Amusements This Evening In Boston Theatres
The Boston theatres list tonight features The Soudan at The Boston Theatre on Washington street at 7 45, Rosedale and Superba at Boston Museum and Goose Turarege on Washington street, A Bunch of Keys at Grand Opera House, Mrs Leslie Carter in The Ugly Duckling at Hollis Street Theatre, Tyde's Star Specialty Company at Howard Athenaeum, The Clemenceau Case at Park Theatre, and Stuart Jobson in The Henrietta at Tremont Theatre.
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Boston Theatre
Washington Street
the Soudan
Boston Museum
Tremont Street
Scollay Square
Rosedale
Superba
Tyde
Park Theatre
Clemenceau Case
Tremont Theatre
Stuart Jobson
The
Miller for Supreme Court Seat? Washington Rumors Grow
Washington dispatches on December 18, 1890 discuss whether Attorney-General Miller will be nominated to the Supreme bench. Reported views say the President hopes to grant his former law partner a life tenure, though potential opposition looms. Miller, a little-known lawyer, is seen as a favored yet debated choice amid political rumors.
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Miller
Supreme Bench
Washington
Separate City Elections Push by New York Reform Club
The City Reform Club of New York seeks a state bill for separate municipal elections. It argues non partisan local contests suffer when state and federal issues mingle in city races. The club has asked legislators whether they'd support such a measure, but early replies show uncertainty about passage.
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City Reform Club of
New York
New York City
Reform Club
French procedure on trial of Bom pard for notary murder
The article discusses Eyraup and Gabrielle Bom pard on trial for murdering notary Gourrre. It notes the president's direct questioning, dialogue with defendants, and critical view of French practice as contrasted with English law, questioning fairness and national character.
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Eyraup
Gabrielle Bompard
Notary Gourrre
Eyroup
Gaprielle
America
France
Germany Ed Reform Moves From Autocrat’s Theme
Authorities in Germany respond to the emperor’s schooling remarks by introducing reforms. Latin instruction declines in some grades, modern languages gain emphasis, and another class shortens its course. An inquiry checks if gymnasia home study time cuts into exercise and recreation.
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Germany
Emperor's half holiday pleases Berlin students now
In the French Gymnasium in Berlin under the Emperor's patronage a half holiday is granted on Monday so students can devote the afternoon to athletic exercises. The change increases the Emperor's popularity among students and the public who see it as proof of his interest in everyday life.
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Berlin
Signor Saucer
Corot
Graduate School
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
J. M. Peirce
Frederic D. Allen
Harvard
William G. Farlow
William James
Charles Loring Jackson
Edward L. Mark
Cambridge
Edward S. Sheldon
D. G. Lyon
Channing
Taussig
Oxford
Yale
Princeton
Starving Dakota Indians Bill Urgently Pushed in House
Relates to relief for starving Sisseton Reservation Indians in South Dakota. Advocates led by Herpert Wrisn urge prompt action to aid a peaceful farming people facing hunger and cold with imminent starvation. The bill, already passed by the Senate, seeks compensation for land losses from government missteps in distinguishing them from hostiles. Public sentiment is urged to ensure humane treatment.
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House
Sisseton
South Dakota
Herpert Wrisn
Indian Committee
Senate
Ireland's Ballinakill and Castle Comer riot contrasted
An irish political clash features Mr Davitt hatless and scarred pushing toward Parnell s wagon while Parnell speaks from a hotel balcony Bandaged eyes and cheering crowds frame a campaign defined by passion not reason The piece likens the scene to historic riots and notes the mob nature of the campaign with insults blows and a cowardly assault on Parnell
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Ireland
Lung
Janataria
Gerolstein
Ballinakill
Castle Comer
Mr. Davitt
Mr. Parnell
Parnell
Sassenach
Ballinahill
Davidt
Kilkenny
Donnybrook Fair
Depositing a Boss in New York Politics
A Windsor Hotel conference of New York Republicans aimed to broaden the party, with Warner Miller as a leading voice. The talk focused on purging bossism while denying individual targets, yet hints of patronage and PLATT influence sparked skepticism about practical reform and who would implement it.
