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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1900
Page
4
The Daily rate is one year for 000s Mebeeee ve eoOn months at $1.50, three months for 75c, and monthly at 10c. The Sunday Post rate is one year $1.50, six months 75c, three months 40c. Subscribers must provide current and new addresses for changes.
The British post office will replace the private London telephone monopoly with a government system covering 640 square miles. A central exchange with 15,000 phones and suburban lines will rent at 50 dollars yearly, compared with the private 85 dollar rate. The piece argues such economies could apply in American cities as well.
Closing days of the campaign center on New York with its 36 electoral votes. Democrats push for Bryan with large rallies in the city while Republicans mobilize vice president candidate. Analysts say New York's result heavily influences national outcome though Bryan could win without New York.
The closing week of the campaign yielded a large turnout and strong conclude in key contests. Voters participated across districts as candidates touted momentum and final messages ahead of election results. The outcome will shape local governance and policy directions in the coming term.
Theodore Roosevelt praised cowboys in his West writings but denounced city workers as nonentities. now he seeks New York farmers and workers for vice president while courting city mechanics. The piece sketches his conflicting image and asks if supporters of urban labor will back him.
An official of the Metropolitan Coal Co says in the Sunday Post that retail coal prices in Boston will be reduced immediately. The firm will sell coal at cost at its Wharves by the bucket or basket to anyone in need, enhancing relief for those unable to pay current rates. The public had protested the prestrike price hikes as unjustified and likely to persist after the strike ended.
The piece argues the Sandy Hook course is unsuitable for the Americas Cup races and calls for abandoning it. It favors the Newport course as an improvement and cites Lipton and the Eastern Yacht Club as possible references, noting August sailing would still make Sandy Hook inferior.
The piece recalls a stormy October with one pleasant Sabbath and contrasts wealth with a rainy autumn, noting the torchlight procession’s decline. It fondly recalls past presidential election parades and the energetic youths clashing over politics, while highlighting local sportsmen C. R. Mandigo and Frank Taylor.
A Baltimore American poem recounts a lovely maiden who winks and squints with a laughing glint. Her wink charms merfolk and confuses a soda fountain man who cannot read the message I don t think. Since that day she ceases blinking as trouble follows.
The Boston Post continues its weekly three cash prizes of 10 3 and 3 for photographs. Competitors submit weekday photos with titles and name and address on the back. Submissions should be news value human interest with few figures and strong light contrast. Photographs are not returned.
In a small town a returning physician, Dr Marshall, rekindles ties with Annie Davenport and neighbors. Rumors of his father’s mantle and Annie’s affection unfold amid hospital talk, cemetery visits, and a quiet romance that grows from chance meetings and shared confidences.
Sir Robert Giffen notes Europe and European-origin nations exceed 500 million now, from about 170 million a century ago, with Mexico and South America adding 45 million. He cites the Anglo American bloc rising from 20 million to at least 130 million and predicts vast future growth, reshaping world powers and race dynamics.
A miscellany notes grape wine ratios, a coal powered boiler cost,quinine altitude limits, daily baths in Japan, public baths on streets, 400 lives and $195 million lost chasing the North Pole myth, Salvation Army famine relief in India, Belgian hare freight craze, France’s meat rise bread drop, China living patterns and land rights, aluminum production growth since 1889, silver exports to England in eight months to August, France’s Congo telegraph line to Brazzaville, 622 kilometre length, Yellow Stone Park visitors 1895 count 64388 and 1899 579.
A Pemberville Banner publisher faces Daniel Brizzleton’s tirade after an ad for a grand clearance sale is printed beside a wedding notice for his daughter Elizabeth Henrietta. Brizzleton demands removal of his name and loyalty ends as he accuses unfair treatment. The mix shows misprint chaos and local newspaper friction.
A young man tipping his hat at a girl forgets his rubbers and steps in mud. He boots one rubber, loses the other, and faces her embarrassed laugh. Muddy and angry, he walks away to the theatre alone while she stays home amused by the incident.
A damaged fragment shows a conversational exchange about walking backward down a corridor in darkness. The speakers joke about future outcomes, contrasting self and family roles, hinting at a surreal or metaphorical scene.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes that the girls said their family once enjoyed good circumstances but declined years earlier when their father fell from a balloon, describing a sharp financial and social drop.
A teacher explains faith using an apple with no seeds as a test for a juvenile class. The moment prompts a quip from a young pupil. In a separate sketch, a stormy evening date sees a young man struggle with muddy roads and overshoes while a spectator lights the scene from a corner street lamp.
A man behind bars asks what to do and the facetious lawyer replies to get somebody to bail him out in this brief humor piece from the Indianapolis Sun.
The note lists a full day menu including BREAKFAST items such as Bartlett Pears Wheatlet Sugar and Cream Proiled Chicken French Fried Potatoes Hot Blueberry Muffins Coffee. DINNER features Tomato Soup with Croutons Veal with Dressing Brown Gravy Boiled Onions Sweet Corn Sliced Tomatoes Sea Moss Blanc Mango with Sugar and Cream. SUPPER lists Cold WWam Potato Salad Tea Rolls gingerbread Cocoanut Cream Pie with Cheese and Cocoa or Milk. A gingerbread recipe uses two cups pastry from two thirds cup molasses two tablespoons melted butter half teaspoon ginger quarter teaspoon clove one cup boiling water dissolve soda and salt in order bake quickly. Croutons are diced buttered bread browned in oven. ANNIE L FISHER 18 Sacramento place Cambridge Massachusetts.
The Worshippers of Rest unite Morris chairs and rockers into a single reclining rocker. The massive frame has broad arm rests, velvet cushions, and long-roll rockers for extreme swing. Adjustments allow reclining and rocking, and the chair can be combined for a full stretch. Try it once.
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