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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1897
Page
4
The Boston Post announces rates for daily and Sunday editions and outlines subscription rules. It notes address changes must be communicated, advance payment required, and discontinuation upon expiration. The editor is E A Grozier.
The text notes a Republican tilt in Ohio and gains for Democrats in New Jersey and New York. It argues the last Legislature was divergent, sets a caucus despotism, and predicts a broader popular movement next year against tariffs for trusts and a deficit.
A tripartite treaty by the United States Russia and Japan pledges to halt pelagic sealing to allow seal herds to recover. Canada may poach and Britain must join to close the loophole or the agreement fails and poaching continues. Diplomacy is urged to win Britain over.
A new political alliance emerges from educational gatherings by the Massachusetts Single Tax League. The season opened with a luncheon inviting the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, signaling talks on tax doctrine and potential leadership conversion within political thought circles.
The article notes alliances among reform groups including the single tax movement and the Prohibitionists, both embracing woman suffrage. It suggests a potential joint platform with single tax, woman suffrage, and a revived prohibitory law, aiming to reach official recognition and energize an off year campaign with local issues.
The stock market shows a narrow, downbeat week with little public participation. Bears were driven by a bear point from the Union Pacific foreclosure and election jitters, while broader business conditions stay hopeful with rising railroad earnings and strong manufacturing activity.
Mr. David Lubin argues before the New England Free Trade League for an export bounty on agricultural staples, asserting it makes protection logical. He notes Isbin’s plan to tax the public to pay farmers a direct bounty, equating it to McKinleyism and suggesting broader welfare for wage earners as well.
The Observant Citizen notes New Yorkers eye Boston gains in hotels and the Austoria display. Rumors claim pianos marketed for hut houses become parlor grands with Vernis Martin panels, Apollo and Venus imagery, honeysuckle colors, and gilded decor. mayoral funding for city entertainment is mentioned amid doubts about a powder boy’s honesty.
A stanza from an Atlanta Constitution poem about a letter from a lady, imagining orange blossoms and jessamine, ships sails, and lips read and missed words, kept close to the heart until judgment day.
The article splits house gowns into two classes for different necklines and notes how Dame Fashion fixes neck fixings. It highlights the pretty neck in Greek and Empire gowns as modish and tells of a New York bachelor who uses one Empire house gown to serve multiple needs.
The article describes a brilliant red woollen gown with short puff sleeves and a low decolletage, worn alone or with a white silk Medici collar guimpe. It also highlights a pale blue cashmere house gown with long jacket fronts and tight sleeves, plus options with bolero fronts or lace and satin ribbon accents. The section ends with THD LATDST.
A touching Easter tale from Faneuil Hall markets follows a poor mother and her children who receive a gift plant from a kind benefactor. Decade later, heiress Edna Brownell recalls the plant’s origin and the mystery of her late father’s finances as Henry Rollins is drawn into a social circle and a revelation unfolds.
Miss Marie Audubon, granddaughter of the naturalist, translated his unpublished journals after twelve years of work. A statue for Guy de Maupassant will stand in Parc Monceau Paris with M. Zola delivering the unveiling address. Austin Gallaher recalls Abe Lincoln's steadfast study habits and social jealousy.
The Attorney General petitions the Supreme Court to appoint a receiver for the Bay State Beneficiary Association of Westfield after the resignation of W E Moses the general manager and Miss Jilson the chief clerk. The insurance department seeks an injunction to halt further assessments as the company nears dissolution.
Mrs. Martha White earned a government bravery medal after rescuing three shipwrecked sailors from the English bark Ferndale off Gray's Harbor on January 29, 1892. She was the first white woman to enter Cook's Inlet mining district and recently returned from five years in Alaska with her husband and two children.
Mrs Kate Sullivan of 31 Fuller street Ashmont is awarded the Post Menu prize for last week. Her menu appeared in the newspaper Friday November 5.
The note lists a full daily menu including oatmeal, buckwheat cakes, bacon and eggs, pie, coffee, dinner items like Hamburg steak, mashed potatoes, and canned peas, plus a dessert guide. It adds an onion grind-for-flavor tip with hamburg steak and invites readers to try peach shortcake and Trifosa pudding, signed by Mrs. Bertha Mansfield of Saugus.
A collection of humorous exchanges from Chicago Post News and Chicago Record. witticisms include ditzy banter about horse shows piano lessons riding habits and marriage with a rural editor reacting to a wife eloping with a tailor.
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