Amusements Tonight At Boston Theatres
The Boston Post lists shows across city venues including The Soudan at Boston Theatre Bettys Finish and The Solicitor at Boston Museum Robert Mantell in Monbars at Girone Theatre Alvin Joslin at Grand Opera House Sothern in The Master of Woodbarrow at Howards Athenaum The Plunger at Park Theatre My Aunt Bridget at Park To Hearie Nat C Goodwin in The Nominee at Tremont Theatre
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Boston Theatre
Washington Street
the Soudan
Boston Museum
Tremont Street
Scollay Square
Betty
Solicitor
Girone Theatre
Robert Mantell
Monbars
Grand Opera House
Washington
Dover Streets
Alvin Joslin
Howas Street
Hollis Street
E.H. Sothern
Maister of
Woodbarrow
Howard Athenaum
Howard Street
Park
Hearee
Bridget
Tremont Theatre
Nat C. Goodwin
City Street Conditions After Rain and Snow Sloppiness
Boston articles criticize neglected street cleaning and icy crossings. The writer blames city officials for lax enforcement and calls for residents to maintain sidewalks and abutting properties, arguing decent walks rely on communal diligence in a thickly settled community.
Behring Sea Difficulty in Beating British Squadron
The Treasury Department plans to enlarge the revenue cutter fleet in Behring Sea and strengthen armament and crews to seize poachers when the season opens. The move risks a costly, humiliating conflict with Britain, as gunboats cannot settle the issue and Mr Blarn’s handling fails to show necessary skill for his official position.
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Treasury Department
Behring Sea
Ballot Reform Faces Hurdles in Pennsylvania
An article discusses Pennsylvania's constitutional rule requiring each ballot to be numbered, undermining ballot secrecy. Reform calls for amending the constitution to allow secret unmarked ballots, with recent elections fueling momentum amid political opposition.
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Pennsylvania
Mayor Hart on Himself in Farewell Message
The retiring Mayor Hart offers a farewell note that echoes familiar city governance ideas. The document is entertaining in parts, features novel touches, and restates his theories of reform and powers with readable, lightly jumbled guidance.
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Quincy
Hart
May
City proposals and reforms urged by retiring mayor
The retiring mayor advocates compensation for common council and school board members, abolition of perquisites, recognition of his public works plan, opposes the debt limit, suggests two to three year terms for mayor and council with staggered elections, and promotes plain English in schools. He also objects to a new fire headquarters, seeks a longer city hall, and supports widening major thoroughfares. He praises Meehan control of one department, excuses mismanagement as blamed on finances, and ends by claiming two years of work were done without ostentation or major flaws.
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Board of Public Works
Meehan
Working of the tariff act affects revenue and frauds
The President argues voters misunderstood tariff law after three months of operation. The piece cites consular corruption in Canada, false certifications costing the Treasury two and a half million dollars, undervaluation schemes in gloves, and alleged lobbyist influence to shape duties. It concludes the law fails to deliver promised protection and enables evasion.
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Canada
New York
New York Times
W. W. Duburg
Committee On Ways and Means
Are the Indians to blame at Wounded Knee Creek
The piece argues that Bic Foot's band charged a larger regiment, with some Indians armed only with knives and tomahawks. Captain Wallace reportedly fell to a tomahawk. Indians preferred fighting over surrendering arms to avoid hunger, and the writer concedes bravery despite prejudice.
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Wounded Knee Creek
Bic Foot
Wallace
Indians and the policy that imprisons them in pauper state
The London Times is cited and denounces U S policy as making Indians state paupers while treating them as foreign powers. The piece argues for law on reservations and accountability for agents, noting Wounded Knee and mass governance harms. It calls ending agent tyranny and Indian rings as essential reforms.
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United States
Wounded Knee Creek
Omaha Journal
Clarkson Like a Frontline Champion in Force Bill Debate
In a period of Republican straits, J S Clarkson, former Official Headsman, pushes a bold Take on the Force Bill. He urges party loyalty while warping reform talks into fears of black voters swaying elections. The piece mocks his shift from moral indignation to party expediency and ballot reform claims.
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J. S. Clarkson
New York Tribune
Clarkson
New York
Ohio
Illinois
Massachusetts
Iowa
Lope
Nihilism Its Origins and Key Influences
A compact survey tracing Nihilism to Alexander Herzen born 1816 in Moscow, his exile 1835, and works like What Is to Be Done in 1863. It charts Herzen’s press campaigns from London, the Kolokol journal, and the spread of nihilist ideas to Russian university youth, the 1860 emergence of the term, and notable figures including Chernyshevsky and Turgenyev.
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Alexander Herzen
Moscow
Siberia
SaAmoy Luton
Fourrmer
Owen
London
Russia
Kolokol
Bell
Horn
Feozipaen
Schopenhaver
Buchnmer
Ivan Turghenfy
Mermée
Teoher-Nichevsky
Adam Smirx
Stuart Mitr
Our Own Land
Hesten
Nihilism and its violent rise in 19th century Russia
The excerpt traces Nihilism from its roots with Kol and Herzen to the 1860s assassinations of officials, detailing serfdom’s end and women gaining education, the 1866 attempts on Tsar Alexander II, and the rise of nihilist leaders and journals. It notes key figures Vera Zassaritskaya and SoloVieff, the varied motives, and the division between extremist aims and moderate paths.
