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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1897
Page
4
The Manchester New Hampshire cotton mills plan to stay open through the summer, sustaining about 14 000 workers. The writer argues tariffs will not halt the revival of the cotton industry, noting broader American enterprise resilience despite Republican tariff measures.
The piece portrays Western wool growers and beef interests as bold negotiators, forcing Eastern senators to bend on tariff provisions for hides and wool. It claims Western blocs used courage and threat of wrecking the tariff to compel concessions, accusing New England Republicans of lacking spunk.
The Ohio State convention praised Senator Hanna for services to the party while denouncing civil service rules and revocation. The platform signals Hanna’s control over patronage distribution, rewarding supporters from the St. Louis McKinley bloc with public offices. The text argues Hanna’s Senate path was shaped by office spoils rather than policy, sidelining John Sherman.
The author argues for decisive police action to stop highwaymen in Boston and suburbs. It stresses protecting citizens, ending open daylight robberies, and making a few sharp examples to deter amateurs and ruffians. If police test this, it may curb the trade.
Mayor Quincy can hire John C. Cobb as an expert adviser on real estate values for city land acquisitions and pay his bills. The question is whether a municipal council member, appointed to aid the Mayor, may bill for private expert services without impropriety, given the council’s public-spirited, unpaid composition.
The city pays Cobb to advise the Mayor in private capacity on questions he also advises publicly as a paid expert. The two roles conflict and require Cobb either to serve unpaid on the council or resign from the Mayor’s advisory capacity.
The columnist surveys city life noting police activity, marriages, and social happenings. He mentions Qeneral Martin’s health, H. Q. Tucker’s organist role, Dan Tracey’s marriage, and Margaret Flood’s match. A tale of roadside curiosities and a proposed bicycle insurance idea closes the column.
Menu items include Bananas Potten pore Bresk and Fried Potato Potatoes Corn Cake Dry Toast Coffee for breakfast. Dinner features Tomato Soup Asparagus Cottage Bread Stuffed Veal, Bavoe Pudding, Rhubarb and Sauce. Supper offers Sliced Cold Veal Tea and Sponge Cake with a flour corn meal batter recipe included. Mrs M Mitchell Charlestown.
The Working Boys Home announces a mid-summer festival to raise funds for the Industrial Training School at Newton Mass. The school serves orphans and friendless boys by offering trades to help them earn livelihoods and become respectable citizens. Rev John F Ford, Superintendent, 88 Bennet Street.
A dramatic tale on the seaside follows lifeguard John Thompson as he saves a couple from a deadly undertow. He dies after rescuing the man, while the woman returns to her lover. The piece closes with notes on ex-Senator Dubois cattle ranching and a claim about Mark Twain's new book deal.
The item lists diverse notes from 19th century public life: a bell purchased for the Daniel Manning cruiser named after the late secretary. William S. Aldrich restoring the Parthenon in Athens. Mrs. Russell Sage addressing Emma Willard Seminary graduates in Troy. Olive Schreiner’s Trooper Peter Halker banned from Durban libraries. Edith Rotch’s $10,000 bequest to Syracuse’s Shelter for Unprotected Girls. Prince de Sagan's paralysis at age four. Mary P. Potter seeks an absolute divorce from Rev. Daniel C. Potter with Julia Ross named as corespondent and custody demand for three sons. Edward Downes to study for priesthood in Rome. Menelek of Abyssinia creating a new imperial standard.
The July Cosmopolitan presents excerpts from A New Rendering of the Rubaiyat by Richard Le Gallienne with note on reader selections. comparisons to Fitzgerald’s version note musical differences but acknowledge clearer meanings. Frank R. Stockton is praised as an inventive humorist likened to Edison.
Children’s sun hats feature light Milan straw with large brims to shade faces. Satin straws in pink cream and pale blue are trimmed with maline and stiff taffeta ribbons. Round hats remain fashionable with pink candytuft embellishments and loops.
The article notes taffeta and ambonnet styles for kids with brim ribbons and elastic under the chin for secure wear. It highlights grass lawn hats as old fashioned yet fetching for youngsters and easy to launder, trimmed with removable ribbon bows.
