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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1887
Page
4
Boston Post Publishing Co announces subscription rates for daily and weekly editions. Daily: One year eight dollars, six months four fifty, three months two twenty five, one month seventy five cents. Weekly (Friday): one year one fifty. Notices indicate financial departments on pages six and seven and Ship News on page three.
The Senate and House formed investigation committees to probe Beverly's division, a move praised as necessary under the circumstances. The goal is thorough work and to curb lobby activity at the State House, which remains quiet to avoid scandal.
An earnest mass of about 150,000 English workingmen gathered in Hyde Park on Easter Monday to oppose coercion under Lord Salisbury's ministry. Government sources downplay the event, but impartial accounts deem the demonstration successful and satisfying to its organizers.
The Journal condemns the Legislature’s Sunday law bill as prone to evasion and hypocrisy. It argues that only a law local to each community can truly regulate Sunday observance and meet its unique needs.
The veto by Governor Hu displeases earnest temperance reformers in New York while pleasing an alliance of prohibitionists and liquor dealers who opposed reform. The act favored brewers and light liquors and targeted only certain cities, yet its purpose was clear as a temperance measure. His veto places him between conflicting political forces and risks alienating traditional supporters.
The article laments weak Republican votes that defeated a bill permitting women to vote on municipal license questions. It says the party had endorsed fractional suffrage and a prohibitory amendment, but the measure was killed, illustrating a breach between pledges and action and reflecting poorly on prohibitions advocates within the party.
In an interview published in another column Mr Encar Fawcrrr denounces local critics of his new play the Earl as unjust and bitter. He asserts the drama has foes none like our newspapers and offers his views on his work and on Mr Rippie’s acting.
The critic praises DLE for force elegance scholarship and a voice full of sweet rich sympathetic melody. He commends the lead lady’s beauty as almost angelic and notes Mr Fawcett’s clear view of proper criticism versus carping critique.
General Francis A. Walker urged a nine year review of arithmetic in grammar schools arguing one fifth of school time is spent on arithmetic. He calls for shrinking arithmetic to basic practical operations and removing so called logical exercises that do not teach the art of numbers. The reform aims to ease strain on pupils and teachers and reallocate time to other subjects while improving accuracy and facility in everyday arithmetic.
An analysis of the Liberal Unionist alliance shows the Conservatives strengthening by aligning with Unionists against Home Rule. The Saturday Review urges maintaining a separate Liberal Unionist identity to avoid being pulled fully into the Liberal fold while still supporting coercion.
The passage argues disinterestedly that a split of the Liberal Unionists could spur a new Liberal party, united around courage and reform. It warns that Home Rule sentiment grows, and predicts Unionists may drift toward Conservatives or Liberals if the reform plan fails.
The article urges Andover Theological Seminary to maintain its hilltop mission of inquiry and reform, warning against past‑most conservatism. It criticizes clergy and supporters who resist study and change, defending progressive faculty and the integrity of Congregational institutions amid looming controversy.
The Medford council featured a noted Andover heretic and a prominent church reformer joining in public worship. The Park Street council aimed at unity, kept denominational politics out, and signaled lay support against schism. Congregational clubs and benevolent groups show a strong push for harmony rather than division.
English observers criticize court plans for the royal jubilee. The Westminster Abbey service, June date, and shortened Buckingham Palace stay spark dismay. The Queen’s London absence fuels opinion that the jubilee will fail to evoke strong loyalty.
The New York World argues objections to Wilson Barretts Hamlet stem from him invading territory thought to belong to Edwin Booth and H Irvine of England. It calls this claim nonsense and says Barrett robs the play of Shakespearean clangour, noting Irvine’s performance is criticized for different reasons.
A Boston writer muses on the proposed Authors' Club valuing outside literary input and a schoollike merit system. He recalls William M. Hunt's studio at Park Square and his dramatic color work, noting the studio's demolition and Hunt's final days. The piece also praises The People's Entertainment Society of Boston and laments urban luxury for the rich, urging public-spirited acts and walking to work.
A London styled critique notes Colonel Henry Watterson challenging both worldly and diabolic powers, praising his bold stance and predicting a strong outcome from the confrontation with two formidable adversaries.
A Philadelphia Times editorial argues convicts must be employed to deter crime. It says idleness fosters crime and labor is the best reform, teaching habits of industry and offsetting the cost of prison support. It stresses convict labor as a necessary public duty.
The Philadelphia Press ridicules Randalls fences amid Pattison probe into Pacific railroads. The Chicago News fumes at protectionism and naval iron shortages as England and the US diverge on industry. The Philadelphia Record notes John Sherman’s shifting stance on currency after backing inflation bills.
The Rev. Leighton Parks offers a broad sympathetic study arguing that God speaks beyond the Bible to Eastern sacred writings. He links Brahminism Buddhism and Hinduism to Christian truth, advocates missionary work across races and stresses unity without sectarian rigidities. The book presents a future where East and West unite in a universal Christian faith.
A review critiques Rev John Ellerton’s book The Twilight of Life which offers large print consolation and advice for the elderly. The piece notes patronizing tone and mocks the idea of compensations for aging while praising simple prose and verse aimed at gray hair and stiff knees.
The Rev Minot J Savage chides James Russell Lowell for a despairing tone in Degenerate Days praising Lowell's earlier liberty and faith. Savage recalls hope courage and science asserting Apollo fights for truth and that we are in morning twilight. He finds the verses earnest yet lacking merit for publication by a prose writer of Savage's standing.
Mrs. Helen Campbell, writing for a New York paper, details in a 257 page book the brutal conditions of women wage workers in sewing and garment trades. She exposes overwork, underpayment, petty cheats, and tyrannical bosses, arguing that both women and men employers deny dignity and escape, as cheap garments bind wearers in misery.
The review highlights Helen Campbell's Prisoners of Poverty, criticizing low wages, the lack of skilled sewers, and widespread ignorance and vice. It denounces harsh conditions in households, abuse of children, and the subsidizing charity culture, urging reform through awareness and action.
The piece reviews several inexpensive volumes for home use. Martha Coles Weld offers illustrated tableaux with costumes and settings. George H. Ricker presents an English language and letter writing primer for lower grades. An etiquette book is criticized for folly. Prices vary around fifty cents.
A column scours social quirks and tongue in cheek notes from The Advertiser. It cites Miss Annie Clarke’s stage return, school teachers mischief, Father Keller’s canonization, Czar and band dynamite fear, and women voters with confections. It also jokes about Sunday blue laws, barbed wire, sleighing near Boston, and a photographic watch gag.
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