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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1898
Page
4
Taxpayers in Boston express broad discontent with a first time sewer operation and maintenance assessment. The piece predicts widespread challenges in higher courts, arguing retroactive changes break an implied contract entitling abutting property owners to use sewers without further charges.
The death of Calvin Fairbank at his Angelica New York residence ends one of the last living links to the anti slavery movement. He died at 82 after serving a fifteen year sentence for violating the fugitive slave law, his life touched by Civil War era sectarian conflict. The article pairs his passing with a critique of Republican politics amid tensions over Cuba, Algerian fever and imperialism.
The piece argues Dingleyism created a sustained deficit from the outset and calls for indefinite war taxes to fund government in peace. It condemns the antiquated protection system as a Republican policy that fails across most aims, except enriching monopolies that shaped its terms.
A large reception for the Boston Baseball Club is planned at Music Hall next Thursday with Mayor Quincy delivering the address. Dc E Osgood heads the committee. Rev J Benton Werner of Lexington praised for opening the Mechanics Fair. Municipal Band Sunday concerts sellout may profit and aid charity.
The column lambasts the Dingley tariff as a failure similar to McKinleyism, noting falling wool prices, distressed mills, raised leather costs, and shuttered tanneries harming workers. It critiques revenue, industry protection, and warns of broader economic strain while weaving in local anecdotes and civic notes.
Paris press urges the United States to show magnanimity in Spain peace terms. It argues America has already borne enormous expenses, and Spain should not be asked to pay indemnity for Cuba or Porto Rico or the costs of suppressing insurrection and pensions. France's postwar settlement is cited as a benchmark.
Gentlemen urged to consider fall outfits from a house offering ready-made suits and overcoats at $8 to $25, touting American woollens and trims rivaling high-priced tailors. The ad claims superior design by expert cutters and contrasts with Bowery cheapness. Also promotes winter underwear display from 50c to $5 per garment.
McManus and Co. mens and boys clothing merchants advertise from Washington and Beach Streets with storefront sign On the Corner.
The piece notes a contrast between tailored attire and the economy of old clothes, with the old clothes man serving as a middleman between two social circles on North Street. It also celebrates Boston’s baseball champions and hints at a forthcoming Sunday Post feature on the team and its triumphs.
A poetic narrative set on a hurricane night as three ships sail the tropic sea toward distant lands. Columbus, depicted as Fate, commands his crew to seek America, declaring he will achieve the discovery if they fail. The piece blends mythic sea imagery with a bold proclamation.
Frances Hodges White presents a tale set in a poorhouse town where Joe a simple youth with a tender heart falls for Fay a glamorous girl whose silken skirts entice him. He pursues her through town to a theater witnessing her dancing flames and ending in his collapse as a tragic consequence of longing and neglect.
The item notes a fountain costing 15 000 dollars to be installed on Campus Martius Detroit funded as a gift from Mrs T W Palmer. It also mentions Speaker Reed appointing Theobald Otjen of Wisconsin to the industrial commission replacing Mr Lovering and reports various global notices including monuments for Heinrich von Stephen in Berlin two unveiled in 1899 and details about the Mahdi’s head sent to London.
John J. McAuley of Chelsea corrects a morning Post report saying he was a pledged delegate to Doherty and voted Ramsdell. He states he was not pledged and voted by his own conscience for the party’s best interests, noting the delegation from his ward also was not pledged.
Boston letter writer questions Dr Landis turning statesman after a medical debate and critiques his Post article of October 14 advocating national housekeeping education and virtues. He mocks a 100 percent tax after one million and abolition of multi millionaires, urging readers to consider the educator and tax plan.
A quoted exchange presents W. G. Smith affirming that ordinary citizens reject any part of the Philippines and favor the whole, accompanied by an assertion of wealth backing the claim. The dialogue reflects strong nationalist sentiment attributed to a representative speaker.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from various papers. It features light dialogue about economy in bread, proposals rejected, and satire about war memory, soldiers, servants, and debt. The snippets reflect period wit and social observations without graphic detail.
Dr. Louis Seaman testified before the war investigating commission that army commissaries furnished unsuitable tropical rations for Porto Rico troops and convalescents. He reported overcrowded hospitals, insufficient condensed milk and tea, and insisted he had no formal requisition but acted on informal statements. He defended the medical department while criticizing supply constraints and noted limited time to arrange meals for the Obdam's sick.
Judge Lathrop admitted twenty five candidates from the July State Board bar exam to practice, including Elizabeth M. Taylor a Boston University law graduate. Others named are Batchelder Campbell Boyden Clarkson Connolly Dudley Duncan Fisher Fyn Grinnell Grover James Lothrop Phillips Richardson Sears Rogers Smith Sullivan Weed Woodman Wellington Wyman Mold and Jonathan B. Dixon.
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