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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1896
Page
4
Boston Post Subscription Rates Announcement
The Boston Post rates list daily and Sunday subscriptions with prices for one year six months or three months. It instructs readers to provide current and new addresses for mail changes and notes second class matter status. It warns against sending cash and directs payments via checks drafts or money orders to the Post Publishing Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Publishing Company
Boston Post Subscription Notice From Local Office
All subscriptions to the POST must be paid in advance and will be discontinued on expiration without further notice. If you cannot obtain the POST regularly from your newsdealer or newsboy, notify us by postal at once. Boston Office 259 Washington street Boston Telephone 428.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. A. Grozila
Save the Children in Boston Schools Health Shock
The Boston schoolhouses reveal shocking sanitary conditions per investigations by a commission appointed by Mayor Quincy. The piece urges immediate measures to protect children from neglect in schools and questions responsibility after the prior Republican administration, whose health pledges followed its departure from power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Quincy
Boston Voter Registration Plan Sparks Funding Debate
A proposed new voter registration in Boston aims to uncover about 90 000 legal voters at an estimated cost of 1.44 dollars per name. The plan would borrow 100 000 dollars to cover registration and 30 000 dollars for Board of Elections operations, with supporters arguing the list's value to the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Republican City Committee
Board of Elections
Return to Plurality City Aldermen on General Ticket
In a debate at the last Common Council meeting, supporters argue to restore a traditional system by electing twelve Aldermen by plurality on a general ticket. They warn that district or minority representation schemes failed and advocate majority rule as simple and proven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Massachusetts Anti Prize Fighting Law Promoted
The Massachusetts Legislature is urged to adopt a new statute aligning with federal measures against prize fighting. The act declares prize fighting a felony and provides imprisonment as the sole punishment, clearly defining the offense as any voluntary bodily combat by two or more men for money or a prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Law Bans Betting on Any Athletic Exhibition
A concise rule asserts that wagers on any sporting event or exhibition are prohibited, including bets tied to entrances or monetary stakes. The law targets betting activity directly connected to athletic events without exception.
Republicans and Silverites Threaten Currency and Credit
The piece warns that a Republican House may kill free coinage bills while Senate negotiates. It cautions against past compromises like 1890 and urges Republicans to avoid secret deals that would damage sound money. It argues only the Democratic administration can guard the nation’s currency and credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Republican House
Republican Senate
Dicker
East
Congressman Walker
Biennial resolve argued over in Massachusetts Legislature
The piece urges lawmakers to study the biennial elections amendment and pray for guidance. It argues the issue has long been settled and should be viewed as established policy. If irregularities are corrected, the measure should be killed as undesirable.
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Massachusetts
A Daniel Come to Judgment
The narrative asserts a new era of government scrutiny led by Bre'r Barrett. It claims Barrett has already impeached an ambassador and charged a member of Congress with treason, promising strict oversight and potential congressional hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bre’y Barrett
Congress
Bre’r Barrett
Observant Citizen Notes Orchestra Personalities and Streetcar Oddities
The Observant Citizen admires the New York Symphony Orchestra players at the German opera, especially a poised first violinist who fixes a lamp mid performance and a horn player resembling Svengali. He also recalls streetcar anecdotes from West End motormen and mentions Roxbury Chrysanthemums planning a Feb 14 social at Knights of Honor Hall after a weather delay.
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New York Symphony Orchestra
Roxbury Club
Knights of Honor Hall
Washington Street
Roxbury
Whimsical Fares and City Hall Hopes in Boston
A Boston scene mingles petty theft and commuter humor as a conductor prompts a coin swap while two women laugh. Policing hero Thomas Donahue earns Holmes-like fame. Local chatter notes cross-eyed waitresses, a Civil War gun relic, travels of Walter Perry, Henry Pierce at sea, and bankers’ queries to Charley Monroe. Office seekers swarm Court square and City Hall amid shifting political tides.
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Mecca
Court Square
City Hall
Palmetto Dreams and a Hidden Tragedy
Dorothea Upham shelters a faded hope as Dorothea and Alice gather memories at Palmetto. A hopeful note of love fades when Silas dies, revealing Dorothea’s lifelong ache for what might have been and the cost of a loveless marriage.
New Woman Arrives in Boston Rides in Knickerbockers
Dorothy Chestick English advance agent for The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown promotes the knickerbocker costume as proper and healthful. She rides astride on horseback in public, defended as stylish and suitable by the young woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Dorothy Chestick
Park Theatre
Miss Chestick
New York
Post
England
Mr. Roosevelt
Miss Brown
Daily table hints breakfast and bee hives recipe
A historic menu lists breakfast items such as oatmeal cream broiled beef steak French fried potatoes boiled eggs and coffee with doughnuts. Dinner features celery soup roast lamb with mint onions parsnips mince pie tea and cake with beverages and a recipe for bee hives and a Mary P Day address in Roxbury Massachusetts.
