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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 28, 1887

Page

5

Jubilee Week Ends With Naval Spectacle And Art Sale

Jubilee week features include police reporting only four drunks despite lenient licensing, military sports by York and Lancaster Regiment with major prizes won, and a naval show by HMS Pylades amid smoke and mines. Halifax hosts an art loan exhibit highlighting antique furniture, tapestries, and royal memorabilia, while coronation artifacts and Queen Victoria items draw interest despite persistent fog and postponed illuminations.

Harmax N. S Spreta England Queen Vic York and Lancaster Regiment Portsmouth Cutbill H. M.S. Bellerophon Pylades Boston Halifax Prince Consort Victoria Adelaide Women’s Christian Temperance Union Ictoria Westminster Abbey Earl of Norfolk Charles II Worcester

Butler and the Bells

General Benjamin F. Butler defends his handling of church bells captured during the 1860s war. He cites supporting accounts from the Washington Post and Bangor Commercial, noting bells once used for rebellion were sold or rehung, with some returning to churches in New England. He claims the bells were sent to U.S. quartermaster stores in Boston as contraband of war and that the matter appears in Treasury records.

New York B. F. Butler The Sun Washington Washington Post Bangor Commercial Ben Butler South Baptist Church of Wayne Butler New Orleans St. Patrick’s Cathedral United States Boston Ballist St. Patrick's Church St. Patrick’s New England Treasury Benjamin F. Butler

Blaine-Sherman clash starts in Ohio Lima vote

A Columbus dispatch reports the Blaine faction won the Lima county GOP meeting with 89 to 21 against Sher man's supporters as Waldorf urged pledging Ohio to Sherman in 1888. Also, Jean Collins, 33, a sailor aboard the brig Jennie Hurlburt at Gardiner Maine, fell from the mainmast and is mortally mangled.

New York Columbus Ohio Lima Blaine Allen County Waldorf John Sherman Sherman Jean Collins Jennie Hurlburt Gardiner

Doctors in Council at American Homeopathy Session

Saratoga June 27. The forty fourth annual session of the American Institute of Homeopathy opened at the Grand Union. President Orme of Atlanta reviewed progress and urged more cooperation, standard pharmacopoeia, and targeted research. Statistics show 1200+ students, 12,000 practitioners, and growing hospital and college support nationwide.

Saratoca Speciar American Institute of Homeopathy Grand Union Great Hotel New England Boston F. H. Orme Atlanta Orme United States Homeopathic Pharmacopmia Bureau of Pharmacology S Am Bureau of Materia Medica Bureau of Organization, Registration and Statistics T. Franklin Smith New York City Minneapolis Detroit Pennsylvania Pittsburg Massachusets Westboro Insane Hospital Philadelphia Homeopathic College New York Iriay

Harvard Annex Holds Commencement in Cambridge

The Harvard Annex, also known as the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, held its commencement in Cambridge at 5 p.m. The president Mrs Louis Agassiz reviewed the year's progress and the institution's aims. Ninety regular students and additional elective students attended as graduates were Elizabeth Briggs Mary Coes Celeste A Herrick Elizabeth S Seelye Gertrude E Tyler. Certificates for four year elective study were awarded to Oliver Morrison Grace H Macurdy and Effie Lanagan.

Harvard Annex Society For the Collegiate Instruction of Women Cambridge Mis Louis Agassiz Elizabeth Briggs Boston Mary Coes Worcester Celeste A. Herrick New York City

Southern Solidarity Defended Amid Campaign Sectionalism

The Atlanta Constitution argues that despite calls to break the solid South over economic issues, the Democratic party should keep the region united. It warns that Republican campaigns will exploit sectional lines and urges the South to remain cohesive rather than fractured.

Democratic Party South The Constitution Atlanta Constitution

Political Parties Portrait in 1888 Voter Mood

The piece mocks Republicans led by Blaine Sherman and the Generals, claiming they are uniformly mischievous and self serving. It satirically notes they claim patriotism yet seek office, predicting voters will answer in 1888 with declined thanks.

Blaine Sherman Republican Party Herald Inds

Amusements Listings From City Theaters

Boston Museum presents Little Corinne in Arcadia, evening show at 8. Bijou Theatre offers Ireland as It Is daily at 2 and 8. 8 Music Hall runs a promenade concert, evening starting at 11. Oakland Garden features Brocolini Opera Company with an 11 o clock show. Horticultural Hall showcases Munkacsy's Christ Before Pilate painting.

Boston Museum Corinne Arcadia BIJOU Ireland Oakland Garden Brocolini Opera Company Horticultural

Harvard Class of ’87 Dinner Celebrates Victory Over Columbia

Harvard graduates from the class of 1887 held a celebratory dinner at the Brunswick. Toasts were given by Frank Michael and others as telegrams announced Harvard's four length win over Columbia at New London. Captain Keyes’s message raised the margin to five lengths and sparked roaring cheers.

