Subscription rates and mailing notes for Post publications
The notice lists One year subscriptions at 1.50 and six months at 75 cents for PAILY and SUNDAY POST with three months at 40 cents. It requests subscribers provide current and new addresses for changes, notes Second Class Mail status, and warns to avoid sending cash while directing payments to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY via checks drafts or money orders.
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PAILY
THO Sunday Post
Post Publishing Company
Boston Subway Plan Sparks Critique Over Public Private Split
A proposal to fund a $7 million subway in Boston and transfer control to a private corporation for fifty years faces sharp opposition. Critics argue the plan privatizes transit, threatens public oversight, and could burden future taxpayers.
New Union Station Plan Gains Broad Support in Boston
President Charles P. Clark of the New York and New Haven system seeks a unified union station for southern Boston routes. The plan, long a Boston dream, earns city and state backing with Mayor Quincy urging council action and the Legislature to advance the project.
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Charles P. Clark
New York & New Haven
Boston
Clark
City Hall
Quincy
No Street Corporation Draws Line Over Subway Lease
A public dispute emerges with references to favored firms and a fifty year subway lease. The message urges firm action and frames the issue as a line in the sand for national policy.
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West Ent Company
Oliver Twist
Subway
The New Electric Combine
Speculation centers on General Electric and Westinghouse as talks of a possible coalition surface amid waning profits and rising prospects of a duopoly in electric supply. The piece outlines corporate histories, assets, and patent holdings shaping the rivalry and potential merger talks.
Consolidation Talks Weigh On Westinghouse and GE
The piece argues Westinghouse could reach 10 million dollars in capitalization and 70 million if a consolidation occurs. It warns that fierce competition makes dividends unlikely and calls for a drastic GE financial reorganization as essential to settle electric utility warfare. Investors are advised to ignore optimistic electric share pitches pending restructuring.
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Westinghouse Company
General Electric
Boston Subway Funding and Control Debate
Community leaders push to alter how Boston funds and controls its subway system seeking local governance over transfers and investment while state oversight remains unsettled.
Boston Aldermen urged to block fifty year subway lease
The Boston Board of Aldermen are urged to protest a fifty year subway lease and seek a revision to limit terms or retain revocation rights. The piece defends public control, criticizes the law, and calls for transparent open bidding and immediate action by the mayor and city council.
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City of
Boston
Quincy
In Fifty Years Street Car Fares May Be Profitable at One Cent
The note asks if street car fares could be profitable at one cent with the subway gripping the city for fifty years and wonders whether the West End would ever reduce fares.
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Subway Commission
West End
Subway
McKinley Leads in Republican Delegate Race
A week after early returns McKinley held 61 of 1% delegates. after 81 more were chosen the total rose to 206 with McKinley at 106, more than half. He dominates the field though results may shift as other states vote in St. Louis.
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McKinley
St. Louis
Republican Politi
Political factions bend to Ohio platform in finance
The New York Tribune siding with McKinley signals broad support for the Ohio platform in finance. The week’s highlight was McKinley’s capture of New York delegates in view of Morton and Platt, raising questions about Massachusetts and Maine’s safety.
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Ohio
New York Tribune
McKinley
New York
Morton
Platt
Massachusetts
Maine
Subway Control Voices Demand Public Oversight
A call for public control of Boston rapid transit rejects long term leases and urges community power over the subway project. The statement emphasizes stops short of private or prolonged agreements.
Miles as lieutenant general would honor citizen soldiers
The War Department reportedly disapproves reviving the lieutenant general grade for General Miles citing war record doubts, while public opinion favors elevating a non West Point citizen soldier to the Army's highest rank to reflect its dual volunteer and regular forces and the office’s potential scale.
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United States Army
General Miles
War Department
Miles
United States
Volunteer Army
If the West End Gets That Way Goodby to Low Fares
A local transit push threatens a fare drop as opponents warn higher costs if the West End district centers traffic reform. Officials weigh potential rider benefits against revenue needs.
Then and now a verse on highwaymen and modern obscenity
In old days masked highwaymen roamed lone roads and faced swift punishment while brave travelers defended themselves. The poem contrasts those rogues with contemporary licensees who rob in legal forms at the bar or stock trades, claiming that justice has shifted but crime persists, noted by Hyde Park.
