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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1898
Page
4
The Boston Post functions as a regional Democratic-leaning newspaper serving New England with political commentary, local news, and public notices featured across its pages. The paper emphasizes party alignment and regional coverage for readers.
The bill for public pension lists worthy of approval aims to publish names to expose fraud and purge unworthy pensioners. It urges local fragmentation of the roll so sheets can be posted or reprinted in newspapers, ensuring effective scrutiny and transparency.
The article notes copper equities rise earlier this season with expectations of a larger, longer advance. Copper supply is tightening as demand abroad grows, aided by an end to engineers’ strikes, while domestic mines push production but fetch higher bids. 1897 had strong dividends and record quoters like Calumet & Hecla and Boston & Montana, suggesting 1898 could bring even greater copper strength.
Three weeks into the board deadlock over chairmanship across parties threatens public business and 900 workers on public works. The piece urges a six month shared presiding arrangement with rotating chair and committee duties to break the stalemate and resume city governance.
Congress should act promptly to provide an effective government for Alaska. Relief for workers in the gold fields is urgent as winter ends and transport opens. A proposed reindeer transport line could help deliver provisions and avert widespread hardship.
The article argues Alaska requires a formal territorial government to protect life and property as a miners' meeting laws are unstable. It predicts a huge spring influx of settlers and expeditions, urges Congress to establish a lasting administration sufficient for the territory's needs.
The authors argue managers must share lean year losses with workers rather than drain profits via large past dividends. They condemn excessive shareholder gains during fat years and demand reserves and fair wages. The piece supports striking operatives against managerial improvidence.
A collection of short vignettes from daily life including a streetcar conductor’s slip giving a dime with five pennies, Colonel Thomas’s return hinting at post office gains, late night car waits, and portraits of figures like Mary Anderson Nat Robinson and Reginald De Koven. Also mentions a Boston anti swallowtail movement reaching a university and city hall debates.
A curious marketing ploy mails personal letters posing as club endorsements to solicit signing an engraved card with prepaid return. Also covered are wine import totals, a cider crop, a Grand Opera House scare during a fire nearby, and praise for George Cook of the North East Boston ferry crew and veterans Captain Donahue and Pilot Card handling tides.
The poem speaks of undying devotion and anguish after death as the speaker lies at a beloved's threshold. A grave scene unfolds with smoke rising from the winding sheet and a hope to find red roses in a garden, while the living seek the beloved in every meadow. The lines are attributed to Mrs. Lowthian Bell.
Sunday’s warm, bright day drew many gowns to view. A black cheviot dress trimmed with bright green ribbon suggested early buds with a slim skirt and green moire lining. Three bias bands with green silk piping clustered at the front and spread at the hips.
A maid at vespers wears a gown featuring bright green silk ribbons, cheviot lining, and a velvet crush belt. The outfit includes a burnt orange and brown flounced dress with a removable guimpe and a brown velvet hat with plumes and yellow lace accents.
Elijah and Mary Wood leave their Western home for Shaker life seeking solace from failed fortunes and a dying child. Elijah grows restless as Mary finds peace among the community. A return home is not possible. Elijah dies, and Mary returns to the sisters, faithful unto death.
The Post announces a menu prize of $ awarded to Miss Katherine M Peaslee of 273 Washington Street Haverhill for last week. Her menu was published Wednesday January 19.
The clipping lists a daily table of meals including round steak roast beef oatmeal and milk hot rolls dipped toast coffee and a dessert puddings with tea bread pineapple supper courses and a lemon butter custard cake. A lemon butter recipe accompanies the note with six eggs butter sugar lemons and hot water. Miss Beatrice A Cooper of 258 Pearl Street Malden is named.
A collage of witty exchanges and social quips spans playful remarks about romance and slang. A private moment turns awkward as a light goes out and a match flickers, prompting a playful defense about lighting. A winter sun triggers domestic humor about house cleaning.
The Rev. R. N. McKaig, veteran Methodist evangelist, served four years under General Sherman. Webster Davis, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, was christened Daniel Webster but dropped the first name. Miss Fay Fuller named harbor mistress of Tacoma and first woman in the world to hold the post. The British Institute of Public Health will be Royal Institute of Public Health with Queen Victoria as patron. Mme. MacMahon declines a government pension and resides at her Paris mansion on Rue de Pellechasse in winter.
The World prints William J. Bryan’s January article on his Mexico trip. He argues silver coinage has benefited Mexico with rising real estate and mills, while gold standard hurts price stability, urging immediate US free coinage of gold and silver at 16 to 1.
A profile of John D. Rockefeller, America’s richest citizen, noting an estimated fortune near 200 million dollars and annual income around 12 million. It projects wealth reaching 500 million in twenty years if the rate continues, with figures for hourly and per-minute earnings.
In a formal statement from Holyoke, Christopher T. Callahan asserts he remains Democratic State Committee chairman until ousted by a majority. He defends the Jan. 8 meeting, denies illegality, and urges Democrats to unite to advance principles proclaimed in China 1896.
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