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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1898
Page
4
Over 4000 Boston district telephone subscribers have signed a petition urging the Legislature to pass the Post telephone bill. The drive relies on mailed circulars and word of mouth, with minimal direct canvassing. Signers represent many phones and the public at large may respond later.
editorial argues Spain's demands on the United States are unreasonable and insulting. It defends the U S refusal to recall General Lee and opposes Spain's bid to block American relief shipments to Cuba, warning such actions could push toward hostilities and a forced recall of Minister Woodford.
The piece argues tensions between Spain and the United States have escalated toward war amid Cuban independence struggles, De Lôme’s insult to President McKinley, the Maine explosion, and Spain’s demand to recall the Havana envoy. It warns against further incidents and rising popular anger in both nations.
The nation unites behind President McKinley amid Spain United States tensions. Citizens vow broad, nonpartisan support for his administration and patriotic leadership, with Democrats Populists Republicans from all regions backing the elected president.
The week's markets show gains when not blocked by the Maine inquiry and Cuban issues. European demand waned as gold shipments to New York rose, while bank clearings and railroads hint at improving business. gold remittances ease money markets, yet stock buoyancy hinges on resolving Cuba.
The Observant Citizen observes fame is often empty and misunderstood. The piece comments on musical critic Apthorp, a song’s prophecy about royalty, hot water vending in London, a London phrase, a potential preventive society, the schooner Teresa heading to Honduras for plumage, and the Ancient and Honorable Art Company’s wartime mood and gun loans long ago.
A seven year search returns long lost ordnance to a Boston company while debate grows over displaying heavy six pounders in front of the Old State House for defense. The piece also recounts Melba’s Seville performance at Boston Theatre and a conductors incident on an electric car as bystanders observe.
The well known orientalist Professor Ahlwardt has finished cataloguing and describing all the Arabic manuscripts in the Berlin Library after twenty four years of devoted work. Sir Arthur Sullivan has taken a villa at Beaulieu near Nice and Monte Carlo and plans to reside there during February and March while he works on a new opera forthcoming.
Miss Margaret Long, daughter of the Secretary of the Navy, has passed a brilliant examination and matriculated in the senior class at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore. She plans to finish studies there before practicing medicine in Boston.
Mme. Patti has seen her own obituaries in Australian papers. The French Academy fixes March 17 for M. Hanotaux and March 31 for Count Albert de Mun to be received. Duc d Aumale and Henri Meilhac successors election set for May. A Kenna statue in Statuary Hall Washington shows him mid speech with one hand resting and a pile of books pressed to his chest.
A collection of light humorous quips from newspapers fielding family notes and social gaffes. The jokes cover jealousy mistaken affections and witty responses about photographs ships mines and looming war. Prominent names include Julia Kitty Havana Harbor and Spring referenced through various papers.
A young girl Jenny learns a quiet older relative, Morris Morton, is wealthy and plans a generous arrangement. She falls for Captain Walter Wren, while Uncle Morton arranges a surprise dinner and engagement that links romance with inheritance, changing Jenny’s prospects.
A London style golfing girl appears more English than before as she moves into spring play in northern latitudes. She sports a bright red golf coat of a new cut, plain and blouse-inspired, designed for golf with a generous, loose fit.
A newly recommended navy jacket features a slight waist pouch with three large buttons below the collar and a belt button at the waist. Paired with a plaid Tam o Shanter sailor hat, the set is described as very stunning. Tam o Shanter refers to a crown style hat with a rolling sailor brim.
The Damrosch-Ellis company presents Paust for the last time this season at the Boston Theatre tonight with a cast including Melba Toronto Van Cauteren Campanari Boudour Viviani. Madame Nordica remains ill and Les Huguenots cannot be performed as announced.
The Maine tragedy in Spanish waters echoes the Virginius case of 1873 78 with 53 Americans killed and a war scare. It recounts the capture by Tornado in 1878 the execution of officers and crew and the need for reparations and an apology to the United States. General Sickles advocated force while Spain hesitated and Britain influenced the outcome.
Ex Governor William Claflin, aged eighty, spent his 80th birthday quietly at 63 Mt. Vernon Street Boston with family and friends amid flowers and well wishes. Illness from catarrh followed a brief winter health retreat, but he remained hopeful and engaged with public life as son Adams D. Claflin of Newton Highlands stays close by.
Miss Edith M. Dixon of 32 Everett Street Jamaica Plain wins the Post Menu prize valued at the prize amount shown on her menu published Thursday March 3.
The list features oranges oatmeal fried mush maple syrup mutton chops creamed potatoes German toast coffee and a dinner course of tomato soup roast beef yorkshire pudding mashed potatoes boiled squash pickles celery plum pudding foamy sauce mince pie cheese sliced banana and cream coffee and tea.
Frank Damrosch conducts a singing class at Cooper Union New York aiding promoters of a local scheme. His brother Walter Damrosch of the Damrosch Ellis opera company is cited as a related figure. The article notes the effort faces a large and growing attendance.
A fourth Steinert Hall section was created as demand for admission rose. Bumstead Hall will not expand beyond its 700 voices toward Cambridge singers. Steinert Hall attracted a packed audience with over 150 members already enrolled.
Denis J. Falvey Ward 5 councilman received a gold purse containing 38 from the Workingmen’s Debating Club of Charlestown at a banquet in the Roughan building City square. He thanked the club and is a past resident and founder of the organization.
A World staff agent, using the tug Confidence, carries a sealed package of copy and drawings from Key West harbor across the sea. The package is delivered to associates who rush it via phaeton and telegraph to Tampa, then New York, to meet editors amid censor delays in a Spanish censorship climate.
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