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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1900
Page
4
The Boston Post lists subscription options for daily and Sunday editions with yearly and short-term rates. It notes payment terms, addresses for the Boston offices, and contact details, including telephones and payment methods. Editor publisher B A Grozier is named.
MThe piece urges Boston Democrats to nominate a fiscally responsible City Council to curb Hart administration spending. It warns that the city council election hinges on local issues, urging voters to back nominees pledged to economy and independence from the Hart faction. It notes Republican caucus Thursday and Democratic caucus Wednesday as pivotal.
The Hague conference created an international arbitration court for disputes beyond diplomacy. The China crisis tests this scheme as western powers demand removals and indemnities while Chinese factions resist. If a decision can be rendered, the tribunal could end the crisis through direct, practical arbitration rather than endless notes and ultimatums.
Yale crushed Carlisle 36 to 0 while Brown upset Harvard 11 to 6 on Soldiers Field. Harvard used many substitutes, Yale faces Princeton next week, Harvard arrives rested and fresh for the 24th showdown in New Haven.
The piece argues the American public can learn from South Africa where Great Britain has conquered and annexed two republics yet has not subjugated them. General Buller is greeted with wild enthusiasm on his return.
From London, Roberts says Boers fight with determination on the Komati, English casualties rise, and hatred lingers. Uitlanders in Cape Town mutinous as Milner’s orders bar return to Transvaal under harsh military terms. Cape Colony Dutch recruits aid Boer commandos while British deaths grow amid limited rail access and ongoing subjugation. The reference ends by likening the scene to the Philippines.
The Philippine Commission dated report shows 268 Americans killed and 3227 Filipinos killed in ten months to Sept 1 1900 with 6668 sicknesses and 4 daily deaths from disease. It notes secret municipal governments, insurgent ties, and Mindanao subsidies to pacify Muslim groups. Is benevolent assimilation worth the life cost and tax burden?
In a lower criminal court a man was fined ten dollars for maintaining a nuisance by his barking dog. Neighbors complained the noise kept them awake. The owner claimed the complainant’s snoring caused the dog to bark. He appealed and the case sits on file in the upper court. the main question remains unresolved. The article then shifts to a lighter note about an Ashmont and Milton car conductor who is fat and clumsy but good natured as a crowded car prompts a seating request from a small woman.
Readers note a chaotic late night streetcar scene with a crowded mother and emigre family struggling aboard, a wobbly exit, and a mother’s march to the front door. The piece also mentions Whistler’s one white hair dyed black and a Boston club debating attending McKinley’s inauguration, plus hunting reports and a ventriloquist anecdote about rotten cotton gloves.
Baltimore American quotes Josh Wink praising pumpkin pie as comforting food amid autumn themes. The verse glows over crust spice and cozy imagery, pairing pie with cider and romantic longing while celebrating a beloved dessert.
Breakfast items include muskmelon rasped dishes and Ralston breakfast foods. Dinner features Anderson’s vegetable soup and corn, with potato, lettuce salad, and a chocolate loaf cake. Supper lists cold ham celery radishes deviled eggs bread marble cake fruit tea. A deviled eggs recipe by Mrs J Barber Boston details filling boiled yolk mix.
Eva Sheldon marries Ralph Whiting under social pressure, while Harold Malcolm, the of her youth, dies years later after a life marked by love unfulfilled. Eva's husband sinks into ruin and drink, their home is taken, and in New York Eva learns Harold died with her name on his lips. Her life becomes a testament to endurance and quiet mercy as she helps others and recalls his vow.
A miscellany notes buffalo numbers, a Chicago Bible ban in schools, a wine slump in France, and a 70 cent gas rate in Chicago. It records a Warsaw opera turned tragedy, New York tax totals, meager labor earnings, postal deposit flows, sparrow defense, a ship's half mast flag, autumn grazing value, gold in teeth, tall Berlin chimneys, early mining electricity, and fire cause tallies.
The Boston Post will continue three weekly cash prizes of 10, 5, and 30 dollars for photographs chosen for newspaper reproduction. Submit with title and entrant name and address on the back, note any interesting circumstances, and keep a copy asPhotos aren’t returned. Winners announced weekly in Sunday Post.
Wool and Zibe line plaids offered by Jordan Marsh Co in a vast color assortment. Advertises genuine 50 cent quality per yard with emphasis on value and selection.
Novel old fashioned game and turkey characters offered for Thanksgiving table use. Plates priced at 98 cents and platters at 98 cents each, as listed in Copeland's Annex catalog.
A Great Thanksgiving Sale of Kitchen Things offers blue white and gray enamel ware at under half price. Milk pans pie plates stewpans double boilers and roast pans are listed with sale prices, plus chopping trays bowls oblong trays and table cutlery sets. A sliding cover boss roaster and steel knives complete the bargain lineup with various pieces priced for quick sale.
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