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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1891
Page
4
The Boston Post lists daily publication details with subscription rates of 60 cents and 3.00 per period and notes changes of address must include current and new locations. Payments should be made to the Post Publishing Company. Office is Corcoran Building Fifteenth Street.
Readings and performances include Dona Juan at raxp Opera House on Washington Street with 8 pm showings, Jack Royal of the 2nd featuring Harry Lacy at 7 45, and a Song Recital by Gertrude Franklin at Tremont Street. Also listed are One of the Bravest by Stermsrr Hart at Tremont Street and Howard Arnenzem at Howard Street.
A 33 percent rise is reported across Boston, its suburbs, and the countryside, indicating a uniform uptick in the measured metric. The expansion affects urban centers and rural areas alike, underscoring a broad-based growth pattern across the region.
A brief note on ongoing tariff reform debates highlighting economic strain and political pressure. The piece references Lowell and the broader national context, emphasizing public demand for policy change and potential legislative action.
The committee unanimously re nominated Mayor MarrHrews for a second term citing his solid, economical and efficient administration. Dork and Duang were renominated for Street Commissioner. Aldermen to be named later.
The Boston Journal and its New England organ urge Democratic Representatives to oppose any Speaker who won t pledge to fuse efforts to postpone and defeat free coinage. The piece belittles the defeated party s attempt to control Congressmen and notes past defeats of its preferred candidates. It warns that New England Democrats may be branded for supporting free silver opponents.
The Journal questions a party organ's stance toward Massachusetts officials and urges branding those who backed free coinage and the silver inflation bill. It notes two senators who aided Ingalls' election as Senate president and ten Republican congressmen who supported the inflation bill, now law.
The Democrats of New England enthusiastically urge the 1892 national convention be held in Boston. They pledge hospitality and resources, arguing Boston is central to Democratic sentiment in New England and the East and a strong battlefield for the next presidential campaign.
The piece denounces President Harrison proposing to tax Massachusetts manufacturers on Argentine, Venezuelan, and West Indian hides after January. It argues the move violates the Constitution by bypassing Congress and the Senate, labeling the policy an unconstitutional delegation of revenue power and a quasi treaty.
A call resounds urging Massachusetts manufacturers to protest a January 1 tax on hides sugar and coffee. The tax targets raw materials essential to local industry and critics say it violates constitutional protections.
The Post announces it has permission from the city to publish the Harvard Yale football result at Springfield on Saturday by balloon and rocket signals. Details and signal code will follow, enabling observers miles away to read the news instantly. The Post will not publish Sundays.
Mr Hoar censures the Pension Office plan that advances claims through congressional influence. Speaking to the Lexington Tariff Reform Club, he argues the system profits claim agents and uses pull to favor certain applicants, illustrating political manipulation and favoritism in pensions.
A congressional investigation into bank failures in Philadelphia and Boston is expected as Congress convenes in weeks. Comptroller Lacey faces pressure as Examiner McGruder’s reports and letters will be revealed, despite his refusals. The business community demands information, and the letters will be produced regardless.
Harper's Weekly figures show the United States Treasury accumulating silver at about seven tons daily on business days, totaling eleven thousand net tons. The author urges Congress to repeal the Republican silver law, arguing artificial demand keeps silver price high and that removing it could depress prices toward market value, affecting mining and output.
The Post launches a department of Dime Wants offering small ads at ten cents for three lines and twenty five cents for three consecutive insertions. The editor notes the low price covers little costs but highlights that want ads attract a large number of advertisers and boost circulation and revenue for the paper.
The Boston Post editorial urged electing Mills as Speaker and claimed he would push aside the silver issue. Mills released a card denying any agreement with anti silver factions and asked the Post to correct its portrayal.
A collection of humorous snippets and light banter touches on smoking, population density, advice for Johnny Lighthead, and odd observations about wood choppers and minerals. It includes jests about names for a charity group and a playful exchange about Christopher and Isabella. A timely warning against vice from the WCTU closes the piece.
A collage of notices and anecdotes spans royals and scholars from Grand Duchess Paul’s burial costs to Princess Kaiulani at Wellesley. It notes Ibsen’s bedtime, a London piping bullfinch school, Bardsley’s prison diet, a Dutch queen's tart making, Keeler’s sun forecast, a city dog with a corncob pipe, Sylvia Gerrish in New York, Mrs Burnett funding a London newsboys’ asylum, and a Boston writer’s pension-office dismissal. It closes with the West’s wild man sighting in London Town Ship.
A collage of humorous snippets and quips from various papers. Notable bits include remarks about cats, barber talk, a Georgia man with long whiskers, a mocked alibi for H. W. Faxon, jokes about dogs, love poems, revivalist humor, and a dispute among Illinois lawyers. Characters and places span New York, Philadelphia, Clarksville, Texas, and Illinois.
The St Louis Republic notes that Republicans claimed to have elected all Massachusetts officers except governor and that Russell was the sole Democrat chosen. It likens this to an old fable where a fox boasts of many cubs to a lioness who dismisses the claim with a sharp retort.
A column fragment riffs on Postmaster Hart’s mood, naming of a Cunard steamer Emersonia, and jokes about American intellect and the Bell Telephone Company's patents. It recounts a farewell to Father Hall, a tall remark about Dr Lindsay, and an anecdote of Rev Dr Everett and reporters seeking a political tale on Sunday.
A compact verse fragment praising a beloved's eyes and the power of love. The speaker appeals to Love to grant wings to rise beyond worth, vowing to love without seeking compassion. The stanza references Apollo, beauty, and the saints of beauty's skies in a classical romantic tone.
Boston Democrats last night nominated Nathan Matthews Jr. for mayor by acclamation with Henry W. Swift and Edward J. Donovan leading the push. The ticket also named John P. Dore for street commissioner and John H. Duane for two years, while school board picks to be set by ward committees.
The Adamowski Quartette offered Schubert quartets in A minor and G minor Romanza, plus Grieg and Rhineberger pieces. Review praises improved balance and precision, notes occasional untunefulness, and highlights Grieg Romanza and Mrs. J. Wyman’s singing.Monday’s finale is announced for Dec 21.
Miss Gertrude Franklin hosts the second and final song recital this afternoon at Steinert Hall at three o clock with a program featuring English composers. Marsch-Maci performs this evening at Music Hall in Trovatore with C R Adams Campanari Clark and other noted singers in the company.
The Merchant Tailors' Exchange met at Parker House for a monthly banquet. Mr. Brewer presented A Summer at Camden Me noting Camden's scenery and Cambridge's famed entertainments. Mr. Turner spoke on the State Militia and Mr. Vivian followed with A By-way in Bavaria.
Cuarnwes F. Davis of Bradford New Hampshire sends payment check number 394 for 2 years renewal of weekly Post starting November 8 1891 from Lock Box D.
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