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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1898
Page
4
The Boston Post lists prices for daily and Sunday editions with terms for one year, six months, and three months. It notes subscription address changes, second class mailing, payment in advance, and renewal policies. Contact details include Historial Rooms and Boston offices, with editor and publisher E A Grozier named.
Commodore Watson sails with two battleships the Massachusetts and the Oregon a protected cruiser Newark and auxiliary cruisers Yankee Dixie and Yosemite plus six colliers and a supply ship. The fleet carries 26 000 tons of coal and aims to pressure Sagasta for peace with strong naval threat.
General Miles orders the Siboney hamlet burned as the first step in Cuban sanitary reforms. The article predicts purifying fire will cleanse West Indian cities under Spanish rule, improving water, drainage, and public health as the U S occupies and civilizes the islands.
The article argues against European meddling in Spain US peace terms. It rejects calls for a congress to decide conditions and warns Americans will not accept trivial demands or restoration to prewar borders. It asserts the United States will own its peace.
The speaker vows no third party gains from American soldiers' sacrifices and says the United States will require reasonable conditions for peace with Spain. An American peace will be arranged on American lines for the benefit of the American people.
The flag rising over Santiago marks a historic milestone as US forces defeat Spanish rule. Casualties total 281 killed 1288 wounded 81 missing. U S gains foreign soil footholds and eyes further targets in Porto Rico and the Philippines. Copper markets weaken amid war and summer dullness as investors await peace.
The article praises Massachusetts regiments at the front for valor in battle. It notes decimated ranks are not needed to prove courage and lauds the fallen, the wounded, and the sick. It expresses reverence and gratitude from the people and mentions relief efforts by generous hands.
The midsummer market features extreme duness and price weakness despite abundant favorable factors. Traders, led by big merchants, drive prices down while public interest remains low. News of the 200,000,000 war loan and Santiago surrender arrive but fail to lift sentiment, leaving stocks in a dull waiting frame.
The Observant Citizen surveys city issues and people from Copley Square to City Hall. It highlights the Pierce building, Frank Chisholm, W Wallace Kee, Patrolman Money, and social trends including a new Hobson cannon ball drink and a rising interest in trolley Manila ventures.
An advertisement touts a headache cure claiming to end headaches in three to ten minutes. Described as a heart, nerve and stomach tonic, it offers 25 cures for 25 cents.
A poetic march depicts civilians and soldiers in a city siege as tin soldiers marching for a so-called righteous strike. The speaker contrasts bravado with the grim toll of war, showing a fallen figure bathed in moonlight and a muster roll that recalls the soldier's ultimate sacrifice.
The Post awards its weekly menu prize of five dollars to Miss M E French of 26 Washington Avenue Waltham for having her menu published Friday July 16.
At Mrs Jarretts West South social ball a closed door becomes a symbol of hidden sins. Colonel Dacre and Mr Dennis witness a dramatic reentry as Mrs Jarrett introduces her son just released from six years in the penitentiary. The host asserts control with a calculated social reveal.
Breakfast items include oranges wheaten and cream ham and eggs buttered toast cookies coffee. Dinner features tomato soup with croutons boiled salmon with egg and drawn butter, potatoes, peas, tomatoes, lettuce, lemonade, custard pie, bananas with cream. Supper offers salmon salad and sponge cake with iced tea or cocoa. Muffin and roll recipes included by Mrs H Wells of Cambridgeport.
Charles G. Stifel of St. Louis will donate a bronze statue of the German poet Schiller, now cast at Stuttgart, to be set up near the donor's home. Dr B Tomatsuri of the Japanese navy in Key West praises U S military medical readiness and emergency precautions as unmatched by Europe. The German Emperor plans a Sinai pilgrimage touching Acre Bay near Haifa before Jerusalem. Lieutenant Hobson's clipping order grows to about 400 per day after his fleet sail. Rowland Ward of New York died at age eight after thirty years living without a chin from Civil War injury.
A collection of light quips and exchanges from Chicago Record Free Press Chicago Evening Post Chicago News North American Cincinnati Enquirer and Fun. The jokes cover money trends war christenings domestic humor and marital banter with quick lines about wives husbands siblings and social norms.
A compilation of memorable lines attributed to figures like Bill Anthony Sigsbee Schley Evans Hobson and Dewey. Includes admonitions to press the fight and honor to the Maine sinking with remarks on strategy and resolve and a call to faith.
A light gray cashmere indoor dress features a front panel skirt and cross bar ribbon trimming forming a decorative collar waist and skirt motif. Two cashmere bows with steel buckles finish the left waist trim as a forerunner style.
A verse from the Cleveland Leader contemplates how in a future month names of heroes and soldiers will fade as the world moves on after the war. The poem laments that glory is temporary and that public memory shifts once conflicts end.
London July 9 Harry Furniss launches Fair Game a weekly rival to Punch. The first issue features the American girl with a baby face on a woman’s body amid satire on her plump legs and alleged double stockings. The piece mocks American fashion and diet, including a long breakfast menu.
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