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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1891
Page
4
The text notes that Boston Post is entered as second class matter and lists payment instructions. It specifies checks drafts and money orders payable to the Post Publishing Company and mentions ad money sent at the sender's inn.
Saturday morning January 24 1891 listings show Boston venues with showtimes at 2 and 7:45. Titles include The Crystal Slipper Bettys Finish The Solicitor Pirates of Penzance Katanka Sunset Dr Bill Mankina and Afterthoughts A Pair of Spectacles among other acts across The Boston Theatre Museum Grand Opera House Tremont Theatre and more.
The Missouri Farmers' Alliance leader critiques the Ingalls issue as a fight over class legislation that harms common people and drives them to secret societies, then mocks crocodile repentance. He predicts Inealls defeat and a future Alliance candidate, arguing Kansas makes a poor but not disgraceful choice.
A Scribner's writer questions self-respecting men amid political career defects and argues the government is “so bad because there is so little of it.” The piece cites McKinsey bill upheaval and Boston businessmen protests over free coinage, noting partial indifference in smaller matters but rejecting the half truth.
The Boston Journal salutes a Windsor Locks Connecticut plant for novelty yarns and tinselled goods driven by free raw materials under the McKinley tariff. It argues free material aids many New England industries but notes carpets and blankets face wool restrictions, questioning unequal benefits across sectors.
Washington dispatches report that Mr. Wincom will soon announce a decision on the transportation of goods in bond on Canadian railways entering the United States. The sources say the ruling is understood to be adverse to the interests affected by in bond transit across the border.
The text discusses Secretary Windom weighing a drastic policy change affecting Canadian railroads. It argues the plan targets shippers and Northwest interests while harming New England and Massachusetts, which lack strong Republican representation. It warns retaliation claims conceal a harsher impact on domestic interests and breadstuffs tolls.
The Senate exits another week amid partisan stalemate as Hoar and Aupricu block business with a gag rule. Minority lawmakers press for action while absentee Republicans and Morton’s chair rulings fuel delays, threatening international copyright and federal funding bills and hinting at an extraordinary session.
A Citizens' Association of Boston report urges Congress and the public to reassess naturalization in light of differing federal and state procedures. It notes immigrants are admitted and naturalized before political manipulation and that many arriving adults are beyond school-age for civil polity instruction. More than half of these adult immigrants are laborers.
The text argues that private philanthropy cannot educate mass political illiterates. It suggests making voter education a feature of evening schools and providing systematic instruction for aliens, asserting that current policy toward aliens needs revision.
Paris papers stir over an interview with General Lansdorf court chamberlain to the Czar. He hints at a close Franco Russian union beyond military ties, centered on economics and shared antipathies to Britain. Observers doubt a broad commercial alliance while noting France’s tariff stance and France Russia rapprochement themes.
The piece rails against the Force Bill and forced loan in U S policy, accusing Republicans of admitting new states to wield Senate power. It condemns silver coinage moves as coerced funding for silver mine interests, notes public distrust, and mocks Wall Street figures, bankers, and a Salvation Army lease deal as signs of broader financial folly.
In Boston a centennial celebration of the Massachusetts Historical Society will honor Hon. Robert Winthrop for thirty years of leadership and his strong ties to the state’s political and literary life. The event includes his hospitality and a literary program featuring John Boyle O’Reilly biographies with illustrations and letters, plus a Roche preface by Cardinal Gibbons.
General Whichcote, Waterloo veteran, lies dying in London. Sir Charles Tennant has bids of 16100 and 20009 for Sir Joshua Reynolda's Fortune Teller. Bradlaugh ill, recovering. Mrs. Proctor aims to raise 25000 for observatory in San Diego in memory of her husband Arthur Wold. Mr. Wold slows convalescing after diphtheria. Mrs. Key, granddaughter of William Pickney, set for stage debut. Queen Liliuokalani, 52, amiable and intelligent, fluent in English, fond of poetry and music. Paris society buzzes over Blanche Marcelin and Franklin Singer nuptials. Ceremony Feb 7 at The Wigwam, Devonshire coast estate.
