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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1893
Page
4
The notice outlines daily newspaper subscription prices for different terms, per year and six or three months, with weekly Friday issues at one pound. It requests readers supply current and new addresses for mail changes, notes second class matter status, and directs subscribers to send payments to the Post Publishing Company.
The article notes a nonpartisan tribute to ex Senator Dawes with contributor names appended to the testimonial. The Vendome event is described as unique and unprecedented, highly complimentary to Dawes and lifted above party politics as a broad recognition of an honorable life.
The Evening Record claims the Boston Journal unfairly sidelines Speaker Barrrtt in the Republican race for the seventh district. It asserts the Journal prints Lopez and others in support of Mayor Hayes while discarding Barrett interviews. The piece warns Barrett may still find the Journal’s candidate a certain defeat in the governor race.
The House vote yesterday denies the Prohibitionists a place on the official ballot. Republicans, accused of aiming for every advantage, refuse the plea twice, showing a sharp, weak grip on the Commonwealth and a mean, confessional stance.
The Post notes respected locals who invested in the gas trust and backed a dollar gas petition, believing the claim that gas could be produced for fifty five cents and sold at one dollar. They then bought the gas company, kept the old price, and now oppose giving the people the promised gas at that rate.
A discussion on the late fire reveals varnished pine as a defect in so called first class structures. Willow wood, used in England for flooring, is slow burning, fine grained and suitable for inside work. English white willow is naturalized in the U S with fine specimens near Boston and grow easily from cuttings, offering a rapid, durable substitute as forests deplete.
A Delaware cultivation focuses on producing high quality charcoal wood. The crop is valued for its role in gunpowder production and is grown to meet specific historical demand.
Representative Parker urges immediate legislative investigation of the Addicks gas trust capitalization and the Delaware corporation said to evade the Gas Commission. The piece argues the Legislature has power to unmask the complex, multi state arrangements and potential fraud, calling for a thorough investigation by the House to reveal who profits and where Boston money goes.
The Boston Journal mocks the reform Club for bumptiousness in tariff policy, while a draft by ex Secretary FAmus Lp and associates remains a modest suggestion. It contrasts with past McKinley era pressure by various interests, claiming reform now approaches the subject intelligently and decorously.
Readers are asked to send brief memoranda of social events. On Tuesday March 28 there is a Dance by the Misses Tucker at Allston, an Amateur Minstrels show at the Opera House in Malden, a Browning Society meeting at the Brunswick this afternoon with Miss Alice Washburn presenting The Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister.
Last night at Tremont Theatre Boston audiences greeted Minna Gale Haynes in a star turn as Rosalind in As You Like It Winning praise for her statueque presence and control though some serious passages lag. Cast members Plympton Levick Barron Lewis Tilbury Tomes noted. new acts at Austin's Palace Theatre followed with Agnes Evans and Bertolo dances and strong vaudeville.
Miss Edna Dean Proctor and Mrs Charles G Ames compile a maize book under Mrs Hemenways auspices to advance adoption of maize as the national floral emblem. Candace Wheeler argues dress reform will raise marriage rates by cutting female clothing costs. Colonel Ingersoll to give opening address at NY Women’s Press Club benefit on April 11. Princess Brancaccio, a leading New York woman involved in the World’s Fair exhibits, is Miss Field formerly. Japanese Legislature rejects editorial chair for woman deeming the post unsuitable.
Mrs Cleveland is an enthusiastic amateur photographer with a fine collection of photographs taken during her early White House days. Her works include views from the executive mansion, Buzzards Bay and the Massachusetts coast, plus country and mountain scenery in New York State.
Brainy men in England and America debated co operative kitchens as a solution to domestic service problems. In Philadelphia a group of women tested the idea and found it ideal, attracting requests from outsiders to join. The movement is said to have potential for success in any city in the future.
A humorous verse from Harper's Bazaar mocks an Easter hat describing its limp broad shape and a diminutive billed bird perched on top. The poem notes the irony that large bills come with the Easter hat, a playful fashion quip reflecting the era's witty commentary.
Gladstone has named next week Thursday for the Home Rule bill's second reading with Liberal support. Obstruction by the Tories appears hopeless against a united Liberal majority. The Speaker rebuked the obstruction as disedifying. Liberal harmony and disciplined purpose promise progress toward enactment.
