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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1898
Page
4
The Boston Post announces subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, lists addresses for changes, and notes payment and delivery policies. Editor Z. A. Grozier signs as publisher. notices emphasize advance payment and discontinuation on expiration.
Distressing reports from Newfoundland describe hundreds of deaths from starvation and exposure as ice bound relief vessels fail to reach coast communities. The piece blames government mismanagement and calls for foresight, preparation, and continued aid to sufferers with a demand to prevent future crises.
Representative Mead of Lexington introduced a telephone reform bill in the House aided by a petition of about fifty Boston businessmen, largely from the Fruit and Produce Exchange. Mead is viewed as a vigorous advocate for public interests, and the article urges broader support from commercial and reform organizations in the city.
The column argues that telephone users should gain the same right of appeal against excessive charges as gas users and steam and street rail patrons already have. It claims there is little ground to oppose such an enactment.
The Boston Senate considers a Mayor headed seven member Board of Apportionment with five votes controlling all appropriations and loans. The board shifts legislative power to the executive, placing Mayor influence over four appointed members and risking unchecked City action. The plan raises concerns about danger to municipal balance and executive overreach.
The Evening Transcript commends the Municipal League for restoring a final referendum on the Boston Board of Aldermen reorganizatio n bill. It argues that citizens retain a moral right to approve or reject changes, despite last year’s unsatisfactory referendum, and praises local self-government in pursuing a model city.
Park commissioners move to curb a proposed tall building on Copley square asserting statutory authority over parkways. The main issue is whether Copley square falls under their jurisdiction with an appeal likely, while the aesthetic and moral concerns remain.
In Boston a column recounts social tidbits from the city scene. Belden buys a Wellesley farm while health travel in Florida. local clubs applaud fellowship and a clock project in San Francisco hints at distant connections. Police, church, and social life feature alongside school visits and Paine Memorial Society events.
Poem-like lines call readers to sing for Ireland and the year ninety eight. Annie C. Kelly signs at 829 Beacon Street Boston, urging martyrdom memories, national rights, and a renewed pledge to defend liberty.
Vice President Boynton announced the Handel and Haydn Society will soon have a home with a concert hall and function rooms. The Observant Citizen notes hopes for a new home to escape Bumstead Hall. The piece adds urban transit seating, granite courthouse fascias, and calls for police to improve crime clues.
A collage of pithy lines from Free Press Belle North American Chicago Record Chicago Post and Tit Bits features lovers, marriages and social satire. Jokes include a moon in honeymoon hope a bill for broken dishes a distillery heroine and a cobweb ceiling artist with a nervous servant twist.
In Frances May Holden's tale a wealthy West Medford merchant takes in two orphaned children after their mother dies. The lovers of a richer match turn out to be unrelated, as the merchant discovers his sister Lucy is among the orphans. He vows to provide a home and remove their poverty.
Washington January 31 A bill introduced by Mr Green Nebraska would make monopolizing or attempting to monopolize trade a felony. It sets a $10 000 fine or 2 to 15 years imprisonment for violations and prohibits contracts or combinations that restrain trade or fix output or prices among states or with foreign nations.
A Baltimore scientist led talks with Johns Hopkins to test a submarine reaching the pole by traveling beneath several feet of ice. The plan uses Spitzbergen first, then along Nansen's Fram route, with naval officers possible, air supply methods, and under ice drilling to reach clear water and advance Arctic exploration.
Savannah, January 31. Defense counsel in the Carter court martial pressed to exclude evidence on contracts before E. R. Conant, Cumberland Sound inspector, while Anson M. Bangs testified Captain Carter instructed leniency with the contractor who had undersold the project, claiming no profit was possible.
A quirky aside in Plain Denier notes a misunderstanding about a poker game in the next room. One speaker insists on hearing gambling sounds, while another corrects with a joke about rubber tired chips.
New York women embrace stockings featuring plaid silk and lisle thread as a current street fashion. Although bold at first glance they harmonize with plaid underskirts, making plain black hose look modest by contrast. Dark blue black and green plaids with gold bars dominate in public wear.
A dancer on the New York stage draws fashion and social buzz with light blue stockings featuring openwork lace, delicate instep embroidery, and a jeweled serpent design. The jewel serpents, crafted from real gems, outshine the fabric in allure and envy among fashionable women.
Ex Governor William J. Stone of Missouri has received over $18 000 as his fee for acting as receiver for the Mullanphy Bank of St Louis. The report also notes Iowa petition support for Mrs Cora Chaplain Weed of Muscatine for a diplomatic post and a Hartford movement to honor Henry Clay Work with a monument.
A historical kitchen plannings page lists meals for breakfast dinner and supper with items like oranges oat meal bacon eggs fried potatoes roast beef and celery tomato soup mashed potatoes onion bread pudding and apple Washington pie. The note ends with a recipe guidance and a signature MIS Frances D Todd Court Park Winthrop.
The Board of Aldermen approved a seven member baths board two women to serve with Mayor appointing terms up to five years. Mayor Quincy urged a $15000 waste disposal plant after studying New York model, plus cost estimates for Hanover street paving and a new East Boston Public Library branch.
William H Ring 56 died from a paralytic shock at his Dorchester home after leaving the Ocean Steamship Company office at Lewis Wharf. A Free Mason, he served about 35 years with the Savannah line and earlier Cunard and Nickerson firms. Funeral services to be announced. interment at Woodlawn.
Yesterday a reception was held at the new Roxbury crossing postal station hosted by Postmaster Thomas and officials for Aldermen Councilmen and leading Roxbury crossing business men. Chief Clerk Cooper of the South End branch, appointed superintendent, is prepared for business which begins today.
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