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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1897
Page
4
Editorial urges Boston business houses to fund a corn aid movement for India where millions starve while Western states offer corn at 10 cents a bushel. The column argues distribution is challenging but feasible and cost trivial by comparison to lives saved.
The estimates show about 530 million dollars in appropriations for the current session, with 515 million last session. Critics say the outgoing Congress is liberal without resources as a deficit looms over 50 million.208 House members call for time to debate 23 bills funding public buildings amid revenue concerns and rising government spending.
The charges against Edward J. Ivory were withdrawn and he released from arrest, ending a sensational dynamite conspiracy case in London. The episode exposed alleged police fabrication and questionable witness hiring, prompting hope that dynamiting in politics will be rejected and justice prevail.
An op-ed denounces a New Orleans lynching of three murderers as a crushing blow to reform efforts. It notes progress against mob violence but highlights how prominent citizens aided the crime and set back anti lynching work.
A reflection on the American people bearing responsibility for the laws they create and the enforcement by officers they choose, noting the unmerited reproach and implied distrust in legal efficacy.
The Post credits Moody with a notable Boston impact waking readers to life’s real stakes beyond mere wealth and success. It notes his forceful methods and earnest moral arousal as beneficial, despite occasional grammar slips. It also recalls a public incident on a streetcar and mentions upcoming railway mail service exams on April 3.
A speaker argues a two thirds Senate vote is insufficient and urges unanimity for a world peace treaty. The public should witness executive sessions opened to pressure a unanimous ratification in a historic act of the American republic.
A citizen recalls a cold night observing a newsboy shouting for papers and a stylish man in red dog-skin gloves. He meets General Chamberlain and notes his war record and pension stance. The writer visits the Public Library, praising crowds and open Sabbath access while noting ventilation issues. He also notes a strikingly nerveful woman on a Washington streetcar.
In the first night of the opera Tice Banditti a crowd departs as a student tale unfolds. A Paris pension memory centers on a cousin, a murder, and a waltz that haunts the living composer Miss Carrington. Morbid coincidence repeats when Morris confronts her and the banditti melody echoes a fatal ending.
Miss Minnie Doyle daughter of prominent Baltimore politician Michael Doyle plans marriage to John J Mc in a forthcoming ceremony. The couple’s engagement is announced with local social interest in Baltimore.
A mix of biographical notes and society items: Graw, Baltimore third baseman, linked to city tax work through his father. Queen Victoria’s rose garden at Osborne. Mme. Marchesi pupil Mlle. Francisco of San Francisco praised in Paris reviews. Hobarts lease a Fourteenth Street Washington residence from asphalt magnate A. L. Barber. Also mentions Edward Gibbon’s card catalogue use, Judge Gray’s Newport retreat, Cronin’s Boston return, and Rev. Carew Cocks’s Philadelphia revival beginning January 31, nephew of Lord Salisbury.
A collection of brief quips and anecdotes from various publications. Jests include a preacher and a swearing parishioner, an editor and land ads near water, a London school board joke about a leg to stand on, and a tourist’s encounter with aliases ending in a hanging joke.
The clippings list meals for breakfast lunch and dinner including rolled oats, steak, veal, baked apples, and desserts. A cooking method section describes vegetable salad with mustard sugar and vinegar and a recipe for apple snow with lemon juice and egg whites. Signed by Miss Adaile Dumont of Baldwin Avenue West Everett Mass.
The Boston stage page covers H Beerbohm Tree and Miss Georgia Cayvan engagements at Hollis Street and Tremont, new versions of The Seats of the Mighty, Squire Kate, Brian Born, My Friend From India, and The Gondoliers. It notes forthcoming shows at Park Theatre Bowdoin Square and Boston theatres with stars like Anna Held and Robert Ingersoll, plus zoo acts at Bates Hall and upcoming thrillers at Keith’s and Columbia Theatre.
New importations bring plaid and large florals, Berege replaces grass linen, and fine ginghams in blues yellows and greens. Organdies with bright blossoms lead, some sold for evening dresses. muslin and organdie enable humbler fashions with elegant overskirts and ruched necklines.
A cat valued at 5000 dollars will compete in the feline division at the Boston Poultry Association exhibition opening next Tuesday in Mechanics' Building. Over one hundred cats seek four silver cups and fifty-six cash prizes as the poultry show expected to surpass last year with 1000+ pigeon entries and dozens of incubators hatching eggs daily.
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