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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1902
Page
7
The Boston City Council faces a proposed appropriation bill viewed as economically impracticable. The paper argues the Common Council must cut schedules to prevent tax burdens and a looming deficit, noting past resistance to wasteful loan measures as a model for fiscal restraint.
The State Board of Health points to a sharp rise in gas poisoning deaths after water gas introduction. In 13 years before water gas there were eight deaths from illuminating gas, and in 13 years after, 459 deaths were recorded as due to illuminating gas poisoning. In Boston, ten years ending 1901 saw 320 deaths from poison gas.
An editorial argues the Statistics Board overpays and wastes public money. It urges adopting an unpaid honorary-board model like other city bodies and for using existing City Hall staff to handle clerical work to cut costs and preserve the department.
A Boston Observant Citizen column recounts a comic incident on Beacon Street where a dapper man balances a soiled handkerchief on his cane and returns it to its owner, prompting amused reactions. The column also notes a 2-cent fare mixup on a streetcar, health update for Hon. E. S Converse, and local events including horse show debuts, a Knights of Columbus banquet, and various social notes.
A collage of humorous and satirical clippings notes fools rush skyward on Airplanes All Fools Day and mocks grand April flood fears attributed to Dr. G H Bean. The text piles spoof astronomy, odd dialect lines, and local banter about the coming freshet and public folly.
A legislative committee approves a hotel liquor bill by practical unanimity with one dissent. The plan lets hotels sell liquor to guests until midnight if authorized by licensing authorities. It aims to curb abuses by letting licensing boards set sale rules while preserving temperance concerns.
The text argues restricting to midnight use by hotels will gain approval from those who resented the trick or accident that defeated the original license law. It frames the measure as restoring purpose and public support for stricter hotel licensing.
The ways and means committee in Washington approved a reciprocal trade bill with Cuba. Supporters claim it fulfills pledges to the Cuban people, but critics note the concession is too small to save sugar production. The plan avoids removing the refined sugar differential, diverting potential gains to refiners and trusts. The measure is described as a characteristic Republican bill.
Hugh McKinnon, longtime cashier at the Parker House, departs for a similar role at the Val ers-Astoria in New York. Guests and friends bid him farewell with a purse of gold, recognizing his popularity and warm service.
Readable bits show diners joking about a fishball faced strike and a absent minded boarder. A cy clone wanders West as a patient grumbles about smoking and doctors. A playful exchange ends with a quip about a wife having the last word and a elbow sleeve fad returning.
Washington reports Mr Henry White secretary of embassy at London is a leading candidate to fill the Italian embassy vacancy caused by Ambassador Meyer retirement. Senator Lodge backs him and he has a strong diplomatic record from his service under Mr Hay. Bellamy Storer may become Berlin envoy as ambassador when Mr Andrew White retires next fall.
New edition of Edgar S. Maclay’s volume revises prior attacks on Admiral Schley by inserting court of inquiry findings. The author quotes the inquiry to replace earlier criticism of Schley’s tactics in the Santiago campaign and the Eagle maneuvers, noting the court’s unanimous opinion against the retrograde movement.
A detailed preparation method for a peach tapioca mold. It describes draining peaches, soaking or boiling pearl tapioca, mixing with hot liquid, heating in a double boiler until translucent, and layering with peaches in a mould before baking and chilling. Variations include substitutes like apricot or apple and notes on sugar and cream.
A Phillipstown river outing becomes a meditation on love and loss as a striking young woman from the West inspires poetic visions. Years later the party remembers the moment through a tapestry of subsequent destinies, from a famed miniaturist to a noted inventor and a devoted priest.
Henry A. Wing was appointed city marshal by Mayor MacGillicuddy this afternoon and confirmed 6 to 1 by the Board of Aldermen. Wing was a newspaper man and previously served as city marshal in 898 1899.
Principal Amen of Phillips Exeter Academy announced a $3000 gift from Miss Susan C. Perkins of Concord in memory of her father. The fund supports a scholarship for needy students at Exeter.
In 1838 Washington Street the store advertises bicycles for this year with prices $13 $14 and $15. The brief notice appears under the Pew Saturdays Evening listing.
George B. Howard of the Peabody Museum reports Copan in Honduras near the Guatemalan border as a prehistoric Maya center, possibly older than Assyrian or Egyptian civilizations. The study details a grand 85 foot pyramid, a glyph covered stairway, a serpent altar, guardian bird and serpent figures, and vivid stucco coloring that preserved stone.
Boston society circles announce numerous engagements and upcoming weddings. Miss Nellie Salome Thomas sails from England April 5 to wed composer George Lyman Cade. Frances Rebekah Clark to Frank Edwin Shepard. Miss Eleanor Winslow Runkle to William Merriam Crane. Miss Elizabeth Oakley to Arthur Brooks. many other matches involve prominent families and Harvard, Boston University, and New York connections.
The United Irish League Central Branch hosts Hon. Joseph Devlin MP at the American House with local speakers including Thomas Riley and Rev. A J Teelin. Devlin’s Boston visit features calls at City Hall and the State House, luncheons, and planned talks in Roxbury Jamaica Plain Brookline and Lowell as the league plans new local branches.
President Fliot of Harvard University disputes a published report that George Smith of St Louis gained 50,000 by trickery and left the fortune to Harvard on death last week. He says the bachelor, long favored by his foster mother, was simply the natural heir to her fortune.
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