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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1900
Page
4
A fragment from the Boston Post notes a daily total and a date marker. Readable details are limited and no further context or names are available to expand the summary.
Despatches cite 1000 insurgents killed in a week with 378 natives dead and 256 captured while 9 Americans killed and 16 wounded. Censor reports of no war contradict ongoing fighting and calls for harsher actions against natives amid limited hospital care and austere surgery.
The article argues for amendments to block carpet bagger control of Porto Rico franchises. It praises Moody of Massachusetts for support, notes the Senate origin, and urges Congress to approve provisions against charters, stock watering, and forced grants. It warns of campaign use of grants and praises a strong preventive measure.
The War Department may withdraw objections after further inquiry by the Board of Army Engineers New York to this Cove Street crossing. Boston officials insist the bridge is essential for city development and trade, despite Terminal Company opposition.
The National Association of Manufacturers holds a major Boston convention starting tomorrow at Tremont Temple with 7000 firms and $30 million capital represented. The event runs to Thursday with ex-Governor Walcott presiding at Mechanics Hall's closing banquet.
A London report from the Turkish embassy questions the Sultan supplying material for American party politics. The delay in indemnity payment is criticized as a tactic aligned with President McKinley’s looming reelection bid.
The piece argues distraction from Philippines slaughter and Porto Rico rule, urging a strong US response to Turkey. It notes the duty of the President to secure payment, stressing steady pressure over dramatic action like a Bosphorus squadron or Smyrna seizure.
The Observant Citizen notes weather sensitive wheelmen stayed close to home as rain delayed many weekend rides. Juliet Wells will host a complimentary concert for soprano Marion Jacobs at 62 Beacon Street next Friday evening. The Centaur Club plans a dancing party at Bloomfield Hall Dorchester with performers Littlefield Leonard Higgins.
The piece recalls New England’s arrival in Boston with curious pierside scenes of a steerage passenger seeking her brother, while travelers recount visits from Jerusalem convents and Colonel Charles Fuller skating in London. It also notes talks by William J. Schroder on Trial by Jury, a postponed play by Paul Hoffman, and the rising health of Superintendent Eldridge prompting police department stability. Alderman McGoldrick of St John arrives to study Boston fire department innovations.
The Theodore Metcalf Company lists its offices at 39 Tremont Street, with locations at Copley Square and Brooklise.
D A Tompkins, a Mississippi cattle mill owner, plans to donate 40000 for a Jackson textile school. Edgar Williams Abbott becomes Otler College’s romance languages professor, succeeding Hugh T. Miller. Senator Platt favors classic attire in warm weather. Hull drives late-night letter writing. Lew Wallace received a Persian edition of Ben Hur. J C Gillmore, USN, may sell a captive account to a magazine and goes to sea as executive officer of the Prairie. The Kaiser increases aid to the Kaiser Wilhelm Church in Ems by 15000 marks, totaling 60000 marks from the imperial treasury.
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson declines disturbance to his Samoa grave while reflecting on his tomb. Miss Anna H. Mann bequeaths about 200000 dollars for Roger Williams Park maintenance. Miss Kitty Wilkins of Idaho, famed horse breeder, to marry. Mrs. John V. L. Pruyn of Albany owns Paul Revere silver works. Frau Lilli Lehmann recently impressed at a Paris Colonne concert with arias from Gluck and Schubert and Wagner.
A dirt-streaked newsboy helps Miss Rea after she drops papers, receives a white carnation, and forms a bond with her. When tragedy strikes, the boy keeps the flower for the dying woman, and a young man returns the gesture by placing the blossom in her hand.
A collection of humorous exchanges and banter from Chicago and Philadelphia papers features playful lines about family quarrels over puppies, a wife revising faith, globe trotting travelers, a teacher testing spelling and meat storage, and light taunts about a poodle and professions.
Summary of miscellaneous items notes half a million British women over 18 employed in factories and workshops with union affiliation. Russia extends liquor monopoly to 35 districts with 321 million rubles profit. Bubonic plague link to microbes. 250 million microbes per square inch. US army smokeless powder changes due to safety concerns. Scotland Yard tests police electric lamp for service durability.
From editors remarks several outlets discuss France's future hinging on exposition success and public understanding of a cabinet defense plan. They also weigh Senate selection reform and acknowledge courts can err, while noting no easy remedies to fix injustices.
Listed daily meals including breakfast lunch and supper with items like baked sweet apples and cream wheat germ lamb chops lyonnaise potatoes and Quaker muffins. Two recipes are provided for Quaker muffins and Yorkshire pudding with a closing address for Edith M Jones of Medford.
Farlow protests a Detroit despatch claiming a sick horse treated by Christian Scientists died. He argues the piece misleads readers, urges accuracy, and defends Christian Scientists as trusting in God while aiding animals, noting post mortems and ethics without endorsing cruelty.
The funeral of Frederic B Whitney former business manager of the Transcript was held at Union Congregational Church Boston with Rev William R Campbell presiding He was praised for his steady life and broad influence on the paper services included the Weber Male Quartet and many floral tributes from publishers societies and staff Attendees included prominent editors and publishers and interment followed at Mt Hope Cemetery A naval academy cadet examination notice continues in Dorchester High School with two days of tests and a selection by Congressman Na phen
The Liberal Congress of Religion gathers in Chicago Indianapolis Nashville and Omaha and will convene in Boston this week at the First Church Marlboro and Berkeley. Sessions cover philosophical scientific historical comparative social institutional fraternal and business topics with clergymen and lay participants led by Dr Heber Newton and other noted figures.
London April 22 The famous philanthropist Baroness Burdett Coutts marks her eighty six birthday with no obvious reason she cannot live ten more years as did her sister who died recently. Her companion since she was 67 and he was 29 has aged markedly. he is settled on $200000 a year.
On the Kaiser Wilhelm II arriving in New York from Alexandria Dr Maryerson Eddy of Syria returns after six years. She holds the only diplomat ever granted to a woman to practice medicine in the Turkish empire. She can only stay in the United States three months.
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