A New L Road Elevates Boston Transit Plan
A bill in the Legislature proposes chartering an electric elevated railroad in Boston to connect Union stations and Franklin Park along Atlantic Avenue. The plan promises convenient travel, improved access, potential real estate benefits, and reshaping city traffic, though opposed by West End and Meigs districts.
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Lancaster Elevated
Boston
Union Railroad
Franklin Park
Atlantic Avenue
West End
Meigs Ll
Death by Own Action Governs Free Silver Debate
A political statement argues that Iowa Democrats should reject free silver at 16 to 1, warning that adopting such a platform would destroy the party. It claims Democrats have long stood for sound money while Republicans dodge the issue, urging the party to maintain core principles or face public contempt.
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Iowa
Missouri
United States
Republican Party
Democratic Party
National Democracy
Will They Bolt McKinley Says Massachusetts Republicans
The Republican Club of Massachusetts condemns McKinley amid calls for a universally trusted candidate and gold standard support. The piece questions whether the club will bolt the McKinley nomination or defend resolutions implying unfitness to back him.
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Republican Club of
Massachusetts
St. Louis
McKinley
Republican Organization
Senate vigilance and House resolve highlighted
The speaker notes the Senate acting with vigilance while praising the House for standing with the people. It is anticipated that both chambers will finish the work in the same spirit, and it is said that Senators would not safely shoulder the burden of thwarting this effort.
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Senate
House
McKinley and the Savings Bank Debate in 1896
The piece argues McKinley’s silver stance would harm savings banks and thrifty workers, contrasting gold standard protection with potential devaluation. It cites New York and Massachusetts depositors, warns of lost purchasing power, and notes opposition from bank associations. It also touches local business celebrations and cultural events.
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McKinley
Association of New York Savings Banks
New York
Massachusetts
A Fatal Doubt on McKinley Silencing Silver Question
McKinley’s Republican allies defend his silence on silver by saying he should wait for the party platform. They admit doubt about the party’s stance, a doubt fatal to confidence. A candidate should express party doctrine in advance, especially on settled policy like sound money versus free coinage.
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McKinley
Daily Inspiration Quote From Goethe
A short inspirational line reflects on the vanishing cone and the man who looks ahead to future tasks, emphasizing forward thinking and perseverance.
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Goethe
Observant Citizen notes and Boston city scenes
The Observant Citizen laments Castilian Club closure and muses on resurrecting Spain’s grandeur. A Boston ice cart delays a suburban car near Independent Ice Company. Henry Hadley visits Boston to work on a new comic opera with Batchelder at Harvard Law School, while Tremont street undergoes changes and a subway is built. Local political figures Coveney and Scully remain active. Landlords eye John Stetson's Savoy Hotel in Cambridge amid shifting economics.
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Henry Hadley
Boston
Batchelder
Harvard Law School
Henry
Cathedral School of St. Paul
Garden City
Bishop Littlejohn
Tremont Street
Scollay Square
Shawmut Avenue
Tremont
T Temple
Boylston Street
John Stetson
Savoy
Clark’s
Reynolds
Unanimous Vote Moves Free Transfers To Third Reading
The House passed the free transfer bill without dissent and with no debate, signaling broad support for equal street railway privileges. Supporters credit the action as pro public and place pressure on the Senate, which critics say has courted corporate influence.
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House of Representatives
House
Boston
Senate
An Unknown Martyr in the Slums
A desperate mother comforts her crippled son as a brutal husband threatens and finally kills her before taking his own life. The tragedy ends with a newspaper note of a mysterious unknown martyr buried in Potter's Field.
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Bradstreet Avenue
Beachmont
Mass
Tim
Timmie
Timothy Brown
North Street
Potter’s Field
Daily Table Hints Breakfast and Dinner Menus
A set of home cooking tips from USAN DILLINGHAM at 93 Waltham Street Boston. It outlines meals for breakfast lunch and supper with detailed instructions for good potatoes and stuffed cucumbers including ingredients and method.
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USAN
Dillingham
Waltham Street
Boston
Menu and recipe ingredients listed by Mrs W H Pinkham
A dated dinner menu itemizes foods including oranges wheat germ broiled steak potato patties and lobster salad with desserts cocoa and tea. It also lists foam sauce made with butter sugar and boiling water and provides the address 781 Hancock Street Everett Massachusetts for MRS W H PINKHAM.
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W. H. Pinkham
Hancock Street
Everett
Mass
Dinner Menu Highlights From The Daily Kitchen List
The menu showcases oranges rice and milk fish balls corn muffins buttered toast poached eggs coffee boiled halibut egg sauce mashed potatoes tomatoes corn rolls banana pudding tea and coffee, reflecting a diverse set of dishes and beverages.
Rules for Menus Competition at The Boston Post
The Boston Post offers a weekly prize of five dollars for the best three meal plan sent by women readers. Bills of fare must read like menus with brief preparation directions. Meals may be breakfast lunch dinner or breakfast dinner and supper, enough for four or five persons, not starved or banqueted. Limit ten dollars weekly for a family of five. First deadline is Saturday Nov 9 with weekly contests thereafter. Winning bills printed Monday. other selections published daily. Send to Cooking Editor The Post Boston. Do not include stamps.
