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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1898
Page
6
The Boston Post announces subscription prices for daily and weekly papers. Daily rates: one year $0.00, six months $1.50, three months 76 cents, one month 25 cents. The Sunday Post: one year $1.50, six months 75 cents, three months 40 cents. Readers must provide current and future address and payments should be by check or money order.
Boston notice listing editorial rooms No 1004 and business office No 428 with address at 259 Washington Street indicating a newspaper office complex in Boston.
The Boston Post can be secured at leading New York hotels with all subscriptions paid in advance. Subscriptions will be discontinued without notice or expiration if unpaid. Notify by mail if you cannot obtain the Post regularly from your news dealer. E A Grozier editor and publisher.
The London Mail calls McKinleys 20 million dollar indemnity to Spain for the Philippines a surprising act of generosity. It notes the cost and burden to the United States and questions why America would pay such a sum after not accepting a gift nine months earlier.
The remedy is state supervision as in the Post bill. The movement for telephone reform will have the support of state business interests before this winter's Legislature, as fully as last year, and likely with better results.
A pamphlet style argument warns that U S treaty pressures to expand in the far East threaten American labor. It cites Andrew Carnegie and AFL President Gompers condemning policy as pro imperialism, risking wage suppression, cheap foreign labor, and trust exploitation in Hawaii Porto Rico and the Philippines. It predicts labor taxes and domestic industry loss if trusts seize Manila and distant markets.
Two deaths in Boston from poison gas last night raise the city’s long list of fatalities from gas used for illumination. One was a deliberate act, the other an accident from a leaking gas stove pipe. A push for coal gas as a safer supply is noted, with a caution to keep living spaces ventilated as colder weather increases risks.
Massachusetts State Board of Trade committee endorses Representative Mead of Lexington and the Post telephone bill. The report urges state regulation of telephone companies like gas and electric utilities, with user appeal rights for excessive charges. Committee members include W. M. Chester Boston and J. W. Gregory Boston among others. Public relief from what they term a telephone monopoly is demanded while condemning extortionate rates.
The association urges full reciprocal trade relations among the United States Canada and Newfoundland to boost commercial and industrial growth. It argues domestic markets, notably Canada, offer immediate gains over distant territories like Porto Rico and the Philippines, condemning tariff barriers.
The columnist reports G Alexander head usher at Castle Square Theatre returning to duties after six weeks of typhoid. Other items describe a fearless late night cyclist on Washington street, a Boston postal clerks branch election of James YT. Donahue as president, and the Elevated offering limited accessibility due to truck design, amid remarks on Boston life and transit.
Radcliffe freshman class president is Miss Lucy Stebbins of San Francisco known for beauty. Male students from the Radcliffe annex flood her with offerings but she remains unpersuaded, possibly easing Harvards sister-university tensions.
Annette Whitcomb recalls a long past romance as she faces a dress she had sewn twenty two years ago. The silken gown, once cherished and central to social praise, becomes a painful reminder of vanity and a missed chance at happiness.
A lyrical tribute praised Rudyard Kipling for portraying a universal humanity. The poem envisions a singer among diverse peoples, uniting tribes from marsh to palace and shore, and asserts the heart of the world is One across East and West.
A collage of humorous quotes and opinions from period papers including social satire on dining invites election fraud and a wary view of a hungry populace. Notable lines reference social figures Miss Jinks and Willie with remarks from Puck Chicago Record Indianapolis Journal Judy Cleveland Leader and Chicago Tribune.
A correspondent argues that indirect taxes, including federal, state, and local levies, raise costs for producers and consumers through embedded profit on tax payments. The letter contends indirect taxation fosters monopolies, reduces transparency, and should be replaced by direct taxes to reveal true government costs.
A Paris fashion note features a striking black and white cape with a matching large white felt hat. The hat is faced halfway up the brim with black velvet, showing about two inches of white felt edge trimmed with six narrow black velvet bands.
New York reviews report William H. Crane stars in a new E W Presbrey comedy at the Knickerbocker to a friendly crowd though the piece is viewed as a disappointment overall. Ysabel Haskins Gladys Wallis and Horace Lewis receive praise while Anthony Hope Rupert of Hentzau underwhelms Philadelphia audiences.
Feeds list recipes and methods for mashed potatoes biscuits cheese cookies and cakes. Includes Ter Brunswick stew with beef potatoes onions and tomatoes. Propcakes with eggs flour butter sugar and leavening. Mountain dew pudding with milk sugar crackers and coconut flavor. Signed by Mrs Minnid Takesbury of Somerville Massachusetts.
Memorial cot endowed in London for Lewis Carroll in the children’s hospital. Beatrix Hoyt, a three time consecutive women’s golf champion, is Salmon P. Chase’s granddaughter. Cincinnati sculptor Sir Moses Ezekiel to carve Governor Curtin bust for Fairmount Park monument. Funds from Richard Smith of Cincinnati. President Kruger sketches portraits and caricatures. Honolulu’s Rev Hiram Bingham has written a technical treatise.
A. W. McCune, Utah businessman and railroad magnate, aims to succeed Senator Frank J. Cannon. He resides in Brigham Young’s Amelia Palace in Salt Lake City on an income cited between fifty nine thousand and one hundred two thousand dollars per month and is known for philanthropy and varied ventures.
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