General Otis Silent After Philippine Dispatches
Major-General F S Otis has not spoken for months after returning from the Philippines to handle private affairs. He repeatedly sent cables claiming native opposition collapsed, mirroring earlier messages. Critics note MacArthur reports show ongoing Filipino killings, and Otis’s claims are treated with skepticism by the American public.
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F S. Otis
Philippines
United States
San Francisco
Otis
General MacArthur
McKinley
General Otis
Manila
Vermont and Maine Elections as Presidential Straw Polls
The writer notes Vermont and Maine vote soon with four and six electoral votes respectively. Each state is considered safely Republican if McKinley magnitudes hold, but a drop could signal shifts for Bryan and a broader change in New England and beyond.
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Arkansas
Vermont
Maine
Bryan
New England
Massachusetts Labor Day Tribute Highlights Productivity
In thirty seven of forty five states Labor Day is a holiday by law and custom. Massachusetts led by recognizing and formalizing the day as a legal holiday to honor productive industry and the force shaping civilization. The piece emphasizes that all in the country are workers and proud of labor.
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Union
Massachusetts
Celebration of Labor and Crafts Across the Nation
The piece extols manual labor as the nation’s core, noting vast wealth built by hard work and saying idleness is rare. It praises the holiday aligned with crafts organizations, highlighting hand and brain workers and the solid basis of industry. It describes the exhibition as instructive and significant for public understanding of labor’s magnitude.
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Republic
U S Opinion on China Crisis and China Indemnity
The article argues Americans should avoid quibbling over China's crisis and rejects European meddling. It faults the State Department and McKinley for seeking to protect China and keep a large army, urging a simple withdrawal of US troops from China and focusing on national honor and indemnity through diplomatic means.
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China
England
Russia
Pekin
France
Chaffee
State Department
Washington
Willam McKinley
United States
Manila
Fall River Mills Closure Debate Over Wages and Production
The Fall River mills plan a ten day shutdown affecting 17 000 to 18 000 workers to curb production rather than cut wages. The piece argues cuts to executive salaries would better address market fluctuations, warning wage reductions could delay recovery and be harmful.
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Fall River
Post
Observant Citizen Notes Labor Day and Steam Talk
A column on Labor Day using toil and recreation, with criticisms of phrases like set sail and weigh anchor. Mentions Secretary Hay’s health statement and a Boston theatre production. Praises Sunday Post as best Boston paper with park plans for the North End and a hat incident involving a conductor’s indifference. The Yellow Man serial in the fiction section grows more thrilling.
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Boston
W. S. Gilbert
Sunday Post
New Park
Old North End
Norumbega Park
Political chatter and civic figures in Boston scene
The piece surveys political rumors in New England, naming ex congressman Henry M. Baker, Gordon Woodbury of the Manchester Union Publishing Company, and Theodore C. Bates as active players. It notes potential anti imperialist talk with Senator Wellington, and mentions local figures like Colonel John J. Whipple and Colonel Joseph Peterson.
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Rkt & I
Henry M. Baker
New Hampshire
Washington Street
Gordon Woodbury
Manchester Union Publishing Company
Boston
Odd Bits of News From A Far Flung World
A miscellany reports on Dutch fishermen killing landed fish for better table quality, rye straw paper potential for books, Siam’s elephant corps with a general in command, Paris motor speed limits, global air weight estimates, British camels in government use, Irish goats absence of illness, a deep cork’s buoyancy, Roumania’s illiteracy, and Mohammedan world demographics with British rule numbers.
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Holland
King of
Siam
Paris
India
Ireland
Roumania
Europe
China
Daily Table Hints and Cambridge dessert recipe
A column of daily menu hints from the Sunday Post with breakfast lunch and dinner items, plus a Dutch apple pudding recipe. The note credits Mrs. B. J. Holland of 53 Ellery Street, Cambridge, Mass, for the pudding. The item includes ingredients and baking steps for the dough and apples and suggests serving with sugar and cream or sauce.
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B. J. Holland
Ellery Street
Cambridge
Mass
Railway Postal Clerks Field Day at Oak Island Grove
The National Association of Railway Postal Clerks first division holds a field day reunion at Oak Island Grove on Wednesday. Programs promise a big day with bicycle races fat men’s race potato race and open games. At 3 pm a baseball game pitting the New York Boston day lines against the night lines will start followed by an elaborate dinner.