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Hyde Park
BE. J. Farrington
Sidewalks and Stock Talk in Boston Skewed by Winter Woes
An Observant Citizen notes icy sidewalks near King's Chapel and the Unitarian building creating slips in winter. The piece shifts to broker offices on State Street where a famous actor muses on railroad management and salaries. A Boston sub-treasury caller redeems Confederate notes, while news of Maine floods and an 18 carload white paper shipment from Boston west is shared. The author cites Haggin Tevis Daly and Hearst wealth, and ends with a Tremont Street crowd gathering over a wrapped object near a shop.
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King’s Chapel
School Street
Unitarian Building
Beacon
Bowdoin Streets
State Street
Boston
Joe Bassett
Lehigh Valley
St. Louis
Maine
Messrs
Haggin
Tevis
California-Montana
Bosh
Kentucky
Anacconda
Marcus Daly
Hearst
Senator Hearst
New York Morning Journal
Rothschilds
Tremont Street
East Boston Social Notes and Local Happenings
The letter details daily life in East Boston with sightings of friends James J. Dwyer and Mr. John Agnew’s readings. It lists newly elected Ladies' Christian Union officers and plans for a April 12 charity gathering at Lyceum Hall. It mentions Captain Brown defending his reputation, Arthur Foote’s June trip to Milan, Howard Pickering’s Browning-linked likeness, and Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale’s late-April return from California with Mrs. Hale.
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Ladies’ Christian Union of
East Boston
Thomas If’, Doherty
A. J. Bulger
John McWeeney
Lyceum Hall
Hollis Street Theatre
John Agnew
Agnew
Arthur Foote
Milan
California
Edward Everett Hale
Pacific
Golden Gate
Quips and cartoons from early humor pages
A collage of jokes and cartoon captions from various periodicals. Gags about art, fashion, politics, and social habits feature lines attributed to Puck, Tit-Bits, Chicago Record, and other papers. Humorous exchanges touch on ostentation, dieting, and everyday misunderstandings with a light, satirical tone.
Hildegarde's Studio Dream and a Blind Promise
Hildegarde Gray pursues an artistic career despite opposition from Mrs. Penfield and Sarepta. Edwin Penfield declares his love, learns of her blindness, and proposes to become her eyes. After illness and social tension, he asks Hildegarde to marry, and she accepts, ending her brief public studio chapter with a hopeful life together.
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Hildegarde Gray
Hildegarde
Edwin
Edwin Penfield
Miss Gray
Colonel St. Serre
Colonel St. Ser
Penfield
Spring coats and kitchen notes from Mrs Belle Todd
Coats of spring describe shorter silhouettes and hidden fastenings with a slight flare at the back showing lining. The piece notes tan and black colors and minor sleeve changes while listing a sequence of recipes including tomato soup molasses cookies and ribbon cake with detailed ingredients and steps signed by Mrs Belle Todd of 21 Mercer Street South Boston.
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Washington
Belle Todd
Mercer Street
Boston
The Latest Short English Riding Coat Arrives This Spring
The article describes a new spring riding coat with a waist length, boxed front and back, and tan broadcloth. It notes sleeves can be altered for fullness and that only youthful wearers should attempt the style. A variant with triple box pleats is shown, differing from a standard double breasted cut.
Jamaica Plain Woman Wins Prize for Best Menu
Mrs. M. A. Edmonds of 43 Everett Street Jamaica Plain received a $5 prize for the best menu published in the Post, with the award covering two weeks after a prior week with no prize.
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M. A. Edmonds
Edmonds
Everett Street
Jamaica Plain
Breakfast menu and recipes from Mrs E M Duncan
The clipping lists breakfast items such as omelet, fried potatoes, toast, oxtail soup, beef, oysters, and rolls with a dessert lineup including orange pudding and apricot tea. It provides detailed recipes for Omelet Four eggs and Orange pudding with steps and ingredients, credited to Mrs E M Duncan of Dorchester.
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E. M. Duncan
Gleason Street
Dorchester
Menu and recipe for stuffed veal with side dishes
A printed home meal listing various dishes such as buckwheat cakes, maple syrup, broiled stake, roasted pork, and desserts. It includes a step by step recipe for stuffing veal with dressing like turkey, plus six pounds of spare ribs baked with veal and gravy. Signed by F. Augusta Brady of Canterbury Street, Roslindale.
