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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1899
Page
4
Boston Post announces subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions with prices for various terms. It notes address changes must include old and new addresses, advises advance payments, and warns subscriptions may be discontinued at expiration. Printing house contact details and editor publisher Be. A. Groziter are listed.
Chicago Times Herald claims Admiral Dewey opposes annexation of the Philippines. The piece notes public expectations that Dewey favors expansion clash with the idea of a statesman who values peace. It argues Dewey’s knowledge of the Philippines supports restraint and avoiding imperialism.
A Beacon Hill caucus proposal would move Boston city elections to coincide with state elections. Critics call it bad politics aimed at boosting Republican gains, warning it would bring national issues into local government and weaken reform safeguards.
The Massachusetts Senate is urged to pass Senator Washburn's resolution praising Senator Hoar for a speech praised as a model of patriotism and support for human freedom. The piece argues a Republican legislature should freely express such appreciation without Democratic bias concerns.
The New York Senator elect Chauncey M. Depew urged in a Republican Club speech that every company created by government charter should face strict state or federal scrutiny. He, a longtime corporation manager, endorses Massachusetts style regulation for quasi public and telephone businesses, arguing it benefits both public confidence and corporate interests.
The American Thread Company, once a major sewing cotton provider in the United States, is now controlled by the English Sewing Cotton Company. The merger comes after tariff protection failed to prevent foreign ownership, and directors may approve closing half a dozen mills, risking thousands of jobs.
The piece notes park department orders for laborers to wear brown overalls and jumpers provoking murmurs that a uniform signals servility. It credits Mayor Quincy with a Herculean plan to place municipal control of children in vacation time, and reports Deputy Hanscom’s full recovery from a grip attack.
The report suggests Rev Samuel J Barrows will replace the late John Russell Young as librarian of Congress. Barrows is described as a scholar rather than a politician and would bring experience study and taste to the library. His appointment would be seen as proper and not political, with Boston recognized as fitting to lead the national library.
The column notes Mrs Ralobh Kramer ill at home with grip and her boy also sick, Mr Kramer acting as nurse. A new brokers firm Towle & Fitzgerald opens Feb 1, Fitzgerald known as the Copper King. Subway capacity opinions favor 240 cars per hour with changes. Pine Tree Club meets Jan 24 at the Brunswick with telephonic speeches by Long and others. Canadian Christmas stamp marks postage cut to 2 cents and shows red British possessions. Freddie Curran, a boy newsboy, sings at an uptown theatre with remarkable vocal flexibility.
A playful missive mocks a traveler named Charge addressing a friend about farewells, rumors of becoming president, and plans to meet native girls on the shores. The dialect-laced letter references Gift Dem Fitz Lee Hugh and hints at comic ideas of authority and advice.
The Pine Tree State Club will hold its second meeting and season dinner at the Brunswick on Tuesday January 4. Speeches by telephone are planned with notable Maine natives likely to send remarks remotely including John D. Long Thomas B Reed William P Frye Charles A Boutelle former Governor Black Minot J Savage Governor P ingree and Governor Powers of Maine.
To the Editor of the Post Joseph Tr Walsh secretary of Bakers' Union 4 writes that reports of boycotts against T. F. Cotty East Boston Hock Wright Baking Company and Jacob Benager are false. He states these firms were never boycotted and are proper members using craft labels.
A group of four bachelors at a Boston boarding house pursue four young Misses Jenkins. The evening escalates from bravado to polite introductions, ending with Jim Harrison courting May Jenkins, who becomes his wife as Jack laments the missed club engagement.
The Post invites original short stories with weekly prizes of ten dollars for first, five for second, and two dollars for others. Entries must be 700 to 1000 words, single-sided, with full name and address, prepaid return postage, and only women readers may enter. Manuscripts folded, not rolled, addressed to the Short Story Editor.
A compilation of humorous zingers and snippets from Chicago and other papers. Quick quips shine on topics from knowledge, hot cereal, stamps, politics, marriage, and Mormon relations, reflecting early 20th century wit and social mores.
Miss Anna Barrows spoke on dining room arrangement to keep cooking odors from entering the dining area and on proper temperature and ventilation. She urged simple menus, proper course count, and serving leftovers in new forms rather than in the next meal.
The battle for the U S marshalship in Massachusetts gathers pace with Major Darling of Fitchburg, Colonel F B Cook of Gloucester, and Fred Wilcomb of Ipswich as leading contenders. Ex Mayor Sprague of Worcester, with behind the scenes support for Marshal Swift, and Senator Hoar weighing McKinley Democrat alignment, headline the jockeying.
Representative Samuel J. Barrows of Massachusetts has been presented to the President for the vacancy created by Librarian of Congress John R. Young's death. Backed by the Massachusetts delegation and Secretary of the Navy Long, Barrows is favored to secure the job. Other candidates are Thomas G. Alvord of New York and George Alfred Townsend.
Mayors Quincy and Champlin push a drawless Charles River bridge replacing the West Boston span. The Army engineers questioned state authorization and possible navigation impact as hearings delayed and no decision made for ten days.
The item recalls John D. Rockefeller’s boyhood daguerreotype taken at Oswego Academy in 1853 and his failed bid to buy it from his former teacher. It notes Sir Joshua Reynolds’s preserved Cranbourne Street home, Burnett Walker born in the White House, and Spencer Pratt’s Manila memorial proposal. Also mentions Hiltmore’s rumored closure and Admiral Schley’s lineage to Parkhurst and Key.
Deputy Joseph Wiehorn from Codman Lodge of Dorchester will install Cradock Lodge officers at Tufts Hall Medford square next Tuesday evening. Names listed include William Wardwell M W C Mahoney foreman G G McWhee overseer J Garland fulde Rk BE Cronin L W J Metullough O W G Hobin recorder M Geary financier J J Finnell receiver G Locke trustee Hugh McNamee.
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