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National Association of Railway Postal Clerks
Oak Island Grove
New York
Boston
Pastor Warren S. Lawe resigns from Winthrop Congregational Church
The Rev Warren S Lawe longtime pastor of the Winthrop Congregational Church resigns effective January 1. After six years in Holbrook today he tendered his departure at the close of the morning service. No reason given though many members say it was expected.
The Ceaseless Struggle at Newport
A Newport special correspondent reports on the endless clash with wealth, ennui, and endless social fatigue. Society’s leaders exert effort to keep interest alive as amusements grow stale and audiences tire of endless excess.
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Newport
Mus I help th bug or help Aunt Jane in a grave
A humor filled excerpt from the Indianapolis Journal notes a joke about aiding Aunt Jane or a bug in a grave, then shifts to a farmer’s alliance tale and a lawyer funeral inscription about a man both a lawyer and honest. It toasts with a quip on census figures and closes with Hall Caine and a Man Isle bank manager anecdote.
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Indianapolis Journal
Farmers’ Alliance
Hayseed
Hall Caine
Isle of Man
Greeba Castle
Grandiose Villa Party Spins Into Absurd Pageant
A cavalcade of eccentric society happenings fills Mrs Snaggs’s mansion Bricktop with extravagant diversions. A jeweled pig is chased by guests, while plans unfold for a gravity defying indoor circus, a shoot-the-chutes ride through the house, and a grandiose mischief of hedges and hurdles.
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Bricktop
Count Paresis
Porker
Fuzzy Flypp
Steenth
Gastleigh Green
Bisgit-Shuter
Miss Lotta Dough. the Dough Oae Has Been Filled With Carpenters and Sons
Miss Dough
Lord Salix
Heavie Bluff
Boston
Vera Flatt
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Night street gunfight ends with ordinance humor
A vivid clip shows two armed men exchanging shots in a city street as bystanders seek shelter. After dozens of rounds fired, a passerby wakes and escorts them away, remarking on the public ordinance against firing firecrackers. The scene shifts to a joke about Bixby and a horse.
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New York Sun
The Vacation That Opened His Eyes at Home
Musetta Ardella DeMeritt presents Tom Benton who, left in charge while Mattie visits kin, endures a chaotic two days with three children. He learns the burden of keeping house, planning meals, washing, and discipline before Mattie returns with a plan to hire help, proving the value of shared duties and perspective.
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Mattie
Tom Benton
Mattie Benton
Tom
Margie
Tommy
Teddy
Ted
Jardiniere
Mamma
Dick Connor
Napa
Ned Chester
Preached On Labor By Rev Dorchester At Temple
An unusually large Columbus Avenue congregation heard Rev L H Dorchester pastor of Peoples Temple last evening on Labor Day. He discussed warfare and welfare of labor, urging a joint committee to settle grievances without strikes and predicting closer unity between capital and labor. He also spoke of possible government ownership of industries.
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L. H. Dorchester
People’s Temple
Columbus Avenue
Berkeley Street
Dorchester
Sanforius Ginger Promoted as Pure Health Ginger
Advertisement extols Sanforius Ginger as pure and safe with fast stomach soothing effects. It claims rich health benefits, contains medicinal French brandy and imported ginger, and criticizes substitutes. Consumers are urged to ask for Sanforius Ginger and look for OWL marks on the wrapper.
Rev Emory W Hunt Opens Clarendon Street Pastorate
The Rev Emory W Hunt formerly of Tolledo O preached his first sermon as pastor of Clarendon Street Baptist Church after recent election A large congregation welcomed him His text followed Pauls exhortation Preach the Word The sermon described the essential elements of a successful ministry He succeeds the late Rev A J Gordon whose pulpit was filled by an acting pastor until Hunts election
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Emory W. Hunt
Tolledo, O
Clarendon Street Baptist Church
Paul
Timothy
Mr. Hunt
A. J. Gordon
Clarendon Street
Lorimer Sermon at Tremont Temple Revisits Spiritual Religion
Rev Dr George C Lorimer pastor of Tremont Temple preached on The Historical Development of Spiritual Religion. His first service back from Europe drew a full house. He argued religion is rooted in the constitution of man and that people seek a deeper faith beyond mere forms and sacerdotalism.
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Tremont Temple
George C. Lorimer
Dr. Lorimer
Europe
Why do you always buy the Sunday Post Jones
A neighbor asks why Jones buys the Sunday Post and cites his wife’s fondness for the children's stories and the serial The Yellow Man as the best in months, noting the paper offers all the news and engaging features for readers at home.
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Sunday Post
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Detroit Journal
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South Fairview Street
Roslindale, Mass
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