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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1901
Page
6
The Boston Post outlines yearly and fractional subscription prices for the Daily and Sunday editions. It notes change of address procedures, payment terms, and that all money is at sender's risk.
Just three weeks into the legislative session Boston Mayor seeks a new commission to build schoolhouses and issue bonds. Appointed by the Mayor and paid by the city, the proposed panel would add to existing offices, sparking charges of patronage and overreach. Governor Crane cautions against state interference in city affairs.
The piece argues public opinion will block a bill aimed at degrading General Nelson A. Miles by suspending him or reducing his rank. It notes Miles was made lieutenant general last June and claims the new army act would restore the grade and let the President reassign posts, dropping Miles in favor of Brooke Otis and Corbin, while praising Miles’s citizen soldier credentials and stance against inefficiency.
The Ways and Means committee trimmed about 100000 from the annual appropriation bill, signaling careful spending. Governor Crane provided a cautious inaugural call for scrutinizing public appropriations, stressing economy and debt restraint to ease taxation and improve administration, with lawmakers urged to guard the treasury.
The article notes progress on an appropriation bill and suggests this development could bring positive outcomes. It emphasizes cautious optimism regarding funding and policy implications.
The article notes King Edward VII assumes power with no changes in ministers or public service. It praises the British system for stability, citing immediate reappointments and unchanged administration while stock markets pause out of respect for the Queen. It questions if any other country maintains such calm.
A stockyards officer recalls Frank Moses as the city’s slick thief famed for quick grabs. During a livestock show he slipped a red sock from a Canadian breeder, later matching the sock to a ball yarn after a chase. A plain clothes man seized him as the theft unfolded.
In Forty Mile Nat Dexter confronts danger over a boy, pays five dollars to a harsh prospector Dan Course to free a threatened youth, and loses his helper Neddie Carew who vanishes with a band of masked robbers. Nat wanders Dawson and Juneau seeking news, while Neddie’s fate remains a haunting clue in his long quest for safety and trust.
The report shows Massachusetts savers hold 40,403,686 dollars in deposits across 1,535,000 open accounts. This indicates about half the population has some savings, with $18,667,327 paid in dividends to depositors and over $10,000,000 in undivided earnings, reflecting prudent management and secured security for the community.
The Observant Citizen notes streets lined with half mast flags for Queen Victoria’s death and displays a new blue flag with a single star amid Stars and Stripes from consulates. The Servia Club held a reunion at Parker House with music and recitations, while Mrs Hanlon declined to speak. A painting by Henry Sandham echoes Lexington’s historic canvas in a Bromfield street window.
A stranger from the Wast explains a friend named Fox died of throat trouble, the cowboy questions the cause. The stranger speculates the death links to bronchitis, but notes Fox stole a bronco. The exchange mirrors tall tale style from the Philadelphia Press.
A domestic column lists meals for breakfast lunch and dinner with recipes and quantities. It includes a tomato catsup mix, a celery and cabbage relish, coffee pudding, sauce, and a cheese and bread crumb preparation attributed to Mrs M A Furman of Chelsea.
Mr. Callowjay asks about the missing servant while his wife says she discharged her for taking wages and leaving without a word. A neighbor muses she was a jewel if she had been gentler and more obedient.
Webster Massachusetts announces free mail delivery starting July 1 with Dudley included in the new system.
Battery D First Regiment Heavy Artillery held its annual reunion and dinner at the Quincey House last evening. About fifty members attended with Captain J. H. Frothingham presiding over the after-dinner exercises.
The engagement of Miss Marie Gordon Kay eldest daughter of J Murray Kay of Brookline to John W Prentiss of Boston broker is announced. A Somerset musicale to aid the Children Metropolitan Outing Association is noted with many supporters. Recitals and society dances fill Boston social life as winter season opens at Palm Beach and St Augustine.
The collection reports on St Petersburg housing for working women, Patti’s Welsh castle named Craig-y-Nos, a Salisbury Rhodesia hotel costing over £20000, French soldiers to learn shorthand, Alaska gold remains rich with $15000000 annual output, English work hours reducing to 4 to 10 hours, a Victoria Cross and Mutiny Medal sold in London for £105, Turks fond of seven flutes, heavy South California winter travel, Jackson county Missouri arrests down after fee abolition, Russia’s 1780–1900 population gain to 126000000, Greek war office observing a Greek inventor’s flying machine trials, and a New Yorker’s ocean voyage bottles offering rewards.
The Servia Club, a ladies group formed after traveling to London with the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, met yesterday afternoon at Parker House for a luncheon and program. Mrs. James Ellis led the session recalling Queen Victoria’s death and the England trip. Mrs. F. J. Bradley and Mrs. Alexander Graham presided at the event with about thirty members present.
Dr KE A Dakin of Boston stays at the Colonial with Mr and Mrs R N Allen and Miss Ruth Allen. Mrs F Crownin shel d and Mr and Mrs George C Has kell of Boston also present. Anson Phelps-Stokes and family of Lenox, with Stokes and yachts among attendees, are listed at the Colonial. MADELAINE STUART.
William M. Pomeroy died at age 86 in Orange January 23. He edited the Springfield Republican from 1861 to 1871 and served on the Springfield Union editorial staff for a decade. He later led the Pittsfield Eagle for three years and the Orange Journal for seventeen years. He left a wife.
At the Smithsonian Institution annual meeting the Hon. Richard Olney was elected a member of the board of regents. He is anticipated to bring legal and policy experience to the museum’s governance.
Albert Dillon of 10 Mercer Street South Boston remains missing after leaving home Monday January 14 authorities seek clues from the public and close associates in the ongoing search efforts
In New York on January 23 two heiresses Mary and Harriet Daly, daughters of the late Marcus Daly, stand to inherit over 3.5 million dollars each if their mother dies first. Mrs Daly is executrix and guardian of the two minors. The estate totals about 22 million, mostly in mining stocks and copper interests, with significant real estate. distributions earmark a quarter for the four children. The two younger Daly children include Marcus at St Paul’s School and Margaret who has married H Carr Brown of Baltimore.
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