Naval Battalion Band Debuts With Larricain Led Concert
The Naval Battalion Band led by Lafricain gave its first public concert in Music Hall under Lt. Commander Soley. Guests included Miss Mary Howe and Mr. Heinrich Meyn, with solos by Mahn. Review lauds intonation and discipline, notes good performance amid strong brass and calls for piccolo and flute addition.
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Naval Battalion
N. Lafricain
Music Hall
John C. Soley
Mary Howe
Heinrich Meyn
Frederick Mahn
Wa N. Lafricain
Faust
Meyer-Helmund
Heinrich Meyna
Valse Sente
Naila
Delibes
Darkies
Blocs
Vieuxtemps
The
Meyerbeer
Larricain
Editor's Notice Demands Full Names for Submissions
The editor will not return rejected manuscripts and will ignore anonymous communications. Writers must include their full name and address with each message not for publication but as a guarantee of good faith.
Amusements Today In Boston Theaters And Halls
A listing of afternoon and evening programs across multiple venues. Tremont Street venues feature John L. Stoddard on The Passion Play and musical recitals while Hollis Street shows Pygmalion and Galatea and As You Like It. Other sites present Beau Brummell, A Parisian Romance, The Sudan, New Lamps for Old, and The Open Gate. Helen Barry in A Nights Frolic and Under the Gaslight headline at various theaters. James H. Wallick in The Cattle King and The Black Flag spectacle at other halls. Mapoleon lecture, Chopin piano recital, and more fill the day with lectures and performances.
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Fremont Theatre
Tremont Street
John L. Stoddard
Hollis Street
Globe Theatre
Washington Street
Richard Mansfeld
Boston Theatre
the Soudan
Boston Museum
Scollay Square
Park Theatre
Helen Barry
Cyclorama
Jerusalem
Breinert
Boylston Street
Arthur Friedheim
Association Hall
Boylston and
Berkeley Streets
John C. Koper
Mapoleon
Grumamann Studio Fund
Chickering
Sergius Stepniak
Turgeneff
First Aim Toward Civil Service Reform Adoption
A dubious prospect of nationalizing the system leads to a plan to begin with civil service reform. The text hints that full reform may continue beyond the initial step, but this moment marks the first targeted endeavor toward standardizing civil service practices.
Mutiny Flares Among Grenadiers in British Army
A second mutiny breaks out among the Grenadiers described as a protest against harsh conditions and officer thoughtlessness. The men demand better treatment and criticize officers for pursuing their own pleasures, signaling a push for discipline at the top.
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Grenadiers
Five German laborers brought to Philadelphia from Antwerp
Five men previously bound for a glass factory near Pittsburg were landed in Philadelphia by an Antwerp steamship last week. They said they came after learning many neighbors were already employed there by slipping through New York. The piece notes holes in contract labor law and questions tariff benefits for American workers.
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Germany
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Antwerp
New York
Persistent Boston effort seeks faster New York train time
One reason for it is continual dropping wears away stone and Boston businessmen push for better service and quicker time to New York. The Executive Business Association briefly discussed the issue but no definite improvement is in sight. Earlier columns argued that five and a half hours or five hours is feasible if the three rival lines, which meet on a single road, could compete on speed.
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Boston
New York
Executive Business Association
A Thoroughly Bad System for New York Schools
New Yorkers say city schools fall short and reform pills linger in the State Legislature. The root trouble is blamed on the Board of Education whose members few care about education and who abuse influence to pull teacher appointments, yielding an unsatisfactory system.
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Board of Education
Socialism and Civil Service Debate
A correspondent with Nationalist views argues the New York canals example does not prove socialism, asserting civil service reform as a core principle. The writer says the Boston Post should support this reform and notes agreement with Nationalists on civil service ideals.