Brunswick Harvard Edgar Rich New London Frank Michael Rich Columbia Trinity Keyes Yale Waite Supreme Court of the United States Harvard Senate Harvard House Sargent Enius

Tenement morality and the Forum’s July balance

The Forum highlights Father Huntington’s Tenement House Morality, detailing life in New York tenements with crowded rooms, shared spaces, saloons, and noise. It praises the moral impulse behind the piece while noting the issue’s persistence and urging broader reader engagement. It also reviews other Forum items, calling some discussions insightful and others less strong, with various authors and topics.

Father Huntington New York Eacherson A. P. Peabody Grant Allen Princeton Newman Smyth Mary Parmele Henry Leok Rosalind Harris

The Dean and the Race

A telegram delivered during a Winchester Cathedral service shocks the Dean when it says Ormonde has won. Clerks mistake the message for him and assume a wager, while the true recipient was a Winchester trainer named Dean, leading to confusion over who won and why the telegram was sent.

London Winchester Cathedral Ormonde Dean Winchester

Few tall men in the English militia

Court Journal reports militia weakness in stature as well as numbers. Only 806 of 114,489 soldiers exceed six feet, while about a quarter are under 5ft 5in and 20,000 fall between 5ft 5in and 5ft 6in. The piece notes historical standards would have rejected undersized recruits. A closing ad-like note pans shopping deals at Gilchrist store for parasols robes laces and gloves.

Court Journal

Real estate and auctions schedule for Wednesday

Today listings include real estate for Charles W Sawyer at 3 p m and Brice Evans and Son at 3 p m. Also carriage sales by A M Bates at 10 30 a m and horses and carriages by Albert Howe and Co Brighton at 11 a m. Stock offerings by R L Day and Co at 11 30 a m and Francis Henshaw and Co at 12 m. Real estate by Brice Evans and Son at 4 p m and S R Knights and Co at 5 30 p m.

Charles W. Sawyer Brice Evans & Son A. M. Bates Albert Howe & Co Brighton R. L. Day & Co Stocks Francis Henshaw & Co S. R. Knights & Co

Marriages Recorded in City and Nearby Towns

On June 23 in this city the Rev G Smith united Robert Booker and Martha Jackson. Also on June 15 in Wollaston the Rev D M Wilson joined W P Chase Jr and Edith E Brown. Edward Glidden wed Annie Keeney in this city on June 23. Elias B Jones tied Belle Blodgett in Newtonville on June 23. In Rockland on June 22 Franklin Nesmith wed Hattie Frances Lawrence, daughter of Franklin N Lawrence.

Booker—Jackson G. ¥. Smith Robert Booker Martha Jackson Chase—Brown Wollaston D. M. Wilson W. P. Chase, Jr Edith E. Brown Glidden—Queeney David Greggs Edward Glidden Annie Keeney Jons Blodgett Newtonville

Deaths in New England Area Hose Ledger June 24 1895

Death notices from Spencer Needham Cambridge Charlestown Chelsea and nearby towns list ages from 9 to 95 including Fanny Dewing Leslie Dow Anna Hill James Kidder Angela Moore Ezra Palmer Martha Richardson Elizabeth Schoff Oren Sleeper George Swazey and others with dates of last rites and residences.

North Cambridge James D. Kidder Moore Angela K. Moore James M. Moore Thomas Starr King Palmer Ezra K. Palmer Richardson Charlestown Martha Gardner Thaddeus Richardson Schoff Fitzwilliam N. H Elizabeth P. Schoff Sleeper Maplewood Oren C. Sleeper Swazey Chelsea George B. Swazey Bucksport

Harvard College Overseers Election Notice 1887

Board of Overseers announces election by Harvard Alumni on Commencement Day June 29 1887 at Massachusetts Hall Cambridge to fill five six year terms. Polls open ten a m to four p m. voters must hold qualifying degrees per 1865 act. meeting to be held June 29 at Memorial Hall Cambridge at 9 a m.

Board of Overseers Harvard College Statutes of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Hall College Yard Cambridge Charles R. Codman Alexander McKenzie Memorial Hall Harvard Hall Henry Parkman Sanders Theatre Holworthy Hall Henry I. Bowditch

Class of 1873 Decennial Dinner at Parker House

Holworthy 6 and Holworthy 14 will be open for commence ment day activities with a business meeting at noon. The class dinner is set for Tuesday, June 28, at 7 o'clock. Arthur L. Ware and William E. Russell serve as class secretaries.

Stoughton James C. Davis Holworthy Young's Hotel Boston Charles E. Grinnell Young’s Thayer A. L. Lincoln, Jr Arthur L. Ware Parker House WM. E. Russell Frederic Almy the Brunswick Samuel A. Eliot

Prose Pastorals by Herbert M Sylvester

The listing notes a first volume in prose pastorals by Herbert M Sylvester, a 12mo gilt top edition priced at $1.50.

Herbert M. Sylvester

Guide books praised as thorough and useful

Critics hail the guide books as the best and most systematic resources yet produced in the country. They are called complete exhaustive and exact and deemed valuable for travelers and worthy of library inclusion.

Independent

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