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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
6
A Massachusetts legislative committee rejects a proposal to allow a single mark to cast a straight party ticket. Maryland lawmakers meet in Annapolis to align with Massachusetts, while Republican resistance blocks Senate organization, highlighting party composition as a factor in ballot practice.
The piece argues the Hay Pauncefote accord is obsolete and flawed, urging a fresh treaty that centers on U S ownership and control of the canal. It approves Secretary Hay’s role but warns him to prioritize American interests over British aims, shaping a new pro American canal agreement.
The Cuban republic faces conditions from Congress after adjournment that many see as a protectorate. McKinley profile hints at supervising treaties finances and city sanitation, with Isle of Pines under U.S. control and naval stations. Critics ask if this breaches independence and foreshadows more conflict.
Public discussion on a new Boston subway will be held at the State House with the Boston Associated Board of Trade backing public interests. The Elevated Railway Company suggests it will fight to retain existing privileges while officials and commercial groups push for public advantage over corporate profit.
The speaker argues that street use profits by monopolistic corporations are enormous and that public rights and convenience must be protected. Any favored scheme should prioritize people, ensuring safeguards and fair access.
The article criticizes a legislative committee’s refusal to strike the word male from voter qualifications and argues that a plebiscite on municipal women’s suffrage should be presented to the people. It contends the Legislature may be avoiding a decisive public expression and urges allowing residents to vote on the constitutional change.
Weather winds rustle across Dorchester and Boston streets as readers laugh at a funny sea of pranks and a student lobster parade. Frank Gallagher nears recovery in Mount Pleasant and Jamaica Plain after a serious illness. A Boston note recalls Bernard Shaw and reactions from Carleton and Watson to his Americans cannot govern claim. The Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners reports 234 meetings and studies Cuttyhunk Island harbor plans with estimates from 29 550 to 16 530.
Fragmentary verse about humble life and romance. References a maid named Mamie and a speaker describing affection, social position, and a longing for simple happiness amid fame and commonfolk. The text is cryptic and stylistic, with potential cadence hints and misread letters.
In a sunlit Huxbridge room a local embroidery circle sours into scandal as Mrs. Sartoris, a widowed newcomer, faces slights from Mrs. Hemenway and town gossip. After a false accusation of cruelty to her child, Sartoris and Guy Hemenway bond through adversity, while the pair care for the other woman, ending with Sartoris becoming Mrs. Hemenway.
The text shows a historic daily menu with breakfast items such as grape fruit fried wheat, ripe potatoes and coffee, followed by a lunch including curried fowl, potato puffs, doughnuts, cheese, cocoa, and dessert items. A curry fowl recipe outlines simmered pieces with curry powder lemon juice cream and rolled rice, concluding with a toast to Rueter’s Sterling Ale.
A batch of light pieces from Chicago Post Yonkers Statesman Baltimore American and Philadelphia Press humor columns and Tit-Bits mocks rummage sales in Evanston with tales of hats, muff thefts and thrift frenzies. Jokes about umbrellas and black sheep pepper the snippets along with stage banter and a joke exchange about art and buyers.
Reader John Burns asked for the population of the Dominion of Canada. The response gives a figure of four million eight hundred twenty three thousand eight hundred seventy five.
Last Whitney Hall assembly night features a gala dinner for M Deschamps hosted by Arthur Sturgis Dixey and Robert Goelet at Claverly Hall after his Boston lectures. Attendees include Mrs Batcheller and Mrs Kellog with musical receptions at several homes and a Riverdale Casino dance finale.
The Chinese caligraphist uses two colors black and red. The national debt of Norway is about 60 million dollars. Hamburg is a hub for wild animals and zoo stock. Over twenty years freight rates to England fell from 60 to percent. The Danube runs through many languages, and carries four-fifths of Eastern Europe trade. Wireless stations will be built at Inishtrahull in Ireland and Kildonan Arran Scotland to report and signal ships at sea.
The programme shows the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall visiting Halifax on September 15 arriving Quebec September 20 and St John’s October 22 with plans to depart for Portsmouth later. The itinerary hints at a possible United States passage on the return trip.
From a Marblehead competitor the Competition Editor extends thanks to the Post and friends who aided in a recent contest. He praises Frank H. Riley the popular newsdealer and Arthur P. Shepard the clerk at William A. Brown's store for their hard work toward first prize. William B. Brown signs the letter from Marblehead.
A letter from J R Hamilton thanks readers for support in the contest and notes he will supply Roxbury residents with the meritorious Sunday paper at 209 Ruggies Street. He signs respectfully.
A letter from a reader expresses thanks for prize money and kindness received after a contest. The writer, a Boston Post reader, sends best wishes for the paper’s continued success and signs as Gite of Houston Henderson.
The twelfth census shows Alaska's total population at 63,592 in 1900, up 31,540 since 1890, a 98.4 percent increase. Nome City leads with 12,485 residents and Skagway City has 3,117.
A new office building will rise at the corner of Beacon Street and Tremont Place opposite the Tremont building. Two estates are involved Dr J W Otis and Isidore Braggiotti with property purchases and building costs totaling about 600000. Trustees of the syndicate are Charles E Cotting and Francis E Welch.
The Boston Post nominates William A. Gaston as Democratic candidate for Massachusetts Governor. The paper argues the time for change is ripe and that Gaston could be elected as a protest against the Republican national administration. If a Democrat wins next year the reason will be Washington, not the state.
The Boston Post weighs in on Democratic Governor nomination prospects. It lauds President Gaston of a major Boston corporation as a qualified nominee who could honor the party, while noting Republicans face a duty in November.
Edwin Uhl former Assistant Secretary of State under Grover Cleveland and later U S ambassador to Germany is critically ill at his Grand Rapids home. The report notes his distinguished career and current health condition.
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