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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1887
Page
4
The notice lists daily and weekly subscription rates for Milk near Washington Street. Daily rates include one year for 9 pounds, six months 4.50, three months 2.25, and one month 0.50. Weekly Friday issues are 1.50 per year. Payment should be to the Post Publishing Company and mailed at the senior’s risk.
The Boston Daily Globe notes the Volunteer’s victory in the Providence cup confirms her superiority among American yachts and cements the Thistle as the fastest British yacht. It argues data is scarce for direct comparisons with Puritan Genesia and Irex, but the Volunteer stands as America’s best.
The New York Anti-Saloon Republican League issues an address urging Prohibitionists to back the Republican ticket, claiming the anti-saloon movement is not a political trick while accusing Prohibition leaders of aiming to destroy the GOP. Senator Davis and allies did not attach an affidavit to the manifesto.
Opinion splits over Socialists seeking to enter Henry George's Syracuse gathering. Critics argue Grover opposes the alliance though both share land reform aims. At Chicago, Knights of Labor clash over Socialist delegates to Minneapolis. Pow ererty allies aim to block them, despite shared theories.
Admiral Daniel Ammen writes to the New York Times on the Nicaragua Canal project, arguing that excavation losses from landslides and wash-in double the work yet to be done. He warns that future cuts will suffer greater deterioration, especially in the Culebra, and that progress is far short of depth required. He says reorganizing the company cannot fix the fundamental issues.
A fragment from the FRANKLIN letter shown by the Adver tiser on Friday is identified as having appeared at least thirty five years earlier. The Mon. Ropert O. Winruror is quoted the sub.
In an 1882 Taunton Bristol County Agricultural Society address the speaker cites a London letter from 1771 to Humphrey Morshall as containing timeless practical wisdom for American farmers. He urges printing the Franx Kirn letter in legible type and hanging it in every farmer’s house. The address appears in Mr. Winters’ second volume.
The Post reports a proposed inquiry into Republican-held federal offices was rejected, but the article says the resolution passed and a committee was appointed. It criticizes the state body for overstepping and urges full endorsement of President Cleveland and civil service reform as stated in the party platform. The convention soon meets and may resolve the dispute.
Queen Victoria personally ordered a seven day reprieve for Lip ski a young Jew sentenced to death for murder amid controversy over home secretary Mathews and press hostility. The move challenges modern English executive norms and may threaten Mathews position while reshaping ministry dynamics.
The sturdy home secretary Sir Georce Grey pledged to resign if interference occurred, signaling a possible ministerial walkout. The Queen, though thought to sympathize with the petition, did not intervene, suggesting the government might stay united.
Prince Ferdinand ascends in Tirnova and gains recognition from England Austria and Italy closing the Bulgarian crisis. The new sovereign shows coolness and courage amid threats of invasion revolution or deportation while Russia weighs its hand in Berlin era tensions.
The piece argues Massachusetts should not tax property outside the state, including stocks and bonds, as it would unfairly burden residents and weaken municipal securities. It traces debates from 1876 and 1881 on exemptions for property and mortgage loans, calling for reform toward limiting taxation of out of state possessions.
Mrs Castrena Ano’s extended stay in Marion sparks unusual newspaper enterprise. The piece compares Marion’s attention to the president’s wedding journey last year and notes the rise of “special correspondents” in town.
A speechful ramble questions journalistic truth and social life with playful notes on Marion society. It cites a Marion letter from a local writer and mocks fashionable living while recounting a fragment of Edmund Randolph’s unpublished draft of the National Constitution found with George Mason papers.
European papers report the confiscation of a few copies of the New York Herald in Paris. The action stems from the Herald printing a popular Parisian ditty with both music and words. The author and composer objected, invoking the 1793 law to seize the copies.
A Boston observer catalogs a comic cuff washing by a man using celluloid cuffs and criticizes obsessive piano practice for girls while praising Ruskin's view that girls should develop in their own way. He contemplates literary trust and residency conditions, then laments a police recruit’s clash with a disruptive dame.
Edward H. House will publish a story of Japanese life titled The Sacred Flame of Torin Ji in the September issue of Scribner's. The London Academy notes two American girls from New Bedford Mass Miss Gertrude Baxter and Miss Hussey who have compiled an index to seventy eight volumes of the Early English Text Society. They offer to complete the remaining fifty volumes if the society prints their index. The index would then include books of 1888 and cover the society's first twenty five years. The September Scribner's will include an article on the centennial of the Federal constitution.