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The
Post
New York
Boston Post
Taxation of Business Incomes Debate by Hon Jonath an A Lane
Hon Jonath an A Lane argues against taxing income from handling taxed property at a Boston meeting. He contends the tax is illegal and unjust since property is already taxed, but notes the Supreme Court favors the tax. He explains the levy targets the rent of ability, the extra return from skill, and urges safe under assessment to avoid unfair levies.
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Jonathan A. Lane
Boston Executive Business Association
Lane
Supreme Court
The Citizenship Question From New Orleans Lynching Case
The diplomatic incident over the New Orleans lynching shifts from bluster to discussion with focus on citizenship. The Italian government asserts victims were naturalized Italians to claim indemnity, while New Orleans argues most were American citizens. The piece critiques lax alien voting rights and urges local reform to bar aliens from voting before full citizenship is attained.
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New Orleans
Marquis of
Signor Corte
Signor Cort
Congress
Louisiana
Signor Corre
Humbert
Great Strike May First Aims For Eight-Hour Day
The plan calls for an eight hour work day across coal regions in Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois and West Virginia with thousands of workers nationwide joining in. A parallel European coal-miner strike is also expected. The movement cites health and humane concerns about long underground shifts harming workers’ development.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
West Virginia
Europe
Eight-Hour Strikes and the Anglo-Saxon Way for America
The piece argues strikes signal a shift toward shorter hours and leisure, praising the eight-hour day as a first step and favorable to democracy. It contrasts the European revolutionary path with the American gradual, Anglo-Saxon approach, urging no one unfit be allowed to partake in American institutions.
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England
America
A Foreign Critic of Our Navy and Its Limits
A foreign critique, citing the Saturday Review, warns against naval boasting and cocksureness. It notes America’s progress but argues the fleet remains defensive, with ships and ideas still tested and controversial amid debates with Britain and France.
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Germany
Italy
Tracy
Great Britain
France
Saturday Review
Navy Department
Besant Brands Critics as Incompetent Work of Art Judges
Mr Besant attacks critics for not understanding that novels are works of art. He resembles the late C H Les Reape in seeking a head to hit and says critics should teach the novelist his business, acknowledging a great need for instruction in fiction.
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Waurter Besant
Mr. Besant
CuHar Les Reape
Dickens
Cruikshank
St Louis Art Ideas Critiqued Realism Inferiority
Mme Bern Harpe criticizes prevailing ideas of art in St Louis and argues realism is inferior while explaining the need to expatiate to a newspaper man about the city’s artistic shortcomings.
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St. Louis
Mme. Bern Harpe
Ibsenism and the realist in stage art discussed
A French actress criticizes idealism as harmful to art while acknowledging realism’s swift creative sense. She notes artists aging past fifty may retire, raises if her view applies to herself, and mentions Ipsen’s plays debuting in London with American participation. Philadelphia workers seek end to Sunday labor as city activity fades.
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IpsEn
London
Italy Denied Negotiating Half‑Billion Lire Loan
The report that Italy is negotiating for a 500 million lire loan is officially denied. The remark about using liars on soil is dismissed as a joke, and the piece calls this one of the wasted chances that make humorists sad.
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Italy
Boss Quay Declares No Resignation as RNC Chair
Boss Quay tells a Philadelphia Press correspondent he has no plan to resign and believes he is a larger figure in the Republican Party than rival Rocker Wocort.
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Boss Quay
Philadelphia Press
Republican National Committee
Rocker Wocort
Boston Life and Arts Notes on Caricatures and Trees
A Boston writer reflects on a crowded caricature exhibition and jokes about identifying artists, recalls Fuseli and Constable humor, reviews a field guide to Massachusetts elms, laments the passing of urban trees including the Beacon Street elm, and touches on New York veterinary licensing trends and the debate over classifying horse practitioners as farriers versus vets.
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Sorake
Messrs. Little & Brown
Massachusetts
New England
No Wires Removed on Brookline Bridge by West End Co
West End Railway Company began yesterday to remove trolley wires on the Brookline bridge in compliance with a recent order of the Board of Aldermen. Poles will be removed in conformity with the order and work continues on the bridge.
