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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1899
Page
4
The Boston Post announces subscription rates for New England readers and urges subscribers to provide both current and future addresses for mail delivery. It lists yearly and half yearly options and a note on updating address information.
The notice states all money sent is at sender risk and not to send cash. It specifies that checks drafts and money orders should be made payable to the Post Publishing Company.
Editorial Rooms No 1004 and Boston Business Office No 428 are located at 259 Washington Street Boston detailing historic office locations in the city.
The Boston Post can be secured at leading New York hotels with subscriptions paid in advance. Subscriptions will be discontinued without further notice on expiration. Readers unable to obtain the Post via their newsdealer should notify E. A. Grozier, editor and publisher, by mail.
In reports of yesterday’s reception for the presidential party there were exaggerations about uncomplimentary demonstrations toward Secretary Alger. The incidents were due to irresponsible youths not citizens. General Alger is a guest and Boston hospitality is sacred. Citizens may critique his conduct as a public official, but they should do so calmly and properly, not shouting as he passes.
The editorial denounces the army reorganization bill as a costly danger that could empower the President to expand or shrink the army at will. It argues the measure threatens imperialism at home and predicts passage prospects will worsen in a new Congress, with a stronger Senate but a weaker House after March.
Boston demands U S government pursue an Italian citizen murderer held in Italy. officials urge continued effort despite State Department reluctance citing cost and sovereignty concerns. Governor Wolcott urged to press for formal demand and foreign-justice assistance.
The speaker urges immediate steps to surrender Di Biasi to face justice for the murder of Foreman Ellis. Boston, Suffolk County, and Massachusetts demand action, arguing it is unlikely the suspect can escape by fleeing to Italy and criticizing Washington for lenient signals.
A newspaper analyzes President McKinley's Home Market Club remarks, noting eloquence and humane tone but accusing him of avoiding a pledge on Philippine independence. The piece argues the President justifies policy without stating a path to self-government or a clear liberty timetable for Filipinos.
In Harrisburg the Republican factions struggle over changing Pennsylvania trial by jury laws to aid Senator Quay. The adjournment of the legislature delays the McCarroll jury bill beyond Quay’s upcoming trial, while another relief bill expands peremptory challenges. The conflict frames a broader party battle as a trial looms.
The Observant Citizen reports President McKinley left the Tou raine yesterday afternoon for Mechanics building as a vast crowd gathered on snow piled ten feet high on the Common. An engineer saluted from the hoisting engine on the Masonic building and church chimes rang out as the party moved toward Arlington street. The President’s flag fluttered on the State House easterly pole amid cheers.
A quiet day yields little banner action while crowds at South Terminal greet a presidential special. Police block passage until a railroad division superintendent proves his identity. Lectures, entertainments, and social events fill Boston venues, with storms prompting charitable acts and public concerns about public notices and sidewalk safety.
A poem contrasts a rich magnate’s grand mansion with a poor worker’s hunger and the impact of wage cuts. It questions whether wealth alters greed, asking if swapping lives would soften the magnate’s craving for riches or reveal lasting coldness toward the laboring poor.
In a crowded city, Mary Winter, a modest spinster, nurses ill stranger David Blake across days of bleak hardship. Their shared care blossoms into affection as he recovers and asks her to marry, promising a hopeful future away from poverty.
The Post announces weekly prizes for Original Short Stories. Ten dollars for first, five for second, two dollars each for four others. Entries must be 700 to 1000 words, typed on one side, with full name and address, prepaid return postage, and folded manuscripts. See ly women readers invited. mail to Short Story Editor.
A collage of humorous quotes and captions from various papers. Jests range from military satire to social quips with pent up wit and light irony. Notable lines reference Hobson, a bluff about a war writer, and playful exchanges about prices, etiquette, and language.
Judge Ross of Vermont, a Dartmouth mentor in Green Mountain roadside schools, is profiled alongside Surgeon-General Sir James Mouat, 83, awarded the Victoria Cross at Balaklava for tending wounded under Russian fire. Also noted: future military attaché to Washington Captain Arthur H. Lee, John Y. Stone’s vast 80 acre apple orchard in Glenwood Iowa, and Delaware legislator William T. King’s single status and an absurd marry-or-oyster-supper note.
The Boston Post explains its new daily Portrait Gallery of New England maids and matrons uses advancing half tone illustrations printed on regular presses. It notes artistic aims, cost, and recognition of experimental mechanical challenges as the public’s support is sought for this newspaper illustration development.
The publication of half tone portraits in the No Name Series will end and cabinet photograph sets for first identifications are withdrawn. Orders for cabinets will still be sent by Monday next to the ladies who already promptly identified portraits published.
Letter to the Post arguing for consistent factory laws across states. It notes varying child labor ages from 12 to 18, inspector enforcement, workplace safety rules, ventilation and fire escapes, and argues that education and moral welfare are tied to regulation. The writer claims many men go hungry due to labor restrictions and urges reform. Beachmont, signed Eugene B. Willard.
A public letter urges open Sunday access to the old Public Library for lecture series, criticizing prohibitive rents. It calls for a nonsectarian, reform-friendly management of hall rentals to advance the goal of bringing lectures to the people, countering Puritan restrictions and political biases.
The letter from Theodore W. Curtis of Boston dated January 24 urges immediate action by city bodies including the Board of Aldermen the superintendent of public buildings and the mayor and his clerks arguing that civilization and the people demand it.
A reader critiques a profiled historian in a letter praising Admiral Sampson and other naval leaders. The note contrasts wind and warfare, cites Napoleon, von Moltke, Grant, Nelson, Farragut, and Dewey, and questions Clubley’s historical views while praising Sampson. Beston, Feb.
Article notes Mrs Henry C Whitney and the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women staging a meeting to argue suffrage won t help working women. It cites pay gaps for male and female teachers in Massachusetts and Boston and cites Wyoming s equal pay law and Utah s school pay parity after women s suffrage. An ounce of fact is worth a pound of theory.
The Rev W C Rich, a retired Methodist Episcopal minister, died at his daughter Mrs Raymond’s home in Middletown Conn yesterday afternoon at about eighty years of age. Captain A W Bartlett of Pittsfield N H, Civil War veteran and prominent lawyer, died last evening from a shock. Born in Epping sixty years ago Bartlett authored the history of his regiment and served as judge advocate appointed by General Wistar until 1864.
Joe Lincoln in the LL A. W. Bulletin describes a family scene when the father is ill. The children, mother, and siblings rush to help, with doctors, heat, and comforting words as the father fears death before a doctor confirms a cold. The mood shifts to impatience and fuss once the father recovers, showing the strain on the family during illness.
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