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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1887
Page
4
Milk near Washington Street lists daily and weekly subscription prices with terms. One year nine dollars, six months four fifty, three months two twenty five, one month seventy five cents. Weekly Friday issue one year one dollar fifty. Entries entered as second class matter with payment at sender's risk and checks payable to the Post Publishing Company.
The Genesta wins the jubilee race around the British Islands, earning favor in America for its known owner and sportsmanlike character. Also noted is the upcoming riot at Faneuil Hall with aldermen appointing a committee to probe last week’s Protestant meeting delay and potential trouble involving the janitor.
In a Sunday speech at the New York Academy of Music Mr George Grovce railed at Dr McGlynn and warned voting citizens to remember him against corrupt politicians. Meanwhile the New York board of aldermen approved a $3000 payment for damages claimed from a street grade change, despite counsel’s opposition and questions of value versus damage.
The constitutional centennial commission advances preparations for the proposed hundredth anniversary of the framing and promulgation of the U S Constitution in Philadelphia. States show willingness to participate, funds are allocated, and the main feature of the celebration is set, signaling a milestone in republican history.
The article outlines a major civic observance in Philadelphia featuring an oration and poem, a military display, an industrial procession, and a lasting memorial. It reports King Kalakaua’s mounting difficulties in Hawaii, with factional calls for a republic as Spreckels predicts abdication once armed rebellion appears. The strategic Pacific coaling station is noted as increasingly important with a growing U.S. navy presence.
The Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique de Panama plans its annual meeting in Paris next month as officers travel via New York. Directors show discouragement over progress, with funds scarce and contractors unpaid. A $120 million loan remains partly subscribed, but prospects for further funds appear unlikely.
Read as a diplomatic dispatch from Constantinople. The piece notes a direct, acute crisis over a proposed convention with England regarding Egypt. It highlights tense exchanges between Lord Granville and the French ambassador, and suggests England’s perceived necessity drives the dispute amid broader European financial concerns.
A critical view of European powers shaping Egypt through courts and administration. It cites French and German bond interests and English hesitations as factors in the imperial contest. The piece notes Decazes and Gambetta era influences, plus French aims for a foothold in the eastern Mediterranean and potential clashes over Turkey.
The London Spectator discusses cooperation and profit sharing in English cooperatives, citing the Leicester strike as justified and blaming the works manager. It notes unions’ wary stance toward the Co operative Wholesale Society and reviews Hueues’s proposals for employee part ownership and governance, while warning of practical hurdles. The piece also mentions a 52 year old spinster’s death from tight lacing, and assorted society notes on fashion and dining, ending with a Chicago pig roast fire.
A Western journal notes with scandal an English newspaper item reporting the Bishop of Salisbury and Mrs Worps Worth beginning a driving tour through the southern portion of the diocese toward the seaside. The piece highlights the custom of naming the bishop in such travel notices.
The bishop’s naming style yields odd effects as titles blur with personal names. The example “The Arch bishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Tarr” creates an awkward anti climax in formal address.
Readers praise the expansive tropical plant display in the Public Garden with exotic trees ferns and vivid arrangements near Commonwealth Avenue and Charles Street. The writer notes missing labels and laments the rockery by Arlington Street while imagining birds among the leaves and a forthcoming four in hand coach for public use.
General Loris Melikoff, former interior minister, reportedly dying in Nice. Northwestern University president Joseph Cummings to summer in Europe with his wife. ExSecretary Manning and family and banker Conrad T. Jordan to spend summer at Long Branch. Wedding cards issued for Representative James E. Fitzgerald and Louise B. Keenan in East Boston. Mme Porcher, Paris author patron, comments on loans. Belgians host Napoleon era rooms. Windsor hosts Kapiolani and Japanese royalty amid color line tensions. Mrs Cleveland favors Mrs Vilas in Cabinet circle. John Slayback earns profits in bear raid on NY&NE stock. dubbed “The Christians at Work.” Royal dinner excludes nonwhite royals. Windsor hosts diverse guests for Victoria jubilee controversy.
The remark labels Republican peers as political hypocrites who dodge issues and struggle to craft speeches and letters for fraternal Northern and Southern veteran gatherings. It frames their rhetoric as performative while noting their past electoral paths.
The Chicago News argues that money stringency stems from currency inflation, driving broad property value inflation while money remains tight. It predicts the stringency will ease only when property inflation stops, suggesting a impending decline as property prices peak.
A Providence Journal opinion urges the Republican party to rely on its best elements for guidance toward revenue reduction tariffs civil service reform lower taxes and honest administration of public office, arguing a substratum of intelligence and honesty exists beneath demagoguery.
A historical note highlights free railroad passes for Michigan lawmakers as a factor in a six month session. The piece claims passes created perceived bribes, enabling weekly Friday adjournments and two wasted working days, potentially lengthening the term by about two months. It argues legislators should pay travel costs like other citizens.
The column surveys three new novels by William Black Mr Blackmore and Mr Hardy alongside Sabina Zembra praising Black s charm and realism while noting a slight unreal glamour in Sabina Zembra The Confessions of Cloud by Edgar Fawcett draws critique for its ambition and uneven execution Dick s Wandering by Julian Sturgis is praised as pleasant and well told with memorable heroine Kitty Holcroft
A review of The Van Gelder Papers by G P Putnam's Sons and Clarke & Carrath discusses vivid Dutch legends from Long Island and the Hudson River region. It highlights ghostly tales of Captain Kidd and Tom Floyd, the human tragedies, and the colorful names of old Dutch settlers, praising the book's strong narration and old world charm.
A letter to the editor criticizes the Butler Club dinner attendance, calling most guests loyal followers of a political leader. The writer mocks their "personal loyalty" and cites a Westminster Review anecdote about dogs with their labels eaten, predicting the general will supply new labels before election day.
The American National Telephone Company, capital five million dollars, issued licenses for Banta patent based telephone service in the United States. The make and break current method claims to transmit speech over long distances with reduced interference. Instruments operate at 26 Broadway. Trustees elected include Thurber, Quintard, Starbuck, Hawes, Wallace, Jackson, Schreiner and Banta. Also noted are gas bubbles rising at Silver Lake near Traverse City, Michigan.
A collage of anecdotes and observations from 19th century papers notes on politics, conventions, fashion, postal cards and hoaxes. It waggishly mentions Republican politics, urban life, famous figures, poets, Native American news, church sociables, and species of irony across New York Chicago and Denver.
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