Popular Science Monthly previews and new books in 1887
The column notes Dr William A Hammond will publish an April article in Popular Science Monthly advocating direct contact with nature over book study. It lists upcoming editions and works from Houghton Mifflin and Co Ticknor and Co and Roberts Brothers including Marlowe Middleton Beecher and Rossetti, with details on volumes and publication timing.
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William A. Hammond
Popular Science Monthly
James Russell Lowell
Lowell Institute
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Marston
A. H. Bullen
British Museum
Christoper Marlowe
Middleton
Messrs
Funk & Wagnalls
Lyman Abbott
Henry Ward Beecher
Beecher
Messrs. Ticknor & Co
Browning
London
Boston
Ticknor & Co
New England
Ellis H. Roberts
Utica Herald
Europe
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
John R. Dos Passos
New York Bar
B. Tauchnitz
Freiherr
D. Christian K. Bernhard von Tauchnitz
Tauchnitz
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante
Roberts Bros
Rossetti
William M. Rossetti
Thackeray
Scribner’s Magazine
Subscription rates and payment instructions for Post Publishing Co
The notice lists daily and weekly subscription rates, payment methods, and where to send money. It notes second class matter status, sender's risk, and payable to Post Publishing Company. It also directs readers to locate Financial and Commercial Departments on pages six and seven and Ship News on page three.
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Post Publishing Company
Bulgaria to summon Sobranje on insurgent letters
The Bulgarian regency plans to call the Sobranje to review correspondence found on arrested insurgent leaders. It will seek to modify or confirm powers and may appoint a supreme authority if needed. The move is praised as a calm step amid Bulgaria's ongoing upheavals and the Sofia detainees deny mistreatment rumors.
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Bulgaria
Sofia
Bill for constitutional convention seeks voter mandate
The House introduced a bill by Mr. Dresser proposing a constitutional convention with all steps controlled by the people. A May popular vote decides the expediency, July selects delegates, August holds the convention, and its acts go to voters later. The measure binds the Commonwealth to nothing unless approved at each stage.
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Dresser
Commonwealth
Dauntless and Coronet Set Sail In Queenstown Ocean Race
The schooner yachts Dauntless and Coronet prepare to start at 1 p m today from New York toward Queenstown. The race hinges on fortune and seamanship with the Dauntless choosing the northerly route and the Coronet the southern. The $20 000 prize awaits the faster vessel as crews aim to add interest to a largely even contest.
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Coronet
New York
Queenstown
Busy
Mr. Conv
Sandy Hook
Fitz eramp Pressures House Over Poll Tax Reconsideration
The writer argues Mr Fitz eramp of Boston seeks to force the House to reexamine its hostile poll tax resolve. He warns the effort rests on partisanship, not reason, and predicts revival only if rules are suspended and ree consideration fails. The result would mirror the original vote.
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Fitz@eramp
Boston
Brigham City Election Tests New Anti Polygamy Oath
Reports from Brigham City Utah show Mormons quickly exploiting a flaw in the new anti polygamy law. Public officers jurors and voters must subscribe a test oath similar to that used for suspected secessionists on loyalty.
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Brigham City
Utah
Mormon Oath Still Causes No Deterrent at Brigham City Election
The article notes the Mor mon church members sworn under the oath of polygamy belief faced perjury charges but still voted in large numbers to elect the church ticket. It argues the oath did not disfranchise Saints and condemns the law for overreaching by requiring belief under penalty.
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Brigham City
Municipal Autonomy and the Danger to Local Self Government
The piece argues that municipal autonomy must be preserved against state overreach. It cites 1875 New York commission findings on local self government, warns against guardianship by state authorities, and endorses local responsibility as essential to liberty and democracy. It highlights the value of independent city governance and citizen pride.
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Boston
Berkshire
Barnstable
Essex
Tilden
New York
William M. Ewarts
James C. Carter
Oswald Ottendorfer
FE. L. Gookin
William Allen Butler
Tocqurville
Henry L. Pierce
Monuments of James Buchanan Eads Leader of American Engineering
The obituary notes Eads who died Tuesday in Nassau N P as the mind behind the steel bridge at St Louis the opening of the South Pass and the Tehuantepec ship railway. It highlights a life spent in steamboating on the Mississippi where he earned the title Captain and carried on influential engineering work.
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St. Louis
New Orleans
Foote
Farragut
Henry
Donelson
Eaps
Congress
South Pass
Epps
Tehuantepec
Senate
James Buchanan Eads
Nassau
N. P
Mississippi River
Thoreau
Boston
Walden Pond
Lowel
Henry D. Thoreau
English verdict on damages for Philadelphia club dinner remarks
An English judge awards 100 pounds to a man aggrieved by an after dinner quip at the Clover Club in Philadelphia. The remark about Donny’s digestion travelled from Philadelphia to London, sparking debate on libel, propriety, and the reach of press reports across the Atlantic.
