Boston Post subscription rates and contact details
The Boston Post outlines rates for subscriptions including one year two years and six months with prices and delivery terms. It lists editorial and business offices contact numbers in Boston and New York hotels where the paper can be secured. It notes advance payment and discontinuation on expiration and asks readers to notify changes by mail.
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Boston
New York
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Nice
Mil k Trust defeated as Boston milk prices fall
The Milk Trust failure leads to discounts for Boston customers with thousands of cans daily. Independent milk enters the city at six to seven cents a quart, under the trust price. Consumers pay no more than seven cents for delivered milk and six cents for store purchases, marking a public victory against monopoly.
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Milk Trust
Boston
The Eleventh District Contests and Candidate Actions
The piece discusses Samuel L. Powers as Republican nominee in the Eleventh District, contrasts with Democrat Storey supported by anti McKinley voters, and criticizes William H. Baker for running as a third candidate. It questions Baker's motives and warns it may weaken anti McKinley unity and harm voters’ trust.
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Congress
Sprague
Moofield Storey
Storey
McKinley
William H. Baker
Baker
Obstinate Erders Hold Fast in South African War
Reports from London and Manila clash with fate on the ground as Boer fighters remain defiant. DeWet outsmarts British moves while Botha disrupts a British train and Jacobsdal falls to Boer forces near Kimberley, signaling continued resistance and a living republican government despite Kruger’s exile.
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London
Philippines
Manila
Kruger
DeWet
Botha
Transvaal
Highland Brigade
Jacobsdal
Kimberley
Dutch Fight for Independence Across Fourlesburg
The extract describes Tey n establishing the capital of the Orange Free State at Fourlesburg and wielding full authority, trying British sympathizers for high treason, and asserting a republic Lord Roberts had proclaimed out of existence months earlier. It questions whether the Dutch in South Africa deserve extermination or a kinder fate.
Boston Coal Prices Expose Public Grievance Over Monopoly
Boston residents demand lower coal prices after a month of perceived predatory increases. The missive accuses dealers of a coal famine and extortion, noting the strong public stance against monopolies and referencing lessons from the Milk Trust. Also reported are obituaries and social notes including Benjamin E. Tenney’s death, whist club exploits, street repairs, postal box tales, and a local theater outing featuring Jim Corbett and his wife.
Dewey Arch Lighting Sparks Political Clash in New York
Critics ridicule the Dewey arch illumination planned for Mr. Bryans New York visit arguing it mocks broad patriotism. The piece contends the arch should honor Americas naval victory at Manila Bay as liberation not imperial subjugation, urging the party of liberation over conquest.
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New York
Bryan
Manila Bay
Mr. Bryan
Spain
The Observant Citizen on City Nuisances and Childhood
A column laments early morning disturbances from street hucksters and a piano blaring classical and ragtime tunes. It urges police action against loafers near theatres and notes poets see Eros locally as Liberty’s crime. A vignette describes two siblings joyfully riding a streetcar and playing together.
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Cavalleria Rusticana
Rufus
Walty
Faust
Beauty and Grace Confront Each Other in a Fable Interaction
Beauty boasts of magical charm and power to win hearts while Grace counters with time and care. Grace warns beauty will fade as gold hair dulls and eyes dim, prompting a pact to bind lovers with a different tether. The scene ends with the two friends strolling together. Sara Babbitt in Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Sara Babbitt
Philadelphia Bulletin
Daily Table Hints and Chelsea Cookery Note
Breakfast and dinner menus from the Sunday Post include shredded orange fried rice ham omelet muffins and lamb dinner with peas potatoes carrots cucumber and bread. The pudding recipe uses strawberry fluff and popcorn pudding with eggs milk sugar and seasoning attributed to Mrs Bertha May Baker of 816 Spruce Street Chelsea.
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Bertha May Baker
Spruce Street
Chelsea
Honor for Boston in Italy Ambassadorship
Boston is slated to supply the next ambassador to Italy and to gain another honor with tomorrow’s Sunday Post. The paper promises a sensational story paper section that readers will remember as the greatest Sunday paper printed in New England.
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Boston
Italy
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post Photo Contest Opens with Weekly Prizes
The Boston Post announces a weekly photo contest offering $10, $5, and $3 prizes for amateur and professional photographers. Submissions should be newsworthy, with titles and sender details on the back, include brief explanatory notes, and copies kept by entrants. Photos will be reproduced on weekdays and Sundays. winners announced weekly in the Sunday Post.
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Comentora
Sunday Post
Post
the Post
Boston
April Fool Letter Sparks Romance at Kirby Firm
In a Roxbury office, Jack Kirby discovers an April Fool note meant for him, learns Margaret Saxon wrote it, and decides to pursue her, inviting Mrs Saxon to guide him as a real mother figure. He confronts the office prankster Miss Graham, pardoning her after exposing the ruse and sealing his intent to marry Margaret.
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Kirby & Kirby
Pater
Jack
Miss Saxon
Graham
Margaret Saxon
Mrs. Saxon
Margaret
Miss Graham
Odd Bits Of News From A Distant World And Local Oddities
A collection of brief curiosities notes Guam distances to Honolulu and Manila, Texas rice estimates at 30 000 tons, goat lymph used for apoplexy, Kansas farm yields over 160 dollars per person, China private schools pay halfpenny daily per pupil, Philadelphia lists Thomas and Roberts names with Williams most common, a Salina man loses a nonexistent $40 bill, old pine shingles from 1810 still sound, and Bloomfield New Jersey reports Widows Row where thirteen widows and many children reside with laws forcing slower streetcar speeds.
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Honolulu
Manila
Texas
Kansas
China
Philadelphia
Thomas Thomas
Robert Roberts
William Williams
Salina
Kan
George, Hamlin
Avon
Bloomfield
N. J
New York Prepares for Bryan Tremendous Ovation Tonight
New York promises a mammoth welcome for Bryan with over 200 clubs joining the parade and more than $10,000 in fireworks. He will speak in New Haven at 11:30 a.m. and return to a night of rallies from Madison Square Garden to Cooper Union and beyond, ending with an outdoor crowd under starry skies.
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Anson P. Stokes
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Philo Bennett
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W. J. Stone
J. D. Richards
Edward H. Murphy, Jr
James K. McGuire
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John H. Girdner
van Wyck
John Tomlinson
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James Creelman
Max Simson
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National Committee
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Garden
National Association of Democratic
Mr. Bryan
David B. Hill
W. Bourke Cochran
Senator Wellington
Mrs. Bryan
Professor Fanciulli
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Astor Place
Bowery
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The WOOING OF A QUEEN in Dutch garden
The Cleveland Plain Dealer narrative portrays a dramatic scene in which a German duke and a Dutch queen exchange flirtation in a garden. The queen confesses love, the duke trembles, and the couple departs arm in arm toward the palace as Cupid flirts from the vines.
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Heinrich
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Henry
Hennie
Willie
Cupid
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Remark on a Girl Walking on Her Hands
The Chicago Post quotes a remark pondering if a girl would be better off without feet and notes potential unfavorable comment should she walk on her hands, reflecting a crude social cue from the era.
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Chicago Post
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