Post Sick Baby Fund Solicitation Ban Notice
Public notification warns that no person is authorized to solicit contributions for the Post Sick Baby Fund. The statement emphasizes prohibition and aims to prevent fraud or unauthorized requests.
View this page and access billions of articles with a 7-day free trial.
Start Free Trial
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Not what you were looking for? Search our billions of articles
Articles on This Page
This newspaper page contains 28 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1897
Page
4
Hanna on Prosperity in Ohio Campaign Speech
Senator Hanna denounces McKinley administration praise of prosperity as hollow. He questions the claim that McKinley policies ensure continued good crops and foreign markets, criticizing Hanna as an ineffective orator and political financier while urging Ohio voters to reject McKinleyism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
Senator Hanna
Ohio
McKinley
United States
Hanna
Senate
Exciting finish in 1897 baseball pennant race
Baltimore and Boston enter the final three games tied for the lead with a single game advantage to Baltimore. The pennant likely hinges on these matches with Boston needing two wins if it hopes to claim the title, while Baltimore benefits from home games but Boston shines away. The outcome hinges on the last clashes Monday next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Boston
Brooklyn
Baltimores
Washington
Trusts and tariffs spur Pittsburg glass monopoly plan
The piece denounces trusts under Republican tariff policy, citing a Pittsburg plan to consolidate window glass production into a giant monopoly. It argues tariffs fund trusts, not the government, inflating profits and suppressing competition while government revenue falls short of expenditures. It links Dingley tariffs to growing corporate power and public burden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Dingley
Eppear
Treasury Department
President McKinley Impresses at Berkshire County Fair
The president receives high praise for his North Adams speech praising Massachusetts and its people. The writer commends his sincerity and grace, noting his fine figure and decorous presence, calling him the best physical specimen of a president since Arthur and highly favorable to his off duty image in Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
North Adams
Massachusetts
Old Bay
Arthur
Berkshire
Latimer Latimer Latimer bail shock questions murder case
A Pennsylvania court released Sheriff Games Martin and deputies on 6000 bonds after their arrest for murder in the Latimer mining strike shootings. The editor questions whether capital charges with the death penalty permit bail and whether such bonds reflect proper court practice or discrimination in treating grave crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Games Martin
Hazleton County
Penn
Latimer
Pennsylvania
Wilkesbarre
Martin
Free on bail for life trial amid miner massacre concerns
The passage questions whether the accused will remain free awaiting trial for his life as sheriff and deputies may not uphold strong bonds. It argues the proceeding shows a lax view of the gravity of the slaughter of the marching miners and the seriousness of the offense.
Tide of Gold Drives U S Trade Balance This Year
A banking and trade analysis notes England plans to fund American grain purchases by selling U S securities. Despite promises of limited gold shipments, about 1.0 million of the 2.5 million in transit comes as Bank of England gold, as Europe owes the United States and imports and exports shift. Grain exports top a million dollars daily, with August showing a $40 million surplus in imports over exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of England
England
United States
Atlantic
Europe
Observant Citizen Notes Park Trees and Local Happenings
The Observant Citizen reports on maple trees imported for State House park decoration, concerns about winter wear, and questions on demolition of Mt Vernon Beacon corner buildings. It mentions Bacchante statue protests, South End ball grounds event, Lew Richards visiting Boston, Pemberton Daisy train engineer H G Rand, J F O Connell and a disbarment joke, Frederick White and the Codman woods hunters, Peary interview reception, and media hustle around paste pot versus the real article.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State House Park
Mt. Vernon and
Beacon Streets
The Poster Girl Reading From The Blessed Damozel
An intricately described artistic figure stands poised aloft amid surreal imagery. The speaker notes her eyes a mix of red and green, uneven hair, seven hairs, and a heavy decorative robe while she deflects judgment and asserts artistic worth depends on perspective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Damozel
Love Endures Across Time in Boston Church Tale
