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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1897
Page
4
Mayor Quincy appoints Dr Francis J Keany to the City Hospital board praising his medical achievement training in the United States and Europe and his Boston roots with education completed locally before studying abroad. The selection is lauded as boosting an already efficient board.
Athletes from rival universities stand as the athletic flower of their schools. Their upcoming meeting promises a notable race that will showcase speed and training.
The article accuses Republican Senators of trading and bargaining in a public session to push a tariff on clothing wool. It laments the tax as a gross imposition on consumers, noting only minor differences from earlier proposals and predicting further changes in conference committee. The piece views the Senate split as a sign the fight continues.
A wave of highway robberies grips Boston and suburbs with daytime muggings on Washington street and an electric car heist thwarted. Observers urge police to set a strong example to deter copycats as unpunished crime encourages repetition.
A speech at Music Hall criticizes Harvard and Brown for perceived heterodoxy while urging businessmen to send sons to other schools. Supporters argue education quality matters more than faith, noting Joseph H. Walker’s bid to discipline Brown’s president and his own past stance on the Sherman silver purchase bill.
Harvard and Yale renew their famed rivalry in summer intercollegiate rowing with Cornell entering the field at Poughkeepsie. The Crimson arrive with strong preparation and disciplined training, while Yale maintains its traditional methods. All three crews promise a competitive race this Friday.
A Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor report by Wadlin analyzes western islander immigration into Barnstable County and the region’s social and industrial changes over the past decade. It notes population decline, shrinking manufacturing and fisheries, rising agricultural value, and calls for provincial land reclamation, irrigation, state aid, and transportation reform to restore growth and boost the Cape as a market garden and summer resort.
Observant Citizen Peter S. McNally plans a British Channel attempt starting around July 4 depending on weather. If successful he hopes to swim the Tiber and the Hellespont then return to Boston with fame and ducats. Other items note a poetry reading at Quincy School, a Daly wedding in Longwood, and remarks on Haymarket station and local urban life.
A narrator notes simple nostril remedies with eucalyptus and vaseline, remarks on Secretary of the Navy Long’s health, and describes an underwater photography experiment at a wharf. A Swiss groom’s Vermont visit reveals cultural wine fears, ice water use, and a Boston lunch escape amid humorous hydration misadventures.
A collage of brief notes mentions Mrs Edwin Gould as a New York New Jersey social leader and Diamond Match heir. Other items recall diarist John Brights son publishing parts, actress Maeder at 86 publishing memoirs, Faure’s fashion plans, the Khedive’s zoo, and McKinleys heavy mail at Sunnyside. Also reports Irvings visitors at Sunnyside and Doane and Potter quips. Oil man John Moosman, known as the smeller, was killed by a train near Parkersburg West Virginia. he was 70, deaf and wealthy.
Gladys Winn and Jack clash over unspoken feelings during a moonlit night on the piazza. A moth, a curtain, and a missed chance fray their hopes as Gladys retreats and Jack shelves his confession. Weeks later at church, a dance ends with unresolved tension as Jack retrieves Gladys’s fan and hints at an apology to come.
A Post letter criticizes John Redmond and his followers in the British House of Commons. The writer praises John Dillon and allies like Davitt Blake McHugh O Brien and Collery, arguing Redmond weakens Ireland and should be ousted at the next election. The writer hints at possible physical force if necessary but favors practical action now.
A reader recounts two uncomfortable experiences on Forest Hills streetcars where fellow passengers refused to move for open seats. The letter urges a law to require passengers to slide in and move up on both open and closed cars to improve passenger comfort and safety.
Edward Stratton of Hudson presses Boston and Maine and Massachusetts Central to run a 9 p m Sunday train from Boston to Hudson. He argues current stops over two hours deter Fitchburg line riders and that a late Sunday service would boost seaside visits and local trips.
A reader from the Shop Girl column pleads for compulsory box cars on the West End road after her sister fell ill and lost four days of work. She recounts waiting in cold and riding an open car, noting others endured the same frigid conditions. It cites reports that some cities require such practice.
In a letter to the editor Clark and North thank the United States life saving station off City Point for timely aid on Saturday. They praise Captain Glawson and his crew as competent and essential to Massachusetts Bay yachtsmen, calling the station a great boon.
Sailor hats will be less common this season with trimmed hats dominant in line with current modes. Some girls will keep the sailor style with medium high crowns and four inch brims, Panamas with plaid ribbon bands, and coral velvet ribbons for dark girls. Rough straw sailors in brown tones, ribbon bands, blossoms and lace also appear, including a Panama with coral poppies and green foliage.
A dinner menu lists clear soup roast lamb mashed potatoes string beans paned tomatoes and snow pudding with water juice coffee tea and milk as beverages and accompaniments.
Joseph Grismer’s The New South to be staged at Castle Square Theatre next week with Lillian Law rence and J. H. Gilmour in leading roles. Maud Adams begins a London tour, and Secret Service is being translated for Paris. The Walking Delegate songs encore tally tops thirteen. Corbett Fitzsimmons pictures draw crowds at the Boston Theatre. Other items include Abbey Schoeffel Grau debt settlement offer, McKee Rankin’s vaudeville at Keith’s, Harvard night at the Pops, and Big Ben the python at Austin Stone’s.
In Philadelphia the nineteenth general conference opens in celebration of the association's twenty first anniversary. Delegates number between two hundred and four hundred from Vermont to Colorado. New England attendees include Fletcher Attleboro Allen Boston Faxon Fletcher Solberg Temple Providence Jones Salem and others.
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