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Clover Club
Philadelphia
Howard Part
Dickens
Dotty
England
Parr
Mr. Doxsy
Comedy Club of Brookline Presents Tom Cobb Benefit
Next Tuesday evening the Comedy Club of Brookline will stage Mr. GitBER?'s play Tom Cobb at Union Hall Boylston street to aid the Children's Aid Society. The charity rescues vagrant children and places them at Pine Farm in West Newton for training and adoption, with an outdoor Boston worker aiding juvenile offenders on probation. The outcome seeks expanded branch societies nationwide to bolster city youth rescue efforts.
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Brookline
Mr. Gitber
Tom Cobb
Union Hall
Boylston Street
Children’s Aid Society
Pine Farm
West Newton
Boston
Diana of the Crossways as Merediths Masterpiece Reviewed
A review compares George Merediths Diana of the Crossways to Browning, praising Merediths prose and human depth. It notes the American reception, outlines the author’s similarities to and differences from Browning, and highlights the novel’s poignant passage about Diana and Redworth amidst scandal.
Diana of the Crossways and Mr Meredith’s Masterpiece
A Boston review praises George Meredith’s Diana of the Crossways as the more impressive work compared with The Ordeal of Richard Feverel calling Feverel a masterpiece but noting faults in method and style. The critic highlights Diana as vividly human and compelling beyond contemporary English novels.
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Richard Feverel
Richar Feverel
Diana
George Meredith
Boston
Roberts Bros. Price
Odds and Ends From Across The Globe And City Life
A miscellany of quips on manners law and news from Boston to Persia. Remarks on a dog arrested for a prize fight and a bishop of irony about wills and seas. Notes on labor strikes and dinners with oysters. Whittier linked to Harvard song and spoofed authors teased by Chicago papers.
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Chicago Herald
Harvard
Whittier
Chicago
Swing
Kansas City Times
Congress Seed Distribution Sparks Rural Political Talk
The New York World notes Congress uses seed distributions as a political tool for rural districts. Farmers who miss quotas seek explanations when meeting their representatives, while the prior session is not the garden seed session.
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Congress
N. Y. World
Cleveland's renomination judged by political viability
The piece argues that Mr. Cleveland gained from a nonpolitical marriage in the past but now his renomination depends on political usefulness rather than the event. It notes experts once predicted clear renomination, while current views differ and a new popular appeal could shift the decision.
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Cleveland
N. Y
Free Trade Scare Backed by Cleveland Policy Debate
The piece argues President Cleveland must back away from free trade and tax cuts without harming protection, warning an extra session would hinder business and not aid the Treasury. It notes free trade allies and protection supporters could block changes, echoing New York Tribune perspectives.
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Cleveland
Friends of Protection
Treasury
N. Y. Tribune
Elevated roads must go and Broadway plan urged
The advocates seeking authority to build an elevated railroad in Broadway urge haste. They estimate six years at Albany for approval and foresee removal of elevated structures and underground lines becoming a practical issue by then if progress continues.
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Broadway
Albany
N. Y
Go Slowly in Defence Preparations and Costs
The Louisville Courier Journal argues for slow, prudent defense planning. It warns against rushing millions into ships and fortifications without clear needs, noting a transition period where today’s answers may become useless tomorrow and criticizing past naval costs by the Republican party.
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United States
Republican Party
Louisville Courier-Journal
Caution Over International Tensions Calls for Calm Convention
The Picayune notes no danger of serious trouble and urges an additional convention. It says negotiations should proceed without hot blood or inflating minor issues into events of great consequence.
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N. OQ. Picayune
Dem
Ick
Everett defends independence claim in letter to editor
William Everett of Quincy writes to the Post correcting a claim of his youthful oratory and a Washington dinner with the President, stating he has not visited Washington since Cleveland's inauguration and has stayed mostly in New England. He requests a correction to recent journalism.
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Washington
Cleveland
New England
William Everett
Progress of Commercial Floriculture Presented by William J. Stewart
At the Massachusetts Horticultural Society meeting today a paper on The Progress of Commercial Floriculture will be read by Mr. William J. Stewart of Winchester.
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The
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
William J. Stewart
Winchester
Boston toboggan sail and Boston horse car talk
The writer observes boys rigging a sail on a toboggan on the Common and notes the picturesque view of Boston horse car processions as depicted by Pall Mall Gazette. He also praises a Boston artist living on seven cents a day and cites Motley's quote on luxuries versus necessities.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Boston
Pall Mall
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