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THE
Sunday Post
New York
Boston Post
X. A. Grozier
Canadian greed sparks border mining protest in Vancouver speech
A Vancouver Board of Trade address by Canada's interior minister outlines Yukon policy seen as provoking friction. The piece argues high duties on American miners’ goods and a large royalty tax drive miners to the U S side, boosting American gains while Canada seeks to enforce stricter customs.
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Vancouver Board of Trade
Yukon
United States
British Northwest Territory
Sifton
A Farce of Insanity in Kelley Case at Somersworth
The article denounces Kelley of Somersworth New Hampshire for staging elaborate and sensational displays of insanity to support a forthcoming murder trial. It notes his claims of hearing voices seeing visions and directives from an irresistible power to kill, as well as selling his soul to the devil for publicity.
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Kelley
Somersworth
N. H
Cashier Stickney
Pluralities and party chances in Boston politics
The piece argues Boston remains a Democratic city despite Governor Wolcott's smaller plurality in 1897. It warns that Democratic unity and aligned candidates are needed to translate statewide votes into city control, noting past gains by Democrats in the Common Council and close alderman races.
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Boston
Wolcott
Williams
Prince
Everett
Independence or Nothing Drives Cuban Peace Talks
The Cuban rebellion’s leaders insist on full independence as the peace condition, backed by a war-weary populace. The U S cannot force a settlement on Cuba, and intervention would hinge on Cuban independence, a guarantee Spain also denies under any scenario, leaving endurance and a future free Cuba as the only path.
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Cuba
United States
Substantial Improvement in Trade and Employment Across Industries
The country sees steadier trade and general gains after a period of low mood. October's activity rises with more workmen employed and higher shipments of boots and shoes in early November. The overall outlook brightens, warranting a real Thanksgiving Day celebration this year.
Dickensian Bow Street Shop and City Notes
A Charlestown Bow street scene recalls Dickens with the little shop at No 13 Bow street and narrator notes on Martin Roche. Curtis Guild Jr condemns low turnout in the Commonwealth election while Fire Commissioner Russell earns praise for department reforms and improved Tremont street Keith’s entrance. Fred Havener's Klondike voyage hits rough seas with a warm Arctic spill. Dr Lyman Sperry's cough lecture spurs audience hacking and a joke about hypnotism by suggestion.
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Bow Street
Charlestown
Martin Roche
Mr. Roche
Fred Havener
Klondike
Fred
Lyman Sperry
To Make a Home Abroad and Among Friends
The piece urges balancing travel with home life and hosting friends. It emphasizes simple joys over grand gains, doing right, and spreading sunshine to bring happiness to one’s household and others.
Daily Menu and Cookery Notes by Mrs McGregory
A dated household page lists dinners and suppers including Cape Cod Clam Chowder and baked lamb dishes. Recipes cover Daisy cake orange jelly cupped eggs and baked chops with egg coating, plus directions for jelly filling and clam chowder with potatoes onion pork and milk. MRS F. S. MACGREGORY Blake street Wollaston.
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Macgregory
Blake Street
Wollaston
Curious Trades And Odd Occurrences In Daily Life
A column reflects on plain dress costs and rising tailor bills as stitches show. It notes clock winding as a Boston curiosity and clock service routes in New York. It recounts women turning housekeeping skill into business, Pope’s chainless bicycle launch, and a ladder superstition incident on Hanover Street with falling debris.
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Boston
New York
The Post's Original Short Stories Recited by a Child
A narrative follows a boy who loses his mother early and travels with his father to California during the gold era. A horse theft trial ends in hangings for two culprits while the boy’s father spares the innocent youth, later guiding moonshiners in Kentucky. The leader recognizes the father, sparing his life yet warning against future crimes. A California memory and a compassionate ending moral close the piece. avenue will entertain the Wednesday Morning Club the coming week. Mr. Louis Elson will give a talk on Italian Music.
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California
Father
Kentucky
Mr. Morgan
Post Letter Boosts Single Chamber Vote Rejected
Morgan J. King of South Boston lauds The Boston Post for opposing city consolidation into a single chamber. He credits the paper with guiding voters toward defending citizen rights and rejecting autocratic control and a streamlined advisory board. The letter declares the people’s triumph and bids farewell to the single chamber plan.