A Newfoundland traveller, wife of Legislator E. R. Burgess, walked 240 miles from Little Bay to St. John’s in spew shoes to attend the session. Her feat ranks second only to Mrs. Peary among women travelers of the region.
A maxim urges control of the tongue to preserve beauty, comparing speech to a weather glass that reveals inner temper and health. The saying links polite speech with personal upkeep and outward charm.
A column notes information gaps among readers, mentions a misaddressed letter to Thomas J Morrison in Lostor New York, and cites various local items. It covers a memorial poem by Rev M J Savate for Phillips Brooks, a $2 donation to Emergency Hospital, and remarks on politicians and figures such as Attorney-General Olney President J C Jacobson Colonel Robert McAndrew of Montreal and George Berry with a diamond willow cane.
A young woman posing as Mamie Stanley of Peterboro N H deceived Boyle Bros at 851 Washington street yesterday afternoon by selecting two dresses and a bonnet. She ordered delivery to her hotel and while wearing one dress she fled with the other items, leaving no baggage. Police were alerted after hotel staff confirmed her escape.
An East Boston Argus editorial calls for immediate passage of Representative Hoar's bill before the Legislature to remove electric wires from their air positions and bury them underground, arguing it is a duty of every journal to demand the change for the people's benefit.
The Theatre of Arts and Letters opened a week at Hollis Street Theatre to a large fashionable audience presenting The Other Woman The Decision of the Court and The Squirrel Inn Agnes Booth and Eugene Ormonde starred in The Decision of the Court a one act comedy about a divorce case concluding with reconciliation The Other Woman and The Squirrel Inn were noted for dialogue and costume driven storytelling The troupe shows promise with Tonight and tomorrow repeating the triple bill The Light on the Point at Howard Atheneum featured a Nantucket baby rescue and a villain foiled by virtue with a strong cast led by Frank J Burke and W J Shea
At the Bowdoin Square Theatre last evening Boucicaults After Dark was presented by a competent company with excellent scenic effects. The variety bill drew great enthusiasm and Miss Magge Cline received an ovation. Dagmer and DeCelle gave high order vocal work and Hebert La Martine, the child dancer, was well received in a one week engagement with Wednesday and Saturday matinees.
A melodrama titled The Diamond Breaker headlines this week at the Grand Opera House. The sensational stage production promises exciting action and dramatic intrigue throughout the performance run.
The London Sports Burlesque Company began a one week engagement at the Lyceum Theatre with two large audiences. Florentine and Georgella pleased patrons alongside Miss Gussie Freeman, famed boxer, who sparred with Jack Grace of Buffalo. The bill included vaudeville and the four act drama Lost in London staged by the Keane Keane company at the Grand Museum corner Dover and Washington streets.
All rooms at Stone & Shaw’s house were full yesterday as young female athletes attracted crowds riding new racing machines. The lecture hall hosted A O Beebe, Miss Mattie Beebe the cornet virtuoso, Harry Flaxman the pottery king, Herr Schiam the conjurer, and two specialty theatre acts entertaining attendees.
The fifth month of Hoyt's play opened to strong applause at the Park Theatre, praised for its humor and fair satire of temperance and rum crowds. A special matinee is planned for Fast Day.
From the Bunker Still Times a critique argues that old fogyism should disappear and that a Matthews administration would please Boston businessmen more than anything President Cleveland could do.
A collage of brief, era style quips and jokes from newspapers including Troy Press Detroit Free Press Somerville Journal Picayune Atlanta Constitution and N Y Weekly. The lines feature satirical reflections on manners culture law and society with playful exchanges and numbered one liners.
The Lynn Item editorial laments the annual Faust Day proclamation as a once pious effort that has become a mockery and argues it should cease. The piece urges officials to end the observance and reflects on its diminished purpose.
From the Holyoke Democrat captions a note on Councillor Rice continuing efforts to improve Massachusetts, while the text suggests the Republican Party’s internal foes present the greatest threat from within its own ranks.
A brief satirical note in the New Bedford Journal suggests it would pay the Democratic State committee to employ Mr. Rice with a handsome salary to deliver his frequent philippics at short intervals.
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