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Kol
Hernichevsky
Party of Progress
Chartotte Corony
Vera Zassaritsh
Trepov
St. Petersburg
Merzentser
Krapotkin
Knoop
Garrkov
Solovief
Herzen
Bakunin
Geneva
Turghenef
Income of a Duchess: New York referee fixes her income
A New York lawyer and court appointed referee ruled the Duchess of Marlborough must live on 80 000 dollars a year with 50 000 dollars diverted to English creditors. The case arose from claims totaling over half a million dollars filed by English tradesmen who maintained the Duke's ancestral castle.
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New York
Duchess of Marlborough
William A. Durer
Hammersley
Dust
Warp McAllister
Amicus Curie
Duke of Marlborough
National salon proposed to stage in New York
A group of prominent New York artists and writers advocate forming a national salon in the city to mirror the Royal Academy and Paris Salon. Madison Square Garden is suggested as the exhibition venue, with proponents arguing centralized, large-scale exhibitions would greatly benefit American art. O Donovan Rossa eyes a return to Ireland via Washington first to gauge U S protection, while noting his past notoriety.
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New York
America
Royal Academy
England
France
Madison Square Garden
F. Epwin Wtwece
New York Tribune
Ameri¢ga
O'Donovan Rossa
United Kingdom
Washington
O’ Donovan
Bath man regains world endurance club swinging title
Edward Brown of Bath wins the world endurance club swinging championship at City Hall, reclaiming the title he held for five years. He swings nine pound clubs for six hours and forty one minutes, ten minutes longer than Homer Crawford who used lighter clubs. Brown averages sixty five full swings per minute.
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Bath
Edward Brown
Homer Crawford
Crawford
Brow
Notable Americans and Allies Greet World Figures in Transit
A rapid parade of notable figures arrives in San Francisco and planned movements follow. Gozo Taleno arrives as minister from Japan with family aboard the City of Mem and aims for Washington while Miss E O Duffy emerges as a leading wild animal dealer. Chicago females Searle and Gorton launch a publishing firm. Mrs Bessie Helmer edits decisions for Justice Bradley. May French Sheldon prepares Congo expedition. Letzen Moravian missionary and wife have labored 30 years in the Thibetan Mountains, far from Europe, with distant post office access.
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Gozo Taleno
Japan
San Francisco
Mem
Washington
E. O'Duffy
Searle and Gorton
Chicago
Bessie Helmer
Association of Collegiate Alumnie
Justice Bradley
United States Supreme Court
May French Sheldon
Congo
Stanley
London
Letzen
Thibetan Mountains
Himalayas
Boston reminiscences mix sleighing tales and French lessons
In Boston a writer laments the fading sport of cutting behind among boys, noting two girls enjoying it on Park street. He recalls early risks, booby huts, and gallantry, then sketches youths renting a waiter to critique French while they handle knives and forks. A tale evokes Monsier Jourdain as a cautionary joke about learning. The column also notes the death of the horse Fencer and bids readers remember the animal's service.
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Park Street
Jehu
Boston
Paris
Electioneer
Colonel Ussell
Mantell Stars in Corsican Brothers at Globe Theatre
The Corsican Brothers at Globe Theatre features Robert Mantell in dual Fabian and Louis Dei Franchi roles, praised for talent and solid acting. Supporting cast includes Mark Price, Guy Lindsley, B. T. Ringgold, Charlotte Behrens, Minnieonk, with notable scenery and mechanical effects. matinee Saturday. Hamlet to follow tonight and Othello Saturday with Mantell as Othello.
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Robert Mantell
Fabian
Louis Dei Franchi
Daimas
Globe Theatre
Mantell
Boston
Mark Price
Guy Lindsley
B. T. Ringgold
Charlotte Behrens
Minnieonk
Miss Behrens
Price
Injuries Reported From Street Accidents in City
Yesterday several pedestrians and riders were injured on city streets. James C. W. Walton, 71, was struck by a hand sled on Commercial Street. he was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. Anna Doyle, 20 Charter Street, was knocked down by a runaway team on Hanover Street and bruised. she was sent home. Michaeli Murphy, Roxbury, fractured his ankle on Terry Street and is at City Hospital. Mary Cowen, badly burned by a kerosene lamp explosion in South Boston, remained in City Hospital. James C. Taylor, 69 Sawyer Street, was crushed between cars on the New York and New England line and suffered a compound fracture of the right arm. he was taken to City Hospital.
