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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1897
Page
4
A brief item noting the Boston Post as the Democratic paper serving the Ninth Ward and the region known as N W England, highlighting its political alignment and publication role.
A warm greeting greets General Collins upon his return from exile as Boston honors him. The city notes his long vacancy in a pivotal role and reflects on the shared regard of citizens amid years of change including census growth, subway progress, and forthcoming elevated rail. The public welcome is hearty and unanimous.
The article argues the United States should not bear the $4,900,000 cost of Hawaii’s 1890s annexation scheme and urges recognizing Queen Liliuokalani's pecuniary rights. It notes market indifference to London, rising bullish stock activity, easy money, shrinking gold shipments, improved iron trade, and hopeful economic revival driven by improving railroad earnings and crops.
The Senate adjournment leaves the Republican tariff bill weak on revenue as trusts gain influence. Sugar and Beef Trust protections threaten imports, with millions funneled to trust holders while workers see little. The key challenge remains where future revenue will come from once trusts are addressed.
Delegates from South American republics visit amid a U S tariff push to close borders to foreign goods. The piece condemns the Republican tariff as harming trade with South America, noting heavy duties on hides wool and wood and urging Americans to oppose government policy that disfavors business interests. The Argentine representative warns Europe may become the region's supplier.
A six month wait ends as a broadening market takes hold with investors and speculators buying securities on a liberal scale. Prices rise steadily, with London showing increased willingness to trade in American securities on the bull side, signaling buoyant market sentiment.
The Mulrey-Scollans verdict is a partial win for good government but leaves unresolved questions about who profited from pay roll falsifications. Jury disagreement weakens a full victory and spurs continued doodle case prosecutions. Fred R. Comee’s Boston Terrier at concerts and Europe-bound opera plans with Damrosch are noted alongside local civic and business glimpses.
The Observant Citizen reports on capricious late spring weather with cool breezes and a quick shower, predicts the sun’s northern journey, and mentions plans to illuminate Shirley Gut near Deer Island to monitor escapes. It praises Nat Robinson for city duties, notes postal congress visits, and shares local anecdotes including a baby named Handel and a local marriage set for June 22 in Dorchester.
In Harborville a sailor named Philip Warren plans a brave future with Margaret Hurst on shore while Ernest Benton plots to win her. On the cliff edge under a red moon the love triangle tightens as Margaret yields to Benton’s demand and Warren sails away. A perilous ultimatum tests loyalty and life against the treacherous sea.
A night storm drives a life saving effort as Margaret and Ernest join Captain Williams aboard a lighter to save shipwrecked sailors. Despite valiant waves and exhaustion, two bodies are found washed ashore beneath a tense, tragic scene.
Florence Nightingale, who has just celebrated her 77th birthday, is ill and not expected to recover. She left a planned nurses' home as a national memorial funded by $400,000 from English donors after the Crimean War. Ex-Secretary Hoke Smith’s family were saved from a recent house fire by their dog’s persistent noise.
Secretary of War Alger owned a valuable watch he valued highly. After accidentally dropping it into water, he sent it to a first class jeweller for repair and received a bill for 40 dollars when it was returned.
A string of quick portraits and notes including Professor Jowett’s remark on taste for mathematics, Rev. Noyes resigning from a Japan mission over doctrinal doubts, Seddon’s push for women’s suffrage in New Zealand, and Rev. Bartlett’s long Ohio ministry. Also mentions Mrs. Oliphant’s Italy trip for a Siena volume, Ambassador Hay’s dinner for Whitelaw Reid, Savannah’s bid for a bicentennial Oglethorpe celebration, and Postmaster-General Van Alphen touring the U S with a Maryland coroner’s jury anecdote.
A collage of vignettes from periodicals includes mischief in a chemistry lab with a discolored ceiling and a misidentified baby, a Napoleonic reminiscence about Waterloo, a thief failing to conceal his past prison term, and a tutor reacting to a pupil’s death with dry wit.
Post Meru Miss Minnie Sheehan of Natick is awarded the usual Post menu prize of $5 for last week. Her menu was published Thursday June 10.
The page lists meals and recipes including sliced oranges with sugar, cream of wheat, lamb chops, baked potatoes, corn cake, tomato au roasts, veal stuffed roast, butter beans, macaroon pudding, crackers and cheese, lobster salad, strawberries, and sponge cake. A detailed potato souffle recipe and a macaroons based pudding are described, attributed to Helen Donovan of Dorchester Mass.
The article argues that smartness matters more than expensive fabric. It compares a well groomed, carefully kept gown to costly attire and stresses prompt dressing, neat hair and nails, functional shoes, and well-placed fastenings as key to a polished look.
A Boston reader asks the Post to examine a House bill granting the late Sapeata Paget’s widow a salary past September. He argues such payments are unjust when taxpayers face foreclosure and homes are sold to cover tax debts, and urges the paper to press officials to correct these perceived wrongs. June 10, 1897.
A Somerville letter challenges I O O F leaders to a public debate on the Knights of Honor. Enoch Mit dem letters from Medford Street argues the order is legitimate but calls out insinuations and promises a forthcoming reply in Monday issue. He proposes a joint debate in Somerville or Boston with specified debaters, and invites Mr I O O to contest the question whether Knights of Honor and similar societies are a success.
A reader letter from M F Lynch of Dorchester urges independent scrutiny of city government corruption in Boston. The writer condemns class bias in taxation, calls for equal treatment of offenders, and demands ongoing purification and businesslike plans to curb corruption.
Lawrence figures including ex Mayor Charles G. Rutter and ex Alderman A A Bailey rally behind Jerry O Sullivan criticized for trial haste and heavy sentence. They call for a new trial or pardon citing evidence, public sympathy and belief in his honesty and resolve to fight the rum ring. Edward Callaghan also supports his release.
Miss Jennie Aronsky daughter of Mr and Mrs L F Aronsky wed Mr B Davis in Roughan's Ell Charlestown with Rabbi Margolis officiating. Bridesmaids included Ida Goodman Mamie Goldberg Sarah Farenbaum and Becka Aronsky. best men were Harry Goldman Rubin Stalofsky Abraham Lemar and Barnett Finkelstein.
Last evening in this city, Fannie Post married Nathan Cohen at the old Boston and Maine depot hall. The ceremony was officiated by Rev. H Yaffe with Rebecca Kerner and Gertha Weisman as bridesmaids and M Jones and J Hurwitz as best men.
At the Methodist preachers meeting in Wesleyan Hall Samuel Freuder formerly a Jewish rabbi will discuss The Talmud or Wit and Wisdom of the Rabbis starting at 10 45 this morning.
A lyrical wartime piece by George Parsons Lathrop portrays Cuban fighters in a night battle against Spaniards. The moon and nature frame scenes of courage, death, and a hopeful dawn for Cuba’s freedom, ending with a patriotic vow that Cuba shall be free.
London in jubilee fever as Victoria prepares Royal Victorian Order decorations. Duchess of Marlborough likely to receive the honor as American beauty Miss Goelet dominates social pages. Scotland Yard tightens surveillance on Irish extremists amid jubilee preparations.
A. H. Cartree, a West End railroad conductor, leaned from a Meeting House Hill car to collect fares and was struck by a post on Hancock near Glendale. The speeding car hurled him to the pavement and he was taken to City Hospital unconscious.
Thomas F Bayard told the National Civic Club in Brooklyn that no unsettled issue remains between the United States and Great Britain. He praised the general arbitration treaty and urged the spread of Christian civilization and humanity’s true friends to advocate for peaceful, united solutions.
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