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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1889
Page
2
An aged traveler praises Japan’s social refinement and harmony, attributes it to mixed heritage and centuries of peace, and extols Buddhism alongside Christianity and science. He hopes Buddhism remains a friend to Japan while urging careful adoption of Western ideas.
The twelfth annual Board of Supervisors report analyzes modern education focused on arousing love of learning while developing moral activity. It urges harmony of body mind and soul with home like school governance, and cites examples from grammar and primary schools, manual training, science, and expression as integral to public schooling.
A Boston report highlights integrated learning where senses, feelings, will, and hands unite in knowledge. It praises sewing drawing and cookery work and a permanent exhibit in the Latin school building linking city teachers and visitors with school achievements. It lauds kindergarten success as a model of organization pedagogy and moral influence and notes free Ling gymnastics instruction funded by Mrs. Hemenway, predicting manual training will connect all school levels.
William Sloan, an English employee, attacked his wife Mary Sloan at Factory H of the Thomson Flouston Electric Company in Lynn. He armed with a pistol and pocket rifle, proclaimed he would kill her, but was restrained by officers. Sloan attempted suicide after being jailed, injuring himself with a rifle shot. He had prior assault history with a razor incident in Cambridge.
The funeral of Mrs Mary Greenwood Lodge was held at King's Chapel yesterday afternoon conducted by Rev Dr Phillips Brooks. A Boston woman of public service she served as a corporate member of Associated Charities and president of the Work Rooms in Ward 7.
Paris notes on the elder Coquelin’s return to the Comédie Française where Gringoire and Le Dépit Amoureux were performed. The crowd filled the house despite snow, with a five minute ovation and a notable kiss from Mlle Roeichemberg at curtain fall.
Boston contractor John Robbins has entered insolvency. Lincolnville trader Alphonso P Wentworth has become insolvent. Springfield carpenter Frank A Bickford filed a petition in insolvency.
A compilation of satirical couplets from various papers imagining better habits if common foibles and social ills were reversed. It playfully imagines every fault corrected by simple changes.
Secretary Windom invites sealed proposals for a twenty year lease to take fur seals on St. Paul and St. George Islands Alaska. Proposals due Jan 23 1890 require a 100000 dollar certified check, school buildings on each island, and humane labor payments.
Silcott has been in Montreal with Herminie Thibault returning to New York. The dispatch notes ongoing Flour blockade creates a bottleneck with 800 St Paul line cars stored on side tracks and Grand Haven wind gaps delaying ships.
Paris letters report six candidates for Emile Augier’s vacant seat include Henri Houssaye Brunetiere Thirion Dangin Emile Zola Henri Becque and Noirot. Zola and Brunetiere duel in public debate with Zola facing scandal over La Bete Humaine. The academy will vote in April after the running heats and commentaries on naturalism and critics.
The piece reviews several year end calendars issued by Boston firms. John Hancock’s calendar uses The Boston Tea Party with crowded figures. New England Mutual Life’s Samoset calendar is praised for clear grouping. Other calendars from Neal Morse & Co, Fennessy Armstrong & Co, Walker Young & Co, and John H Pray Sons & Co are noted for style and utility.
A memorial edition of Sir George Bowen's papers edited by Stanley Lane-Poole will be published in London and New York by Longmans, Green & Co. The January issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics from Harvard features essays by Hart on American cities, Hadley on prohibition and pools, Giddings on interest theory, Cummings on Paris Exposition topics, and Faville on France's economic movement and railroad legislation.
The beautiful Hiller caskets will be on exhibition at Horticultural Hall today with Mrs Hiller present personally this afternoon and evening for visitors.
Heirs and all interested parties are summoned in Suffolk Probate Court to show cause why Timothy McCarthy’s will should be admitted and letters testamentary issued without bond. The notice requires publication weekly for three weeks in the Boston West with the final edition two days before the January 6, 1890 hearing.
In Suffolk: Bowditch trustee seeks allowance of first account for James F. Harlow et al with Jan 6 1890 hearing in Boston. Publication required in Boston Post for three weeks. Also Timothy Kelly estate appoints John H. Burke administrator. creditors urged to present claims and debtors to pay, Boston Dec 16 1889.
The article explains why the Murdock Free Surgical Hospital of 120 beds was created and run for six years then closed. It cites 3000 patients treated with high surgical share, low death rates, and argues for reopening while outlining the medical and financial case and letters of support from across sixteen states.
A Newport reader asks if hospital treatment could offer hope for a woman with a womb cancer. She reports strength from the company’s Liquid Food and requests a rapid reply with any possibility of life extension, promising to bear any cost.
A letter requests hospital admission for a patient with a large abdominal tumor who cannot afford private surgical care. The writer emphasizes the hospital’s renowned results and seeks charity treatment to perform the operation promptly.
A Northampton widow writes to Murdock Liquid Food Co seeking information on abdominal fibroid tumor surgery. She asks if the hospital performs such operations, average outcomes, the surgeon’s experience, and the success rate to ease fears for her three children.
A resident writes to a city doctor stating lacerations from childbirth have caused seventeen years of suffering and poverty. She asks if she can be admitted to the hospital.
The Murdock Liquid Food Co offers 120 beds of supplies and rent free use for hospitals if they publish annual reports and accept limited ownership. Four hospitals have offered to adopt the Murdock name, but since results and numbers differ, the authors refuse to withdraw their own hospital title.
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