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Boston Post
Qne
the Post
Boston
Faidesah
Enanibeskestons
Medford Dedicates New High School Building and Gifts
Medford yesterday dedicated the new High School building a model for other towns. The ceremony featured the transfer of the key and a gift of two flags from S C Lawrence Post 66 G A R. City officials veterans and citizens attended as Mayor Baxter E Perry spoke of sacrifice and pride in the project and Roswell P Lawrence read a history of the school dating to 1835. The cost total 175 859 20 with terra cotta replaced by brown stone funded by Samuel C Lawrence. The building houses six classrooms on the first floor with labs and a lecture hall on the third floor and a 500 seat assembly hall. An alumni funded decoration includes Renaissance art and Adornments from Athens the Parthenon and Rome plus portraits and American scenes. The event closed with flag raising and a singing of America.
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S. C. Lawrence
Samuel C. Lawrence
Baxter E. Perry
Roswell B. Lawrence
Frank A. Hill
State Board of Education
George L. Goodale
S. C. Lawrence Post
William Cushing Wait
Henry C. de Long
First
H. 38. Bridse
Eben Roberts
Common Council
B. P. Lewis
S. C
Lawrence Post
Charles Cummings
Medford High School
Lorin L. Dame
Perry
William Cushing Wall
Roswell P. Lawrence
Massachusetts
Caleb Stetson
Galen James
Alumni Association
Acropolis
Athens
Augustus
St. Peter’s
Homer
Virgil
Demosthenes
Cicero
Della Robbia
George L Goodale
America
8. C. Lawrence Post
Short Story Competitions at The Post Weekly Prizes
The Post offers weekly prizes for original short stories limited to female writers in Boston. Prizes 10 5 2 2 2 2 paid by check each Monday for stories published the prior week. Submissions must be under 1000 words, single side only, with writer name and address.
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Tif Post
Sunday Post
THE
POST
the Post
Boston
May social season dull in Boston amid races and concerts
Town Topics notes a lack of weddings and a slow week in Boston due to May superstition and the upcoming Country Club spring race meet. The piece highlights Timotheus Adamowski and Max Zach at Pop Concerts, social notables, and events at Beverly Farms with a forthcoming marriage. It also cites engineering debates on underground power for streetcars and mentions works by Maspero and Dr. A. D. White.
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Boston
Timotheus Adamowski
Max Zach
Jack” Gardner
Olga Gardner
Charles Sampson
Jack
Bob
Billy
William F. Apthorp
Apthorp
Fiske Warren
William Fay
Katharine Fay
Holker Abbott
Gordon Dexter
Charles Inches
Arthur Richmond
Anna Palfrey
Bryce Allan
Beverly Farms
Budapest Road
Blackpool
England
Maspero
Egypt
Chaldea
A. D. White
Cornell University
United States
Russia
Compressed air locomotives cited for safety and mining use
W P Pressinger in Cassier's Magazine praises compressed air motive power for its fire safety, noting its applicability in mines and plantations. He cites advantages for hauling loaded and empty cars and for transport of inflammables, contrasting it with steam and electric systems. The piece hints at underground trolley wires as a contrasting feature.
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W. P. Pressinger
Cassier
New York
Quick Wit From Papers On Stage And Street
A collage of humorous exchanges from multiple periodicals. Gags about stage laughter, pedestrians and bicycles, bankers, and memory feats tease daily life. Dialogues touch on social quirks and cultural foibles with crisp, ironic punchlines.
Inauguration Day Hospitality to Soldiers Revealed
A letter from the editor recounts a Washington luncheon on inauguration day 1898. A Capitol Hill hostess warmed soldiers with oysters and coffee as guests canceled. Governor Russell of Massachusetts and staff later appeared, exchanged thanks, and joined the parade after their surprise shelter.
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the Post
Washington Daily Papers
Capitol Hill
Russell
Massachusetts
Democrat
Boston
Why Charlesbank Gymnasium Is Closed Evenings
A Boston reader asks why the Charlesbank Gymnasium remains closed in the evenings and when it will reopen to the public. He says visits three weeks and again this week found it shut, citing trouble with electric lighting and noting disappointment and fading comfortable exercise weather.
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the Post Air
Charlesbank
Benno
Boston
Summer Fashion Notes on Fans and Bicycle Suits
A vintage column discusses the summer girl’s wardrobe, starting with a bicycle suit and soda to beat the heat, then turning to fans as essential summer warfare gear. It mentions the pricey Louis XV era fan with tortoise shell sticks, an English admirer’s gift, and notes Empire and feather fans as popular choices, including a large $700 feather fan.
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Louis XV
Empire
Putney Resigns as Principal of St Johnsbury Academy
Johnsbury Vt May 21 Professor Charles E Putney resigns as principal of St Johnsbury Academy after twenty three years teaching Latin and Greek and fourteen years in the principal role.
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Sv. Johnsbury, Vt
Charles E. Putney
St. Johnsbury Academy
Gail Hamilton III. Hamilton Ill in May 21 Notice
Gail Hamilton III is reported to have fallen suddenly ill last night, mirroring a prior attack in Washington a year ago. Mrs. J. C. Richards of Wenham, the nurse, has been summoned to assist.
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Charlotte Houston
Miss Houston
George Curzon
Mary Lester
Harvard
King George
George Santayana
Dick’’ Hovey
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