Sagasta’s amicable words fail to cool stock war scare
The article argues that Sagasta’s friendly message cannot ease US Spain tensions. It states that most Americans oppose war, yet Cuba’s unresolved status harms American interests. It urges Spain to grant justice to Cubans and restore prosperity to Cuba to heal the festering issue and win public support.
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Sagasta
United States
America
Spain
United States Senate
Cuba
Senor Sagasta
Depths of depravity in Guldensuppe trial article
The piece denounces the confession of Mrs. Nack in the Guldensuppe murder case as the lowest depth of depravity. It argues she should face full punishment, not immunity, and urges prosecutors and the court to accept a guilty plea to murder in the highest degree based on her testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nack
Guldensuppe
West End lease delay signals careful scrutiny by railroad commission
The Boston Elevated Company lease case prompts hope that the railroad commissioners are thoroughly examining the West End's finances and franchise value. They question an 8 percent guaranteed dividend on stock, arguing the public bears this burden on a grantfree franchise, a stance seen as prudent given low interest rates. The panel's extended review aims to justify any approval with full disclosure of revenue potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West End
Boston Elevated Company
Boston
Observant Citizen Reports Local News and Gossip
The observant citizen notes J B Gordon's China trip to secure better brush cordage lines and mentions tooth brush manufacture links to bone sourcing in the US. He cites Hogan and Mary Downing’s upcoming marriage, theatre ticket manipulations, Yale Harvard betting, Mills House philanthropy, and rail noise reduction ideas. Also reports on Mark Hanna visit, bicycle oil tricks, iron felt rail noise dampener, and health updates on Major Butterworth and ex governor Boutwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Gordon
China
Double Taxation Case Highlights Massachusetts Tax Law
Mr J F Hathaway of Somerville faces jail for a tax on corporate stock certificates of a Maine company, illustrating double taxation. The stock’s physical property sits in Somerville and is taxed there, while the certificates are taxed again by Massachusetts, regardless of ownership. This instance underscores how laws can burden taxpayers twice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F Hathaway
Somerville
Hathaway
Middlesex County
Massachusetts
Maine
Incongruity of Nonpayment Penalty Versus Investment
A writer questions whether a system that enforces nonpayment penalties to deter debt truly attracts capital and enterprise to the state, arguing the policy may undermine economic vigor and growth prospects.
New York Antitrust Law Upheld as Unconstitutional
The appellate division of the New York Supreme Court in Albany ruled antitrust laws unconstitutional and void. The piece argues the last legislature’s act, shaped with trust influence, failed in sincerity, undermining coal trust prosecutions while noting a future honest, effective law remains possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Supreme Court
Albany
Ross Platt
The Ivy Red
A poem describing October’s drought and fading colors saved by the ivy red on hall and tower. Addie B Billington is named as the author.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Addie B
Billington
New Pennsylvania Bishop Ethelbert Talbott Elected
The Right Rev Ethelbert Talbott was elected bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania after four ballots. He currently serves as missionary bishop of Wyoming and Idaho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Bethlehem
Penn
Ethelbert Talbott
Episcopal Diocese of
Talbott
Wyoming
Idaho
Daisy Symbol of a Woman's Resolve in a Quiet Cemetery
Miriam Chester mourns her husband Robert in a sunrise burial at a small cemetery. She recalls their two happy years and the daisy he gifted, then resolves to live for others, picking daisies in the field as sunlight bathes her pale face with renewed purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miriam Chester
Miriam
Robert
Boston Society Notes Brighten Holiday Season
Christmas Day banquet planned for Explorer Nansen with Miss Angot Lunde to sing. Lunde sisters active. Sigrid Lunde teaching at Washington College. Angot to New York for horse show. Mrs Cooney’s death prompts sympathy for Miss Fanny Allen of Newton. Jessie M Downer to give concert in Chickering Hall. Mrs Bradley convalesces. family moving to Lakewood. Laurel in the Pines opening at Lakewood announced. Massachusetts Hotel Association banquet at Hotel Brunswick with 150 covers. Newton Chapter D A R events. Bunker Hill Chapter mourns Mrs Helen A Brigham. Alice Ives Breed returns from South and West. Plans for Miss Sara Bond’s future residence and wedding reception at 5 Haviland Street with colonial room remodeling.
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Viking Club
Explorer Nansen
Boston
Angot Lunde
Nansen
America
Lunde
Sigrid Lunde
Washington College
New York
Fanny B. Allen
Newton
Lucy Jackson
Cooney
Jessie M. Downer
Chickering Hall
Roberts. Bradley
Marlboro Street
Beverly
Bradley
Lakewood
Laurel-in-the-Pines
William Faversham
The
Empire Company
Brunswick
Julius Alexander Chelius
Whiting Street
Roxbury
Mary Shaw
Tess’ Company
Benjamin Wadsworth Hackett
Bunker Hill
Helen A. Brigham
Bond
Praise for Dingley and High Tariff at Home Market Club Banquet
The Home Market Club held its annual banquet at Mechanics Building with 1200 tariff supporters present. Dingley and Lodge spoke praising protection, while Hanna was absent and Aldrich sent a praise letter. Major Stott honored guests and urged continued support for the 1897 tariff law amid commentary on election results and immigration policy.
