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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1900
Page
4
A scrambled line of figures appears to be partial OCR from a historical page. The numbers lack clear context, dates, or labels, making it difficult to infer the event, location, or entities involved.
Readers of THE SUNDAY POST report newsboys and newsdealers are All Sold Out early Sunday mornings. The paper urges readers to insist on THE SUNDAY BOS and to vigorously object to any substitutions.
The House pushes a controversial mill tax bill praised by supporters but condemned as demoralizing and unconstitutional. It would levy one dollar per thousand of assessed value and distribute by school attendance, penalizing high valuation communities like Boston while overfunding cities such as Worcester, prompting calls for Senate veto.
A state House vote on the Boston & Albany lease drew sharp criticism for hustling the bill toward engrossment and erasing protective amendments. Lawmakers faced suspensions as quorum issues and disorder distracted from sober handling of the issue, prompting calls to kill the lease bill for the session.
Representative on the House floor accuses money of corruptly influencing votes. The text argues no proper state legislation can proceed amid turmoil and scandal and promotes referendum as a remedy. It urges killing the lease bill this session and sending it to a Legislature seen as fairer.
A long column debates the McKinley assassination scare noting it was not tied to political groups and recalling Lincoln Garfield histories. It also covers Boston park theater use, Charlie Case, a mother and daughter’s emotional episode, Everett Wilson’s death, local city waterproofing, Nat Robinson at Nantasket, Alderman Codman, and amusing signs seen in Worcester.
The text argues the currency question is a distraction from the paramount issue of imperial policy. Ex Congressmen warn against expanding army and imperial prerogatives, urging focus on the nation’s future and the dangers of a Roman empire path. The article critiques Hanna-McKinley tactics and forecasts the presidential outcome.
The editorial questions McKinley’s plea to act with other powers on China after the crisis. It argues the U S should avoid European entanglements and notes Hay’s note omits Congress or public intent while signaling imperial aims. The piece warns against broad actions that pull the U S into overseas politics.
Metropolitan park commissioners prohibit bathers from lounging in swimsuits at Revere Beach causing disturbance among sun lovers and those awaiting a dip. Some speak of selfishness for extending use of hired suits while others complain at the sight of wet garments. The page also notes talk of Chinese Boxer ties to Lee Ou Fun and hints at Boston nine's possible strong move in the National League.
Amy fears Dick will marry Marie Arnold from Boston after a visit by Amy’s elusive cousin. Dick falls for Marie as Amy’s confession follows a night of lawn games and a sly promise to free Amy from a betrothal. Marie demands three conditions including an affection for Boston life.
A Boston notice promotes the Sunday Post Story Paper as a weekly bargain with stories lasting the week. It asserts no other Monday bargain matches it and urges readers to buy next Sunday to see the value.
A sweep of brief items notes Formosa under the Mikado, Berlin monuments, Japanese dikes costs, a cancer study group in Berlin, Finland letters bearing Russian stamps, Oberammergau tours, export orders for axes to Australian colonies, Chin Tan Sun in San Francisco, deep sea life discoveries, bond refinancings in Kansas counties, golf in Singapore, Taku fort guns, Saxony jewels, emeralds in Austria, Copenhagen library funding, shipwreck rescue stats, a New Yorker’s 127th patent, Lyons to Sodus trolley route amendments, old Spanish coin found in Maine, Hungarian power project, quail invisibility, a novel irrigation device, global sheep totals, and a quick-seat rain cover invention.
The Boston Post invites amateur and professional photographers to submit summer resort photos for weekly prizes of 10 5 and 38 dollars. Photos should have news value human interest and good reproduction potential with back titled by author name and address. Submissions should be mailed to Editor Summer Resort Photograph Contest Boston and prints will begin Monday next.
A homemade menu list features broiled beeteteak Graham gems baked potatoes coffee mashed strawberry shortcake tea supper green teas whipped cream cold roast veal lettuce salad hot cream tartar biscuit strawberries and cream circle cake with a recipe line including one cup sugar and two cups flour from Mrs. D. W. Lyon of Prescott Street Charlestown Massachusetts.
A lively movement in straw hats is under way with the largest gales in the line to be shown in Boston this week. The store offers 200 hats at 19, 25, 50, 75 cents and 1 dollar, matching former prices from 50 cents to 1.50.
A Chicago Times Herald item recounts a humorous scene in which an old detective boasts of psychic insight. He claims to read character from appearance and demonstrates by noting a man’s uneven shoulders and left handed habits, prompting a wife to expose the setup.
Fosdick questions Tenspot about his uncle Ezekiel who is called eccentric and rich. Tenspot insists the uncle was sane enough to amass wealth and jokes that the will leaves the fortune to charity. The judge's remark hints at the uncle's insanity.
An Indiana congressman returns from a McKinley campaign speech tour to his vine-clad cottage seeking a break from silver coinage talk. His 65 year old daughter is told a neighbor's child, Babe Schulty, is alive, a dramatic mishearing captured by New York Success.
A Cleveland Plain dealer humorously notes a street car conductor grew angry after a denied electric fare, quipping about the shock of the current and the conductor’s reaction to the outage.
The committee of Congress confronted the Standard Oil Company over profits with a sharp retort. The company claimed its charter allows making lubricants and equated money to political machine lubrication, a line that left the committee impressed.
A wife pleads for at least three new costumes, saying her dresses are ragged and reflect poorly on her. The husband retorts that she is a great debit to him, highlighting the financial tension in the home.
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