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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1898
Page
6
Local grocer advertises eggs butter beans tomatoes peas corn squash peaches sardines red salmon pears and condensed milk with prices per dozen and 5-lb box salt. Claims to be headquarters for canned goods with prices attractive to dealers and consumers.
A Boston era ad promotes Old Dock Square Kentucky Bourbon and Rye at $1.25 a gallon, Murphy’s Old Reserve at $2.75, Old Crow and Hermitage Rye at $2.20 and $2.75, double distilled Rye Gin $1.75, Holland Gin $2.75, and Old New England Rum from $1.40 to $2.00. It details assorted lots valid to Jan 1 1909 with reduced prices, free jugs, and box packaging, claiming direct distillery sourcing and lower prices than rivals. Continuous stock of leading brands and 5 percent lower prices than elsewhere.
Attendance at the fair reached about 12 000 for day and evening events. Visitors came from Warren Palmer West Brookfield Indian Orchard Cape Cod Rhode Island and Connecticut. Reeves's American Band performed favorites including the Orpheus Semiramide overtures and The Telephone Girl. Notable guest Vicomte Perrault de Jotemps of Paris toured Boston and praised the electricity powered exhibits especially electrical cooking.
A bustle of stage news reports Kelcey and Shannon in The Moth and the Flame at the Boston Museum before year end, Hope’s Rupert of Hentzau opening in Philadelphia on Nov 21 with James K. Hackett as Rudolph, and Maud White in A Stranger in a Strange Land under W M Wilkison. Concert series for students led by Miss Helen Dwight Orvis in Chickering Hall on Dec 3, 17, 31 1898 and Jan 21 Feb 4 1899 with Miss Webster, Ellis, Winslow and Brooks. Lottie Collins rumored to have attempted suicide but was saved. No 2 Little Minister company remains hush about cast and Lady Babbie. AT THE BOSTON THEATRES next week features Park’s French Mains fiftieth performance with Anna Held, Herne’s Shore Acres Boston return, Conquerors with cast changes, Hopper’s Charlatan at Iremont, Mack in The Ragged Earl, Bowdoin Square diversions, and Mantell’s repertory at Columbia. Also Castle Square The Solicitor, The Irish Pawnbroker at Howard, Maxwell and Simpson’s act at Keith’s, Bowery Burlesquers at Grand, Isham’s Octoroons, Koeber’s wrestling at Palace, Japanese wrestlers at Austin & Stone’s, and Hall Caine readings at Tremont Theatre.
The city’s Democratic party filed for Common Council nominations with over 200 aspirants across wards 2,3,4,5,6,7,9,13,14,17,18 and 19. Ward 6 leads with twenty three contenders including incumbents McColgan and Borofsky, while Ward 17 features a tight race for President Connolly and a large slate in many wards.
A newspaper ad lists full quart bottles of Hennessey Brandy G O Blake's Celebrated Bourbon Finch's Golden Wedding Rye and Cocktail and Punch. It promotes a wide line of liquors cordials bitters and wines with prices including $1.75 a gallon for Rock and Rye and 6 to 75 cents per gallon for various wines and fruit brandies.
General Miles recounts the Santiago de Cuba operations with Shafter and Toral, detailing surrender negotiations, yellow fever crises, and dispatches from Secretary Alger. He argues for stronger coastal defenses, larger army enlistments, and an auxiliary native force for Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines, while praising staff officers and noting continued operations in Porto Rico and calls for future military policy.
The fragment mentions Zeke Dr Bull's Cough Syrup and a claim of causing fatal consumption or harm. No clear date place or full facts are readable. Further readable context is needed to form a precise item.
Councilman Michael W. Norris releases a self described message to Boston voters on the eve of the municipal campaign. He notes decades of service representing Ward 13 in the Common Council from 1883 through 1898 and invites the public to judge his record by the city’s official minutes.
A short promotional note touts Runnymede Club whiskey as a universal remedy claiming to cure all ills including heartache stomachache and chills in a Victorian era style patent medicine tone.
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