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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1890
Page
4
Information shows daily subscription rates for one year six months and three months with a weekly Friday issue option. Also notes second class matter status and payment details to Lost Publishing Company with Washington office in the Corcoran Building Fifteenth Street. Regional prices quoted include six pounds for annual daily, three pounds for six months, one pound fifty for three months and fifty pence for monthly.
A New York Reform Club dinner remark mocks attempts to frame political gatherings as Cleveland booms. Tomas G. Shearman notes that any Democratic or Republican meeting could be turned into a Cleveland boom, reflecting humor and truth in the observation.
The city theatres announce after noon performances with varied bills. Little Emly replaces Rosedale at the Museum and 2:30 matinees begin at Grand Opera House. Reports note Dramatic Mirror’s holiday issue with artful contents and portraits, and discuss Ganelon at Broadway Theatre with Goatcher Young scenery. Ellen Terry recalls first nights and Ophelia nerves amid Paris star-system shifts andرد Dame aux Camélias.
The editor declines to return rejected manuscripts and will not consider anonymous communications. Writers must include full name and address as a guaranty of good faith. Readers who cannot buy The Post at newsstands in Boston or nearby areas should report the fact at this office.
Listings of evening performances across Boston venues on Washington and Tremont streets. The Soudan Little Emly Nellie McHerry The Maister of Woodbarrow Will O the Wisp The Clemenceau Case Is Marriage a Failure are shown with 2 and 7 45 showtimes.
The piece discusses Christmas as transplanted in New England, noting gift exchanges over family observances, English decorations like mistletoe and holly, and Washington Irving as a writer shaping Christmas spirit. It contrasts Puritan views with modern festivity, emphasizing cheerful family merriment in both eras.
A revived tale from Baltimore claims a large firm has signed contracts to build a tin plate factory to boost a new American industry. The story, quickly denied, surfaces amid pundit chatter about a post election experiment that may be pursued in some form, even on paper, with media outlets anticipated to echo it for weeks.
The piece critiques the New York Tribune for arguing that Blaine and Haganison keep open the Behring Sea dispute to aid the 1892 Republican strategy. It argues such claims misstate Blaine as a schemer and defends his handling of reciprocity and unfinished negotiations, urging a firmer, clearer defense of his policy.
The Saturday Review calls the British government’s progress in presenting measures before Parliament during the November session highly satisfactory. It notes the absence of Irish members gave the ministry a free hand to push forward. The outlook for the Land Purchase bill appears especially promising amid the breach between parties.
The article notes that nationalist groups may fail to obstruct BALFOUR’s measure by January. The Daily News concedes the bill could ease Liberal embarrassments, and PARNELL may not oppose it. He might shift his followers to government if Irish opponents diverge.
The piece argues the Senate may not pass silver legislation as holidays begin. It notes Senator Stewart’s free coinage amendment and West Republican dissent, risking a split in the party. East Democrats oppose reckless Western schemes and oppose the caucus bill, expecting no action rather than a bad outcome.
The editorial attacks a proposed Senate rule to end debate after a reasonable time, led by Ingalls and Auric a, arguing it would erode the Senate’s deliberative tradition. It warns that forcing a vote via majority power risks minority rights, compares to tariff and force bill debates, and condemns gagging as a dangerous usurpation.
A Nebraska report criticizes the Attorney General's call for government run railroads with a maximum rate schedule. The piece argues such demagogic ideas mislead farmers, distort economic facts, and would punish investors while failing to address real causes of railroad costs and value.
The Newfoundland question sparks fury as residents demand exclusive shore rights for French fishermen and reject any new modus vivendi. The St John’s Herald condemns London’s tepid stance and warns Newfoundland may pursue its own, non diplomatic settlement if anger persists.
Mr Whittam Winter notes Davenport’s Cleopatra is a wholesome Bostonian or Philadelphia take rather than the notorious Egyptian. He suggests a modern fit would come from New York or Chicago, with a tendency to gentle domestic uprisings.
In Boston homes many unworn garments lie stowed away awaiting use. The piece urges exhuming and gifting items to those in need, preferably through direct aid to a deserving case, or via agencies ready to receive benefactions.
