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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1896
Page
4
Boston Post and Sunday Post publish subscription rates in advance. Notices explain address changes, payment terms, and how to handle missed issues. The Post Publishing Company requests readers mail changes and warns against sending cash with payments. Editor E A Grozifarr is listed.
A historical article notes the party’s constrained course under bonds to the A. P. A. It states Mr. McLaughlin would have been kept on if possible, alleges the party expelled a Catholic clerk at the demand of the prospective element, and claims the Republican Legislature begins its session acknowledging subservience to bigotry, marking a troubling start to its work.
The article criticizes Senator Sherman for injecting a political push into a resolution to retire United States notes redeemed from the gold reserve. It argues the tariff has increased revenues, not reduced them, and urges removing reissued redeemed notes from circulation while hoping Sherman can win support to include this in the bond bill.
The State Senate should restore yeas and nays roll calls to align with Democratic strength and public fairness. Republicans could block individual records while Democrats seek a detailed record of actions, arguing the minority, though larger than last year, remains underrepresented in proportion to the vote.
The piece argues South Africa tensions threaten Salisbury, warning of a quiet move to seize the Transvaal and risk of war from fili busting. It notes Britain’s hostile stance yet global belief of a new British grab, compares Cape Colony and Transvaal to Venezuela and British Guiana, and predicts Boer resistance to any invasion.
A Harvard group urged Congress to support Cleveland’s plan for a Venezuela boundary commission. The piece argues the commission seeks peace by uncovering where the right lies, countering claims that it will hinder settlement or favor one race over another. It emphasizes that knowing the truth aids peaceful resolution.
A Massachusetts House clerk race highlights anti Catholic prejudice as misused civil service ideas with Edward A. McLaughlin, a Democrat, blamed for defeat due to his faith rather than fitness. The text praises his two decade tenure and condemns bigotry in politics.
The article notes Victoria has appointed three Poets Laureate of England, with Wordsworth seen as tame, Tennyson praised as the truest among them aside from Ben Jonson, and Alfred Austin as a cautious, decorous successor known more for prose and journalism than for bold verse. Six volumes of collected poems mark his claim.
A Boston letter recounts a windy Monday at Luce home where garments on a exposed line were scattered by the high breeze and later recovered. Mentions W E Putnam and his athletic son, Nat Childs at Tremont Theatre, Standard stock company plans, and notes from the Boston Directory including odd spellings and local nuisances. Mr. John O Loughlin, postmaster of Laconia, N H, was in town.
Henry Kelloggs ends a forty four year tenure at the Washington National Bank, surrounded by friends. Adamowski hosts a Brunswick supper with Mme Melba and others. Octave Brogi leads Italian quarter Democrats. city officials Conry Hunter and Mullen noted for leadership and service to Mayor Quincy.
Washington on New Year’s Day featured formal greetings at the White House with the President and Mrs. Cleveland, Cabinet members, and diplomats amid elaborate decorations and music by Sousa. The piece also profiles Harry Gutterman, a 12-year-old Boston boy weighing 178 pounds, claiming the title of the largest boy in the world, contrasting him with Anton Mochty from Austria.
Daily table hints list breakfast items and a dinner plan with recipes for Apple fritters Railroad cakes and Brown Betty. Includes instructions, ingredients, and methods with a closing credit to Mrs. Haughton of South Paris Maine.
Richard Powell struggles to capture Desdemona’s face for a frontispiece to a Shakspere gift edition. He doubts his model’s ability to convey moral depth, then returns to a stark realization as his wife enters, revealing the unseen reward of his devotion.
A list of luncheon dishes and recipe fragments includes oranges, hominy, calves liver and bacon, creamed potatoes, Graham muffins, coffee, salmon salad, strawberry preserve, white bread, watermelon cake, chocolate, oyster soup, mixed pickles, roast beef, Delmonico potatoes, macaroni and cheese, celery salad, fruit pudding, crackers, cheese, and a salad with salmon on lettuce. The watermelon cake frosting parts and a lemon jelly fruit dish with figs, banana, orange, lemon, green grapes, and raisins are described, plus a note of MISS BESSIE ETHEL SWEET at 49 High Street, Malden, Mass.
The Boston Post offers a weekly five dollar prize for the best three meal menu submitted by women readers. Each entry must show a menu with three meals for four to five persons and include preparation directions. Expenditures limited to ten dollars per week for a family of five. Submissions accepted until November 9, with weekly and Sunday prints. Send to Cooking Editor, the Post, Boston.
Boston’s East Boston Evening High School plans a long term start on Friday evening January 3 with high expected enrollment. Classes now formed in phonography bookkeeping double entry penmanship English and arithmetic. Additional subjects to follow include rhetoric US history civil government and a beginners phonography class if attendance warrants it.
Rockville report says ex Sheriff Kibbe arrived with ex Postmaster Arthur H Patten of Tolland who was arrested in Pittsburgh for forgery. Authorities seek outside settlement as the government may drop the case with his pondsmen already settled.
Business leaders in Amesbury on January 1 pledged substantial funds to start a memorial honoring John Greenleaf Whittier. Cardinal Gibbons William Lloyd Garrison and Thomas Wentworth Higginson join the effort urging preservation of Whittier’s Amesbury home as a memorial building.
Boston reader R. H. Campbell defends the nutritive value of a $3 to $3.50 Boston board, disputing Akers’ claim that street conditions reflect starvation. He argues many skilled workers gain strength from meals at first class cafes and asserts his own weight stable despite vacations, challenging the dinner-cost conjecture.
An English magazine credits the original John Bull as Dr John Bull first Gresham professor of music organist at Hereford Cathedral and composer to Queen Elizabeth. He studied with a famed St Omer musician who claimed the work could not be expanded. Bull, seeking time alone, added forty parts to the song in under three hours proving himself either the devil or John Bull as the saying goes.
Thomaston Me Jan 1 Washburn Bros and Co launched today the four wasted schooner R W Hopkins 900 tons register a first class white oak ogsel to be commanded by Captain G W Hichborn of Searsport Mir and named for R W Hopkins
An assortment of witty exchanges and social vignettes from a bygone era. Jocular remarks on bloomers marriage promises and parental questions mix with flirtatious banter about proposals. A Glasgow race display prompts humor about wrong clocks and Sabbath timing.
A red cherry skating cloak for a young girl described with faced cloth, strapped seams, large buttons and sleeves. Paired with a red felt sailor hat trimmed with black ostrich tips, the ensemble includes wrist lacing on gloves as a new fashion wrinkle. White gloves complete the miniature winter outfit.
A fragment outlines evolving dress trends with a sharp social commentary. It notes daytime and evening wear rivalries, plaid ties for boys, shifting hairstyles from yellow to jet, and the joking prediction of stove pipe hats for women, closing with a question of what comes next.
Bay State Council No 1 of Roxbury United American Mechanics has elected officers for the new year. Councillor E A Stephens vice councillor Charles A Perkins recording secretary Loring F Fountain assistant recording secretary Fred R Lincoln financial secretary George B Whitmore treasurer Frank O Hobbs Ind W J Putnam ex Frank Doughty I Pro H T Fuller O Pro A L Higgins trustees Co H Lewis D M Eldredge G F Whitmore
In Woonsocket on Social street a 15 year old deaf and dumb boy, Joseph Baillargeon, son of Oliver Baillargeon, was knocked down by a horse and an express wagon. He died within minutes from a fractured skull. He had been a pupil at a deaf and dumb institution in Worcester.
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