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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1891
Page
2
League favorites delivered an easy victory in New York as Robinson proved a strong hitter. Grippes and teammates dominated the game with efficient offense and solid defense. Local fans celebrated the confident win and improved standings.
Baltimore Orioles failed to hit reliably against Boston and Madden’s wild pitching in the fifth inning opened the game for the Red Sox. Werden and Robinson matched two timely home runs, including a second shot in the fifth, while Stricker and McMahon starred in defense and mound work for Boston.
Howe dominated with fourteen strikeouts, allowing three hits and no walks as Harvard blanked Dartmouth. Upton backed him with an errorless catching performance while Soule and A L S filled in for injured players. Abbott led Dartmouth with a three-base hit and Baehr’s sacrifice, but Harvard’s defense and Howe’s pitching sealed the win.
A Somerville meeting at Independence Hall discusses the upcoming fiftieth anniversary in March. Despite over 100 invitations, only about fifteen officials attended. Charles S Lincoln presided with George L Baxter as secretary. A grand public meeting is set for May 20 at Bow Sweet Hall to promote a proper celebration.
Fragmentary OCR lists multiple mining claims and numeric grades such as Best & Belcher Ophir Lee Bodie Con Chollar Crown Point Eureka Con Utah Gould & Curry Hale & Norcross and varied closing dates. The text resembles a historical mine stock or property table with inconsistent spellings and partial numbers.
The Shooting Club held its regular semi weekly meeting yesterday with Match A led by Mackay and Brice scoring high. In Match C prize winners barred Everett and Howard tied at seven with Brice winning option. Kent and White followed. Match B saw Gould and Mackay both post seven and six respectively with Pike achieving six.
The Abraham Lincoln Post G A R Charlestown celebrated its twenty fourth anniversary with a banquet at the Quincy House. Guests included Mayor Matthews Senior Vice Commander Innis First Department Commander Churchill and other dignitaries. The after dinner program featured music songs and humorous declamation. Also noted were social gatherings at the Chelsea Cycle Club United States Hotel and various hotels with many notable arrivals listed.
A biographical overview of Dorothea Dix, detailing her Civil War hospital leadership, long campaign for humane treatment of the insane, and transatlantic reform work. The review highlights her early poverty, bold investigations, legislative lobbying, and enduring dedication to asylum care across the United States and Europe. It notes the author Francis Suo Houghton’s restrained, admiring portrait in Life of Dorothea Lynne Dix.
A scholarly review of a volume exploring Judaism and Christianity through evolution, higher criticism, and rationalism. It outlines the book’s structure from Old Testament literature to ethics and eschatology, praising its fearless scholarship, balanced stance, and aim to reinterpret supernatural claims while affirming divine origins.
The essay reviews Olive Schreiner Dream s and its allegory about women s liberation, noting the difficulty of domestication of allegory in English literature. It discusses Bunyan biblical allegory, Spenser s The Faerie Queene, and Schreiner s aim as a free, ennobling portrayal of women.
The Philadelphia Record recounts Senator Quay pressuring President Harrison over appointments. Harrison responds that God Almighty made him President, prompting Quay to retreat. On the way, he chats with Ingersoll who quips about God being guilty of nothing so bad.
A man’s body was found in a field near the reservoir in Beverly. He appeared to have been dead about forty eight hours. A silver watch, two whiskey bottles, and a partially obscured card with the name Ropes and Somerville address were on the body. An autopsy will be held.
At a Society of Arts gathering last evening at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Leonard Waldo of the Aluminum Brass and Bronze Company Bridgeport Connecticut presented a paper on Aluminum and its Bronze. He showcased numerous samples demonstrating the excellent results produced by the process.
A promotional piece extols Carlsbad Sprudel Salt as a gentle powerful purgative that purifies blood, renews life, and clears the complexion. It warns against inferior laxatives, urges buying only the genuine imported product with Hisner & Mendelson Co. New York signature, via drug stores.
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