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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1896
Page
4
The Boston Post denounces Mavroyani Bey for denying relief to Armenians and mocks Turkey’s claim to civilization. It calls Turkey barbarous and outside the civilized world, while weighing a Yale rowing match with suggestions of intercollegiate challenges for summer crews.
At a Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association meeting Mrs Livermore spoke of hopeful prospects for women's emancipation. The piece notes missed votes on the referendum and the governor's stance, framing hope as the remaining thread to recover ground and urging a learning from recent events.
Massachusetts savings banks report over 80 million dollars deposited in the past year and 1,302,479 open accounts. The data indicate rising savings among lower income groups as more individuals put aside funds, even as average balances per depositor fall. The trend suggests broader financial prudence across the community.
Senator Mills wastes Senate time with a currency debate unrelated to today’s policy. He favors converting silver bullion to dollars and paying US obligations in silver as well as gold, opposing current parity goals and administration aims, and the public seems to repudiate these ideas. The discussion is seen as worse than useless for a Republican led Congress.
The coming season will feature Harvard Cornell Columbia and Pennsylvania with Yale excluded unless unanimous consent is granted. Yale's entry would likely secure victory, reflecting its unprecedented athletic dominance across rowing football baseball and track in American colleges. The plan aims to allow weaker schools time to raise standards through internal competition.
A NY editorial notes that J Pierpont Morgan dissolved the gold supply syndicate and acknowledges the public bond subscriptions as a success. It argues the treasury could not pay usurious profits and credits Morgan's associates for backing the issue, which nonetheless spurred wider investor confidence.
A column notes a Grove Hall line conductor’s skill in crowding car riders, praises mutual benefit union dues, and profiles Henry Norman and Captain Fred Wedderburn. It mocks Boston theatregoers leaving early from The Prisoner of Zenda and laments fashion visuals in Tremont Street hat displays. It previews Yvette Guilbert at Music Hall with remarks on language and performance style.
It costs a little more but chapped hands and clothes harmed by common soaps free alkali make Ivory Soap the economical choice in the end. The Paolter & Gamace Co., CIN'T:.
In a cold boarding house near the Patent Office, Mr Faddles and landlady Mrs Spuddington clash over a mounting board bill. He promises payment yet lingers, while she insists on eviction if unpaid, leading to a negotiation that drags them downstairs to warmth and a reckoning with debts.
A fashion note describes a trend where a maiden keeps money in a pocket stitched into her stocking below the garter. The piece notes the fad prevents reckless spending and highlights stockings as the main novelty for ordinary wear.
The article discusses beaded stockings, stingy fashion details, and leather gloves suited to street wear and calling. It notes fur topped sealskin options, lamb wool lining, and mousquetaire styles for young women. It also includes humorous clippings from Puck and other papers with light social commentary.
Representative James A. Gallivan files a bill to create a Boston excise board to license innkeepers and victuallers. The four-member body would include two from each major party appointed by the Governor and Mayor with four-year terms and quarterly reports to the Mayor and Governor. Salaries total $14,509.
A South Paris Maine reader shares a daily meal plan including breakfast items such as oat oats, beefsteak, baked potatoes, muffins and coffee. Dinner features tomato bisque, pot roast with mashed potatoes, turnips and lemon custard. A recipe for lemon custard explains beating sugar and butter with eggs milk crackers and lemon zest.
The Boston Post offers five dollars weekly for a three meal plan from women readers. Submissions must read like a menu and include brief prep directions. Meals may be breakfast lunch and dinner or breakfast dinner and supper within ten dollars weekly for a family of five.
A broad Massachusetts petition seeks an equestrian statue of General Hooker under Governor and Council direction. The petition tops many influential signers including General Henry S. Russell, ex-governors, Congress members, college presidents, mayors, selectmen, war veterans leaders, clergy, merchants, and bankers from across the state.
The Boston Merchants Association met with President Leeson presiding. Secretary Moore reports progress on public docks ownership and Torrey bankruptcy bill efforts. Treasurer Wilbur shares 1895 finances. new officers elected including Joseph R. Leeson as president and Robert M. Burnett named delegate to the Merchants Municipal Committee.
The American Humane Education Society directors on yesterday approved a plan to form commissions for Britain and the United States to study the Venezuelan dispute. The plan calls for William E. Gladstone to serve on the British commission, sessions in Paris, exchange of evidence, and a three member arbitration method to produce a report on each nation’s duty.
At the January meeting the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reported Boston agents handled 299 complaints last month, removed 11 horses from work, and mercifully killed 58 horses and other animals. Country agents in the last quarter handled 45 complaints, removed 181 horses from work, and mercifully killed 154 horses.
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