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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 08, 1891

Page

5

Money For The West Shipment Of Small Notes Continues

Treasury shipments of small notes to the West continue as Secretary Foster notes a growing circulation and crop wealth. Large gold and fractional silver movements persist, with plans to exchange fractional silver free of charge and increased printing of small denomination notes. The new $2 silver certificates featuring Secretary Windom are due in early November.

Washington Paissicn Treasury Department Foster Windom Treasury New York Nebeker Sub Express Bureau of Engraving and Printing Whelpley

Silver Falls Back as Mint Purchases Most Offered

The Director of the Mint bought four fifths of all that was offered today. The top price paid was 97 cents per ounce as silver nears its low. The value of the silver dollar remains about 75 cents though more than twenty million have been minted under the Sherman act. The Treasury blames inflated notes for the currency while bullion value lags behind.

Mint Lodge Treasury Department Reed Congress

Treasury considers changing duty collection for books by mail

The Treasury Department weighs a plan to forward mail arriving books and printed matter to the recipient's local post office for duty collection. Under the proposal, duties under 25 dollars would be collected by postmasters and turned into the Treasury, reducing detention at the Custom House. General Spaulding and customs chief Comstock lead the review, with Postmaster General Wanamaker being asked for safety and feasibility in adoption.

Treasury and Postoffice Treasury Department Custom House General Spaulding Comstock Customs Division Wanamaker Treasury

Postmaster General Opens Path to Public Convenience

Postmaster General signals support for promoting a new measure that will soon be in force. The plan would exempt periodical publications from duty while imposing duty on the forward sale of books photographs and other printed matter, a change seen as benefiting students and readers.

Lucy Wheelock Chauncy Hall Weylston Street Copley Square

Loyal Volunteers oppose wide pension grants movement grows

Captain Allen R Foote leads the Society of Loyal Volunteers to organize branches across the North oppose indiscriminate pensions. An office at 614 F Street collects literature while the group argues loyalty warrants a measured reward and warns against “desperate lufferers” seeking large pensions.

Allen R. Foote Society of Loyal Volunteers F Street Foote

Civil service reform squabble taints Newton speech

Writings by Winslow Warren critique presidential patronage and Civil Service reform promises. The address questions why Republicans and Mr Cleveland faced criticism, cites circulars, bank investigations, and the role of collectors and officials in Civil Service matters, noting omissions and contradictions in reform efforts.

Lodge Newton Cleveland Harrison Mr.Lodge Congress Civil Service Commission Virginia Baltimore United States Mr. Lodge Hendricks van Cott James W. Wadsworth Republican State Committee of New York Ohio Pennsylvania Collector Beard Boston Custom House Civil Service Reform Association General Corse Erhardt Platt Fassett Treasury Department Postoffice Department Keystone Bank Winslow Warren

Verdict for $7000 in NY & Hartford violation case

Judge Barrett directed a verdict of seven thousand dollars in favor of the State against the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Company for violating the act forbidding stores in passenger coaches. The statute carries a thousand dollar penalty for the first offense and one hundred dollars for each day of continued violation.

New York Barrett Supreme Court Today New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company

New Baby at Cleveland Household Draws Public Praise

The nation greets Grover Cleveland and Frances Cleveland as they welcome a baby girl. Newspapers note public interest, wish well to the family, and joke about future roles in politics while celebrating the newborn and the couple’s plain, honest heritage. The press predicts the baby will be a long treasured figure in national life.

White House Grover Cleveland Frances Rip Colonel Henry Watterson Louisville Courier-Journal Cleveland Detroit Tribune

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