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Post Publishing Company
New York
Boston Post
Grozier
Charles
Berwin
Conry
Preserve City Postal Service, Don’t Cut Carriers
The speaker condemns cutting postal facilities in large cities to cover a deficit. Local delivery is profitable and should not be reduced, as most department revenue comes from city services and public convenience would suffer. Carriers should be spared from economy measures. savings should target other areas.
Reciprocity With Canada Promoted By Boston Chamber
The Boston Chamber of Commerce endorses reciprocal trade with Canada as beneficial to New England and the nation. It laments limited influence of this policy under the current national government and cites the Dingley tariff as a barrier, noting New England's mutual trade advantages.
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Boston Chamber of Commerce
Canada
New England
Chamber of Commerce
Free transfers urged for all Boston street lines
President Gaston of the Elevated Railroad Company promised to arrange free transfers as soon as possible for the Norfolk House and Old Heath street lines. The aim is a citywide system allowing a single five cent fare to travel from any point on Boston street railway lines to any other point, meeting broad public demand.
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Gaston
Elevated Railroad Company
Norfolk House
Old Heath Street
Boston
Elevated Company
Dingley Wages and Mill Strikes in New England
The Androscoggin mill operatives in Dingley's town strike over wage cuts. The piece contrasts tariff promises with reality, arguing the Democratic tariff once pledged higher general prosperity and wages, now failing Androscoggin workers who earned fair wages under the prior system.
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Congressman Dingley
Androscoggin Mill Corporation
Lewiston
Dingley
Congress
New England
Androscoggin
Dingley Tariff Promises Questioned by Working People
The speaker argues that wage cuts strip workers of livelihood and that tariff supporters promised better wages for workers but achieved only hardship. They question why the Dingley tariff failed to deliver the promised benefits for working families.
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Mr. Dingley
Dingley
Report by A Shuman to Boston Chamber of Commerce
Mr Shuman presented to the Boston Chamber of Commerce a report on the merchants' municipal committee work. The summary shows concise factual treatment of public service subjects and is praised as a model for similar reports.
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A. Shuman
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Shuman
Chamber of Commerce
Merchants’ Municipal Committee
Observant Citizen notes and Boston society items
The Observant Citizen reports on a new production promising success and a ten pound birth, plus social events in Boston. Vermont Association banquet at Vendome with Grout Proctor Quincy Field attending, and varied streetcar etiquette debates and legal admission delays.
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Vermont Association
Boston
the Vendome
Grout
Vermont
Proctor
Quincy
Field
Frenchman Friend of Gibson Active in Paris Boys Club Aid
A Frenchman once close to Mr. Charles Gibson of Beacon Street spent a season in Boston and New York society. He helped organize the Copley Hall theatricals two seasons ago to aid the Boys' Club in Paris, an effort Gibson and he were crucial in forming.
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Charles Gibson
Beacon Street
New York
Boys’ Club
Paris
Mr. Gibson
Diamond backed turtle art novelty draws Paris protest
A Paris novelty item a diamond backed turtle is praised by sentimentalists as charming for ladies while critics protest cruelty. The verse notes fashion shifts from beetles chameleons and other pets to this jeweled turtle, worn as a chin ornament and kept under lace. It ends with a playful warning of a bite if affronted by jealousy.
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PD. C. A
Paris
Evening gowns and silk fashions flood market
The article notes gowns of net and tulle remain stylish but affordable silks dominate the scene at about 40 cents a yard. It describes a pink silk gown with mauve details and flounces plus a pale blue silk gown with ornate ornamentation and a surplice lace front, each paired with separate guimpes for theatre and dinners.
Morley Visits Ireland After Resignation and Essex X Ray Milestone
John Morley traveled to Ireland for the first time since resigning the post of chief secretary after the fall of the Rosebery administration. George Newcomb of Salem took a successful X ray image revealing the lungs of a female patient, a first in Essex county. A Colonel Moseley sleigh, a family heirloom since 1776, now owned by Edward Moseley of Westfield is noted as a Hansom cutter. The column reflects on gossip and newspaper reading as impulses of human sociability.
