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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1895
Page
4
Old newspaper fragment shows cryptic pricing for stamps and subscriptions. Mentions months and prices in unclear terms, with references to the Sunday Post and a local office. Contains distorted digits and garbled words, but indicates changing rates and durations.
An order from Cuban insurgent leaders calling for destruction of sugar plantations and prohibiting harvest is criticized as extreme. The piece argues such acts would undermine allies and taxes supporting Spain, labeling war as destructive but questioning the policy’s advisability and legality.
The season closes with fair, well played games between Yale and Harvard, Yale leading and Harvard trailing due to no meeting this year. The Beagan era shows football can be played without brutality or malice, suggesting a brighter 1886 season and a possible Yale Harvard game.
Mayor Curtis issues a review of his administration noting credit for steering charter amendments through the Legislature amid Republican opposition. He acknowledges critics who voted against the charter and others who backed it reluctantly, calling the task a hard struggle.
The piece questions Mayor Curtis's pride in pushing charter amendments through the Legislature with Republican support. It notes city officers and party leaders drove the bills and asks if Boston should endure two more years of a mayor focused on legislative deals. It concludes voters may accept one year of his leadership but seek broader focus.
The Sunday Post details William Cook a Civil War veteran and street department inspector removed under Mayor Curtis amid disputed reasons. Superintendent Wheeler’s letters conflict over whether Cook left or was fired, while Curtis refuses a hearing claiming no entitlement, prompting calls for justice and criticism of civil service rhetoric.
The piece accuses Mayor Curtis of promising to avoid tax hikes if reelected while urging voters to doubt his pledge. It argues he relies on higher taxes to run the city and cites his claim that Boston is unsuitable for manufacturing if taxes stay at nine dollars per thousand. It suggests voters should remove him to restore his standing.
The Observant Citizen describes a cattle ship listing in calm harbor water as cattle shift weight causing roll. It mocks progressive magazine publishing and Thanksgiving literature. It cites elevator bell etiquette and a Grove Hall streetcar conductor on women exiting cars frontward. Columbus Avenue gains restaurant activity and crowded roomers as new resorts open weekly.
A Boston reader laments the Paderewski recital at Music Hall noting the awkward crowd, the pianist moving his chair for precise positioning, and the staged darkness during a Beethoven sonata. Separate letters discuss market rumor mongering and a dramatic scene of a grieving woman recalling a murdered husband.
A withdrawn woman observes an evening by a town jail and church as spring breath and arbutus scent mingle with distant frogs. Inside a dim cell a dying inmate lies, while a grim, shadowed figure and a black robed woman confront mortality and silence. The scene blends church bells and the cross against night, with the dead offering mute testimony to endurance.
The Episcopal City Mission, recently accepted as the archdeaconry of Boston, met at the Church of the Advent on Brimmer Street. Officers reviewed past year’s missionary work, highlighted sailors outreach, noted St Mary’s Home for Sailors in East Boston as highly equipped, and discussed expanding Sailors Heaven in Charlestown. Attendance averaged about eighty daily. the body marked its fiftieth birthday since formation.
From Rome dated November 24 Ambassador Pansa reports a Constantinople interview with Halil Rifaat Pasha the grand vizier who said the Porte would need at least three months to quell the Armenian uprising at Zeitoun and to set reform machinery in motion the grand vizier appealing to Italy and others to restrain powers from anti Turkish actions.
Secretary Smith and Senator Hoar discussed the Armenia outrages in Turkey and prepared a telegram to President Cleveland. The message pledges Senate support for vigorous action and proposes calling mayors to sign a despatch condemning the atrocities as piracy against humanity.
The Homeric actor Joseph Jefferson, once a Jersey landowner at Undercliff New Jersey, bids to repurchase his old homestead at sheriff's sale. Purchased by J B Miller, Jefferson’s lawyers buy in for 15000 dollars signaling a return to familiar neighbors and an old hearthstone near New York.
A collage of humorous clips describes Western travel, missionaries and rough humor. Dialogue contrasts mock solemnity about evangelism with scenes of crowds, bets, and oddities. Deacon jokes, travelers and casual banter reveal small town sensibilities and social curiosities.
W L Russell of 2 Cliff street reported to police that during Saturday absence a rear door was forced, four feet of glass broken, and his home ransacked. A blanket overcoat valued at 35 dollars a 22 caliber revolver a pearl ornament and a turquoise ring were stolen.
Letters from New England states and distant towns flood the Cooking Editor as women of all ages submit banquet menus. Contest rules urge legible printing and modest menus with sensible choices. early entries already number over 100. The winning menu, to be printed Friday, is judged to be a prudent fish-day selection by S. W., a Dorchester hostess.
A jumble of breakfast and luncheon items from the Boston Post Daily Table hints, including cracked wheat, prune whip, fish dish, cream tartar soda, and a recipe list. It features entries for prunes, pineapple sherbet, doughnuts, and various sauce and dessert preparations with measurements and steps, ending with a note to CONSTANT READER.
Dorchester menu lists breakfast items such as oatmeal with cream veal cutlets potato puffs graham muffins wheat bread celery roast lamb with sauce green peas pickles baked apples with whipped cream supper features veal baked ham hot supper bread cocoa and potatoes with parsley mint sauce and a mint-cream garnish. instructions describe prep of potato shapes and muffins with sugar and lemon cream, plus mint cordial notes.
Rules for a menu contest are given with payments of six dollars weekly for readers. Meals must be clearly defined as breakfast lunch and dinner. Entries mailed by a specified Saturday end date. no returns. entries must be written on one side only and mailed to the address provided.
A fashion sketch catalogues capes of the season from the coaching cape worn by street girls to fur capes with long godets. It extols the opera cape as a delicate garment of airy fabric, with chiffon, spangles, and subtle fur accents.
Oak Hall note highlights long term satisfaction with the house as the same family names recur on the books for thirty years and some individuals appear for forty years or longer unchanged in records.
A catalog style description highlights a Gotham belle cape in sea green satin lined with coral pink. Reverses of lambs wool, cream chiffon flounces, and a full chiffon vest with a lamb's wool collar create a glittering garment. Spangles catch the light across the chiffon.
In Haverhill on November 24 Mrs Maggie Barker Herson lies in critical condition after being shot by Louis Capodilupo last evening. The ball was extracted and is with City Marshal Rand. Peter Capodilupo, Louis cousin, was arrested but not implicated. Louis remains at large as officers pursue him.
F C Whiting, a noted lawyer and newspaper correspondent born in Granville Maine, died at his home in South Hampton New Hampshire aged forty two. He moved here fifteen years ago and built a large practice before ill health ended his work two years ago. He leaves a wife and daughter. Funeral scheduled for tomorrow with burial in Easton Massachusetts.
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