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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1899
Page
4
The public calls for criminal action against any crooked dealings at the defunct Globe bank and accountability for officials who shielded criminals. Depositors totaling over eight million dollars and the public good must be protected, with full publicity to expose improper handling in New England financial institutions.
The article urges readers to perform their duty by spreading Christmas cheer to those less fortunate. It argues personal generosity, sympathy, and small acts can brighten others' holidays and, in turn, enrich the giver's own spirit.
The piece warns Congressmen on holiday recess may push through the Nicaragua Canal bill and Hanna ship subsidy, noting $9 million yearly for ships and $6 million outright for canal backers. It accuses Speaker Reed of blocking these “bare faced jobs” and links them to campaign finance.
The text lauds the late evangelist Mr Moody for forty years of high demand and emotional revival work. It credits him with shaping morality, health recovery, and education through the Northfield School for Girls and Mt Hermon School for Boys, noting broad respect across factions despite doctrinal differences.
A reader describes a Salvation Army worker shivering at Tremont and Beacon streets and urges readers to donate 5 cents for a newsboy's paper. The column includes sketches of local figures, holiday decor, and public figures like Billy Crane and Dwight L. Moody, with social and charitable notes.
The State Department faces a possible Kruger protest over US supplies to the British. The Delagoa Bay cargo shipments from the United States, chiefly flour, to a British‑controlled port may signal neutral commerce at stake. Interference would be unwarranted, even as President McKinley’s expansion stance looms.
Dwight J. Moody dies after a life devoted to ministry and ambition to do work rather than accumulate wealth. Reports say he found abundant labor for the Lord and made a significant impact in his generation despite a relatively brief lifespan.
In Cromwell Kentucky lumbermen uncover a bone embedded in heartwood of a solid oak tree. Britain weighs national granaries to stockpile wheat against war emergencies. Missouri enacts a barber licensing fee of one dollar to fund certification exams. American flour exports rise from 4 000 barrels in 1875 to 18 000 000 barrels this year. A consignment of fifty one Angora cats arrives at John Wanamaker's Philadelphia store from Maine priced 10 to 60 dollars. Two Hussars troopers and two West Riding men in India desert and join the Catholic Brotherhood in Byore. New York once led wheat exports with Boston Baltimore Philadelphia New Orleans and Galveston cited as large exporters.
Herbert and Marion Haskell host a playful dinner with Kate as guest as Marion recalls former fiances and rivals. Herbert teases about past loves to spark jealousy, then reveals he meant no harm while praising their happy marriage. The scene unfolds with light, affectionate banter about wealth, status, and a loving partnership.
The Massachusetts House discusses a speaker race among Myers Bennett Saunders Reed Blood Schofield with a caucus at 2 pm before the Legislature. Seventy-three members sit out. 64 pledged against Myers. ballots will name six Republicans and no speeches as committees and chair selections drive the outcome.
Joseph Gray Mitchell of Indianapolis created a composite photograph of the greatest Madonnas from the last two centuries. The first copy was ordered for the Congressional Library. The Norwalk Chronicle credits F R Loomis with coining Nickel Plate for the railroad in 1881. Porter urges the President to fly a personal flag atop the White House to replace the stars and stripes.
A fragmented menu and shopping hints list breakfast items such as grapes cream of wheat fried smells baked potatoes dropped eggs hot biscuit doughnuts coffee. Dinner includes steamed clams baked bluefish white sauce potato balls stewed tomatoes boiled cauliflower apple tapioca pudding lemon pie fruit cocoa. Supper features salmon salad bread preserved strawberries lemon jelly tea doughnuts. The text also lists a recipe with sugar butter lard eggs milk flour salt nutmeg lemon extract and addresses names PAROS Bowser MRS A H MAYERS Norwell Mass suggesting a local household guidance note.
The Post Office Department announces new commemorative stamps for the Pan American exhibition in Buffalo. The issues will share current stamp size and come in 1 2 4 6 8 and 10 cent denominations.
The Toledo Blade notes Utah Mormonism will likely settle Congressman-elect Roberts. The Baltimore Herald laments Chamberlain’s push for a three-power alliance. The New York World discusses Otis claiming to hold the Filipino insurrection’s brain, while insurgent legs run strong in Manila.
James Goldstein of New York identified the body found in the Seaconnet River at Portsmouth New Hampshire as Maurice Strauss of Boston. The man had come from the steamer Plymouth on December 13.
James Lyman Whitney was elected librarian by unanimous vote of the trustees yesterday afternoon at the Boston Public Library. Whitney has served as acting librarian since Herbert Putnam left for the Congressional Library and has led the cataloguing department for decades. He is a noted bibliographer with works on Spanish literature and library catalogues and belongs to the Bostonian Society and American Library Association.
The letter to the Post denounces imperial overreach and asserts a president cannot act beyond treaty and protocol. It cites the Dec 21, 1899 event and criticizes the Transcript for treason to the republic while noting the attorney general’s warning to the president and the repercussions of unilateral orders. ERVING WINSLOW.
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