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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
4
The Senate will vote at 3 o clock on amendments to the Hay Pauncefote treaty with final action expected before adjournment. If the changes ensure United States control and defense rights for the canal and abrogate the Clayton Bulwer treaty, the measure should gain approval from the American public and Great Britain.
The Franklin fund board has squandered a large public sum, idle for years due to incompetence. The piece urges adherence to Benjamin Franklin’s original charitable purpose, predicts changes to the board next month, and presses for decisive action early in the coming year.
Worcester faces an exact vote tie between mayoral candidates due to board decisions on ballots drawing scrutiny. Lytle and O Connell claim miscounted or misclassified ballots, prompting talk of a new special election and highlighting the need for simpler laws and voting machines to prevent errors in recording and counting votes.
The article surveys the Washington Supreme Court hearing on imperialism, praising the Attorney General’s arguments that the Constitution follows the flag. It notes the government’s view that the Constitution binds only states, while territories fall under Congressional control, and argues this would misstate liberty principles. The piece highlights Griggs’s forthcoming historic argument and the bench’s intervening questions.
The article notes Justice Brewer and other justices probing Congress power over Territories and possessions. They discuss extending constitutional benefits, withdrawing them, and tariffs on goods from Arizona and Alaska. The piece cautions against reading bench inquiries as predicting final rulings, while highlighting the ongoing significance of the hearings.
Editorial lauds ex President Cleveland for naming free silver and populism as causes of Democratic failures. It notes his critique of abandoning true Democratic principles and law of its strength, while questioning why he spoke only after defeat and suggesting cold reception from the public.
The Observant Citizen notes Mary A Livermore’s eightieth birthday celebrated by Belmont townspeople. Harvard professor Jee Eliot Norton hosts a Christmas week gathering for Cambridge-based alumni at Shady Hill. Local items include a transect of cheerful notes on trains, ice carnival plans, an eagle ornament on the Old State House, Tremont Temple’s electric organ, and streetcar fare quirks. A bound notebook from Thomas H Higham agency arrives. conductors fear subway transfers. Boston & Albany workers rebuild a Chelsea Creek bridge section and traffic hopes to resume. Rev Cummins’ silver jubilee ends with a $4150 gift to be added to church funds.
A miscellany notes Maine 1 percent of factories canning fish and vegetables in. Cincinnati leads the hardwood market in the United States. Holland has nine miles of canal per 100 square miles, totaling 2700 miles. Great Lakes navigation season most profitable ever. the Philippine bolo resembles the American corn knife with a curved pointed blade. Greece enforces a curious death sentence where the convict waits two years. Whist teachers in New York are in high demand with excess applicants. Gloucester Mass shows the slowest population growth among major towns. fishing and whaling decline there. A novel ant color nest fish is described for gulf weed habitats. Chicago plans an experimental garbage crematory to turn heat into return on investment, a concept already tested in several European cities.
H Louise Brown presents The Post's Original Short Story as a conditions competition in the Sunday Post. The author is based at 102 Devon Street Roxbury and offers a fictional piece exploring creative challenges within a newspaper feature.
A stenographer at Dennett & Giles recalls a Christmas fantasy of a beloved Freckles from childhood and a vow remembered across years. The piece shifts to a humorous scene on a city car where a new conductor asks passengers to raise their hands for unpaid fares, provoking laughter.
A Boston reporter recalls a recent ride to South Station taking 23 minutes from Boylston to Summer streets amid holiday crowds. Police at crossings delay cars to the suspense of waiting passengers. Separate notes mention the Grundemann studios on Clarendon street featuring watercolors by Sepaseac astiete artists, popular at Back Bay receptions, with visitors collecting small drawings and souvenirs.
Sunday Post previews next Sunday’s issue featuring Andrew Carnegie with an article titled Capital and Labor in the Twentieth Century. The piece highlights Carnegie’s deep ties to capital and labor in the late 19th and 20th centuries and notes his reputation as a canny Scot and philanthropist with broad public affairs insight.
A Chicago Times-Herald reader named Fannie criticizes football for its rushing and erasing style. She argues the game should be dropped and that the season’s Christmas shoppers crowd and shove without concern.
The notice lists daily meals including malt breakfast food, fried haddock, roast beef, baked potatoes, steamed sponge pudding, dacelioned oysters, lettuce, tea, and walnut cake. It provides a lemon sauce recipe and a sponge pudding recipe with precise measurements. Miss F. L. Leland in Newton Mass is named.
The Massachusetts branch of the National Telegram and Telephone Company kicked off with 300 free subscribers aiming to reach 6000 to force lower rates. The $160,000 Boston switchboard mirrors New England’s setup, signaling aggressive expansion as prominent figures from Lowell Philadelphia and West Virginia attend a meeting, including Oakes Ames and Senator Stephen B Elkins.
A Post letter states several groups seek public support to sustain anti imperialist efforts. It notes the Anti Imperialist Leagues will persist in disseminating information to shape opinion. It lists figures whose names were used without consent by C C Hughes and urges cessation of such announcements by the American Liberty League and its officers.
A 16 grain black pearl from London is at the New York custom house for appraisement valued near 15000 dollars, claimed to be the largest pearl ever imported into the United States.
St Albans Vermont December 19 Carroll Page former governor of Vermont in 1890 and Republican nominee failed in June for Congress in the first district is sued by J H Livingstone of the Bennington Reformer. Livingstone alleges Page agreed to pay a sum in return for support from the paper but did not do so. H Manry is counsel and the case is expected to go to cross examination.
A big society event at Hotel Touraine witnessed the marriage of Frank Fulton Hodges and Emma French Nichole in a rare state suite. The couple plan a New York residence after a bridal journey. Mrs. E Everett Holbrook will address D A R events in Memorial Hall. Knights of Columbus will host a smoke talk led by Thomas A. Mullen. Various lodge officers and committees are announced for upcoming meetings and reunions. Later, New England Women’s Press Association met at the Hotel Wehdome with Kate Upson Clarke as guest. Dorchester Symphony and Dorchester Symphony organ recitals headline tonight with noted soloists and honored patrons listed.
Thomas B. Reed studied steel manufacture at Homestead furnaces to prepare for a patent case in Pittsburgh. He will represent the Carnegie Steel Company in questions over the Jones process and potential patent infringement with Cambria Steel. Reed’s day among workers covered molten metal handling and the continuous mixing of furnace contents for Bessemer conversion.
Representative John Bleiler rises as a Cambridge statesman amid a comedy of committees and a semicolon in the liquor law. The tension centers on Bleiler as ranking member seeking chairmanship of the mercantile affairs committee while the Supreme Court tightens liquor hours and Cochituate water debates divide supporters. The feud over the semicolon splits allies and pits Bleiler against Faxon and other reformers as Bleiler presses to remove the punctuation through legislative action.
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