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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1900
Page
4
A brief item notes Morro's stance as a Democratic representative in New England, stressing a mission and opposition to a muzzle in political discourse.
Yale takes the major New London race while Harvard, hampered by a crippled stroke, claims two minor events. The piece critiques Harvard’s training choices and the substitute rower’s collapse, praising Yale’s clean victory and urging less interference with natural processes.
The Massachusetts House debates the Boston and Albany lease as a potential interstate commerce issue and the constitutional reach of state rate control. The piece favors placing the lease before the people for direct approval, arguing ownership transfer should be decided by voters rather than legislators, with Sunday leisure to consider the bill before Monday’s reference.
In Kansas City next Wednesday the convention will open with the reading of the Declaration of Independence. The piece argues the Republican convention ignored its significance but says the 1900 Democratic gathering will pledge sacred honor to the 1776 principles, calling it a second Declaration of Independence for the nation.
After extended debate the Senate killed the proposal to appoint the Governor as chief moth catcher with a $100,000 appropriation and rejected the towns option to fund half their moth control costs up to $40,000. The matter is considered settled for now with no reconsideration likely.
The heated discussion argues that a poor woman with five cents should be able to buy ice for her sick baby, challenging ice companies to sell in five cent pieces even before any new law. The hearing is set for next Tuesday, pushing close to adjournment, with no room for compromise and a push to enact mandatory pricing.
Notes from Nantasket and Hull detail Miss Murphy pursuing mayoral schemes, Helen Lord's appendicitis, Thomas J. Barry’s convalescence, weather shifts, liner rates August 1, Grace Atwell’s Wareham visit, and East Newton street eyepole painting by Steeplejack C Kelleher. Chinatown photography, a Chinese Free Mason widow, a minister wedding mix up tale, Robins avoid cherries with a scare-cat, and a mystery serial advancing to Sunday’s Post.
The Sunday Post will feature The Lady From Nowhere and animal wonder stories by Rudyard Kipling while political cartoons and dining room satire aim to rile politicians. Ads show Sears Roebuck’s ad spend, and Miss Susan A W Loring takes leave from Winthrop School with fifty one years of service noted.
The speaker notes a graduate's calm appearance in delicate fabrics while confessing fascination. The poem playfuly mocks formal talk about the future with light humor and warm admiration, ending on a candid compliment about the graduate's charm and gaze.
A collage of light exchanges from Brooklyn Life Philadelphia Press Chicago Record and Washington Star. Jokes about fundraising for a church prize fights florist business and travel observations reveal social wit and public talk of the era.
A Providence Journal note cautions against underestimating American export stakes in Germany while noting a billion-dollar investment in the country. The Des Moines congress is praised for not pushing suffrage, highlighting mothers' sensibility. The Lawrence Tribune remarks on Boer envoys and Boston boards shaping strategy in international politics.
A collage of notes notes about wages for Iowa school teachers lower than most of the Midwest except Ohio. Automobile storage a New York City issue with stables resisting fees. A soldier’s career is healthy in peace but deadly in war. Rhodesia’s civil list royal grants noted. King Lobengula reportedly left eighty wives as pensioners.
A fragmented daily table hints at meal outlines including breakfast items like hot biscuits doughnuts and broiled steak. dinner lists tomato soup fried potatoes and strawberry shortcake. supper features cold sliced ham sponge cake fried potatoes and tea. The text contains garbled words and stray phrases about eggs and serving, reflecting a damaged OCR.
The Boston Post offers three weekly cash prizes of 10, 5 and one larger prize for summer resort photographs. Submit to Eniter Summer Resort Photograph Contest, The Post, Boston, with title, name and address on the back, plus any interesting notes.
An advertisement urges customers planning vacations to check wardrobes with a wide range of men's furnishings. It highlights suits, bathing suits, outing shirts, neckties, collars, and stocks, promising a vast assortment and price attractions to complete travel wardrobes.
French percale and English madras shirts offered with attached collars and cuffs or cuffs only. Unlaundered madras and cheviot options with turn-over collars. Priced originally at 1.00 to 1.25, now marked at 50 cents. Sizes 14 to 20. Big men should take notice.
A miscellaneous lot of fine neckwear is offered at reduced prices. The cravat has sold for 1.00 and the regular price is 2.00 per dozen. Shapes and sizes vary with no exchanges.
The ad lists half price deals on all linen cuffs and reversible cuffs in various sizes. It promotes straw hats at 1 each, Caddy Bags below 50c, leather bottoms at 1.50, and a wide range of stock merchandise from stockings to cotton jerseys, with attention to overstocked and discontinued lines. Street Floor and Third Floor sections tag the locations.
A vintage ad offers US flags in wool cotton or silk for homes. It promotes 5x8 wool flags with pole and holder and features various price options, urging buyers to display Old Glory. The copy combines patriotic appeal with product details and pricing.
An attractive oak sideboard four feet six inches long hand finished with carved panels and twisted column corners. Announced for sale at 30 dollars, regular price 45 dollars, available while stock lasts at Annex.
Mrs Saltonstall bored in a remote Canadian town schemes about her son’s romance with Bertha Sherman the Rose of St Croix A warning letter from the mother to Bertha delays the engagement Two years later Bertha becomes a nurse in Montreal and reunites with Laurence as he recovers from typhoid Their union ends in a quiet wedding at a Boston mansion once filled with misery and now a happy home
Captain Gerard Moore Heath of the Royal Engineers is praised for service in Bechuanaland Chitral and his current role commanding the balloon section in Natal during the South Africa campaign. George Clark Musgrave, married in New York, served under British and American flags in multiple conflicts and just returned from Transvaal with colonial scouts. Dr Budge of the British Museum recounts a Cairo cigars misdelivery filled with castor oil beans. Admiral Watson reports regaining health lost in the Spanish American War.
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