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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1898
Page
4
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Editorial text from The Boston Post describes office locations at 250 Washington Street Boston and postal offices in New York. It notes subscriptions to the Post must be paid in France and will be discontinued without further notice on expiration. Readers urged to notify if they cannot obtain the Post through their dealer or newsboy.
Officials argue that the burden of government and winding up the war will fall on existing revenue structures. When Congress takes up revenue reform next winter, these facts will demand consideration.
Boston Harbor and the outer light echoed with a single great cheer as the fleet returned. A continuous escort of yachts steamers and craft lined the way while crowds filled every pier to greet the victorious navy. The city plans further honors including a street parade and lavish festivities, while questions linger about past incidents and public memory.
In a New England farmhouse, around a Christmas Eve fire, Lucy Eliot appears as a white clad specter before the Percival family. She recounts sleepwalking visions, fears, and a cold, moonlit visit that unsettles the household while John Percival recalls a similar prior sight and the morning reveals lingering nerves.
The article notes record fewer commercial failures than any August in five years, with a sound foundation and robust outlook. Peace delays, a large wheat harvest, and strength in cotton, iron, and copper underlie stronger shipments of boots and shoes and rising exports, signaling broad economic optimism.
The city begins full subway service from Pleasant Street and the Public Garden to Union Station marking a passenger transit revolution. Surface lines including the old Bay Bay horse car face demolition while routes gain flexibility and free transfers extend one fare travel from Medford to Jamaica Plain and Somerville to Newton.
The August Treasury report shows income of 41.78 million dollars and expenditures of 4.26 million, producing a deficit of 14.48 million. The writer notes war costs drive the deficit, funded by war loans, with cash on hand and gold glut. Internal revenue supplies most war taxes while the Dingley tariff brings in about 16.25 million. pensions for Civil War veterans and related issues are highlighted.
The Dreyfus case shows France’s secret evidence system collapsing after a forgery confession. In contrast, the United States would rely on publicity to guard against error. The piece warns of potential repercussions and emphasizes universal rules of justice.
A poem compares a lily to Miss Lillian Lawrence of the Castle Square Theatre. It praises her beauty, soft blue eyes, and golden hair, claiming her face outshines the flower and applauding her prominence at the Castle Square.
A collage of jokes and banter from 19th and early 20th century papers. The anecdotes feature engagements, travel mishaps, legal quips, political beds of roses, and social observations about marriage, money, and city life with pithy punchlines and sharp wits.
The column laments public bath closures on September 1 and jokes about seasonal rules and weather. It recalls children swimming near East Cambridge docks, cites Larry McCarty’s Hull cottage damaged by lightning, hail, and a broken chimney, and comments on Boston’s recent east wind easing heat and lowering drink sales.
The piece notes autumn sleeves adopting slim outlines with plain designs and broad cuffs. Some include minimal trim to avoid widening the arm silhouette, addressing the needs of the thin figure while hinting at trends with a prettily trimmed style for the coming winter.
In a letter to the Post, John B. Dooling attacks Alderman Conry’s rival bid for consul general at London or sub-treasurer in Boston. He claims Fitzgerald could fill either post and derides the need for effort, noting the current sub-treasurer spends most of the year at home. Dooling signs from 36 Hanover Street.
The Boston Post invites citizens to submit letters on the disposition of the Philippine Islands held by Admiral Dewey and General Merritt after the Spanish American War. Readers are urged to express opinions in the Philippine Editor column, with the discussion closing in today’s issue.
Two letters to the editor advocate awarding Admiral Dewey control of Pacific islands seized from Spain. One writer from Rockland argues for a quit claim deed and loaning warships to Dewey. A Boston correspondent questions annexation and warns it could lower wages.
A 1861 letter argues Navy control of troop transport to Santiago and Porto Rico, daily written reports from naval officers on ships, and small return camps led by brigadier generals. It also urges President McKinley to publicly renounce a renomination to break political ties blamed for wartime distress.
A collection of humorous old advertisements features odd items and jobs. Entries include a piano sale aimed at a woman abroad, odd wedding gown claims, a collie lost with brass collar, and a widow seeking two husbands among other quirky notices.
IPI IC Io Mr George R Sims’s review signals interest in gypsies and his new play The Gypsy Earl. Don Carlos and Duchess of Madrid vacation at the Hotel Schweizerhof near Lucerne with steady social plans. Royal jubilee preparations loom Balmoral with the Duke and Duchess of York, Tsaritsa Victoria, and Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein expected.
Mrs Lynn Linton valued her personal estate at £16.4 percent. She wished cremation and left £10 to the Cremation Society. She ordered Elgin marbles not belonging to her be sent to her husband or his representatives for presentation to the American National Gallery by his desire.
England paid 450000 in pensions to eleven former Cabinet members over the past thirty years. C P Villiers received the largest share, exceeding 150000. Emile Zola responds to a German woman asking which works are suitable for young girls, saying parents decide what their children may read.
The Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen reportedly keeps a small copper menagerie on his desk, including grotesque cats and rabbits. He says the odd collection helps his creative flow and losing any one piece would interrupt his ideas.
Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnson author of The Dukesborough Tales speaks in a recent interview while recovering at City Hospital Baltimore. He says the tales were written for his own entertainment after age 45 and reflect his old home near Powellton in Hancock County Georgia with the Dukesborough name used to mask the village. Randolph H Waters, Soldier’s Home inmate at Leavenworth, Kan, visited Elmwood cemetery to read an epitaph on a grave his sister placed two years ago and recalls fleeing home at the start of the Civil War. The King of Greece is mentioned as well.
A sweeping list of curiosities notes Afghanistan’s army size about 60 000, ships at 1300 ton rate, Spain paying wounded soldiers to beg on streets, and exotic facts on animals plants and technology. It mentions Berlin science, Japan bamboo craft, bicycle use in Finland, and other varied tidbits.
The article notes that Japan’s earthquake resistant structures are pagodas built centuries ago. Pagodas use a heavy timber framework with a wide base that provides stability, and their design contributes to enduring earthquakes.
A list notes four surviving men who sat in the House of Commons when Queen Victoria opened her first Parliament on November 20, 1837. It also reports the death of Louis Francois Richer Lafreche, bishop of Trois-Rivières, and details upcoming events and sales including the Frederick Douglass monument unveiling in Rochester and the sale of Edmund Kean memorabilia in London.
The article explains a pagoda’s design using a heavy timber pendulum attached to the frame. As earthquakes shake the structure the pendulum swings in unison, keeping the center of gravity at the base and preserving equilibrium even for very tall buildings.
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