The text notes the third Sunday after Epiphany and a parish appeal for mercy. Dvorak's Stabat Mater, praised for its impact, will be performed by the Cecilia Society in a Handel and Hayden concert Sunday evening February 1 with Miss Clem... De Ve, Emily Winant, William J. Wi, Mr. Emil Fischer, and an orchestral accompaniment.
Madison Square Company offers A Pair of Spectacles and Afterthoughts at Tremont Theatre for final performances today The following week features Palmer's company with Captain Swift and Jim the Penman Haddon Chambers Cleopatra at Hollis Street Theatre with a grand storm scene and elaborate design Dorothy with Marie Tempest Shakespearean season at Globe Theatre Hanlon Walter pantomime at Boston Theatre Sunlight and Shadow rehearsals The Solicitor and Bettys Finish continue at Museum Ship Ahoy at Park Theatre Cox and Elliss Caspar the Yadler at Grand Opera House Lectures and rehearsals fill Tremont Howard Theatre H. M. Pitt directs Fauntleroy and White Cockade Union Hall forthcoming Palmer productions John Needhams Double Village Priest Pillars of Society Wealth Willard praise Annie Russell testimonial at Palmer's Theatre and Frohmans company and Reilly and the Four Hundred Act New York premiere of A Straight Tip at Park Theatre
Henry Holden Huss led a diverse program with Kneisel Hekking and Stearns. The critic lauds Huss's originals and the trio, notes uneven pianoforte in the scherzo, praises the Bach air and Mason arrangement, but faults Stearns singing and accompaniment execution.
The Music Hall program features Volkmann and Francesca da Rimini with Helen Hopekirk as soloist, Tschaikowsky concerto, and Mendelssohn music for Midsummer Night's Dream at Boston Theatre with 150 female voices under Bernhard Listemann. Upcoming shows include Mrs Hopekirk's matinée at Bumstead Hall, Eliot Hubbard Song Recital at Chickering Hall, Krebbiel lecture on the Nibelungen Ring, and a Sanders Theatre concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The Hon F W Breed and Mrs Breed hosted a musicale at their Ocean street residence drawing about 200 guests from Boston Lynn Swampscott and the North Shore. The Boston party included 70 travelers with Ex-Governor Ames among them. Soloists were Director Niksch Mrs Niksch and Mr Helping. Guests departed for home around 10 PM.
The North End Diet Kitchen managers issue a plea for pecuniary help, noting rising needs as dispensary doctors demand more diets and orders flow from Associated Charities and Homoeopathic Dispensary. All donations should go to Alfred D. Foster, treasurer, at No. 2 Stamford Place.
A Newton Highlands club is organized with a lease of the Pevear estate for club use. Officers named are President James Simpson, Vice-President E J Hyde, Secretary James Hutchinson, and Treasurer B F Butler Jr. A house committee and board of directors are elected. The clubhouse will include billiard and card rooms, parlors, reception and smoking rooms, and likely bowling alleys.
A collage of late 19th century items spans politics and satire. It notes the Albany governor and U.S. Senator elect, a remark on Silence of the Senate, and a dig at patent medicine in Italy. It riffles through theater quips, social jokes, and a London play revival. It ends with fashion misfit overshoes and a Lewiston crowd gag.
A letter to the editor argues that domestic service disputes between capital and labor require thoughtful, educated action. Edward M. Emerson of Concord outlined approaches. readers urged to convene women of influence to discuss and act on improving servant education and moral cultivation as a path to a permanent remedy. A. M. BeechER.
An Associated Press dispatch from Chicago reports Rev Minot J Savage of the Church of the Unity Boston has accepted the call to Old First Church of the Messiah. The Post announced the call on the 17th inst. Savage said he wishes to serve where the minister's work is most urgent, implying Chicago as the likely field. He is away from home with no further details available.
Democrats of Ward 7 nominated James D. Doherty for the General Court after a tied last election and a prior recount. Charles Curran emerged as a rival candidate, drawing 73 votes to Doherty’s 107 in a caucus where Curran had not filed formal intentions.
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