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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1897
Page
4
The Boston Post reports an unprecedented demand with 6866 copies printed and sold. Dealers who prepaid could not receive full orders due to mechanical supply issues, expected to be resolved soon. The day is described as a red letter occasion for the Post.
Analysis notes Wolcott's re election plurality far higher than most Democratic or Republican governors. The piece stresses party split, gold Democrats remaining steady, and Williams and Everett margins. It highlights relative vote losses and the resilience of gold Democrat support.
A succinct observation notes that voting appears as a marvellous phenomenon in an off year, highlighting the unusual energy and interest levels when turnout is typically low.
The Post rejects the Tran Script editorial implying 235,000 voters disgraced Greater New York by Van Wyck's mayoral plurality. It denounces treasonous labeling and urges respect for the people’s verdict, supporting governance rather than premature condemnation.
Mayor Quincy supports accepting the voters rejection of the single chamber bill and suggests improving municipal government while keeping two chambers. The Post endorses cooperating to restore powers to the Common Council, increase accountability, and raise council quality without party conflict.
The Boston Herald admits its post election praise for a single chamber bill was driven by expediency not conviction of merit. The piece questions readers on where expediency ends and conviction begins and urges editorial honesty and independence.
Democratic councillor John H. Sullivan is re elected to the council with the largest majority in the fourth district amid a reduced total vote. His 1896 tally was 22 670 after ballots were thrown out. in the current year with about 12 000 fewer votes he secured 21 462 praise for continued good public service.
The Boston Post under the motto With a Mission and without a Muzzle highlights notable victories. It recalls the fights for dollar gas starting June 8, 1892 and the struggle against Gasmen forcing a rival paper to suspend. The Post also opposed the Bell Telephone grab amid widespread opposition from other Boston papers.
The Post chronicles its battles for reduced subway lease terms from fifty to twenty years and for free transfers on the L road and surface roads. It touts victories against the salary grab, nurses home funding, and a mayoral convention for the Democratic Party, concluding with defending popular government in the single chamber bill.
A reader recalls Grace Kimball in Never Again at a local museum, compares her to Princess Flavia from The Prisoner of Zenda, and muses on stage presence. The column notes subway air quality, editor E E Hale, ex mayor Hart, Father Kneipp follower and his cat bath, shoe squeak fashions, a Boston horse show, and a Roxbury conductor returning a three cent piece. It reports City Hospital costs about 350000 dollars last year averaging 12 dollars per patient.
A Canadian yacht owner involved in a collision is said to be prepared to accept a present. Inquiries arise about Hotel Touraine’s downstairs cafe remaining for gentlemen only and whether Boston patrons would welcome a ladies section akin to the Waldorf palm room.
A. E. Locke lists 411 Newtonville Avenue Newtownville in a poetic note about memory and lasting bonds.
Lawyer Boniface faces a life changing choice as a job ad yields a letter from Lillian Converse, his former fiancée. Memories of a broken engagement after her father’s crash return, and Boniface weighs reuniting with her against his career.
Boniface agrees to a long Southward break after an unexpected encounter with Miss Converse and a tense office moment. Graham concedes Boniface needs rest, planning a month at the Tennessee place to recuperate from hard work.
The Post offers weekly prizes for Original Short stories with $10 for first, $5 for second, and $2 each for four others. Winners named Sundays and paid by mail Mondays for stories from the prior week. Submissions limited to female writers with name and address on one side of the paper. stories under 1000 words.
A scattered collection notes de Castellane entering politics in Basses Alpes, English the Austrian chess champion dies of brain disease, Caroline Morse runs San Francisco’s custom house elevator and seeks reinstatement, Queen Victoria endures finger pain over rings, Max Ring turns eight with plans for reminiscences and ties to major German literary figures and theater managers.
A Boston widow Mrs Mary J Bradford left 4000 dollars to a parrot once brought from Brazil and now living in the Dudley street apartment of Mrs Katherine Stanwood. The legacy is invested by trustee George H Pierce and earns interest. The bird has resided in Boston for 25 years and shares a unique bond with the family.
