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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1897
Page
4
The Boston Post announces subscription rates for The Sunday Post and the main paper with advance payment required. It explains address changes, matter of second class entry, and payment methods, plus distribution details and hotel availability in New York. Editor Ze. A Grozier signs as editor and publisher.
Boston residents show strong interest in the new navy and its veterans with Old Ironsides and the Massachusetts and New York crowded for the public reception. Yet most ships remain in President's Roads and inaccessible without a sea trip, prompting a proposal to move vessels into Inner harbor for a single day during the celebration to allow closer inspection.
The piece notes an auspicious start to the football season with skillful play and few serious injuries. It cites a fatal incident in Pennsylvania as due to inexperience and reckless play, defending amateur status and arguing against professional restraint corrupting amateur zeal.
The August tabulation by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics shows imports totaling 39.6 million dollars with 8.0 million on American ships and 30.2 million on foreign ships. Exports total 79.5 million with 6.2 million on US ships and 67.0 million on foreign ships. Of overall trade, 71.4 million dollars occurred under the British flag.
The article notes United States vessels total 140,85 sailing tonnage and 389,811 steam tonnage, with sailing at 3 percent of steam. Foreign ships show 290,956 sailing and 1,538,140 steam tonnage, sailing at 19 percent of steam, urging merchants to fly their country’s flag over their own ships to end the humiliating display.
In a Music Hall rally Senator Lodge defends opposing the hides tariff, saying caucus pressure forced a vote against constituents. The piece compares Nevada's Jones to the Massachusetts senators, notes delays in new letter boxes, a one legged cyclist, and local hunting and construction anecdotes.
The week shows improved feeling with stocks harder to push down and weaker liquidation. Absence of strong bull support leaves prices vulnerable, though many sectors improve and investor risk appetite grows as profits rebound and credit remains liberal, suggesting potential further gains.
Noted author Anthony Hope Hawkins known for The Prisoner of Zenda arrived in New York by the steamship Paris to give readings. He traveled from Boston to the Adams House and plans to feature selections from his famous novel in his engagements.
A stray dog once roamed the State House park until a lady took him in. A s eet now presides above the House lobby skylight causing distance from visitors. A rat rich cat roams the area. Separately, grocers and exhibitors clash over a delivery scheme tied to fair orders. Some major firms refuse to honor such orders to avoid being pressured into stock purchases.
Poem excerpt by Edmund W. Gosse in Atheneum reflecting Dora's sorrow as the Dresden hero dies on stage. The speaker contrasts public heroism with private longing and softened feelings.
A collection of witty exchanges from various papers shows humor on love profanity and stage dreams. Jests feature a frank young woman and Major Poet, a Colorado memory and sixty thousand, and light remarks on marriage coinciding with rings and manners.
Tom Bradford the bookkeeper plans a vacation at Nantasket but falls for Netta Sangers a charming yet flirting heiress. After confessing to his wife he leaves to return home, only to learn Netta has married his old friend Jack Burton, proving both sides of the summer romance.
The Post menu prize of dollars is awarded for last week to Miss Helen Donovan of Longwood Massachusetts. It was published Friday October 15.
The notice lists a daily meal plan with breakfast and supper items plus a detailed baking recipe. Items include baked beans brown bread sweet potatoes chili sauce and apple pie for breakfast. grapes chicken stew coffee white bread blackberry jelly corned beef cottage pudding cream cake hot coffee for dinner. supper features hot biscuits and butter scrambled eggs mutton chops preserved peaches cake tea and cream cake. A royal baking powder recipe follows with specific ingredient amounts. The notice ends with the location Marra Fairhaven.
A backward sweep of the forehead highlights the novelist's fading curls and thinning crown while noting his remaining fullness. His eyes are large, widely set, and blue, and he meets smiles readily. Mr Hawkins wears a blue serge suit, a pearl stud, a broad black satin bow tie, and small black English shoes.
Rear Admiral John L. Worden retires after twenty-one years at sea and twenty-four ashore on his own application, granted by a special act of Congress in December 1886 in recognition of his gallantry commanding the Monitor against the Merrimac. Professor Virchow thanked by Russian female physicians for opening his rooms to women. he invites them to use his Berlin museum. Cincinnati records the death of its oldest inhabitant.
Louis Fagan, former head of prints and drawings at the British Museum, is renowned as an art critic and savant. He will tour the United States this winter, author of over fifteen authoritative works on engraving with broad, exact knowledge of ancient tablets inscriptions and monuments.
New York Oct 17 James F Hoey the variety actor who was moved from his mother's house to Sayville suffering nervous prostration was reported to be growing worse since his brother William died. Arrangements reportedly made to take him to an institution Monday.
David B. O'Mara spoke on the association aims at 63 Hanover street yesterday afternoon. J J Kelliher Owen OLaughlin John Scanlan and Patrick Hennessy gave brief remarks. Plans were set for a celebration marking the anniversary of the deaths of the Irish martyrs Allen Larkin and O Brin. It ends with an ad for Salvation Oil at 25 cents noting no doctor visit needed for a cut or bruise.
The first in a winter series by the Rev Benjamin Fay Mills attracted a full Music Hall audience under Boston Union of Churches auspices. The program featured a choir of nearly 100, the Neapolitan Quartet and violinist Frankie Gerlach, with Mills stressing unity across faiths and a spiritual message for skeptics and the tempted.
Arctic explorer Dr Fridtjof Nansen sailed for New York on the Lucania leaving Liverpool. He was cheered by friends and said he expects to return to England in January.
A period song commemorates the Frigate Constitution as Old Ironsides. The verse praises Hulls command, Java conflict, Bainbridge and Dacres, and Yankee prowess against British ships. It lauds naval pride and calls for enduring seamen and landsmen to defend liberty.
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