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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1896
Page
4
A Washington note reviews Cuban policy as Congress ponders constitutional prerogatives. Olney's declaration shifts focus away from immediate recognition of Cuban revolutionists. The piece argues for peace over war gearing and favors restraint in sympathy with Cuban patriots.
The article notes hearings beginning next Monday in Washington on a proposed tariff bill. It warns that proponents of more protection are largely funded by McKinley campaign financiers, led by Mr. Hanna. The piece predicts large tariff concessions in exchange for campaign support and urges the Common Council to challenge related ordinances.
The Boston hearing before the Railroad Commissioners voiced strong protests against the proposed twenty year exclusive lease of the people's subway to a private West End company. Critics warn it divests the city of subway control and risks future surface line rights, urging retention of revocation powers and city ownership. The piece also cites Secretary Carlisle's currency reforms and notes local notes on civic issues and public figures.
The Common Council faces new ordinances proposing a 49 percent salary hike for top officials and relief from furnishing sureties. Proposals also seek closing City Hall at 2 pm on weekdays. Critics warn higher pay is ill advised in hard times and question shifting city bond duties. The vote will record aldermen and test the council as a check on excess.
Observant Citizen recalls the Plymouth Bay landing of the Pilgrims and contrasts the imagined stormy coast with a sandy shore. The piece also covers ex-Queen Liliuokalani's Boston visit, a mail bill trick, X-ray advances in surgery, a locksmiths and Yale lock anecdote, and the Shawmut Avenue subway truss placement with local street chatter and a dance sign observed in Washington Street hall.
Miss Mary Wilson debuting in Washington society is noted as a charming favorite. Rutherford Platt Hayes shows literary interests over public life in testimony to a library committee. Queen Victoria’s coronation ring is described and coronation symbolism noted. An English writer cites Chamberlain’s view on exercise. Mrs. Cleveland enjoyed billiards and once beat a naval champion.
An elderly enslaved woman Dinah sits in a ruined cabin near Christmas awaiting death and warmth. She prepares a keepsake bundle and prays for release as dawn brings an imagined angel who reveals a heavenly reunion with her mistress's child Ruby, now grown.
The guide advises selecting high quality ostrich feathers to last for multiple seasons. It recommends avoiding woolly feathers and excess stitches, how to curl and dry feathers, and sewing shabby ones together before curling. It notes proper care, storage, and making Prince of Wales plumes by wiring stems.
A reader pleads for Santa to reveal a Christmas relief of food and work for the poor. The writer blames famine on lack of native male employment and claims foreign labor and healthy spinsters disrupt jobs. He calls for a heavy tax on women who displaced men from work.
A Boston correspondent argues that all female employees and their employers should pay a tax and display a sign with the number and ages of women employed. The funds would support misplaced male workers. The letter is signed Co. BALLEM and dated December 22.
The page lists a full daily table with meals and dishes including dinner soup roast chicken boiled onions sweet corn mashed potatoes celery olives plum pudding wine sauce vanilla ice cream cheese fruit and supper lobster salad French fried potatoes Parker House rolls toast wine jelly whipped cream sponge cake tea cocoa plus a mustard oil vinaigrette and two cake recipes with lemon sponge and vanilla ice cream directions and ends with Nellie T Scott at 283 Pond Avenue Brookline Massachusetts.
The Presbyterian ministers at yesterday's meeting adopted a resolution endorsing the Common Council's special committee suggestion to tax the First Spiritual Temple. They call on civil authorities to use all legal means to abolish secular, fraudulent, and irreligious Sunday services.
Fire discovered at 11 o'clock in the Everett schoolhouse in Medford. Principal and teachers evacuated pupils safely. Loss estimated at 15000 dollars. Miss May Holland, a teacher, first saw smoke and dismissed her class. Flames spread through ventilators and partitions before a one hour battle subdued them.
In Catholic Union Hall the Municipal Council of the Irish National Federation hosted delegates from the Irish race convention in Dublin. A resolution endorsed John Dillon's party as orators urged support, with Father Mulligan presiding and praise for Blake the Canadian representative.
About 300 members and guests of the Young Men's Baptist Social Union gathered at Tremont Temple for a banquet honoring the ex presidents. Jameson presided as president, with musical selections by Lucy Gould and W H Stedman and readings by the Union Club under T C Evans. F E H Gary spoke on the union’s objects and first year, followed by remarks from Spooner Curtis and Coleman recalling the union’s history. The gathering closed with America and a benediction by Rev Nathan K Wood.
The Boston Terminal Company has completed nearly all plans for the new southern station and now awaits submission to the Mayor and railway commissioners for approval.
The Boston Merchants Association held a special meeting and adopted resolutions opposing the Senate foreign relations committee’s Cuba policy. They urge grave deliberation before any action risking U S war, urging lawmakers to avoid interference in Cuba’s deplorable conflict.
The Cambridge Club held its regular monthly meeting and dinner last night at Young's Hotel with Henry C. Marcy presiding. Guests included Charles P. Clark of the New York New Haven Hartford railroad and John Cobb of merchants' municipal committee. The Charitable Irish Society met at the Parker House with over sixty members present and P Cameron presiding. Secretary J W Fogarty. P M Keating spoke on Robert Burns. Entertainment by Charles T Dolan and M M Kelly.
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