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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1893
Page
4
The Boston Post lists subscription rates for daily and weekly editions and notes delivery details. It includes address for payment, advance requirement, and notices on changing addresses. Editorial and publisher contact information is provided for the Boston Post Publishing Company in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Journal laments Southern influence on the Ways and Means committee while noting past losses for New England manufacturers in 1890. It argues that a new committee with stronger New England representation and broader congressional support should not repeat prior harms to New England industry.
The piece notes Mr. Quincy will move to Boston to run the Democratic campaign for Mr. Russell and resign as Assistant Secretary of State. It asserts Mayor Matthews must mobilize Boston's Democratic majority to back Russell, acknowledging Boston voters are independent. It predicts Matthews will deliver the vote, and the Boston Democracy will respond, meaning victory.
The article lauds President Cleveland for calling an extra Congress session, arguing the repeal of the silver act succeeded due to public opinion maturing. It credits his timing as crucial, noting an early summer adjournment would have reduced the majority and endangered progress. The piece praises prudent judgment and a conclusive congressional result.
A New York actor caricature targeting Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes is condemned as offensive and indecent. The piece argues private citizens deserve protection from public lampooning and urges public condemnation to shield Holmes and those who admire him.
A large 240 to 109 vote signals firm public support for monetary reform and a decisive rejection of the silver inflationists. The outcome reassures markets, ends the period of doubt, and promises prudent legislation from the new Congress.
The passage notes a bipartisan move to repeal the silver inflation policy, with Republicans and Democrats uniting to fulfill the will of the people. New England led, with all Congress members on board for honest money, signaling the demise of silver inflation.
Following the repeal vote on the silver law, mills in Providence, Lawrence, Lowell and Manchester resumed full operations with no wage cuts. Stock markets rose as currency shortages eased, bank suspensions declined, and crop prospects improved. The silver cloud lifts and the sun shines again.
Statements from the superintendent of lamps and the superintendent of streets to the Board of Aldermen defend the Brookline Gas Light Company as not neglecting contracts though some obligations remain. Officials warn against verbal assurances and urge strict adherence to written contracts to safeguard against the Standard Oil Trust, citing wage reductions in gas trenches as a cautionary example.
The House yesterday passed a repeal of the silver question, leaving the Senate with no option but to concur. Public demand favors quick action and no prolonged debate, as the people expect the repeal bill sent to the President this week.
Old Colony supervisor KK Allen comments on Tuttle’s successor timing and potential options as October changes approach. The piece also recalls Mary W Lee “Mother Lee” who died in Philadelphia, Elijah Kellogg’s ongoing preaching at Harpswell, Rogers Sisters' Baby Ruth Company on tour, Eva Taylor’s marriage to Bailey, and a wild Washington Eliot street incident featuring liquor fueled mischief and a near eye injury from ice wagon tongs with a man chased by the crowd.
News item presents rehearsals for the first U S production of Balfe's Countess for a Day at Plymouth on the sixth, with Ideal Opera Company of Boston led by Carol E Macomber as musical director and Christine Brown arranging music. Also notes Julia Marlowe denial of marriage rumors and assorted society items.
A collage of humorous lines on money, names, and daily life from a vintage page. Bits about bankers, rumors, delinquents, and social exchanges stitch together with dialogues from imagined conversations, doctors, clerks, and shoppers.
The Boston Post criticizes the Worcester Telegram for reporting Cleveland was fishing and sober in a Buzzard's Bay dispatch. It demands an apology and jokingly suggests the Telegram admit Cleveland was not sober enough to sit in a boat, implying bias in assessing Grover Cleveland.
East Boston Free Press suggests Hon John E Russell of Leicester would wage a clean campaign for governor if chosen as the Democratic candidate and would prove a credit to Massachusetts. New Home Sewing Machine, 160 Tremont.
The article reports 1892 tenement health data from Horace G. Wadlin showing 63,289 of 71,665 rented families in excellent, good, or fair conditions. It details ward disparities in outside and inside sanitation, light and air, cleanliness, and sickness, plus laundry and roof drying patterns and ward population distribution.
The diagram first printed in the Post showed the sizes of silver dollars at different ratios. When a dollar is widened half its width to raise its ratio from 16 to 24 it is also lengthened. If the dollar were increased only one way.
A Post reporter describes Sunday gatherings of Italian laborers in North square and surrounding streets. Crowds block Hanover Richmond and North streets with Italians of Neapolitan Genoese origin, while police admit they cannot keep sidewalks clear. The piece notes the scene as a weekly yet peaceful labor gathering, with occasional indoor skirmishes and a few violence incidents, and mentions emigration patterns and Sacco's escapes.
A letter from U. M. N. of Boston argues that John E. Russell must campaign vigorously if nominated for governor. It warns a three or four speech limit would hurt Democratic prospects, urging Russell to cover every city town and hamlet before election day and inspire voters to duty.
John E. Russell on one end of a platform and Albert E. Pillsbury on the other evoke a church picnic scene with hot coffee and ice cream as a vivid vignette.
The Georgetown Advocate lauds the Boston Post for preparing a Sunday issue and celebrates its courageous reporting that exposed fraud. The note praises the paper's perseverance and asks for continued prosperity for its staff.
The Fall River Herald reports enthusiasm over John H. Russell's gubernatorial candidacy and Republican hopes to avoid his thunderbolts this fall. They recount past experiences with a Russell noted for eloquence, praising him as possibly superior to his namesake in oratory and public subject grasp.
The Boston Post announces a Sunday edition on September 10 and notes editor EB A Grazier has steered the Daily Post to growing popularity. The planned Sunday paper is expected to follow the same favorable reception.
A reader describes boarding a horse car at 7 in the morning near Cams bridge to Boston. The Post is the only paper noticed among others seen that day, dated August 28 with signature Oran Hall.
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