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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1898
Page
4
Unsure fragmentary headline notes a mission theme and a Democratic paper in New England. The readable text mentions a post and is fragmented without clear events, dates, or concrete entities to confirm.
The spring floods in Western rivers caused the Shawneetown disaster on the Ohio. The breach of the public dike led to the town’s near destruction, with the main cause being the river freshet and strain on the structure. Safeguards that once sufficed may fail as floods grow larger.
A bill to establish a Boston Board of Apportionment is amended to be elected entirely by city voters. The five member board includes the Mayor, the Aldermen chairman, and the Council president with two additional elected members. The plan creates a third legislative body handling money appropriation and aims for broad, non sectional representation.
Reconsideration failed in the House yesterday. Passage to engrossment likely Monday. Support comes from Spring field Republican and Providence Journal. Boston stakeholders and major Boston business houses back the measure. Public welfare and rights protection cited as motive. proponents say corporate effort cannot defeat the bill.
A critic questions the blind status of telephone officials, asking if they fail to see what cannot be destroyed and challenging their awareness of the issue.
Urgent calls from churches businesses and municipal bodies urge peace with honor but criticise ineffective reforms in Cuba crisis. The speaker argues the policy of peace has failed after 300,000 noncombatants starved and Spain offered few concessions, insisting the nation must choose force if peace cannot be achieved.
John Jerome Rooney of the Seventh Regiment Gazette recalls 300 sailors who fell in service guarding the nation. Their graves dot coastlines from sea to shore as Northland mourns empty homes while new beacons rise along the coast guiding the Ship of State.
The Observant Citizen reports on homing pigeons considered for naval use, discusses the resignation of William W. Alexander from the Transcript, and notes Dr. William Tuffold’s progress at the Children's Hospital. It mentions Eva Evangelina Cisneros’ Boston visit for Cuban relief, Harvard-bound students, and comments on Navy safety ideas and Hibernian convention figures.
A Lisbon Maine man built a 125 foot hen house in prosperity and later fled there with his wife during hard times living simply yet modestly. The Baltimore Jacob Tome will funds include a $1,000,000 endowment for Port Deposit Md Jacob Tome Institute. An Alsatian Thorner serves prison time over German army service and conscientious scruples. A Missouri editor recalls interviewing Speaker Reed in Washington noting Reed was self possessed and unfazed.
A collage of humorous and pointed exchanges from era papers shows spouses quarreling over money status and fidelity. Snappy lines from Free Press Chicago Record North American Puck and others pit wealth, duty, and gender roles in social sketches.
A breakfast dinner and supper menu lists dishes such as Bananas Wheatlet with Cream Egg Omelet Baked Potatoes Muffins Raised Doughnuts Celery Soup Stuffed Roast Lamb Canned Peas Boiled Potatoes Sweet Potatoes Harvard Pudding Salmon Salad Fried Potatoes Hot Rolls Pear Sauce Plain Cake Raspberry Jelly with Cream and a Harvard pudding recipe with ingredients and bake steam times attributed to Mrs W B Batchelder of Somerville.
Captain R Sommers of Franklin Massachusetts argues in a letter that British Captain Sir Lambton Lorain of the Niobe deserved praise for sheltering and protecting American and Cuban captives during the Virginius affair after the Tornado incident near Santiago.
In a letter dated April 4 from Boston, Joseph Monday complains that a landlord evicted him from No. 7 Green street after Salvation Army tenants complained. He asks if Christianity should bar a man from earning an honest living.
Dermatologist John H. Woop of Boston advertises facial hair removal at his office 11 Winter Street. The service uses electricity for strong effects and offers a free consultation.
Annie Swift frets over an unwanted engagement to Mr Whitney as a charming stranger Mr Jack Lester helps her and they fall in love. After a moonlit voyage she learns Mr Whitney is Jack Lester Whitney and declares her love.
A wartime poem condemns U S pride and spainish cruelty referencing Cuba and the sinking of the Maine. It laments daily deaths along the Southern sea and the Don's scorn while calling for grim resolve in God's name.
State supervision of railways in Massachusetts shows public benefit and a precedent for overseeing semi public firms. A Gas and Electric Lighting Commission exists and now a bill proposes extending state oversight to telephone companies. Bell stockholders oppose while customers show some support.
Mr and Mrs William J Higgins of 66 Calumet Street Roxbury celebrated their wooden wedding last evening with generous gifts including a sideboard a large centre table an old fashioned rocking chair valuable pictures and bric a brac from friends and relatives.
The Boston Board of Aldermen adopted a resolution opposing measures that would expand the Mayor’s control and reduce the City Council’s powers. Bills cited include House Nos. 1489 1149 and 1157 affecting a board of apportionment playgrounds debt limits and an art department. The session also saw police captain salary increase and bath department control shifts.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of Division 37 met at Monument Hall Charlestown with Miss Margaret Connolly in the chair. County President Mrs Finley attended as special guest and members from several divisions contributed to the entertainment.
The St James Camping Club met last night to perfect arrangements for their second annual afternoon dancing party set for Patriots Day April 19 in Copley Hall. The reception decoration and music committees reported progress.
The article recalls the 1842 Somers mutiny and execution of Midshipman Philip Spencer, led by Captain Alexander Mackenzie. It notes the ship’s brig form, 266 tons, and voyage from New York via the West Indies, with context on the court of inquiry, Upshur’s approval, and Mackenzie’s later death.
Charles D Webster a Boston oilman praised the Post for championing the people against a telephone monopoly at the Boston Young Men's Congress banquet. He urged citizens to support the paper as it fights for telephone supervision and broader access, citing trust struggles and the paper’s public-spirited stance.
Harvard University students in a mass meeting voted almost 3 to 1 against United States intervention in Cuba. Speakers argued for and against intervention, with final tally 151 to 34 against. Law School also endorsed the president’s policy by 168 to 135.
The schooner James A Brown led by Captain Simmons, arriving from Raritan River New Jersey, lost her first mate Alfred Moore age 29 of Thomaston Maine off Highland sight. Moore had served as mate for some time aboard the vessel.
The Charles Stewart Parnell Associates met Sunday with Joseph F. Madden presiding. Six new members were initiated and seven applications approved. A $5 donation was sent to the Maine sailors monument fund, with a concurrent two week subscription drive. Resolutions honored Mrs. Parnell, mother of Charles Stewart Parnell, upon a motion by Patrick J. V McGee.
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