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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1898
Page
4
The labor committee investigates the cotton manufacturing sector in the state, aiming to reveal bottom line facts on overseers salaries, mill earnings, and profits use for repairs. Disputes over empowerment to summon papers threaten to limit crucial data, as tariff and international politics color the inquiry.
The report notes Barrios' death as a distinct event in Central American politics. It recalls how Guatemalan leaders often seize power via wealth and force, with Barrios having ruled as a dictator at the expense of constitutional government. The only sympathy cited concerns his American wife and potential wealth.
An analysis of a six hour clash between students and police in Chicago tied to the city’s noted university status and its ties to powerful interests. The piece argues the incident reflects a reversion to older campus unrest and predicts gradual improvement as more mature educational values prevail.
The text argues that fines in cotton mills should protect weavers from injustice. It condemns punishing workers for minor defects and defects caused by yarn quality or machinery. It calls for limits on overseer power, ensuring weavers aren’t punished for faults beyond their control.
The text states that Senor Dupuy de Lome did indeed write the letter to General fpelejas, now published in translation by the Cuban junta. It asserts his authorship and portrays him as the persona representing certain interests.
In a village store tale two summer guests George Campbell and Burt Sanders buy mustard plasters for colds. George misplaces the plasters during a thunderstorm, applying one to the wrong man at the hotel, causing a comic mix up that ends with Burt’s improving cold and the doctor puzzled by the mysterious chest mark.
The Observant Citizen reports on Willie Vanderbilt Jr improving from measles and notes J P Armour of Chicago in town. It praises Engineer Lewis Sawyer and George Stanley for rescuing two boys from ice in South Bay. It mentions DA Stevens leaving for the South, Nellie J Peterkin’s unmwarded manslaughter case, a Shawmut road car incident, and Colonel Ben Lovell leading the Boston Cycle Board of Trade. It also covers fashion notes on plaid umbrella covers, L Foster Morse’s Arkansas Hot Springs trip, and Boston actor David H Lythgoe praised for stage prowess and generosity.
The thirty-second annual Massachusetts Department G A R encampment at Tremont Temple concluded with an anti House of Lords victory electing all officers and council members. Commander Gobin and national officers helped restore harmony as Boston old soldiers celebrated at Faneuil Hall.
The Massachusetts department encampment adopted a resolution directing the incoming department commander and council to seek a vote among posts on amending rules to bar past commanders from seating in national or department encampments. The next encampment will be held in Boston as new officers were installed with Past Department Commander Arthur A. Smith officiating.
The Boston Merchants Association held its monthly meeting at Youngs, approving a city finance draft and supporting civil service reform. They outlined efforts on Massachusetts Paris Exposition representation and reciprocal trade with Canada, and admitted Royal B. Young of R G Dun Co as a member.
The poem argues love as a divine, unknowable force beyond human comprehension. It describes love as a brightness too clear for the eye and a wisdom too deep for wits, guiding souls toward truth while remaining unseen in worldly mind.
Funeral services for Adam Macool were held at his Provincetown home with Rev. W F Skerrye officiating. He left a long career in coopering oil casks and later vessel investments and whaling work. Interment is planned in Swan Point cemetery Providence Rhode Island. Macool, born 1823 in Ireland, grew into a solid business leader and Democratic treasurer. He married Sarah Ross of Aberdeen, who died in 1893, and they had four infant children.
Alexander Agassiz of Harvard plans several months among the Fiji islands to study coral reefs. Princess Eno of Battenberg born in 1887 is the only royal child born in Scotland for nearly 800 years since Charles I in 1600. George F. McCulloch of Indiana resigns from politics due to ill health. General Kuropatkin newly named Russian minister of war rose from humble origins, long governor of the trans Caspian region with base at Askhabad. An Alsatian named Thorner serves the German required military term and refuses arms citing scruples while performing other duties.
The New England Hardware Dealers Association held its annual meeting at United States Hotel with 86 members. President D. F. Barber chaired as speakers included Senator Albert L. Harwood Representative Joseph Stewart and Charles E. Adams. Officers elected: Barber president Adams vice president Tukey and others.
The third annual Tufts College Alumni Association meeting and dinner were held at Delmonico's. Re-elected president is the Rev. Charles Eaton D D from the Church of the Divine Pat ternity. About fifty attendees included Tufts professors Benjamin Brown E S Start and Thomas Whittemore. Toasts praised our alma mater the college and the public schools and comradeship among college men.
About 20 members attended the Fifteen Club dinner at Parker's last evening. Guests included Colonels Wellington Ferris Stevens and Smith, J. S. Cushing, E. Frank Lewis, Captain T. J. Olys, and Henry S. Pratt. Colonel Smith presided. brief addresses followed. Officers elected: President Captain Samuel Hichborn, secretary Colonel S. M. Wedges, treasurer Captain Jacob Foter.
The Norwood min strels repeated their Village Hall performance with Manager John F. Halloran and his troupe earning praise for a show deemed as good as any ever given in town.
At 6 30 last evening the two days convention of the Massachusetts Woman's Relief Corps closed with installation of officers by national president Mrs Sarah Martin and senior vice president Mrs Ellen Atkins. Josephine A Burdick of North Adams becomes president. other officers listed. A vote authorized $260 more for the Soldiers Home in Chelsea from fair profits, atop $500 already given for a dormitory. Messages greeting Massachusetts came from Russell A Alger and from departments of Kansas Connecticut and Colorado. Notable visitors included Gobin and staff and Rhode Island department officers.
Mrs. Waterman honored with floral tokens a diamond ring and a fan while the banner corps of Westminster praised for harmony. George Curtis is laid to rest at Forest Hills with many dignitaries in attendance and a pascal of flowers surrounding the casket.
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