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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1896
Page
4
Speaker Reed blasts the Fifty-fourth Congress claiming it has accomplished nothing for the country and should pass measures to let business take care of itself. He argues the session failed to enact broad or effective legislation despite opportunities. The closing weeks should not yield more inaction.
Judge Sanderson of the Superior Court in San Francisco dissolves the injunction keeping the $10,000 prize from Sharkey, ruling the affair unlawful because California statutes ban fighting and equate boxing with fighting. He notes boxing can be legal without fighting and fighting without boxing, and that the decision may stand until a higher court weighs in.
A British woman died of fright after an earthquake rattled eastern Europe, while Britain itself remained unusually calm. The article notes seismology cannot predict quakes or their extent and highlights the Pacific basin and southern Europe as active zones, with Britain and eastern Europe contrasting in impact.
The piece notes the Republican Senate cannot pass revenue bills without silver support and will remain powerless into the Fifty-fifth Congress. It predicts a split in the party between silver advocates and free silver opponents and expects little new revenue legislation. It concludes the situation is not creditable to the party now in government after March 4.
The World reports from Havana that the Competitor sailors are housed in Cabana prisons with decent food and hospital care. Milton notes they suffer no worse than U S prison inmates, yet they remain jailed without trial, a grave injustice given their likely innocence and treaty rights to civil trial.
About a year after President Cleveland reaffirmed the Monroe Doctrine the nation faced a fabricated war scare that Congress amplified with hawkish resolutions. The episode damaged business and unsettled commerce, highlighting the perils of alarmist policy.
The column argues the Senate committee on foreign relations plans resolutions that cannot pass Congress and could disturb revival of business confidence with another war scare. It warns the agitation would be ill timed and harmful to the commercial rebound.
A small group calling themselves the Little German Band played on Warren street during the gale. The wind carried their music, giving it a ghostly, uncanny quality as passerby looked on in wind swept gloom.
Miss Julia Dent Grant, daughter of Colonel Fred Grant, makes her debut in New York society and promises to maintain high social standards.
Critics denounce a proposal by the Board of Aldermen to have Boston pay for bonds of its officials. They warn removal of the bonding requirement could let untrustworthy appointees assume office, increasing city costs. The writer urges the Common Council to reject the ordinances and salary hikes.
Miss Julia Dent Grant remains a leading figure in New York society as social circles follow her engagements. Prominent families and organizations note her influence in charity events and civic gatherings around the city.
The Observant Citizen lauds Captain Samuel James and Captain Joshua James of Hull Lifesaving Station for decades of dangerous work. The article notes their ages, 72 and 70, and claims they have saved more sea lives than any two men alive. It also touches on holiday poultry shipments, a new weighing mechanism for trucks, dry post-blizzard streets, private Chinatown post offices, lobsters via artificial methods, a dramatic school question about marital status, and various theater and syndicate topics.
The piece catalogs select figures and events: Hetty Green’s Christmas bonnet signals renewed capital confidence. discussions of Senators’ wealth and French honors for Mme. Sarah Bernhardt. Helena Goessmann to lecture on Shakespearean heroines in New Orleans. Richard Croker’s turf losses and Edwards Clarke’s high income. Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Washington home preparations and New York theater rehearsals. Sir Henry Irving to unveil Siddons memorial statue on Paddington Green.
The note lists daily meals with detailed recipes for fried cauliflower, apple snow, and tomato salad. It includes a full menu for breakfast and dinner and a dessert plan, attributed to Mrs. Charles Habletz of 90 Charles Street, Dorchester.
Miss Vere a boarding school teacher accompanies Clifford Gray on a visit in Westerly. A mistaken bridge count upsets the couple, a tumble from Pet the trotting horse, a stranger Mr Anson aids, and a broken arm leads to a night ride home where Clifford proclaims love and Margaret answers yes.
Handel's Messiah will be performed at the First Baptist Church on Commonwealth avenue. The choir will be augmented for the occasion. Principal soloists include Helen Co Wright Jennie Patrick Walker Gertrude Edmands Frederic Smith Arthur Beresford Thomas Norris Buffum and others.
A brief note on the safest method to alleviate a persistent cough. It discusses choosing nonprescription remedies and home care steps to ease symptoms and reduce irritation. No medical guarantees are provided.
Wills filed in Cambridge probate court reveal bequests. Mary H. Nelson of Waltham leaves part of her personal property to Dr Cullis's Consumptives' Home and the rest to Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church Waltham and Leland Home for Aged Women. Charles H. Guild of Newton leaves 2000 to Newton Highlands Congregational Church. Charlotte N. Evans of Wakefield leaves 1000 to the First Baptist Church and 250 to each American Baptist Missionary Union and American Home Missionary Society.
The railroad commissioners will hold a hearing on the subway lease Monday December 21 at 10 a m at No 20 Beacon Street. The Boston Transit Commission and West End Street Railway Company seek board approval of the lease.
A home milliner faces the challenge of trimming a bonnet for an elderly lady by strict seasonal laws. The task differs from trimming hats for youth and must adhere to the prescribed guidelines for the current fashion.
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