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Home Market Club
Mechanics’ Building
Charles A. Stott
Lowell
Dingley
Senator Lodge
Charles A. Russell
Connecticut
W. C. Lovering
Boutwell
Cheney
Hanna
Senator Hoar
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
Ways and Means Committee
Wolcott
Colorado
Colonel Clarke
Mark Hanna
Republican National Committee
M. A. Hanna
Washington
Greater
New York
House of Representatives
Sodom
Gomorrah
Massachusetts
Congress
Crane
Germania Orchestra
McKinley
Josh Billings
Daily table hints and supper desserts from Lillian Thain
A home menu lists coffee, dinner courses including tomato soup roast lamb and sides, plus a dessert lineup for Zealilli Nut Cake coffee jelly and nut cake with detailed recipes. It notes maker Lillian Thain of West Everett Massachusetts.
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Lillian ‘Thain
Baldwin Avenue
West
Everett
Mass
Lodge Presses Currency Reform in Republican Strategy
Senator Lodge warned the party to confront currency reform instead of remaining silent. He argued Republicans should push a bill in the House and let it be stopped in the Senate to force voters to choose between parties. Congressman Russell noted three months of tariff operation and questioned its effects.
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McKinley
New York City
Maryland
Dingley
Lodge
Dolliver
Iowa
United States
Republican House
House
Senate
New York
Russell
Connecticut
Praise for Dingley and the tariff act of 1897
The speaker lauds the tariff act of 1897 as the era’s most complete protective tariff, notes its legislative compromises, and credits Governor Dingley of Maine and President McKinley. He observes public shift toward the Democratic theory, while noting the lasting impact on national policy and public understanding.
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Wilson
Dingley
Maine
William McKinley
United States of America
Paris student swallows five silk neckties in wager
A Paris student ate five silk neckties cut up and dressed as a salad in five and a half minutes as part of a wager. A remark on Veresthhagen follows and other notes in this mixed column cover philanthropy and travel lore.
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Paris
Memorial fund for Charles Eliot urged in newspaper appeal
The letter to the editor from Charles XS Rackemann, treasurer, requests readers’ support for a Charles Eliot memorial fund. He notes several hundred dollars have been raised, with more needed, and urges friends to contribute through the Post. He signs from 23 Court Street dated November 10, 1897.
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Charles Eliot
Charles Xs, Rackemann
Court Street
Miss Peck at Lasell to Lecture on the Matterhorn
Miss Annie Peck will give a lecture titled How I Climbed the Matterhorn with illustrations at Lasell Seminary Auburndale Mass. on Thursday evening Nov K at 8 o clock. Friends are welcome.
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Annie
Peck
Lasell Seminary
Auburndale
Mass
In Memoriam Francis Green Honored by Boston Deaf Education Circle
The Boston Parents Association for Deaf Children presented a bronze tablet in Horace Mann School to honor Francis Green born 1742 died 1809 as the first in the U S to advocate deaf education. Speakers included Dr. Bell and Dr. Samuel Green as attendees recalled Green's impact in Massachusetts and beyond.
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Francis Green
Boston Parents’ Education Association For
Boston
Horace Mann School
Boston Parents’ Association
W. B. Thompson
Brookline
Alexander Graham Bell
Samuel A. Green
Massachusetts Historical Society
Mr. Currier
New York Institute For the Deaf
F. B. Sanborn
Concord
F. A. Hill
State Board of Education
Massachusetts
West
J. C. Gordon
New Hampshire Institute For the Deaf
McCandlish
Parents’ Association
Dr. Keller
Medford
Bright Bits on Delicate Gossip and Jokes
A collage of witty exchanges and quips from newspapers. It includes Higgins sending a wedding telegram to Miss Mather on her husband’s funeral day, a remark about a prize fighter, local work shortages, a Germantown mis’s question about preambles, and brief quips from North American and Chicago News.
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Higgins
Miss Mather
Old Moneypenny
Partial distribution ordered in Perham estate
Judge McKim in the Probate Court authorized a partial distribution of 12000 from the Almira M. Perham estate of Boston. The estate is valued at about 60000 and Fr H Smith of Maine is recognized as a lawful heir.
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Fr H. Smith
Maine
Almira M. Perham
Boston
McKim
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Mary A. Downing
William Downing
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Dorchester
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Mills
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C. I. Hood
Lowell Medicine
Berlin
Benjamin Butterworth
Patents
Butterworth
Royal
Royal Baking Powder CO
the Post
May E. Sanderson
Mt. Pleasant Street
East Somerville
Society
Deech
Major Stott
Democrat Party
Cleveland
Frank A. Munsey
Fifth Avenue
Veresthhagen
Klondike Women’s Club
Alaska
Henrys. Washburn
Horace Mann
Gilman
Cambridge
Edna G. Cheney
Edward Wheelwright
Maude
Estelle
Lancelot Longlocks
Maud Sharpe
Mattie
Helen
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