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Boston Post

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Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 04, 1886

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Montreal Chief Justice cites fugitives as treaty issue

In Montreal, the chief justice warned grand jurors that Canada must act to deny sanctuary to U S fugitives. He linked rising fraud cases to trusted officials and urged securing a treaty to strip refuge across the line. The piece also notes Ireland's home rule stalemate with Gladstone and Chamberlain, predicting no bill passage next week.

Dominion of Canada United States Court of Queen’s Bench Montreal

America's cup races and sail course dispute settled

News on the America's cup challengers involving Mr. Beaver Webb and Lt. Henn ends with the race plan unchanged from last year. The Galatea is to arrive but not race Newport events. Sail measurement remains a minor dispute and a Boston teacher faces a twenty day pay fine for corporal punishment under a state regulation. Lord Randolph Churchill's speech outlines Conservative plans for a dissolution scenario, implying sacrifice of own candidates to block Gladstone and avoid home rule, viewed as politic but not glorious.

Beaver Webb Henn Webb New York Yacht Club Newport New York Board of Education Boston New York Board Boston Committee Lord Randolph Churchill Mr. Gladstone Lord Randolph Massachusetts Norrfolk Esther D. Dana Charles W. Sabin Norfolk John Goldthwait Hyde Park Boston Post Suffolk Gzorck Waitz Oe Cobb Register

Adverse report on railways bill eases legislative drive

The adverse report on proposed elevated railways removes a major obstacle to quick adjournment. The General Court has taxed the public patience and should dispatch remaining business to protect the Commonwealth’s credit. Many matters can be referred to the next legislature, while pressing issues like ward fines legislation Worcester sewerage and teachers tenure require timely decisions.

Commonwealth Supreme Court Worcester

Night of Past Experience Feels Distant for People

In a night of past experience people dare not expect any real consideration for their feelings. The faint hope is tempered by memory of prior disappointments and ongoing unease among residents who seek empathy and fair treatment.

Rhode Island legislature creates state police for liquor law

The Rhode Island Legislature at Newport established a state police to enforce the prohibitory liquor law and elected a chief constable. A forthcoming Providence adjourned session will press repeal. The episode is called a scandal and failure, provoking frank anti-political criticism and calls to abolish the police.

Rhode Island Newport Providence Brown University William P. Sheffield Liquor Dealers’ Association Rhode Islander N. Y

Harvard College 250th Anniversary Plans Revealed

A Massachusetts city marks 250 years of settlement and Harvard College prepares a four day 250th anniversary program. Events include a Sanders Theatre evening with potential Lowell address, undergraduate processions with class day spreads, Sunday ceremonies, and hopes for Cambridge Emanuel College representation. The celebration aims to reflect on Harvard’s past, present, and future with broad community pride.

Massachusetts America Harvard College Europe Sanders Theatre James Russell Lowell Emanuel College Cambridge John Harvard Harvard

Big City Papers Do Marathon Coverage Of White House Wedding

Newspapers from New York packed seventeen columns with engravings and exterior glimpses of the ceremony. Reporters staked out the White House watching every movement from dawn, noting the horses reactions, Miss Cleveland’s attire, and the parade of attendants.

Saturday Evening Gazette Eclat New York Sun White House Albert Hawkins

White House Coffee Plot: Journalists Sweat Over Ceremony Details

The scene unfolds as guests gather at the White House for a ceremony described with humorous detail. Messenger boys, police-fearing and fearless, deliver a printed programme that hints at the event’s public appetite for news. A pastor, rescued from a gulch, calls it overdone but satisfying.

White House Colonel Lamont

Mikado in Berlin English cast praised by Boston singer

The Mikado in Berlin, performed in English by the Fifth Avenue Theatre company, drew strong praise for performers including Boston soprano Geraldine Almar. The run offered no new German versions of the famous songs, as some numbers like Tit-willows could not be translated.

Berlin Fifth Avenue Theatre New York Boston Geraldine Almar Gilbert

White House wedding causes split opinions on etiquette

The Attorney General skipped the White House wedding citing its formality and need for evening dress while the diplomatic corps plans frigid formal congratulations to protest the lack of etiquette. Yet Cleveland remains unruffled, unlike many bridesgrooms.

White House Diplomatic Corps Cleveland

Rumor Claims Canadians Target Maine Sardine Industry

A dreadful rumor states Canadians plan to ruin Maine’s infant sardine packing by cutting herring supplies. The two fish have a close interrelation along the East Coast.

Maine

Farmer poet mocks White House nuptials with political verse

A New York Sun item prints a Long Island farmer poet’s ode on President Cleveland and a future first lady. He urges Mrs. Cleveland to heed lobbyist pressures, cites Napoleon and Josephine, and foresees trials from female influence while hoping she remains firm in religion.