A late week wedding at Trinity Church Boston unites Miss Alice Morris and Bates Cheesman in a ceremony kept secret from the Morris family and all kin. The groom has no public position or wealth, while Miss Morris hails from Newport and New York society circles.
A collage of jokes and quips from late 19th and early 20th century magazines and papers. It blends railway chat, marital quips, poetical praise of income, Alpine adventures, and humorous misreadings, with snippets from Household Words and Truth. The tone is light and miscellany.
The Princess of Wales and the royal party led jubilee dinners for London’s needy, serving about 300000 meals at venues including the People’s Palace Holborn Central Hall and Clerkenwell. Crippled children received meals as the Queen’s health was toasted.
At Holborn Central Hall 17 000 attendees cheered as the royal party entered the hall. The Princess of Wales spoke with an Irish pensioner and generously interacted with ragged waifs, delivering a day of widespread enthusiasm and simple dress. The Princess also helped serve ice cream at the People's Palace and urged moderation on beer at adults feasts. Clerkenwell saw similar scenes of goodwill throughout the royal tour.
The foreign naval leaders invited to the Spithead review, including Rear Admiral Miller of the US Navy, were greeted by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. They arrived in rain, were escorted by bluejackets, and attended a luncheon before a cordial audience with the Queen.
Portsmouth crowds prepare for Saturday’s naval review as British and foreign warships assemble in the Solent. The American line steamers will ferry guests including Sir Patrick Blake and W Bourke Cochran. The Teutonic sets sail from Liverpool as an armed cruiser with naval reserve crews and hundreds of youths aboard.
Lord Aberdeen praised Boston's diamond jubilee celebration at the unveiling in Public Gardens. He noted broad participation by Americans and British natives, including Boston's mayor. A tablet honoring John Cabot was also mentioned in the ceremony.
Lord Aberdeen unveiled the new corridor in the provincial building with speeches by Lord Aberdeen Archbishop O'Brien two former Bristol mayors and Consul General Ingraham.
A high mass funeral for Thomas F. Sullivan drew figures from law, business, politics and religion at All Saints Church Roxbury. Pallbearers included Dr. William H. Granger Frank J. Riley and others. interment followed at Holyhood Cemetery Brookline.
Warren F. Spalding of the Massachusetts Prison Association urged reform at the Parker House gathering. He cited Massachusetts crime statistics and tax costs, advocating indeterminate sentences and statewide control to promote development and reform in prisons.
A sickness resembling influenza has spread around Union square Somerville since Saturday. Twenty five residents of Mrs Nellie A Plimpton at 19 Warren avenue sought medical help as chills and stomach pains lingered for about three days. Drs Durell White and Bell treated many patients with over 160 prescriptions issued. Doctors attribute the outbreak to the unsettled weather conditions.
The daughter of Rear Admiral J. N. Miller is dangerously ill in Boston with typhoid fever contracted on the Atlantic crossing. Mrs. Miller remains with her and they could not attend ceremonies abroad.
A celebration at the home of Hon. Hiram Foote marks the 81st birthdays of Mr. Foote and Mr. William Morrill and the 64th anniversary of their joint carpentry beginnings with John M. Dailey in the shop of Ichabod Titcomb.
Robert Fergus an 88 year old veteran job printer and retired newspaper man was killed instantly by a fast suburban train on the Northwest line at Main street crossing Evanston last night In heavy rain he tried to close the tracks before the train and was ground to death Partial deafness was noted as one of his afflictions.
The United Confederate Veterans staged the largest parade in its history in Nashville Tennessee with more than 10 000 veterans participating. General W H Jackson served as chief marshal as the Stars and Stripes and the Confederate flag led the long march from the public square to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition gates.
The Colored Baptists of Boston and vicinity plan a national convention to begin September 16 in Boston. A local organizing committee was formed to handle arrangements, led by Rev. Alfred W. Adams of the Twelfth Baptist Church as chair, with Rev. Charles S. Morris of Myrtle Baptist Church as secretary, Rev. Jesse Harrell of Union Baptist Church as treasurer, and Rev. Jean Jacques of Calvary Baptist Church as member.
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