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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1896
Page
4
The Boston Post argues that a new restraint on unauthorized lobbying could improve the lobbying scene. It notes past Republican influence, the previous lax enforcement of a lobbying contraction law, and suggests that a substantial fine might enforce compliance depending on execution.
A Republican committee promotes New Mexico and Arizona as the cheapest statehood candidates. The piece argues growth is unlikely, cites census figures, and warns the plan would create two Senate seats and three electoral votes for Republicans, calling it an outrage to the nation.
The Rhode Island Republican convention chose eight delegates in minutes with Reed likely to receive their votes at St Louis. No formal instructions were given to bind them, unlike McKinley managers who secure instructions. The eight delegates may trade favors on arrival.
The Oregon Democratic convention adopted a free silver platform sending delegates to Chicago with a 90 to 150 vote in favor. The piece argues the party should rebuke free silver in respected areas and reassert the 1892 Democratic gold standard doctrine, unchanged today.
The West End company argues free transfers invite boundless fraud, a familiar plea in Boston debates. The issue is public access to service, not company protection. If current managers cannot safeguard against fraud while enabling free transfers, they should step aside for others who can. Free transfers are workable elsewhere and in Boston.
A 19th century editorial warns that universal silver coinage at 16 to 1 is impossible without international accord. It criticizes the Sherman silver purchase bill as a step toward a silver standard, risking bankruptcy for merchants and hardship for workers, and calls for explicit Republican opposition to any additional silver moves. It cites George Fred Williams and Congressman Walker supporting firm anti silver positions.
A brief query asks which Republican convention will first declare that only international agreement can coin silver dollars, implying a stance on monetary policy. The fragment hints at a future party declaration rather than a current policy.
The article lauds the American athletes as victors in the modern Athens Olympiad, noting their disadvantages from long travel and limited acclimation time. It emphasizes America's rise in physical and intellectual prowess and frames the event as a sign of the new nation's global leadership.
A brief inspirational note quotes O B Frothingham on balancing dreams and duties as a call to focus effort. The line urges not to let lofty goals neglect present responsibilities and practical work.
Observant Citizen reports the death of W. Q. Judge, Dublin native and secretary of the American Theosophical Society, recalling 19th century events from Blavatsky to Besant. Coverage notes the Order of Scottish Clans growth, Henry Sandham's Boston Art Club show, and local civic figures. It also honors Rev. Joseph H. Cassin and Sub-Treasurer O Neil’s Tiverton visit.
In a garri son town, Alice Morrison captives two rival Hussars captains, Captains Macdermott and Alleyn. After El-Teb and Suakin honors, Macdermott proclaims a toast pledge to his bride to be, stirring a dramatic showdown over love and pride.
In a late night blaze at the Hussars stables Captain Macdermott rescues his charger and collapses from smoke. Alleyn, severely affected, sees Mary Morrison reveal Alice Morrison loves him, not Alleyn, ending a rivalry and revealing a marriage last January with Macdermott commanding the guard of honor.
The social season resumes after Lent with Easter gowns and bonnets. City streets show flower garden colors as women wear vivid purples greens and yellows. Attention shifts from color to form with flounced skirts, large sleeves, and divided bodices.
A Fifth Avenue belle models a pale green batiste gown with a sheer linen body and a layered white trim. Velvet straps and bodice rosettes, edged lace ruche sleeves, and jabots create a woodland fairy look suited for summer strolls under trees.
A Boston laborer criticizes high tenement rents in the city. He notes wages of 10 to 12 dollars a week and four idle months. He compares Boston unfavorably with other cities where rents are lower and housing built to workers’ means, urging reform via the Post’s platform.
In Portland a flower pot crashes from a third story window as a Boston drummer is nearby. The store proprietor and office boy react during a game of checkers, while the bookkeeper jokes about the accidental drama.
A reader asks if it is an injustice that a woman owning property cannot make a will without her husband’s assent. She cites a local case where a wife devised two thirds to her husband and one third to children, but the husband demanded a piece of property from the children’s share and thus coerced assent.
A reader asks how to identify qualified dentists in Boston amid about three hundred practitioners. He wonders if dentists must pass an examination and obtain a diploma to legally practice dentistry. Fr. M. Everett signs the letter.
The passage notes that dental colleges exist nationwide and graduates may display certificates anytime if questioned. It advises checking the wall for a diploma as proof of training.
A correspondent named Knowledge from Fall River seeks guidance on starting an electrical career at 18. The reply urges taking an expert course at an electrical factory if a position is secured, or otherwise self study and practice at home while aiming to become a future Edison.
A reader asks whether a man given two offenses with six month sentences running concurrently must serve six months or twelve. The issue concerns concurrent versus consecutive sentences and how time is counted when multiple offenses are sentenced at once.
The Secretary of State replies that Patriots' Day will be observed on Sunday April 19 and Monday April 20 under law. East Boston readers are informed that April 2 is not cited as a holiday and Monday April 20 will be observed as Patriots' Day under the statute.
A reader asks if barrooms will close on April 20 in observance of Patriots' Day. The note requests confirmation of local closure plans tied to the holiday date.
Boston Easter engagements dominate with engagements announced for Miss Sally Morse Miss Mabel Burrage and Mr Parker Bremer Miss Alice Hastings and Mr George Crompton plus Mr Randolph Crompton and Miss Miriam Sears The stage scene features Bernhardt at length and the Boston Horse Show opens with fashionably prominent attendees enjoying improved facilities and a Bohemian Turkish smoking room for men only.
Bradstreet's reports mixed activity with rising prices for flour and pork, iron products and steel, and brighter construction materials, while demand for wool and leather weakens. Exports show declines year over year for wheat and corn, and interior merchants struggle with remittances. Canada sees quiet wholesale trade amid poor roads and ongoing failures.
Carolina. Shay, 67 Hancock wrest, city. Dinner and supper menus list oranges, hominy, broisted sirloin steak, baked potatoes, biscuits, coffee, mock bisque soup, roast lamb, mashed potatoes, stewed tomatoes, squash, bread and butter, custard pie, banana pudding, milk, plain cake, black currant jam, and tea.
R G Dun's Weekly Review of Trade reports no broad rise in business since April 1, with demand below expectations. Domestic activity remains about 20 percent below 1893, while foreign exports fall nearly 10 percent and imports rise about 20 percent. Prices shift across commodities with leather and wool softening, pig iron and steel supported by pooling, and widespread mill reductions amid varied factory failures.
The Board of Police fined Patrolman William A. Orpen of Division 4 fifteen days pay for neglect of duty. One complaint was dismissed.
Victoria Phelan and Richard Farmer Wood wed in First Parish Church Concord in a large ceremony attended by notable guests and relatives. The couple plans an extended honeymoon visiting Washington Virginia Brooklyn and Europe before a three year European tour for Miss Brooks and her mother.
Sunday church notices list Tremont Temple Baptist Old South Church and others with morning and evening sermons by Rev. George Lorimer G A Gordon E D Bradlee D D and more. Various churches announce Sunday school times and special sermons plus parish events and spiritualist meetings across Boston.
Plain Citizen SOLVES abolition of compulsory poverty as part of the approaching presidential campaign. Sixteenth Amendment will command a price of 50 cents. Also new novels by Robert Appleton Tom's Wife and A Married Bachelor available for 50 cents each. BORT RENO by Mrs D B Dyer illustrated. Cheyenne and Arrahoe Army illustrated price 1 dollar.
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