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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1888
Page
4
A Boston observer praises street youth enjoying summer in the city, noting barefooted lads splashing at Frog Pond and Public Garden waters and playing with makeshift gear. He critiques urban complacency, laments vandalism risks, jokes about bootblack boycotts, and recalls bed choices in mountain inns as a metaphor for comfort in lodging.
Miss Braddon writes while standing and on torn scraps of paper. Judge Walter C. Dunton accepts a resident professorship at Iowa University Law, moving to Iowa City. Louisiana has five papers edited by women, including New Orleans Picayune under Mrs. E J Nicholson and Assumption Pioneer under Mrs. Susan Dupaty. Mrs. Alice Shaw travels City of Rome bound for New York, planning Europe visit next year. Aleck Nelson travels to write on American theatres. Edison suffers another illness from overwork. Dana Gibson, a 20 year old cartoonist, draws bold Life cartoons. Juliet Carson, invalid at Brooks Farm, Franconia, defies doctors and writes books and cookery for the sick.
A Sandusky dispatch reports Mr. Harrison seeking seclusion on Foster's island for a series of conferences with leading Republicans about his letter of acceptance. He is said to be reading tariff works and will make protection the keynote of his forthcoming message.
The piece laments distractions from the President's message hindering a Senate sub committee tasked with drafting a Republican tariff bill. It notes the arduous yet promising labor, warns against long recesses for investigations, and critiques lack of protest from the Boston Journal as it calls for a quick tariff measure.
HAR vey Fisk & Sons of New York issued a circular urging larger U S govt bond purchases. It cites Treasurer figures showing 732.8 million held, with 182.6 million clear surplus after accounting for certificates and reserve balances. Since April purchases, 33.6 million has been paid from surplus.
A Western State Bowdoin graduate quotes claim that Republican alumni demand President Hiype resign. The Advertiser endorses this, sparking cross party and regional rebuke for partisan bulldozing. The piece analyzes Senate reactions to the President’s message, party presses, and New England fishing and tobacco issues amid a broad political divide.
A bold call to end the brain drain urges decisive action against officials who threaten college presidents speaking for reform. The appeal frames the issue as a clash between educational leadership and punitive penalties, urging support for open debate and institutional change.
Major William M McKinney argued in Atlanta that England’s free trade talk hides a strong protective motive for its manufacturing interests. He cited tobacco duties ranging from 84 to 92 cents per pound on raw tobacco, with higher charges when manufactured, illustrating pervasive protectionism.
English critics weigh the county reform bill as a step toward wider popular government though with objections to licensing clauses. The piece notes Lords' misgivings and Salisbury’s cautious stance, while praising the bill’s democratic tilt amid conservative politics. It also surveys London street posters of disturbing imagery, lamenting taste and declaring England’s evolving ad landscape a mixed lead in poster history.
A Times correspondent cites M Sarcey praising Levine and German opera influence on acting style. He argues French supers lack discipline on stage and urges Paris to establish a formal school and emphasize esprit de corps within theater companies.
The London Daily News argues that murder trials in the United States function as an initial phase for those who can secure case reopenings. It calls delay a disease of the law while noting dangers from technicalities that allow swindlers and wealthy criminals to escape punishment.
The Clara Louise Kellogg English Opera Company plans a major U S and Canada tour next season with seventy five performers plus their own orchestra. It will present fourteen operas including two new works Kellogg secured in Paris and London. Kellogg returns to America mid September and visits Boston in November.
A Cambridgeport letter from Aug 20 1888 asks Mr Taverner to forward a contributed cheque for a charity outing. The writer notes no clear way to donate and asks acknowledgment of receipt sent to Mr Waldron or his successor. The contribution has been forwarded to Mr Waldron.
The ninth biennial Kappa Kappa Gamma convention at the University of Minnesota closes after sessions, receptions, literary exercises, and a grand banquet at the West Hotel. Delegates include Miss Mary Kingsary and Miss Parjesie Farrell among attendees as a large, successful gathering.
A Republican bolter, Colonel Owen Hamilton, resigns his state post after addressing a Harrisburg Democratic Legion meeting to back Cleveland. The piece notes tariff debates, labor protection myths, and reactions from Washington critics and party leaders, citing Quay and Brice amid tariff maneuvering. It includes the Connecticut and New York tariff discourse and Maine fishing views, reflecting national political tensions.
A cable despatch to the New York Times reports Gilbert and Sullivan’s new opera titled The Tower of London. The satire targets antiquities fads and Wildean culture. The production opens Monday Oct 1 with a cast of eleven principals and a chorus of thirty-two men and twenty-four women.
Sylvanus Cobb Jr. famed for The Gun Maker of Moscow, a driving success for the New York Ledger, will appear in Cassell & Company’s Sunshine Library within days. The tale has never before been released in book form.
A collage of 19th century items notes curious fashion in England with long umbrella handles, a New York florists meeting choosing a national flower, praise for American writers by Dom Pedro, the telautograph patent, humorous domestic rescue, concerns over American copyright and Burns statue in Albany, and anecdotes on campaign cards and caricature art during revolutions and wars.
Jacksonville reports fourteen new yellow fever cases for the 24 hours ending at 6 pm. Among patients are Dr. R. H. Stout and Dr. A. J. Wakefield. Two deaths occurred Frank Martini and Mrs. Mary Ford. County health board won't publish patient names. Limes Union plans volunteer reporters to print them. Washington notes a postal clerk ill with yellow fever and Blackshear quarantine. Marcus Edwards schooner arrives with yellow pine but no fever aboard. precautionary quarantine ordered.
At 12 20 O clock a slight fire on 58 Cloverly street caused by brimstone fumigation. Premises occupied by Joan Hawkes and owned by Isaac Wyman. loss about 100 dollars. At 1 O clock this morning a small blaze in a three story Knox block at 107 Munroe street. loss about 150 dollars. Sellers Hoffman mill in Burmont Delaware county burned. loss 200000 dollars, insurance 60000. In Gloucester a house on Grove street owned by Henry P Snow was totally destroyed. insurance 550 dollars.
An alarm at 5,400 o'clock yesterday afternoon from Box 68 signaled a fire in a five story brick building at 62 Wareham Street owned by Cressey & Noyes. A second alarm from Box 249 at 9:44 last night hit a dwelling at 67 Conant Street, caused by a gas jet igniting a curtain. The Ocean House on Lrident Avenue, Ocean Spray run by Mrs G M Snelling, sustained $400 damage. A clothier owned building at 05 Summer Street, Boston, fully insured, suffered minor loss. A small fire in the shaving room at Hezlett's Planing Mill on First Street, East Cambridge, occurred at 2,300 o'clock yesterday morning triggering Box 10.
Fifteen minutes after the Tremont left Port Lamp Boston last night an unknown man about 26 in dark clothes and a derby hat leaped overboard. The steamer stopped and a boat was sent out but the swimmer was not found.
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