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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1893
Page
6
The notice lists daily and weekly subscription rates including one year at five dollars, six months at two dollars, three months at fifty cents, and monthly at twenty five cents. It notes address changes, second class matter status, and payment details to Post Publishing Company with Boston and New York agents named.
The news notes a reduced Denver to Chicago round trip fare of 35 dollars amid a fierce rate war. It calls the cut-throat competition improper and questions if a reasonable price drop could serve the public and improve transportation without such a war.
The Agricultural Department plans an exhibit on road construction at the World’s Fair. An executive committee of the National League for Good Roads voted $1000 for the exhibit with possible doubling. The league also seeks special transport rates for farmers to road conventions, aiming to spur nationwide road reform.
The speaker urges Massachusetts to adopt Miss Hopkins and others' plan to train hands and eyes, adding industrial courses to public schools. They argue state funding is as warranted as Latin and Greek education and that wage-earning trades for boys and domestic arts for girls deserve public support.
The Post today prints Mr Dillaway defense in full as an advertisement. The paper urges readers to understand both sides of the gas trust controversy and notes several fallacies in his argument. The mayor is referenced, with anticipation of his forthcoming defense.
The Post states it has not received any money from any source for its work on the matter and rejects allegations of a conspiracy led by Mr DinlbAway. It clarifies that gas appliance ads and Brookline offers are legitimate business and not connected to the dispute.
Advertisers in Boston embrace the new broad gauged penny journalism of the Post. Leading firms like Jordan Marsh and McIntosh show widespread adoption. The Herald and Globe advertise in the Post, proving its reach and affordability as Post ads reach homes and buyers.
The piece condemns Chicago hotelkeepers and private home lodgings for doubling charges tied to the World’s Fair. It calls the rise a McKinley tariff on visitors, arguing locals profiting from promised government funds have overcharged those who funded the fair’s construction. The public is urged to avoid the surge by staying away.
Interest in the great relay bicycle race grows as riders push from Worcester toward Chicago against rain soaked roads. The despatch bag travels every mile through a continuous storm, testing endurance and skill more than machine. The crowd hoped for relief on better roads between Cleveland and Chicago and the time lost in mud may be regained.
The passage extols the Chicago World's Fair as evidence of American genius and labor. It claims the United States leads the world in mechanical ingenuity, supplying both global ideas and domestic machinery unmatched elsewhere.
The speech lauds the World's Fair as a beacon of rational economic legislation and U S manufacturing power. It contrasts Karvupr's gun stands with the United States display of peaceful progress in machinery set in motion by President Cleveland's action Monday noon.
The column notes Mayflower Club opening with women reporters present only if a woman artist is allowed. It highlights Arlington’s GCG BE David’s fine horses, Congressman McEttrick’s newspaper greetings, Dr Townsend’s recovery, elocutionist A W Brummell’s benefit, and Dr Gavin’s horseflesh. It covers Police Commissioners’ office scene with new inspector and Major Merrill’s pending retirement. Eben D Jordan's $1000 gift funds old Free Church remodeling.
A Dickinson reader gathers vignettes from humor columns and a note on nationwide strikes. The mix includes a drug store quip about prescription cigars, a parrot joke, a widow and a memory of a late husband, a child’s misunderstanding, and a quip about Adam and Eve as the first tie-up amid general strikes and labor disputes.
The Marlboro Enterprise reports gains due to hustling in the editorial and business rooms with improvements in the composing room and a new Jumbo press leading to broader prosperity across departments.
Worcester May 2 The coal handiers strike continues with dealers refusing to discuss plans and clerks sometimes acting as drivers. Settlement appears unlikely soon.
A Senate report from an investigating commission chaired by Mrs. Louisa P. Hopkins and including Edwin P. Seaver and George E. McNeill urges manual training in primary and grammar schools, kindergarten methods, domestic science in normal schools, and mechanics teaching in high schools. It calls for state aid up to 5000 dollars per city or town matching local funds to establish industrial education, teacher training at MIT or Worcester Polytechnic, state scholarships, and a Board of Education agent to advise and survey schools implementing these programs.
