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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1896
Page
4
The Boston Post, representative Democratic paper of New England, serves as a historical voice for regional politics and public discourse with its traditional editorial stance and community coverage.
The Connecticut Democrats discuss bypassing a presidential ticket if a silver candidate emerges in Chicago. A sound money club vows not to back any candidate against free coinage. The talk is seen as premature yet revealing warning signs for the party.
The piece argues that even if the Republican convention endorses sound money and McKinley is elected, a future Republican Congress might pass free coinage. It questions whether McKinley would veto such a bill and suggests he might sign it, highlighting a perceived weakness in the party's electoral case.
A Boston police figure, ex-Police Commissioner Osborne, shifts from ridicule to respect in Republican circles. The piece portrays him as near Mark Hanna, poised to name the next port collector, become London’s consul-general, and control patronage in the McKinley era.
The expiration of the first session of the Fifty fourth Congress is welcomed worldwide. The record shows incompetency obstruction wastefulness and reckless injury to the people’s interests. It failed to place public finances on a sound foundation aid trade or confidence. It did none of the hoped for reforms.
The piece argues for a strong plain platform from the Republican convention in St Louis. It condemns past party breaches and warns against wavering on sound money versus free coinage. It urges party leaders to resist dicker and deliver a clear, decisive platform.
The acting Governor will soon fill numerous terms on executive commissions and boards. This task will reveal his ability to judge men and their capacity, a crucial quality for the appointing power. The process is a test of Wolcott's integrity and judgment.
The piece urges Governor Wolcott to keep state commissions nonpartisan while ensuring party representation on boards. It argues for appointing two additional Superior Court justices and suggests both new judges be Democrats to rebalance an uneven judiciary, with one from each party as a compromise.
A brief quotation notes that those who never retract their opinions value themselves more than truth, attributed to Joubert.
A pace quick New England vignette covers a five year old boy in a blue sailor suit who dodges a provision wagon and reproaches the driver in a sharp motherless line. Also notes a June 29 Servia voyage of Rev Horton with Ancients and a Boston weather tease.
A compiled sample of short quips and dialogues from various humorous sources, including exchanges about intuition, politics, memory, and social observations. The pieces feature witticisms and mishearings, presented in a newspaper-clipping style with credited magazine names and framed as light entertainment.
A would be Scotland Yard aspirant narrates his attempt to solve a 1895 Whitechapel murder. He tracks a mysterious American victim, boards to Southampton, plans to seize a suspect with a Scotland Yard badge, and investigates a pungent black valise only to discover a cheese prank. The tale ends with the narrator abandoning detective ambitions.
The Post offers weekly prizes for Original Short Stories with ten dollars for first, five for second, and two dollars to four others. Winners named each Sunday, paid by mail Monday for the prior week’s stories. Only female writers may win, submissions must be 800 to 1000 words, on one side, with name and address, and nondisclosure of anonymous authors.
A column reviews a published theory that Marshal Ney escaped execution and fled to America, citing Mme Campan’s Memoirs and a July Century family record. It notes a Whitehall Review quip on Grant’s assassination and mock Boston signs, plus Silk Road of literary essays in North American Review Scribner’s and Mrs Strong on Stevenson’s Vailima methods.
An Armenian rendition portrays a scorched field where a lone flower pleads for rain. A cloud passes, refuses aid, and is torn by lightning, but a shower finally revives the earth and the flower, though the cloud’s pride is humbled.
A Roxbury letter to the Post questions why Roxbury was left out of a city playground funding and argues for a Roxbury gymnasium. The writer notes existing facilities at Charlesbank and Brookline, suggests Parker Hill sites, and asks where councilmen are to help Roxbury citizens. Dated Roxbury June 10.
A Roxbury resident, John Gordon, denounces American oppression of Black people and suggests Colored Americans seek British citizenship if denied equal rights. He condemns hypocrisy toward Cubans and Armenians and calls tyranny by leading Americans monstrous.
Aresident of South Boston reports rising hoodlum activity near Ninth and Gustin streets and at D and Seventh streets. He cites crowds of youths and mixed dancing on D Street, urging Division 6 leadership to restore sidewalk use and public order amid Sunday evening disturbances.
The Rev Mer Kneipp plans to visit the United States in autumn to promote his cold water bath therapy. Nervous troubles show notable improvement, with Kneipp treating all visitors free of charge in Woerishofen. His method has spread across Europe with many adherents including royalty and clergy.
The Eliot Church Society of Boston held its annual June festival in the parlors with Hor ton S. Allen and a committee of helpers supervising tables. An evening program featured sleight-of-hand by Professor Floyd of Boston, with assistance from a group of young ladies.
President Cleveland, in a White House session with his cabinet and Private Secretary Thurber, signed several bills while others failed to become law. One enacted measure created a life saving station on the New England coast between the Hampton and Merrimac Rivers. Public business will keep him in Washington for now, with no plans for departure to Gray Gables announced.
Fifty American Congregational ministers arrived aboard the Columbia in Plymouth after a June 4 New York departure. A Plymouth mayor led a deputation to welcome the pilgrims to the town linked to the Mayflower voyage. Rev. A E Dun ning of Boston gave the response, as the ministers toured Pilgrim Father sites.
Messrs. Lee Higginson and Co continue receiving contributions for East St. Louis cyclone sufferers. Up to date totals include $500 previously acknowledged plus $5 from George W Weeks, $26 from Mary L Ware, $100 from Eliza beth C Ware, $2 from Newton, $50 from J S Fay, $10 from Mrs S Parkman Blake, $83.61 from St Pauls Church Stockbridge via Arthur Lawrence, totaling $775.61.
A lawn party will be held tomorrow on the field around the partially completed hospital at Cambridge and Dana streets. The non sectarian hospital will be run by the Gray Nuns. Funds are needed to finish the brick building and prepare it for occupancy.
The Metropolitan Republican Club met at the Parker House last evening with ex Mayor Fairbanks of Quincy presiding as one of the vice-presidents. Sixteen vice presidents were elected and an executive committee of twenty three members chosen. Addresses were delivered by Thorndike Spaulding Cambridge treasurer, George Howard Falls, Dominick Maggi Chelsea, and Randolph C Surbridge Cambridge.
The Cambridge committee on lamps met Cambridge Electric Light officials at City Hall for a consultation on the city lighting contract. No definite agreement was reached.
In the summer ballroom, silk remains key for evening gowns at watering places. Flowered taffetas and changeable chine silks dominate fashion, with pault de soie valued for its elegance and delicate shades. India silks offer low prices but require a unique pattern to avoid common trends. Skirts stay large with white satin-stitched seams.
The latest styles feature skirts trimmed with ruchings and silk fringe matching gowns. Evening sleeves are box-plaited frills extending to the elbow or just above four inches. Materials include tulle and thin silk, inspired by La Loie Fuller and other top dancers.
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