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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1896
Page
4
The Boston Post announces subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued at expiration without notice. Readers without regular access are urged to notify by mail. Editor and Publisher E A Grozier signs the notice.
Massachusetts governor ex-governor William E Russell is presented in Chicago as the Democratic nominee with broad New England and Eastern backing. He is praised for statesmanlike abilities and strong, uncompromising Democracy, having been elected governor three times in a Republican state. The piece argues he commands nationwide party confidence and represents New England ideas at the national convention.
The final vote to take up the Butler repudiation bill stood 34 to 20 with 17 Democrats and 17 Republicans allied with Populists voting in favor. The analysis highlights that nearly all Republican supporters hail from western states beyond the Rockies, suggesting party responsibility for lowering Senate standards.
The speaker denounces General Weyler for seizing tobacco tied to American citizens in Cuba arguing that while his aim may be to protect Havana factories the act violates property rights. The U S government protests Madrid insisting American citizens shall not be robbed of their property for Cuban industrial needs.
The Boston Journal speculates the St Louis convention will back gold and McKinley, while the Chicago gathering is unlikely to repudiate its record for free silver. The piece notes sound money opposition to a McKinley ticket and doubts over a Chicago platform shift, citing politics and figures like Governor Altgeld.
The line notes that McKinley will be offset by the Democratic burden of free silver, highlighting a campaign dynamic where Democratic stance on silver coinage shapes the contest.
The week saw copper shares surge while other markets stayed dull, led by Bigelow group insiders and a push on Boston and Montana. Analysts warn of a planned corner and large profits before a likely collapse, citing London bankers and New York copper men as key players amid shrinking visible copper supplies and rising European demand.
The Senate should reconsider its hasty rejection of subway bills approved by the House and Boston’s Aldermen. A ten year lease balances city protection and tenant development, while a fifty year term risks losing public control. Open discussion and reasons are due to reflect Boston sentiment.
A short inspirational note emphasizes life as an earnest business and warns that greatness comes from more than bread grins. Quotation attributed to J. B. Blackie reflects practical virtue.
Observers note Edith Mason resembling Lillian Russell in appearance and manner during The Beggar Student at Castle Square. Mason wore a blonde wig and displayed several of Russell’s stage traits, presenting an attractive if familiar image as Castle Square's management proceeds.
The piece notes a fashion craze for silken linings in gowns with sheer outer fabrics. Canvas wool etamine gauze and net are popular, dull colors favored, and the lining provides bright color. Gowns remain costly, with silk lining essential and pricey, a New York dressmaker example described.
The text details two costumes: one with pongee revers and green taffeta bodice paired with a green hat and jonquils, the other biscuit canvas lined with rose taffeta. The second features a tight back bodice opening to reveal a gold thread embroidered vest, biscuit chiffon yoke, butter lace collar, and mousquetaire sleeve in chiffon.
A collage of witty quotes from newspapers including Truth Chicago Tribune and Puck features jokes on pronunciation, politics, manners, and social scenes. Dialogues touch on quays, marriage, Mugwumps, and delegates, framed as light humor across yearbook-like clips.
In a smoky parlor a French survivor recounts the September 1870 retreat after Sedan. He describes 200000 prisoners marched to Germany, the siege of Paris, and his perilous escape aided by a feigned death ruse and a hijacked German uniform as German divisions passed nearby on the way to the besieged city. He reaches Belgium then Paris after four perilous nights slipping through enemy lines.
The Post announces the prize for last week goes to Mrs. M. M. Wood of 275 Hyde Park avenue Hyde Park. Her menu appeared in The Post on Monday May 18.
The Post invites original short stories with weekly prizes of 10 dollars for first, 5 dollars for second, and 2 dollars each for four others. Prizes are awarded weekly, with winners named in The Sunday Post and paid by mail Monday. Open to female writers only, stories must be under 1000 words, single-sided, with name and address, no anonymity.
Summaries of current reading and publishing trends highlighted by Boston athletes inspiring interest in Athens. Includes references to Harper's June issue and Doane’s sketch, US Department of Agriculture bulletins on Onion Culture and Spraying for Fungus Diseases, Conant’s History of Modern Banks of Issue, and reviews of works by Mark Twain Lowell Oliphant Ward and Mahan related titles.
Oranges fried hasty pudding rolls tripe stewed potatoes coffee lettuce Lunch cold boiled tongue buttered toast strawberry shortcake wine jelly chocolate lemonade Dinner baked veal pie boiled potatoes peas asparagus tapioca pudding pineapple bread tea coffee fried hasty pudding method for making ahead and pan frying to form a crust baked veal pie with broth thickened for gravy with baking powder, salt and shortening. MRS M C JORDAN Andover Mass.
The Boston Post offers a weekly $5 prize for the best three meal plan submitted by women readers. Bills of fare must read like a menu with brief preparation directions. Meals may be breakfast dinner and supper or breakfast luncheon and dinner, serving four or five for a family. Expenditure limited to $10 weekly for five. First deadline Saturday Nov 9, then each Saturday. Mail to Cooking Editor, the Post, Boston. No stamps, rejected entries not returned.
A twenty one year old student excels as ten mile sprinter Greco Roman wrestler cyclist halfback and golfer with precise plays Her graduation essay critiques training methods while her charm wins peers and teachers though she grows facial whiskers.
Cunard steamer Scythia from Liverpool May 14 reports arrival in Boston of saloon passengers including Chief Justice Carpen ter Mr. Thacmas Hoersfield Mr. James KK Horsfield Miss Sadies F Hopkins Mr. John M Mitchell Mrs KE P Oppenheim Mr. Henry T Pratt Miss Clara Sanborn and others.
Lynn May 24 Mrs Charlotte Perkins Stetson Western poetess lectured at the Labor Church to a large sympathetic audience. She argued that knowledge evolves while laws remain, crime definition shifts with social development, and individual salvation ties to collective welfare urging progress through shared duties and cooperation.
Post Letter Box notes the death of John Sarsfield Casey of Mitchelstown on April 23 at Bald win Street. A coroner for Limerick, secretary of the Mitchelstown and Fermoy railway, and a known Fenian figure, Casey faced penal servitude after 1870s trials and wrote influential letters on Galtee tenants while supporting Land League protests. Gunner John Flood. Boston, May 23.
Timothy J Farrell of Ward 9 declares support for representative James Keenan in City Council and State Legislature, denying Donovan's charges of anti democracy and praising Keenan as a true Democrat. Farrell notes Keenan ran as independent twice yet won by large majorities and would not nominate non Democrats.
The Nantasket Steamboat Company ferries crowds to beaches where cottage owners and businessmen prepare for summer. Several cottages and hotels open by mid June with D. O. Wade at Ocean View and the Rockland Cafe under Edwin Sturgis. The Windmill Point pier extension by William Sheriff and the Battery Heights land sale at Telegraph Hill anchor a busy season, while the Hull Yacht Club opens next Thursday and the electric railway releases a new half hourly timetable.
Crowds were down from last week as only licensed traders could operate. Park police under Superintendent West enforced new rules with uniform guards and planned prisoner transport help from Revere. The Winthrop Yacht Club vessels, led by Vice Commodore Meston and Captain Daly, enjoyed fair wind and new sails on a Hull run.
In Waltham on May 24 James Mullen was arrested on a warrant for obtaining money under false pretences from G. E. Whittier of Groton. Whittier says he lent money on two notes later found worthless, while Mullen denies the claim and calls it a scheme to get even. Mullen was released on bail.
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