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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1897
Page
4
The 1897 baseball season closed with 70 spectators watching Baltimore beat Boston to win the Temple cup. Poor play and waning interest hurt the crown's luster though Baltimore nears a third title, potentially securing permanent possession.
Colonel T. W. Higginson condemns a tariff duty on his England brought photographs as a tax on education. He argues the levy blocks intellectual development and the Republican tariff law harms books art and science. Higginson stresses the revenue is insignificant and no one benefits from such taxes.
Jeremiah T. O Sullivan of Asheville North Carolina passed away yesterday at a young age. He was a bold earnest man who spoke and acted on his beliefs and inspired many with his fiery spirit. His death leaves deep regrets among friends foes and readers his potential for public service unfulfilled.
The piece surveys a Western drought affecting Illinois Wisconsin Kansas Nebraska Iowa Missouri and Oklahoma after a strong wheat harvest. It notes reduced winter wheat planting in Nebraska and Kansas and damage to corn in Illinois and prairie fires in Wisconsin. It ends with cautious optimism on a possible rain break and potential market benefits from high wheat prices.
The author notes the Governor’s strict patriotism yet his personal conviction of a woman’s innocence. He married her during indictment and has not wavered despite the trial. If she were guilty he would still face a moral casuistry but would likely grant a pardon regardless.
President McKinley inaugurated New Bedford’s industrial exhibition marking 50 years since the city’s rise from a leading seaport to a major manufacturing center. The piece notes spindles rising from 15,000 in 1848 to 1,260,000 today and credits New England genius for the transformation amid commerce decline and wartime losses.
The Observant Citizen notes Troop F parade attire shifting away from gold lace to plain businesslike uniforms, praising the soldiers’ steadfast demeanor and recalling frontier courage. It surveys oddities from unusual bicycles to vestibuled electrics, boot black ethics near Young's, a knobs trader, and Charley Osgood’s Maine deer hunt. It also reports a rail ticketing safeguard prototype, Milwaukee mayoral chatter about Ex Governor Peck, and a hypnotism craze growing in Philadelphia schools.
A State Governor faced with his wife’s forgery trial is urged to use his official prerogative to pardon if she is found guilty. The argument cites historic precedent and warns against political fixation on personal ties over the rule of law.
Elmwood Seminary students gossip as Jack Melville the new English teacher arrives. Helene Raymond schemes to mock him with a love letter but he reveals his feelings, confessing love and forgiving her. He gently questions her defiance, then wins her affection with a kiss.
The Lowell textile effort grows with the new school described as a full mill in one building. Secretary James T. Smith cites 300 students in day and evening classes and four main departments wool and cotton manufacture design art chemistry and dyeing. He expects higher industry standards and new enterprises as graduates lead mills. Also noted are a Cambridge church pastoral change and New Hampshire business boom observed by Keene manufacturer Cr. W. Newman.
Poem celebrates brown eyes and clover white with sea and wind imagery. It laments a dead summer and long gray world, yearning for a blooming lane and a cherished face. Author: Mabel Vinton Wardwell.
Cards at Mrs. Sutherland’s home reveal Dorothy Lundt as guest of honor with Mary Vincent. Multiple weddings arise today Miss Allen and Mr Chandler travel to Bridgewater for the ceremony then return for a reception. Sinclair and Underhill wed in Dorchester First Parish Church, with a large Hotel Brunswick reception. Additional society notes include Meade’s naval talk at the navy yard armory, Revere’s pending marriage to Willis Everett at Bridgewater Unitarian, and upcoming club meetings and social visits around town.
The annual park department report to Mayor Quincy outlines contracts for sea walls and grading along the Strandway, the completion of North End Beach work, and new drive grading around Jamaica Pond. Plans include a walk drive for Jamaica Pond, traffic road construction near Arborway, and facilities at Franklin Field Abbotswood and Franklin Park. The board opposes electric cars through the Back Bay Fens and supports two new playground sites in Charlestown and South Boston with a total projected cost near 500000. It also notes Mrs. Esther P. Ahl’s gift of a large indoor gymnasium to the city.
Chauncey M. Depew spoke before a large Nashville audience at the exposition as a life-size statue of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was presented to Van derbilt University. John W. Thomas, president of the centennial exposition, presided and presented the statue.
At a Lynn School Board meeting Philip Emerson of Natick was chosen principal of Corbett Grammar School, succeeding Pascal Isham who moves to end master at Douglass School in Boston. Guy Newhall was named principal of the evening school.
Breakfast items include chicken salad custard pie and graham gems with coffee. Dinner features vegetable soup broiled chicken stuffed tomatoes cucumber salad and pineapple sponge. Supper lists Vienna toast tea and cocoa with a vegetable soup recipe and a pineapple gelatine mold ending with a note from Ost Westboro, Massachusetts.
Friends of Archbishop Keane plan a banquet in his honor in Washington tomorrow. A monument will mark the last resting place of Charles F. Crisp in Oak Grove Cemetery Americus Ga a seventeen foot shaft to be set this week. Mme Calve sang for charity near Millau in Aveyron France the first European performance in two years. Mrs Kate Chase Sprague travels to Cincinnati seeking her father's old law sign.
The Inquirer commends the Boston Post for raising a fund to aid famine sufferers in Ireland. It lauds the Post's honesty and leadership of BE A Grazier and notes broad sympathy from South Boston for the relief effort.
Miss Annie Swan of Petersburg Virginia writes her brother was sick with a bad cough and cold mistaken for consumption. After using Dr Bull's Cough Syrup he recovered, described as the best cure in the world. Sold everywhere for 26 cents.
The Boston Associated Board of Trade discussed a single chamber bill at Young's Hotel. No vote was taken but a majority favored the change. Speakers argued for and against the measure, noting impacts on the city council and local self government.
The Democratic county convention in Bumstead Hall adjourned after a five minute dispute between Congressman John F. Fitzgerald and Representative Thomas Keenan over an amendment giving the chairman power to fill vacancies. Chairman Joseph J. Corbett presided as Dennis H. Tirrel was named temporary chairman and Malachi A. Jennings nominated Thomas F. Temple for lead. Various ward representatives were seated. Winthrop and Revere not represented.
A belt line car No. 14 operated by Conductor 2299 collided with a Norfolk House car at Hanover and Washington streets at 10 last night. Motorman Theodore Phursse, 23, of 233 Northampton street, was seriously injured, jammed against the car front and taken to City Hospital with internal injuries. Damages were several hundred dollars.
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