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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1900
Page
5
A clipped historical passage discusses ballot choices for aldermen. It references a plan to elect twelve officials on a general ticket and voters selecting all twelve or thirteen as applicable. The text hints at party lines and voting strategies without clear context.
The Sugar Trust reduces its dividend from 12 percent to 6 percent, seen as a sign the powerful Sugar Refineries Company may curb its grip on prices and policy. Analysts expect smaller rivals to feel pressure if competition weakens and governance shifts, with election timing influencing investor sentiment.
A proposed bill in New York would require publishing city payrolls twice a year. It would list employees, job titles, departments, entrance dates, salaries, raises, reasons, and new appointments to improve transparency in municipal wages.
Washington reports a drawless bridge idea to link West End Boston with Cambridge benefiting residents of Cambridge. Philadelphia fashions engraved cards for dogs. Boston not yet. Miss Mary Collins in Alfred Macdonald’s office hoards over 125000 stamps, aiming for a million for a life-home check. Sisters of Notre Dame distribute stamps to Congo and China natives, with stamps reused as glue and ink. Street piano on Washington Street draws crowd via a boy’s patent whistle.
The piece argues that anti imperialist sentiment grows in the islands and blames President McKinley for the war, citing General Otis and a December proclamation. It warns that US power provokes native revolts and that traitors are increasingly plentiful.
A sale advertises blankets 72 by 82 inches in white wool with red pink and ek borders. Finished with wide silk binding. Special price for pairs. Includes price noted as 3 50.
A dealer offers imitation White Stone novelties including hat pins brooches chains with inspection invited and prices from $16.50. An 8 foot extension table of quarter sawn oak features curved legs and comfortable seating, offered with the same care as a $100 high grade table.
Lord Beaconsfield reportedly urged stopping the Transvaal war after Ma Juba Hill setback during a private 1881 conversation with a Gladstone government member. The Conservative leader warned of facing a giant in twenty years. General Ludlow may soon leave Cuba after a May municipal reform. Mascagni dedicates a new Rome opera to himself. Dr. Leyds arrives in Berlin. Paul Forster depicts him as a world wise diplomat with a sharp, friendly gaze.
Miss Sewell sold Black Beauty to a publisher for £2. The American Humane Society helped place over 2,000,000 copies. Ex Empress Eugenie sent sympathy to General Roberts after his son’s death in South Africa. Queen Elizabeth of Roumania lectures publicly and knits. A Berlin doll show highlighted dolls dressed by her. Some English women visit board school playgrounds to teach children how to play.
A collage of editorials mocks public figures and wartime leaders. Lines reference Andrew Carnegie, General French, Mr Macrum, and Kentucky whiskey, with disjointed phrases about Roosevelt and Platt. The fragmentary text reflects era editorials and satirical blurbs.
A jumble of small quotes from Washington Star Chicago Tribune Philadelphia Record and Detroit Free Press features quick exchanges. The anecdotes span politics humor weather and daily life with politicians reporters and a variety of witty banter. No single cohesive story emerges.
The notice extols fruit based foods and gelatine as sure earners with universal demand. It touts Sherriman Worrell Fruit and segregational House in Massachusetts offering shares and invites inquiries and visits to see figs and Vig products from its ranches and factories.
A dialogue heavy scene follows Constance guiding Walter to choose a suitor who truly loves him beyond wealth. Walter teeters between Fifi and an idealized future, while Constance teases and hints at a match before revelations undo his assumptions. Constance’s final reveal shows his earlier affection misplaced and Courtenay’s folly exposed.
Epitaph notes the death of the Rev. Jonathan Mitchel pastor of the first church in Cambridge on July 9 1663. It admires him as the darling of his time and states he died four years before his forty seventh birthday, full ripe and plucked for heaven.
Exports from Belgium rose by 14.389 million dollars over 1898 while imports increased 455 thousand. Transvaal imports fell from 70 million in 1896 to 50 million in 1898, attributed to Kruger’s policy. A new method preserves telegraph poles with a sand resin fill in an earthenware pipe. Napoleon’s shoe at Cluny Museum illustrates his era’s flat sole and Mme de Pompadour’s silk slipper. Census notes count Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish populations in New England and anticipate further Nordic data in the federal census.
The Freemason of New England notes widespread praise from Massachusetts and others, but reports the Boston Post received more direct responses than any other paper. Writers from New England states credit the Post for its article and the Freemason gratefully acknowledges it.
In the Senate today Contana de Voywit defended voting for the former Senator from Pennsylvania and said he opposed Corbett's seating in the last Congress for attempting a wrong act. He called Quay the victim of a diabolical plot unseen in US history. Two speeches on the financial bill were heard by Fairbanks and Butler with votes due tomorrow at 4 o clock.
Lawmakers passed a treaty ratification with the Comanche wa Apache nations to open their lands for settlement and a measure authorizing talks for a neutral Oklahoma strip with the Kiowa and Comanche. The Frederick Douglass Memorial bill sparked a filibuster led by Mr Batley of Texas. Other actions included a Ways and Means vacancy filled by Mr Underwood and liquor sales regulation in the Philippines and paper duty repeal with anti trust action urged by California’s Devries.
The President transmitted to the Senate a voluminous set of communications in response to Hoar's resolution. The eight groups include Aguinaldo correspondences, proclamations to General Otis, translations of Aguinaldo constitutions, and information on uprisings and treatment of inhabitants. It notes aid or encouragement from U.S. sources and the absence of disapproval of Otis's proclamation.
With only 127 members in attendance, the House spent the day debating spelling reform and rejected the reform bill 78 to 27. J H Donovan of Boston filed an adverse report on Edward H Dockams petition for extra subways and a tunnel to East Leave to withdraw was reported on D W Daviss petition for cider sale restrictions and the state liquor agency. The metropolitan affairs committee also opposed changing the Boston street commissioners appointment.
The House will discuss a bill by Rep Engstrom to bar future savings banks from holding national bank stock. The measure follows disclosures that savings banks held about 200000 of national bank stock subject to stockholder assessments. Advocates had urged reducing allowable holdings to align with commission recommendations.
Efforts to establish a Boston branch of the Actors' Church Alliance succeed with churches and pastors listed for visiting actors from Boston stages. St. Paul's St. Stephen's Advent St. John's St. Philip's Tremont Temple First Baptist Charlestown Unitarian First Parish Brookline Temple Adath Israel participate. Miss Lillian Lawrence of the Castle Square company led the promotion.
A luncheon and dinner menu lists dishes including broiled kidneys on toast plain lettuce hot French bread and baker's cocoa at lunch and bean soup boiled fowl spinach with cream mashed sweet potatoes chicory salad and wheat bread at dinner. Recipe note for spinach cream service suggests sieving and finishing with cream pepper salt butter and optional sherry. Mrs M B Metcalf at 142 Marlboro Street is identified.
The President sent to the Senate the nomination of H D Hinchley of Massachusetts to be third lieutenant in the revenue cutter service. Sanford A Cooke was named lieutenant (fourth class) at Glendale.
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