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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1898
Page
4
Congressmen Dingley argues that his tariff raises wages and any wage cuts reflect providence. The piece questions whether cheap cotton and Southern competition fully explain mill wage reductions amid North overproduction and profits in the 6 to 16 percent range.
A Boston argument frames woman suffrage as a path to Republican control of city government. Dr Blackwell says votes of women kept the school committee Republican and favors a Republican Mayor, but critics call the tactic ill advised and politically opportunistic.
The piece urges Massachusetts lawmakers to back an appropriation preserving Boston’s free delivery service. Senator Hayes’s resolution is praised and the Boston Associated Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce mobilize public pressure to prevent reductions in letter carriers and avoid hindering business and growth.
Mayor Quincy presides in New York over a national conference on caucus reform. Massachusetts leads in reform and the National Primary Election League aims to spread these ideas. The caucus becomes a primary election in effect, intended to safeguard freedom security and secrecy of the ballot and curb bossism.
An appeal to the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth targets Boston's six to six Board of Aldermen to end political gridlock and act on the Speaker of the House precept to fill a vacancy. The piece questions how a court order could compel action from a board unable to secure a majority vote and contemplates contempt or jail as possible outcomes.
A reader notes a petrified pun statue at the courthouse and a Boston scene of readings, civic clubs, and university memories. Mentioned are Oliver Wendell Holmes, Eugene Field, James Riley, the Utopian Club, and Roxbury Crossing's congestion. The South Boston Citizens Association plans a banquet for its president John B. Martin on February 15 at 7 PM.
Harold Macurath in the Yellow Book recounts a playful winter scene where a skater describes a flirtatious encounter with Betty on an ice rink. The verse captures the thrill of romance, merry skating, and a coy affair hinted at by the speaker’s blushing confession and the exchange of a mitten.
A dated menu lists breakfast items such as bananas rolled oats cream and sugar and broiled steak with coffee. Luncheon features hot rolls lunch rolls cheese sliced ham sponge cake cocoa and dinner offers soup mince pie and vegetables. A recipe section follows detailing breakfast gems and lunch rolls with baking powder salt milk and butter. includes method and oven heat. St Robert Armstrong corner Feat Eagles and Glendon streets Boston.
Ethel Denner a proud teen rival and later a downfall fortune seeks help, while Margaret Magill grows into a generous woman. A chance meeting in New York reveals past sins and a chance at redemption as Ethel Brandon, now sick and desperate, is cared for by Margaret who forgives and offers a new family.
Nellie McConnell a young girl was sentenced to two months in the penitentiary for stealing ribbons and other decorations from tombs in Greenwood cemetery Brooklyn. She stated it was a shame to waste such finery.
Massachusetts Reform Club heard John W. Fries of North Carolina and Joseph Bryan of the Richmond Times argue for the gold standard and elastic local currency. Bryan contrasted Virginia’s prewar banking with today’s scarcity and warned that demonetization and bank laws harm the South, while Fries praised the Indianapolis commission plan and retirement of government notes.
The Boston Associated Board of Trade urged Colonel Thomas to oppose any reduction of Boston postal facilities. Thomas replied that the delegation must act quickly to prevent crippling carrier service. A telegram was sent to Thomas in Washington and to all Massachusetts Senators and Representatives, signed by Thomas N. Hart as committee chairman.
Dorchester reader Alice Stone Blackwell argues that Iowa women are encouraged by neighboring states to remove the word male from their constitution. She cites four nearby states where similar changes allegedly reduced troubles for women and urges Iowa to follow suit.
The Post runs portraits of the remaining three appointees to Mayor Quincy’s advisory board. Horatio G. Curtis, president of Boston National Bank, State Street, accepts and backs the board. Amory A. Lawrence, head of Ianantes House, also accepts. J. Richard Carter, treasurer of Carter-Rice Paper and Ink Companies, resides in Newton and is named for the post.
Legislative actions from the Senate and House include refusals to pass a measure restricting cycle speeds to ten miles per hour in Cambridge, while funding and administrative changes are debated. Proposals cover life insurance, cemetery chartering, state property care, railway operations, and various salary and fiduciary provisions, with broad committee referrals and budget allocations cited.
Republican members of the Senate debated a resolution urged by James E. Hayes of Charlestown to memorialize Congress against reducing Boston mail carriers. The motion to suspend rules failed 12 to 16, sending the resolution to the committee on rules for further action.
A Cambridge petitioned bill would prohibit riding bicycles or tricycles over ten miles per hour on public highways or near a public reservoir with speed set by ordinance. It bans riding after sunset without a suitable alarm bell and extends the prohibition to footpaths and country road sidewalks with penalties of 20 dollars.
In the Senate Mr. Dallinger of Middlesex introduces a bill to standardize premiums reserves and surrender charges for domestic life insurers. It would base calculations on gross decrement rates derived from the combined mortality table with a uniform percentage increase, settable by each company with insurer approval. The act excludes limited fraternal orders and lodge systems with small benefits, and caps emergency funds at five benefits.
Representative Parsons of Greenfield announced plans to introduce a bill requiring all criminal executions to occur in the State Prison at Charlestown. He argues hangings in towns demoralize the population, citing the recent Greenfield execution of John O'Neil Jr. as example.
A collection of light overheard lines from several papers shows witty exchanges about weddings, lawsuits, weddings, and fortunes. Jokes touch on oversized pies, legal stays, slippers at weddings, and failed pursuits.
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