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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 16, 1873

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Boston Wholesale Prices Current Week Ending Jan 1

Boston wholesale prices for the week ending Wednesday January 1 are corrected for this paper. The sheet lists pricing for various commodities and market items available to local merchants. Specific price figures are provided for multiple categories and finish with declared corrections.

Review of the Boston Market for the Week Ending Jan 15

The market summary covers Ashes to Wool and Cotton goods with steady if unsettled demand for metals and commodities. Copper, lead, and tin show firm prices. coal and coal products meet steady demand. Foodstuffs including flour sugar and spices reflect modest gains and quiet activity. pork and beef prices remain firm with steady lard and hams.

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Hospitals at last as Board of Health moves to action

In Boston in January 1873 a renewed call for multiple hospitals to combat a spreading disease leads the city to press the new Board of Health to act. Three officials use new powers to convert the old Roxbury Almshouse into a hospital, ending delays and critiquing prior council mismanagement. The piece also condemns congressional lobbying and urges full transparency in investigations to restore public trust.

United States Court House Boston Mass E. J. Sherman, Esq Roland G. Usher U.S. Marshal Tlagree Atari Emerson A. Noyes Suffolk Massachusetts United Court House Peek A.M U. S. Marshal Nachmann Louis NE Boston Post Isaac Ames Esquire Sant Court Benjamin F. Brooks Edward A. White Joseph Sawyer Isaac Amesmire Jaz Sala Deceas Mate William C. M. Downing Sala Court Eastern Avenue Board of Street Commissioners Congress Summer Street City Hall Byard O Sreet Jala St J. Neins C. D TIX Commonwealth of Chusetts 3 Lake, Cushing & Dantell, Plavins J James W. Bliss Albert T. Ting Bliss and Whiting A.D A. D Flavius J. Lake Sidney Cushing Albert T. Sting Franklin B. Dantell Jonathan E. K. Herrick Nassachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company State Street Cyres K. Hale Oston and Lowell Hailroad Corporation Causeway Street Tf C. BE. A. Bartlett RUTLAND + RAILROAD CO The Rutland Railroad Company Rutland B. B. Smalley Rutland Railroad Co Tm Jals Tre Blackstone National Bank Hano Uplon D. Loring Ia2 Poston Albany Railroad Union Building Chapin” Banking and Com+ Spri E. Stevens Mechanics’ Mutual Fire Merchants’ Bank Supreme Judicial Court John Eb, Sanford Solomon Hovey EL Bend EN Ee Assence Artiss District Court of the United States Roxbury Almshouse Swett Street Mars Board of Health Roxbury Credit Mobilier Sioux City Havemeyer Anna Broughton Springfield George Kelley Meriden Conn Amherst “Academs Nile Grand Rapids Mich Italy Brand Missouri Wieniawski St. Petersburg Opera House Leopold Auer Auer Ludwig

Harvard’s proposed shift to lectures over recitations sparks debate

President Eliot’s report to the Overseers outlines a replacement of prayer attendance and recitation with lecture based study at Harvard. The change aims to match foreign universities, with exams determining degrees and a broader, self guided intellectual culture. Old customs yield to a large unified university system expected to attract elite students from Europe and beyond.

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Nineteenth Century Nonsense and Notions Abroad

A collage of curiosities and tidbits from Paris and London touch on government costs in Georgia, famine at home, odd commodities, and notable personages. It mentions Grant, Carlyle, Bismark, and Miss Fair amid a stream of pithy, often humorous notes and local incidents across the era.

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