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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1899
Page
4
The committee on mercantile affairs will hold a hearing at the State House at 10 30 a m Thursday February 23 on telephone reform. All interested parties are urged to attend.
The legislative committee on federal relations schedules a February 21 hearing on several resolutions praising Senator Hoar for his Washington speech on republican liberty. Resolutions were filed January 9 and delayed by Lodge’s speech, Senate treaty vote, and President McKinley’s Boston visit. The committee now intends to proceed, though critics call the delays unwelcome.
The Lynn Board of Trade asks Lynn lawmakers to back measures for state supervision of telephone and telegraph companies. Lynn’s strong business base and legislative representation bolster the push, as major manufacturing interests in the city lend weight to the issue. Trade groups statewide are voicing support.
The Morgan Nicaragua Canal proposal is effectively dead for this session as it was blocked from attaching to the sundry civil appropriation bill. Debate questioned a $5,000,000 payout to the Maritime Canal Company and hinted at ties to beneficiaries of the Hanna steamship subsidy. The public supports a canal but opposes the plan’s alleged favoritism and alleged improper deals.
A formal opening was held yesterday for the surgical department and amphitheatre of City Hospital. The event marked completion of improvements and was attended by hospital officials and local dignitaries.
City officials and hospital trustees attended a ceremony where President Shuman delivered an address highlighting the new surgical department. The completion marks a major advance in hospital service, placing City Hospital among leading institutions and enabling modern, improved patient care. Under A Shuman’s twelve year presidency, the hospital’s progress remains notable.
Boston welcomes President McKinley with warmth and reverence as officials and citizens press for clarity on imperial policy. The editorial emphasizes the chance to speak freely at the Home Market Club banquet, outlining wishes to distinguish moral aims from annexation and to explain plans for distant lands.
The Observant Citizen notes a humorous storm incident on Massachusetts Avenue where a horse pulling a sleigh overturned a snow pile and nearly buried the animal before it was freed. It also mentions a Boston hotel tax proposal echoing English terminal hotels as possible relief during blizzards. Admiral Dewey is referenced briefly in the same column.
The writer recalls a brutal winter at sea with ships ashore at Cuttyhunk, praises Salvation Army relief in Boston feeding 2100, and reports on local benevolence. It mentions Rev Cdr Lindsay staying at St Pauls, the death of Samuel Wells Jr in Redlands, and various anecdotes from Harvard Square to London cab strikes plus ties to Boston University and notable locals.
Old Boston offers a grand greeting to Jere O Calloran the chief of the Yankee unit. The message thanks him for visiting and vows ten thousand welcomes as locals invite discussion and unity across distant lands.
A recipe note lists stuffed beefsteak with standard stuffing for fowl, wrapped in beefsteak and tied, covered with salt pork and baked slowly. Included are bread and butter, Graham shortcake with orange marmalade, tea and cocoa, fried potatoes, and Emma Prench of Allston at 11 Parker Avenue as the contributor.
Ethel Grayson, returning from a visit, overhears two men plotting a bank robbery. She warns police via a long distance call, leading to the capture of the three, who had wrecked multiple banks. Jack's salary rises and the couple receive a cottage epilogue gift from bank officials.
Four fashions suitable for at homes teas and musi calles feature an exceedingly graceful gown in pale gray cashmere. The skirt is gored and trimmed with bands of embroidered gray velvet creating a princess-like effect with tucked silk underneath resembling an underskirt. Embroidered velvet decorates the waist, sleeves, and yoke.
A collage of humorous exchanges from Harper’s Weekly and the Indianapolis Journal showcases blunt wit and moral piety. A Sunday School teacher admonishes Thomas for profanity while a stubborn boy counters with a taunting retort.
Daughters of the American Revolution gathered at Parker House with thirty-one chapters and forty-seven delegates. Miss Sarah Daggett was unanimously elected state regent, noted for Spain War nursing, and will lead efforts in Washington for the National University plan. Letters of welcome and tributes to former leaders followed.
Margaret Nason, from the Sitting Bull community, spent ten years eastward for education including Lincoln Institute and Girls' High School in Philadelphia. She is noted as the only Indian girl graduate of Girls' High, proficient in history and languages, later teaching Indian language to instructors during post graduate work.
The Boston Post offers an order for a dozen fine cabinet photographs to the woman reader who mails in the earliest identification of a half tone portrait. Instructions specify address to the Portrait Gallery Editor at the Boston Post. The notice outlines criteria for the first correct contribution.
The Boston Post introduces a daily Portrait Gallery showcasing half tone portraits of New England women. The series aims to improve artistic illustration on newspapers while noting ongoing experimental printing challenges and promising future improvements in Sunday editions with photographer credits.
The Boston Post invites readers to identify daily portraits submitted by female readers. Each week six portraits are named, with a prize for accurate identifications. Entrants must mail with the week’s photograph date and include sender details. women readers are favored.
In Pennsylvan ia, Prof George H Stephens testifies to a post arrest confession admitting charges but blaming President Warfield. He says Warfield pressured him into signing a paper that forced his resignation. Warfield is accused of causing Prof Mvanus’s breakdown and confinement in an insane asylum.
At the annual meeting of the New Boston Music Hall, Treasurer Cotting said the item Construction 18 853 covers taxes architects fees and other maintenance expenses. Colonel Higginson outlined plans to be shown soon for a hall modeled after Leipsic with reversed stage but similar seating, longer floor and multiple galleries. The new design aims to seat about 2397 plus a little more, with comparable individual seating to the current Music Hall. Directors elected were Higginson Cotting Hooper Bigelow Sears. The president named Hooper Chapin Blake as auditing committee.
The officers of the Boston Union express appreciation for the Post's coverage of the Endeavor Day rally. Robert H. Magwood, chairman press committee of the Christian Endeavor Union, signs the note from 920 Tremont Building dated February 11. Dr Ball's Cough Syrup is economical and effective, curing colds per advertisement.
Mayors of Boston Lawrence and Haverhill gathered at the Boot and Shoe Club in Brunswie. Mayor Quincy urged separating legislative and administrative departments and warned against private gain control of public affairs. Mayor Eaton argued cities must live within incomes and reduce debt. Mayor Chase advocated municipal ownership of waterworks electric plants and street railways.
A Grand Trunk locomotive leaving Portland Missouri at 8 19 morning derailed two and a half miles east of Lennoxville this afternoon. The train followed with three trainmen and four passengers injured. The most serious case is F Ferdinand a news agent who was internally badly injured. Sherbrooke Que February 0e
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