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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1896
Page
4
Six sound money Democrats gathered at the Horticul tural Hall convention praising brains experience and energy. They warned the Democratic party cannot risk losing such strength to the lure of free coinage of silver at 16 to 1.
The Dominion government ends excessive US currency discount by Intercolonial railway officials. US money is worth Canadian money minus exchange costs. The new Canadian premier shows level headedness and openness to US relations, including Welland Canal, reciprocal trade, and Manitoba school question prospects.
Senator Chandler and Mr. Hanna argue McKinley won the Republican nomination not just for protectionism but for representing the tariff ideal that monopoly will pay for. They describe convention tactics and money from favored interests backing the anti Reed push. The public understands the tariff issue in this campaign.
The text discusses the law of supply and demand in relation to free coinage of silver. It argues that a legal demand could raise silver bullion prices, but questions who would demand silver beyond bullion value, noting that coinage creates money only when people want more money and will use it. It explains that demand depends on turning ore into coinable silver and actual use as cash.
The author argues that producing silver bars for currency lacks real demand. Silver bars go to silversmiths for goods, yet dollars show little circulation. With 500 million coined and only about 43 million circulating last June, demand remains insufficient for currency status under free coinage.
The Observant Citizen recalls Eugene Tompkins opening the Boston Theatre and a Nova Scotia voyage via Louisburg Sydney Bras d Or lakes and Can so Straits. Halifax fogbound five days, 65 degrees heat in shade, and a near collision with J. W. Wellington. Includes social notes on Fleet Captain Fleming, ex Representative Towle, a local egg mix up, and European tours by Henry Hurlbert and Charles De Courcey.
John Watson, a 40 year old former employee of Mears and Myers, leaves the shop after the firm’s closure and the birth of a new company carrying on the same trade. Watson had four children and a stable, though modest, marriage, believing “there is always work for the willing worker” despite widespread unemployment.
John Watson, facing poverty after death of his wife and three children, seeks aid from a Boston philanthropist Mrs Stuyvesant but is rejected after an intrusive interview. He ridicules the charity system and contemplates despair as Pat Feely offers consolation, while a tranquil Cambridge bridge scene hints at his inner longing for rest.
In a sudden act the speaker mourns Mary Watson as a life ends and a widow is created. The writer questions moral guilt and implies others may bear responsibility for ignoring a call to aid, asking, Am I my brother's keeper.
The Post announces weekly prizes for Original Short Stories with ten dollars for first, five for second, and two dollars for each of four others. Winners named Sundays, paid by mail Mondays. Only female writers receive prizes. submissions must include name and address.
Fall fashion notes predict velvet as the season’s top fabric, especially black velvet. Gowns will be severely cut with narrow skirts that flare slightly and sweep the ground, with little adornment expected.
The article catalogs upcoming shows and arrivals: Isadore Rush leads The Wrong Mr Wright at the Museum, Grace Atwell heads to New York for a new season, Denman Thompson tours Tremont and Boston theatres with Uncle Josh Whitcomb and The Old Homestead, and Gordon Wilson in Shore Acres. It notes rehearsals for The Lady Slavey at Hollis, Sun shine of Paradise Alley at Tremont, and a roster of visiting stars and acts at Keiths Grand Opera House Howard Atheneum and Austin Stone’s Museum. It highlights a lively slate of productions, from El Dorado to Mile. Oceana, and lists notable performers and observers touring Boston venues.
Menu notes meals for a day with items in three courses and a house recipe section. It lists breakfast items such as iced cantaloupe oatmeal and cream broiled mackerel and supper treats like cold tongue peaches and cream and Carrie's cookies. The note includes rye pancake recipe and Carrie's cookies instructions and is signed by Mrs. Sarah E. Poore of Everett Massachusetts.
The passage reviews diverse items: Annie L Webb as Idaho’s sole woman in life insurance. explorer Coudreau and wife departing Para Brazil for five months of exploration in the upper Xingu. ex president Casimir-Perier likely to seek French Parliament seat. It also mentions Sewall’s prized Maine garden, Seaborn Wright’s inheritance wealth and marriage, Martha Van Rensselaer’s renomination as Cattaraugus county school commissioner, Rev Henry Victor Morgan building a church in Alameda with parish help, and a Sixth Company E member.
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