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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1891
Page
4
The annual dinner of the Young Men’s Democratic Club of Massachusetts was described as more than a jubilee. Speakers forecast future victories and showed a bold temper guiding political action nationwide in the year ahead.
Massachusetts congressman Stevens, a major woollen goods manufacturer, argues in Washington that free wool would aid both U S manufacturers and woollen product consumers. Despite claims of pressure from tariff factions, his stance remains aligned with his tariff reform party candidacy and past views.
A Massachusetts manufacturer argues for free wool and lower woollen goods duties to cut material costs, raise wages, boost domestic and foreign demand, and help American firms compete in Central and South American markets. He endorses coal iron ore lumber wool and salt on the free list.
The Boston Executive Business Association, soon to be called the Associated Board of Trade, asks Congress to revise the administration of the customs act. They cite harsh penalties for undervaluation and clerical errors, and urge broader reliefs including invoice verification in other districts and expanded appraiser powers to ensure uniform port practice.
The Northwestern Miller leads a drive to ship a 6,000,000 pound flour cargo to starving Russian peasants as a Christmas gift from U S millers. Minneapolis millers pledge 420,000 pounds and hope to reach 500,000. The Russian government will transport and distribute the flour. Secretary Rusk proposes sending corn to create a taste for American grain. Governor Thayer of Nebraska may corral a corn train to aid the effort.
Secretary Foster notes he can acquire a large portion of his monthly 4.5 million ounce silver supply at 94 1 2 cents per ounce, the lowest market price yet seen. He compares to about 105 cents per ounce a year ago as silver’s intrinsic value to match gold.
The article notes the silver dollar trading below 75 cents while Treasury purchases continue at about seven tons daily to restore parity with gold. Secretary Foster warns that pausing buys could trigger a currency and business collapse, arguing the policy must continue until parity is reached.
The Kansas political scene weighs two options after Senator Plumb’s death. Governor Humphreys could appoint an interim Republican, possibly Ingalls, for one year, or summon the Legislature in extraordinary session to choose a four year successor. The choice risks factional division between Republicans and the Farmers Alliance.
Senator VoorHEES denounces Judge Woops as totally unfit to hold any judicial post. He cites repeated reversals of rulings to shield partisan interests from election laws. Indiana’s two senators oppose his confirmation, urging others to doubt the judge’s reputation.
A lullaby poem asks quiet thoughts to settle the brain and rivers to flow smoothly. Nightingales from the woods are urged to charm the air with soft music and spring perfumed breezes to ease the sleeper’s mind.
A nationalist at 17 Yarmouth Street Boston praises the Post for its independent stance and explains switching from the Globe to the Post. The letter requests ongoing advance of the paper's independent position.
A German resident, Herr Schmit, describes severe hardship in Mosty, Samara, with a starving peasant family of eight, famine looming this winter, and authorities having provided inadequate relief last September. People sell cattle cheap as grain scarcity drives up prices for disabled horses and food.
Charles E. Adams, assistant superintendent of the document room, gives a Western applicant a printed list of House employees and a chair. Half an hour later the man returns, pointing to the exact seat Adams holds, unknowingly securing the office by chance.
A dreary Cambridge street scene under rain and snow shifts to a German band playing Marguerite outside a dimly lit house. The narrator recalls wet feet, cold, and the band’s street performance ending with a bell ringing for tips, then revisits a colder walk and the town’s quiet, musical contrast.
Public notices and society items reveal Ippolito Aldobrandini giving wealth to Jesuits, Cunard funding aid in Nice, and Sutton facing accusations over a pricey art deal. Mentions of mining ventures in Montana, Florence and Berlin Christmas plans, a Honduran revolt, Diana statue moves, theater hat woes, and multilingual naval officers. Bob Burdette’s humorist profile noted.
The Boston Board of Aldermen held a lengthy session discussing Kansas City streetcar laws, street paving costs, and a proposed Colonel Robert G Shaw monument on Boston Common with a $19 500 pedestal budget. They also approved funding for Dorchester Avenue paving, printing of the King oration, and motions on police enforcement and pension legislation for long serving workers.
A string of quirky vignettes and playful misreadings appears, including philosophers chasing the Thing-in-Itself, a tough English sparrow, Clip- per excuses, bets on a shuper thing, a jaundiced coat joke, a genteel exchange with Miss Harkins, a desert-rough dialect joke about distance to Gourdville, and a Christmas day gift bill in Roman letters.
A witty exchange from The Jewelers' Circular about an inventor showing an invulnerable, non-atmospheric watch that fails to keep time. The inventor laments potential buyers as fools who won’t purchase a device that “won’t keep time.”
The dialogue recalls a groom and his brother arranging a wedding and best man roles. A seamstress explains a seat or attire difficulty preventing both from wearing the same dress suit, highlighting a humorous obstacle in wedding preparations.
A collage of humorous quotes and satirical verse from multiple papers. It features remarks on music by Professor Pounderoffski, a quip about a highwayman financier, a sunset reflection on the earth and sun, a domestic clash over cooking, a lion act with a military twist, and a political poem about Tom Reed with mock artistic portraiture on Washington walls.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes that if Mr. Elkins understands war as he does politics he will be formidable as Secretary of War. It says he has no mane and will not provoke danger, reflecting on Cesar and Steve Elkins who yielded at the third bid for power.
The Manchester Union reports Massachusetts Republicans seek to force Lieutenant-Governor Haile into the next gubernatorial nomination. The piece claims Haile does not want the post and accuses the party of aiming to pressure him early to secure a candidate, deeming him a potential victim in the process.
The Boston Associated Board of Trade at Parker House adjourned after adopting a by law change to the Boston Chamber of Commerce style. Committees named with leaders in transportation mail service taxation customs and more. A resolution seeks nationwide dating bill reform and the McKinley tariff committee report was adopted with printed copies and congressional submission planned.
The well known English born actress Katherine Rogers has died in New York after months of illness. A longtime figure on the American stage she last appeared in Boston in My Jack at the Grand Opera House. She was a star of Our Boys at the Globe Theatre fifteen years ago and is remembered with other notable players such as George Honey John C. Cowper and Harry Murdoch.
A letter criticizes the McKinley tariff, arguing the law harms U S consumers. It cites hides tea coffee molasses and sugar and questions changes in market value after the bill’s impact. The piece attributes policy to Benjamin Harrison and laments discretionary powers given to the Secretary of War Steve Elkins is mentioned in connection with the administration.
A letter from George T. Angell of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals requests police and public help to convict dog poisoners. He offers 25 for evidence leading to a conviction under Massachusetts cruelty laws.
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