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New York
Windsor Hotel
New York City
Warner Miller
Minler
Ler
Milner
Miller
J. J. Belden
Hamilton Fish
Platyr
Questioning Mr Parnell founded what and foretaste of Dublin Parliament scenes
The text asks which Mr Parnell founded and wonders if the described events foreshadow the Dublin Parliament era. It argues that Irish leaders harming their cause cannot complain at such scrutiny, noting Ballinakill and Castle Comer as potent arguments for opponents.
Progress in Process Pictures at Bromfield Street Gallery
An open exhibition at the Camera Club gallery on Bromfield Street showcases process pictures, blending mechanical replication with photographic basis. The collection highlights vast progress from early heliotypes to modern dry plate work, with some colored examples, while colors remain undeveloped in traditional photography.
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Camera Club
Bromfield Street
Church Leaders Decide Not to Employ in Poughkeepsie
Those who control the affairs of the Methodist Church in Poughkeepsie have decided that it is not the proper thing to employ.
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Methodist Church
Poughkeepsie
Women keep their place at church while others pay
A Poughkeepsie church rejects compensating a woman as organist, urging the women to withdraw if they demand pay. The piece also notes Signor Saucer’s fasting episode with weight loss and a Paris murder trial reference, then recalls a New York bunco steerer’s confession about a fake silver mine.
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Poughkeepsie
Boston Pickpockets and the Allure of Crime in Everyday Life
In Boston during the holiday bustle, professional pickpockets profit from crowded shops and from women who carry purses openly. The piece notes public fascination with criminals and prison craft, cites George Bidwell and a wooden box made in prison, and muses on using criminal skill in respectable work. It ends with reflections on language, a tailor anecdote, and a philosopher’s aside from Tavern er.
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Boston
George Bidwell
Bank of England
Isaac Sawtell
Washington Street
Reflections of David Macron and Son on the Tonnage Bill
Protection advocates claim duties on imports are paid by sellers. Yet the speaker argues the burden will fall on you and me, questioning who will bear the cost of the infant shipper's bill and who pays the price.
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David Macron & Son
Wedding Unites Miss Bessie G Nickerson and John H Beavan
A wedding held at No 26 Pearl Street Lynn at 3 PM joined Miss Bessie G Nickerson of Lynn with Mr John H Beavan of Clinton. Rev Henry Hinckley officiated in front of relatives and friends. Bride wore white silk, bridesmaid blue. Reception followed. couple to Maine for several weeks.
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Lynn
Pearl Street
Bessie G. Nickerson
John H. Beavan
Clinton
Henry Hinckley
East Baptist Church
Leonora Perry
Boston
W. J. McCarthy
Harvard Catalogue Records New Arts and Sciences Faculty
Harvard unveils a revised Faculty of Arts and Sciences with the disappearance of the old College Faculty and a shift of the Lawrence Scientific School and Graduate School under its jurisdiction. The Graduate School gains a dedicated Board and a strong faculty, while courses across departments expand with many seminars and conferences, signaling renewed growth and potential endowments.
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Weares
Bussey Institute
Harvard
Faculty OF Arts and Sciences
Lawrence Scientific School
Graduate School
Graduate Department
College
Scientific School
Graduate School Board
Scientific School Board
Harvard College Opens New Prizes and Awakens to Graduate Strength
The faculty at Harvard signals a shift toward graduate education, noting more graduates than freshmen at Cambridge. Yale style counts show 497 freshmen versus 125 graduates, yet graduates come from top universities and hold strong degrees. New prizes include $250 for best modern literature thesis, two for Semitic languages, two for social science essays, and the Gambrill scholarship with $400 income. The senior class includes thirty-one transfer students from other reputable colleges, underscoring the value of advanced degrees.
