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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1899
Page
4
The Boston Post announces subscription pricing for The Rest of New England edition with three month and six month options. Readers are asked to update address details for future deliveries to ensure continued service.
A terse line records a second class matter in the publication, mentioning publication orders and distribution context with minimal readable detail.
Notices from The Boston Post include office addresses in Boston and New York for obtaining the newspaper, with instruction that subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued on expiration without further notice. Readers are urged to report missed deliveries by mail.
The article recalls a blizzard a year earlier that buried Boston in snow and cut off communication, noting the city’s recovery and a lively October in 1899. It highlights open November weather and ongoing autumn pleasures despite a possible coastal storm.
A foreign wire notes English indignation over Belmont flag of truce incidents and claims of no quarter for Boer troops. The piece argues much from Africa is censored and urges caution, endorsing Boer humane conduct while doubting Boer guilt in firing on a flag of truce.
The mill owners offer 5 percent wage increases. operatives accept. Despite mills’ high profits and last year’s 6 percent dividends and 2.3 percent in the latest quarter, workers seek a living minimum and a fair share in future prosperity with a sliding scale to be set within five months.
The passage praises the efforts of universities in a recent football season. It notes the sport now leads college athletics after a period of restriction and acknowledges the notable, creditable performances across schools, even as a few games remain this week.
The author argues against European powers partitioning China and warns the United States does not seek a sphere of influence or new Asian commitments. He notes the Philippines tangle burdens current and future generations and opposes purchasing more wars or responsibilities in Asia.
The piece contrasts honest speculation with fraudulent schemes tied to 10 percent weekly Miller of the Franklin Syndicate. It notes Mrs. Howe’s lingering followers after her fraud conviction and accuses Miller of diverting investor funds to pay earlier debts, padding his own wealth while the scheme collapsed.
A year ago Boston faced a severe blizzard that wrecked the Portland and left many dead at sea. The piece also notes Thanksgiving relief efforts, pre Thanksgiving dances, and chatter about visitors to Boston’s stock exchange and a London honors visit, with other local cultural musings.
Poe secured a last minute win for Princeton in a hard fought game at New Haven. The contest ranks among the season’s most remarkable and could boost Princeton’s standing against Harvard, Yale and the season’s top teams.
Mr Whall recalls a past royal decoration as memories of a dance stir nostalgia. John McNally, once a newspaper man, is now prominent in Rhode Island as a wireless expert linked to the Delbear system. Rail work on Blue Hill avenue disrupted joints. heat from electric heaters on electrics prompts a hood remedy at low cost. Frank C Whitehouse and wife return to Brunswick after visiting Brookline, noting a paper machine that produced 650 pounds of finished newspaper in a day, 142 inches wide.
A Cambridgeport, Massachusetts resident lists a full day’s meals from breakfast through supper including rolled oats, omelet, sweet potatoes, baked apples, and coffee for breakfast. consommé, roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, vegetables, fruit, and tea for dinner. and cream bread with cold meat for supper. A handwritten recipe for Yorkshire pudding batter is provided, yielding a light bake to serve with roast beef gravy.
FELOP S FABLES tells of a Wolf with a bone stuck in its throat seeking aid from a Crane who removes it in exchange for reward. The Wolf claims payment after survival. The moral warns that one good turn deserves another but caution accompanies dealing with wild beasts and those who escape unscathed.
A collage of editorials jokes about politics and elections. The pieces satirize figures like Hobson and Hanna and mock election expense reporting, predicting upheaval and shifts in power across Ohio Cleveland and New York.
An automobile omnibus service is established on the Isle of Man linking towns and seaside resorts. The piece notes a Lewis England grave digger with twenty five years of cemetery work and cites varied global food customs and publishing stats from 1898 across several nations.
A boy shows country friends London sights while pointing to the square linked to the battle of Trafalgar. The piece mixes humorous quips about lending books, a line from Bobby and Dicky Jones, and a college football joke about nervous strain from study.
In a New England farmhouse on Thanksgiving, John Standish known as Baby Standish returns after five years in the West. He confronts his siblings about his mother’s poverty in the county poor house, demands family accountability, then offers to redeem past neglect with money and vows to care for his mother and Dorcas. The meal becomes a turning point as the mother is welcomed back, forgiveness is granted, and the Baby announces plans to move mother and Dorcas to Boston with him.
A Punch poem mocks a fair Du Maurier inspired young woman at lunch with her brother and friends. The verses suggest teasing and a cheeky moral about avoiding Chippendale style vanity, contrasting with Greek statues and gymnastic ideals.
An Australian style scene unfolds with Dorcas and a Bride to be as a mine fortune and a York of millions drive family tensions. The Baby mine bonanza is hailed while a mother pleads for mercy and a future shaped by love and wealth is tested in a high stakes family saga.
A fragment recounts diverse figures including Sir Gilbert Scott as a major Gothic advocate and amateur actor, Cornelius Vanderbilt noted for vast wealth, Weir Mitchell whose writings spread internationally, and Rev Father O Connell described as a leading American Catholic prelate.
Mrs Gully wife of the Speaker of the House handles ticket duties for the ladies gallery in the case General Nelson A Miles and Mrs Miles will not return to Washington from their eastern tour of army posts until December when portions will be begun for the marriage of their daughter Miss Cecil Miles to Colonel Reber U S A which is to take place in January Miss Helen Gould's present attitude toward ecaes mia no new thing with her Saevyera she was a warm supporter of ieete Pfleld in a similar movement.
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