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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1896
Page
4
The Boston Post weighs the Massachusetts Biennial Election Association push for a two year cycle. It argues the annual vote safeguards citizen control and rejects the claim that moving to biennial elections would ease turmoil and expense.
The article notes Percival Lowell again questions Mars canals and asserts Mercury and Venus rotate slowly, challenging long held astronomy beliefs. It describes conservative scientists' skepticism and warns of further upheaval in planetary science.
The piece contrasts official Spanish dispatches from Havana with rebel reports carried via Key West. It notes Weyler’s censorship and insurgent leaks, suggests real facts lie between extremes, and says the Cuba fighting season opens strongly, aiding the patriot cause.
The Interstate Commerce Commission records a year ending June 30 with 31 railroads in receivership, little new track, and reduced cars and passengers. Yet operating income rose and expenses fell, freight moved up, and both passenger and employee fatalities declined despite overall low mood. Dividends were skipped by $3.48 billion in stock and $890.6 million in funded debt.
The Boston Post welcomes the new Boston Evening Despatch, first issued yesterday, with James H. Mellen as president and William Way as treasurer and manager. The Despatch supports free silver and lists Bryan Sewall and Williams on its masthead.
A cordial welcome is extended to new entrants in the Boston journalism field with best wishes for pleasant experiences and steady work. The message emphasizes professional growth, ethical standards, and constructive engagement with the community.
The speaker argues against free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, warning it cannot both raise prices and provide cheap dollars. He contends silver at $1.29 an ounce under free coinage keeps wages and savings at risk, and that speculative outcomes would hurt wage earners, traders, and overall trade, possibly leading to a gold standard.
A letter discusses converting a bridle path to a bicycle track without extra cost while riders decline. Humber peers plan a riding academy in Tremont street’s Battle of Gettysburg building. A rain day grape vendor misprices fruit, and East Boston ferry shoppers face penny-for-crossing scammers. Judge Corcoran recalls Holy Cross ball days with Rev. J. J. McCoy.
Prince Khilkoff arrives from Russia to study our railroad system with aims to introduce it in the Czar's empire. He formerly ran an engine on a Western road and understands switches and timetables, signaling a businesslike approach.
Breakfast items include fruit oatmeal baked eggs plain doughnuts with sour milk and soda, graham muffins sliced tomatoes and coffee. Dinner features mock bisque soup roast lamb baked potatoes green corn shell beans baked tomatoes and white bread with sauce. Supper offers tomato salad Parker House rolls sponge cake maple sugar cake and fruit. Recipes detail mock bisque soup and maple sugar cake with precise ingredient ratios. Newton Centre. ETHEL EGERTON.
A sunset battlefield scene follows a Confederate and a dying Union rider who share a final act of mercy. The Confederate revives to water the enemy, then reveals he shot the boy, who forgives him before death. They resolve to go home together as dawn breaks over the field.
A fashion piece notes seamless backs in bodices seen as high art to avoid wrinkles. It highlights a New York modiste turning out a simple green taffeta backed bodice with fitted seamed linings and waist gathering.
The article details garments with black silk grenadine bodices trimmed in green velvet and jewelled bands, emphasizing alterations to flatter stout figures. It notes mousqueterie sleeves, large velvet bows, and beaded or spangled finishing. A slender street version features a seamless back and snuff brown cloth with silk threads. Brown dominates the season.
The Me ch anics building food fair reports strong crowds with about 24000 attendees. Four hundred spoons given to the first 400 women were dispensed in fourteen minutes as exhibits near completion show the event running smoothly. The basement Midway Plaisance features a smoking room bowling alleys and side shows with a dancing lady among lions and an Egyptian fortune teller.
The home congress opens with Ellen A. Richardson leading a strong program tied to the Food Fair. Dr. William T. Harris urges school extension and practical life focus. Lectures by John S. Flagg and Atwater, Woods, and Thomas follow with music and social events throughout the day.
Julia K. Dyer chaired the New Hampshire Daughters Club gathering at the Vendome. The group kept the meeting day Saturday, planned a Noah’s Ark table for November, and welcomed 32 new members. A letter of sympathy was sent to poet Adelaide Cilley Waldron, recently injured in New Hampshire. The next meeting is scheduled for the third Saturday in November at the Vendome.
In the Mission Church Roxbury yesterday afternoon at 4 Thomas C Patti of Somerville married Louise G Degan of Roxbury. Rev Peter Carr officiated. Bridesmaid Anna F Lynch of Cambridge. Bernard A Patti brother of groom acted as best man. The bride wore lansdowne and lace with lilies of the valley. A collation followed at 27 Wigglesworth Street Roxbury.
Reader letters discuss solving a cats and rats puzzle with proposed supervisors and delivery of results. BALLEM of Boston suggests Sullivan of Chelsea oversees with his bull pup and sends results via a barrel marked cats and rats. W. J. Carlyle of Charlestown comments on minimum breaks in a chain, noting the last link would not need breaking.
The text notes a chain puzzle solution by G. Cc. W. Quincy and P. H. Kelley. It explains paying one link daily for thirty one days by making fifteen breaks to release links sequentially.
A reader from Boston asks about a chain puzzle at 921-2 Blackstone street. The solution shows sixteen operations split by steps such that fifteen cuts separate all links, detailing how many links remain after each cut and the final count.
A compiled set of humorous exchanges and quips from 19th and early 20th century periodicals. Dialogue covers secret societies among girls, kitchen miseries, caution versus cowardice, family relations, and inventive excuses for lending money, all reflecting lighthearted social topics and witty wordplay.
Dr Daniel S Harkins of Dorchester a Harvard graduate and Miss Katherine Tighe of South Boston were married at St Augustine's Church Dorchester Street South Boston. A high mass followed by a wedding breakfast at the bride's home. The couple plan a three week wedding tour and will reside in Dorchester.
A correspondent reports in Madagascar that interior tribes resist French control and maintain their own way. A London committee, including Viscount Peel and Lord Kelvin, was formed to study an international submarine telegraph memorial, with Cyrus W. Field and others named for support.
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