Pensions, tariffs, and farm decline in 1890 Boston scene
The Boston Post laments pension agent abuse in Grand Army ranks and critiques tariff politics led by Senator Plump, while citing Lead Trust exaggerations and a Newark overhead rail franchise. It contrasts Boston street rights with Orange New Jersey practices, notes declining English arable land, and lists census-driven farm town population drops since 1740.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Journal
England
Massachusetts
Ashfield
Colerain
Blandford
Granville
Conway
Alford
Peru
Chesterfield
Greenwich
The
Springfield Republican
Bel Air Woollen Mills Suspension Highlights Protection Debate
Berkshire industry faces six year strain as Bel Air Woollen Mills pause, 200 workers likely to lose jobs. Pittsfield Republican note questions protection era benefits, citing stalled water powers and idle looms while Bel Air falls $48,000 behind and threatens closure. Debate intensifies over McKinney bill protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bel Air Woollen Mills
Berkshire County
Pittsfield
Springfield Republican
Bel Air
Comm Bus Delano
McKinney
Letter of Morris L. Hallowell on freedom and boycott
The column reproduces an 1856 letter by Morris L. Hallowell read at Faneuil Hall, praised as a bold defense of conscience against coercion of Northern merchants by Southern customers. It notes its historic anti slavery context while warning against applying it to current events and citing an Atlanta Constitution boycott suggestion as ill conceived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris L. Hallowell
Witten
Faneuil Hall
N. P. Hallowell
Massachusetts
Atlanta Constitution
Big Trees in Danger Under Lumber Speculation Threat
In Tulare County California complaints warn that the famous Sequoia and pine groves are being destroyed by speculators. Vast tracts, including the Redwood Canon and Mineral King areas, have been cleared or are under private ownership, risking permanent public use. A Visalia letter to Secretary Nonot highlights how timber riches tempt exploitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Tulare County
United States
Visalia
Nonit
Redwood Canon
Michigan
Mineral King
Dillon’s Mill
Frazier Mill
North
Middle Tule
Forests, speculators, and calls for federal action
A plea for urgent Interior Department attention to California timber misuse details 2000000 feet plus in various tracts Pascapen Freeman Valley Kessing Parker meadow and ownership by millmen speculators Michigan syndicate and a questioned 1885 township restoration. Calls for government intervention to protect forests and clarify survey actions and Nose policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pascapen Mill
Freeman Valley
Kessing
Parker Meadow
Michigan
Secretary of the Interior
Tulare County
Sparks
Washington
Nose
United States
Emperor William's Projects and Balkan Intrigue
The German Emperor's foreign visits carry political weight amid rising Balkan tensions. Russia gains leverage as Turkey's weakness and Armenian troubles deepen, while William II seeks a Bulgaria ruler to calm Sofia. Two candidates, Oscar of Sweden and Walpoleman of Denmark, clash with Greek opposition and Czarsm influence, complicating peace prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willem II
Belgium
England
East
Turkey
Russia
Macedonia
Thessaly
Asia Minor
Constantinople
Europe
Balkans
William II
Ferdinand of
Bulgaria
Brussels
Osborne
Sofia
Prince Oscar
Sweden
WalpemMan
Denmark
William
Oscar
Balkan
Fiipiiano
Massachusetts Preservation Push Forms Trustees Board
The movement to preserve Massachusetts beauty and history has progressed toward creating a governing board of trustees. This body would hold property and oversee the preservation effort as the initiative moves from concept to organized action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Create Public Support For Preserving Massachusetts Outdoor Beauty
An advisory and public use plan proposes organized citizen-backed bodies to protect open spaces and natural beauty in Massachusetts. It urges local action this summer to ensure health, beauty, and outdoor life, with gifts and broad public interest to strengthen the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trustees
Massachusetts
Fifty Immortals and English American Novelists
A critique of Mr Besant's claim that over fifty novelists earn more than 5000 yearly from fiction and magazines. The piece notes most rely on serial publication and newspaper writing, with English authors protected from pirated reprints, while many listed writers supplement income elsewhere. It highlights Mrs Henry Wood's East Lynne sales and Thackeray’s stature as examples, but argues most of the so called immortals do not live on fiction alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waurer Besant
Gesanv
England
America
Mr. James
Mr. Cawroran
Mr. Besant
Sesant
Henry Woop
East Lynne
ThotLorm
Boston Streets Show New Buildings Match Tremont Style
In Tremont street opposite the Common new high class retail structures suit the street. Ames building on Washington and Court streets dominates with towerlike arches, while side walls on adjacent blocks appear unfinished. Open street cars provoke warnings as passengers ride outside and crowding calls for city action. A club talk contrasts North Shore summers with Gulf Stream baths and arctic evenings, ending with a heated joke about summer resorts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremont Street
Sayles
Ames
Washington and
Court Streets
Boston
State Street
Hoa
Plans of the Laborers and Union Activities Across Regions
The Amalgamated Society of Engineers reports 64,000 members with $15 per member capital and branches in Britain, France, the East Indies and Australia. In the U S there are forty branches with fifteen more applications. Members vote to parade with the Central Labor Union on Labor Day as various locals report strikes, meetings, and boycotts affecting cloakmakers carpenters sailors and textile workers in cities including Fitchburg Boston Wells Memorial Halls and Palmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amalgamated Society of Engineers
