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Greeks and Turks clash in Velestino siege described as epic fighters
The Velestino affair is seen as a display of old fashioned valor by Greeks under pressure and fierce Turkish assault through Thessaly. The piece notes Greece's enduring fighting spirit, Turkeys’ ferocity, and suggests the campaign offers a rare epic chapter in military history with no easy lessons for General Miles and his peers.
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Brace Up Boston Team Faces Rough Start in Season
The Boston club struggles in league play with a string of defeats and sits near the bottom of the standings. The writer notes professionalism has lessened fan sentiment and urges the team to improve despite early-season disappointments, stressing the game remains the focus.
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Bostons
Orgy of Extravagance in Tariff Revenue Plans
The piece argues the Senate and House tariff plans would raise far more than needed to cover last year’s deficit after the income tax was struck down. It accuses the Republican administration of planning to tax Americans six times the deficit, diverting earnings from labor and industry into vast spending.
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New England Congress Members Oppose Hides Duty
The passage argues that New England representatives will theatrically oppose a duty on hides to appease constituents. It predicts they will ultimately accept withdrawal of the tariff threat as compensation for surrendering regional industries to McKinleyism and pose as defenders of local interests.
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Cove Street Extension Bill Cleared for Engrossment
The Boston House passed the Cove street extension bill by an almost unanimous vote and moved it toward engrossment. Objections to the measure were overcome as opposition blocked delays and the implied contract plea with Terminal Company was rejected. The plan aims to avoid harming city interests while not bottling South Boston’s 70 000 residents.
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Directors Should Direct in New Bedford Mills Crash
A New Bedford financial crisis reveals treasurer Howland’s actions harmed three mills. President Rothh confirms directors failed to detect the extent of the paper—debt exceeds two and a half million, exposing gross oversight by those responsible to stockholders. The era’s lesson is that directors must direct.
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The Farce Of A Duty On Hides
The Boston Journal denounces the hides tax in the McKinley bill calling it unscientific. It notes coal and wool taxes as worse and says Massachusetts senators oppose voting for duties on hides. The article recalls a similar march seven years ago.
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Novel Bicycle Advertising Frame Sparks Debate
The Observant Citizen describes a wooden vertical frame with compartments for bicycle wheels placed at store fronts as advertising. It questions its effectiveness versus newspaper ads and suggests hotels might imitate New York swell houses by offering graded cafe dinners to use surplus food, noting potential impact on small restaurants.
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Boston Letters From Home News and Local Anecdotes
Residents mourn loss of Telegraph Hill views as government nears fortification work. North End Park bath house prep prompts Don Lyons’s underwater tool hunt in the Charles River. Boris Tomashevsky arrives for Hebrew theater at Columbia to aid Israel Lodge 154 O B A. Senator Butler tours Plymout h Duxbury Marshfield and Lexington Concord.
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New York
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Denmark
Mrs. Adler
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Chelsea
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Lyon
Pope Leo seeks representation at Queen Victoria’s celebration
The report notes Pope Leo XIII desires such representation at Queen Victoria’s jubilee and recalls his past personal meeting with an English sovereign as papal nuncio to King Leopold I. It mentions delays in invitations, Mosby’s condition after Charlottesville, and Ada Ward’s conversion to Salvation Army after a life on the stage.
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Saving of Souls
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Portsmouth
Modern Education and Rural New England in 19th Century Prose
Gilman of Johns Hopkins discusses Modern Education. The issue cites Brady photographs from Civil War battles in The Glory of War. The Atlantic Monthly features Higginson on Cheerful Yesterdays and Kansas and John Brown. Ford concludes Story of an Untold Love with a bleak ending. Agnes Reppiler writes The Deathless Diary. A Remote Village by Philip Morgan and A Farming Community by Alvan F. Sanborn compare northern New England villages, highlighting racing, trade, and rural migration trends.
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Washington
Atlantic Monthly
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Agnes Reppiler
New England
Philip Morgan
Alvan F. Sanborn
Literary News Roundup: New Works and Awards
Miss Helen Hay contributes a sonnet to the Century. Houghton Mifflin plans Navaho Legends by Washington Matthews and Mrs. Deland’s Wisdom of Fools. John Strange Winter receives a fiftieth book memento watch. Cyrus Stannard’s newest novel and Alice Brown’s The Day of His Youth headline a May book wave. Irving buys Barr story for a curtain raiser.
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May magazine highlights and fiction selections across publishers
The May issues feature Frank H. Spearman on Iowa's shifting boundary in The St Nicholas, plus frontispiece Maypole art and a Cornelia Walter McCleary poem. Scribner's celebrates Undergraduate Life at Harvard, Howells' The Story of a Play, and Davis's Soldiers of Fortune. Lippincott presents Jason Hildreth Identity, Cosmopolitan covers The Turkish Messiah, and Seawell's The History of Lady Betty Stair. A President note closes.
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Woman Pursues Lost Love on a New Train Ride
Lucelle Kane, recalling a past romance with Robin Guildford, journeys by train to see his attorney’s office. From a hotel parlor she recalls happier days with him, reads the present sign across the street, and writes a note that she destroys, ending her rekindled attempt as Guildford and a passerby vanish into the evening.
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Humorous Vignettes From Historic Newspapers
A collection of light hearted quips and dialogue from multiple papers including New York World Cleveland Leader and Indianapolis Journal. Jokes cover social manners, a mummy dialogue, a farmer turned fence builder, a parasol sales pitch and satirical bits on poetry and music education.
Ex-Congressman Morse Ill At Home
Canton April 390 Ex Congressmen Elijah A Morse is seriously ill at his home with nervous prostration and other troubles. Dr Swan the attending physician is hopeful for early improvement.
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Elijah A. Morse
Swan
Reader Calls for Justice on Massachusetts Benefit Life
A letter to the editor urges Post readers to seek justice for defaulted members of the Massachusetts Benefit Life Association, praising the paper’s stance on the April 24 editorial and hoping the issue is resolved.
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Massachusetts Benefit Life Association
Boston Post Menu Competition Opens for Weekly Bills
The Boston Post offers a weekly prize of 5 dollars for the best three meal bill of fare from women readers. Entries must show a three meal plan for breakfast, dinner and supper or breakfast luncheon and dinner for a family of five with 4 to 5 persons. Expenditure capped at 10 dollars weekly.
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the Post
Boston
Lace fashions for gowns and theater wraps
Lace shapes the season with cream and velvet trims on gowns and theatre cloaks. Real lace remains stylish but imitation works well. outfits feature lace fronts collars and white satin edged wraps with cream lace flounces. Bodices use lace inserts over colored linings with Valenciennes ruffles. organ dies and wash muslins will be in demand.
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