A lighthearted note reports that Santa Claus was forced to leave his sleigh out of the Christmas preparations this year due to weather or logistical issues, prompting hope for a quicker return next season.
The writer comments on oversized wreaths in Boston with holly and red berries, criticizes artificial dyed versions, notes cheerful street toys from Germany, and observes a moral Christmas sermon. He urges white Christmas preference, remarks on street life, and ends with a New Year’s resolutions motif.
A Christmas short in this store setting laments gift excess and urges simple acts of kindness. It stresses thoughtful gifts of service and greetings as the true spirit, advising sympathy for sorrowful, thoughtful care for workers, and shared joy for all.
The Savannah Fire and Marine Insurance Company, organized in 1877 with capital of 20 000 dollars, winds up its affairs in Savannah Georgia on December 24. A threatened Georgia law prompted closure. A surplus of 20 000 dollars will be distributed to stockholders. Policies move to Hartford Fire Insurance Company.
In his book The Story of My House George HL Ellwanger presents an ideal home with a frontis by Sidney L Smith. Tourgee's new novel Marvale Eastman will publish Jan 7. Mrs K MacGahan widow of a famed war correspondent contributes to Viestnik Yevropus on immigration and slums life in New York. She previously wrote on the Irish question from an American view for a St Petersburg paper.
The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette notes a New Hampshire struggle framed as Chandler versus anti-Chandler. It argues Chandler's strong party influence has silenced dissent and intensified attacks on rivals, while criticizing his failure to speak truth in love and restraint in remarks about opponents.
Henry B Brown of Michigan is appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court. Known locally as a pure, able, and experienced jurist, he has fourteen years on the eastern district of Michigan bench. The appointment is praised for fitness over partisan considerations by Jr Harrison, per the N Y Times Ind.
In Reading Penn on December 24 a 1 inch steel bar from Carpenter Steel Works broke at 233 833 pounds during a government supervised test. The failure exceeded the previously known peak by about twenty thousand pounds, highlighting material strength records.
Personal gifts by Kidder Peabody to employees total over 40000. Esther Holliday and Ben Holliday become wards of General Ingalls with plans for New York schooling. Welch memorial fund benefits Paul Welch amid his recovery from typhoid. H E Krehbiel to lecture on Wagner at Steinert Hall with piano illustrations by Henry H. Huss. tickets on sale Jan 2 with subscriptions accepted at Music Hall or Steinert.
The January issue of Harper's opens with Charles Dudley Warner's look at Southern California focusing on plantations and livelihood rather than scenery. Theodore Child contributes impressions from Peru while Anstey and Pennell land a London music halls feature. The magazine also carries de Blowitz memoirs, Craddock and Crandall fiction, Latimer Hawthorne and Kipling critique by Howells, plus short verses and essays on contemporary literature and gender.
A London World feature defends Buffalo Bill Cody as a modest, courteous hero who rejoined the army as chief scout during the Sioux outbreak. It recalls Cody recounting a legendary duel with a Indian chief, praised by General Horace Porter for truthfulness and courage, despite earlier sarcasm from Punch writers.
The will of Louisa Mackie Johnson wife of Rev Alfred Ivan Johnson of Olivet Mission allocates 10000 to the General Theology Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church upon her husband’s death. It also gives 1000 to Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1000 to St Mary's Orphanage trustees in Lowell, and 5000 to Foreign Missionary Society upon her husband’s death.
A religious verse by T. W. Parsons asking Almighty God to grant regeneration through grace adoption and daily renewal of the heart. It invokes belief in one God with the Father and Holy Spirit and ends with a benediction.
Walter Kimball's gallery showcases Louis K Harlow in 43 watercolors featuring tranquil coastal scenes and Venice and Holland subjects with Nantucket views gaining strength. Concurrently, C W Stetson in New York, Charles Haseltine in Providence, A H Bicknell in Maiden, and photographers T E M White present works and planned sales, while the Unity Art Club at 77 Boylston prolongs December exhibitions.
A collage of jokes and vignettes poking fun at Christmas excess, city life, and public figures. Quips on whiskey, potash as snakebite antidote, postal jokes, Paddy Driver's New York justice, Koch’s name hype, and a Paris theatre marionette Mystery of the Nativity. Includes critiques of Boston streets and New York’s cleanliness.
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