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Public notice from the Post Publishing Company detailing daily and weekly subscription rates, payment terms, and addresses in Boston and New York. It instructs advance payment, address changes, and that missed issues may be discontinued without notice. Editor E A Grozier is identified as publisher.
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A Sensible Princess Brings American Etiquette to Washington
Infanta Eulalie expressed a wish to be treated in the American way and should have a good time. President Cleveland handled the reception of a royal representative with decorum. The princess, a woman of sense, appreciates Republican etiquette and the public will not see snobbery from the visit.
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New York
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United States
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Salisbury to Belfast as Ulster unrest rises
The piece notes Lord Salisbury’s Belfast trip to rally Ulster Orangemen, accuses anti Home Rule leaders of sedition, and recalls Balfour urging armed resistance. It covers Gladstone’s reception at an Imperial Institute event, with protests and a carriage attack. It warns that Salisbury’s visit may backfire by boosting Home Rule support globally.
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Dvorak Urges Negro Melodies as Basis for American Music
Dr Antonin Dvorak argues the future American school of music should be built on negro melodies reflecting roots in bondage era. He notes American music currently echoes European sources and proposes folk songs as the foundational material for a distinct national style.
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Italy
Germany
Hungary
Bohemia
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Fire protection and building inspection emphasized
A citizens committee report argues that preventing fires through building construction standards and electric wire inspections is more crucial than merely expanding fire department administration. It cites Paris Berlin and London as examples where prevention reduces large fires and suggests careful attention to administration details.
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Berlin
London
Call for Underground Wires to Prevent City Fires
The public interest centers on safety through fire prevention. The commission urges immediate undergrounding of all electric wires except trolley lines and changes to building codes to reduce downtown fire hazards. Prioritizing prevention over handling, the plan aims to eliminate overhead wires without delay.
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Sick Baby Fund urged to save Boston infants this summer
The Boston Post asks readers to fund the Sick Baby Fund to defend vulnerable infants as summer heat raises mortality. The appeal highlights a past physician mission, lists early subscriptions, and notes local figures like H. K. Peryear and Albert A. Pope supporting mercy work and public kindness. The piece also reports on social notes and club events amid the season’s approach.
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Olney Expounds Sunday Closing for World’s Fair
Attorney General Olney is quoted asserting all World’s Fair appropriations carried a Sunday closing condition and that he informed Chicago officials fifteen days ago the government expects restraint if gates open Sunday. The piece notes debate over interpreting the law and possible rescinding of a Sunday opening order.
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Chicago
A Stalwart People Urges Dismantling Trusts After Market Collapse
The piece notes a $106,000,600 drop in nine leading industrials plus nearly $300,000,000 in 30 non trust stocks, totaling about $500,000,000 in shrinkage. It argues the country survived the liquidation only due to a stalwart people and calls for destroying the trusts and their backers to avert future peril.
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The Observant Citizen previews Boston society weekly
The new illustrated weekly St Botolph announces an interview in Latin with John L Sullivan for its first issue. A photographer’s studio becomes a hub for matinee youth and discreet flirtation after shows. dorchester club split over presidential honors. Sperry of Narragansett Cycle Club rode fifty one miles in four hours reporting good roads. Joseph Haworth to be guest during Rosedale production at Grand Opera House. Dr Harold Williams noted in the write up.
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New York
Mer. Satolli
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Narragansett Cycle Club of
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Grand Opera House
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Charles E. Inslee
Jamacia. Plain
Great War Syndicate
Stockton
Sick Baby Fund Subscription From Colonel Pope
R L Winkley forwards a $50 check from Colonel Pope to support The Sick Baby Fund. Includes May 20, 1893 Boston note of good wishes and subscription.
Colonel Pope Birthday Gift From Pope Manufacturing
On May 20 1893 Pope Manufacturing Company employees presented Colonel Albert A Pope with a signed autograph album marking his 50th birthday. The album includes illuminated pages and a silk lined cover with a key detailing each signer’s position and tenure.
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Wellesley at the fair reads sociology of dress
In Columbus Hall Chicago last week the dress improvement council heard Ellen M Hayes of Wellesley College discuss Woman's Dress From the Standpoint of Sociology. Other papers covered Dress Reform and Its Necessity by Viscountess Harberton and Woman's Political Future by Marie Deraismer. Hayes wore a blue serge reform dress with short skirt flat-heeled boots and a tailored jacket with large pockets.
Wants land for a school house in Aberdeen Ward 25
Boston invites proposals for a land parcel of about thirty thousand square feet for a new school building in Ward 25 Aberdeen. Proposals due by June 1, 1893, must state locality extent and price and be sent to Fred G. Pettigrove, chair of the school houses committee, Mason Street.
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Aberdeen
Fred G. Pettigrove
Mason Street
Admission of Striking Wife With Chair In Court
A magistrate questions a prisoner who admits striking his wife with a chair breaking it. The prisoner claims remorse yet quips the chair was as good as new, reflecting a stark, satirical exchange from Modernes Leben.
Seashore Home annual report highlights expanded care
The Boston Institute Seashore Home releases its annual report detailing a larger seaside facility for tired mothers and older children. Nearly 1500 people were helped last year through seaside homes and the annual excursion, with a fundraising appeal under way. The report praises physician and Boston Post staff for locating deserving mothers and children for beach programs.
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Post Stands Unmuzzled and Patriotic in Charlestown
The Charlestown Enterprise notes the new Post is not only unmuzzled but also patriotic, signaling a bold editorial stance and national loyalty amid current events.
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New Books Review Highlights 1890s Fiction and Nonfiction
A compact survey of 1890s publications including Miss Wilkins's Giles Corey dramatic renderings, John Bigelow’s Life of Benjamin Franklin in its third revised edition, Whittier by Mrs. Fields, Marsden’s On Sledge to the Outcast Siberian Lepers, B O Flower’s Civilization's Inferno, Amelie Rives’s Athelwold, Ossip Schubin’s A Leafless Spring, and Parton’s General Jackson, McKim’s Christ and Modern Unbelief, Ada Cambridge’s A Little Minx, and other notable titles with essays on biography, history, and fiction.
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