critiques Senator Lodge's claim that the United States could have defended American citizens in Pekin with forces from Manila. It argues the Philippines war diverted troops, notes Conger warned of rising danger, and suggests British influence constrained action to avoid a broader crisis. It frames the policy as weakening protection for missionaries and merchants in China.
The article asserts the massacre of foreigners in Pekin including Minister Conger and legation families, notes a failed European and American assault on Tianjin, and urges U.S. action to restore China’s authority. It questions McKinley’s focus on the Philippines while urging decisive intervention.
In West Yarmouth, Margarite, an actress, confronts Mrs. Raymond about her son’s engagement. Mrs. Raymond escorts the actress to meet the betrothed, while Margarite battles love for a dark, handsome man and the fear of losing him to another woman.
General Bancroft of the Boston Elevated is seen with the Sunday crowd at Nantasket Trench, relaxing in summer beach style with rolled sleeves. John Lee, president of the Democratic city committee, was departing City Hall after noon, building a summer home in New Hampshire and planning six weeks away, with plans to return to Boston.
Callender presents a fiction on government by injunction warning private property. The PQST opinion lauds the work as highly readable for Republicans Democrats lawyers and general readers. Available at Cashin's News Stan Young's Hotel Boston and newsdealers.
A brief line notes a couple sharing a quiet moment on their wedding journey, with smiles but no spoken words reported.
A Boston story notes Mrs George Gould seeks to elevate her husband to a legislator’s position to gain prominence in Washington society. The piece says Boston women want their spouses to buy the Sunday Post, praised as a leading Sunday paper with abundant light fiction.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote describes a clever boy who buys up local fish to sell to unlucky anglers and profits from their misfortune. The tale contrasts humorous fishing misadventures with a cartoonish business scheme witnessed in a rural stream. The Cleveland and Indianapolis papers add quick quips about domestic life.
A dog owner bets he can fetch items for a billiard hall manager. The dog tears off a billiard table pocket, provoking alarm, then the owner jokes that time will finish the job. The exchange ends with a light note about replacing the iceman and a good looking worker.
A miscellany of curiosities and observations from across the globe and beyond. Notes on fashion, science, geography, and daily life highlight the era's diverse interests, from railways in India and Greece to spectacles for pets and curious linguistic twists.
A Chicago Chronicle piece portrays a young man roaming for work and trying comic writing, failing due to absent mindedness. He offends customers with misreads about clothing and basements, sparking criticism from a skeptical pessimist at Tit Bits.
A puzzled estate and house renting optimist points to a paper listing eighty seven marriage licenses issued yesterday while a sharp partner dismisses the significance and questions the takeaway.
Breakfast items include bananas Vitos cream and sugar fried calves liver browned corn mush rolls coffee. Dinner features fish croquettes potato balls green tomato pickles baked macaroni and cheese browned parsnips Graham bread rhubarb pie tea. Supper lists Sally Lunn with maple syrup rice croquettes cookies and dough for rolls.
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