State Dept Faces Scrutiny Over Pretoria Mail Affair
The letter to the United States consul at Pretoria accuses meddling with U S affairs by an unnamed party. The author criticizes the State Department for dismissing the claim and calls for a thorough House Foreign Affairs Committee investigation regardless of State Department sensitivities toward Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Pretoria
Charles F. Macrum
United States of America
Macrum
State Department
Great Britain
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Wallace says McKinley eyeing colonies via patronage
General Lew Wallace contends President McKinley seeks to convert the Philippines and Porto Rico into colonies, hoping Congress grants license through patronage. He warns there is no constitutional basis for a colonial system and predicts Congress may be swayed by patronage to back such moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lew Wallace
Ben Hur
William McKinley
Indiana
McKinley
Philippines
Porto Rico
Wallace
Congress
McKinley Reverses On Porto Rico Tariff Policy
President McKinley shifts from free trade for Porto Rico to backing a 15 percent tariff as a great party question. He notes Democratic votes would decide its fate, contrasting with his earlier plain duty stance. Critics cite wavering, imperialist ambitions, and second term politics as factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Congress
Porto Rico
Andrew Carnegie
William McKinley
Referendum on Massachusetts railroad leases urged by public
The article argues that final decision on railroad leases should come from the people through a referendum. It cites public interest, stockholders, and options of purchase as reasons for direct voter input, while affirming legislative wisdom and authority. If leases pass, they should include referendum attachment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
General Court
Board of Trade
Post
Violation of Despatches and American Dignity Abroad
The piece defends Charles F. Macrum while consul at Pretoria, asserting acts within official duties reflect the American people and condemns any insult to him as an affront to the republic. It emphasizes that a British censor or other official who breaks seal or oversteps authority harms the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Macrum
United States
Pretoria
Macrum
Republic
Cape Town
Durban
Lawmakers Defy Public Push for Telephone Supervision
A legislative committee of fifteen recommends withdrawal on petitions for state supervision of telephone companies despite thousands of citizens and business groups supporting supervision and no opposition heard at hearings. The article questions the motive of twelve committee members and calls for public explanation before passage of the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legislative Committee
Boards of Trade and Commercial and
Telephone
Observant Citizen notes and public events in Boston
The Observant Citizen column surveys varied items from New York morals to Boston civic life. It highlights Secretary of the Navy John D. Long visiting Middlesex Club and a City square elevated structure start in Charlestown. It also covers bills on bicycle taxes coal price forecasts and notable local figures including Postmaster Hibbard and Judge Moffett at Boston University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Navy
John D. Long
Middlesex Club
City Square
Charlestown
Boston
Italian music on Boston streets and a New England Cornell Club dinner
The article notes street musicians in Boston’s North End with a noted accordion performer and a brass band act. It mentions a forthcoming New England Cornell Club dinner at the University Club with presidents from Cornell Harvard and MIT anticipated as guests. It also covers a police remark on dance halls and a birth of a boy to George Rosnosky, plus news of an international cable chess match with George H. Walcott reporting moves for the Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North End
Italy
Jacob Gould, Schurman
Cornell
Charles Eliot
Harvard
James M. Crafts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New England
Cornell Club
University Club
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford, Jr., University
George H. Walcott
Brooklyn Chess Club
Daily
Sunday Post
Wit and whimsy in overheard remarks from era news rows
A collage of jokes and quips from multiple papers includes exchanges about Tibbs and gasoline, counterfeiting, artists, candy abstinence, a burglar in the parlor, cosmopolitan gossip, golf humor, theater reception, and a fashionable frock debate.
Notable Civic Gifts and Names Across Europe
Rev J J Healy built a free public library in Gloucester and gifted it to the city with books. In Devonshire the Carew and Carey families differ in name. a Baroness Von Hirsch left 60 000 francs to the University of Paris for needy students. Schliemann’s Athens palace site in Phidias street sold to Germany for 400 000 drachmas. Emperor William seeks a 1 000 000 dollar salary raise, now earning 8 401 238 dollars annually.
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J. J. Healy
St. Anne’s Roman Catholic Church
Gloucester
Devonshire
England
Carews
Careys
Carew
Carey
University of Paris
Baroness von Hirsch
Schliemann
Athens
Phidias
William
Germany
Army regiments and outdoor air cure in 19th century notes
The Rifle Brigade leads with nine battalions of line and militia plus eleven affiliated volunteers, while the King's Royal Rifles trail with nine line and militia battalions and ten volunteers. Open air treatment for consumption is praised as best so far, favoring outdoor life. many doctors doubt sanitarium methods. The War Department orders hundreds of khaki shirts for campaigns in the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico to replace the ill fitting dry garments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rifle Brigade
King's Royal Rifles
Quartermaster’s Department of the War
Pepasens
Philippine Islands
Cuba
Porto Rico
Grace Powers Finds Love After Duty and Study
Grace Powers, a 15 year old who cared for her stepfamily while excelling in high school, rises to become a capable cook and student. When her employer’s son declares love and proposes, she faces pressure from society but chooses to marry him, ending with a quiet wedding and a sweet, earned honeymoon in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace
Landies
George
Jove
George Moorehouse
Europe
Breakfast and Dinner Menu Recipes by Frances Hayes
A dated domestic menu lists breakfast lunch and dinner items with a detailed recipe for creamed potatoes. It credits Frances Hayes of Tolman Street Neponset Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Hayes
Tolman Street
Neponset
Mass
Teachers Pension Bill Debated Without Vote in House
The House spent most of yesterdays session on the teachers retirement fund bill. Debate featured supporters arguing against a tax burden and opponents citing opposition from Boston teachers and legal opinions. A leave to withdraw was granted on the telephone supervision bill, with some dissent.
