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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1897
Page
4
The Boston Post announces its Democratic stance with the motto With a Mission and the slogan Without a Muzzle as defining characteristics of the paper’s political identity. The notice frames the paper as a representative voice for New England and emphasizes its mission-driven journalism.
Berlin speculators resist a sweeping futures ban on stock and produce exchanges as methodical evasion grows. Government hesitation to prosecute signals a prolonged clash. Massachusetts lawmakers are urged to pursue Governor Wolcott's reform despite Germany's pushback. The Massachusetts bill targets a narrow form of stock gambling and could be enforceable.
The article blasts British policy over the India famine and Bombay plague. It argues rain will not relieve immediate hunger, condemns late relief, and urges prompt quarantines to stop spread while labeling India a reproach to imperial governance.
A brief report notes fairs, long regarded as fruitful hubs of commerce and exchange, as a source of war being abolished and peace advancing through organized trade networks. The item underscores the role of fairs in fostering economic ties that reduce conflict.
The author argues hard times persist despite fertile fields and skilled labor, blaming no natural causes. He notes periods of prosperity under protection yet questions the tariff policy and silver currency issues, citing broad enterprise and invention as evidence of potential to improve conditions.
The treaty with Great Britain creating a five year high court of arbitration is hailed as a peace landmark. It aims to resolve disputes without war, but the line between national honor and sovereignty remains vague and its long term effect depends on future practice.
Senator Gallivan introduces a bill to require the West End Company to provide free transfers across all lines. The measure draws strong public support, with about a million metropolitan residents affected and echoes broad city demand for universal free transfers not yet achieved by present partial stations.
The Observant Citizen laments men’s rights and contrasts it with women’s increasing work. It recalls a Field’s Corner Neponset Bridge incident and warns about nonstandard white posts and crowded stations. It notes Fall River line adding a physician, a flat builder’s coal‑filled baths, Boston theater fame, and rising female commercial workers. A unique railway ticket ball is also mentioned for a charity event.
A rugged frontier memory recalls Bill Tebbits who converts after a staged robbery, and his sister Bess Tebbits who dies in a gunfight while defending others. The narrator, a former sheriff, recounts the dramatic events, the courtroom aftermath, and a later prayer meeting conversion. Then comes a household recipe section by Mrs. G. E. Rundellot offering veal croquettes, tomato soup, banana pudding, and leftovers guidance.
Daily table hints list meals for breakfast lunch and supper including fruit oats veal croquettes rice gems coffee tomato soup roast lamb mint sauce mashed potatoes and desserts. The note ends with a corn omelet recipe instructing to simmer corn in milk season and fold in eggs and crackers then fry in butter until browned.
Miss Jessie A. Ackerman, a capable woman preacher, serves as assistant pastor at Fourth Baptist Church Chicago. Empress Elizabeth of Austria enjoys shopping herself when abroad. Professor Emerson Barnard of Yerkes Observatory won the Royal Astronomical Society gold medal in London for discoveries including Jupiter’s fifth moon. Robert E. Peary received the Cullom gold medal from the American Geographical Society for Greenland work. Michigan Governor Pingree offers $25 prize to a University of Michigan student who identifies the most obsolete laws and appoints a commission to judge the contest.
A collage of light quotes from Cleveland Plain Dealer, Puck, Tit-Bits, London Figaro, and Detroit Journal. Jests compare creditors with fog, discuss Chicago, literary tips, proverbs, and an anecdote about a lord chief justice racing to the Law Courts after a Grosvenor Square accident.
A Boston reader writes that daily Post religious reports from Tremont Temple People Temple and Berkeley Temple help those unable to attend services. The writer notes Moody Jones and Murphy are respected speakers and reports the paper's completeness drew a reader to collect all issues for elderly readers.
The Board of Aldermen took no action on electing a city clerk, tabling the item. They revived a fight over the Consumptives Home in Dorchester with Codman urging a hearing before a permit for James Mulcahey’s addition, while Lee warned of political lines and questioned authority. A special committee was later authorized to review whether districts should prohibit consumptives hospitals and to report with evidence. other orders covered a Dorchester street prohibition, a pipe line system for East Boston, Deer Island electric plant funding, a strandway speedway plan, Pierce Square naming, and a six-member Department of Statistics draft.
Quincy January 11 President Bryant named standing committees Finance Phil lips Edwards Johnson Streets Nickerson Field Murray Little Parker Swithhen Hultman Fire Little Hultman Edwards Poland McGrath Sewers and Drains Pinkham Parker Phillips Geary Sidelinger McGrath Nash Public Buildings Sprague Badger Poland Cain Switchen Ordinances Sidelinger Packard Cain Health Packard Nash Murray Board of Sewer Commissioners sought 160000 for sewerage funding and Board of Water Commissioners sought 30000 for water mains extension both requests were refused.
Harvard sprints trial heats run on 40 yard outdoor board track as indoor handicap events loom for January 18 at Cambridgeport. Fifty six sophomore rowers begin daily indoor training led by Dibblee Marvin and McDuffie. Harvard seeks fencing instructor Rondelle amid push for lessons at Hemenway gym and an earlier intercollegiate tournament in March.
Testimonial from Jacob Simon of Syracuse praising Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy for kidney disease and pain relief. He claims improved sleep appetite and cessation of pain after treatment. Also recommends Dr. Greene's Cathartic Pills and offers free consultation at 34 Temple Place Boston.
Senator Gallivan filed a bill for free transfers and city workforce eligibility for Boston street railway workers, while Representative Daniel D. Rourke filed a similar free transfers bill. Both measures mirror proposals from the last session when Gallivan represented Ward 13.
Captain M L Stephenson reports a stormy passage aboard the British steamer Langham from Hamburg via Sutherland. Cattle fittings were swept away and minor deck damages occurred. She stopped at Louisburg to replenish coal bunkers and will be repaired there. Also noted are Armenian laborers sailing to return home, wreck reports, and local industrial projects.
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