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F. Augusta Brady
Canterbury Street
Roslindale
Boston Post Menu Competition Rules for Readers
The Boston Post offers a weekly prize of five dollars for the best three meal menu sent by women readers. Menus must read like a bill of fare with brief dish preparations and cover three meals for a family of five at up to ten dollars per week. Submissions end November ninth, with weekly prizes and printed selections beginning the following Monday.
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Boston Post
Post
the Post
Boston
Relecte Ecommunicationa
Letter to the Editor Challenging New York World Claim
A Boston letter writer questions the New York World’s claim of being first to publish a woman diver in ocean scenes. The writer cites Caroline Lockhart and Bucksport Maine as possible prior dancers of such feats and urges the World to retract the assertion.
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People
New York World
Mother Ocean
Neptune
New York
East
Caroline Lockhart
Bucksport
Caroline
Co. Ballem
Boston
The Way of Electric Currents Letter to the Editor
Joseph N. Mahoney of East Boston challenges a March 11 inquest claim on electrocution in Winchester. He explains that a fatal shock is possible with the primary grounded to interior wiring even without a second ground, due to earth capacitance.
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William S. Goff
Winchester
Joseph N. Mahoney
Boston
Anti Rabies Salvo Calls For Muzzling Dogs
A physician quoted in Saturday’s paper urges perpetual muzzling of dogs. He argues owners should keep unmuzzled dogs indoors or police should shoot them on sight on the street. Hurrah for measures against rabies.
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Boston
Boston bootblacks demand change in city work
A letter from a reader dated March 14 argues that Boston should expand its army of bootblacks. It contrasts local 10 cent shiners with other cities where street stands offer services for half that price and urges more bootblacks in Boston.
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Boston
Boston Union Depot Decision Praised by Travellers
The writer applauds Consolidated road for choosing a central union depot in Boston, noting the move compares favorably to Boston and Maine in benefiting both locals and the traveling public. Date cited: March 14.
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Sir
Boston
Consolidated Road
Boston & Maine
Harvard Law School tuition and admissions inquiry
A letter from Co. E. Brown of Lewiston Maine dated March 13 asks the Dean of Cambridge for the current tuition cost at Harvard Law School the admission requirements and the correct contact person to apply to for admission.
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Harvard Law School
Co. E. Brown
Lewiston, Me
Grover Cleveland’s Sixtieth Birthday Reflections
A 19th century profile recalls Grover Clevelands life span from birth in Caldwell New Jersey through his early schooling in Clinton Oneida County to roles as teacher author editor Erie county prosecutor sheriff mayor governor and president. It notes his sixtieth birthday on March 15 and reflects on his legacy and humility.
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New York
Grover Cleveland
Caldwell
N. J
Cleveland
Stephen Grover
Stephen
Fayetteville
Syracuse
Clinton
Oneida County
Buffalo
Rogers, Bowen & Rogers
Erie County
Empire State
Abbott Graves's New Pictures at Paint and Clay Club
The Paint and Clay Club exhibition features five Abbott Graves works three figure paintings and two decorative floral canvases. Notable pieces include The Fisherman's Daughter a Mother and Child The Lamp in the Window and Eric a Brac Mender amid roses enhancing the collection's color and character.
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Abbott Graves
Studying the Irish Language Sunday Session at Alpha Hall
The Gaelic language class met at Alpha Hall 18 Essex Street with John O Daly teaching in the superintendent's absence. He demonstrated Celtic origins for Greek and Latin words as part of the lesson and the program included songs readings and recitations in Irish and English featuring Jeffrey Keating John O Daly Mich ed Moriarty Patrick Kelley and John Jay.
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Alpha Hall
Essex Street
John O'Daly
Jeffrey Keating
Miheed Moriarty
Patrick Kelley
John Jay
Goodbye to Eugene Clemens in New Bohemian tribute
A heartfelt obituary tribute to Eugene Clemens, praising his gentle pen and benevolent influence. The poem honors his Sabine farm legacy and the lasting impact on readers and children alike.
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Eugene
Sabine Farm
Belov
M. Clemens
New Bohemian
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