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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1893
Page
4
The notice lists daily and weekly subscription rates including one year 83 00 and six months 1 50, with three months 75c and monthly 5c. It notes Fridays as the publication day, urges subscribers to report address changes, and states second class matter status. Payments should be made to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY with checks payable to POST. Address: Washington Street, Boston.
In Concord the Legislature faces the question of reducing the state's World's Fair funds. The appeal argues NH should not cut the appropriation but double it, noting other states are boosting grants to offer a liberal display and calling NH an "Old Thirteen" rivals.
The Boston Journal warns Secretary Carlisle against withholding Treasury information. It credits Foster’s prior concealment for eroding public confidence during the Harrison years and says confidence has since returned under the Cleveland administration, and that confidence is well placed.
Headsman Clarkson leads the League of Republican Clubs to hold a Louisville convention in May. The call follows a New York conference where Clarkson blasted Harrison and party leadership. The piece argues no gain from recrimination and notes the four year term will end before further action.
The taxation committee rejects exempting municipal bonds urging the move be battled in the Legislature. Boston, as the state's largest municipal borrower, seeks lower borrowing costs and higher tax returns. The gain should accrue to the people, not the bondholders, under any exemption.
The 1891 law should be changed to allow cities and towns to furnish gas and electric light. The proposal seeks to remove the mayor’s veto in such decisions, while not demanding drastic reforms. The aim is to ease the path for municipal utility power.
The speech urges changes to empower cities to purchase existing private gas plants and consolidate votes for quicker action. It critiques current law as strengthening gas monopolies and argues that Boston and other cities should be allowed to manage gas supplies in public interest.
A long illness of William E. Gladstone at 83 alarms Europe as it jeopardizes reform and government plans. The vast influence across Britain and beyond prompts relief as news reports he is on the mend, signaling the fragile hold on a major political program.
The United States government will end proceedings against General Banks over his marshal accounts. The editorial lauds the action as long overdue and technical in basis, noting Banks’ honesty and generosity. It argues the prosecution was incongruous and humiliating for a veteran who served the country.
Ten days into Cleveland's tenure the Treasury gold reserve exceeds 100 million dollars, up about five million. No bonds or borrowing. gains stem from financial interests using Treasury as a gold repository and government notes as substitute for exchanges. The commercial world senses renewed confidence.
The article contrasts President Cleveland’s approach to Hawaii with Harrison’s. It notes Harrison favored annexation, debt assumption, and pensioning the royal family based on initial Washington arrivals, while Cleveland seeks to learn Hawaii’s wishes and the true terms. It lauds this cautious, practical American statesmanship.
The piece lauds President Cleveland for a clearly Democratic government. Massachusetts selections are described as strong and partisan, with ex-Congressman McApoo and E. B. Wurmey named yesterday. The administration is portrayed as distinctively Democratic and capable, with confidence it will continue.
A remark circulated yesterday compares advertising column counts over twenty consecutive Mondays across the Post Herald Globe and Journal. The Post led in sixteen weeks, ranked second on three, third on three, never fourth, indicating a major shift in Boston's newspaper business.
A comic caption shows Tired Harry pleading for help from Mrs. Kindlings, offering a wood chopping remedy. He jokes about a hacking cough and headache while she counters with blunt humor about splitting wood. The exchange reflects a humorous provincial banter.
London March 15 after a long careful examination Sir Andrew Clark allowed Mr Gladstone to go downstairs to attend a small dinner party following the examination news notes.
The Boot and Shoe Club met at Tremont House for dinner last evening. President Nazro urged a committee to nominate officers for the coming year and praised the Emergency Hospital. Speakers included Attorney-General Longley of Nova Scotia and H M Whitney, who urged closer trade ties and discussed 12 year reciprocity and potential political union.
The Evening Sun notes Dr D H Greer rector of St Bartholomew s Church New York is a possible candidate for Massachusetts bishop. He says several laymen and clergy wish to see him bishop and plans to decide if asked as the May 4 election nears.
Henry M. Whitney shared a self deprecating anecdote at the Boot and Shoe Club, told to Nova Scotia Attorney General Longley during a near empty dining room. Longley, about 45 to 60, dresses plainly and has ties to Whitney coal talks in Cape Breton. They noted Dominion interest in Cleveland’s election and closer U S Canada trade. At breakfast, Parker House hosted Longley and Benjamin Butterworth with A Shuman arranging the event for the Boot and Shoe Club meeting at Tremont House in the evening.
A collage of brief wits and jokes from various papers. Bits include humor about a diary's comfort, a capital fellow, debtors and creditors, political policy critiques, a child’s remark on a tenor, and a cooking school gag.
Six year old Mollie Gilman daughter of Dennis Gilman a marble cutter has drawn attention of Boston critics. A pupil of Miss G Florence Harding for about eighteen months she has performed at several concerts with polished piano selections for her age.
The Theatre of Arts and Letters presents four performances at the Columbia Theatre featuring Frank R. Stockton's comedy Squirrel Inn with a distinguished advisory cast including Daly and Frohman. A bustling Boston theatre week follows with Mignon at Boston Theatre and Hoyt's A Temperance Town at Mark Theatre drawing overflow crowds.
Mrs May Wright Sewall announces that National Council of Women members will wear short skirted gowns at the World's Fair. Four costume varieties designed with skirts midway between knee and ankle. Oregon features a woman mail carrier Miss Westman aged 22 who rides horseback and carries a revolver in the mountains. Mrs E O Wolcott wife of a Colorado senator noted for diaries. Mrs Lynde Crale admitted to practice law in California courts. Miss Elizabeth Utters serves as deputy clerk of the U S Circuit Court for the western district of Missouri at Kansas City.
The German ambassador in China, Herr von Brandt, will marry Miss Heard of Massachusetts despite the emperor’s refusal to permit the match. German papers say von Brandt will take his bride home, valuing the union over royal permission, in line with the foreign office’s unwritten rule on German representatives marrying German women.
Mrs. Ellsworth Miller of Cold Spring New York holds a world record for prolific child bearing presenting her husband with triplets two boys and two girls This raises her triplet sets to three total children seven living and an overall birth record of three triplet sets three twin sets and two single births Her family history hints at a strong inherited fecundity with relatives yielding multiple twins and triplets.
Mrs Candace Wheeler notes women repeatedly ask how to earn a living and says she cannot advise without knowing each woman's heredity and environment. She laments that a woman often has little idea of her own capabilities and cannot articulate what she believes she can best do.
The text notes old slender neck chains once considered outlandish are now coveted jewelry treasures. It praises centenarian pieces as praiseworthy and warns that many modern imitations are not genuine secret chains. It mentions the traditional heart shaped locket and plain gold or gem settings.
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