The Post Availability Notice in Boston and Surrounding Areas
A notice directs readers who cannot buy The Post at usual outlets in Boston and nearby locales to report the inability to purchase to the office. The text lists several theatres and venues on Tremont, Washington, and other streets with showings such as She Stoops to Conquer, Ye Earlie Trouble, The Old Homestead, The County Fair, Judith, Natural Gas, and event listings including the Trotting Horse Breeders’ sale and auction by the New England Association.
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Boston
Tremont Theater
Tremont Street
S—Stuart Robson
Boston Museum
Boston Theatre
Washington Street
Don Thompson
Pars Treatre
Neil Burress
Gioxe Trearke
S—Khea mm “Judith
Donnnelly
Girard
Mystic Pans
Medford
The
New England Association of Trotting Horse Breeders
Democrats of Massachusetts meet at Worcester today
The Boston Post notes the Massachusetts Democrats gather in Worcester under encouraging conditions. It says opponents show weakness and a feeble Republican candidate, while Democrats are united and enthusiastic for a nomination by acclamation. The party favors an honest dollar, tariff reform, and clear campaign issues.
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Massachusetts
Worcester
Debating Stance Shifts as Lopes Avoids Direct Subjects
The Hon Henry Carot Lopes backs away from his prior pledge to debate any subject. He plans to debate Mr Russell on a self chosen stump and date, avoiding controversy. In contrast, Camp Bell and McKinley set a straightforward Ohio debate next week with speaking order decided by a coin toss.
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Henry Carot Lopes
Russell
Loner
Governor Camp
Bell
McKinley
Ohio
Impeccable Bias by Boston Police on Detective Chapman
The Boston Police Commission revoked detective Cyarman Chapman’s license based on newspaper statements. The board sent notice to appear and show cause why the license should not be revoked, condemning him without a hearing in response to public prints.
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Boston Police Commission
CyarMan
Cyap- Man
Chapman
Board of Police
Lourd
Police
Pemberton Square
Massachusetts
Navy construction funding eyed for 1895
Washington notes that about 16 million dollars is needed in 1895 to continue the navy work already begun or authorized. Secretary Tracy’s estimates exclude further ships, and given Treasury strains it would be unwise to appropriate a larger sum than the proposed.
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Washington
Tracy
Treasury
Plea for Torpedo Boats and Light Cruisers Urges Coast Defense
The text argues for adding torpedo boats and light-draught cruisers to the naval fleet as efficient coast defense tools. It notes mixed opinions on torpedo boats, but supports procuring a few for auxiliary defense, and emphasizes their usefulness in Chinese waters where larger ships falter.
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Tracy
Mr Foulke on the Census and reform league notes
A Civil Service Reform League committee report on the Census Bureau is expected at Buffalo. Chairman William Duprey Foulke and members charge partisan governance, alleging Republican bias among clerks and enumerators, and attribute inaccuracy to political aims.
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Civil Service Reform League
Census Bureau
League At Buffalo
Williiam Duprey Fouks
Cuaries J, Bonaparte
Richard H. Dana
Wayne MacVennon
S. RoGeRs
Foulke
Pennsylvania Scandal Prompts Senate Special Session
Governor Parrison calls the Pennsylvania State Senate to meet on October 15 to investigate charges against State Treasurer McCannant and Auditor General, aiming to remove officials if misconduct is proven. The move follows disclosures tied to Bardsley and associates and frames reform against Quay era governance.
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Parrison
State Senate
McCannant
Bardsley
Quay
Pennsylvania
Senate
Assessment of Officeholders in Washington Spoils System
A Washington despatch reports a series of political assessments of federal clerks by Republican party committees in states including Pennsylvania and Ohio. The piece condemns the practice as the spoils system revived, noting Postmaster General Wanamaker’s tacit approval and citing the 1853 act against coercion. It argues protections are hollow when superiors back blackmail.
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Republican Committee of
Pennsylvania
Washington
Ohio
Foster
Republican Committee
Massachusetts
Burpetrr
Cleveland
Harrison
United States
Wanamaker
Quay
Civil service reform amid voluntary self tax offer
A discussion condemns observed demoralization in the civil service after Presidents Cleveland and Harrison. It highlights clerks facing assessments and notes one cabinet officer even offers to pay the tax himself to relieve the burden, underscoring perceived decay since Cleveland’s retirement.
