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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1889
Page
4
The Boston Post Publishing Company lists subscription rates and payment instructions. It notes a Washington office at Corcoran Building Fifteenth Street and states all money sent at sender risk with checks payable to the Post Publishing Company.
New York electric light companies lose injunction against city interference. Mayor Grant and associates gain free hand as the court rules against the injunction. Notice sent to remove defective wires. removal must begin within two days or the public works department will proceed.
The New York Maritime Register argues against subsidies to build auxiliary cruisers and large fleet subsidies. It says government ocean transport should be done directly if pursued, and warns subsidies attract excess capacity, distort trade, and invite boomerang effects from rival nations. Encouraging for shipowners to reject subsidy schemes.
The district attorney blocked a valid warrant for Colonel W. W. Dupey's arrest claiming not to harass him over alleged political spite. The event echoes past cases where threats of revenge influenced legal steps and judges acted to shield him, now prompting questions about official interference with justice.
The piece argues tariff supporters claim the tariff bears no link to the political shift in the West and that the National Farmers Alliance seeks tariff revision to reduce taxes on productive labor. The evolving stance suggests a shift toward lighter tax impact while addressing broader political currents.
The National Farmers' Alliance, about 2,500,000 voters, pushes tariff reform as a response to burdens on luxuries and protections for essentials. West conventions of agricultural groups demand reduced taxes, signaling broad political pressure. Ohio wool growers seek greater protection, with electoral rebuke weakening their stance.
The piece surveys a forged document aimed at Ohio Governor candidate Campbell and implicates figures from Camp, Breckinridge, Cox, Sherman, McKinley, and Butterworth. It notes Governor Foraker’s failure and suggests the forgery served broader partisan aims, with a House investigation promised to uncover motives.
In examining the new public view, Mr. Cleveland notes a marked change in how people expect government to handle private matters. A strong party and growing consensus emerge around the proper functions of government.
A discussion notes a growing trend of government stepping in to aid private interests through subsidies and protections. It argues this shifts public attitude from limited state power to paternalism and even socialism, warning of threats to republican values and electoral fairness.
Delaware politics face a court fight over a novel method to pay or procure poll taxes for party use. A plan attributed to Senator Higgin(s) would have party chairs authorize payments and receive receipts for voters especially among colored Republicans. The county tax collector refused to issue receipts, and a mandamus suit aims to compel him.
In Boston a forthcoming Autobiography of sculptor Thomas Ball is anticipated. The piece details Ball’s diverse talents in drawing painting sculpture and music and notes his humble self taught background. It highlights his portraits of his mother and Samuel D Parker and posits the book will reveal a candid portrait of a versatile life.
Critics in London praise Tunnyson as indefatigable in old age with a new volume of poems. Lawrence Barrer has ceased all engagements due to serious illness. New York faces a looming influenza wave said to come from Europe, an immigration to be restricted.
The erratic journal The Black Cat will be issued hereafter under new management. It is hoped the publication’s fondness for slang and slangwhanging will lessen under the change.
The departing governor draws criticism as opponents label him Mugwump and free trader. Critics say his looming exit from office emboldens his stance and rhetoric.
The Etruria completed another speedy voyage nearly beating the City of Paris and surpassing herself. The famed Queen of the Ocean remains competitive in the race at sea.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland and Mrs Cleveland left Boston for New York by the Shoreline after a brief visit. A busy day included a Vendome reception with about 600 attendees and a lunch at the Algonquin Club, followed by a send off at Parker House and a final stop in New London before continuing to New York.
Mrs Cleveland spent her final Boston hours quietly with friends. She attended a Symphony rehearsal at Music Hall, sat in the middle row, and appeared pleased with the performance. She later traveled by private car to Providence with ex President Cleveland amid cheers from onlookers.
A Newport winter population forms a ladies social club to provide companionship and mutual social intercourse. The clubrooms on Touro Street near Bellevue Avenue open daily from 2 to 6 pm, with over fifty members already and growing. Managing directors are Mrs. Walter L. Kane, Miss A. W. Stevens, and Mrs. Daniel Fearing.
At the annual meeting of the Civil Service Reform Association in New Haven Conn officers were elected President Johnson L Platt Secretary Ponty W Farnam and Treasurer C S Morehouse The session dealt with routine business.
Reports say the Prince of Wales is gravely ill as Mrs. Booth sinks with cancer in London. Tennyson dedicates his new volume to James Russell Lowell. Strickland may join the Vatican mission. Balfour plans a Ireland visit to study land purchase bills. Adams resumes duties after inspections at several universities. Baron Rothschild escapes serious injury on a broken bridge. Rossetti manuscripts surface and the Austrian Genealogical Pocket Book notes Archduke John’s partial resignation. The London News cites Vienna doubts about the archduke’s position.
Charles Carleton Coffin spoke at the Lowell Institute on the unwritten Confederate history. He described Jones county's secessionist move in Mississippi and a broad, nameless anti Confederate secret network calling itself The Peace Society. He argued that the Constitution endures and that the colored race will eventually gain rights already guaranteed.
Ex President Cleveland spoke plainly at the Boston Merchants Association, urging action on the era's vital matters. His remarks aimed to rally business leaders and emphasize practical solutions.
The Philadelphia Record notes Grover Cleveland spoke plainly to Boston merchants last night urging tariff reform civil service reform and ballot reform with courage and conviction he remains direct in speech and never oversteps proprieties
Former President Cleveland spoke at a Boston Merchants' Association dinner honoring Southern visitors. The address, noted for candor and broad public-minded focus, avoided partisanship while addressing key public questions and welfare concerns.
The piece argues protectionists misread Ohio election returns showing Campbell gaining 4022 in 27 wool counties while Foraker rose 1073. It notes Delano fears free trade fears, as wool prices fall with tariff increases. It cites Lincoln on fooling some people part time.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes Boston’s pre election women registration under 10 000, half of last year. Total city vote exceeds state election by five thousand, with women favoring issues tied to homes and families over abstract general welfare.
Younger Unitarian ministers plan a commemorative service for Rev. Henry W. Foote at King’s Chapel. Parishioners and friends abroad last January are invited to attend on Sunday December 16 at 4 p m with participants including Rev. Theodore C. Williams and others.
The shoemakers of Freeport Maine held a mass meeting Thursday to explain their position in the ongoing strike with A W Shaw & Co. The situation remains unchanged as the firm has submitted a proposition to all who wish to return to work.
A collection of humorous notes and curiosities describing wordplay, a staged wedding anecdote, a camera inventor, reenactments of social banter, a panoramic race track concept, rein deer acclimation, royal medical bills in Portugal, a Boston lecturer query, a French luxury, and the exploits of Mme Victorine the legendary strongwoman in London with a poised, public introduction.
William Winter speaks at the Goethe Society on how fire and vision reveal the soul. He argues that beauty, action, and suffering are signs, yet true life lies in inner substance beyond earthly thrall.
Miss Ida M. Street wins a collegiate fellowship for advanced study abroad. The text notes women's expanding roles in New Orleans and mentions various achievements of women, from education to professions, alongside other remote facts about women in Europe and Asia.
A contract is reported for a 1,000,000 basic steel plant at Middlesboro Ky to employ about 1000 workers. Arrangements are said to include a rod mill sheet raw mill and a nail mill at the same site.
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