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John Morley
Ireland
Rosebery
George Newcomb
Salem
Essex County
David Moseley
Edward Moseley
Westfield
Daily table hints breakfast to dinner menu and recipe
The page lists meals for breakfast lunch and dinner including fried corn meal muffins spiced pears clams fried in batter and roast mutton with sides. It provides several recipes with proportions for graham muffins and fried clams and notes a name Mrs Kane M Peaslee and an address Zia Weahington street May.
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Kane M. Peaslee
Zia Weahington
Mimie Kendall Finds Fortune in Voice and Love
A Maine farm girl Mimie Kendall grows up singing by a brook. Harold Sherborn, a Boston city chap, fall in love after meeting her. four years later he invites her to join his musical career. They marry and make the old farm house their summer home.
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Mimie Kendall
Maine
Fred Morse
Fred
Haint
Kendall
Minnie
Harold Sherborn
Harold
Robin
Molly Read
Saco
Molly
Almira Kendall
Mimie
Boston
Boston Conservatory of Music
the Brook
Mirthful Sallies and Witty Exchanges Across Papers
A collage of lighthearted quips and social bars from Chicago ens, North American, Chicago News, Fliegende Blatter, Tit-Bits, Washington Star, and the North American. Jests revolve around lovers, jealousy, politics, and anonymous notes, with playful exchanges about ministers wives, marriage, and fickleness.
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Alice
Fred
Dolly
Chicago News
Miss Cayenne
Harry
Evelyn
Jack
Dolly Decker
Jeanne de Cashe
Tom
Senate
Willie Wishington
Washington Star
Mr. Slimsoul
Deadlock in Boston Aldermen Over Chairmanship Ends With Mayor’s Call
The Boston board failed to elect a chair after a six to six ballot. After adjourning to Thursday, Mayor Josiah Quincy issued a special call for a meeting on Wednesday January 19 1898 at 8 PM to form a permanent organization and to discuss a sewerage loan.
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Quincy
City of
Boston
Aldermanic Chamber
City Hall
Deadlock in Boston Aldermen Over Chairman Choice
The Boston Board of Aldermen remains split with no permanent chairman as Democratic members arrive late and negotiations with Republicans continue. A special committee was formed to seek a solution while debates over a Ward 11 special election and legality of actions continued. The board adjourned to meet Thursday at 7 p m.
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Charles
Conry
Chamber
Supreme Court
Presho
House of Representatives
Francis C. Lowell
Suffolk
Berwin
Iask
Dyar
Conry G
Lott
Codman
Dixon
Paige
Remarkable American Medico-Chemist Discovery Promises Help
The Post offers readers three free bottles of a doctor’s new discoveries with full directions. Send full address to Dr. Slocum's Laboratory at 98 Pine Street New York City for the sample bottles and guidance.
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Ephor
The
Post
Dr. Slocum
Pine Street
New York City
Dr Slocum New System of Medicine claims cure for consumption
A Boston Post reader notice touts Dr Slocum of New York City as having a universal cure for consumption and related lung diseases. It offers three free bottles and full instructions, with no charge for medicine or advice, urging readers to mail name and address to 98 Pine Street.
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The
Boston Post
Dr. Slocum
New York City
T. A. Slocum
M. D
Pinestreet
New York
Dillonite Dublin meeting urges tolerant 1798 commemoration
Irish Dillonite members in Dublin urge factions abroad to honor the 1798 events with tolerance. They call on the government to relieve potato distress in the south and west, back a local government bill, seek agricultural relief, and ask Mr Dillon to press Mr Redmond for coordinated Parliament action.
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Dublin
House of Commons
Ireland
Dillon
John Redmond
Salvation Army Leader General Booth Arrives in St. John
General Booth heads Salvation Army arrival in St. John New Brunswick at 2 p m from New York. He is accompanied by Commissioner Nichol editor of the War Cry Colonel Lawlor and Adjutant Devlin private secretary. The party is met at Vanceboro by Major Pugmire and Mrs. Pugmire, heads of the Salvation Army in the Maritime Provinces.
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ST. John, N. B
Booth
Salvation Army
New York
Nichol
War Cry
Army
Lawlor
Devlin
Vanceboro
Pugmire
Maritime Provinces
Proctor Delivers Noted Steinert Hall Recital
Mr George W Proctor presented a piano forte recital at Steinert Hall last evening. The program included Schumanns Faschingswank op 26 Brahms second ballade and rhapsody op 79 Schutt Carnival Mignon op 438 and selections by Paderewski Rubinstein Macke maywell Lindoff and Heuselt The audience showed evident pleasure and called for an encore with Proctor replying with Schumanns At Evening from op 12.
