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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1900
Page
4
The push for pensions for superannuated municipal employees gains shape after Mayor Flatt's inauguration. Critics urge caution, arguing city employees would become a privileged class funded by all, warning against treating municipal workers differently from private employees or adopting socialist-like policies without full study.
A lobbyist complains that lobbyists gain mail access and influence at the State House, arguing they enjoy privileges equal to legislators. The speaker calls for distancing lawmakers from paid agents who work for employeer interests and profit from every gesture and story.
The text discusses a House resolution for broad orthographic changes, aiming to phonetic spellings. It cites examples like Colrecogue becoming acragog and prorogue rendered as program, noting widespread but uneven adoption and a shift away from free-form spelling.
Percival Lowell sails from New York toward Africa to view the next spring’s total solar eclipse. Boston inspectors chase foreigners and face delays. the Progress Club opens a new Warren Street house. Charlestown Navy Yard expects a boat building boom. sleighing remains good in suburbs amid winter snows. A newsboy scam is described. university events include a smoker and talks on Baltic cities. Dunlop cites wartime caution on storytelling. Phillips Brooks House transfer to Harvard set for Jan 22 with mass meeting planned. local leaders and artists receive praise for public roles.
Anne remembers eight months of planning the wedding for her sister Amy while facing a future of loneliness. Henry Patton returns to ask for her hand, and Anne realizes her lifelong love has endured through years of restraint and memory.
The editorial urges President McKinley to openly disclose all information sought by Senator Moar and reject any diplomatic pretexts. It says the American people deserve full accounting of how a defective Spanish title and the Philippine war were pursued, and calls for transparency from the president.
The statement urges the President to release complete information and act without restraint. It frames accountability as essential to public trust and national progress, highlighting a call for transparency across executive actions.
The article contrasts Senator Wolcott’s repudiation of Beveridge’s mercenary rationale for keeping the Philippines with Beveridge’s claim that the war is noble. It notes doubts about the nobility of a war tied to wealth and social aims, while highlighting Indiana’s Beveridge and Wolcott’s sharply differing views.
A fragment honors long service and fearless duty to the flag. It salutes Major General and the ranks of soldiers known for steadfast service and courage in defense of country and duty.
Not the shoulder straps nor token honors but the pluck and loyalty that raised him from the ranks. Forty years in service end with a glorious close as Major-General in command, simple, true and loyal. Men like Lawton embody the finest soldier strain and their deeds echo in grateful memory.
A velvet piece drapes across the bust and falls gracefully low along the arm, creating an elegant and understated silhouette.
A Cambridge Massachusetts notice lists daily meals including breakfast with oats and codfish, dinner with roast beef, supper oysters and fig cake. It provides a recipe for fig cake layers and filling with butter milk flour baking powder sugar and figs, signed by A F Cavanagh of 622 Vine Street East Cambridge.
The Boston Post offers a weekly five dollar prize for a three meal bill of fare for a family of five. Bills should read like a menu with simple preparation directions and a maximum weekly food cost of 10 dollars. Submissions due each Saturday with winning menus printed Sundays.
A collage of remarks from multiple papers discusses reforms in the Senate and party platform debates. The Portsmouth Chronicle lauds Senate purification, the New York Journal notes platform authorship is a joint effort, and Indianapolis Journal muses on Kaiser era correspondences. Puffals News contributes a closing remark.
A Mansion House meeting in Dublin promoted Irish unity along the old Parnellite lines. J E Redmond and Timothy Healy attended while John Dillon and Edward Blake were absent. Resolutions urged party consolidation, with details postponed until Parliament reconvenes.
A fox loses his tail after a trap and fears life’s end from the sight. He convenes a Foxes' Company court to argue against tails, prompting questions about whether his move benefits tailed or tailless members. The tale ends with a moral on exploiting defects to start fashion.
The piece highlights Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson’s Natal governorship and long colonial service, Robert W. Taylor’s stance against Roberts for Ohio voters, Lord Pauncefote’s walking routine near the Capitol, Lord Armstrong’s 90th birthday and hydraulics fame, a noted citation from Steele to Sir Paul Methuen, and George A. Von Lingen’s German consul honor in Baltimore with the Red Cross decoration.
Adelina Patti has adopted the zither banjo and often accompanies her singing for close friends. Mary Anderson plans wintering in Europe with husband and child due to concerns over the boy's eyesight. Mrs. Lavierriere, Minneapolis French teacher, chosen to promote New Mexico turquoise mines in Paris exposition. Estelle Reed works on a Congressional bill for compulsory Indian child education.
A collage of humorous exchanges and witticisms from multiple papers. Jokes range from domestic squabbles to sharp takes on professions and social roles, featuring lines about umbrellas, breakfast whims, teething humor, and prizefighters. Numerous named papers credited.
London January 17 Captain the Hon Cr J Coventry second son of the War of Coventry and Miss Lily Whitehouse of Newport Rhode Island were married at St Peters Eaton Square. The bride wore a white crepe de chine princess dress with a court train. Honeymoon to Capse Hill Gloucestershire. Gifts included furs broughams horses and silver from family and royalty.
Minneapolis hosts the world’s largest milling industry while the U S livestock value is estimated at 2 22 billion. Brooklyn described as a bedroom of New York. A new wave of art store integrated picture hangers appears in cities. Americans consume more sugar per capita than any nation. England’s potato imports are about 650 000 pounds annually. Venezuela’s mahogany and cedar forests remain largely untapped. Hawaiian coffee exports have grown nearly fortyfold in five years. An English capitalist considers investing in tea culture in South Carolina. Paris sewage farms provoke protests from nearby French peasants over wells contamination.
Boston & Worcester Street Railway Company through its counsel offers concessions to Brookline to obtain a double track on Boylston street. If granted, the company will pay regular taxes, provide half-rate tickets to school children, fix a six for 25 cent fare for regular patrons, or five cent single fare between Brookline terminus and Newton Highlands, and supply suitable electric lighting as directed by the Selectmen.
Miss Genevieve Withrow Smith, niece of Rev. Dr. Withrow, married Mr. Clinton Bradley of Chicago at Park Street church. The ceremony, conducted by the pastor in Episcopal rite, featured the wedding march from Wagner. The couple will reside at 487 West Adams Street in Chicago after a brief wedding trip.
At a recent meeting of St. Peter and Pauls Court 1b M C O F the following officers were installed by Deputy Brant and suite of Court Leo P A Donovan chief ranger Thomas Griff vice chief ranger John J Reagan recording secretary P H Long senior conductor James F Grady junior conductor John B White financial secretary Thomas Sullivan treasurer P H H Wigny outside sentinel M Mellody outside sentinel
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