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Cleveland
Harrison
The Moujik in Frederic’s Russia and Jewish Persecution
Harold Frederic’s third NYT letter portrays the Moujik as amiable but inert, unchanged by European influence. He contrasts the poor Moujik with wealthier Germans and German Jews in Russia, noting a growing antisemitic sentiment and the lack of a viable Russian middle class.
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Harold Freperic
New York Times
Russia
Moujik
Tour- Gueneff
Tousrol
Frederic
California Immigration Convention Aims To Attract Workers
The San Francisco discussion favors welcoming immigrants who bring capital and labor for farming, industry, and railroads while avoiding monopolistic opportunists. Californians seek to limit crowding yet hope for a trustworthy stream of skilled labor and investment from the East and Midwest.
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California
San Francisco
Atlantic
Pacific Coast
The
San Francisco Examiner
Pacific
Mississippi Valley
Corset War in New York Prompts Social Campaign
A New York corset maker declares battle on dress reform advocates. He hires five attractive young women to tour the country delivering daily lectures with medical quotations from fashionable venues to prove corsets aid health. Meanwhile singer Mrs. Fonsou-Mant comments on Parisian drama and Paris memories in the Lohengrin uproar.
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New York
Apostles of
Baum
United States
World of snippets shows humor and progress in 1900s press
A collage of short items from early 20th century papers covers playful quips about August and October weather, a birthday milestone for The Philadelphia Item, musical banter, theater chatter in Minneapolis and Providence, jokes about flirtations and politics, health notes on grip and influenza, a German village exhibit at the World’s Fair, Brazil’s first electric railroad near Bahia, and a domestic umbrella caper.
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Philadelphia
van How
New York Herald
Minneapolis
Providence
Germany
Chicago
Foreman
John
Hankinson
Detroit Free Press
Johnson
Tomson
Five Dollar Bill and the Deacon’s Smile Poem
A New York Herald verse describes coins and notes in a staged scene. It contrasts the Five Dollar with the Two Dollar Bill the One Dollar Bill the Quarter and the Cent in a humorous citizenly tableau. The donor’s awareness and the deacon’s quiet disapproval frame the charity moment.
The Work of the White Squadron
A San Francisco Branuner column extols the White Squadron for valuable summer service. It praises the fleet’s lifesaving actions at Valparaiso and condemns earlier misuse of naval power by Charleston and others. It argues for more evolution and training of the naval reserve.
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San Francisco
Cornering an Infant Industry in a Prison Plant
The McKinleyites claim to have trapped a pearl button plant inside Auburn penitentiary New York amid extreme taxation. The piece notes the tin plate industry remains weak and unsettled while buttons, aided by high tariffs, appear to be confined behind prison walls.
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Auburn
N. Y
Lohengrin Opéra Clash Sparks Wide Approval
A Paris Opera House controversy over Wagner's Lohengrin prompts praise for President Carnot for suppressing chauvinist efforts to stop the performance. The piece is hailed as genius with a subtle legend, while critics blame a gang of vain, absinthe-loving attackers for interfering due to the German composer.
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Case FY
Carnot
Modesty the Only Obstacle in Chicago Rise
The Chicago Herald notes Roman citizenship once topped city ties and forecasts Chicago becoming the chief city of the globe. It praises Mr. Thomas as a forerunner among leading artists who will settle here, echoing Rome’s historic prominence.
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Chicago Herald
Rome
Thomas
Chicago
Senator Sherman balances on a perilous political rope
The Brooklyn Eagle describes Senator Sherman as a political tight rope dancer in a precarious situation. His performance of delicate balance between wealth and policy alarms friends, who warn a safety net is needed under the rope to prevent a fall.
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iBrooklyn Eagle
Sherman
Fires on Tremont Street Inspire Civic Ruminations
In Boston, Tremont Street’s new pavement and nightly bonfires spark reflections on modern city life. The writer notes dramatic street glow, curious behavior on electric cars, and a humorous critique of church pew rituals as Hawkshaw studies backs, then laments snobbery in hymn choices during Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. McKee’s Boston visit.