A poor but patient Boston dress shopwoman, decades devoted to lace and a bequested church life, recalls a past love. When a carriage chase ends in a street accident, her courageous act saves an old man, ending a forty year old love story with quiet sacrifice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
North End
Beacon Street
Love
Notable Nineteenth Century Figures Tangle in Personal Notices
A collection of brief biographical notes mentions Miss Annie Peck's peak conquest in the White Mountains. It notes Charles Haviland's Legion d’Honneur promotion from chevalier to officer. Senators Stephen Mallory White of California and Stephen Hassell Mallory of Florida are identified as cousins with interlinked families. Also referenced are General Lafayette McLaws, Samuel Chester Reid, the General Armstrong claim, Native Maori chief Major Rousala Waharsah, and Queen Victoria's cigar policy and production details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Mallory White
California
Stephen Hassell Mallory
Florida
Senator Mallory
Senator White
Daily Table Menu and Apricot Salad Recipe
This excerpt lists meals for luncheon and dinner including peaches, broiled ham, lamb, veal, corn, potatoes, and desserts. It also gives a recipe for apricot salad with dressing and a cake recipe with eggs sugar butter cream of tartar and leavening. The note is signed Mrs Dr R Thayer Dorchester Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Thayer
Mountain Avenue
Dorchester
Masa
Daughters Meet At Bunker Hill DAR in Copley Square
Members of the Bunker Hill Chapter of the D A R gathered yesterday afternoon at the regent’s residence in Copley square. Miss Marie Ware Laughton welcomed about sixty associates as guests and the program featured remarks by state and local D A R and D R leaders, notes on the upcoming Springfield conference, and readings including The Liberty Pole. Delegates and alternates were chosen for the state meeting, with a letter read from Nellie Salome Thomas about a memorial for Jennie Lind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bunker Hill
Regent
Copley Square
Marie Ware Laughton
Paul Revere
Brown
Springfield
Mass
Frederick Warren
Martha's Vineyard
Edward Harold Crosby
Benjamin F. Hackett
Newton
Henry T. Dobson
Warren and Prescott
Ellen Dudley Clack
Fairbanks
D. R
Emilie L. W. Waterman
Eliot
William Lee
Austin Wellington
Lillian M. B. Clarke
Grant
Vinson
North Conway
Jennie Lind
Singer
Appolonio
Old South Chapter
W. H. Alline
S. M. Brown
Minnie Bigelow
Mary Chandler
Charles E. Chester
W. 8
Brazier
John H. Gibbs
Adelaide Cowee Clark
Charlotte Frost
Carrie V. Clarke
Clara Randall
Susie Jackson
Jesse G. Swift
Marion Vinson
Miss Sanderson
Melissa EB. Tuley
Unitarian Conference Deliberates Immortality and Spiritual Life
Saratoga notes at the Unitarian Conference afternoon session the paper on Immortality by Rev. George Co Roswell Cressy of Northampton Mayes. Rev. Samuel C. Beane of Newburyport followed with The Unconscious Testimony of Literature to the Spiritual Life Here and Hereafter. Christianity in Japan was presented by Rev. Clay Macauley. About 1500 attendees and 400 voting delegates. Closing addresses by Edward Everett Hale Eli Fay and Rev. Minot J. Savage. John Snyder of New York spoke on Loyalty Without Bigotry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
Unitarian Conference
George Co
Roswell Cressy
Northampton
Mays
Samuel C. Beane
D. D
Newburyport
Mass
Japan
Clay Macauley
Unitarian Mission
United States
Edward Everett Hale
Eli Fay
Minot J. Savage
John Snyder
New York City
Notables in Town At Prestigious Boston Hotels
Notable visitors fill top Boston hotels including W W A Shockley the bicycle champ at Copley Square. E N Curtice of Curtice Bros Rochester with his wife at Parker House. Dr Deland Fitzgerald of Baltimore and Y Kunisaya of Tokyo at Parker House. Others from Holyoke Chill South America Toronto and London spotted at Nottingham Touraine United States Adams and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.W. A. Shockley
Copley Square
E. N. Curtice
Curtice Bros
Rochester
N. Y
Parker House
Deland Fitzgerald
Baltimore
Y. Kunisaya
Tokio
Japan
R. Stirling
A. M. Stirling
S. Stirling
Budelle
Chill
South America
Nottingham
H. M. Farr
Holyoke
Farr
Miss Farr
William Heywood
Touraine
Nellie McHenry
John Webster
Nellie McHenry Company
Lemuel Sears & Co
Massachusetts
United States
A. G. Bullock
State Mutual Insurance Company
Worcester
J. B. Coyle
International Steamship Company
Portland Steam Packet Company
Adams
Andrew Morton
London
Eng
Hotel meetings and elections at Parker House and Crawford
