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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 02, 1886

Page

2

Park bonds urged to fund Franklin Park plan

Park commissioners advocate a fifty year loan to finance park construction with bonds up to five million dollars or actual costs, to be repaid by sinking funds or one fiftieth annual principal. They warn current taxation strains and urge immediate funding for Olmstead plan to build Franklin Park efficiently.

Park Commissioners Franklin Park Boston Mr. Olmstead Wood Island Park

Washington Society Shocks Over Gatler Joe Recital

In a Washington drawing room, fashionable society defends literary merit yet recoils from a performance of Gatler Joe. They dismiss real suffering as vulgar when presented without stage glamour, exposing their hypocritical tolerance for art and their moral sensibilities.

James Brown Potter Gatler Joe Washington Sims Ari Ke Camille Vpatti Shakespeare Fielding Smollett Swift Aimee Jodie Joe

The Chinese Difficulty and American Policy

The piece notes protests by the Chinese on the Pacific coast prompting Washington to respond. It discusses the President and Cabinet weighing justice and possible Chinese restrictions, citing the Golden Rule and national rights to protect citizens. It argues that while anti Chinese sentiment may be overblown, Mongolian persecutions raise questions about future Chinese immigration and the balance of law and safety.

Pacific Washington Far West

Revered slugger Downs shown as social scourge and thug

A critical column paints the Reverend Downs as a defiant criminal, describing him as guerilla, highwayman, and hypocrite. It accuses him of using professional crime tactics to attack a Post representative, portraying rapid degeneration into coarse, treacherous brutality.

Slugger Downs

Springfield Prepares For 250th Anniversary Celebration

Springfield faces a notable anniversary as it marks 250 years since settlement, highlighting its status as western Massachusetts’ real metropolis with rich traditions, notable industries, commerce, social movements, and historic journalistic influence. Providence also celebrates its own 250th year this season.

Springfield Massachusetts Providence

Post regrets misquotation of John H. Fitzgerald speech

The Post apologizes for an unintentional injustice to John H. Fitzgerald over an abstract of a Thursday evening speech. It misrepresented him as claiming Irish Americans controlled city government. He is described as loyal, modest, and proud of both his race and citizenship, with a firm stance against race politics.

the Post John H. Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Humbert Margherita Aimee Texas etJl Sue Preston B. Plumb Kansas Leavenworth Nicholas W. Smith Norace Greeley Plumb Kansas News Emporia R. J. Hinton State House of Representatives Kan United States Senate

All-Sor's Racket Oddities and Quick Quips

A collage of comic verses and sharp wits from late 19th century papers. Jests on politics, labor, and manners mix with quips about wind days, bicycle riders, and city life. Notable mentions include Mr. Sam Small, the Mikado denouncement, and humorous exchanges from Philadelphia and Brooklyn papers.

Notable Theft and Excessive Drinking Laid Bare

A Detroit scene shows a boy and a man arguing over a missing flour barrel with the thief escaping via a wagon and another man later stealing the barrel. A Boston gentleman’s spree follows with six whiskeys and multiple drinks ending in illness, deemed a scientific but failed experiment by a local expert.

Boston Revere House

Notable 19th Century Figures and Entertainers in Brief Portraits

A collage of public figures and celebrities across Europe and America is sketched in brisk, anecdotal micro-notes. The piece mentions Manon Crawford, Senator Dolph, Henry Watterson, Mr Hoar, Louis Kossuth, Private Dalzell, Kate Chase Sprague, Alfred Tenny, Mme Bernhardt, Rev Addison Foster, and other politicians and entertainers. It offers quick character sketches, travels, debts, salaries, and witty asides.

Louis Kossuth Naples Dalzell Kate Chase Sprague Paris Chicago Alfred Tenny Mme. Bernhardt Lucy Hooper Sarah Addison P. Foster Jersey City Chelsea Mass Immanuel Congregational Church Society of the Highlands Sackville West Washington Miss West Charles Hardinge Legation Boston Montreal Ottawa Marquis of Lansdowne Government House Jones Nevada Florida Detroit

Protection of Cooperage Interests Brought to Congress

Isaac B Mills of Mills Bros Boston and John W Dyer of Portland led a 34 delegate delegation to Washington to seek tariff protection for sugar hogshead shooks heads and hoops. They urged a quarter cent per pound reduction in duty on sugar imports to aid the American cooperage industry facing decline from bagging substitutions.

Isaac B. Mills Mills Bros State Street Committee of Ways and Means Washington Post Mills Boston New England John W. Dyer Portland Maine J. >. Wiseslow Congressional Committee Willard’s Capitol Morrison Mr. Mills Cuba West India Islands Porto Rico Committee On Ways and Means House Dyer Hylt Lora & Hylt Baltimore Reed Alexandria J. 8. Winslow

Theory of Gravitation Misunderstood Lecture Sparks Debate

Leonidas Le Deuci Hamilton challenges Newtonian gravity in Paine Memorial Hall. He argues gravitation results from interspace matter and proposes a series of twelve propositions claiming planetary motion, tides, lunar movement, solar cycles, and broader physics can be explained by a dynamic interplanetary medium and a dissipation of energy.

Leonidas le Deuci Hamilton Paine Memorial Hall Hamilton Newton George Washington America England France Siath Earth William Thomson

Signal Mysteries. Conflicting Views on Lowell Road Accident

The railroad commissioners resumed the adjourned inquiry into the Boston and Lowell railroad wreck at Woburn Junction. Witnesses including engineer A G Hammond, conductor A E Laplin, and others testified about signals, brakes, and switches, with expert Henry Snyder detailing interlocking systems. The hearing adjourned indefinitely.

Boston and Lowell Woburn Junction Mellen Albert GC. Hammond A. E. Laplin Montreal Hammond J. B. Falls Boston and Lowell James H. McCarty Rigau Enccb Forbash McCarty Henry Snyder Union Switch and Signel Company Pittsburg Woburn Mr. Hammond Mlen

Life of J W Lanergan Theater Figure Ends in City

James W Lanergan a prominent East theater figure dies in the city. Born Taunton Sept 28 1828 son of Irish and Mayflower descendant families, he rose from amateur groups in Fall River to major stages including Portland Museum Lyceum Boston Museum and Niblo's Garden. He later staged companies in New York St John Detroit and Boston, with notable roles and leadership across decades.

James W. Lanergan Taunton Howland Cape Cod Lonergan Fall River Dinneford Bill Dinneford Panama Jerry Merrifield John McGowan H. N. Sprague Eiseron Portland Seis Lanergan Lyceum Theatre Sudbury Street Boston Museum Collatinus Howard Payne Brutus Booth Sue Broadway Theatre New York Thomas Garry George H. Barrett William Kurns Blake Blake Ooward Sandford Moses W. Fiske New York Dramatic Company New England St. John Dramatic Lyceum West Indies Boston Boston Theatre Laertes Mr. Booth Hamlet Julia Bennett Barrow Ophelia Niblo’s Garden West Detroit Opera House St. John Academy of Music

Fragmented numeric ledger appears in period listing

A dense OCR style sequence of numbers and fragments includes prices, dates, codes, and measurements. The text resembles a damaged ledger or price list with mixed units and unclear context, featuring multiple percentages, am/pm stamps, and stray letters.

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The fragment appears garbled with mixed characters and partial numbers. readable bits indicate a monetary figure of 9.80 and references to times or codes but no clear event, person, organization, or place to anchor a concise news item.

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