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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1899
Page
12
The notice details daily and Sunday edition prices for one year six months and three months. It instructs subscribers to provide current and future addresses to ensure proper delivery and address changes.
Notice explains mail order payments for classified ads with warnings to avoid sending cash and to make checks drafts and money orders payable to the Post Publishing Company.
Editorial rooms in Boston at the business office on 259 Washington Street are noted with address lines Boston Office No 428 and editorial space identifiers.
The Boston Post can be secured at leading New York hotels with subscriptions paid in advance. Subscriptions will be discontinued without notice on expiration. Readers unable to obtain the Post should notify the publisher by mail.
The piece argues mutual willingness could yield a reciprocal fisheries pact with Newfoundland, aiming to repair failed joint high commission efforts. It notes Newfoundland as a bait source for Atlantic fisheries and a potential catalyst toward a broader commercial treaty between the United States and British provinces.
Editorial argues against approving the Malden bridge bill now before the Governor. It warns the $200,000 cost to Boston for a Mystic River crossing is excessive and premature. Boston plans to widen the current bridge to fifty feet and install a new draw with a $59,000 already set aside. When Mystic River towns grow further, a larger bridge can be built later without straining city finances.
The passage notes that appropriations from the tax levy and loans for the current year are already made as required by law. It argues the governor must exercise a veto to correct the financial situation, a point raised during the bill’s consideration by the Legislature but not heeded.
The British budget shows higher taxation to fund imperial expansion and armament. The Chancellor argues revenue needs and confrontations with nations pursuing expansion in Africa and China, while critics blame aggressive policy and warn Americans about similar costs.
United States Great Britain and Germany dispatch commissioners to ground to settle Samoa dispute after recent ambush and German consul troubles. War unlikely as capitals favor direct talks Washington London Berlin to avert wider conflict.
The debate shows no protest from individuals or associations against supervision of telephone companies. Colonel Whipple argued only paid agents defended the corporation while the public and business groups demand reasonable rates and access. The clash is between a wealthy monopoly and Massachusetts residents who rely on telephone service.
A bricklayers crew on the Adams House annex enjoys a daily free concert from Perkins's band during a New Orleans summer rehearsal. Reports mention Moody and Sankey of Canada at Dudley Street Baptist Church, brighter street lighting and a proposed watered streets plan funded by abutment assessments.
A romantic verse excerpt from Atlanta Constitution notes simple desires over wealth seeking a warm hearth and lasting love. The speaker asks for affection and companionship rather than gold, hoping to share a life until death. The text emphasizes enduring love over vanity and fortune.
Captain Winter shares a tale from twenty years past set in W with a baptism gone awry at the wharf. A slim young woman, a stout lady, and a collapsing railing spark a chaotic scene as onlookers tumble into the water and items float away. Deacon Wilson notes the time as the crowd scrambles to land.
Ashland New Hampshire April 14. Hon Thomas P Cheney pension agent and former NH executive council member issues an open letter condemning Governor Rollins fast day order as unconstitutional interference with religious liberty. He argues church and state were once divorced and rural communities wrongly accept prayer mandates. He cites NH church statistics to defend religion.
The United States ambassador Mr Bellamy Storer is sick with influenza in Brussels and plans to stay until a successor arrives. He will then move to his new post in Madrid and be welcomed as persona grata by Spain for his efforts to avert war with the United States. Andrew Carnegie donates 1500 dollars to the Virginia Mechanics Institute library fund and offers 10,000 dollars to complete a 100,000 dollar endowment for a building for the institute and its School of Technology. the board thanks him and names him a life member. The Pope is preparing a list of new car
The report notes dinals and other figures expected to attend the May 1 consistory, with Archbishop Cortigan of New York and ex-Postmaster General Thomas James among guests. Trail of health updates includes Rudyard Kipling’s improving pneumonia, Sherman’s steady recovery, and Kipling family arrangements in Lakewood New Jersey. Ambassador Choate praises Salem honors while President McKinley hosts guests at a late-night gathering.
A collage of humor snippets from various papers includes a Chicago Evening Post remark on matrimonial luck, a Bowery definition by the Judge, a Washington Star airship joke, a Judge baby powder quip, a Sunday school exhortation turned back by a child, a Cleveland Plain Dealer jab about Spaniards, a Puck bull in a printing office scene, and a Scottish minister’s Sabbath speech.
Mrs. Edward Macie, at Barnard Poor Farm, is jailed awaiting grand jury action on a charge of killing her infant. Despondent after desertion, she allegedly gave laudanum to her infant and her daughter, and took a dose herself. The younger child died while the older was saved.
A daily charade puzzle from Columbian Charades describes a boat on Yarmouth sands and Gloucester wharves with clues for Em ly and a royal sage. It hints at a whole word tied to cords and storage on a dock. The answer to today’s charade remains tomorrow’s tease.
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