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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1896
Page
4
Notice states money sent at sender’s risk and warns against cash. All checks drafts and money orders made payable to the POST PUBLISHING COMPANY. Boston Office address 259 Washington Street with telephone 428 Boston.
The Nantasket steamer collided with a pleasure yacht in Boston harbor on Saturday night. No lives were lost or injuries reported though the incident prompts questions about speed and care in foggy conditions.
The article analyzes Maine's presidential vote history noting a possible record Republican plurality and cites past Maine Vermont trends. It compares past results from 1864 to 1888 and mentions Manley predicting the largest Republican majority in a presidential year to date.
A historical debate on when the new century starts, whether January 1, 1900 or January 1, 1991 marks the turn. The reasoning is compared to a classic puzzle of placing six pigs in five pens to illustrate counting quirks.
The text explores when the first century ended and the second began, arguing that the century changes with the start of year 101 rather than 100, and questions why in 1900 we still feel in the nineteenth century despite the passing of the eighteenth hundred years. It notes historical controversy over century boundaries.
The past week saw price recessions offering buy opportunities while dividends from Manhattan St Paul and Western Union pleased investors. Bank of England raised official rate to 2 1/2 percent amid gold flow fears, but gold imports rising likely reflect a large trade surplus. The gold movement, totaling over 30 million with potential 30 million more, is the strongest bull factor. it should lift mills railroads and clearinghouse returns in the coming week.
The piece argues that free coinage would depress currency and raise prices faster than wages, hurting workers. It cites Civil War era costs and wage trends under gold standard, claiming wages lagged price increases during depreciated currency while gold-backed wages gained purchasing power. It contrasts 1870s prices, 1890s earnings, and overall improvements in real wages under gold.
The text argues that adopting free silver would raise prices and urges workingmen to consider buying more food and clothing as a result. It frames the issue as a test of whether popular support for free coinage would boost living costs and affect wages.
The Observant Citizen notes the West End road will put 150 new cars into service October 1, boosting receipts, cutting fares to Newton and Arlington Heights, and adding free transfer stations. A new city ordinance bans street car exhalations, enforced by conductors with Board of Health support.
A cold mid winter night along a country lane follows a lone man in a slouched hat toward a cottage. The hermit guards a treasure in a hidden box while the stranger plots to steal the gold and pleads for mercy as he readies his blade. The storm rages as the suspense grows.
A dated collection of kitchen guidance lists salmon salad pineapple sherbet mock bisque soup lettuce salad and French dressing among other preparations. It includes precise measurements steps and technique notes credited to MISS KATIE GLEASON of Dorchester Massachusetts.
In a storm haunted by wind and snow, a nameless stranger murders a hermit for gold and returns to claim his loot. Amid eerie whispers the killer slays again and dies, as the wind cries that the gold is useless in hell and the snow hides all.
The Post offers weekly prizes for Original Short Stories with ten dollars for first, five for second, and two dollars for the other four. Winners are named each Sunday and paid by mail on Monday. Only female writers can win, but help may come from male relatives.
A British author argues the Nicaragua Canal is essential to global trade and U S leadership, while Britain could face new East Asia rivalry. The piece notes American wages for teachers are low and suggests Radcliffe Bryn Mawr and Wellesley add accounting and stenography. It also covers literary figures, publications, and upcoming editions, including Dunbar’s Majors and Minors with poems.
Miss M. A. Brown of 19 Milton Avenue Dorchester pleased women readers of the Post last week by presenting a long menu of varied recipes she judged exceptionally good. Her carefully studied dishes aim to aid housewives seeking to vary home menus. The menu appeared in the Post Friday morning September 11.
A compilation of light anecdotes and quips from various papers. Jests range from seaside trunks and alphabetized names to a plumber and paperhanger swapping houses and a joke about gout in a long-forgotten lineage. The item closes with a meteorological quip about Houston and Galveston heat contrasts.
Elaborate preparations were made for laying the corner stone at Gate of Heaven Church in South Boston but a storm postponed the ceremony to Sunday Oct 4. Archbishop Williams, in delicate health, did not attend. The church rises to the first floor with speakers’ space. A silver trowel will be given to the parishioner who subscribes the most to the corner stone fund amid a local scramble for possession.
The piece gathers brief notices: Rev Father Connardi heads a leper settlement in Hawaii and visits San Francisco. Kathleen Mavourneen author Frederick Crouch dies aged 88, father of 27 children. James Louis Washington, the boy preacher from New Orleans, memorizes and preaches the Bible nationwide. Gladstone's view on Salisbury cited amid other European celebrity snippets.
A Boston reader invites the Post to reopen the century start debate. They ask whether the new century begins Jan 1, 1900 or Jan 1, 1991, noting many arguments on both sides and promising a lively exchange. The writer adds a preference to shift focus from the silver question.
Gaelic League of Boston members approved resolutions on Gaelic tongue teaching and publishing literature in the modern Roman alphabet. In the Gaelic school at 18 Essex street yesterday afternoon, Irish and Scotch attendees were present as Mr. P. J. O Daly taught Gaelic. The group set the quarterly school entertainment for Oct 15 with 23 cent admission.
The Theatrical Mechanics Association voted unanimously to contribute $50 to buy one admission ticket for the benefit performance at the Boston Theatre on the 27th inst for the widow and children of J. W. Kelly.
Sept. 13. Herbert N. Casson spoke at Labor Church on the clash of instinct and reason as a response to Rev J. J. Baxter. He argued religion often furthers oppression while urging the higher life rests on courage thought and sympathy.
Dr I J Lansing returned from vacation and preached at Park Street Church despite poor attendance due to weather. Morning topic Christian Cruelty and evening Christ He Will Not Fail Nor Be Discouraged. Some members fear his resignation may come soon with outside calls discussed.
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