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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1898
Page
4
The Boston Post outlines annual and short-term rates for The Post and The Sunday Post. It notes address changes require current and new addresses, advises against sending cash, and states payments by check, draft, or money order payable to the Post Publishing Company.
The Boston Post announces advance payment required for all subscriptions. Discontinuation without further notice occurs at expiration. Readers may notify the publisher by mail if the Post cannot be obtained from their pews dealer or newsboy. E A Grozier editor and publisher.
The Boston Post reports May average Sunday circulation of 120 622 and daily circulation of 159 981, vastly higher than any other New England morning paper. It credits wartime excitement and ongoing conflict coverage for part of the rise and frames the Post as the preferred source for war reporting.
The East Boston grade crossings on three railroads the Boston and Maine Boston and Albany and Lynn and Revere Beach may be abolished or altered. A Suffolk Superior Court appointed commission would choose between abolition or regulated use but its sole plan may differ from other commissions. If abolition is chosen the commission will specify streets to be affected.
Several decades of agitation since 1874 push for grade-crossing relief in East Boston. Critics argue the railroad bill binds a new commission to one plan, worsening crowding as island wards grow, demanding broader options for effective relief.
The Fighting Ninth from Boston sails with strong Massachusetts support and high hopes for battlefield distinction. The Ninth and other regiments show keen zeal to join the volunteer army and maintain cohesion, with Massachusetts confident they will perform well wherever called.
The public would be incredulous at any doubt about Dr Francis A. Harris retaining his Suffolk county medical examiner post. The Governor is unlikely to fail reappointment an official widely regarded for job performance.
The long serving Suffolk county medical examiner Dr Harris, in office since the old coroner system began, is praised for 6000 examinations and 1000 autopsies. Attorney General Knowlton lauds him as top in his field and the governor may consider public interests in retaining his experienced service.
The Observant Citizen pens notes from Beacon Park and surrounding venues. Highlights include Minnie Ashley from The Chorus Girl company at the Wild West show, Mel bourne MacDowell reporting his wife Fanny Davenport’s gradual recovery, three Indians riding the chutes, and Charles Eliot Norton’s retirement from Harvard after forty years. Also mentioned are Max Heindl composing a march, Manila Day celebrations at Tremont Theatre, a car conductor’s coin trick, Angell of the S. a Cc. A.’s yellow fever pact, Nat C. Goodwin and Maxine Elliot sailing to England, and memorial and social events featuring Elisha Morse, Abijah Goddard, William H. Crane, and Rev. Francis J. Glynn.
A Boston reader urges enacting a law forcing men to yield seats to women on open cars of the West End Railway Company. He notes women wait hours for scarce seating after work and argues the policy would aid tired female workers.
In a western Bay state villa a jewelry store owner Joseph Hodges battles a wife Marian who corrects him in company. A strained remark about a wheel price triggers a later ruin scare for Marian's brother Jim Thomas, but debts are settled and Hodges and Thomas prosper, while Marian learns not to interrupt in public.
Patriotic pillows symbolize wartime memory with varied fabrics. Simple striped red white and blue designs contrast with denim checks bearing tiny sewn flags. Some are more elaborate with embroidery, capturing a domestic tribute to the conflict.
The article surveys pillow designs featuring military and naval motifs including anchors pennants and symbols. It notes designers may not know the exact meanings and recipients may know even less while highlighting variants such as an eagle motif and a king pillow with a chosen gem embroidered on the top.
The night before leaving Washington to command the Asiatic squadron Dewey promised to destroy the Spaniards fleet in the Philippines and stated Manila would be captured before breakfast. Augusta H Briard is noted for forty five years in the Pacific Mill carding room and long tenure in a company boarding house. A Paris International Medical Congress panel will present a treatise by Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia on smallpox and preventive vaccination in use there for two centuries.
A collage of humorous snippets and quips from 19th century papers. Jests about Chinamen and idols, Rip Van Winkle, life in a remote village, a lord bishop smoking, and a farmer who finds water where another finds oil.
This menu combines breakfast lunch and dinner items including grape fruit fried fresh mackerel quick biscuits creamed potatoes sliced tomatoes ice cream coffee and more for meals and a dessert of rhubarb shortcake plus a cucumber and Bermuda onion salad with a vinegar seasoning. The notice cites Mrs M L Reed of West Somerville Massachusetts as a contributor.
A Boston reader argues that flag dimensions vary by manufacturer and that standard sizes are elusive. He notes stripes of six inches yield 78 inches wide with a seven stripe union 42 inches high, while flag length and union length differ by maker.
A large, nearly thousand strong procession led by the St. Louis Band and Clinton and Boston escorts paraded to the depot. Tri colors, Stars and Stripes, the Commonwealth flag, and Erin’s banner accompanied the Ninth as crowds cheered. Governor Wolcott led the send off amid tears from mothers and wives.
Thousands gather at Camp Dewey as the Ninth Massachusetts Infantry prepares to depart for front service. Mayor Quincy Senator Gallivan and Congressman Fitzgerald address the regiment, urging discipline, courage, and duty. Ex-Congressman O Neill and other Boston leaders attend as delegations from Lowell Worcester Natick Lawrence and Clinton witness the sendoff.
A crowd of about 4000 gathers on Geneva Avenue Dorchester to unveil a large U S flag from the Stewart building. Speakers include Colonel Aaron Wolfson Representative E B Callender and Hon C W Bartlett as patriotic addresses follow amid fireworks and a city collation.
The Eutaw Social Club on Meridian Street raised the flag last evening with speeches by Captain Harrington and Lawyer Thomas Rice. A patriotic song "I Am a True American" was sung by Master Walter and Miss Bessie Winters before a 21 gun salute from the club house roof. Solo performances followed by several individuals concluded the event.
The Boston Post argues coal is the key in the war at sea. Without coal ships the Spanish fleet becomes helpless, despite American naval power and resources. If the fleet is not disposed of soon, it reflects poorly on the American navy and its planning.
A poem praising naval gun crews the rapid firers as the living walls of men. It extols swift turrets the thunder of cannons and the lethal chorus of decks and seas. The verses celebrate tenors of the chorus aboard ships dominating battles and defeating foes with relentless fire.
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