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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1901
Page
6
The Boston Post presents political editorials and updates from the Representative Democratic perspective for New England readers.
An editorial argues for a Boston Associated Board of Trade plan to finance a Washington street subway via lease to a street railway, with bonds issued by the city and a rental covering bond interest and redemption. It warns of subsidy payments and industry beneficiaries, condemning Hanna's threat of an extra Congress session.
The State House receives petitions from leading business men to extend and strengthen the anti stock watering laws of 1894 to cover all public service corporations and related associations. The aim is to curb evasion and better protect the public and investors as a joint committee considers revising laws on stocks bonds leases and consolidations.
The Boston Hotel Men's Association urges a punctuation amendment to the liquor license act. The proposed language allows hotel innholders to serve guests liquor at any time, restoring the law as intended and correcting a clerical semicolon error.
The article argues over control in Washington naming Marcus Hanna and William McKinley as power players. It asserts Hanna pushes the ship subsidy bill via McKinley and notes Hanna’s bloc includes Senator Frye. The piece frames the subsidy bill as Hanna’s measure to honor McKinley campaign obligations and avert a new Congress session.
The piece argues the United States must honor pledges by relinquishing control of Cuba to its people once a Cuban government is formed. It asserts Congress declared Cuba should be free and independent and that U S policy was to leave island governance to Cubans after pacification.
Observant Citizen notes Captain Solomon Rowe of Gloucester pioneering a purse sein boat with an engine to improve mackerel catching. The column also mentions William Winter, F. T. Bridge friends, Jubilee Hall reception, and Thomas W. Lawson’s Scituate estate expansion. Ben Hur the camel dies of marasmus. Lenox Marlboro Back Bay hotel plans loom. William Kelley of Newton Upper Falls buried. trout sale at 90 cents per pound. engagement of Pauline Kamber to Frank Wasserman announced. Evacuation Day celebration planned by South Boston Citizens Association.
In Boston events a vice president elect and other dignitaries were invited to upcoming exercises with Harvard and the Navy secretary among possible speakers. The Italian club announces officers led by Count Solone di Campello. a marble block from Italy is hauled through the streets on a heavy dray. Actress Lotta Crabtree remains mostly idle, avoiding stage work, while road driver J H Richardson ferries a prized horse for sleighing. Patrick Hughes, long admired North End resident, dies in Somerville after illness.
A traveling performer recounts a letter mix up in an Iowa hotel that led him to identify a lawyer as the owner of a stolen gold watch. He predicted the watch would be recovered from a pawnshop in two months and jailed the thief. The tale, tied to a New Orleans Times Democrat report, ends with a cautionary note on possible peeking clerks.
Reports note a proposal clinch and a ring referenced in Chicago records. Mann asks when Graballski’s new theatre opens as Whitton says bids for the ticket speculation privilege have already been advertised. A legless porch climber is caught in Chicago police, with a quip about no visible means of support from Cleveland readers.
In a 19th century style scene on the Beeches piazza, Frances Neville misleads two visitors Dana Mille and Thomas Hadaway by disguising herself in a calico gown and a rake filled morning. Dana discovers the ruse and later learns Frances becomes engaged to Hadaway, leaving Mille to lament what might have been.
Washington reports the army reorganization bill passed Congress and moves to the President for signature. Senate approved the conference report by 33 to 2 with House support, while debates touched on a shipping subsidy and alleged abuses by forces in the Philippines.
About 1000 delegates from states east of the Mississippi attend the 20th anniversary celebration in Portland Missouri. The report by President F B Clark cites growth abroad in Korea Formosa Hlunary Gibraltar and a Church of England Endeavor Union. Junior and intermediate work prosper, with a push for wider missions citizenship and moral reform.
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