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Mary P. Day
Zeigler Street
Roxbury
Mass
Underground Wires Transformation for Brooklyn Officials
Two Boston Post illustrations show Federal street with tangled electric lines and a year later with all wires underground. The change eliminates poles and unsightly clutter, arguing Brooklyn should adopt prompt underground wiring for similar improvements.
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Brooklyn Standard Union
Boston Post
Federal Street
Brooklyn
Post
Boston
Nantucket Town Meeting Ends After Noon
Nantucket Massachusetts February 7 The annual town meeting closed this afternoon with a new board of selectmen including J F Freeman E B Fox A T Mowry and Allen Coffin joining R M Allen who was reelected The town approved a 41009 budget with major items for schools poor department highway repairs street lighting and a steam fire engine including 297 yes 229 no on the license vote
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Nantucket
Board of Selectmen
R. M. Allen
J. F. Freeman
E. B. Fox
A. T. Mowry
Allen Coffin
Lewiston Bunker
W. B. Starbuck
O. C. Chad
Rules For Menu Competition At The Boston Post
The Boston Post offers five dollars weekly for the best three meal bill of fare from women readers. Bills must read like a menu with brief preparation directions, cover three meals for four or five persons, and stay under ten dollars weekly. Submissions due by Nov 9 with weekly deadlines, judging and printing details outlined.
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Boston Post
Post
the Post
Boston
Deerfield Votes Against Lobby Funds in Annexation Fight
A Deerfield town meeting failed to approve using town money to oppose annexation of Green River precinct to Greenfield. The motion carried 229 to 137, leaving no budget for lobbying efforts.
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Deerfield
Green River
Greenfield
The Idle Man and Other Laughing Bits
A humor filled page features short witticisms about idleness work pay and war. Jokes touch idle men friends and thrift with jokes about tattoos generals and a comic hospital misreading. A skit of a nurse a distressed wife and a doctor ends the collection with a twist.
Quincy appoints new fire department officers
Chief Engineer Williams announces promotions and new appointments in Quincy. Assistant engineers named for wards 1 through 6 include Frank C. Packard John A. Mahoney Welcome J. Blake James A. White Mareena R. Sparrow and Stephen H. Edwards. Company captains listed for Hose 1 Hose 2 Hose 3 Hose 5 and Hook and Ladder 1 with captains named William H. Gavin Gilbert M. Rhodes Edward F. Crohan William H. Taylor and James F. Morrissey.
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Quincy
Williams of
Frank C. Packard
John A. Mahoney
Welcome J. Blake
James A. White
Mareena R. Sparrow
Stephen H. Edwards
Hose
William H. Gavin
Gilbert M. Rhodes
Edward F. Crohan
William H. Taylor
James F. Morrissey
Edgartown Appropriates Counsel Fees to Oppose Move
At a special town meeting in Edgartown a twenty member committee was chosen to oppose removing county buildings to Tisbury. The town appropriated 740 for counsel fees in connection with the effort.
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Edgartown
Tisbury
Boston Hotel Rejection of Bishop Arnett Draws Letter to Editor
A Boston Post letter condemns Hall and Whipple of Young's Hotel Parker's and the Adams House for denying Bishop Arnett accommodations due to color. The writer urges justice and humanity, arguing culture should trump race and cites broader liberty, peace, and equality as American ideals.
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Sir
Bishop Arnett
Boston
Messrs
Hall and
Whipple
Young’s
Parker’s
Adams House
Robert F. Coursey
Irving Street
Where Are the Police in Boston Burglary Wave
A reader laments rising burglary and safe cracking in Boston and nearby, questions police effectiveness after a high profile capture, notes two notorious crooks were soon railroaded out of town, and calls for accountability and turnover to protect property owners.
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The
Post
Boston
Boston Police Department
Police Department
Treason Charge Sparks Congress Floor Debate
A Southern congressman vows to punish treason and professes readiness to repeat actions, denouncing the national House scene as disgraceful as North Southern tensions flare on the floor. The exchange centers on allegiance vows and accountability amid sectional strife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post
National House
Congress
West End President denies employee threats and union talks
Samuel Little, president of the West End, argues no threats were made to employees and no conference with the union has occurred. He accuses the newspaper slip of presenting untruths and urges correction to avoid further misinformation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little
West End
Samuel Little
The Purse She Carries
The revival of Louis modes has affected purses, introducing the Empire pocketbook in ecrasse leather available in blue brown or green. The nearly square large bag features a heavy colonial gold edge or plain gold with inner beading, resembling a Napoleon era picture frame. some have a seal pocketbook edged with gold.
Color and novelty purses captivate fashion demand
Turquoise forget me nots appear at intervals while silver tracery covers another purse. New colors include light green and alligator skin dyed shades, with monkey skin noted for delicacy. Lizard skin remains common. white corded silk purses with gold edges, a tiny watch in a corner, and a palm‑purse change pocket gain style appeal.
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