New York Sun White House Long Island Napoleon Josephine Mrs. Cleveland Dill

Three volumes of verse reviewed in 1886 critique

A periodical notes that Miss A. Mary F. Robinsons An Italian Garden shows melancholy but musical verse with pretty metres and good verbal felicity. St Gregorys Guest by Whittier pleases with old sincerity. Nekrasovs Red-nosed Frost translated from Russian is rough yet reveals realism.

George Henry Lewes Bassanio Miss Robinson Rispetti Sappho Celia Herrick Nekrasov A. Mary F. Robinson Boston Roberts Bros St. Gregory's Guest John Greenleaf Whittier New York Houghton, Mifflin & Co Red-nosea Frost N. A. Nekrasov Ticknor & Co

Plans for Boston Public Library in Copley Square

City Architect Arthur H. Vinal completes plans for a fireproof three story library in Copley Square with 224 foot frontage. The building includes a grand lobby, book stacks for over 1,000,000 volumes, six book lifts, extensive reading rooms, art spaces, and dedicated rooms for libraries of Thayer Nichols Franklin Bowditch Ticknor Prince Parker and Barton, plus a large annex linking to the stack and a delivery desk. The land was donated by the Commonwealth and the city appropriated 460000 for construction.

Public Library Copley Square Arthur H. Vinal Boston Commonwealth Dartmouth Street Boylston Street Bates Hall Patent Library Medical Bowditch Library Thayer Nichols Franklin Ticknor Library Prince Library Parker Library Barton Library

The London cabman life and the pay controversy

The public questions tipping against cab fare as a gratuity, while the cabman pays a daily rent to the cabmaster. The piece argues that drivers receive only a meager wage unless they own their own vehicle, facing dangers from weather, police enforcement, and the risk of manslaughter charges after accidents. It compares cab work to seafaring labor and criticizes the structure of the hire versus the pourboire system.

London Telegraph Bakshish Jack

Boston health board dispute over disinfection process

Moorfield Storey argued before the city health committee that current port restrictions mirror those of civilized countries and defended disinfection as necessary for public health. Dr. Durgin of the Boston board condemned the process as inefficient, calling for alternative methods and noting a divide within the board. A further hearing is scheduled for next Tuesday.

Moorfield Storey Committee On Health City Hall Storey Durgin Boston Board of Health Warren Sanitary Conference Philadelphia Board of Health

CURRENT OPINION AND OTHER NOTES FROM A NORTHERN PAPER

A collage of brief opinions and satirical notices. Topics include fishermen trade rights, fair trials for public figures, patriotism, political reform in Rhode Island, honest politicians, media critiques of Cleveland, free trade jokes about mackerel, and reflections on prohibition and Democratic support. Names and places appear in scattered commentary from Montreal, Providence, Newport, Chicago, Detroit, New Haven, and New York.

Review of Winsor’s Co Operative History of America

London Saturday Review praises the multi author project edited by Winsor as a unity preserving venture. It commends the editor’s exhaustive knowledge critical faculty and mastery while noting minor drawbacks in a collaborative historical enterprise.

London Saturday Review America Winsor

Vermont Democrats call meeting on June 11 in Montpelier

Hiram Atkins, chairman of Vermont Democratic State committee, has called a meeting of the committee at Montpelier June 11 at 7 30 p m to fix the time and place for holding the State convention.

Vermont Montpelier Hiram Atkins Democratic State Committee of Democratic City Committee Lee

Various Snippets Hit Or Miss From Distant Papers

A collection of humorous and satirical blurbs from multiple papers. Items mention Miss Folsom and a presiding precedent, shifts in labor and timing, Canadian tension, a St Louis labor leader, a hotel and undertaker joke, and backsliding by Sam Jones. Other notes cover a post office holiday question, gossip about cabinet wives, Paradise Paradis, Mikado post offices in Tennessee, wreck reporting, a Max wel l case jury, mining bonanzas, Texas editors touring St Louis, and Hugh Conway posthumous work.

Eclectic Medical Society Opens Twenty Sixth Meeting

The Massachusetts Eclectic Medical Society held the opening session of its twenty sixth annual meeting at the Revere House with President J P Bliss chairing. Officers elected include F L Jerauld as president R A Reid vice president J B M Dickens corresponding secretary B H Burrill recording secretary G H Markel librarian and councillors A J Marston A L Chase R W Geddes J A Tebor and A J Gelinson. Papers read span Ecce Homo Medica The Mind Cure Materia Medica Aspiration Theory on Practice Some Peculiar Cases. Annual address by A das Chase on What is for the Best Interest of Eclecticism in Massachusetts.

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