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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1896
Page
4
Boston Post advertising a price list for daily and Sunday editions with yearly and short-term rates. Instructions cover address changes, payment methods, and advance payment policy. Copyright line lists BE A. Grozer as editor and publisher.
The Territories committee left open for reconsideration its vote against admitting Arizona as a state arguing the territory’s population under 60,000 justifies waiting. The piece attacks Senate packing by Republicans and warns against adding new free silver supporters in Congress.
A biennial resolution moves to final action in the State House on Monday. The piece, backed by Republicans, would shift control away from the people for two years, while critics argue the people remain the ultimate referees and favor annual elections to keep officials accountable amid audit findings. The debate centers on public policy and accountability.
The Cuban patriots propose paying Spain 100 million dollars for Cuba's independence, with General Gomez suggesting the offer could be formalized and accepted. They claim Cuba's wealth makes repayment feasible and note Spain would fare poorly keeping Cuba in revolt, while sentimental factors color the debate.
The column argues business sentiment dominates policy and questions whether allowing Cuba to pay the price of liberty and go free is the best path out of the trouble. It discusses consequences and implications of choosing economic interests over decisive action.
The piece argues against the 1894 act allowing Boston subway control to be leased to a private firm for fifty years. It notes population growth from 115,000 to 500,000 and warns conditions will change, making a half century monopoly risky and harmful to public interests. Repeal of the long lease clause is urged.
The report that Dr Nansen has reached the North Pole would be of great interest if confirmed. He sailed from Christiania twenty months ago and chose to drift with Arctic ice seeking the route across the polar cap. If he has sent word of success, the long venture would be realized by a daring plan guided by natural forces.
The piece argues that U S policy should grant belligerent status to Cuban insurgents if facts justify it, citing Spain recognizing the Confederacy during the Civil War. It notes Spain acted promptly, while the United States has moved slowly, and rejects sentiment as the basis for recognition.
A poem describing seasonal gifts of affection as the speaker praises a beloved through spring summer and autumn. The narrator offers blossoms, admiration, and friendship as tokens, culminating in a final vow of fervent love and a request to accept the valentine.
The piece laments a snowless season spoiling tobogganing and sleigh trade, with rain and floods delaying events. It describes Washington and Tremont streets at night, carriage lines, and the wish for spring to revive business. It mentions Pretty Kittie O’Neil’s ball and changes in the street musician scene.
The piece surveys market chatter on the Butte & Boston incident and stock power, a Western Division rail ride with Sydney coal aroma, Julia Neilson’s Tremont Theatre visit, a Somerville staging of A Cigarette From Java, a humorous verse about electric bells, the Citizens' Municipal Union plan for its first annual meeting at the Quincy House, and a Charlestown dog saga with a passerby comment.
A collage of humorous exchanges from various periodicals. Jokes include a photograph compliment, a heat complaint, a playful business misreading, and jokes about travel, storage gas meters, and a barking iron dog.
A sentimental fragment about love and affection shows a lover's compliment and a maid's heart. The poem notes that Valentines affect the mind and heart and that lovers know how to satisfy each other with ideal affection. Samuel Dunlop signs off.
In Regent Street a bashful Percy Clifford loves Muriel Davenport while Ralph aims to win her fortune. Ralph delays posting a loving letter, plans India departure, but is killed in a boar hunt after a spear wounds him. Clifford reveals the truth to Muriel, who learns the full tale.
A lecture girl appears in a demure gown and hat during Lent. Her conversation focuses on lectures and the heathen, with no time for flirting as she keeps eyes on the prayer book and pulpit.
The article describes a fashionable young maid’s upcoming Lenten gown in mixed light and dark materials. It features a tight fitted waist with revers slashed at the shoulders, brown velvet edging, gold paillettes, ostrich tips at the neck, and a broad hat with a golden brown bow, amid season’s social events.
A letter argues that true Irish actors exist but variety stage sketches deform the Irish image. The writer urges readers born in Ireland to boycott performances with gorilla-faced acrobatic depictions to curb the nuisance. A second contributor calls for railroads to reduce smoke and soot within city limits.
An old veteran argues that white hotel proprietors would not host colored guests and that social equality is unattainable. He suggests forming a hotel for the colored race to avoid offending white guests and cites Bishop Arnett as an example of racial differences. He notes seat avoidance on car rides and calls for a separate colored hotel in Boston.
The writer urges Boston leaders to clear away relics of the past and relocate the Old State House onto the Common to create space and improve public view as the city plans for the coming century, signing as Ticonderoga.
Letter to the editor from A Spectator correcting a misreport of last evening’s joint debate at Minot Hall on the question of electing U S Senators by direct popular vote. The writer states judges ruled for the negative, not the affirmative. Dated Feb 13.
Questioning why laws bar owners of buildings and factories from burning soft coal. The inquiry highlights regulatory friction between industrial heating needs and environmental or health standards.
An excerpt laments sweeping the witty Irishman off stage and recalls the old line Hamlet with Hamlet left out. The piece notes the Irishman’s sagacity remains traditional and mocks exaggeration while referencing the judge’s pursuit of an undiscovered country.
The item lists breakfast dinner and supper offerings with dishes like Fried Mush Maple Syrup Lamb Chops and Fish Pudding. A recipe describes making fish pudding from cold fish with milk flour butter eggs baked thirty minutes and notes prune shape as a gelatine prune dessert served cold. ADELAIDE ANDREWS North Boston address listed.
The Boston Post offers a weekly $5 prize for the best three meal bill of fare from women readers. Bills must read like menus with brief dish explanations, for a family of five at under $10 a week. Submissions due Saturdays with prints of winners Mondays and Sundays. Send to Cooking Editor, the Post, Boston. Do not include stamps or return of rejected communications. Write on one side only.
Two ex patrolmen Frederick T. Foley and Dennis J. Driscoll were sentenced to two years in the House of Correction by Judge Richardson. Foley was convicted of cheating and Driscoll of forgery and uttering. The men operated a State Street office that masked a swindling scheme harming Ronald McDonald Henry P Gilligan John H O'Brien and Alexander McKeagan. Driscoll forged Robert Barnes name on a six dollar order to Thomas Haggerty.
Mr and Mrs O H P Belmont sail from New York for Europe on the steamship Majestic Wednesday. They are accompanied by Harold Vanderbilt and a small party including a valet a maid and Harold's nurse. They expect to remain abroad for months.
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