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Sir
The
Boston Post
Post
South Boston
Morgan J. King
Boston Society notes and DeKoven week in town
In Town Topics style the column sitsirons Boston social life highlighting Mrs DeKoven Mrs Bobby Shaw and other Shaws. The piece covers DeKoven week with Mrs DeKoven attending the Hollis Monday night and the High Wayman premiere with Tim Adamowski as cavalier. It notes Mrs DeKoven’s pink attire and Mrs DeKoven’s warm reaction to her husband’s curtain appearance.
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Bobby Shaw
Misses Langhorne
Quincy Shaws
Shaws
Boston
DeKoven
Warning to Editor on Aldermen Board Election
Letter from L S Peck warns that current aldermen seeking reappointment threaten party interests in 1898 city elections. He urges renomination of experienced Democrats and unified effort to defend party control against Republicans.
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L. Sarsfield Peck
Lydia Eustis To Debut In Boston Recital At Gibson Hall
Social set buzzes as Lydia Eustis niece of the ex ambassador to Paris makes her Boston debut in Charlie Gibson’s afternoon recital. The event features the Adamowskis and Mme Szumowska repeating a program for the Czar of Russia with boxes sold for the Steinerts’ hall. Mrs. Tom Hitchcock Jr joins from Beverly via New York and Providence guests include Mrs. Elisha Dyer.
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Lydia Eustis
Paris
Tommy” Hitchcock, Jr
Boston
Charlie’ Gibson
Eustises
Hitchcocks
Beverly
Adamowskis
Tim
Mme. Szumowska
Russia
Charlie
Gibson
New Hall
Tom”’ Hitchcock, Jr
the Eustises
New York
Providence
Elisha Dyer
Praise for The Post Opposing Single Chamber Amendment
Bosworth lauds The Post for opposing the single chamber amendment and defeating it. He warns consolidation could invite corruption and selfish influence, noting municipal reform requires press integrity to protect the public interest.
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New York
Bosworth
Society Notes Highlight Fall DAR Meeting and Local Socials
Miss Alice Longfellow will be guest of honor at the War Ren and Prescott Chapter DAR fall meeting on Brimmer Street with a paper on Mr Veron after the 11 o clock business session. The list includes homecomings, new homes, club meetings, and upcoming society weddings and events across Boston.
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Alice Longfellow
Samuel Eliot
Brimmer Street
Warren and Prescott
London
West Rutland Square
Herbert Messinger Leland
Boylston Street
Arthur Henry Osgood
Elm Hill
Dorchester
Floral Emblem Society
Legion of Honor
Alexander H. Wood
Malden
Cleveland
Grover, Jr
Joe Jefferson
Wood
Buzzard’s Bay
Boston
Wood, Pollard & Co
Louisa Cushing
Robert Cushing
Newport
Harvard Observatory
Pickering
Alonzo Wesley Bragg
Lotta Bragg Hazeltine
Han Samuel Dudley
Trinity Church
Notting
Martin L. Hail
Commonwealth
Restoration of powers to Boston Common Council debated
A heated remark questions legislative restoration of powers taken from the Boston Common Council. The speaker accuses corporations of agitating the change and warns of the ease with which a smaller body might control a larger one. GARDEZ BIEN.
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Post
Mr. Post
Boston Common Council
Gardez Bien
Copley Square Improvement Ideas From Letter to the Editor
A reader urges careful review of Mead's plan for Copley Square. The writer opposes rails, favors statues facing the street like the Public Garden, and suggests extending Huntington Avenue through St James Avenue to preserve the square as a beauty, even if not popular with local corporations.
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St. James Avenue
Art Museum
Copley Square
West End
F. H
A Few Simple Jollies and Quick Jokes Roundup
A collection of quips and jokes from various papers. One item notes jealous wives and a playful exchange about the glad hand. Another humor snippet features a science answer about meridians and heat expansion. A schoolroom joke asks why the meridians spread at the equator, answered by a student. Additional bits include birthday party refusals and election chatter with bicycle tire pranks.
Cough Treatment Urgency Mentioned In Patchy Note
Fragmentary text hints at rapid and effective cough treatment needs. Names, places, or concrete details are unclear, leaving the core idea as a medical care urgency without specific remedies or context.
