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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jul 30, 1887

Page

5

Realistic Forest of Arden in Massachussets Sees Star Cast

Masconomo House Manchester by the Sea hosts plans for an outdoor As You Like It on Aug 8 with John Schoeffel staging a natural Forest of Arden. Rose Coghlan Osmond Tearle Agnes Booth Schoeffel lead a star cast. seating from five dollars.

Masconomo Manchester-By-Thesea Park Theatre John Schoeffel Schoeffel America Post Mr. Schoeffel Dr. Bartel Concord Jay Shakspere Forest of Arden Woodlawn Orlando Charles Rosalind Arden Schoetfel Rose Coghlan Osmond Tearle Agnes Booth Schoeffel Audrey W.T. Ball Boston Minnie Conway Lillian Conway Maida Craigen W. H. Crane Stuart Robson Frank Mayo J B. Mason Frazer Coulter Harry Meredith George C. Boniface George C. Boniface, Jr Fred Conway George Schiller William Seymour Duke H. C. Barnabee William Macdonald Charles Adams Salem Cadet Band John Braham John Gilbert Joseph Proctor

When I Was a Boy in China by Yan Phou Lee

First edition sold out and second edition ready. Bookstores will stock promptly at sixty cents in 16mo cloth with portrait. Record notes three reasons for high interest: Yale educated Chinese author married to an American, journalist in New Haven, direct information on a curious subject, and praised for fullness brevity good sense and strong English.

Yale New Haven

Actors Fund Benefit Promises Planned Support From Boston Nantasket

From 100 to 200 New Yorkers are promised, two coaching parties will come from Boston, and another from Nantasket. The professional people are receiving a generous helping hand with Mr William Hanlon sending $50 for a single seat. Indications are the Actors' Fund will receive a handsome increase for You Like It. But Mr Schoeffel cautions he will never undertake the like again.

Boston Nantasket Wiliam Hanlon Actors’ Fund Schoeffel

Placing City Loans and Tax Clarity Remedy Proposed

In a Boston letter to the editor the writer argues city bonds hide true interest by taxes. The remedy: the city should pay taxes directly, making interest clear to investors, and legislation could require cities to remit taxes to the State treasury. July 28.

City of Boston Boston

Obituary notices of prominent 19th century figures across several cities

Ebenezer Learned of Norwich Connecticut dies at 75 a Yale 1831 graduate and banker corportor and treasurer of Norwich Free Academy. Isaac Harlow ex Western Union cashier dies at 76 buried in Paris Missouri. Rabbi Hirsch Harris dies in Brooklyn aged 109 born 1778 in Poland. Frederick Neilson New York society man dies at 37 linked to Kanes Winthrops and Gebhards. Rupert Livingston New York lawyer dies age 60 descendant of Robert Livingston. R H Noone dies at 4 in Peterboro New Hampshire. Captain Frederick W Stewart Farmington Maine dies former stage line owner and sheriff. James H Howe Webster woollen manufacturer dies age ~50. Dr Worcester Dart-mouth graduate dies in Vermont at 72. Amos Hodgkins Winthrop pump manufacturer dies after illness.

Ebenezer Norwich Conn Yale College New London Norwich Free Academy Eastern Connecticut Congregational Conference Thames National Bank Isaac Harlow Western Union Telegraph Company Paris Chandler Street Western Union Hirsch Harris Rabbi Hirsch Brooklyn N. Y Pyatorkowi Poland Warsaw Napoleon Moscow Hirsch Kimmel America Frederick Neilson Union and Manhattan Clubs New York Far Rockaway L. L Mr. Neilson Winthrops Kanes de Peysters Ward, Campbell & Co Wall Street Isabel Gebhard Frederick Gebhard Neilson Rhode Island Rupert Dwight Livingston Robert Livingston R. H. Noone Joseph Noone Worcester Dartmouth College North Thetford Amos v. Hodgkins Winthrop

Emperor of Japan to establish government printing office in Tokio

The Herald's Washington special reports the Japanese Emperor will create a government printing office in Tokio and seek American workers. Minister Kuki offers twenty employees in the Washington office five year contracts at $2000 yearly plus travel expenses to Japan.

