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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1895
Page
4
The Leyland line steamship Victorian arrives as proof of Boston’s expanding commerce and harbor capacity. The piece urges deeper harbor channels, extended docks, and stronger interior rail links to unlock a new era in Boston’s foreign trade.
The formal nomination of Governor Morton as the Republican candidate signals the power of machine politics. Backed by Ross Platt and New York delegates, Morton rises as the party’s national contender through the strength of his “barrel.” Will a larger boss backed barrelling candidate emerge at the convention.
The Atlanta Exposition opened with a highly complete exhibition and smooth ceremonies. The event, backed by substantial Massachusetts interest, underscores a significant southern enterprise and is viewed as a well designed effort to foster regional progress.
The text extols southern progress and future opportunities while noting the bull ring as an imported anomaly. It questions the merit of bull fights as not a Southern institution and not an American practice, contrasting it with otherwise well arranged exposition activities.
A Boston editorial comments on the Prohibition party’s quarter century in Massachusetts. It argues the party failed to advance morality or abstinence laws, noting prohibition was driven by Republicans, and local option law faced its opposition, leaving the Prohibition party as an obstacle to temperance progress.
The passage recalls Brock asserting enforcement of the prohibitory law in New Bedford. It argues real sales persisted despite efforts, noting that public sentiment largely dictated enforcement results. It suggests that liquor could be sold when community support favored prohibition and that enforcement depends on popular backing.
The piece notes Senator Lodge is abroad enjoying the voyage and will not return to aid the campaign. Senator Hoar, snubbed at the state convention, plans to stay away as well. With these two leaders absent, the Republican push may lose its allure and fail to attract audiences this election season.
The Observant Citizen group in Boston will hold its first regular meeting of the season at 7 30 p m in the Catholic Union rooms at 17 Worcester street to discuss studies the annual lecture course and a planned cottage at the Catholic summer school. Also noted is a malfunctioning Old South Church clock and a stockbroker story about a 200 share sale at 80 with a profit view. Engagement announced between Henry Cohen and Elizabeth Phillips with ceremony next Sunday at Baldwin Place Synagogue. Captain Cain of Station 1 to visit New York Sunday after six weeks in Italy, with a warm Italian welcome anticipated from North End residents.
Poem praising Confederate figures, invoking Vera Pro Gratis as mother of soldiers and statesmen. Reflects on Lee and Thomas as sons of the South and laments how Thomas was treated, linking memory to sorrow over a life cut short and a long widowhood of public esteem.
An American account recounts the 1781 British seizure of Fort William Busbudgia near Madras. Sailor Strahan led a breach breach assault after a lone ascent, aiding a storming that overran the fort with twenty cannon abandoned, while Captain Dougall Campbell was killed by friendly fire. The admiral considered promotion for Strahan but deemed his life too irregular.
A Charlestown resident writes to the Post calling attention to a putrid sewer issue on Alford Street. Clogged catch basins emit foul odors affecting pedestrians and nearby tenants, with water-filled gutters raising health and epidemic concerns. The writer accuses the health department of lax duty after repeated notices and urges action.
J J Welsh of Dorchester objects to a Sunday Post report naming Miss Welsh and Miss Tredge as attacked by Dorchester Jack the Hugger. He asserts neither woman met such a person nor was out at night unaccompanied, and asks the paper to contradict the item. He provides his Dorchester address and date Sept 16.
A letter questions public judgment on looks by presenting pictures of three women and asks who looks best. It argues that adding pretty faces may mislead when three homely figures are shown, criticizing the attempt to promote bloomers. Boston dated Sept 17.
A note from the Marlboro Enterprise reports the full page image of the Defender appearing in Friday’s Boston Post. The engraving will be displayed in many rooms by naval architecture enthusiasts and by readers unfamiliar with sailing alike.
More than one hundred twenty five members of the American Association of General Passenger and Ticket Agents enjoyed a banquet and a bay sail aboard the Portland steam packet. A 602 pound swordfish was landed from the Gloucester schooner Fortuna and sold for 45 dollars and 15 cents. Divers plan to assist in breaking a rock using an iron chain around a 10 ton steel chisel. The Bogstad reported propeller blade damage after hitting a subsurface boulder in the Suez passage. The Servia arrived from Liverpool and the Viator completed a Portland to Sydney round trip in sixteen days. Wreckage sighted near Handkerchief lightship likely from the A Heaton. the tug Samuel Little needed repairs after breaking its crank shaft. The Allan steamer Scandinavian brought 176 passengers from Glasgow and Moville. Towboat captain Frank Foote returned from vacation to West Bath with his brother Charles, a former captain.
The Boston Post has risen from low ranking to the top in four years and dominates morning sales in New England. Growth in Boston and vicinity drives the paper’s value to local retailers, with ads proving highly effective for attracting Boston shoppers.
The Daily Post proclaims its Boston morning sales exceed the Herald and Globe combined and offers a 1000 dollar forfeit to any paper questioning the claim A canvass by newsdealers will be used to verify sales figures and no unsold copies will count The Post urges the Globe to accept or drop its private objections.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre hosts Lewis Morrison in Yerick's Love with Faust on sale tonight and tomorrow. Seabrooke's A World of Trouble runs at Park Theatre, while Tzigane marks its 75th with De Koven conducting. Offenburg La Perichole comes next week as The Fatal Card thrives at the Museum.
Twice this week Howard Atheneum seats sold out with crowded aisles as City Sports presents a well known burlesque lineup. The program features Nelson sisters, a large ballet, and strong vaudeville acts with next week promising The Big Sensation and Katherine Rober in Killarney.
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