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George W. Proctor
Steinert Hall
Schumann
Brahms
Edward Schutt
Paderewski
Rubinstein
Macewell
Lindoff
Heuselt
Dance party aids the poor at Minot Hall
The Young Woman's Hebrew Charity Association held its second dance event of the season at Minot Hall last evening. Over 100 couples attended and a fair sum was raised for the needy. Jacob Lyons supervised the floor with Miss I Bornstein and the Misses Klatschkan assisting.
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Young Woman's Hebrew Charitable Association
Minot Hall
Jacob Lyons
I. Bornstein
Klatschkan
Bride Elect at Boston Theatre Hosts Blind Patrons
About 160 patrons from the Perkins Institute for the Blind in South Boston attended The Bride Elect at the Boston Theatre last night. They sat in the front row first balcony as guests of Mr. Eugene Tompkins and Manager Shults on behalf of Klaw and Erlanger and B. D. Stevens. Special electrics afterward conveyed the party back to South Boston.
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Boston
Perkin Institute For the Blind
South Boston
Eugene Tompkins
Shults
Messrs
Klaw
Erlanger
B. D. Stevens
Special Electrics
Legislature to probe New Bedford labor troubles at Beacon Hill
The legislature may investigate labor unrest centered in New Bedford. Senator Flynn of Lawrence leads a bill to summon employers and workers to Beacon Hill for tracing the source of the trouble, likely to be introduced in the Senate today. The piece also notes other bills on aldermanic districts in Boston, textile school reforms, bail procedures, and redefining the term veteran.
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Bishop Lawrence
Amos Lawrence
Lawrence School
Boston
Lawrence School Association
Henry A. Thomas
New Bedford
Flynn
Lawrence
Beacon Hill
Senate
Jere McCarthy
Bennett
Saugus
Cullinane
Hayes
Lowell
United States Army
Navy
Two local youths cited as heroes in Chelsea street incident
Thomas Gillespie of 86 Wapping Street Charlestown Massachusetts disputes a Post report claiming Officer Hoy of Division 15 subdued two runaways after being dragged. He identifies Daniel Mahoney and Charles Flanagan as the actual saviors who stopped the carriage men, praising Hoy’s potential when given the chance.
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Hoy
Chelsea Street
P. O’riorden
Daniel Mahoney
Charles Flanagan
Messrs. Mahoney
Flanagan
Officer Hoy
Thomas Gillespie
Wapping Street
Charlestown
Mase
Mr J J W B Street Denies Ties to Murphy Conspiracy
In a letter to the Post the South Boston businessman J J W B Street denies any connection to M K Murphy and his failed venture. He insists he paid cash for goods, claims a clean Boston record, and offers to prove his innocence of conspiracy charges.
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Post
M. K. Murphy
Broadway
South Boston
Mr. Murphy
Boston
J. J. W. B Street
Silver
South
Invalid Aid Society presents three plays at Bijo Theatre
Three plays were staged at the Bijo Theatre for the Invalid Aid Society. In Far Bohemia and The Princess Matilda were performed by Minnie Dupree Kate Ryan and Horace Lewis. In a Balcony was presented by Mrs Alice Kent Robertson Frederick H Briggs and William Kittredge. The programme repeats this afternoon.
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Bijo
The
Invalid Aid Society
Far Bohemia
Matilda
Emvelyn G. Sutherland
Emma Sheridan Fry
Minnie Dupree
Kate Ryan
Horace Lewis
Browning
Alice Kent Robertson
Sfrederick H. Briggs
William Kittredge
Seven elected at L. A. 1042 K of I meeting in East Boston
The L A 1042 K of I met at Hibernian Hall East Boston electing seven candidates. The assembly was addressed by Thomas H. Geaning James J. Donnelly and Daniel B. McInnes.
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L. A
K. of
Hibernian Hall
East
Boston
Didates
Thomas H. Geaning
James J. Donnelly
Ksi
Daniel B. McInnes
R. A
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