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Brookline Bridge
West End Railway Company
Boas
Chopin Recital in Cambridge and Evening Concerts
Music notes report Chopin recital by Mr de Pachmann at Brattle Hall Cambridge with a program of Op 46 60 20 48 37 41 59 64 25 53 proceeds aid lower boys reading rooms. Friedheim piano recital at Steinert Hall starts 8 15 PM with Wagner Beethoven Chopin Laszt and Lucrezia Borgia. Hovekirk Kneisel concert in Bumstead Hall 8 PM features violin and piano pieces by Goldmark Schuman Wagner Wieniawski Paderewski Svendsen and Beethoven. Alma Byrnes pianist performs at Steinert Hall this afternoon with Kneisel and Hekking.
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de Pachmann
Brattle Hall
Cambridge
Arthur Friedheim
Steinert Hall
Wagner
Friedheim
Beethoven
Chopin
Laszt
Lucretia Borgia
Helen Hovekirk
Franz Kneisel
Bumstead Hall
Goldmark
Schuman
Blatt
Mazourka
Wieniawski
Caprice
Padarewski
Erlking
Schubert-List
Svendsen
Alma Byrnes
Kneisel
Hekking
Hayes Elocution Readings Delight With Twelfth Night
Mr. J. J. Hayes at Mason Hamlin Hall Tre mont street opens a course of Shakspere readings on Tuesday and Friday nights starting with Twelfth Night The critic praises Hayes clear character delineation strong verse renderings and a generally high achievement while noting minor flaws in female voicing and Sir Toby’s nasality Yet the overall impression is of praise for a capital performance and a delightful achievement by Hayes in Illyria
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J. J. Hayes
Harvard University
Mason & Hamlin Hall
Tremont Street
Rosalind
Olivia
Viola
Maria
Duke
Malvolio
Toby
Andrew
Shakspere
Illyria
Mr. Hayes
Sir Toby Belch
Bottom
Weaver
Sir Toby
John Falstaff
Clown
Bright and Spry at 102 in Port Norris
Mrs Hannah Chard celebrated her 102nd birthday in Port Norris on April 21 with 113 descendants in attendance. She remains bright and spry, enjoying good health and keen intellect despite her long life.
Fragmented assorted quotes and anecdotes from a newspaper page
A collection of miscellaneous snippets and jokes from a period paper. It mentions Italian editors, suffrage debates, social gossip, and humorous vignettes about cigars, friends, and a German advertisement about cats. Several anecdotes involve Bath, Philadelphia, and Washington society, with light, comic tone throughout.
Various Notes From London Paris and Washington
Theodore Tilton in Paris writes syndicate pieces and Gladstone recovers in Brighton. Colonel J Thomas Scharf donates Americana to Jonas Hopkins University aiding Southern Confederacy history. Controversy over John Knox House title in Edinburgh continues among antiquarians. Hancock the Bond Street jeweller dies in London. his sale profits Disraeli’s return. Bayard family mansion in Washington advertised for sale and ex secretaries sons careers discussed. Garibaldi house sale in Clifton includes rustic organ and Garibaldi hammock. Annie Besant praised for striking face voice and conviction. Herkimer remains removal debated in Oneida Society with monument plan and legislative aid likely.
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J. Thomas Scharf
Maryland
Jonas Hopkins University
John Knox
High Street
Edinburg
Knox
London
Hancock
Bond Street
Lothair
Disraeli
Lord Beaconsfield
Bayard
Washington
Thomas F. Bayard
General Garibaldi
Cross Street
Clifton
S. L
Antonio Mucci
Garibaldi
Annie Besant
General Herkimer
Danube
Herkimer County
Oriskany
N. Y
Oneida
Reverend Joseph Cook Skips Speech in Troy
In Troy New York April 21 Reverend Dr Joseph Cook failed to appear at the Griswold Opera House to answer a critique by Robert Ingersoll. The audience withdrew after refunds and the local agent refused to proceed with the lecture. Cook left by a late train and announced potential legal action for breach of contract.