New York The Herald Washington Japan Tokio Kuki

Trials Set for Cup Challenger Thistle Match

The first September trial races to decide a challenger to the Scotch cutter Thistle will occur in the U S. The 27 September race covers the New York Yacht Club course while the 29 September race sails twenty miles to sea from the Sandy Hook Lightship and back. If needed a third race is slated for 1 October on an outside triangular course.

New York New York Yacht Club Sandy Hook

Delegations to Washington Stir Capital Talk and Rolls on Steel

The President plans to halt incoming delegations as Chicago Detroit and other cities prepare to invite him to their locales. Engineer Melville warns steel for two cruisers is scarce with standard costs far above merchant norms and rivets delayed. The Interior Secretary denies a pension to William Hedgspeth a Civil War veteran who aided the Confederacy.

Washington Spredan Union Minnesota St. Paul Minneapolis Kelly Northwestern Dan Lamont Oak View Chicago Detroit Omaha White House Melville Whitney Cramp’s Philadelphia Admiralty Europe Secretary of the Interior William Hedgspeth Forty-second Indiana Volunteers Hedgspeth Andersonville Black

Double funeral held for John Easton and Captain George Beebe

The 94 year old John Easton and his son in law Captain George W Beebe 57 were honored in a Chelsea service held yesterday at 316 Spruce street Beebe a longtime ship chandler at New York and Low England wharves in South Boston Easton a Chelsea resident for years. Attended by many business and social friends the bodies were taken to Nantucket for interment in the family lot.

John Easton George W. Beebe Spruce Street Chelsea Beebe New York & Low England Boston Easton Nantucket

Boston Museum Arcadia and Promenade Concerts

Amusements list Little Corinne in Arcadia at 2 and 8 pm. Music Hall features a promenade concert with evening program by Stoll. Local schedule notes afternoon and evening performances.

Boston Museum Little Corinne Arcadia Stoll Corinne Grand Orchestra

Local Notices: Marriages in Saint John area

July dates record three marriage announcements. Joseph La Rock weds Nellie Draper, July 24, by Rev Haven. George Rouse weds Theresa Traynor, July 27, by Rev Linde mann. Frank Webb weds Eilen P Nind, July 9, by J P Allen Putnam.

LA Rock Mr. Haven Joseph la Rock Nellie Draper Rouse Traynor F. Lindemann George Rouse Theresa Traynor St. John Weblb—Nind Allen Putnam J. P Frank Webb Eilen P. Nind

Deaths in City listings July 27 to 29

Death notices from this city report Mary Bogan aged about 28 Bartholomew Coughlin 62 and Frederick Easton 4 years 2 months with others including Mary Farren 30 Hannah Hopkins 78 Ariel Lee 27 6 months Lydia Mansfield 72 Elizabeth Mulhare 75 Eliza Nye 77 10 months 25 days Elizabeth Seaward 63 Angie Weston 36 years 10 days Henry Whiton 93 and several more all dated July 23 29 with varying locations such as Chelsea East Boston Somerville Nantucket and Hampton N H.

Bogan Mary James Bogan Coughlin Newonset Bartholomew Coughlin Easton Chelsea Frederick A. Easton Nantucket Farren Mary A. Farren Gee Reading Ames Gowing Narlow Isaac Tarlow HA Angton Thomas J. Harrington Hilus East Cambridge Deacon Henry Hills. Hopkins Hannah Hopkins Lee East Boston Ariel P. Lee Mansfield Lydia John Mansfield Mulhare Elizabeth Mulhare Eliza H. Nye David C. Nye Seaward Elizabeth M. Seaward Hampton N. H Weston Somerville Angie Daniel C. Weston Whiton Henry L. Whiton Boston

Special stockholders meeting of Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe

Stockholders of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company will meet at the Topeka office on September 5 1887 at 10 am to vote on increasing capital by seven million dollars to seventy five million and authorize directors to issue and dispose of the same. Transfer books close August 6 1887 and reopen September 6 1887. William B Strong president.

Atchison, Opera & Santa Fe Railroad Company Topeka Kansas William B. Strong

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