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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1897
Page
4
Twenty five years after the great Boston fire on November 9 1872 a reunion of fire department veterans is held this evening. The article notes the disaster as a turning point in the city’s history shaping fire safety building and civic resilience. It emphasizes progress since the blaze and lessons of self help courage and confidence.
The essay argues against spoilsman control of the next census. It condemns last census abuses in New York and across the nation and calls for a competent statistician in charge with power to appoint qualified assistants.
The Georgia Legislature weighs a bill to ban football after a young man died in a recent game. The piece notes severe injuries across western Pennsylvania and New Haven, urging restraint to prevent the sport from degenerating into danger and seeks improved safety.
Regional agricultural column surveys New England stock practices and breeding concepts. It notes farmers exchange strategies, seed choices, and livestock management tweaks aimed at improving yields and resilience in local climates.
The New York World prints authenticated photographs of starving cubans in Cuban cities. The piece criticizes General Weyler and General Blanco for policy that forces villagers from farms and leaves them to starve, calling it a disgrace to civilization.
The writer complains about a Tremont graphophone voice and calls for a pleasant tone or removal. He recalls Boston's 25 year old fire, landmarks left behind, and the State House subway acoustics. He notes Thatcher Island light failure, Cape Ann papers, Sarah Jewett's obscurity, a Newburyport minister, Roxbury club plans, Fifi Potter debut, and a looming Supreme Court trial attention.
The Lovejoy monument at Alton Illinois honors free speech and a free press as the ideals he fought for. He opposed slavery and led reform efforts while declaring liberty to publish and speak on any subject. The tribute links his memory to enduring American rights and regional pride for New England-born Lovejoy.
Judicial Court of Boston hears the Lavery case at 9 30 a m on Thursday November 11. Lavery a veteran sues the city of Boston seeking reinstatement from the ferry department where he served as chief engineer challenging the veterans right law. William R Yeo a Dorchester woollen trade figure departs for New York to join H R Caesar Co in a major woollen house move. Friends see him off at Providence depot hoping for his success.
The article notes December 81 as a favored Scottish wedding day and warns against May marriages. It cites customs such as not rereading the service, the sun blessing the bride, avoiding pins in dress, and not wearing green. It also mentions a Yorkshire tale of pouring hot water on the doorstep to warm the threshold for the next bride.
Society updates feature Mrs. Charles H. Colburn and daughters moving to Colorado Springs for winter while daughter Helen stays ill, plus plans for readings, club meetings, and society leader honors. Reports include Oxford Shakspere Club, Van Dusen Club, Brookline patronesses, Radcliffe class social, and upcoming appearances by Burnham, Morse, and Allan with various readings and concerts.
A collection of cartoonish quips and witticisms from various newspapers. Snappy lines cover politics, marriage, aging, and etiquette with playful exchanges. The humor highlights include barbed observations about debt free counties, gift horses, and proverbs, plus a note on moving the medical car closer to a football field.
Three years after a school romance unfolds a quiet tale of Jack and Callista set around a small railway town. Jack loves Alice but illness and distance alter fate. Callista keeps a secret, saving Jack’s memory by preserving a letter and clipping, while Alice marries elsewhere.
The Berkeley Temple celebrates its tenth anniversary with a reception in the vestry attended by pastors deacons trustees past and present communicants and missions supporters. A conference on The Country Church and the City Church Their Mutual Problems is scheduled for this afternoon followed by an 8 p.m. discussion on The Advance Movement in Christian Work featuring Rev. W. T. Tucker D D Rev. Washington Gladden D D and Rev. Amory H. Bradford D D together with topic remarks.
Keith returns from nineteen month abroad with a plan to attach the Bijou to his main Boston theatre as a grand annex. An aquarium on the first floor and a treasure house of art will be open to all patrons, connected via an elevator with the new theatre. The project aims to attract five to nine thousand daily visitors and keep the Bijou as part of the same complex while preserving affordable pricing.
A bustling shop window display draws crowds as a dressmaker’s apprentice showcases a tan faced cloth gown with brown braid trims and an orange velvet jabot. A second gown features striped tan and brown fabric with mauve silk panels edged in yellow lace and mink head decorations.
A column of kitchen guidance lists Orang Rolled Oats Cream and Sager with dinner and supper suggestions. It includes broiled fresh mackerel with lemon garnish mint sauce mashed potatoes and custard pie along with recipes for Graham muffins scalloped onions sacked potatoes snowball custard and a silver cake. Mrs Nellie Zack Ular 83 Maverick Square East Boston signed at the end.
Lieutenant George Whitlock, grandson of the late General Whitlock, wed Miss Rebecca Sprague daughter of Horatio J Sprague the United States consul at Gibraltar on Saturday in East Bourne Sussex.
Sarah Hale of Lynn was arrested yesterday afternoon by Inspectors Knox and Douglass on a charge of shoplifting from several dry goods stores. She was well dressed and reportedly took only tasteful articles, and allegedly grabbed an expensive umbrella when she returned inside to wait out the rain.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier and officials arrive in Washington to pursue a broad settlement covering bound immigration, fisheries, Klondike access, Fraser River rights, and reciprocity. A commission would settle details after an overarching agreement with the United States.
A public exhibit of Marie Corelli’s portrait in a London gallery costs one shilling and remains viewed in dim religious light. In Copenhagen Bjornstjerne Bjornson and Mme Berglich Ibsen hosted an evening of music and readings with strong translations of Hugo. Estelle Peel leads Wyoming public instruction and land leases boosting state income from one hundred to one thousand dollars weekly. D J Hanna of Bristol Maine, a busy multi role figure aged sixty, runs Ocean View House, a shoemaking and barbering business, serves as fish warden, deputy sheriff, town clerk, justice, store proprietor, fisherman, liquor dealer, livery stable owner, and campaign speaker.
The Trinity Club met in the vestry rooms of the church with about fifty members. President Robert Amory opened the session. Prof. F. W. Putnam of Harvard's Peabody Museum spoke on Recent Investigations in American Archaeology, illustrated by stereopticon views, followed by lunch.
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