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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1886
Page
4
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The Royal Thames Yacht Club suggests an international ocean race next year to celebrate the Queen's jubilee with prizes fitting the occasion. If American yachtsmen win another challenge trophy, it could complicate the season as America's Cup races are planned for September on this side.
The article analyzes the fallout from Lord Randolph Churchill's resignation, noting dismay within the Conservative ranks and a likely realignment with Lord Hartington to Liberal Unionists. It highlights a growing rapprochement with Mr. Chamberlain and hints at potential shifts toward Home Rule and local self government in Ireland.
The commentary notes Mr. Grady’s critique of North Atlantic prejudice and its persistence in Republican rhetoric after the Civil War era. It questions whether Southern readers will see North’s stance as warlike or conciliatory and calls for reassessment of New England sentiment toward the South.
In his Philadelphia circular Powderly explains his NY stump support for George to show labor’s grievance a failure to create a Washington Department of Labor with a secretary advising the president. He will not speak at political meetings while chief of the Knights of Labor, and the grievance lacks tangible form for now.
North Carolina Supreme Court ruling strengthens calls for federal action on rail freight rates. The decision interprets the Vance law prohibiting higher charges for longer routes within the state and extends to freight marked for shipment from outside the state to within.
The State law is unconstitutional as it regulates commerce between States. The code has stood eight years and its operation reportedly harms wholesale trade in large cities.
The article recalls Henry Kingsley’s Geoffrey Hamlyn and its Australia bound characters. It describes a Christmas landscape in a sunbaked plain with a snow fed river cutting a deep glen, timbered ranges, and huts perched at the cape of timber as the narrator journeys into the bush.
The legislature faces a ten day session with Republican promises to push a constitutional liquor prohibition. Rhode Island’s six month test of prohibitory law shows police entangled in politics, aiding liquor interests and undermining reform. A Harper's critic assessment notes Mr. Howells' realism and limits as a critic, urging a broader view of literature beyond novels.
The passage recalls a descriptive journey with a tall blue peak and distant ranges, reflecting on Geoffrey Hamlyn’s autobiographical voice. It contrasts Christmas with cold winds and bleak prospects, noting the Northern climate shapes holiday imagery and the common trope of a coal fire and festive warmth.
The piece argues that critics like Mr Howells are wrongly dismissed as failed minds. It examines Beaconsfield's epigram and contrasts it with Howells's substantial contributions to criticism through his writings across past and present literary discourse.
In a New York dairy commission case the conflict of expert testimony arose over whether butter sold product was oleomargarine. Commission chemists testified it was oleomargarine while defense experts claimed analysis cannot distinguish the two. The jury supported the commissioners, but uncertainty remains without the cow in court.
A workingmen's colonization scheme in Chicago flourishes as buyers expect a rise in city lot values once the colony settles in the Red River valley. Even Henry George supporters show envy at the prospect of captured increments.
Mr. Cleveland recovers from rheumatism as General Logan falls ill with the same ailment and Mr. Blaine returns home with foot pain. Senator Edmunds of Vermont Governor Ifill of New York General Hawley of Connecticut and other candidates are anxious about the malady’s impact on the campaign.
Ridership has risen from 175000 seven years ago to over half a million daily. The surge delays travel and threatens breakdowns. The piece warns that blockades on surface roads in Boston may worsen the situation.
The January Harper's examines Continental navies starting with France and its armor philosophy from hull protection to end-long battleships. It also features Frank D Millet on campaigns with the Cossacks with vivid illustrations, plus New Orleans sketches by Charles Dudley Warner and art by Gibson Kemble and Dielman.
A Boston writer muses on a white Christmas and local customs saying snow can be elusive yet festive. He recalls church decorations and old time greetings, praises charitable gifts, and notes a Naples inspired story by L D Ventura. He suggests spreading gift burden to New Year’s and ends with observations from suburban smoking cars.
A collage of humorous notes and opinions cites Christmas cheer, political wit, and social observations. It mentions Senator Ingalls, the Borghese Gladiator, humorous quotes from Puck and W odd exchanges, and critiques of journalism and fashion amid light, anecdotal items.
Editor Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, praised for his New England dinner speech, left for home carrying a market basket with a Newfoundland dog. He received many calls at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and was honored as the first Southern speaker before the society, impressed by the banquet’s elaborateness.
A somber poem recasts a cold room as a heart haunted by a departing lover. The speaker resists the returning presence, bars the door, and laments love transformed to frozen stone while pity survives the night. Louise Chandler Moulton, in Harper's, January.
The article notes Edgar Fawcett wrote a five act tragedy in blank verse to be produced in spring at the Museum. It calls the drama sombre and based on an almost unexampled crime. It also questions whether the young writer can realize his ambitious project.
Bazaar continues to be well patronized as proceeds go toward paying off the Bennet street building debt. An interesting assortment of Christmas gifts is displayed for shoppers.
A light exchange story from yesterday shows a brass band and pigeons at the stock exchange with bankers in white hats. New York replies that they are busy with baseball and music, sending a merry Christmas to Boston.
The Philadelphia Record notes that Mr Blaine presses to his waistcoat the Pilgrim Fathers and seeks favor with the unsophisticated populace of Washington and Penn. It calls him a native of no single spot, effectively straddling a continent in nativity and appeal.
Albany Argus notes the tariff question will be brought up again after the holidays with several bills planned. It suggests some Democrats who refused to consider the issue may reconsider after hearing from their constituents and experience a change of heart.
The era of monopoly is challenged as Master Workman George launches a war-path against Powderly’s union grip. A free-trader movement gains footing, drawing echoes from Bev Butler’s prior workingman’s party and hinting at possible future clashes with Blaine and industrial monopolists.
A New North and New South emerge as old sectional cries lose power. The era favors liberty and shared blessings, with leaders too blind or timid to adapt facing contemptuous apathy as the world moves forward.
The Boston Republic accuses professional agitators of controlling government machinery for political gain. It claims hidden influence by supporters of a Maine gentleman who aspires to the presidency, asserting the national representatives oppose workingmen.
The Providence Journal argues that while some successful cooperative production cases are welcome they do not prove broad applicability. Complete adoption requires social and personal conditions far more altruistic than today and a shift to a more altruistic basis for society.
The piece contrasts old Boston with modern liberal charity and public responsibility. It questions aristocratic pretensions by invoking contemporary figures like the Collinses and O Briens and rebuts claims that fame rests on orthography rather than deeds.
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