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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1902
Page
4
The Boston Post presents its stance as a Democratic paper serving New England readers with local, regional, and national news commentary and opinion pieces reflecting the era’s political landscape.
The city welcomes Mayor Collins with broad support from Boston residents and a strong Democratic City Council. Hart departs after a two year term, expressing satisfaction with his achievements and urging citizens to wish him well in private life.
The Panama Canal Company offers to sell all its assets to the United States for 40 million dollars. The Paris directors act quickly by cable as Secretary-General arrives in New York. Admiral Walker's commission may report a recommendation to accept, noting Panama's advantages over Nicaragua including shorter passage, harbors, and lower maintenance costs. The Hepburn Nicaragua bill faces House action, while Senate review awaits.
The article argues that Senate President Soule and House Speaker Myers will soon announce committees. It criticizes January as wasteful for filings and urges two week filing limits to accelerate legislative work and prevent late avalanches of bills and petitions.
The St Louis Exposition offers 200000 dollars to demonstrate a successful airship next year. Paris has seen notable flights with a prize ten times smaller sparking fierce competition. Santos Dumont’s dirigible and other designs draw attention, while the Maxim machine and Langley efforts hint at a broad international field for flight.
Professor Bell envisions long distance air travel with aeroplanes over the Potomac and awaits confidence to attempt it. A global gathering is hoped for at the St Louis fair, with the event set for spring of 196. A full year remains to prepare.
Letter to the editor arguing that sugar tariffs burden consumers more than refiners. It cites duty rates by sugar degree, notes Havemeyer’s claim about tariffs and trusts, and claims the 1887 tariff collected about $85 million with most going to the Treasury and producers. The writer advocates Cuban sugar free and full free-list removal.
The Observant Citizen reports on General Mathews and staff hosting a first monthly gathering at Westminster with a talk on Military Law by Judge Advocate Bordman Hall. It notes a musical program at First Baptist Church, and anecdotes from New Year events and street incidents in Boston.
Mirthful campus events at the Cadets and University Club unfold as Franks and Bremer lead a new Cap of Fortune. Weddings and retirements bridge Somerville and Roxbury, with Sam Foss expanding library work and long-serving teachers Casey and Fiske stepping into promotions. Mayor Hurley of Salem prepares to read his inaugural as a thunderlike noon sound passes.
A Bingville Bugle clipping satirizes editor reports about Constable Hawkins and a press accident. It recounts church dog fight antics, New Year resolutions to pay debts, police humor, and political jests about Partridge and Tammany. The piece blends local humor with quick vignettes.
Helen Moulton, a top student at Weston Academy, is crushed after losing a prize due to a half per cent in algebra. Mr. Graham, the stern math teacher, reveals he loves her, explaining his markingBias and offering a life to Helen as his wife, which she accepts with relief and joy.
The William McKinley National Memorial Arch Association drafted a bill to be introduced in Congress this week. A commission led by the joint library, state, and war chiefs would pick a site and approve designs for a memorial arch in honor of William McKinley. The act allows use of federal land in Washington DC excluding Capitol and Library of Congress grounds and appropriates up to 25000 dollars for plans and models.
Cambridge scholar John Graham Brooks spoke at the Berkeley Lyceum on the psychology of utopia defining it as the fear of tyranny by convention. He criticized college men attending late balls and returning exhausted, saying fashionable hosts solicit the young as earnest men lack time for work.
Mrs. D. Crawford of Ridgeland Mississippi says Orangeine is the best relief for neuralgia in a brisk testimonial cited in local health notes.
The Times publishes a Kipling poem urging universal military service. It rebukes the South Africa War’s start, mocks Britain’s pride, and calls for every island native to be trained for war to save the country and end servile fear.
The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association held its executive meeting at 3 Park Street with Mrs. Charles Park presiding. A resolution notes that among 8,000 Boston mayoral voters, over 41,000 did not vote for the school committee and urges greater public school interest by both men and women.
The article describes serving creamed chicken in small paper cases with tissue frills as a suitable hot dish for a children's party. It explains preparing steaming tender fowl, chopping into light and dark meat, and making a sauce from flour, butter, hot milk, and seasonings. If using cream, reduce flour by one level tablespoon.
The epigrammatic writer Max O'Rell shows rapid recovery after a delicate operation at the French Benevolent Society hospital. The removal of a portion of the large intestine near the vermiform appendix was performed successfully with no fever. He joked that New Year’s Day was “the widest open thing” in New York.
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