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James C. W. Walton
Commercial Street
Massachusetts General Hospital
Wakefield
Anna Doyle
Charter Street
Hanover Street
James Irving
Cambridgeport
Michaeli Murphy
Terry Street
Roxbury
City Hospital
Mary Cowen
South Boston
James C. Taylor
Sawyer Street
Pega
New York
New England
A Witness for William Shakspere and Cipher Claims
In the North American Review January issue Dr. W J Rolfe disputes Bacon editing the 1623 Folio and dismisses a Donnelly cipher theory as simply word-count manipulation. The piece surveys cipher stories, general Miles on Indian rule, immigration tests by Cabot Lodge, Lecky on Home Rule, Billings on Jew degeneration, Mme Adams on dowries, O Reilly on finger glasses, Clews on the financial crisis, and Meachum on teaching citizenship in schools.
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the North American
North American Review
William Shakspere
Donnelly
W. J. Rolfe
Bacon
Henry Fourth
Henry
Miles
Cabot Lodge
Ireland
W. E. H. Lecky
John $. Billings
Mme. Adam
France
Max O’reill
Henry Clews
Clews
Samuel Meachum
Popular Science Monthly Highlights and Essays
The January issue features Dr Andrew D White critiques of From Bab et to Comparative Philology and The Peopling of America by M Armand de Quatrefoges. Huxley advances Sanskrit Zend and Greek differentiation to 1600 B C. Also in the issue are Iron Mills and Puddling Furnaces by W F Durfee Storage of Electricity Star Streams and Nebula by Garrett P Serviss and The Decline of Rural New England by Amos RK Currier.
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Andrew D. White
Babet
America
M. Armand de Quatrefoges
Popular Science Monthly
Huxley
W. F. Durfee
Samuel Sheldon
Garrett P. Serviss
New England
Amos RK. Currier
The Forum contents in a January issue review
The January Forum includes Emile de Laveleye on Africa partition among six nations and its perceived benefits, notes on President Timothy Dexter in Verse in Danger, Gosse on poetry and dramatic revival, Mrs. Lynn Linton on divorce reform, Lilly on the Shibboleth of Liberty, and articles The Revolution in Medicine by Austin G. Flint and The Manufacture of Ancestors by John D. Champlin Jr.
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Africa
Emile de Laveleye
Leopold
Timothy Dexter
Gosse
Lynn Linton
W. 5
Lilly
Austin G. Flint
John D. Champlin, Jr
Lang praised as writer for St Nicholas. pages on reading and sculpture
The piece lauds Andrew Lang for serial writing in St Nicholas Magazine and commends Charles Dadler Warner's Talk about Reading as educational and entertaining. It highlights a frontispiece illustration from Emelio Zocchi's The Young Michael Angelo with a companion article The Childhood of Michael Angelo by Alexander Black.
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Emelio Zocchi
Michael Angelo
Alexander Black
Rainy day on the Hudson prompts ice men to cut
Rain fell along the upper Hudson all day and kept the thermometer above freezing. Ice men fear the thaw will weaken the ice as thousands of men boys and horses worked from Poughkeepsie to Albany to scrape snow and cut housing. Companies decide to cut immediately to reveal current thickness.
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Kinaston
Hudson
Poughkeepsie
Albany
Maine State Prison Isurges Legislation For Postrelease Aid
The visiting committee report from Augusta notes inmates largely respond to humane treatment despite rigid discipline. It praises skilled labor by inmates and calls for legislative inquiry into discharge support, urging funds for postrelease employment assistance. Diet and prison industries are solid. officials seek modern, sanitary, efficient reforms.
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Augusta
Specian
Tobias Lord
Maine pardon case probes Day arson conviction details
In the Me pardon hearing the Calais lawyers George Harrison and R J Garrigie present documentary evidence alleging private influence and bribery in the Day arson case. They claim a key witness burned the buildings and that jurors and officers were paid to secure the conviction, detailing multiple expense bills and “firebug” witness arrangements.
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Sproran
J. Wilbur Day
Munson
Washington County
Calais
George Harrison
R. J. Garrigie
Day
Urial Munson
Eastport
Quebec
Princeton
Zina Pennell
Whitneyville
Machias
East Machias
Miscellaneous witty notes and society items across papers
A collection of remarks and anecdotes引用 about Sitting Bull Force Bus, New Year disease themes, quotes on flowers poses and names, a London Salvation Army fire, street cleanliness, Senator Hoar politics, expensive gifts, a London play by Harry Dam, death in battle habits, South Dakota snow on Sioux, Farmers' Alliance in Congress, a Washington restaurant scene, a question on perfect man traits with Lord Randolph Churchill and Labouchere responses.
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Sitting Bull
Dr. Koch
Salvation Army
London
Hoar
Springfield Republican
Harry Dam
Haymarket
Washington Star
South Dakota
Congress
Farmers’ Alliance
Springer
Holman
Crisp
House
Reed
Washington
Chicago Herald
Lord Randolph Churchill
Mr. Labouchere
Washington special in Boston daily read in 1892 tone
Fragmentary OCR notes recall a boastful exchange between Hill and Smith about a past game in 1892. The garbled lines mention David Hill jockeying, Sam, and D. Me Jd, with a Boston daily Washington special flavor.
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Hill
David Hill
Sam
Smith M. Weed
Boston Daily
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