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Child
Bowen
Dunbar
Cambridge
Norton
Paine
Evan
Yale
New Gambrill
Harvard
University of Alabama
Harvard Overseers Convene Reappointments and Appointments
A Harvard board meeting at 50 State Street approved reappointments for 1890 91 across botany entomology French and more. It named professors instructors and lecturers, formed committees on athletic sports library observatory and various visiting duties, and set faculty appointments for the coming year.
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Board of Overseers
Harvard
State Street
Solomon Lincoln
Esa
Nathaniel Thayer Kidder
Albert Henry ‘Tuttle
Stanislas Danion
Henry W.torrey
Francis J. Child
Charles Eliot Norton
Charles F. Dunbar
Crawford Heh. Toy
George L. Goodale
Harvard College
Lawrence Scientific School
J.K. Morse
G. B. Shattuck
Francis Rawle
George O. Shattuck
William
Samuel Hoar
Edmund Wetmore
HE. Sprague
Charles Francis Adas
Henry W. Putnam
John T. Morse, Jr
Hi Ory W. Torrey
John O. Sargent
James Russel Lowell
Robert M. Morse
Divinity School
Andrew P. Peabody
Ebenezer Rk. Hoar
Francis B. Uornbrooke
Alexander McKenzie
Charles F. Dole
George S. Hale
Law School
Kr. M. Morse, Jr
Charles C. Beamen
James C. Carter
Louis D. Brandeis
Joseph B. Warner
Francis C. Lowell
Henry H. Sprague
George B. Shattuck
Richard M. Hedges
Merrill M. Wyman
Algernon Coolidge
Johns. Billings
William 3. Bigelow
George Vonl. Meyer
George G. Crocker
R. M. Hedges
Theodore A. Dodee
A. 8. Big
William Gray
Louis Cabot
Francis L. Higginson
Peabody Museum
Augustus Hemenway
Francis M. Weld
Charles ?. Kowditch
Henry W
Laynes
Jesse W. Fewkes
T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr
Arnold Arboretum
T. S. Livermore
Stephen M. Weld
Walter Hunnewell
Francis Parkman
Willis James
G. W
Nathaniel Thayer
Edward D. Pearce
Alexander Cochrane
Samuel Cabot
Robert Bacon
Charles F. Adams
George W. Weld
R. F. Clark
Edwin Farnham
Maurice H. Richardson
William Hooper
University
Roger Wolcott
Frank Johnson
Leverett Saltonstall
Arthur T. Lyman
Francis W. Hunnewell
William i. Fish
T. Jefferson Coolidge
Charles H. Parker
George K. Chase
Israel M._ Spelman
Jacob C. Rogers
John L. Gardner
Robert Boon
Edwin P. Seaver
Moorfield Storey
Gardiner M. Lane
Jacob H. Schiff
Stephen Salisbury
Prentiss Cummings
James Russell Lowell
Samuel Eliot
Horace E. Scudder
C. F. Adams
E. L. Godkin
Josiah Quincy
Carl Schurz
J. Elliot Cabot
Charles FE. Grinnell
Horatio_G. Curtis
H. Bancroft
John T. Coolidge, Jr
Charles J. Grandgent
William D. Howells
Theodore C. Pease
George LB. Shattuck
Joseph R. Coolidge
Francis B. Gummere
H.R. Lang
John Fiske
George B. Dorr
Edward H. Ammidown
Henry W. Torrey
Edward J. Lowell
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Jonn Lisks
Arthur Foote
Pena
Mathematics
George V. Leverett
Charles P. Bowditch
Bettany
F. H. Peabody
Walter Deane
Oron Oe
O. Whitman
A. S. Packard
Alpheus Hyatt
Grotacy
John Simpkins
Charles Fairchild
Charles Dudley Lamson
Fire scare at Shepard & Co. dry goods store causes stampede
Providence dispatch reports a false alarm at Shepard and Co. dry goods store this morning. A cry of fire sparked by a cloud of escaping steam set the crowded shop into a chaotic rush to the street. Women trampled others in the panic. several were injured but none seriously.
