Morro with a Mission and Without a Muzzle
Morro with a Mission and Without a Muzzle appears in The Boston Post republished by Luss Publishing. Subscription rates list daily and Sunday options with prices for one year six months and three months.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1896
Page
4
Morro with a Mission and Without a Muzzle appears in The Boston Post republished by Luss Publishing. Subscription rates list daily and Sunday options with prices for one year six months and three months.
The stock market shows hopeful signs verified by facts as the week closes with conditions more favorable than since last summer's conventions. Public confidence is the key missing element to unleash a robust era of prosperity, despite political and financial upheavals. The trade machine is ready for the forward movement as channels reopen.
A Florida vote tomorrow could boost Republican McKinley claims though past totals show Democrats leading. Florida's 1888 turnout exceeded 66 000 with a 13 000 Democratic edge while 1884 and 1880 totals were much smaller. The spread hinges on gold Democrats and the November contest.
The fragment discusses a potential release of Tynan by the French government and expulsion of Kearney and Haines from Holland. It frames these events as tests of British authority under the pretense of countering terror. The piece casts doubt on the dynamite plot narrative and signals political maneuvering.
The article argues a false dynamite plot may be a political stunt, possibly by the Tory party, rather than a serious international conspiracy. It notes detectives aren’t involved for sport and that public fear has subsided, diminishing the scare’s impact.
American wheat continues to be shipped abroad with Europe and India drawing on the surplus. Russia and Roumania report short crops, boosting demand. August exports totaled 6,693,004 bushels of wheat and 1,458,602 barrels of flour, valued at 13,954,311 dollars, up markedly from a year ago.
A column argues that silver remains a money metal in the United States despite demonetization, noting a 16 to 1 parity with gold and large coinage activity since 1896. It contends government control keeps price stability and warns free silver would inflame inflation, reducing the value of savings.
A Treasury deficit sparks a sensational editorial. A tired man with bundles buys a paper at Temple Place as his wife in finery reveals an unseen hardship. The piece recalls Annie Sutherland’s famed hair transformation and society jokes about auburn locks.
This excerpt announces the second edition of the Post Almanac for 1896 offered at ten cents with a 25 cent publication price. It includes Bull election reports silver and gold statistics financial tables and numerous data items. Applications are to be made at the Boston Post counting room.
In 1862 at Elmfield near a Union camp a Union corporal Billy Watkins risks life to save Dorothy, a child, while a young boy named Anton acts bravely. Anton consoles Billy as he dies, commending his mother and the soldiers, and then falls asleep beside the fallen corporal.
Flora Irwin leads Pete Dailey’s company at Hollis in A Good Thing with May as sister and former Old Howard favorite. Boston theaters feature Park Theatre curtain raiser The Littlest Girl and Mr. Van Bibber tale. Casts include Dupree Busley in The Two Little Vagrants and Hoyt s A Trip to Chinatown with Laura Biggar Burt Haverly.
The Post announces weekly prizes for Original Short Stories worth 10 dollars for first, 5 dollars for second, and 2 dollars for each of four others. Winners are named each Sunday and paid by mail Monday for stories from the prior week. Only female writers may win.
A St. James Gazette verse paints a dreamlike, immutable House of Love in an unknown land. Rainbow arcades, sunset roofs, and enchanted groves guard labyrinths and desert seas where no man finds the doors. The speaker longs for eternal dreaming and a rose hid floor to dwell as a dreamer.
The Earl and Countess of Craven return to New York with Mr and Mrs Bradley Martin while residents of Combe Abbey. Debuts include Miss Sartoris daughter of Nellie Grant Sartoris and Miss Katherine Dyer wintering abroad. Rochefort faces divorce actions in Europe and Princess Helene of Montenegro draws royal alliance links. Also recipes and a Boston food column closes.
The Boston Post invites women readers to submit a three meal bill of fare for four to five people with directions. Prizes of 5 dollars weekly, contest ends each Saturday, winners printed Mondays, mail to Cooking Editor, Boston Post.
A collage of humorous lines from Puck Chicago Tribune and Punch sketches. The bits mock inventions, seaside fantasies, and travel quibbles. Uncle Allen Sparks recalls grass and shotguns while a Highland ferry scene plays on fair fares and honesty.
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