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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1900
Page
4
The piece notes New York’s ground breaking for a city subway on a four year plan costing 35 million dollars to connect Battery to Harlem in fifteen minutes. It compares to Boston’s subway and warns the project’s challenges and risks ahead.
The piece argues for an amendment to require oath certified reports from political committees that spend up to twenty dollars. It notes under existing law many committees avoid reporting when receipts and expenditures stay beneath twenty dollars. The author cites declining reported totals since 1892 and 1896, urging the change to enforce accountability and ensure compliance.
An opinion piece asserts the Orange Free State’s extinction as a republic after the South African war. It notes the flag raised by Lord Roberts over the capital and argues Britain consolidates control, framing the state’s liberal system as superior to imperial motives. The piece condemns the British action as a bad outcome for the region.
The Porto Rican relief appropriation of 2 million dollars is attacked as charity that masks tariff-driven deprivation. Critics argue it undermines trade, harms industry, and provokes resentment toward the American flag, urging freedom of trade instead of welfare.
An editorial argues that towns and cities should be allowed to raise local funds through any impartial taxation method chosen by residents. It contends state laws are imperfect and local experimentation could improve revenue for lighting, street cleaning, fire and police services, poverty relief, and schools.
A column notes public health concerns in Boston citing open winter and dust spread as factors in illness. It highlights many citizens breathe with mouths open increasing contagion risk and contrasts nose breathing as protective. The Sunday Post is praised as a top Boston paper with scoops and notable stories.
Elsie Bartlett mourns a broken engagement after Edgar Huntington’s sudden elopement with a veiled woman. Years pass as Elsie nurses fever patients, earning admiration as a Florence Nightingale. Huntington reappears with the truth about a dying brother and a reconciliation with their father, and Elsie forgives him.
The Boston Sunday Post features a lively magazine section with bright stories from Governor Crane’s mystic shrine to local personalities such as George W. Bean of Somerville and a Melrose clergyman seeking gold in Honduras. It also notes an exclusive interview with John R. Murphy, a hotel revolving door mishap, a blackmail hoax in the suburbs, and a banquet at Hotel Howard serving burgoo a la Spanish.
A poetic note describes April through June as the lazy, sunlit season when warmth ends shivers, brings colors, and lures people outdoors. It paints days of gardening, trees in leaf, and easy riverside leisure as a fisherman rests and enjoys the sunlit weather.
Mayor Van Wyck refuses interview requests for publication. The list mentions nald McLeod and Dunvegan Castle ties, Edmund Clarence Stedman’s appearance versus reality, Rev. J. F. Flanagan’s long London mission, Lord Dundonald and naval feats, Hiram Maxim’s pioneering gate and flying machine interest.
To the Editor of the Post Senator Innes denies stating his or others positions on a $9 million tax proposal. He notes Senators Lott Witt and Mr Saunders have publicly favored or opposed votes, but he did not claim any side. He would vote for a bill if it protects community interests and avoids difficulties.
Salvation Army women here begin self denial week through April 2 to raise funds for India relief and army work. Mrs Booth Tucker tours Boston area giving talks and a stereopticon lecture. Colonel Alice Lewis assists. Volunteers pledge to renounce food or clothing items while campaigns target house to house donations and district canvassing. Nine entities named: Salvation Army Boston, Tremont Temple, Lawrence, Lowell, Providence, Mrs Booth Tucker, Colonel Alice Lewis, W J Cozens, Volunteers of America.
Sculptor Bessie O Potter watched the Henry Bonnard Bronze Company cast a gold shell statue modeled on Miss Maude Adams. The piece, a twenty four parts gold alloy, will tour U S exhibition sites after Paris, with Bonnard estimating substantial metal value and Maude Adams’s worth cited at twenty nine thousand dollars.
A nurse at the Queen’s bedside in Dublin monitors Victoria’s health as Ireland prepares for the royal visit. Anna Parnell urges restrained crowds and mourning colors, while Dublin officials clash over decorations. The event promises revived trade and tourism, with April 2 marking the union treaty centenary.
Over the year professional fishermen caught 2,000,000 pounds of fish in the Livndis River between Depu and Grafton. Pickled Russian sardines are treated as dutiable herrings at 1-2 a cent per pound. The Delaware Lackawanna & Western will install a block signal system between Hoboken and Hackettstown this year. The Philippine naval base now has forty eight vessels, twenty eight large ships. Colorado bears are causing cattle losses. rewards offered. Australian gold output rose by 27,316 ounces worth about 18.5 million dollars. Chicago small milk dealers reach Sunday rest pact from November to May. Switzerland has sixty macaroni factories meeting national demand. Munich hosts a hospital funded by sale of old steel pens and nibs.
Snippets from late 19th and early 20th century papers show social banter about love marriage and flirtation. Quotes from Leander Wheeler and others reveal humorous exchanges about fate marriage stage life and everyday grievances.
The Charlestown spook house tale is contested by the Hines girl and her uncle in law but contradicted by Sta tion 15 Officers Doherty and Donahue who with a Post reporter hid in a shed. They describe waiting an hour for two young men at the back fence and say the mystery is straight.
Emil Gustav Hirsch of Chicago spoke Sunday night at Appleton Chapel Harvard to a large crowd about his rabbinical philosophy and Reform views. He is professor of rabbinical literature at the University of Chicago and a Penn alumnus.
Daily Table hints describe a breakfast and dinner plan with items like fried potatoes hot biscuit doughnuts tomato soup roast veal with sauce mashed potatoes banana pudding apple pie tea supper cheese prunes marble cake custard. Instructions give mixing milk eggs sugar to make frosting and layering bananas and pudding in a dish. Unclear author appears as Mrs G with address in Hillshire Revere.
The Hon S P Carpenter died this morning in Ichford Vermont after a brief illness. The community mourns his long service and contributions to local affairs and politics.
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