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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1896
Page
4
The Boston Post presents a Democratic voice for New England readers with political coverage, editorials and regional notices reflecting party perspectives and ongoing public interest topics.
Daily subscription rates listed: one year 85.00 six months 1.50 three months 45c month 25c. Sunday Post rates: one year 1.50 six months 75c three months 40c. Change of address instructions and advance payment policy. Officer note: entered second class, payments by mail risky, checks payable to Post Publishing Company. Editor E A Grozier.
The Senate completed action on the biennial amendment with a party line vote. Two Republican senators Derbyshire and Irwin voted against the party mandate. Democrats opposed the resolution as Republicans claim power over a legislature under party control. The paper questions whether voters will endorse reducing annual accountability.
The piece argues a $250000 pool to pack the St Louis convention for McKinley may be real. Senators Cullom and Governor Morton fear large moneyed influence shaping the nomination. It notes any Republican elected would back tariff measures favoring monopoly and questions the value of spending so much on McKinley’s nomination.
The article notes Venezuela presents official boundary documents with a calm confidence, letting facts speak for themselves. It contrasts Britain’s exhaustive counsel backed case and stresses the boundary commission’s impartial role in evaluating evidence before a final adjustment.
The State House should reject the committee report on metropolitan affairs and replace it with a bill preventing exclusive subway leases. It urges curtailing the subway commission powers and limiting lease terms to protect public interests.
The difficulties in the American Salvation Army end with Ballington Booth and his wife forming a new organization. The split appears assured after earlier hesitancy as the movement takes shape in New York and other cities.
Sunday night remarks welcome a movement reorganized on American lines. The author notes the new army aims to align with American ideas and suggests that adopting military discipline may unintentionally aid the cause by expanding American Salvation Army work.
The Massachusetts public laments the strain on the chief executive from extra official duties. Reform is urged to limit semi public functions while preserving essential public duties. Speaker notes Mr Wolcott may adjust practice, setting a precedent for balance between duties and endurance.
A Boston paper notes a grieving 82 year old woman asking why she remains while others depart. Memorial services honor Governor Greenhalge at Emmanuel Baptist Church with a charity entertainment invite and Dr Kronberger offers Columbia Hall for philanthropic use. The piece also covers liquor squad clashes, a Playgoers Club gathering with Kathryn Kidder, and profiles Dr Hetherington touring U.S. asylum methods. East Boston Athletic Association plans a Pedestrian Island cottage and preparations for a summer camp. Wood Island Park gym plans cinder-path upgrades for local youths.
Lively quips and wry remarks from press roasts and comic pages are recapped. Jests from the Detroit Tribune Puck Fun and Washington Star range across war talk marriage money and sly barbs.
A poem fragment recalls a December kiss in the South with confusion over whether it involved a sister. The speaker notes the emotional impact and memory of a kiss in New Orleans, hinting at a mix of desire and doubt.
A married woman explains she will keep Lent by becoming more lovely to her husband and children. She vows to read to him, share his interests, pamper him, tuck the kids in, and brighten their lives, arguing small kindnesses can be a form of charity.
The Dudley Street Baptist Church marked its seventy fifth anniversary with services revealing Mrs Mary Ann Wiswall as the churchs oldest member. Born February fifteenth eighteen thirteen in Roxbury she joined the church in eighteen thirty one and married Samuel Wiswall in eighteen thirty seven.
The story notes that the woman’s husband died years earlier and seven children were born to their union, with Romanyo N Wiswall, a deputy city collector, as the surviving child. She resides with her son at 40 Mt Pleasant Avenue and visits her brother at 28 Moreland Street. She remains in good health and attends church regularly, drawing welcome at Sunday services.
The text lists daily table hints with a dinner and luncheon menu including items like broiled mackerel baked codfish and fried oysters. It provides a tomato bisque recipe and apple fritters recipe with ingredients and steps, credits Mrs. Martha Shiverick of 69 Harbor View Street Dorchester, and ends with buns.