Last evening the Globe Theatre launched the season with the McNish Johnson and Slavin minstrels. The act featured a new White House Lawn Serenade with a military band, followed by traditional minstrels, exciting specialty numbers, and a burlesque of Erminie. An enormous, enthusiastic audience filled the house with applause and floral tributes.
The Boston Theatre opened last evening with Barry and Fay in Irish Aristocracy. The house refreshed for the season with bright colors and gilded balconies. A large audience enjoyed the familiar comedy as Fay and Barry performed well with strong support from Nettie Lyford and Louise Montrose. The play runs all week.
Sweatnam Billy Rice and Barney Fagan's minstrels performed at the Museum last evening before a large crowd. The show featured a first part of songs and jokes, an original sketch titled Oratory, and special numbers including The Wedding Bells and Massoupias. Nel Sonia the Fiji prince wowed with feats while J W McAndrews the watermelon man provided humor. America and France with Apollo Belvideres and the Liberty tableau highlighted the finale. The engagement runs for one week only.
The London World reports on Rev Dr Meredith and other travelers from Brooklyn and Boston leaving for home or Europe. It notes Captain George H. Campbell and Col Thomas E. Rose abroad, Ruscoe Conkling’s swimming talent, and M. L. Holbrook displaying Burlingame portraits. It mentions Mrs Langtry’s surf bathing and recalls actress Miss Heath and the Kean era at the Princess's Theatre.
From the Cologne Gazette. A new microbe feeds on iron, called rail vorous. A commission found rails corroded by a gray worm two centimeters long with corrosive glands. It devoured thirty six piogrammes of rail in a fortnight, prompting a government inquiry.
An obituary/tribute chronicles General William Raymond Lee born in Marblehead as a West Point graduate and Civil War veteran. He led the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteers, endured Libby Prison, and afterward built a major railroad station, now aged eighty one in West Roxbury with his Lee family heritage celebrated in portraits.
Current comment notes Boston showing restiveness and mild shame at its harsh punishment of pugilism after officials praised Sullivan. The piece frames the city’s inquiry into honesty of officials who fawn on pugilists and seek to suppress boxing.
A Washington Post editorial asserts that education should move beyond medieval methods toward fostering self-help and usefulness in youth, arguing that educated individuals are sidelined when their utility is limited.
The Philadelphia Record extols thrift and prudent living as means to boost individual income and strengthen communities. It argues careful husbanding of resources, avoiding ostentation, and vigilant use of lawful income strategies improve self-sufficiency and help solve social issues.
The Dublin lord mayor contends a guest from Maine cannot be induced to give a public speech. The Maine visitor has a ready margin of previous engagements to avoid perilous situations. The Chicago Herald notes the loyalty to the Old Sod may be claimed by implication without risk of Cork interference.
The piece argues that most laborers in the country earn above bare living costs and enjoy some comfort. It notes many workers save and become capitalists, own homes, or employ others, challenging the view of universal poverty. The perspective reflects a reform-era stance on labor mobility and wealth accumulation.
The piece argues wrongs remain unaddressed by parties and monopolies and corrupt rings prosper. It notes high war taxes, plunder and plutocracy tightening grip, while small bosses replace leaders and labor seeks change. The question is why workers organize amid party struggle.
A miscellany of items including travel distance claims, a Bulgarian throne heir’s life insurance, legal delays in Jacob Sharp’s case, yacht design calls, a jab at Buffalo Bill Cody’s Nebraska seat, Rev Phillips Brooks on right conduct, haunted house tales in Lincoln, burglars stealing odd trophies, Holiness meeting debates on tobacco, remarkable elderly individuals, lemon price boom, and light literary quips from multiple papers.
The London Saturday Review reports plans to largely demolish and rebuild the parish church at Hucknall Torkard, erasing Byron’s memorials including the family vault slab. The restoration committee seeks to lengthen the church, add transepts and a clerestory, risking the loss of historic features. Parishioners face an offer of £1000 to build a new church or expand the chapel, which they rejected in favor of preserving the existing structure and Byron memorials.
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