Burnhams Split Winter Plans Paris Stay Ends
The Willy Burnhams stay in Paris through winter near the Munroes while the Harry Burnhams return home after a long absence. They enjoyed a popular cottage at Dinard all summer and hosted guests cheerfully.
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Willy Burnhams
Paris
John Munroes
Mrs. Burnham
Madam Munroe
Harry Burnhams
Dinard
Harry Burnham and Johanna Hecksher Sail From Southampton
The couple, both well known in society, traveled from Southampton on Saturday. Harry, a club man who kept a steady pace since his marriage, extolled his wife Johanna Hecksher of the Quaker City as the most lovely and captivating companion. They are expected to return for the winter gatherings with Mrs. Burnham as a potential leader.
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Southampton
Harry
Johanna Hecksher
Beal Family Attends Boston Bride Wilie Beal Marries Darrow in New York
The Beal family from Boston attended the wedding of Willie Beal and Miss Darrow yesterday at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York. Last summer James Beals hosted a refined al fresco party at Lawncliff Nahant for Miss Darrow. The engaged couple has drawn favorable notices and she is expected to be a prominent Boston bride this winter.
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Beal
Boston
New York
Willie Beal
Miss Darrow
Church of the Heavenly Rest
James Beals
Lawncliff
Nahant
Darrow
Boston Debut Rumor Sparks Social Scene For Young Heiress
Rumor says a Boston socialite will debut his eighteen year old daughter this winter with a father’s ball amid elite circles. The mother, once in Washington, is linked to a Geneva flirtation episode that unsettled Puritan relatives. The father, a Somerset Club figure, wields social influence near Newport.
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Boston
Washington
America
Geneva
Switzerland
Somerset Club
Newport
Year 1896 births marriages and deaths report Massachusetts
Medical Examiner Francis A Harris releases the fifty fifth report on births deaths marriages and divorces for 1896 with population ratios and daily averages. Births 72343, marriages 23661, deaths 49381. Infants under one year 11765. Major causes list includes Consumption Pneumonia Heart Disease Cholera Infantum and Cancer. Divorces granted 1230 up 276 from 1895. 69 percent filed by wives.
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Francis A. Harris
Commonwealth
Massachusetts
Old Aso i
Myopia Hunt Club Meet Moved to Milton Estate Breakfast
The meet last Saturday of the Myopia Hunt Club was transferred to Milton where Francis Peabody Jr hosted a late afternoon breakfast at a fine estate in the fashionable suburb. Several Norfolk County hunt members joined the party along with Mrs Bryce Allan Mrs George Peabody and Mrs Charlie Rice among the women observers.
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Myopia Hunt Club
Milton
Francis Peabody, Jr
Norfolk County Hunt
Bryce Allan
George Peabody
Charlie Rice
Christian Science and Faith Healing Talks In Boston Churches
A Boston Bar tenders' Mutual Benefit Association meeting is set for tomorrow at 2 p m. On Monday at 10 30 a m Rev James M Buckley of New York editor of Christian Advocate will speak at Bromfield Street Church on Christian Science and Faith Healing. Rev James J Dunlop of Roxbury Presbyterian begins a three sermon series for young men starting tomorrow evening with The Young Man in the World followed by The Young Man Out of the Church and The Young Man in the Church on November 21.
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Boston Bartenders’ Mutual Benefit Association
Bromfeld Street
James M. Buckley
D. D
New York
Christian Advocate
James J. Dunlop
Roxbury Presbyterian Church
Fur on gowns signals fashion in early season style
Fashion notes predict fur will be prominent this season with sable tails on gowns. A dainty yellow silk bodice at a theatre party featured fur accents at sleeves yoke and neck. The Russian blouse silhouette leads, with Persian lamb caracal and broadtail among the favored furs for day and evening wear.
Rally for Curtis Club to Host Dorchester Rally
Edwin A. Curtis Club with about 1000 members from Wards 16 20 and 2 will hold a rally at headquarters 89 Stoughton Street Uphams Corner at 8 o'clock. Curtis Guild Jr and other well known supporters will speak while a band performs. Citizens of any party are invited.
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Curtis
Dorchester
Edwin A. Curtis
Stoughton Eet
Upham’s Corner
Curtis Guild, Jr
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