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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1897
Page
4
Dr William Everett joins the Massachusetts governor race injecting vigor and humor into the campaign. Professor Bascom notes no illusion about winning yet expects active canvassing to enliven the proceedings beyond the routine party motions. The contribution lies in zest and entertainment regardless of final votes.
The article weighs the daring Arctic balloon voyage of Andree two months into the expedition. It notes pigeon despatches as possibly credible and questions whether the Pole will be reached or if the craft merely crosses the Arctic circle. It suggests scientific authority lends probability to a successful journey and a future personal report.
The Ward 17 Democratic caucus recount finds vote tallies for both tickets inflated beyond actual counts, revealing carelessness rather than fraud. While the final delegation remains unchanged, officials’ counting accuracy is condemned and urged for immediate reform to ensure honest, straight counts.
Congressman Fitzgerald criticizes the advertising method used for a West End lease hearing. He argues three Boston papers failed to reach broad public attention, urging officials to publish in all papers or in the paper with largest local circulation. The aim is to truly reach the people, not to profit newspapers.
The Attorney General upholds a ruling that there will be no discriminating duty on goods entering the United States from foreign countries in bond over Canadian railroads and that British ships may carry goods from non British ports without the same tax. The decision sparks protectionist debate and questions Congress will face.
A December meeting raises scrutiny as Section 22 is alleged to have been smuggled into the bill by a trick. The piece questions whether Mr. Elkins and his associates will push further daylight legislation to enforce it.
The two day stock market downturn broadens from top to bottom marking a defined but not disasterous pullback. Analysts say the decline follows the boom’s natural cycle as outside speculation recedes and foreign events remain only coincidental. Prosperity is not tied to the stock exchange, and normal conditions are expected to return soon.
The Observant Citizen discusses health travel by Edward Bellamy to Denver, North Adams excitement for President McKinley, baseball rain checks and management, and transit lamp maintenance. It also covers street cleaning activity, mailing stamp quirks, and Masons in Brunswick with Hugh McCurdy as delegate from Michigan. Female cycle riders are acknowledged but rest is cut off.
British secretary Mr Appleton gets three months for assaulting a housemaid. A 17 foot 8 inch tall Oakland man is buried with guards over his grave to deter grave theft. Juliet Courson, praised as a pioneer in cookery, is remembered as the "mother of cookery." Friends of Marquis De Mores plan a punitive expedition against Arabs. A Korean student named Kiu Sik Kim arrives to Roanoke College in Salem. Sylvain Weill of San Francisco receives the Legion of Honor for decades of charity work. Dr G E B Weber of Cleveland sails to Nuremberg to serve as consul. Johannes Penzler begins compiling Bismarck dispatches and interviews. An Eskimo student, Edward Marsden, studies law at Michigan to aid his race. German hosts present Emperor William with Turkish cannon as war trophies from the 15th–16th centuries.
Miss Blanche Dana Kernall wed Albert Wetherbee Lindsay at the Kendall residence last evening in a ceremony performed by Rev. August Prime. Bridesmaid Daisy LeRoy maid of honor Bessie Edwards best man William Lindsay. Flower girls Margaret Harding Gertrude Pond May Pond Marion McIntire. Reception for a large gathering followed at the bride’s parents’ home with ushers James Melntire and George Kendall assisting.
Mr and Mrs Edwin B Hyde of 277 Roxbury Street Roxbury celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at home last evening Friends from Lowell Lynn Somerville Mt Hope Dedham and Roxbury attended to offer congratulations A pleasant time was enjoyed and many tokens of esteem were presented Mr Hyde’s fellow employees on the Boston Providence division of the New York Hartford railroad gave handsome silver tableware in his honor
A collage of light verse and witty exchanges from era papers features lines on poetry versus popular taste about running brooks and factories, quips about doctors and hunger, misheard purchases at a boarding house, opera gossip, kings and aces, and a librarian misplacing an umbrella in a library catalog.
The article describes increasingly narrow skirts with at most five gores, tight fronts and backs with pleated rear gores, and either overskirts or trimmed simulations. A double skirt for young girls, a wide haircloth band, and a stiff underskirt achieve proper fullness, plus a petunia cashmere afternoon dress with deep green braid trim and a draped cashmere bodice.
Mrs Granger hosts Dr Wilbur at a Sabbath meal then visits a tenement where a dying mother rouses jealousy and self justification. A nursemaid niece Alice pleads for aid as Dr Wilbur uncovers a hidden kinship and secures engagement with the woman he loves despite Mrs Granger's cold stance.
Post Letter Box commends Congressman J I Fitz gerald for eloquent plea against the elevated and West End road deal. The writer urges Boston citizens to support the representative and demand justice against a grasping corporation and monopolistic press. The note laments lack of opposition in the Legislature from both parties.
Henry Alexander of Concord writes that Mrs. Abbie M. Saunders of Concord received a U S pension attorney appointment and had prior years assisting in pension evidence, noting Saunders prosecuted ninety claims in 1890. He says Mrs. Saunders, a soldier's widow and member of Ladies Relief Corps, is a skilled elocutionist with patriotic selections.
Reports detail a long sugar import cycle into Boston from Java with the Ltiffel Tower and Queen Cristina arriving around tariff enactment. Captain Breaks notes a hurricane damage at sea, crew injuries, and a suspected suicide by a Liverpool fireman. A recruitment voyage links to Cuban expeditions led by Anderson, seeking Cuban independence and US intervention risks.
Dartmouth College has published this year’s prize scholarships by class. Entering class recipients include James Raphael of Brooklyn and R H Whitcomb of Winchendon Mass. Sophomore winners are H R Hastings of Nashua and R A Dunlap of Concord. Junior winners include L E Varney of Dover and C H Donahue of Milford. Senior winners are W S Adams of Derry and F P Lord of Hanover.
Woburn Massachusetts September 21 Peter Anderson 23 born in Denmark now in this city has risked life in the cause of Cuba and is recruiting health for another campaign He learned carpentry and served nearly three years in Company G Fifth Regiment His move to Savannah in October 1896 was to reach Cuba and he met Fernandes a Cuban agent in that city
The Clyde line steamer Oneida under Captain Staples, due at Lewis wharf at midnight from Jacksonville and Charleston, ran short of coal and tipped on her port side at the New York pier. Cargo shifted and her lee rail disappeared underwater as she settled at the slip’s bottom. Crews prepared to right her with no serious damage anticipated.
The forty foot sloop Spray under Captain Joshua Slocum of Boston arrived at Port Louis Mauritius while en route around the world. Slocum left East Boston on April 24 1895 and Gloucester on May 8. The Spray was last heard from at Gibraltar on August 6 after 89 days at sea from Gloucester.
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