Legislature Ends, Two New Monuments Added in Senate
The legislature accomplishes the same end for the present. These two new monuments in the Senate graveyard are fitting ornaments.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1900
Page
6
Disaster at Mystic Junction explodes tank car fire
The Somerville Boston and Maine yard explosion drives a growing death toll and terrible injuries. Spectators faced danger amid fire and confusion as officials urge guard against crowds and inspect rail safety. General Bancroft’s brigade prepares at Framingham and local entertainers and actors receive attention as news shifts to civilian and cultural notes. General Alger reports Russell Alger Jr will avoid amputation after a Fourth of July injury.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
Somerville
Railroad Corporation
Terwt
Russell A. Alger
Russell Alger,Jr
Montreal
Canada
Newsboys Sold Out Prompt On Sunday Mornings
Readers of The Sunday Post report many newsboys and dealers are sold out early Sundays. A call is made for subscribers to insist on receiving The Post and to object to any substitution vigorously.
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THE
Sunday Post
Thesay Post
Vacation schools prove useful in Boston program
The vacation schools run by the Boston school committee operate for a week with three sites at the West End Roxbury and East Boston. They offer kindergarten through grammar work plus wood working cooking sewing natural history botany and related practical studies. The plan serves 60 000 public school children during the long vacation and is praised as a successful extension of free instruction with calls to expand to thirty schools next year.
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Boston
West End
Roxbury
Hyde Park
Europe
Julian
Pennsylvania
Mr. Farnleigh
United States
Massachusetts
Antwerp
Tennessee
Moon
George
Senate graveyard buries extra mileage bill and school tax
The Senate yesterday killed a House bill granting $100 extra mileage to legislators, condemning it as lazy and a reward for neglect of public business. The chamber also smothered a mill tax bill, a move that would shield the Governor from a possible veto and reflect ongoing opposition to related measures.
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State Senate
Senate
State House
The Paramount Issue in the 1900 Campaign
In a debate over the Philippine War President McKinley argues for continued intervention to civilize the Filipinos. William Jennings Bryan counters that protecting American citizens and founding ideals should guide policy. He warns that abandoning republican principles would dim the nation’s global example.
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McKinley
United States
Bryan
America
Mr. Bryan
Asia
Compulsory Arbitration Urged After St Louis Street Car Strike
An editorial argues for compulsory arbitration to end street car strife in St Louis. It condemns voluntary schemes as weak without binding authority and cites New Zealand law as a model where courts compel adherence to decrees. The piece urges adopting a similar system to enforce pacts and prevent renewed violence.
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St. Louis
New Zealand
Observant Citizen Notes Wind Storms and Trolley Etiquette
The column laments recurring wind storms over Boston and the wind’s notoriety in making the city seem cyclone prone. It discusses rising enlistment intrigues, plaster trust jokes, and the Old Home Week idea in Maine. It also notes penny handling by conductors and hints at improving trolley safety with guard rails on open cars near Boston suburbs.
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Boston
Universalist Young People's Union debates liquor policy
In Atlanta on the third day of the session the Young People's Christian Union of the Universalist Church debated a prohibition resolution. It urged total abstinence from alcohol and lobbied for anti liquor laws. Rev. F W Perkin opposed as restricting personal liberty. Rev. A Grier supported the measure. the motion failed by 26 votes. A move to unite more closely with the national church was adopted.
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Atlanta
Young People's Christian Union
Universalist Church
Wnion
F. W. Perkin
Connecticut
Lodge Inquiry Overshadows Philippine Policy Debate
James Callaway of Macon, Ga remarks in a Boston Journal excerpt that Senator Lodge’s China inquiry highlights flaws in U S policy toward the Philippines. He argues that cooperation with Filipinos would have strengthened our position in China and eastern affairs, contrasting it with the current push toward colonization and subjugation.
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Boston Journal
Senator Lodge
China
Sargent
Ares
Philippines
Europe
Asia
Japan
Manila
Lodge and
Walcott
Macon
James Callaway
Cambridge readers seek Cuban concert before departure
A letter requests the Associated Armies of Cambridge to organize a public concert by Cuban musicians before their departure. The writer praises Senorita Lilly and notes the Cuban appreciation for courtesies shown. The letter also mentions Senorita Lilly’s remarks on love struck couples enjoyed by residents of Devonshire Street.
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Senorita Tfuy
Senorita Liuy
Cambridge
Worthy & Chase
Senorita Lilly
Oes
Senorita
Devonshire Street
Trunk Paint Pranks Spark a Middletown Romance
Zoe Irwin pleads for a month at Gurney Harbor with cousin Nell. In New York and at the station, a bridal trunk mishap becomes a catalyst for a public affectionate plan. Zoe and Mr Nordyke wed and return to Middletown to a bemused family, the joke costing 15 cents in paint.
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Zoe Irwin
Nell
Gurney Harbor
Cora
Papa
New York
Middletown
North Pole
Zoe
Mr. Nordyke
Narragansett Pier
Narragansett
Duthéj
Fred
Ford
Gurney
Sunday Post Story Paper promises eye bulging tales
Mrs Dewey nearly makes every woman envious with her Manila Bay hero. The Boston Post rouses editors to envy as Newspap er Row reads about Sunday Post Story Paper. Spend three cents next Sunday and see if your eyes bulge.
Daily Table Menus and a Soups Instruction Note
Breakfast items include Grape Fruit Broiled Beef Steak Raised Biscuits Coffee Canned Peas. Lunch features Lamb reheated Stuffed Dates Tea. Dinner offers Julien Soup Fried Cod Mashed Potatoes Baked Macaroni and Cheese Charlotte Russe Black Coffee. A recipe notes brown stock and vegetable strips. Miss Joseph Inf Leary care Jordan Marsh City.
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Charlotte Russe
Miss Joseph
Leary
Care Jordan
Marsh & Go
City
The Wisdom of the Ancients and Julian's Figures
A collection of humorous vignettes. A Hyde Park boy Julian astounds guests with rapid facts on geography population and distances. An Australian bushranger tale ends with the thief taking notes, and a Roman sage laments a failed calculation of 49 multiplied by 17 in Roman numerals.
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Philipino
Syracuse
Odd Bits of News From Around the World
A collage of obscure facts and notes on diverse topics including Prussia wages London population growth and women organizing clubs, South African seasons, Mexican irrigation plans, Paris automobile speeds, Parlas new fire engine, Berlin student ratios, a Tennessee coal mine, Paris Exposition art praise, navy fuel tests, coal dust fuel, Windsor Castle carpet, world birth and death rates, Jupiter sightings, London scene painting, and a cork removal tool innovation.
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London
Kansas
McKinley Clubs
Bryan Clubs
Mexico
Paris
China
Parla
Berlin
Tennessee
United States
Palace of Fine Arts
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