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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1892
Page
4
The piece argues the overhead trolley and electric light wires are a dangerous nuisance and should be buried. It cites Boston already having buried lines and urges immediate action to protect public safety over corporate convenience, warning of potential disaster if delayed.
A Boston warning on overhead electric wires costing thousands in damages and delaying fire crews. The essay laments wires as incendiary obstructions endangering women and children, noting past fires and a disabled alarm system. It fears a future, worse blaze unless wiring hazards are addressed.
The Boston Board of Police is urged to study Buffalo’s pool room raid method. The Buffalo police allegedly secured evidence then conducted a swift capture, with court scenes resembling expected outcomes. The piece argues Boston could replicate the approach if pool rooms reopen, noting there is ample opportunity in the city.
Washington report cites a devoted friend of Mr Blaine claiming the Secretary of State would not refuse a Republican nomination if offered by the convention. The piece notes Indiana might have backed Blaine, but now Harrison dominates the scene and Blaine has withdrawn his candidacy.
An editorial in the Boston Daily Advertiser discusses Mr Williams's Massachusetts Reform Club plan to link repeal of the 1890 silver coinage act with a flexible currency to aid rural West and South farmers. It notes the call for a tax removal on certain circulating media, redeemable in honest coin, and compares the rhetoric to Congressman Jerry Simpson's recent statements.
A defiant editorial argues for a flexible currency that expands with business and contracts with activity, praising its role in preventing tight money and inflation waves. The piece denounces partisan works like the Advertiser for ignorance and poetic retribution while defending sound banking and redeemable currency principles.
A critic denounces the Boston Journal for opposing New England manufacturers on tariffs while condemning a cotton-tie bill as a deadly blow to Northern industry. The piece argues the Journal supports rival interests in other regions and mislabels tariff changes as harm to New England, citing Governor Ames on the true impact.
W E L Dilloway will spend summer at Newport in S W Pomeroy cottage. Shaksperian club met with Mrs David H Coolidge at 114 Commonwealth Ave. Mayor Matthews left town for several days on Rapid Transit Commission matters. Fred Prince has a coach made at Brewster s, copy of the old Independence. Hitchcock and Eustis will alternately drive the Independence. Miss Robins of Mt Vernon St dined in Washington with prominent locals last week. Notable guests at a Lang reception included Mrs Judge Lowell and daughter among others. Edith Way to marry Mr Ernest Bernard Chenoweth on April 18 at her home. Chenoweth is a Boston Latin School and Harvard ’88 graduate, eldest son of the late Colonel Bernard Peel Chenoweth.
The American Protective Tariff League has begun its 1892 campaign with colored postal cards showing the American flag bearing Safety in Protection while the British flag bears Ruin in Free Trade. Critics say the tactic mirrors a prior Home Market Club ploy exposed as false and warns against reusing it here.
The New York Sun endorses Massachusetts delegates as loyal Democrats who will represent home views in Chicago. It contrasts them with New York's mid-winter picks, stressing that true delegates must be chosen freely without machine influence. General Collins reiterates he is a Democrat, not aligned with Hill or Cleveland factions.
The Easter Woman promises the Boston Post will publish a twelve-page Easter Edition tomorrow. It will feature fashion cuts and timely news, marking the largest penny paper ever issued in Boston, priced at one cent.
H C Moulton resigns the editorship of the Dover Evening Star. Bishop Clark of Rhode Island visits Newport as guest of Rev. Mr. Porter. W K Vanderbilt plans to occupy part of his marble palace in Newport this season. Senator Gallinger and George H Burnham contribute to Pelham Public Library. Charles A Stott of Lowell, recently confined by rheumatism, travels to Lakewood New Jersey seeking relief.
General E. Burd Grubb and his young wife will return to this country presently. Secretary Elkins is said to have more callers than any previous war secretary since the days of Stanton. Senator Voorhees of Indiana will deliver the oration at the opening of the new steel bridge over the Mississippi at Memphis on May 12. The Rev. Robert A. Tufft has been confirmed in the Protestant Episcopal church. Senator Butler of South Carolina is turning his plantation into a truck farm. Mrs. Jackson, the Confederate soldier's widow, is educating her two motherless grandchildren, Julia and Jackson Christian.