The Boston Post offers $3 prizes for the best three meal bills of fare or single day menus by women readers. Bills must read like menus with preparation directions for named dishes. Meals may be breakfast lunch and supper, for a family of five, under $10 per week. Submissions due weekly with weekly printing of winners and a daily selection.
Thomas Millar, chief boatswain of the Bangalore, Boston, contests Captain Cannell's statements about the vessel's troubles. He says the Pilot spoke first after grounding, the crew worked amid heavy seas, Captain Harvey ordered men ashore, and Cannell violated an earlier Hampton Roads agreement. Millar defends crew fitness and actions aboard the wreck.
Mrs. A Turner of Brookline complains about a Union station detective named Robinson after her pocketbook was stolen. She quotes his response suggesting she report to Pemberton square and questions the officer’s suitability. The letter urges the paper to expose depot thieves and defend the paper’s mission.
The letter thanks Mayor Quincy for signing the appropriation granting one day off in eight for Boston firemen. It argues the measure helps all workers and predicts other cities in the state will follow Boston's example. The writer is FIREMEN'S FRIEND, Perl.
A reader asks about an Italian theatre in Boston and its language. The newspaper confirms an Italian theatre on North street near Fleet street with all plays conducted in Italian.
Reader asks how much duty applies to woven clothing shipped from Germany. If the owner proves wearing them abroad, no duty. otherwise the duty depends on material and value.
A reader signing Legacy asks the Post’s help to identify where to write to confirm if any money is held in chancery in Scotland for heirs of a named person, provided proof of descent is satisfactory. He seeks guidance through the newspaper column.
Patrick Quinn of South Boston asks in the Post if a premium exists on a silver fifty-cent piece dated 1858 and requests guidance for a constant reader. The letter is dated March 10.
The piece urges women to embrace jackets this spring and outlines how a gown can feature a simulated double jacket with satin quillings. It highlights a green cloth gown with velvet applique and jet passementeries, jacket fronts embroidered to match and opening over a white tulle vest with yellow satin visible.
The Senate approved a plan for biennial state elections by a 24 to 8 vote, ending legislature debate on the issue. Senators Sprague, Irwin, Barker and others voiced opposition or support, while critics argued for annual sessions and accountability to the people. Adjournment followed as attendees weighed a memorial Dorchester school site, subway bills, and child placement reform proposals.
The text describes a gown with four green fronts lined in yellow satin, joined so yellow faces outward, separated by yellow satin quilling from neck to side seams. It advises mohair or cheviot gowns short with white, popular after Easter. An illustration shows white and cheviot with brown velvet sleeves, a jacket back with three pleats and a decorative lining, and an embroidered epaulette gown trimmed with buttons along the front and back.
A petition from Skillings Rockwell Maguire and others asks for a new primary school on Monroe Street Roxbury to replace the present building. The Beech Street Roslindale site may be named the Peabody School. The board delayed action two weeks and discussed normal school admissions and schoolhouse funding including a $20,000 land purchase near the Bigelow estate and a $190,000 high school plan for South Boston.
Lynn police search West Lynn and Revere for clues after a broken buggy is found in a marsh with seven pistol shots heard at 2 a.m. Tracks suggest overshoe footprints of a woman. no witnesses or owner identified. The case echoes 1878 Jennie Clark murder at Fox Hill Bridge.
Arthur Robertshaw eighty is believed missing and under the ice in Lake Gardner after vanishing last month. His daughter says he headed toward the lake, and a full search will occur once ice clears. Once a large real estate owner, he was valued at about 75000 dollars.
Lieutenant Governor Wolcott reappoints the late governor’s staff, maintains Col Thomas as private secretary, and cancels public engagements until Patriots Day. He plans restrained public invitations and outlines key appointments across boards and commissions at the capitol.
The second annual Harvard Princeton debate will be held Friday at Sanders Theatre. The topic: Congress should take immediate steps toward retirement of the greenbacks. Harvard and Princeton teams feature six speakers each with twelve minute talks and five minute rebuttals. Judges: Hadley Mayo-Smith Williams. Russell to preside. A post debate banquet follows at Empire Cafe.
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