The Boston Alaska Commercial Transportation Company met at the Parker House with about fifty to sixty attendees. Two hundred thousand dollars in capital stock was offered and largely oversubscribed. Officers elected included W. P. Kingman president and Peter Hartford first vice president. The Third New Hampshire Regiment Association met at the Crawford with Captain D Eldredge presiding. attendees included retired US Army Colonel John F. Randlett and others who spoke on the regiment's service in the South and Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston-Alaska Commercial Transportation Company
Parker House
W. P. Kingman
Peter Hartford
E. W. Price
Seattle
Samuel A. Merrill
Henry B. Cram
Bordman Hall
New Hampshire
Department of the South
Virginia
Armenian Harvest Festival in Boston at Old Colony Chapel
To the editor the Post notes thousands sent abroad to Armenians in Turkey and locals in Boston funding a harvest festival on Sept 20 from 4 to 10 pm at Old Colony Chapel 69 Tyler Street. Fruits vegetables flowers autumn branches decorate the hall and are later given to Armenians along with music and addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Boston
Old Colony Chapel
Tyler Street
Borden
Commonwealth Avenue
Cornell President Declares Absolute Faculty Freedom
President Jacob G. Schurman of Cornell in his annual address defends academic freedom, saying the majority may be wrong and the minority right. He argues one man with God’s truth is a majority, teachers must be free to investigate and present both sides, and truth, not money, justifies a university’s existence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ithaca
N. Y
Jacob G. Schurman
Cornell University
Andrews
Brown University
Cornell
Brice
Socrates
Vanderbilt Baby Image Sparks Churchill Vanderbilt Rivalry
The infant Marquis of Blandford, future Duke of Marlborough, resembles his mother more than the Churchill line, pleasing W K Vanderbilt who hopes the next duke inherits the Vanderbilt traits. Milk from a Blenheim Palace cow is carefully managed. the duchess's progress is reported to relatives and Belmont Mrs. Belmont and Mr. Vanderbilt receive daily or visit updates from doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Marquis of
Blandford
Duke of Marlborough
Vanderbilt
W K. Vanderbilt
Marquis
Blenheim Palace
Churchills
Vanderbilts
Hanover Bank to Import Million in Gold on Havre Steamer
The Hanover National Bank will import 1,000,000 in gold aboard the French line steamship leaving Havre on Saturday, raising total announced gold imports to 2,500,000. National City Bank plans 1,000,000 from London and 500,000 from Genoa, with shipments described as part of routine business. National City Bank holds the largest deposits in the United States, recently listed at 57,639,600, down from 61,686,700 two weeks earlier after currency shipments to the South and West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hanover National Bank
Havre
National City Bank
London
Genoa
United States
New York Clearing House
New Appointments and Reappointments Adopted by Executive Council
The Executive Council met yesterday with Acting Governor Crane presiding. Nominations were sent in for Amos K. Tilden of Boston to the Board of Registration in Pharmacy, Austin C. Peters of Boston as cattle commissioner, Charles A. Dennen of Pepperell as cattle commissioner, and James Renfrew of Adams as director of the Fitchburg railroad. Reappointments include Dr. George G. Bailey of Ipswich as medical examiner for the second Essex district, replacing Dr. Clark who resigned. The council then departed for Foxboro to inspect the State institution there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crane
Amos K. Tilden
Boston
Board of Registration In Pharmacy
Austin C. Peters
Charles A. Dennen
Pepperell
James Renfrew
Adams
Fitchburg Railroad
George G. Bailey
Ipswich
Second Essex
Clark
Foxboro
Nuggets of Humor In Colorad o
A kaleidoscope of brief wits and quips from U S papers. Jests include a teacher defining fanatic a pupil equates to free silver belief, a nurse of humor about statesmen, lovers, patriotism, adulteration, and everyday people as “supes,” with barbs on bread and swearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Puck
Atlantic Monthly Forty Years Of Standard Magazine History
The Atlantic Monthly marks forty years since its founding with April 29 187 editions recounting Longfellow Emerson and Lowell among early contributors. It notes Fields' leadership, Civil War era shifts, and pioneering patriotic pieces like Barbara Frietchie and The Battle Hymn of the Republic as the magazine maintained its literary mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Monthly
Longfellow
Atlantic magazine founders and the rise of Howells and Aldrich
The piece traces the Atlantic Monthly’s early formation in Boston with editors and writers such as T. B. Aldrich and W. D. Howells joining Fields. It notes their journals, dinners, and the magazine’s shift over decades, including changes in literary standards amid rising production and distribution that altered American literary life.