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Troy
N. Y
Joseph Cook
Boston
Griswold Opera House
Robert Ingersoll
Cook
Dr. Cook
Alonzo Aldren
H. Clay Bascom
Chicago Bureau
Harvard Musicians In Salem Concert Opens Series
The first Salem Oratorio Society concert featured the Harvard Glee Club and the Harvard Guitar and Mandolin Club at the Cadet Armory. Full house, audience praised the performance as fine and well received.
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Harvard
Salem
Salem Oratorio Society
Cadet Armory
Harvard Glee Club
Harvard Guitar and Mandolin Club
Primrose League meets as Lord Salisbury speaks
London April 21 Lord Salisbury presided at Covent Garden Theatre where the Primrose League held its annual meeting. He praised its growth to 1,000,000 members and urged Conservatives to stay vigilant on Ireland noting five years of stable government and praising The Times for exposing Mr Parnell. He warned anti-Parnellites could harm the Empire.
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London
Grand Habitation of the
Primrose League
Lord Beaconsfield
Covent Garden Theatre
England
Lord Salisbury
Balfour
Ireland
Times
Parnell
Fighting the Manpuris in Sina April 21
Despatches from British forces near Mani pur report a decisive engagement on April 20. A large Manipuri force harassed General Lockhart’s camp then retreated after a rapid British advance, with about 150 Manipuri dead and several wounded. One Englishman was killed and four wounded. Nearby villages were burned.
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Sina
Manipur
Newfoundland Delegates Move Toward Formal Accord with Britain
Reports from London state Newfoundland delegates and British officials led by Lord Salisbury and Lord Knutsford are near a practical agreement. Delegates reportedly propose dropping Knutsford coercive bill if alternative enforcement arises, while arbitration remains on the table. Canada is said to back Newfoundland on related bait and fisheries tensions amid riot at Fortune Bay involving 600 fishermen and 70 schooners. Government dispatches steamers to Fortune Bay and arrests are noted.
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London
Newfoundland
Lord Salisbury
Lord Knutsford
Canada
Str. Joans
N. F
Bay d’Este
Fortune Bay
St. Pierre
Oliphant
Lady Glover
Favorite
Revolt and Massacre in Portuguese Guinea Uprising
The natives of Portu guese Guinea have revolted and hoisted the French flag. The garrison on the island of Bissau was over powered and all Portuguese officers and soldiers were massacred. Rebels on Bissau number 6000 with two battles leaving 400 native levies and four Portuguese officers dead and twenty one wounded. Seventy-one missing. Reinforcements to be sent from Lisbon.
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London
Portuguese Guinea
Africa
Island of
Bissau
Lisbon
New York appoints Abraham B. Tappen Park Commissioner
The Hon Abraham B. Tappen of the Annex District was today appointed Park Commissioner in place of the late Waldo Hutchins. The appointment was announced in New York on April 21 with Special to the Post.
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New York
Abraham B. Tappen
Annex District
Waldo Hutchins
Ideal Gold Fountain Pen Promoted by Maine Agency
An 1891 notice from H. N. Fairbanks, Gen's Agent for Conn Mutual Life in Maine and the Lower Provinces, endorses a gold fountain pen as a cheap yet valuable writing instrument. The appeal notes securing testing by those who endure writing drudgery, dated April 4, 1891, through Partridge Stationer in Boston.
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H. N. Fairbanks
Mutual Life Ins. Co
Maine
Boston
Partridge, Stationer
Temple Place
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Corcoran Building
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Boston , Post
Socialism and the Civil Service
Fuseli
Constable
Beacon Street
the Common
Atheneum
New York Sun
Grumley
Fagley
Jimps
Swords Points
Sam Small
Small
Bath
Theodore Tilton
Paris
Mr. Gladstone
Brighton
Agar
the Home Government
Salisbury and
Knutsford
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