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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1898
Page
4
Boston enjoys a rare run of favorable weather for sleighing with deep snow, cold but not harsh winds, and smooth roads. A holiday mood pervades avenues speedways and roads as residents embrace a long awaited carnival of winter recreation.
The Republican members of the Boston Common Council blocked a loan order by staying in the corridor during the vote. The criticism says their action, framed as protest over patronage and committee appointments, harmed city business and set a poor example.
A Boston editorial condemns rising metropolitan brigandage after an East Boston hold up and related Lynn incidents. It laments masked criminals terrorizing merchants, questions local protection, and calls for swift action to curb crime before it entrenches society.
A proposed scheme to place all authority of city and town school committees under the State Board of Education threatens local control and arouses opposition across Massachusetts. The plan aims to concentrate oversight and decision making at the state level, provoking concerns about reduced local input.
The proposal would shift control of public schools from local committees to nine statewide appointees. It would include supervision of superintendents teachers courses and school construction and salaries. Critics warn of eroding local self government and politics. Nine statewide offices would offer $4000 salaries to winning party.
The Post argues for state legislation to curb high telephone rates in Massachusetts. It endorses routing regulation to a current gas and electric commission, likely the Gas and Electric Light Commission, to oversee rates and protect public interests from a Bell monopoly. The piece predicts reductions will follow once fair regulation is enacted.
The city enjoys near perfect sleighing with hard snow and calm winds as riders fill Back Bay, Mark and Franklin Park. Boston figures, with Inspector Snow praising Colonel Thomas’s post office, while Hon. Carroll D. Wright gains election to French and Russian academies as Joe Manley seeks Maine State Legislature.
A reflective poem where winter scenes frame a memories of youthful love. The speaker recalls a boyish face and a painful return as an insistent ghost, ending with a sealed heart and a farewell understood only by time.
The Post menu prize of for last week is awarded to Miss G. L. Norris of Chestnut Hill avenue Brighton. Her menu was published Sunday Jan. 23.
A Boston notice lists daily meals and dessert options with specific recipes for coffee cake and white fruit cake. It includes serving suggestions and a complete bake method for each dish, plus a credit to Miss Coram of Baldwin at 34 Montgomery Street.
The Boston Post launched thousands of Jack samples as a holiday gimmick. Requests flooded in from across the country as Profitable Advertising reproduced the jack in its column, noting the specimen fulfilled its mission.
The letter mocks a Boston Post scribe who narrates Martian exploits near Boston with dramatic language claiming the tale exaggerates danger and calls for restraint from the ancient and honorable Artillery Company to respond.
Abbie Deluce, a 17 year old Plymouth beauty, attracts Harry Carey at the academy but discovers his flirtations lead to marriage plans with another. Fred Dwight, her friend, confronts Carey and warns of his deception. Years later Abbie becomes Miss Carrington and reunites with Fred, while Carey’s loss becomes his own loneliness.
The article notes 1886 21 000 children employed in German factories rising to 27000 in 1890 and 40000 projected but reduced to 4513 in 1897 due to a new law. It also mentions the wife of Grand Francais M de Lesseps spending much time at La Chesnage where her husband died and receiving a 24000 annual pension from the Suez Canal Company. It cites Senator Smith of New Jersey in another brief.
A spring coat from recent imports features a blouse like crossover front on the right that opens in the first dart and hangs open, signaling a return of the slim wasp waist. The tan faced cloth coat tightens at back and front, hinting at warmer weather fashion.
A detailed description outlines a straight front coat with a narrow green velvet belt, high collar in broad reverses, and green velvet reverses faced with cream guipure. The brown straw hat tilts with a green velvet trim and violet adornments, plus a violets wreath and brown ribbon loops completing the look.
A collage of bosomly humorous clippings from late 19th century papers. Jests touch on pedlars mothers and boarders with a gag or straitjacket as gifts. Several quips involve parliamentary scuffles and drinkers, ending with a deviled ham pun.
A Post Letter to the Editor argues for breaking the mill treasurers’ combine to avert strikes in New Bedford. It suggests funding the Dartmouth mill to operate independently of Andrew G. Pierce and contemplates a cooperative mill to force open mills at stake for workers’ relief and market competition.
A resident guest from Crafts Hotel Lynn argues before the Massachusetts Supreme Court that revoking licenses harms innocent hotel guests and employees. He contends punishment should fit the offence and urges trial by jury rather than broad shutdowns of hotels and penalties on patrons and staff.
James A. Watson of Boston refutes Daniel H. Coakley’s claim that Williams pressured him to avoid supporting Quincy. Watson says he told Coakley he would back C. T. Callahan for chairman and William S. McNary for secretary, in a January 6 City Hall meeting.
A Boston observer recalls a near fatal accident at Washington and Kneeland Streets at 5:15 PM. A Quincy express driver was saved when William Harrington of Roxbury restrained the unruly horse bare-handed, preventing a likely trampling as wheels and a six horse dray moved perilously.
The St Paul Globe is sold to George F. Spinney of New York who will run the paper. Spinney is rumored to represent a syndicate of capitalists including William C. Whitney with possible involvement from Great Northern president Hill. Spinney previously led the New York Times editorial desk and was Albany correspondent.
A forcible and interesting sermon was preached last evening at the Young Men's Christian Union. The text was Judge not that ye be not judged from Matthew. Choice musical selections by the church choir featured Miss Leslie Vance Grant, Mrs. Fred A. Wetherbee, Mr. Albert B. Hentz Jr., Mr. J. Frank Hadley, and Mr. Louis H. Parkhurst. It was announced that Rev Leigh ton Parks D D of Emmanuel Church will conduct public vesper services next Sunday evening. The Rev Francis B Sting ne...
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