Atlantic Monthly Born At Dinner Of 1867 In Boston
At a summer 1867 dinner hosted by publisher Mr Phillips in Boston writers Longfellow Emerson Whittier Lowell Holmes Motley Edmund Quincy and others planned a new magazine. Lowell was named editor in chief after Holmes agreed to be first contributor. Underwood became assistant editor and the Atlantic Monthly soon proved an instant success with ten of the fourteen principal contributors from its first issue including Motley Norton Emerson Holmes Whittier Stowe Trowbridge Lowell and Godwin. Whittier and Longfellow each contributed a poem and Lowell a sonnet titled The.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Atlantic
Fields
John Winthrop
Atlantic
Barbara Frietchie
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Biglow Papers
Lowell
Boston
Phillips
Sampson
Parker's
Emerson
Motley
Holmes
Cabot
Underwood
Longfellow
Pickard
New Monthly
Dr. Holmes
Atlantic Monthly
The
Charles Eliot Norton
Whittier
Mrs. Stowe
J. T. Trowbridge
Parke Godwin
Atlantic aims to hold literature above all else
The Atlantic recalls its forty year evolution while reaffirming a charter to keep literature as the core focus and avoid drifting into混, preserving its original ideals despite changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Atlantic
Lost note for Russell Sage reported in New York
The Stock Exchange ticker issued a notice stating a collateral note for $50,000 in the name of Russell Sage was lost or mislaid. The note was signed by Thompson & Mairs, bankers and brokers in the Edison building on Broad Street. They declined to comment on the missing document.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Stock Exchange
Russell Sage
Thompson & Mairs
Edison
Broad Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Boston Post
New England
State House
Bacchante
Womens Christian Temperance Union
Kings County
New York Park Board
South End
Lew Richards
San Francisco
Mr. Richards
Pemberton
Old Colony
H. G. Rand
Rand
Suffolk
J. F. O'Connell
Harvard
Joe
Frederick White
Massachusetts Democratic Club
Marguerite
Taunton High School
Codman
Lincoln
Post
Peary
the Post
Henrietta A
Pike
Park Street
Chelsea, Mass
Annie
Peck
White Mountains
Charles Haviland
Lafayette McLaws
Savannah
Confederacy
Internal Revenue
Georgia
Samuel Chester Reid
Armstrong
Fayal
New Zealand
Rousala Waharsah
Legislative Council
Queen Victoria
Havana
Windsor
Cuba
Amorse Bros
Canton
USA
Schurman
Duchess of Marlborough
Philadelphia
Minnie
Sadie
Mannie
Indianapolis Journal
Tommy
Figg
Della Creme
Reginald
Reginald Creme
Della
Atchison
Self
Ce Caren Hola
America
Emerson, Lowell, Motley, Hiermes, Cabot, Underwood and
Hoss Shay
Skipper Ireson
T. B. Aldrich
W. D. Howells
Aldrich
Howells
Nation
Scarrer
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Horace ER. Scudder
Gucictas
William Dean Howells
Great Barrington
William J. Gaynor
Search the Boston Post Today with a Free Trial
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
Not Finding What You Were Looking for on This Page of The Boston Post?
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
Browse Newspapers
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
By Location
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
By Date
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
By Publication
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.