A Boston tale centers on Polly the parrot kept with a $4000 fund for life maintenance. Trustee George H. Pierce plans mortgages to support Polly and eventually distribute remaining assets to heirs after the bird’s death. The Bradford inheritance is debated amid media attention and questions of who benefits.
A collage of quick wits and social quips from 19th and early 20th century papers. Jests on marriage engagements and vows, spellings and schooling, and gossip about lovers, with lines from Tit-Bits, Puck, Indianapolis Journal, Detroit Journal, Cleveland Leader, Chicago Record, Judge, and Washington Star.
Miss Lizzie Damon resumes Monday afternoon at homes in West Newton. Mrs. Clifford takes apartments at Van Buren Hall Trinity Court. Floral Emblem Society meets Saturday at Legion of Honor Hall Huntington Avenue to discuss The Lotus in Architecture Decoration. Ellen A Richardson presides. Ladies Aid Association meets today at 2 in Legion of Honor Hall. Debut of Miss Eustis planned at Steinert Hall. College Club to occupy Grundmann studios Clarendon Street. New rooms green and gold scheme in Allston Hall. La Rue Vredenburgh moves to 183 Massachusetts Avenue. Ira B. Kirtland visiting Newton Centre. Four high class musicales planned for Allston Hall starting December. Unity Art Club reception Nov 17 in Pierce Building. Gertrude Miller Stephen Townsend to be welcomed in Steinert Hall. Mrs L. B. Robinson and daughter welcomed back at the Oxford. Mrs Hugh O Brien and others contribute to social life of the house. New England Woman's Press Association met at Parkers with chair Mrs Neila I Daggett. Constitutional amendments discussed. Helen M Winslow to lead next literary afternoon Nov 17 at 3, with tea. A social club formed among John Adams Chapter D A R members to meet in private homes. Mrs Samuel Thompson hosts whist party Nov 6. Jeanne Bond Chaloner returns home Massachusetts Avenue after Maine trip aboard a houseboat party.
In Americus Georgia a monument marking the final resting place of the late Charles F Crisp has been installed. Miss Helen V Boswell leads New Yorks women Republican movement as an engineer and mining drafts man of note. The late B C R Walker of Roxbury Massachusetts left 220 000 to various chari-.
The column lists daily table hints with a menu of grapes wheatiet and cream ham and eggs baked potatoes Johnny cake doughnuts roast pork coffee dinner potato soup boiled cider apple sauce boiled potatoes cheese stewed onions apple pie pumpkin pie crackers squash bread and butter tea supper cold sliced pork fried potatoes cream tartar biscuit honey cookies soft gingerbread and old fashioned Johnny cake. MABEL EB. SPA Ludlow Vt.
The Boston Post offers five dollars weekly for the best three meal bill of fare sent by women readers. Entries must show a brief menu with preparation directions. Meals may be breakfast lunch or dinner for about four persons with a weekly limit of ten dollars. Submissions go to Cooking Editor at the Post. responses mailed, no stamps.
A push by members of the Twentieth Century Club and the Economic Seminar to study the citys tenement house problem moves forward with a Ward 6 North End investigation set to start immediately and finish by June 1 1898 A conference at the North End club rooms at 4 pm featured speakers Rev C L D Younkin Rev Cartano Coute Rev G L Small Mrs W S Cole Samuel F Hubbard and Dr Baldwin.
Orrin T. Wilkins 61, a four year state prison officer, died yesterday morning at 14 Cordia Street Charles Town district. He leaves a widow and was formerly an officer at the East Cambridge House of Correction.
George H. Byam of Lexington died of pneumonia at his Parker street home after a brief illness. Born in Champsford Massachusetts at sixty eight he taught in public schools there then joined E G Byam of Baltimore in friction match business. He later worked in Boston for twenty five years and was connected with Dr Whiting and J B Richardson. He lived in Charlestown over thirty years later moving to Lexington. He leaves a widow a son Dexter H Byam and a daughter Mrs J C Hollings. The Rev C A Staples of the Unitarian church Lexington conducted the funeral from his home.
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