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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1898
Page
4
The text argues that prosperous New Bedford mills should raise wages rather than cut them, calling a strike by mill operatives justified against wage reductions. It criticizes mill managers for alienating business leaders stockholders and directors, urging reversal before a paralyzing walkout.
The personal fee of A C Burrage for negotiating the Stan Gard Oil gas properties sale to the Whitney syndicate was paid by a William Rockefeller check of 2.6 million dollars. Burrage may be praised for the receipt, while critics note the sum comes from Boston gas consumers via higher rates. The deal, and related gas property trades, appear to raise costs rather than improve gas services for the public.
A revival of talks about Harvard University absorbing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gains momentum. supporters say a merged Harvard Institute of Technology could preserve names, unite endowments, and streamline finance and administration, creating one great institution.
The amendment proposes moving the official term start to April 30 replacing March 4. The writer argues for January 1 as the meeting day for Congress to shorten the gap after elections and keep federal policy aligned with the people. He notes Massachusetts uses January 1 for inaugurations and urges national adoption.
The piece discusses Boss Platt and Boss Hanna shaping Republican fate in a mayoral race. It notes claims a Platt defeat would destroy the party, while Hanna asserts loyalty tests and his role as national committee chair to preserve the party, signaling power rests with bosses rather than voters.
Dr Samuel A Green discusses an unpublished Revolutionary diary before the Massachusetts Historical Society, linking Minute Men origins to King Philip's War. Helen Keller prepares for Radcliffe, while a Worcester church considers Rev Charles E Jefferson. Jamaica Pond hosts bicyclists and skaters as thefts worry Jamaica Plain. milk thieves target doorsteps. Chief Watts’ desk holds unclaimed jewelry.
In a hotel corridor a joker mislabeled Adjutant-General Dalton as General Fitzhugh Lee. The Roxbury burglary suspects were captured after months of work. Lieutenant Peary spoke locally about his Arctic expedition plans. George A. Allison of North Cambridge recovered well after a successful appendectomy last Saturday.
The speaker insists the verse remains about spring not romance or flowers. The narrator declares the poem on spring has sprung despite critics labeling him a fool and notes the season as the sole subject of the work.
A collage of light jokes and wry lines from Chicago News and other papers. Mrs and Mr dialogue about marriage arrangements and fortunes, a pun about dyeing whiskers, and a fossil-obsessed husband contrasted with lost keys. Brief observational humor across several outlets.
In Indiana, Jim Young endures a stern warning from whitecaps and a poisonous note. He disguises himself with a red necktie to win back his wife Sally. She joins him on a picnic morning as the town watches a transformation that leads to seven peaceful years.
Daily table hints list breakfast lunch and supper items with a detailed corn cake and baked Indian pudding recipe. The notes credit Mrs Endora Skilton of Bedford Massachusetts for the pudding and provide ingredient amounts and baking instructions.
The Haverhill Gazette questions Boston mill owners in Biddeford for tolerating harsh labor conditions while they live well. It argues this shows a need to level up wages and conditions and urges action.
The Boston Board of Health reports 11 154 total deaths in 1897, down from 11 654 the previous year. Population estimated to rise from 516 305 in 1896 to 912,000 plus, yielding an annual death rate of about 21 per 1000, lower than 22.53 in the prior year.
The article notes that West Roxbury and Roslindale lines offer free transfers and 3 cent school tickets with 100 ride books priced at $3 for pupils. Norfolk Suburban Street Railway also launched a 212 cent per ticket rate for school children, while reporting broad transfer privileges and growing student use. It also recaps various unrelated biographical notes and anecdotes.
A brief praise of a hot tea biscuit described as perfected with Royal Baking Powder and notes that they melt in the mouth.
The Legislature debates employing convicts to dig the Cape Cod Canal amid Cape district opposition over “quartering a gang of criminals.” Willard Howland’s petition precedes a Senate dispute over referral to committees. The State Board of Lunacy and Charity urges consolidated rather than separate wards and recommends extensive reforms to pauper aid, hospital commitments, and state alms laws.
The Sailors' Snug Harbor board elected Lieutenant-Commander Daniel Delehanty as governor replacing resigning Governor Trask. Delehanty, executive officer of the battleship Texas, gains a year's Navy leave and a $5000 annual salary plus a residence.
Representatives of the New England Western Association and the Local Terminal line met at N P Weeks office on Federal street. They discussed reduced rates to Alaska and second class rates to California but postponed action to the next meeting. Co D Caldwell and other railroad officials attended with N P Weeks presiding.
The President submitted the Behring Sea commission report to Congress detailing awards for British subjects whose sealing vessels were seized. The total amount required to satisfy the commission’s awards is $437,161.26.
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