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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1895
Page
4
The excerpt notes how Cleveland shifted from official prefixes to plain Grover Cleveland after becoming President. It tracks his prior honors as Mayor of Buffalo and Governor of New York and emphasizes the current plain address reflecting his presidency.
The latest census figures show Massachusetts population at 2,495,345, up 28.48 percent in ten years, with gains concentrated in cities and manufacturing areas. Rural towns mostly lost population, while eastern counties and the growing Middlesex Suffolk Essex and Bristol counties lead the surge. Boston's metro area maintains its role within the state.
The Post's proposal to make Tuesday week a general Boston holiday meets broad support from business leaders and the public. The pause would not harm city commerce and would benefit workers with a chance for relief, relaxation, and enjoyment of the Knights Templars conclave spectacle.
The Southern States Exposition managers in Atlanta push bull fighting as a show feature but face opposition. Critics argue humane restrictions ruin the authentic spectacle and recommend canceling bull fights altogether as unsuitable to American taste.
The Post endorses Senator Hoar’s decision to stop writing letters on the A P A issue and urges citizens to avoid stirring a war of creeds and races. It deems the dispute a Republican family matter and calls for peace and focus on more profitable concerns.
In Massachusetts a convention in Springfield invites Grover Cleveland as guest of honor, provoking debate over the use of Excellency for a non chief magistrate and recalling a colonial era precedent. The episode highlights evolving customs in state governance and ceremonial language.
The piece condemns General Campos’ alleged offer to reward the killing of General Gomez as barbaric. It argues the Cuban uprising is a civil war and rebels deserve belligerent status and international recognition. It stresses Spain’s miscast view of rebels as bandits and calls for proper standing before the world.
The letter notesColonel M. E. Ingalls of the Big Four Railroad as a likely Republican Senate candidate from Ohio against Calvin S. Brice. It recalls Ingalls as a Boston native, former City Hall leader, and longtime railroad executive. Also discussed are O. D. Ashley of Wabash and J. H. Chandler of Michigan Chicago, with stock-market recollections and financial connections.
A fragment mentions Procter & Gamble Co. Cin'Te in relation to a financial floatation note. The text is incomplete, but indicates corporate finance activity involving the Cincinnati area and the P&G company.
A refined, charming man attracts admiration in social circles yet bears a concealed persona. The narrator discovers a plaster hand cast on his mantel, revealing a linked symbol and hinting at a life shaped by meticulous vanity and hidden secrets.
Aug 16 in Bennington Vermont marked the first time Bennington Battle Day was observed as a State holiday. The Daughters of the American Revolution held a dinner and post prayers, while the Father Mathew T A Society's union picnic gathered five hundred for dinner. Balloon ascension closed the day's exercises.
A letter from a short woman urges abolition of tall neck collars for women. She argues low collars suit shorter figures and criticizes current neck bondage seen on summer outfits. The piece features a striped silk gown, elbow sleeves, and mentions a public vote on neckwear choices.
Miss Abigail Spates daughter of East Springfield farmer is hypnotized at the Earlington Hotel ball in Richfield Springs. She is guided by a man linked to a fishing excursion and an arrest is planned. The-incident caused shock amid a lavish entertainment with notable guests and attendees.
Alport Andrews has made a complete confession claiming he fired the fatal shot that killed State Senator Pete Morrissey on May 13 at Maud Lewis's home. He asks Judge Bashaw to free his wife, insisting he acted alone after Morrissey attacked him and that Maud Lewis is innocent. The case centers on Morrissey a leading state politician involved in local affairs. Maud Lewis had been charged with murder but a prior inquest ruled Morrissey died from Andrews’s gunfire.
Andrews, indicted by a grand jury for murder in the first degree, claims a surprising New York ancestry including Peter Jacob Van Taessel and the Belle of Manhattan Island. He came to the city a decade ago and set up a photography gallery, married Maud Lewis eight years ago, though she was under Senator Morrissey’s protection for three years before the crime.
In New York Aug 16 a sensation erupted near Broadway Thirtieth Street at midnight as a pretty, well dressed girl named Sadie M'Donald was seen running down the center of the street drawing curiosity from pedestrians and passersby. The report notes public interest in the startling scene and the abrupt escape through a busy urban area.
A woman chased a cable car to Twenty eighth Street and boarded it. A smooth faced man fled toward Broadway but the couple eluded officers. The man was W A Brady, Jim Corbett's manager, and the woman Miss Sadie McDonald, an actress.
George D. McKay retains counsel in a suit against his wife Bertha Bur chard McKay for absolute divorce on statutory grounds. They wed secretly in April and separated two weeks later after a dispute over another man. Her affluent Burchard family opposed the match and social circles were startled by the marriage.
New York August 16 Augustus Campbell actor and wife Claire live at 2% East sixty-ninth street Mrs Campbell returned from the country unannounced to find a girl asleep on a lounge in her room The girl Ethel Dent of Salem Mass claimed she met Campbell in Nebraska and sought shelter Mrs Campbell had the intruder arrested and the case proceeded at Yorkville Police Court
A judge argued the case of Miss Dent being discharged after she accompanied the occupant to a house. The remarks imply a dispute over lawful interference and the authority of the courts. Miss Dent then began her journey to Salem.
In Worcester on August 16, Senator Hoar was asked whether to answer Mr. Evans's letter printed today. He said he should not reply, stating the letter answered itself and was a plea of guilty.
Chelsea resident D M Hudson explains his A P A resignation, criticizing Dr Dunn and the order's focus on religious controversy. He condemns Orangemen influence, urges native American leadership, and opposes an alliance with a Canadian group, urging a non sectarian, American centered policy. He also condemns the Little Red Schoolhouse venture as a money making scheme.
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