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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1901
Page
6
An advertisement promotes new men’s furnishings including neckwear in up to date patterns at reasonable prices. It also highlights a complete baseball clothing assortment with uniforms ready for the Boston National team and local teams, offering measured fitting guarantees and samples.
Legislative committee favors Representative Russell’s plan creating a three member Boston Board of Excise plus a police superintendent chosen by excise commissioners. The measure aims to restore local self government, place liquor license control with municipal authority, and secure accountability by appointing the police head locally with governor approval.
The piece notes seven Senate votes supporting the correction of a rule on guests at hotels and theater suppers. It argues the error is preferable to the prior judgment, but warns practical effects on late arrivals and trade in Boston. It contends morality stems from administration, not the statute, and conditions will persist.
The mayor denounces bonded land deals for speculative needs and vows to veto a school committee order to take a Ward 20 lot. The 28 880 foot parcel, assessed at 8100, was offered last year at 20 cents per foot and bonded for 2 1/2 cents, with a sale price around 11 552, about 3500 above assessed value. The mayor warns against such deals and predicts the street commissioners may push the same scheme if he approves.
A sweeping report notes bubonic plague spreading from Asia to Russia India and beyond. Thousands die in Bombay and Canton as the disease reaches Argentina and distant regions, illustrating how modern communication accelerates its worldwide reach.
The disease accelerates and extends its reach worldwide this year, spreading to regions previously untouched and now found in new areas as it continues to spread across the globe.
An appeal from Havana says Cuba will send a delegation to President McKinley to plead for the observance of the pledge that Cuba be free and independent. Officials in Washington reportedly say the Platt amendment will govern until conditions are met, a response the Cubans call a slap in the face and a provocation to trouble.
A bustling column blends weather jests and local gossip with names like Captain Henderson and J. J. Smith. It recalls poetry disputes, theater coat racks, and civic debates led by the YMCA and YMCU while touching on political gifts and Civil Service reforms.
A Boston street crowd quickly moneyed a crying woman who had lost her pocketbook containing her funds. Young men and two railroad workers observed her distress and offered coins as the crowd dispersed, with the woman accepting the generosity without begging.
An urban romance unfolds as Dr. Howard Carston pursues a mysterious woman with blue eyes he saves from slipping on a wet street. He discovers Miss Violet Wharton, whose rescue leads to hospital drama and a dramatic confession of gratitude and attraction.
A dated kitchen menu lists Breakfast items including sliced oranges coffee and broiled steak with sides of French fried potatoes and creamed macaroni. Dinner features roast lamb tomato soup baked potatoes canned peas raised fruit pudding and sweet sauce with black coffee. Supper offers cold sliced lamb brown bread toast orange jelly sponge cake and tea. A long biscuit style bread dough recipe follows with measurements and steps for rising boiling and shaping.
A compiled string of brief humorous exchanges and quips from multiple newspapers. Topics range from travel impressions of Gibraltar to jokes about sermons in Pekin, reform, cannibal kings, and social foibles. The tone is light, with dated wit and social observations.
In Cuba there are 160,000 children in free public schools. Mortality in 33 English cities for the week ending Feb 2 fell to 16.4 per thousand. Amorphous phosphorus makes match snaking safer. French doctors claim an anti alcohol serum cures a portion of treated drunkards. Mt. Vernon visits offer electric car or steamboat routes. Missouri Senate makes kidnapping a capital offense and chick stealing a felony bill is introduced. Austrian bank notes designed by Alexander Hegedues feature nine languages. Paris’ new Orleans station receives electric-powered trains in tunnels, hailed as a model depot of the twentieth century.
A letter to the Post asks what happened to 90,000 Evacuation Day medals funded for school children. It notes only South Boston and some Dorchester schools have them, questioning if the remainder were lost. J White House Winthrop School April 11.
The description touts a table as the finest and most classic Colonial design seen in the last year. It highlights a sweeping base, seven Doric columns, a cross-banded box-frame, and Greek-inspired austerity, crafted in old-growth Honduran mahogany noted for its tough, richly veined wood.
A playful exchange shows a traveler relieved by a soon departure. In Philadelphia Record humor, a college professor jokes about passing calculus only by night as a new student from Kansas explains his origin.
Odd lot of broken sizes priced from 6.75 to 13.25, 185 pieces total. Also offerings of children's wool dresses, guimpe dresses in cashmeres, and one piece serge dresses for girls aged up to 14 years with trims and braids, prices 2.50 to 15.00.
Prices range from eight dollars twenty five cents to twenty two dollars with Eton buttoned jackets in various shades. Styles for young ladies include blouse and buttoned jackets in a wide range of materials and trims for ages twelve to eighteen.
Advert reads a wide range of Old Brick School Shoes for boys and girls of all ages with season improvements. It highlights the new Old Brick Foot Trainer as a wonder and new this season, promising the lowest prices for quality goods.
Bal morals offers leader line of ads for popular priced shoes including oxfords and leather styles. Buttons and ties highlighted with the promise of new pairs if not satisfactory.
Clothier advertises boys sailor suits aged 3 to 10 in red brown and navy. Regularly five dollars, advertised as a value deal while the lot lasts at a reduced price.
Readable merchant notice announces closeout of children’s wear in sizes 3.5 to 16 years. Suits come in red blue brown cadet and royal blue with sailor and military collars, silk braid trim, worsted serge fabric. regular prices $5 to $7. Top Coats in sizes 8 to 16 years, Hartford covert cloth, good fit and style, special prices around $5 to $7.50.
The store presents suits and topcoats for 15 to 19 year olds with latest cut style and finish. A special department for boys clothing on the second floor highlights novelties and house offerings.
A new Borlay solution for automatic plate development stops at the right point and begins fixing. The makers will send a demonstrator to show its use. Bring a native or two to a session Saturday to Wednesday from 10 to 12 and 2 to 3.
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