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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1896
Page
6
The columns of the Post invite the Gold Bug Silver Bug and Straddle Bug to present their views on the gold and silver question. The editor asks participants to observe parliamentary rules and avoid personal abuse.
William Williams decries Bordman Hall for evasive replies on free coinage of silver and Democratic platform issues. He cites responses to Rackermann and Atkinson, accuses Bordman of straddling McKinley and Bryan camps, and warns against A P A influence and opportunistic votes.
A reader defends market factors behind the wheat rally in 1896, arguing supply limits and seasonal demand drive prices. He cites English reports and US rail and shipping delays, notes gold payments for wheat, and questions charges of Wall Street manipulation. He also questions the focus on Bryan Williams and urges self-scrutiny of the Post.
Charles Malloy praised Jehangier Cola for a transcendental discourse on The Human Voice during a Boston event at Cotillon Hall. The evening featured Beethoven talks by Mrs John Vance Cheney and a program of music and readings, with political overtones urging voters to support honest money. Herman Bird, Democratic Senate candidate, urged a three day joint discussion avoiding national issues.
The letter from Cambridge dated October 28, 1896, addresses Frederick W. Dallinger and replies to his declined joint debate on national issues. It proposes focusing on Middlesex county and second Middlesex senatorial interests and questions alleged misconduct by Republicans.
The Record reports 76 719 Chicago postal card poll replies or about a quarter of the expected vote. Ward results compare with Cleveland and Harrison's 1892 totals to show McKinley's lead and relative standings.
Somerville precinct officers met at City Hall to learn election day duties from City Clerk Vincent. A private leap year party at Columbian Hall West Somerville drew about thirty couples with elaborate ladies toilets. Daniel Callahan Lamson court was fined 100 for liquor nuisance, appealing and bound over to the Superior Court. The Somerville Y M C A Star Course opened with Boston Rivals at Odd Fellows Hall featuring Jennie Mae Spencer Edna Louise Sutherland Maud Paradise and Felix Winternitz.
In St Louis on October 29 flour prices climbed after a wheat advance. Patents now at 4.05, extra fancy 3.00, fancy 3.15, choice 2.60, up from prior rates. A broker predicted further increases after the election but not enough to heavily affect consumers.
Essie Goldsmith 22 marries David A. Morrison in City Hospital at 1 AM as her illness from appendicitis worsens. Surgeons operated. she rallied briefly, then died within hours. Family present. Rev Otto Bartholow officiated. funeral held at 807 Halsey Street. Morrison, a Brooklyn butcher managing a hotel in Arverne, stayed by her side throughout.
Marie Dressler the comedienne was granted a divorce by Judge Beach in the Supreme Court special term. The case followed a lobby horsewhipping incident at the Ca sino and involved Dressler, her husband George S Hoppert and a woman posing as his wife. The court decreed the actress free from matrimonial bonds.
Olive Sternaman, sought in Cayuga Ontario for murder, was arrested in Buffalo. She is accused of killing her second husband George H. Sternaman and faces questions about arsenic poisoning in his death and that of Ezra Chipman. An inquest found arsenical poisoning as the cause.
Mrs. Catherine Meisner of South Boston recounts severe back and kidney pain after pneumonia. Urination burned and frequent night visits disrupted rest until she used Doan's Kidney Pills. She reports reduced pain, normal urine, and renewed energy, praising the remedy. Price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. distributes in the U S.
The prisoner was ordered jailed while the defendant appeared unconcerned, with the court noting no visible emotion during the sentencing. No further details on charges or proceedings were provided in the readable fragment.
In Brooklyn a 17 year old May Vintage tried to shoot herself over fear of arrest for passing a worthless check. She claimed the act to avoid arrest linked to Edgar Valentine, a man sought for two bogus checks totaling $30 at Henry Batterman’s store and Adams’s dry goods. Detectives trace Valentine to fake signatures and a Lexington Avenue apartment with a couple who moved on a week ago.
Advertisement offers painless ear operations and claims to treat prominent ears. J H Woodbury at 11 Winter Street Boston promotes hearing aids and ear surgery with emphasis on comfort for patients with protruding ears.
Medical Examiner Draper ruled death an accidental morphine overdose in the Reynolds House. Dr Charles F McCann was found dead Wednesday and his body was sent to New York yesterday by his brother in law W L Sharp.
Mrs Charles F McCann reports her husband died in Boston and she believes the death was accidental. She notes the physician treated insomnia and headaches with morphine. He held a large practice and was well to do. Interment planned for Cincinnati.
Lawrence investigators report William E. Wark found dead in an alley. A medical examiner’s post mortem shows four right side ribs broken, two on the left, facial injuries and breast vessel lacerations causing internal hemorrhage. The circumstances remain unclear as detectives continue inquiries.
Delegations from Charleston West Virginia Hancock and Seneca counties Ohio Columbus and Hocking Valley Wakeman Ashland Fulton and Williams counties and Indiana voters met Major McKinley in Canton Ohio. He urged sound money protection tariffs and law and order while greeting each group warmly and answering questions on money and taxation.
Yale News mock election results announced in New Haven show McKinley and Hobart winning 82 percent of the vote with 1512 of 1845 ballots cast Bryan and Sewall defeated by Palmer and Buckner in the campus contest.
A notice posted in Slatersville cotton mills North Smithfield states if McKinley is elected the mill will run full time starting November 9. Currently the mill operates four days a week.
Boston police commissioners heard John J. Haggerty’s bid to move a liquor license from Albany Street to Dorchester Avenue. Proponents argued Dorchester favored licenses. remonstrants warned the transfer would hurt the district and urged restraint.
Reporting on October market activity highlights high call loans up to 100 percent and strong sterling demand as hoarding increases. Gold inflows total about 70 million with shipments of 1.25 million to New York, while local money remains placid. Bell Telephone declares a 1 percent quarterly dividend. Central Massachusetts Railroad shows a 24,917 surplus after expenses.
The annual meeting of the board elected officers including J Collins Warren M D LL D as president and Augustus Hemenway as treasurer. More than 20 000 new out patient visits were recorded and 1197 in hospital patients with an average stay of 21 days. An appeal for subscriptions was approved to cover a deficiency, to be sent to treasurer ae ORL Hemenway 10 Tremont street.
William T. Graham of Worchester Square hired a servant girl named Hannah at an employment office Wednesday morning. She vanished that evening along with a silk waistcoat silk stockings silk underwear and a lodger's dozen linen handkerchiefs.
A man sold tickets for a fictitious charity concert at Chickering Hall. Several people were swindled and arrived on the night to discover the event did not exist, exposing a fraudulent scheme.
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