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Kyle
Plymouth
Supreme and Superior Court
Harvard
Bailey
Boston
Joy
Reynolds
Baldwin
Lawrence
Willard
Bleiler
Porter
Briggs
Ontgomery
Hersey
Varney
Hayes
Gale
House
M. W. Hall
Cambridge
Marine Park Tower Company
J. F. Campbell
Hearing on State purchase of Albany road attracts large attendance
The committee on railroads heard arguments on McNary bill for State purchase of the Albany line as the Boston and Albany lease to New York Central loomed. Professor Bemis urged public pricing fairness and compensation for his time, while Rep McNary pressed to summon shippers and the B and A traffic manager for questioning.
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Education
Samuel B. Capen
Boston Public Schools
House
McNary
Boston
New York Central
Boston & Albany
Committee On Railroads
New York Central Road
Albany Road
Bemis
Hoar
Boston & Albany Railroad
Mrs Horton Plans World Tour With Columbia Ship
Mrs Elizabeth R Horton of 482 Massachusetts Avenue announces she will send Columbia a sweet little lady around the world aboard the ship Columbia in a ceremonial voyage symbolizing goodwill and global travel.
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Little Columbia
Columbia
All
Elizabeth R. Horton
Massachusetts Avenue
Doll Columbia to Travel in Silk Lined Trunk for Charity
A full grown domesticated doll named Columbia will be escorted by express messengers and travel in her own stateroom aboard a quilted silk lined trunk. She appeared at a doll show and will visit exhibitions for charity with carefully prepared wardrobe and travel gear.
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Columbia
Notable Women and Distant Lines of DAR and Duse
Mrs Hannah D Carpenter of Norton Massachusetts marked her 100th birthday this Saturday making her one of the few real Daughters of the American Revolution daughter of a Bunker Hill fighter. Eleanora Duse links dress to health urging corset free living. Mrs Richard Hovey widow of the poet hears from Materlinck. Princess Mathilde Bonaparte daughter of King Jerome Bonaparte once linked to Napoleon III. Mrs Blaine buys seven acres near Augusta Maine cemetery site. plans for husband’s remains. Mme Bernhardt during Rostand play acts the Duke of Reichstadt and commands servants to call her monseigneur.
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Hannah’.D. Carpenter
Norton
Mass
Bunker Hill
Eleanora Duse
Richard Hovey
Materlinck
Hovey
Mathilde Bonaparte
Emprose Eugenie
Jerome Bonaparte
Napoleon III
Blaine
Augusta
Kennebec
Editors lament Harvard tax dent on half million gift
Quotes from editors and reporters debating inheritance tax on a large Harvard donation. Opposing views note government take and fairness, while others contrast U S financial independence with Russia’s money markets and Cuba’s annexation context. The piece blends opinions from Gardiner Me. Recorder and various papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliot
Harvard
Cortain
Gardiner
Reporter-Journal
United States
Russia
Baltimore
Richard Olney
Cuba
Spain
Philippine Archipelago
Philadelphia
Transvaal Republic
Orange Free State
Pittsburg
England
Holland
France
Germany
Indianapolis News
Quaint epitaphs at St Botolphs for Bernard Lightfoot
A traveller lies here at rest who life's rough ocean tossed on. He died in his forty fifth year and was accidentally killed. The inscription notes his virtues and adds I'm from Boston. Erected by his grateful family.
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St. Botolph’s
Boston
Bernard Lightfoot
A Superior Investment Fruit Foods Appeal
Investment prospect touts fruit foods as a healthful, established industry selling in California and the Middle West with plans to expand to New England. Shares fund building new factories and expanding California fig orchards. Details at The House, 14 Beacon Street, Mayton, Massachusetts, with two payment options and a booklet by mail.
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California
Middle West
New England
Beacon Mayton
Masa
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Setae
Bali
Observant Citizen
New York
Henry Hart
Third Avenue
Fr “Mme. Butterfly
Charles Frohman
Maude Adams
L’aiglon
Cho- Cho-San
Bernhardt
Hibbard
Mr. Hibbard
Moffett
Suffolk Bar
Boston University
Kentucky
New England Free Trade League
Vendome
D. A. de Armond
Missouri
Robert M. Morse
P. A. Collins
Lundy
Park Department
Matthews
Park Commissioners
Rochester
N. H
Granite State
N. Y
Vrt
George Rosnosky
Ros
Colonel Pfaff
Tibbs
Chicago
Tompkins
Jobson
Funch
Philadelphia Record
Philadelphia Bulletin
Indianapolis Journal
James
Philadelphia Press
Hasben
Titus
Washington Star
Joel Goldthwait & Co
Washington Street
Corobill
Ee the
Grace Powers
Jonnie Makepeace
Avon
Teachers Fond
Marine Park Tower Report
Bill
Fitzgerald
Henderson
Rowley
Harrington
Howell
Sprague
Quincy
Liquor Law Committee
Isaac P. Hutchinson
Boston Board of Police
Board of Excise
Judiciary Committee
Davenport of
Greenfield
Kenefick
Hampden
Hart
Andersons Soup
Albany
Mr. McNary
Tobin
Brooks
Orange
Committee On Rules
Tobin-Brooks
Breiling
Crawford
Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co
Con Nass
Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Newton
Everett
Metropolitan Park District
Andrew J. Bailey
Corporation Counsel
State House
Becket
Pennsylvania
Fay
Washington
D. N. Bell
J. It. Wood
Gho
W. Boyd
Pugs
Vass
Committee On Military Affairs
Gardner
John M. Perkins
Grand Army Record Fame
Parsons
Perkins
Themerican Air Power Company
Compressed Air Company of
Spectacles
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