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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1891
Page
4
The Boston Post lists subscription details and submission rules for writers. It notes readers failing to buy the paper should report the fact to the office. It states manuscripts with real names and addresses only, warns against returning rejected items, and provides payment details for the Post Publishing Co. in Washington, D.C.
From 3 to 11 Proarexade concert by an orchestra of forty. Feast of Pines. Day and evening Baldwin's Cades Band at Mrerem Street near Pear Scollay Square.
Proposed summer naval exercises off our Atlantic coast aim to train officers and men for actual warfare, despite a small fleet. The drills would test coast defense and familiarize the navy with offshore battle conditions, continuing the evolution policy begun with the squadron.
France faces sharp criticism for rejecting the Brussels convention on the African slave trade. The Chamber of Deputies stance favors allowing slave ships bearing French flags to avoid search, harming relations with England and Italy. Moral impact is argued to be negative regardless of policy excuses.
Dartmouth College announces a new alumni representation plan. Alumni will nominate five of twelve trustees, effectively electing them. There are three vacancies now and two more expected this year. The nomination committee includes Grover Williams, Luther Farnham, Jonathan Ross, Henry M. Purney, and Charles Fred Mathewson.
The City Council’s authority claim pushed unions toward a July Fourth mass meeting in Franklin Park, provoking a defiance of law. Leaders seek notoriety through arrests, while workers risk legal trouble amid foolish aims, prompting blame cast on council for fostering unlawful subordination.
A fragment suggests the Boston Journal challenges the claim that foreign manufacturers bear the tariff on imported goods, labeling the notion as erroneous and noting skepticism from readers.
In a spirited exchange, a federal agent aligned with Republican tariff aims condemns the hat trimmings case ruling. He argues duties shift cost to consumers, boosting importer profits, and urges discipline for anti protective rhetoric under the administration.
The London Times reports American agents are offering double wages to Welsh tin-plate workers to lure them to the United States. Local workers cry foul while manufacturers push for lower production costs, citing protected industries and tariff policies. The Pittsburg rolling mill conference signals price reductions, and a Philadelphia carpet firm strike is linked to foreign labor imports. Voters will weigh these issues before the next election.
The piece argues subsidies distort growth, citing Italy and France. It details Italy 1885 bounty laws paying per ton and horsepower with costly totals and stagnating tonnage, while French policy offered high per ton subsidies and sailing boosts that faded, questioning subsidies as a sound policy.
The text argues that subsidies stimulate shipping growth but create unhealthy excess and collapse. It compares France and Britain, noting France gained little tonnage while Britain expanded by 804,000 tons from 1878 to 1880. It urges critics to study consequences rather than cite Britain’s example.
The article argues that commencement gatherings reconnect Harvard and Yale graduates across decades, showing strong class loyalty and enduring ties beyond campus. It describes how social life in large colleges forms personal networks through shared interests, while allowing broad education beyond rote fraternity life. The piece notes how New York Sunday museum attendance reflects refined conduct and public interest in art.
Boston leads in library and museum plans while seaside hotels report a late season. Hotel prices have risen, limiting family budgets for summer outings. Families start later and return earlier as Fourth of July travel volume shrinks.
A new Paris venue Théatre de l Art Dramatique bans action on stage. Producers demand only talk, dismissing dramatic episodes. The concept may fail in Paris but could find a ready audience among Boston readers.
The retirement of Colonel W. W. Crarp from the Boston Journal management is announced with sincere regret. He is highly respected in journalism in the city, and his successor, Mr. O M ARA, is described as an experienced and estimable journalist.
About four thousand cabin passengers departed New York for foreign ports on last Saturday. The note implies immigration balances with Europe may be restored, yet returning emigrants bring back little of their dollars, leaving substantial American funds behind.
The report on the closing of the Italian Chamber of Deputies mirrors our own Congress, as a single touch of nature makes world legislative bodies resemble each other.
A Boston writer deplores electric cars on Marlboro Street as erasing daily talk and personal charm. He cites cats in distress, humane appeals, and memory of quieter times, then critiques loud conversations and restless life. The piece laments modern noise and seeks quiet contemplative rest.
The piece notes Henry Irving Jr making his professional debut during the revival of School by John Hare in London next season. It also mentions Lord Sackville stocking his Kent park with wild boars for boar hunts and various other society items. Orlando B. Potter of New York is described dining modestly on a 25 cent lunch in Nassau Street, contrasting with his wealth. The Rev Sam Small faces an indictment for libel against Rev J Wesley Hill of Orden Utah. Mrs McCosh’s name is to grace a Princeton infirmary building, and her attentions to ill students are highlighted.
A collage of 19th century snippets covers labor headlines in Paris and political mischief abroad. The piece notes the bakers strike ending, the formation of a third party, Parnell’s rumored plans, Kaiser in England talk, and quips on journalism, Rome lodging jokes, and a New York Sun clock anecdote. It also references Jacksonville catfish fines, a typewriter-led marriage joke, Census gender notes in Japan, and Archbishop Tait’s sermon misadventure.
Brentano's发布新作 The Bache lors' Club by L Zangwill a whimsical satire. Harper announces Bancroft Literary Industries Hibbard Sauna Munkittrick Farming Besant St Katherine's My Danish Sweetheart Roche Filibusters of the Spanish Main Macmillan Pennell The Stream of Pleasure River Chameli illustrations 90 in large paper edition.
The Harvard Law School Association offers a $100 prize for the best essay on three topics: corporate rights and remedies in contracts ultra vires, whether insanity is a system of rights, and the fiction of law. Open to third year class 1801-1802 and graduates of 1801. Essays limited to fifty pages, sent to secretary Louis Aaanpeta Boston MA by April 16, judged at the June meeting.
Paris, June 15. The piece surveys two Salons, praising the new exhibition and its impact on painting. It notes shifts toward lighter tones, color experiments, and critics' debates over merit, plus commentary on the Durand-Ruel show of American artists in Paris and the pressures of spectatorship on artists. The piece highlights the vitality of American students abroad and asks what becomes of artists after extensive training.
Minister Reid reports two Chilean insurgent agents visited Paris urging U S approval to reclaim arms from the Itata held munitions and arguing neighboring governments have recognized them. The United States vows no recognition of revolutionary movements, citing long-standing policy to avoid diplomatic ties with insurrectionary regimes.
The War Department issues a June 27 order confirming transfer of the Weather Bureau to the Department of Agriculture with its duties to take effect July 1 1891. Officers Dunwoody Glassford Dosepn Maxbeld Finley are assigned to the Weather Bureau and will report to the Secretary of Agriculture and the bureau chief. The chief may be civilian or General Greely. transfer expected to occur Wednesday next.
Immigration Inspector Litten reported to the Treasury Department that Isase Woolf of Chicago imported two dinrikshas and two Japanese men to propel them for hire in a Chicago park. Assistant Secretary Nettleton said the act violates the alien contract labor law, but no suit will be filed if the workers are sent back promptly.
A new boiler at the Essex Electric Car House on Derby Wharf exploded during testing, blowing a hole in the side of the building. No injuries reported and investigators began examining the incident.
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