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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1892
Page
3
Hoyland Smith, the Post Relay Rider, will attempt the 24 mile record as Gloucester hosts races. The Reds clinched victory in a tense Sunday contest against the Colonels with a late surge and strong defense.
Chamberlain pitched well for Cincinnati allowing only one hit through six innings as Louisville mounted four hits in a row to score two runs. Smith powered the offense with a home run and key batting, while McPhee and Vaughan stole bases in a tense contest before Cincinnati secured the win, 7 to 3, with Meekin handling the pitching duties. Attendance reported at 5,297.
J C Lathrop the Harvard trainer is hired by Gloucester Athletic Club for July and August. He will coach sprinting and running aspirants and offer advice to other athletes as the club aims for a strong showing at the carnival in late August.
The Working Boys Home plans Oakland Garden games on Aug 6 with registration efforts. Dorchester jumpers Crowley, Ryan, B Doherty expected to perform well. Monkiey to start running, aided by promising jumping ability. Irvington Oval hosts all round championships this afternoon. Joe Walcott set to meet Denny Butler in three weeks for a $500 purse. Callahan’s walking act amused spectators on Saturday. Hopkins aims to qualify in the 100 yard dash. Finneran viewed as a medal threat after strong showings, while Dr Scanlan trains for quarter and half mile events with Gloucester Athletic Club.
The text notes a runner who excels in mile races at future games and a former lacrosse player from Canada. John Graham is named starter for the Lowell games next Saturday. Locals expect Elmer White to win the mile match race against Wiggin. Professor James Walsh of Boston College will time events at Melrose and the Suffolk games on July 4 at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. respectively.
Hoyland Smith, famed Post relay rider, aims to beat Ede’s world 24 mile record in one hour at Charter Oak Hartford July 5. Pacemakers include Windle Taylor Tyler Taxis Graves Arnold and Hartford teammates Seeley. A table of Ede’s times is provided to show the required pace.
A 13 year old boy Samuel Dugan of Mechanic Street Newton Upper Falls used grocery money to ride to Boston. He explored the city, visited dime museums, then boarded a train to City Point for a sea breeze. Police from Station 12 recovered him and await parental pickup.
Chelsea Joe, known for his tall figure and sombrero, visits the barber and emerges with a fresh haircut. Onlookers at Clark's Hotel and Adams House react with astonishment, eyes following him as he passes. The scene captures the town’s playful attention to his recent style reversal.
The second Sunday afternoon concert drew a large audience with full seating and grass spectators. Programs featured Mendelssohn Oberon wedding march, cornet solos, Iolanthe selections, Life in the Country, The Hippie Minstrels overture, and a Midwinter concert galop amid praise for the high standard.
John Bloute a 19 year old inmate from Lynn died by hanging in his cell at the South Boston House of Correction between 9 and 10 o clock Saturday night. He had been sent there on Oct 9, 1888 to the Concord Reform school for larceny and was transferred here Sept 1, 1891.
An evening vesper service featured a responsive program and a Damon family concert. Boston lecturer Rev. William H. Lyon traced Ralph Waldo Emerson from his father William Emerson through poverty to ministry, lecturing career, books, and late life, closing with reading guidance.
To the Editor of the Post. Sir Many thanks for the valuable advice and the gentlemanly manner in which it was given by the Post lawyers. The Post will be my daily newspaper hereafter, and the lawyers who used me so well my legal advisers if ever I need an 'Trormanen Dentor.
Yale and several colleges report baccalaureate sermons on June 26. Presidents Dwight Bartlett and others address Christian education, inward life, and moral courage. Sermons cover Colby Middlebury Amherst Dartmouth Whitman and Vermont teams.
A French couple opens a three story New York house as an improvised playhouse named A la Cascade. The venue lacks footlights and scenery while audiences of workers fill the space, viewing imagined landscapes through improvised parlor setups. The owners fear criticism and seek genuine audience participation rather than formal reviews.
The Miranda steamer of the Red Cross line will depart Philadelphia at 4 PM with the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science relief expedition for the Peary party. Captain Leseman loaded supplies for the voyage and for the Peary expedition.
A survey of recent poetry collections and literary translations features I D Van Duzee’s By the Atlantic with tributes to Webster Whittier Emerson Longfellow Beecher and Wendell Phillips. It also covers Whitman selected poems edited by Arthur Stedman Beowulf translated by Hall and works by Morris Parker and Lummis with notes on Beowulf Hall Morris Parker Lummis and Whitman.
The Springfield Republican faults the executive council for defeating Irving B. Sayles’s nomination to the savings bank commission on partisan lines. Sayles, a Democrat, would succeed Warren E. Locke, a Republican, and the piece argues fitness favored Sayles. It urges Governor accountability and criticizes council obstruction.
The late Governor Fletcher of New Hampshire left a fund for Dartmouth College with 8500 f to be offered biennially as a prize for essays. In February 1891 a $500 prize for "The Right Observance of the Lord's Day" was awarded to the Rev. George Guirey, pastor of Emanuel Baptist Church Paterson New Jersey.
The New Orleans Picayune notes Mrs Maggie Davis Hayes daughter of Jefferson Davis donated furnishings for rooms at the Childs Drexel Home for Printers in Colorado Springs. Northern and Southern printers praised the gesture and the memorial to her father. She also funded furniture for a room in a Colorado Convalescent Home for Invalids.
Three youths perished while swimming in a pond at the corner of Fortieth and Leavitt streets. Frank Schlich aged, John Kerns, and Cornelius Kerns aged 13, 11, and 9 respectively, drowned yesterday afternoon in Chcaco.
A business letter to the Post’s business manager commends the paper for charity appeals for Carney Hospital. It notes an order for 15,000 lines of ads over a year and commits to 1876 lines or one page in the red white and blue edition to advertise Hub Punch and G O Taylor Whiskeys, signed by C H Graves & Sons.
Five gentlemen charter a boat at Stratford and attempt to demolish Charlecote park’s barrier across the Avon. They smash the chain and posts, one dives to recover a hammer, and police meet the party at the Unicorn Inn. Names include Hubert Howard and Henry Farmer. A Stratford committee may raise funds for defence.
The Cunard steamer Scythia from Liver pool arrived at East Boston dock at 10 AM yesterday with eleven saloon passengers sixty three second cabin and 530 steerage. The saloon list includes Robert G Haliburton Miss A Pilling H Fernald W S North Dr A D Sinclair W S Kramer wife and infant S A Whitney Mr and Mrs Bernhard.
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