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Thackeray
Taverner
Letters to the Editor critique of Evening Post on Massachusetts politics
In a response to a Massachusetts political paragraph, the writer challenges the Evening Post’s claim that two gubernatorial candidates are equally qualified and free of machine influence. The letter argues Colonel Allen lacks public service record and asserts Governor Russell has strong executive credentials, while accusing Allen of machine backing and noting intra party lines and independents versus machine men. F. W. Birp is mentioned.
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THE
Evening Post
Post
New York Evening Post
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Allen
Congress
Russell
Cambridges
Colonel Allen
Custom House
Crapo
Machine
Democratic Party
F. W. Birp
Bankers Convention Postponed to November in New Orleans
New York Sept 28 the annual American Bankers Association meeting will be held in New Orleans November 11 and 12, instead of October 14 and 16 as originally planned. The executive committee postponed the event at the urging of local officials.
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Bankers
New York
American Bankers’ Association
New Orleans
Deel
Ottic
Improved Fishing Vessels Boost Alaska Salmon Industry
Gloucester reports advance sheets of W A Wilcox's coastwide fisheries study show Alaska leads in salmon canning with 36 Alaska canneries in 1889 of 122 total on the Pacific Coast. The fourteen year West Coast pack nears 12.5 million cases valued around 75 million dollars.
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Gloucester
J. W. Collins
United States Fish Commission
W. A. Wilcox
Pacific Coast
Associated Press
Wilcox
San Francisco
San Diego
Puget Sound
United States
Alaska
Oregon
British Columbia
London
Liverpool
Columbia River
Australia
Hamburg
The
Orient
Pacific Islands
Spanish America
New Bedford
Mass
California
Monterey
Atlantic
Albatros
Tanner Bank
Cortez Bank
New England
Pacific
Jailbreak at New Brunswick border claims prisoner
Tom Mahar, proprietor of an illicit liquor den, broke jail on Saturday but was recaptured. On the return trip three men with blackened faces and long rubber coats sprang from the bushes, held the escort at gunpoint, freed the prisoner, and spirited him across the border into Maine. Authorities report great excitement and suspect the men are notorious American desperadoes.
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New Brunswick
Sterphen
N. B
Tom Mahar
Maine
Sultan enacts harsh brigand crackdown in Turkey
The Times Vienna report says the Sultan bans peasants from bearing arms like Turkish troops, orders examination of suspects with foreign expulsions for foreigners, fines informers, and rewards for capturing brigands dead or alive.
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London
the Times
Vienna
Turkey
Tisbury Division Bill Rejected Vote Results
Vineyard Haven Sept 28 At a town meeting in North Tisbury the Tisbury division bill previously before the Legislature last winter and sent to a town vote was rejected by a majority of fifty three.
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Tisbury
Vineyard Haven
North Tisbury
Senate
Platt and the President in New York Campaign
The Harrison administration backs Senator Fassett and a Republican State Legislature. Levi Morton and Elijah Halford visited Platt’s headquarters, signaling high-level support. Halford met Fassett as the Plaza Hotel, with Halford delivering Harrison’s friendship and hopes for success. federal staff activity may rise in NY as the race heats up.
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N. S. Times
Harrison
Thomas C. Platt
J. Sloat Fassett
New York
Levi P. Morton
Mr. Platt
State Committee
Fifth Avenue
Elijah Halford
President Harrison
Halford
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Republican State Committee
Senator Fassett
Mr. Halford
Washington
The
Ledger
Custom House
Fassett
Mr. Fassett
Platt
Tin plates price dispute sparks tariff reform letter
Emerson W. Jupp of the New England Tariff Reform League writes to defend his 1891 claims about tin plate pricing and duty impacts. He rebuts Colonel Albert Clarke of the Home Market Club, arguing Clarke misread data and that imports from Britain show prices fell or stayed stable while U.S. buyers faced higher costs due to the McKinley tariff.
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Alaska
Albert Clarke
Home Market Club
Clarke
England
New York
McKinley
Colonel Clarke
United States
Boston
Clmb
Emerson W. Jupp
New England Tariff Reform League
New York’s New Collector Takes Oath of Office
Francis Hendricks was sworn in today as the new collector of the port. His appointed associates include Edward B Judson Senator Frank Hiscock Vice President Morton and Colonel Elliott F Shepard assembling a qualified team.
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New York
Francis Hendricks
Edward B Judson
Frank Hiscock
Morton
Elliott F. Shepard
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