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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1893
Page
4
Nearly two months after the Pillsbury boom began, Hon William Whiting admitted reluctance to enter the nomination race. Pillsbury favored running, Hart felt suited to the contest, but Holyoke’s quiet manufacturer decided against pursuing candidacy, preferring not to be considered a candidate.
More than a million paid admissions were logged at the World’s Fair last week though many visitors entered multiple times. Even with duplicates, the figure signals broad leisure and financial comfort, suggesting no widespread poverty or fear of the future as many enjoy vacation pleasures.
A Saturday electric car crash on Washington Street exposes unsafe fenders. The piece argues current fenders fail to protect pedestrians and often trap people, urging adoption of safer designs that prevent serious injuries. It questions why effective fenders exist but are not used.
The leading Massachusetts campaign theme centers on defending citizens' rights against corporate expansion. National issues defer to this fight, with Democrats Republicans and Prohibitionists united in replacing Republican policy with honest money. Tariff was settled nationwide. the mass fight targets corporate aggrandizement and portrays the 1893 Republican Legislature as a scandal to popular government.
The passage argues that when people resolve to correct corporate influence they are thorough, and calls for a ringing declaration of restraint on corporation rule in the Democratic platform. It reflects a political mood urging decisive reform and public accountability.
The Sunday Post yesterday sold 82 125 copies, 19 880 more than its first issue, marking a shift from curiosity to readership. The paper notes that rivals like the New York Tribune and Times do not reach such numbers on Sundays. Circulation figures will be printed each Monday. All details are open to the public.
Ex-Chairman Olmstead criticizes the party for sidelining strong candidate Pillsbury in favor of hustlers like Greenhalge. The piece argues Greenhalge will repeat past defeats, noting Pillsbury would have carried Massachusetts better against Russell.
An editorial argues current law taxing collateral legacies and successions is unjust, favoring near relatives with a 5 percent premium and enabling large fortunes to concentrate across generations. It urges a universal tax on all legacies to promote fair distribution and public benefit.
The piece denounces Senate delays and obstruction by a few miners State lawmakers, arguing the public’s will is defied. It warns that such defiance damages the Senate’s standing and supports abolishing its insulation by shifting to direct popular election, claiming a Senate elected by voters would be more accountable.
The veteran Commissioner Lochren is commended for reforming the pension bureau. He has expediently granted pensions to honest claimants, surpassing 65,000 since Cleveland’s administration, and exposed Raum era abuses with about 2 percent of pensions issued illegally and another 25 percent rated contrary to law.
Six months of work promises vast savings for veterans entitled to pensions and for the nation. It pledges to clean up the roll of honor, currently smeared by Raum and his pension agents, and defines this as needed pension reform.
Judge George W. Alden of Middleboro is seen with Democratic allies at Young's Hotel. Ex Mayor Albert R. Wade of Brockton is active in politics and shoe findings business. Librarian Tillinghast aids readers at the State House. Ward caucus tensions rise with threats of dynamite. A jewelry store misreads a money order sign. Dr Francis J Keany returns to Vienna after studies abroad. Dr Daniel E Millerick named US Pension Board medical examiner. brothers clergy Millericks noted. Amherst College admittance for John Marshall Barry. Endicott mansion in Danvers becomes summer home of Mrs Endicott.
Patient hero Mrs Ober remains in extreme pain at City Hospital after risking her life Saturday to pull her child from an oncoming electric car. The mother was crushed beneath the fender while the child, though badly hurt, was saved by the quick brakes. The motorman’s swift action likely prevented further deaths.
In the city on September 10, the Rev. Thomas C. McGoldrick officiated the marriage of Thomas Hurley and Mery Hart.
Readers are invited to send brief social event notices. The calendar lists a wedding on Monday September 25 in East Bridgewater for Miss Lucy Miller and Mr. Sylvester Baxter.
Jan 1 marks Chauvin the first French doctress of law to hold the law professorship in Paris girls colleges. Bonnetain clan travels to Senegal to Niger with explorer on recent journey. Bergamini daughters sell wealth to pay father estate debts. In London National Gallery women dominate copyist days. Edison favors women for electrical work with praised efficiency and insight.
The Californian recalls Juana Maria as a singular figure raised on a distant rocky isle off San Nicolas. Seekers contacted Otter hunters, but measures to remove her never came. White men harmed her, she lost her child, kin, language, and, spoiled by civilization, died.
In a Plymouth Free Press item, a Boston ad agency offered to place an article on the paper's editorial page for five cents a line. The piece attacked tariff revision and urged Republican votes, revealing strategies by national groups to influence local papers and defend McKinley tariffs.
The Greenhalge gang seeks to stop District Attorney Knowlton from securing the Attorney General nomination as he is aligned with Pillsbury. The note asserts Republican harmony this year.
A Boston observer reports on Cincinnati style gossips about John Peachy a London tenor joining Palmer's Theatre and the Bostonians Robin Hood cast in New York. Tales unfold of advance agents, managers and a curious barber shop identity reveal.
In a Maplewood letter dated September 23, Q. A. Lothrop attacks protectionist reasoning, arguing that tariffs merely shield vested interests, raise prices, and distort labor welfare. He cites McKinley era funding schemes, urges voters to protest at the polls, and calls for bold stand against tariff lobbyists.
A Boston newspaper note from Woburn Journal characterizes the Boston Post as resuming a Sunday issue on September 11 with a sensational maiden edition. The piece portrays the Post as revived after twenty years of inactivity and aims to lead Republican aligned coverage and influence labor politics in New England.
The Boston Post’s last Sunday issue shows marked improvement over its first number. The editor, brimful of journalistic energy, sails into prominence among his peers in the field.
In the Lowell Citizen the chatter that Hon. William H. Haile should be renominated for governor this year quickly faded, mirroring the brief tale that he believed himself elected to the office last year.
A South Boston Review item notes The Sunday Post has risen to a tall stature like a telegraph pole, standing far above in the clear air of large circulation.
In its final issue the Boston Sunday Post featured a beautiful art supplement titled the Fairy of the Alps alongside its thirty two pages of print.
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