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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1893
Page
4
The item lists subscription rates and publication details for the Native Democratic Paper Yew England. KY Morning dated May 4, 1893. It notes prices for one year and fractions, mailing and address changes, and mentions the publishing company and editor.
The 1893 Legislature credits a stock at auction bill for protecting public interests. It notes the bill’s potential to curb costly practices and strengthen statutes. It mentions shares distributed to stockholders and various transfer methods needing legal regulation.
The Pennsylvania and New York departments clash over pension rolls with agendas to purge and rebalance lists. The acting pension commissioner in Washington appeals to veterans to aid in restoring the pension roll to wartime accuracy. Massachusetts is urged to take a clear, prompt stand on the issue.
The speech to the Home Market Club hinted at a major shift in Republican policy. Morse claimed an alliance with a powerful force and urged support for a new departure tied to divine providence and New England industry. He warned of implications for the upcoming election and broader party strategy.
The piece denounces attacks on Speaker Barrett as unwise and "Barrettism" as a harsh label. It argues Barrett was defeated not by wickedness but due to voters preferring a Democrat and a Republican party torn by internal quarrels and rival ambitions. Name-calling is seen as not curing the split.
The annual convention conducts broader business than selecting a bishop yet that item draws the greatest public interest. The body is seen as distinguished and authoritative, and the public expects a worthy choice, given the high standard set by Philip Brooks.
Harvard and Yale revived a tariff dispute in a public debating club clash. The orations claimed protection remains best for the United States, noting Yale favored free trade fallacies and Harvard defended protection principles. The orators spoke last November and the issue shifts back to amateur forensics, detached from current policy.
The article notes Governor McKinley's somber Boston appearance amid national repudiation of McKinleyism and a Republican seat loss in Massachusetts. It contrasts his cautious stance with other Home Market Club figures urging action to halt a perceived economic swing forward, suggesting McKinley faces less risk.
The piece argues the fair signifies more than industrial progress. It portrays the White City as a transformation of prairie into a dream of Arabian Nights. The fair demonstrates intellectual progress and a spirit of art guiding the entire enterprise and its structures.
Mrs. Erving Winslow read Colombo's Birthday at a Browning series climax held Tuesday afternoon at Charles Dudley Warner's house in Hartford attended by Mr. Richard Burton and other subscribers. George T. Richardson returns as city editor. Major Merrill’s resignation is endorsed. President Scott of the Manufacturers' Association remains ill.
Henry M. Holmes feeds trans Atlantic stowaways at Lincoln's wharf then to Station 8 for reshipment. Dartmouth captain Billy Odlin noted for umpiring local elevens. Dr. Albert Day resigns after 36 years as superintendent of the Washington Home citing friction with the corporation. Stephen O Meara updates ministers on The Modern Newspaper. F A Draper leads Somerville News, a bright Democratic paper with steady effort.
The opening program at Mechanics Hall features Mme Fursch Madi Guille Campanini and Sousa's band with a 500 voice chorus. The Salute of the Nations ends the concert. Tickets on sale daily at Music Hall and hall. Also notices May events and a star studded benefit with Otis Skinner Modjeska forces and Ward and Lynch in a new song.
A collage of quips from Puck Truth and Philadelphia Times on Kant slang after dinner talk heiresses and foolish bravado. A jab at social pretensions and a sly joke about a husband presenting proofs of his wife's death before burial.
In Washington the morning session featured Rev. Calthrop of Syracuse on instructing youth in Bible use and Rev. Gilbert of Vineland on teaching children in Unitarian doctrines. Other essays covered conference origins, The American Unitarian Association, citizenship, and church ideals with ministers from Brooklyn Philadelphia Boston Richmond and New York participating.
The Boston Post advises house girls of all classes in New England not to rush to Chicago for domestic service. It notes Chicago has ample domestic help and counsels Eastern girls to go only as visitors, if at all, rather than for work.
Readers are urged to send notices of social events. On Thursday May 4 the Plural Club hosts a reunion and musicale at William H. Gardner’s house on Willow avenue in Winthrop.
The Boston stage scene winds down with the 150th performance of A Temperance Town at one theatre. Next week brings Incog at Grand Opera House, Two Orphans at Grand Museum, and Aristocracy at Hollis Street Theatre as final shows approach.
A collage of brief notes on prominent women and institutions. Laura Hughes pursues surgery training at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Queenly and public figures like Mme Modjeska and Mrs Bayard Taylor are highlighted alongside nursing leaders and charity work in Paris Berlin and New York.
Miss Helen Mildred Slade of Quincey Mass now a student at Vassar College is chosen to impersonate Antigone in the Greek tragedy to be staged by Vassar girls at the Collingwood Opera House in Poughkeepsie on Friday evening May 26. She is the youngest daughter of James H. Slade of Quincy and among Vassar’s notable students of class ’94.
Miss Emma C. Sickels of Pine Ridge South Dakota visits New York at Astor House. Three years ago she was asked by the War Department to go West and end the Pine Ridge conflict. By pleading with hostiles she secured a peaceful mood and soon the Indians returned to the reservation. She is known across tribes as a friend to Indians and chairs the Indian congress committee for the World's Fair.
The Massachusetts federation question, led by the New England Club of Boston, spurs wide discussion among women's clubs. Debates focus on whether a state organization could offer greater benefits than the existing general federation and the possibility of a split from the national body.
A statistician notes Ireland records the fewest divorces relative to population with one per 40 000 inhabitants. In the United States divorces run high at 88.71 per 100 000, second only to Japan at 608.45 per 100 000.
A New England appeal notes Manitoba has 21,000 unmarried men and 8000 women leaving 13,000 men without partners. Relief parties are suggested to ease the imbalance and help social harmony.
G W W thanks the Post readers for supporting the discussion of the May 2 paragraph titled Employment Sharks. He urges endorsing the communication signed by J W F and pushing the matter to be vigorously agitated.
The British Women s Temperance Association held a full day convention in London with 455 delegates. Miss Francis E Willard attended on the platform while Mrs Ellen H Foster was not present though reportedly en route from America. Lady Somerset was re elected president by 69 votes as dissenters warned politics would split the group.
A long abroad collector offers about five hundred pietra duro gems and antiquities for sale to aid New York charitable societies. The collection includes taglios cameos scarabs lapis lazuli and Etruscan pottery with bronzes and enamels valued at 19000 to 20000 dollars and catalogued by the Metropolitan Museum of Art curator. Catalogues free via Charity Organization Society United Charities Building New York City.
A Worcester Spy excerpt argues a Commonwealth failure to punish those responsible for the Lizzie Borden injustice invites criticism and public scrutiny of the legal process.
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