Blatchford Hall
W. E. Gladstone
House of Commons
Great Britain
France
East Indies
Australia
United States
Frank K. Foster
Fitchburg
Central Labor Union
W. E. Bell
J. Kemp
G. W. Campbell
J. Ek. Nolan
Building Trades Council
Pythian Hall
Boston
State Board of Arbitration
Carpenters’ District Council
Brookline
Atus
J. G. Waterhouse
J. D. Cowper
H. Lloyd
Sailors and Firemen’s Union
Commercial Street
Park
Chickering Hill
Lodge
Steam Railroad
Elm Street
Knights of Labor
Morocco
Lynn
Despising Magazine Work and Society Gossip
A compact critique notes that magazine and newspaper work earns little respect even for brilliant minds amid harsh conditions. It cites rumors of legal moves to stop using electricity for execution, an impoverished actor, the London season ending, and rising English socialism as telling contrasts in culture and society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelmier
Auburn
N. Y
London
Cable
England
General William Denison Whipple Retires From Army
General Whipple, aged 64, ends a forty year military career after being placed on the retired list. Born in Nelson, New York, he joined the Army in 1847, fought in the Gila and Navajo campaigns, defended Fort Defiance, and served as chief of staff in the Chattanooga to Nashville campaigns. He received brevets for gallantry in 1865 and rose to colonel before his retirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.Y
William Denison Whipple
United States Army
Whipple
Nelson
Madison County
N. Y
Gila
Fort Defiance
New Mexico
Adjutanteneral
Middle Department
Eighth Army Corps
Cadwalader
George H. Thoman
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Missionary Ridge
Resaca
Kenesaw Mountain
Nashville
Department of the Cumberland
Bethany Town Votes Questioned in New York Primary
A Times Independent and Commercial Advertiser excerpt notes irregularities in a Republican congressional primary in Bethany New York with one vote per person on clerk books. It argues lawmakers may introduce bills, but bad bills should be defeated and urges veto power by the President rather than anticipatory measures by the Speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bethany
N. Y.times
Ind
Mr. Reed
Congress
United States
N. Y
Senator Plumb Attacks Tariff Theory in Western Focus
Senator Plumb’s blunt critique of high protectionists and the McKinley bill signals possible shifts in Western GOP opinion. The Providence Journal notes his stance may influence constituents and suggests other Western lawmakers should brace for a broader tariff backlash and narrowed markets.
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Plumb
Providence Journal
Steamboat Golden Rule Seized Over Libel for Damages
United States Court seized the steamboat Golden Rule and its captain J D Hegier on a libel claim for 17351 dollars filed by Henry T Bennett of Providence R I. The suit concerns cotton shipped from Rosedale Mississippi to Jewett City Connecticut in January and never delivered after transfer to rail at Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincrynall, O
Golden Rule
United States Court
J.D. Hegier
Henry T. Bennett
Providence
R. L
Rosedale
Miss
Jewett City
Conn
Cincinnati
Curious miscellany from a historic Philadelphia Times page
A blend of breezy notes and quotes on travel, theatre, and culture. It mentions a Paris Louvre sword once owned by Italian nobility, Gladstone's Sunday travel rule causing a Windsor quirk, a Greenville man saved by suspenders, and Savannah receiving an old state Bible brought to Atlanta after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Collier
Huxley
Louvre Museum
Paris
Hercules de Pesaro
House of Este
Francisco de Gonzaga
Charles VIII
Mr. Gladstone
Manchester Guardian
Windsor
S. Schmidt
Greenvile
Schmidt
St. Paul’s Parochial School
Executive Department
Savannah
Atlanta
Macon
Milledgeville
Gordon
T. N.theus
Sherman
State House
Notable Society and Political Notices From Anglo American Circles
A digest of society and political mentions lists Chauncey M Dephew and family leaving London for Paris, Count Arco in Bethlehem with Baron Ekardstein, and other international figures. Includes remarks on Frank relations of Senator Plumb, Duke and Duchess of Connaught, and various travels to New York and London. Also notes on actors and artists, and a letter to the editor about Beverly Farms division controversy and town finance practices in Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey M. Dephew
London
Paris
Plumb
Kansas
Marchioness of
Londonderry
America
Count Arco
United States
Baron Ekardstein
Bethlehem
N. H
Count de la Miranda
Christine Nilsson
Connaught
Scotch Highlands
India
Chauncey M. Depew
Hamburg
New York
Edward Remenyi
Beverly
Beverly Farms
Massachusetts
Digistonist
In burying Helen a sweet thought of peace to mourners
An obituary styled couplet notes that in burying Helen there is release from strife and peaceful interest paid by earth. The verse attributes solace to mourners and credits life’s business with a quiet return, signed T. W. Parsons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McPherson
Mr. McPherson
Helen
Earth
T. W. Parsons
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washington Street
Boston Post
Grand Army of the Republic
National Tribune of Washington
National Tribune
Pension Office
House
Grand Army
Prom
Senate
Prump
Pius
Plump
Mexico
South
New South
Orange
N. J
Newark
City Council of
Emperor William
Kremont Street
Manchester
Vineyard Sound
North Shore
Gulf Stream
Fan. River
American Federation of Labor
Trades’ Council
Butchers and Grocers’ Association
Fleischmann
Palmer
Massasoit
W.C. Dewey
Chatterton Order
Gen. Whipple
Philadelphia Times
Berlin
Sinclair
Miss Airly
Brown
Rumley
Summer Hotel
Rumiley
Senator Davis
Minnesota
Waukesha
Liverpool
Abram
Hewitt
John McShane
Samuel Winston
Major Trott
Albert Wagstaff
Joseph Chamberlain
Mme
Rose Maury
M, Bburny
Lea Merritt
Helen Bishop
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