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Providence
Seecran
Shepard & Co
Whimsical Snippets and Oddities From New York
A collection of quips and anecdotes from periodical columns. Jests about Dickens, Howells, and Bla, plus tales of Gyldenestejerne lineage, poet habits, and Edouard de Lafayette. A note on the New York Stock Exchange on sheepskin, Leighton’s statue, and Jay Gould’s pun about Daniel Drew. An eccentric Bay Ridge estate of Colonel Albert L. Johnson offers sea views and a powerful telescope to watch ships.
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Shakspere
Haggard
East 942d Street
New York Stock Exchange
Edouard de Lafayette
Sir Frederick
London
Jay Gould
Daniel Drew
Drew
New York State
Albert L. Johnson
Atlantic
Bay Ridge
New York Harbor
Notable Figures in 19th Century Science and Society
King Humbert of Italy, 42, bears a melancholy visage and loyalty to his son. Senator Jones builds a Santa Monica villa with ornamental garden and a 0,000 acre ranch nearby. Alfred Russell Wallace receives the Darwin medal for origin of species theory. Copley medal goes to Simon Newcomb for gravitational astronomy, while Hertz earns the Rumford medal for work in electromagnetic radiation.
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Senator Jones
Santa Monica
Cal
Alfred Russell Wallace
Darwin
Royal Society
Copley
Professo Simon Newcomb
Rumfor
Heinrich Hertz
Obituary notices of prominent Salem figures and others
Obituary notices report A E B Gorea veteran mercantile figure and U S vice consul at Zanzibar dying in Salem from African fever aged 62. Also noted are the deaths of Samuel G Rea of Salem aged 79, and Jonathan H Orne of Marblehead aged 66 with career details. Navy Constructor Richard Gatewood cited as died in Bloomingdale Asylum and Colonel Glover Perin US Army died at St Paul after 40 years service. French painter Louis Eugene Charpentier also reported dead.
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A. E. B. Gorea
Ropes & Co
Boston
United States
Zanzibar
Salem
Samuel G. Rea
Charles 8. Rea
Asiatic National Bank
Jonathan H. Orne
Marblehead
Ivyon
Abbott Hall
Navy Department
Richard Gatewood
Bloomingdale Asylum
Glover Perin
U.s.a
St. Paul
Louis Eugene Charpentier
Tonight's Harvard concert at Sanders Theatre program listed
The Sanders Theatre concert features Pierian Sodality, Mulligan Musketeers, Lansing Banjo Club, Marta Mandolin Club and others with a two part program of overtures, glees, dances, and solo numbers including selections from Faust and various waltzes and dances.
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Sanders ‘Theatre
Glees
Benedict
Osgood College
Heinz von Stein
Seeeese
Eceessee
Mulligan Musketeers
W. Atkinson
Glee Club
Rcrcecceceerversees
Baker
Ride of the South
Lansing Banjo Club
Faust
Vierian Sodality
L. S. Thompson
Lamothe College
E. H. Abbott
S. E. Farwell
R. W. Atkinson Glee Club
Loin du Bal
Gilbert
Navy and Army Gazette—Naval Orders Dec 17
Washington December 17 naval orders assign Ensign H P Jones to duty at the Naval Observatory on January 3. Ensign William Lruxton is detached from the torpedo boat Cushing and granted one month sick leave. Assistant Engineer William W Bush detached from San Francisco duties and ordered to duty aboard that vessel. Carpenter R C Burroughs detached from Delaware River Iron Works and ordered to duty at Samuel L Moore & Sons works in Elizabethport New Jersey.
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Boston Post
Hoston. Post
Justice
Emperor William
Exmorr F. Seerarp
Paris
Jlamet
Jamlet
Taverner
Beavan
Nickerson
Humbert
Italy
Pierian Sodality
Suppé
Army and Navy Gazette
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