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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1898
Page
4
The Boston Post outlines subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions. Daily rates are one year four dollars, six months one fifty, three months seventy five cents, monthly twenty five cents. Sunday Post one year one dollar, six months seventy five cents, three months forty cents. Readers are urged to provide current and future mailing addresses.
Editorial rooms and business office in Boston list contact points. Subscriptions must be prepaid and will discontinue at expiration. If unavailable via dealer or newsboy, notify by post. E A Grozier is editor and publisher.
The Republican convention renominated the current state officers without opposition in a cordial, resigned tone. Governor Wolcott earns credit for his record, Lieutenant Governor Crane handles duties with dignity, and the other incumbents also receive renomination. The party appears confident in a possible victory and praises the ticket overall.
The Republican State convention committee on resolutions smothered a proposed telephone reform measure. The Post had alerted members, yet the committee feared a large, decisive vote in favor of extending state supervision over telephone firms. The episode reveals that a small coterie within the party remains aligned with monopoly interests over public welfare.
The piece notes the Republican platform endorsing labor laws as safeguards for workers, endorsing education and union action to extend such laws nationally. It recalls Democratic origin of these measures and credits the Democratic minority with passing them through Republican votes, highlighting a principled triumph.
On this day the Republican party is compelled formally and officially to indorse this great Democratic work.
A Boston Globe style column examines the Massachusetts Republican platform on imperialism, arguing it fails to take a firm stance on annexation or independence for the Philippines and Cuba. The piece questions whether the party seeks an imperial policy and notes other local incidents and a major newspaper stunt by the Sunday Post.
The piece argues for reviving the grade of admiral and bestowing it on George Dewey of Manila. It praises his Civil War era and Spanish American War leadership, noting he revived American naval prestige and would bring New England pride to command of the modern navy.
The piece surveys social scenes at Radcliffe receptions with name cards aiding introductions and a woman tired of answering her name. It notes Franklin Park shepherding by two collies, Major Langley’s New York cotton wealth and Pacific yachting, Quebec’s Ancients weathering rain, Hiram Maxim’s London hotel signins, a Boston dry goods firm exploring horseless carriages, Bowdoin College football quirks, John D. Long backing Dewey for full admiral, and bustling Court Street rail and sheet iron traffic described as infernal.
A poem contrasts longing for Santiago and distant pasts with Pittsburgh and Chicago. The speaker prefers distant places where baseball is known, imagining leaving Pittsburg and Chicago behind, folding the tent and seeking quiet exile.
Herbert Wayne endures two weeks in a farmhouse chamber while torn between love for Daisy Murray and a prior engagement to Helen Weston. He plans to win Daisy and seek freedom, blaming fate for his entanglements. Returning three weeks later, he discovers Daisy’s wedding night and confronts a ruinous turn of events, haunted by conscience and doomed choices.
The German sculptor Herr Reinhold Begas has crafted a recumbent Bismarck sarcophagus model for Berlin’s Dom with Power and Protection figures, and a Reichstag memorial design. Emperor William admired both, indicating likely execution. Former Empress Elizabeth quizzed Paris police chief Andrieux on anarchists, dismissing prophecy fears. Nobel benefaction delays persist as Stockholm reports two million crowns to relatives and remaining funds face legal hurdles.
A Vatican prize of 2000 dollars drew forty six Italian submissions but none met the standard. The pope plans a new competition, expressing disappointment at the first result. Meanwhile various anecdotes and notes touch on language studies, Gaelic professorship, and a run on a Richmond bank.
The first ten men selected for the Institute of 1770 at Harvard College were announced last evening. The honored sopho mores include T. Lawrence Jr of Groton I Kendall of New York I W C King of Newport Reginald Finck of Utica Jon W Hallowell of West Medford W H Whitney of Newton R N H Warper of Lawrence G C Clark Jr of New York J Ames of Boston M Bartlett of Boston.
A listed daily menu includes breakfast items Canteloupe fish balls corn cake doughnuts coffee and dinner dishes roast beef sweet and white potatoes spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese cucumbers squash white bread lemon pie and bananas supper features sliced cold beef hot rolls cake blanc mange tea and lemon pie with a lemon juice sugar flour butter eggs milk and meringue crust. Mrs C A Linnell 14 Everett Avenue Somerville.
A collage of quips and jokes from various papers features witty lines on romance money and manners. A girl’s quick reply about marrying an American, a carpet-beaters union threat over wages, and a barbering gag highlight early 20th century humor across Washington Chicago Detroit Indianapolis Harper’s Florida and Cleveland papers.
A rural scene at Zachariah Brown’s with a huskin party. Ebenezer Jones provides music while Sally Smith and Priscilla Johnson are noted for appearance. Dances like Virgin Yer Reel and others accompany the gathering as evening falls and preparations finish.
A reader urges the working people to unite and run independent candidates free from party bosses. He advocates constitutional limits on wealth, proposes taxing beyond one million dollars, and fears a money monarchy tainting politics. Signed M. Landis, M. D.
A letter laments dangers in football and rugby after a fatality of Robert Coveney. The writer questions motives of Harvard coaches trainers doctors and players, calls rugby a slugging match, and urges rule changes or legislation to curb the sport. J Nailor Newton extends the critique to schools and institutions.
A FREE TRADER letter argues that U S labor remains cheapest through skill and machinery, challenging tariffs and imperialist aims. It questions anti-imperialists on Philippines policy and defends high wages as a driver of cheap goods and market power.
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