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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1889
Page
2
The President-elect and Senator Dawes held a long conference last night and another today. Ex-Attorney General Devens called on General Harrison, a move some see linked to the Coggswell boom.
Washington reports growing opposition within the Republican Senate to General Harrison selection for the Cabinet. Senator Sabin of Minnesota criticizes advisory limits and questions Windom as Treasury pick, noting western dissent and pressure from New York interests.
Post 3 G A R faced disruption during Tuesday evening’s meeting over the pension examining board. A petition to appoint Dr A Wilner was signed by officers and many members. Alderman Benjamin Morris protested politicking and warned the inspector. Paper was burned after a heated debate and secrecy failed.
The Cambridge Sons of Maine Club held its annual reception and banquet at the Revere House with about fifty attendees. General Haward W. Hincks presided and James Cox editor of the Cambridge Press sat as guest of honor. the evening featured informal addresses and performances by the Weber Malo quartet.
A delegate meeting of the Universalist Sabbath School Union met at Roxbury Universalist Church with a reception supper and an essay. Rev. H. A. Philbrook of Central Square Church East Boston presented on The International Series of Sunday School Lessons urging timely selections and noting Easter is not the best time to emphasize birth of Christ lessons.
Harvard College Observatory unveils an eighteen inch horizontal telescope designed by Professor Edward Pickering and George B. Clark. The instrument combines a twelve inch objective and an eighteen inch mirror, mounted on brick piers and operable from a fixed chair in a 60 to 70 degree warm observatory. It enables meridian reflection with clockwork aiding right ascension and declination for extended photometric measurements and future spectral observations.
The Walnut Avenue Congregational Society dedicated its new Roxbury stone church at Walnut Avenue and Dale Street. The English Gothic building seats about 900 with a three-entrance layout, memorial windows, organ loft, and a 90 foot tower. The service included an organ voluntary, an anthem, prayers, and addresses from church leaders. the building fund reported no debt.
San Francisco Chronicle notes a $6,250,000 mortgage for the San Diego Cuyamaca & Eastern railway, aiming to build 250 plus miles to Needles and a Pacific coast tidewater terminus at San Diego Bay, potentially aiding a Union Pacific outlet and southern Utah mineral export.
Former Chauncy Hall principal Thomas Cushing recalled Boston Latin School in 1824 and life then. He described discipline called salting, marble play, old geography estimates, Greek and Latin focus, and a blunt shift to modern subjects with the Duke of Saxe Weimar visit, plus notes on pen types, music, drawing, and 1861 military drill at Chauncy Hall.
At Hudson street schoolhouse the Ward 12 Republican caucus chose four regulars Mr John A Davis Franklin E Stone Frederick W Simonds and W H A Watts and one independent Charles D Daggett after a 105 vote tally with a tie producing Daggett. The presiding officials were President Olmstead and Secretary Sanford.
The seventh annual Roxbury Latin School Association dinner at Young's featured President Eliot of Harvard, John G. Ropes, and Rev. T. C. Williams as guests. About fifty members dined as officers and graduates, including R. W. Atkinson and G. P. Furber, were listed among attendees and new officers elected for the year.
James Whitcomb Riley and Bill Nye delivered a lively show at Huntington Hall in Lowell on February 27 before a large, fashionable crowd. Nye provoked laughs while Riley moved the audience with tender emotion, each shaping moments that left attendees delightfully moved.
Nathan Sawyer veteran printer and longtime State street businessman died Sunday. His funeral was held at 74 Rutland Street with Rev. Caleb D. Bradlee presiding. Attendees included relatives friends and members of the Franklin Typographical Society and the Mechanic Charitable Association. Burial followed at Forest Hills cemetery.
Dr. L Williams of Clarence Iowa praises Horsford's Acid Phosphate as a nerve tonic and general tonic. He reports using it in neuralgic fever uterine difficulties and other cases needing a tonic, calling it the best he has ever used.
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