A reader praises a streetcar operator but urges safer design and staffing. He describes a conductor’s vigilant duties and argues two crew members on the front platform, plus a rear safety screen, would reduce crashes and fatalities on electric cars. He calls for preventive measures over costly fixes and signs with SovRa c at 52 Kilby Street.
The public grounds superintendent William Doogue submits an annual report to the Mayor detailing aging, decaying trees on the Common with 75 percent in decline, some at risk of falling. He notes recent replacements, supports concrete paving, drainage changes for Frog Pond, and praises aldermen for flower and plant distribution.
The Easter issue features daffodil themed cover designs and spring fashion illustrations. Stories include Miss Livingstone by Marion Harland and Beyond the Horizon by Harriet Prescott Spofford, plus a Walt Whitman portrait and memorial sketch. Table Talk for April offers gastronomy notes and summer boarding article.
Lady Henry Somerset departs Boston today and sails tomorrow from New York on the Teutonic. She will meet her 18 year old son Henry Somers Somerset and tutor Arthur Pollen in New York after a three month Los Angeles hunt. She inherits the Beaufort dukedom and plans an English edition of the Union Signal titled The World's White Ribbon.
Bishop Coxe recounted a Baltimore tale at the YMCA, where a Quaker-clad churchgoer objects to preacher pay while noting the rector earns far more. The warden confirms the pastor receives $20,000 yearly for preaching, while the other clergyman earns $25,000, prompting the old Quaker to say she will attend with greater pleasure.
A witty exchange from New York Weekly about a wife desiring a pretty item and a husband urging thrift. He urges that anything that adds happiness and lightens duties is welcome if it costs no more than $250, framing frugality with affection.
Washington reports Democratic leaders fret over William Hill’s possible nomination at the convention. Tammany figures consider other candidates as electors debate shifts toward a legislative method. Blaine’s potential nomination stirs elite support and resistance within both parties, with factions fearing or embracing his candidacy.
A collage of brief, clipped observations touches on fashion delays, Kansas politics, and urban transit. A Ram’s Horn citation praises big apples on top, while China’s reciprocity stance is linked to mimicry. A Charlestown youth who killed his father in drunken rage looms as a social burden, and Lexington debates an inebriate asylum amid varied opinions.
The President signed a proclamation to open the unallotted Sisseton and Wapeto Lake Traverse lands in North and South Dakota at noon on the 15th. Until opening, only Sisseton and Wapeto Indians may occupy the area. lands will be attached to Fargo and Watertown districts.
Pardridge's nerve kept trading volatile on April 11 with May futures dropping near five cents to 80 percent. He finished the day about half a million dollars ahead after amid heavy sales. He denies losing that amount on early buys and says he plans to scalp the crowd again tomorrow.
Betsey Thayer widow aged 73 and Robert Dickey aged 69 were married at Betsey’s High Street home yesterday afternoon by Rev. J. C. Labaree. The ceremony marks a quiet union for two senior spouses in Ranpoupuh.
The Channing Club held a Ladies Night event at the Vendome with reception and an all-women evening focused on charity for poor children. Edwin J. Lewis Jr was elected president, with officers and an executive committee named for the coming year.
The New York Presbytery met at Scoth Presbyterian Church to nominate delegates for the General Assembly at Portland May 19. Factional lines divided Briggs and anti-Briggs, with the anti-Briggs ticket winning six of seven clerical delegates. no reference was made to Dr. Briggs or Dr. Parkhurst.
Dr Stanton Coits lecture reviews a decade of growth in working men and women clubs and college settlements in the United States and England. It notes his neighborhood guild work in New York and London and states his address at the Institute of Technology next Thursday afternoon will interest philanthropists.
The Manchester Union notes a single fault about John E. Russell he is away from home too often when the office seeks him. The remark reads as lighthearted critique of his absence rather than a critical accusation.
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