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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1900
Page
6
The Post lists subscription rates for PMATV and Sunday Post with yearly, semiannual, and quarterly options and prices. It notes address changes must provide current and future addresses and warns payments are payable in advance to the Post Publishing Company. Contact details include Boston offices, telephone numbers, and New York availability. Editor A Grozier signs off as publisher.
The new McKinley administration will enter with a Senate Republican majority of 22 and a House majority over Democrats more than double, securing two years of strong party control. The opposition cannot obstruct policy, placing accountability on the administration for ongoing and upcoming affairs.
The piece argues that Delaware's win may bring J Edward Addicks to the U S Senate, a gas magnate benefiting from the GOP win, and Pennsylvania’s Quay poised for credentials. It casts the Republican win as a vindication and advancement for these figures and for Republican honor and statesmanship.
The piece argues Massachusetts may gain a seventh congressman after the new census and urges the upcoming Legislature to redraw districts fairly. It notes the rush to deliver census figures to Congress and warns against gerrymandering, recalling the 1890 division that favored Republicans. It stresses reasonable, honorable district lines.
New York City adopts formal order to dismantle the Dewey Arch erected after Admiral Dewey’s Manila Bay triumph. The arch, a civic spectacle and sculpture labor of love, served to draw visitors and showcase plastic art before its removal at once.
The metropolis showed scant public spirit to fund a memorial maritime arch for Lewey. It decayed into an eyesore and danger to travelers before its tardy removal. A few patriotic minds raised funds but lacked broad support, leaving only history to record New York’s unpaid tribute to Lewey.
The document cites Judge Taft’s report claiming Filipino rebellion would end within sixty days after McKinley’s re election. It questions the need for a fierce campaign now, noting 80 000 allied troops and urging patience if surrender was imminent. The piece also casts doubt on Taft’s report and the administration’s stance connected to the Bryan McKinley election.
The Observant Citizen recalls the 28 year old Boston wholesale fire loss of 80 million and martial law. The article notes a lecture series on Great Periods of English Literature featuring Edward III. It mentions the first snow storm of the season, a predicted winter pattern, and a chilly snap helping poultry traders. It highlights Colonel Pfaff winning a silver medal for chrysanthemum displays and recounts John F. Chase defeating R. M. Nickerson in Holyoke district politics. It notes St Andrew's Girls Industrial Club activities and class offerings at St. Andrew's House in Chambers Street.
Franklin Lodge members travel by special train to Marblehead for a lantern parade and banquet at Neptune Lodge. A child’s runaway umbrella parachute scene on Dartmouth Street entertains and frightens bystanders as officers chase a muddy street caper. Also notes on actors resembling famous performers, a charity musical by Francis Washburn Post 92, and a labouring Captain Russell near completion of the East Boston tunnel with no accidents reported. The Boy President of the Republic speaks at Every Day Church about juvenile crime prevention, and local bets on Utah’s election seed a fund for polyga mous marriage prevention and expansion Gentiles. Major Miller to oversee quartermaster purchases in Boston.
A poem from the Chicago Times-Herald portrays a weary man in a carriage with a blooded handsome team. His pale face and indifference contrast with the driver’s proud, red-cheeked smile as onlookers stare and pass by.
The Public School Association has started its campaign and seeks to register members and supporters. An association convention is scheduled for tonight to nominate eight candidates. The conference committee includes A Lawrence Lowell chair, J Adams Brown, John F Moors, George R Nutter, and Mrs Mary Morton Kehew, with cross party talks ongoing. Last year four association candidates won, totaling 19,000 votes for nominees without other affiliations.
The American Bridge Company plans the world’s largest bridge and structural steel works on forty acres along the Allegheny or Monongahela rivers near Pittsburg. Capacity 150 000 tons annually with steel barges and hulls for river trade. The complex spans a dozen 59 by 1000 foot steel buildings with an acre gap between. Projected cost over 1 090 000 dollars.
About ten Calumet Club members held a banquet at Youngs Hotel with guests Hon. Charles Francis Adams and Attorney-General Hosea M Knowlton. Theodore Hurd acted as toastmaster as Edgar J Rich president spoke along with Congressman McCall and others.
A digest of curious items: snow in San Diego only in January 1882, dentists in Chinese medical corps with the German army, the Turkish war department barred from balloons or pigeons, France to fund firing and maneuvers grounds, Dresden to host a city exhibition in 1903 with German towns represented. Middlesboro men improvise with one pair of shoes, Emil Young counts five ant nests, motor haulage eyed for market gardens, a 1897 power line gig from Redlands to Los Angeles for streetcars and lighting, plus notes on counterfeit bank notes where watermarks reveal forgeries via dampened sponges and heavy dies.
Breakfast and lunch items listed for a daily table including oranges flakes broiled tripe popovers cream potatoes coffee. Dinner features clam soup roast chicken brown gravy mashed potatoes corn celery pickled beets lemon sherbet peach pie and coffee. Recipes describe peach pie and popovers with steps. Mrs Bessie Schwab Roxbury Mass provided the notes.
Leonard Bartlett mistakes a house for his father's. meets Sally and discovers Sarah Brown and Margie Maynard. A mix up with Judge Maynard's home creates comic misunderstandings that lead to friendships and a planned future meeting as Bartlett and Maynard families grow closer during the summer. Sally becomes engaged to Margie, linking two college friends through shared summer visits.
R. T. Almy & Co. opens a sale morning at 602 Washington st offering Genuine Frieze overcoats at 10 dollars, Kersey and Oxford coats at 10 to 12 dollars, Viennas and mixtures at 15 dollars, with discounts from 15 to 25 dollars on premium pieces. Stock includes black blue and brown options and is advertised as guaranteed with limited quantities.
Despatches from Manaus report the Acre republic worsening as Bolivian forces prepare a major push against Catulla. Rodriquez Aries, an adventurer, proclaimed Acre a vast rubber region spanning Brazil and Bolivia, with Amtimairi as capital. The no man’s land holds 200000 square miles and an estimated 50000 people. a Bolivian land grant to an American syndicate had recent, disputed rights.
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