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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1890
Page
4
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A letter from a Boston observer warns that the public ball ground on the Common risks serious injuries to pedestrians. A boy was blinded briefly by a struck blow and a woman suffered a painful foot impact from a misthrown ball. The writer argues the Mayor’s permit no liability should deter halting such dangerous use and calls for revoking the privilege.
The Boston paper notes cholera spreading to southern Italy and Europe uniting to keep it out. It reviews the City of Paris investigation, upholding ship safety as well as the inevitability of accidents. It praises Representative Williams for the investigative push and critiques silver legislation while discussing copyright debates and moral rights in publishing.
The passage argues that printing foreign books without strict copyright harms American society and questions the wisdom of cheap books. It notes the lack of international copyright law as an issue deserving serious consideration and cites an English journal, the Saturday Review, as recognizing that the current system harms the U S more than England.
The McKinley tariff bill raises alarms over a treaty with Hawaii lifting sugar duties and Pearl Harbor privileges. Hawaii warns that duty free sugar destroys treaty benefits, while U S manufacturers protest higher tobacco duties harming cigar makers and consumers. Britain may exploit dissension as Pacific trade shifts.
The provisional government in Brazil has swiftly promul gated a new constitution amid doubts it would govern constitutionally. The change ends fears of a rogue junta or dictator and is welcomed as a stable outcome following the revolution.
The article outlines Brazil adopting a constitution closely modeled on the U.S. system with a two-house Congress, six-year president, and eventual electors. It notes the provisional steps for ratification, the hopeful outlook, and U.S. sympathy. It also covers New York’s Broadway turmoil from underground pipes, storage battery patents, rising Alpine deaths, and an effective Cape May gift enterprise promoting summer development.
The Kemmler case appeal was heard in the Court of Appeals but the court refused to hear the people’s argument and affirmed the lower court. The session occurred in Saratoga on June 24 with no change to the prior ruling.
Senator Hawley protested pension demagogism and urged the nation not to measure soldiers by money. He argued against arrears of pensions and bounties, saying true soldiers seek aid for suffering comrades and pride in service, not financial gain. The piece contrasts Hawley with Ingalls style demagoguery.
The Springfield Republican notes a split among leaders over tariff policy with Reed McKinley favoring broader hemispheric trade while Blaine advocates restricting trade to the home market. Senator Hale offers an amendment echoing Blaine, signaling Republican tilt in Congress toward leadership by Blaine or Reed and the President. The piece argues most Republicans nationwide will deem Blaine’s approach wiser.
The Harvard Law School Association met in Boston to approve raising vice-presidents from twenty to forty and adopting a life membership with a 15 per year fee. Alumni gained a vote on Harvard College overseers. Officers included President A. C. Carter and multiple vice-presidents from various states. three council members were elected for three years: S. G. Fisher, H. W. Bishop, and J. B. Braman.
Harvard alumni groups from the classes of 50 through 84 gathered at Boston clubs and hotels for informal dinners and anniversary celebrations. Notables included Phillips Brooks, Alexander Agassiz, Longfellow, Higginson, and Governor Brackett among attendees. The gatherings featured no speeches for many classes, with emphasis on reminiscence, socializing, and class achievements.
The Harvard Annex graduates held their annual meeting at Hotel Thorndike with 27 members present. Eliza beth Briggs was elected president, Frances A. Lord vice president, and Mary Coes secretary and treasurer for the next three years.
At the Harvard Divinity School Alumni Association gathering in the school chapel, Rev. John F. Moors was elected president for the ensuing year, with Rev. J. L. Seward as secretary and an executive committee including Revs. Edward H. Hall, F. G. Peabody, and A. B. Muzzey. The necrology lists George P. Bradford and William Silsbee. The dean noted growing membership, a $10,000 donation from Mr Spooner, and about $2,000 from others, while a resolution to allow AB graduates to vote for overseers was approved.
The Harvard Dental Alumni Association held its annual meeting at Young’s. Dr. J. E. Stanton presided and Dr. C. H. Taft was secretary. Sixty members attended with President Eliot and Peabody among guests. Speakers included Eliot, Peabody, Shepard, Grant, Merrian, Chandler, and others.
The Harvard Board of Overseers met at 50 State Street and approved appointments including William Morris Davis and LeBaron Russell Briggs from Sept 1 1890. They also opened discussion on scholarships for general competition and referred plans for a publication department to the Indo Iranian languages committee.
The Tremont House lessee Robert A. Stramnahan has creditors’ attachment, with about $50,000 owed. Hiram N. Stearns dry goods dealer of 17 Leverett Street has assigned to J Converse Gray, attorney of 23 Court Street. Stearns owes about $4,500 with nominal assets around $5,000.
A collage of quips and curios from dozens of notes and anecdotes. The piece recalls oddities from Paris to Rockland, recounting a theater device, a jewelled clock gift, a parrot’s zingers, a Fulton County judge tale, and a midget elected as Springfield councilman. It ends with literary digs and a cryptic card bearing a biting line about Augustus Daly.
Scribner’s July features Horace illustrations and varied poetry and fiction including The House of Tembinoka, In the Valley, Jerry and Octave Thanet story, with essays on The Suburban House and Rights of the Citizen. Harper’s July continues Dawder’s Port Tarascon, Thalia, Jonathan Wald’s chapbook, Social Life in Oxford portraits, Vexan Types, Baltic Russia, and essays on Architecture and Democracy Carducci Hellenic Reaction Treasury Notes.
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