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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1899
Page
4
The secretary of war denies leaving the cabinet though administration organs show discontent. The issue stems from personal ambition and anti second term alliances rather than war conduct, with rumors of Alger's separation seen as more plausible amid McKinley’s re election pursuits.
Critics condemn a toy pistol linked to injuries during last week’s patriotic celebration. The instrument is urged to be banned forever as it threatens youth, turning national independence into terror and adding peril to traditional displays of patriotic fervor.
An editorial protests mayoral and aldermanic overreach in regulating automobiles in Boston streets. It argues regulation should be minimal, like bicycles, and warns park commissioners meddling could cause friction. If standard rules suffice, the matter should be dropped for the public good.
Adml Cervera and officers face Madrid court martial but findings are only a postponement, not a formal acquittal. He is spared degradation, imprisonment or garrote, seen as spared scapegoat for failed Spanish war. He impressed Americans with chivalry toward Hobson and peers. He remains unharmed, despite defeat.
The piece argues against immediate grants of utilities and transport franchises in Porto Rico by McKinley and his Insular Commission. It questions the rush to act before Congress, warns of a corruption scandal, and urges patience until December when Congress convenes. The author decries permitting military authorities to dispense benefits to preferred insiders.
Following a largely safe Glorious Fourth, hospitals report six deaths from lockjaw linked to toy pistol wounds. Victims were children or young men, dying from hand wounds as tetanus looms. More cases and medical strain anticipated in coming days.
The Observant Citizen prints letters urging Tremont street seating on the Common amid safety concerns for women and retirees. Roxbury writer argues seats would help crowds. others dispute safety and need.
The report notes travel returning from land routes across England France Germany and Italy, with passenger movement resuming in the middle of September as borders reopen and routes normalize.
A playful verse features a kissing bug lamenting rivals Hobson and Jorge Dewey as he imagines journeys from the South to Manila and Rome. The narrator longs for a romantic voyage alongside the famed admiral and refers to the Olympia entering Suez.
The President postpones travel to St Paul until October if Mrs. McKinley’s health permits, planning to attend Chicago and then Twin Cities. Colonel Alfred E. Bates is appointed paymaster general, succeeding General Asa B. Carey retired. A mix of notes on figures from Danes to Barrie and Doyle appears in this varied item.
A collage of humorous exchanges and punchlines from various papers. A young volunteer hero grows from fear to courage amid a hot day. A professor debates mushroom value while a barbarian questions vegetables or bullets. A boy named Clarence, nicknamed Fatty, and a domineering wife appear in humorous vignettes. The lion’s share centers on witty dialogues about love, money, and family misfits.
A Massachusetts veterans’ group denounces Governor Wolcott and General Curtis Guild Jr for opposing soldiers’ civil service rights and veterans’ preference. The lengthy open letter argues Guild betrayed Massachusetts soldiers from Gettysburg to Santiago, urging a soldier’s friend for Lieutenant Governor and demanding explanation.
Mrs. Curson fears her son Albert Carson will wed actress Lillian Hunter. Henry Arden, a worldly matchmaker, visits to intervene but learns Alice Hunter Forrest is actually Alice Hunter, Lillian’s ward and son’s love interest. Arden reconciles with Lillian, realizing her virtue and the risk of gossip, and helps unite them.
A playful item lists clues for a daily charade and references yesterday and today’s puzzles. The fragment mentions a place for passengers and a common item used by druggists, hinting at a continuing wordplay feature in the newspaper.
A special Middlesex Bar Association meeting held yesterday at the office of president E. K. Hamilton admitted forty eight additional members. The regular membership now stands at two hundred. The association reports a flourishing financial condition.
A Boston letter to the Post condemns police coercion and confession extraction. The writer contrasts British policing with American practice, cites bishops of coercive inquiry, mentions a sweat-box and prison stings, and questions the conduct around the Dedham murder suspects and Chief Drugan. The letter urges public protest and impartial investigation.
A reader questions Acting Postmaster Henderson’s defense of hiring college students for three months at 1250, arguing why extra workers are needed when substitutes rarely work more than three days a week. The letter urges steady work for ten substitutes familiar with the process, criticizing perceived discrimination against regular staff.
New magazine Anglo-Saxon issued in New York and London at a guinea per number. It features a facsimile binding of Thevet's Vies des Hommes Illustres and reproductions of portraits by Cust. Includes Henry James story The Great Condition and a biographical piece on Lady Mary Wortley Montague, with essays by Robins, Swettenham, Rosebery, and Swinburne.
The Boston floating hospital led by Dr. Charles D. Wilkins sailed yesterday in honor of Miss Bessie Burrage. Fifty children under six rode aboard many ill with infantile and intestinal troubles. Regular and daytime patients, with improvements noted, will depart at 9 30 and return from Pemberton at 4 p m blocks.
A fragment from a kitchen column lists a daily table with breakfast items like strawberries red beans corn cake and broiled meat with drawn butter and lemon plus supper notes featuring chopped chicken sandwiches tomatoes jelly salad and spinach cream soup. The piece credits Mrs Agn Barker of 49 Arlington Street Nashua NH.
Annie Lewis of Manchester New Hampshire and Herbert C Harrison of Boston were quietly married at 10 30 yesterday morning at the residence of the Rev L H Dorchester on Columbus Avenue A wedding lunch followed at the Hotel Thorndike The couple began their honeymoon to Saratoga and Lake George Miss Lewis is praised as one of New Hampshire s belles and Harrison works as a voicer and tuner at the Hutchings church organ factory in Boston
A charity garden party at Apollo Garden Roxbury drew large sums after selling 4000 tickets plus entrance sales. Numerous tables including Apollo White Ribbon and Mission Church supported by many volunteers hosted a program of concerts and dancing, ending around 10 PM.
The conference of St Peter's Church will host a garden party Saturday on the estate of P F Carey, formerly owned by P A Collins. Fifteen tables will be run by Miss Grace L McVey and other young ladies, with dancing, concerts, games and sports planned.
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