Mission and Motto Lines From Boston Post Page
A Boston Post page presents a motto announcing a mission and a separate motto claiming freedom from restraint. The items reflect editorial branding and ideological stance in the newspaper’s period tone.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1899
Page
4
A Boston Post page presents a motto announcing a mission and a separate motto claiming freedom from restraint. The items reflect editorial branding and ideological stance in the newspaper’s period tone.
Boston plans a city wide decorative scheme for Admiral Dewey’s reception with a color map for the parade route. The Boston Society of Architects offers guidance to ensure harmony across all streets and a visually unified display. The piece also notes ongoing sailboat cup negotiations and daily racing attempts off Sandy Hook, with a decision expected soon.
The piece argues President McKinley refuses mediation between Britain and the Transvaal, citing fears of provoking a foreign war and aligning the United States with aggressors. It contends U S policy mirrors British conquest in flagging empire and condemns U S support for imperial aims over Philippines and Luzon.
The nation expresses sympathy for Hon. William Jennings Bryan as illness interrupts his West speaking tour and keeps him at the Democratic governor candidate’s farm in Iowa. Reports suggest gravity of his condition, while admiration for his humane character and anti hostilities remains strong.
A Boston churchman urged prayers for wind at Sandy Hook as rival yachts from two nations prepare a fair test of seamanship. The article notes the crews are well matched in light airs and calms, with the outcome left to chance and the conditions on course today.
A column notes stray signs near Albany and Old Colony depots confuse passengers at South Terminal. It cites raildoors, air whistle noises calming a crying child, and calls for better railroad education amid city events and Admiral Dewey festivities.
The fragment notes a person who has gained international renown as a developer but questions any notable discoveries attributed to him. It mentions a failure to recall specific ied discoveries and uses odd phrasing.
The poem narrates Sir Thomas urging his crew from the quarterdeck to muster wind and unity across diverse groups including British, Irish, Dutch, Scotch, Poles, Hindoo, and a Chinese cook. He insists on collective effort to summon favorable weather and wind. The Baltimore American voice marks a humorous maritime scene.
Aunt Florence recounts the tale of a green pickle bottle found on Silver Lake that carried a note from 1879. The letter led to an innocent man’s exoneration when a key detail helped prove his alibi, tying a Medford writer named Fred Ashley to the case and sealing two lives with gratitude.
A report cites Thomas A. Edison saying Marconi succeeded where he failed in wireless telegraphy. The text also notes a yacht race schedule, with transport routes around Washington street awaiting a settlement and a Sabbath exclusion.
Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York will be the principal speaker at the Republican Club of Massachusetts dinner in Boston on Tuesday evening, Oct. 31. Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge will deliver his first speech in this state since returning from abroad.
A roundup notes Joseph Jefferson addressing Yale students and fielding questions. It mentions Richard Le Gallienne in black, Major Marchand as an explorer-turned writer, Gutenberg’s quincentenary, a prize to John M. Oskinson, Lord Rosebery on wealth, a statue for Judge Field near Harvard Law, Hall Caine’s John Storm inspired by James Granville Adderley, a G A R sword for General Lawton, Collis Huntington on frugal living, Dreyfus case health news, Professor Hirst invited to irrigation studies, Lord Lonsdale and Kaiser Wilhelm’s English friendship, and the Kaiser’s planned week with Lonsdale amid expenses.
A collage of brief humor and street chatter from Chicago News Washington Star and other papers. Jests touch on marriage bets drink away, office corruption, cynical borrowings, and a female detective on a track with a criminal. Notes include a Parisian journalist on apology versus force and a street vendor selling chameleons.
Jacob Wagonmaker and Miss Alice Crookston wed at Palmya Pennsylvania. By court consent the groom took the surname Crookston to secure a fortune left to the bride’s line, the donor forbidding inheritance otherwise.
The Boston Post reports a surge of Republican mayoralty ambitions in Boston before and after Patrick A. Collins announced his candidacy. Dinners and self nominations created a lively scene, but now a measured silence grips the field as candidates and supporters back away from prior boasts.
A reader suggests honoring Admiral Dewey with prominent quotations along the march route for his reception in Boston. Proposed texts include Dewey dispatches from April 24 1898 to Singapore and Cavite orders, plus remarks on Filipino governance.
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