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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1894
Page
4
Wednesday morning December 5 18% Volume CXXIII number 347 announces subscription address changes and paper delivery instructions. It requests current and future addresses from subscribers and notes second class entry and mailing payment details.
A Boston businessman's office death from gas poisoning sparks concern over rising cases. The author argues poison access should be tightly regulated, akin to plumbing rules, to protect homes and workplaces and prevent self harm suspicions.
The piece argues no serious Senate action will occur on supplementary tariff bills from the House. It notes Senate rules allow a determined member to block legislation, predicting reformers must accept the inevitable. It claims the new tariff, though imperfect, improves McKinleyism and benefits industry, and will endure.
Prominent figures including John D. Long and John Q. A. Brackett praise Dr. Smith for his service to the country and his national hymn. Massachusetts officials endorse a memorial as a lasting lesson in patriotism and a sign of popular affection for the poet who wrote America.
The article outlines a proposed currency reform substituting State bank issues for national bank notes. It calls for 30 percent legal tender deposits in place of bonds, plus a safety fund financed by a small circulation tax to redeem failed banks. Banks complying with rules would be exempt from the tax.
The secretary argues the plan relieves government from paper money burdens and creates a sound elastic currency adaptable to business needs. He notes the current system fails to provide such currency and stresses the gold standard must be maintained during expanding trade under the new tariff policy.
The Anti-Tenement House League asks candidates if they will remodel or condemn unfit tenements, restrict crowding in housing, and hold owners accountable for violations. It argues tenement conditions drive disease and crime and cites Boston’s ample room for better air and light.
In a public statement support is expressed for J Russell Reed of Massachusetts mortgage oversight. The commissioner's record is described as admirable and vigilant as he probes unsafe firms, including investigations into West coast firms. A clerical indiscretion is noted but not deemed reflective of the commissioner’s duty or conduct.
A narrator recalls a secret garden scene where a tiny fairy appears among apple trees. The fairy plays a guitar made from a dead bee, perched on a snail shell, and sings to a dainty fairy face while a approving sea'nader waves. James Whitcomb Riley provides the verse.
The Observant Citizen reports Rev. John Duckson of Arlington Street Church ill but improving, Francis Peabody riding an electric car, and a Boston Art Club reception for police officials and Republican candidate Martin. It also notes Congressman-elect Fitzgerald relocating to Berwin Building, a plan to study law, and humorous witch anecdotes as well as remarks on street supervision and a Brookline boulevard sighting of the Halli family.
Special Officer MacHugh enforces a no loitering order in City Hall corridors. His calm temper keeps him from hot water as residents and staff seek brush or passage, while the rule creates daily friction for those visiting the building.
Short sharp letters of comment or complaint are invited with no long epistles. The Post disclaims endorsement of opinions printed here and reserves space for pointed views.
A reader asks how ties are decided when the first table finishes and others tie in progressive euchre or cinch. The letter notes a recent ruling to cut cards to settle ties and asks which method is correct.
A reader condemns tail docking and hot-iron branding of horses as cruel. They cite Presidents and historical figures whose horses were not docked, question President Cleveland's practices, and urge cessation of this brutality despite English origins.
A young woman rejects calls for emancipation, arguing modern women seek excitement and influence, while praising her grandmother's contented minuet scene as proof that “woman's sphere” lies in tradition and dancing.
A reader asks via your columns when the subway project will start, where the commission’s office is located, and what job positions will be available for applicants.
The project will start as soon as possible and awaits information and instructions to proceed. Only engineering department jobs are currently available. The commission’s office is located at 60 State Street in Boston.
Edwin Johnson asks for the winners of the Laxol advertisement contest published in the Letter Box section. The message requests the newspaper to publish or notify the prize recipients.
The response to the offer is so large that the December fifteenth deadline was set instead of December first for awarding the prize.
Advertisement for a piece titled A Brakeman at Church from Burdette’s New Collection of Comic Recitations. Sent from Excelsior Publishing House New York to Burdette’s address at 425 Saratoga Street dated December 4.
Reader asks if Cambridge ever had an Irish mayor named John Sweetnean and the year he served. The letter seeks confirmation of the mayoral tenure and dates.
A collage of comic lines from several papers includes street humor about college barbers and balloonists, party roasts, a bell boy on a top floor call, a sleeping car porter demanding comfort, a husband and wife exchange over ear and mind, and piano practice curvature warnings.
John Gary Fivans was inaugurated as Governor today before both houses of the General Assembly in Columbia. The ceremony marked the start of his term with pledges to address state issues and unite lawmakers.
The final section of the five and a half million dollar Metropolitan sewerage outfall was placed yesterday afternoon about a half mile offshore near Deer Island Light. Crews sunk forty sections built in wooden cradles by night and day, using divers to join each segment. Weather and ocean swell slowed progress.
John Murray a veteran East Boston ship caulker aged about sixty five died suddenly from a hemorrhage at his Cross street home. He was born in Fort Hill, served in the Civil War with the Ninth Regiment, never married, and was among the city’s oldest caulkers.
Brooklyn December 4 1904 Justice Gaynor seized the assets of the Kings County Hygienic Ice Company founded by John Y McKane and appointed a receiver. Investigators reveal false reports inflated the firm’s assets and enhanced the owners financial standing.
Judge McComas voids new forgery indictments against Captain Henry W Howgate ex United States signal service officer. He sustains old embezzlement indictments and the replacements deem scientifically framed but usable due to flaws in the newer charges.
The South Boston Owl Club hosts a professional matinee for Captain Paul at Castle Square Theatre with leading artists occupying boxes. Reports note Isadore Rush in The Politician at the Boston Museum and Garrick Collier’s The Cross Roads of Life upcoming.
A major early morning fire in Everett gutted Angell & Murphy's grocery in the Chelsea street block, injuring book-keeper Miss Carrie Sullivan and forcing escape via ladder for lawyer George A. Brown. Losses exceed $10,000 with insurance. no alarm box slowed responders. Fire service praised as others escaped unscathed.
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