George R. Randolph testifies in New Haven investigation that a Readville short haul would sap the long haul revenue. Storey cites Pullman car dimensions. Bliss objects to out of state discrimination evidence. The heated session centers on charter compliance versus broader public concern.
Ex Keeper Francis Mullen testifies before the State Prison Investigating Committee in Hartford. He supports prior testimony and recounts cases including Peter Stone who died after removal to hospital. He describes the warden striking an insane prisoner and says keepers gathered at night to discuss prison matters.
In Hartford on May 2 the House wrangled over a foreign attachments bill with party lines. A motion to indefinitely postpone failed 108 to 18, Democrats leaving the chamber. Passage failed for lack of quorum, 90 to 5, forcing adjournment. The Senate passed a separate bill to educate the blind or partially blind, creating a four member State board of education including the governor and chief justice, with one member blind.
In Municipal Criminal Court yesterday a further postponement was granted in the case of Arthur J. King charged with assault and battery on Josephine Allen at a South End hotel. The woman reportedly leaped from a third story window to escape him. Bail remains $8000. Examination set for one week from today.
The spring flower show under the New York Florists' Club began this morning at Madison Square Garden. Preparations had been underway for weeks and attendance at the opening was large.
Social calendar notice asks readers to send brief memoranda of forthcoming events. On Wednesday May 3 a wedding will be held for Miss Emma Clementine Cole and Mr Stephen Augustus Smith at St Marys Church Dorchester at 8.
Mrs. Darwin Ware accompanies Miss Webb and Miss Robinson of Salem as they tour Paris. The outing highlights cultural landmarks and social visits during their European trip.
A collage of social snippets mentions Mrs Dan Lamont photographing amateur scenes Miss Mary Wilkins famed New England novelist favors artificial youth Woman attend Mentone concert with Sir Arthur Sullivan and Mme Christine Nilsson for animal protection James Tobin Indiana reports ice cream raises his weight from 140 to 210 pounds A Spanish Princess Calalie sails toward this country planning a West Indian stop before arrival within a month.
Special Paris correspondence notes Got’s satirical spoof of a journalist and a wealth shift portrait in Emile Augier's Effrontes. A failed financier ends his life from a sixth floor window after a dramatic balcony encounter, as a chambermaid glimpses the fall. Mrs. Darwin Ware tours hotel life with Paris cultural scenes.
The Woman's Congress at the fair will feature ribbons and badges from many groups. The Colonial Dames wear blue and buff and white with gold enamel, the King's Daughters sport purple ribbons and silver badges, Sorosis displays a diamond set golden S, temperance women show white ribbons, Suffragists wear yellow badges, Federated Club of Women pink and blue order, auxiliary board badges in red white and blue, New Century Club gold monogram, Kansas Women sunflowers, and the Woman's Relief Corps highly decorative orders among others.
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach wife of Dr. H H A Beach of Commonwealth Avenue stands as a leading young American composer. She has published numerous songs duets and piano pieces and wrote a mass in E flat performed by the Handel and Haydn Society last year. At age 20 she composed the mass noted for its technical achievement. Her "Festival Jubilate" for the Columbian Exposition dedication will be heard in May drawing renewed attention to her work. Dr Beach proud of his wife keeps commerce from influencing her art.
Infanta Eulalie of Spain will be guest of the nation at the fair. She represents Christina, Queen Tegent of Spain, and shows interest in the women's department. Prince Antoine will accompany her, with the Marquis d Arco Hermosa and Duke of Jamames among his party. Senor Jover serves as comptroller of the princess household.
Mrs Fiske Warren a Boston society figure and noted amateur actress will join the cast of a dramatic entertainment at Eliot Hall Jamaica Plain on Tuesday evening May 9. The performance supports a mission kindergarten with patronesses from Boston Roxbury and Brookline including Mrs Royal E Robbins Mrs Arthur Burnham Mrs Arthur Cheney Mrs Francis W Kittredge and others.
Attorney General Olney has not leased the McAllister-Laughton house on K street Washington and will wait for Mrs Olney to arrive to decide on a residence.
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