Boston Music Review Highlights Boston Symphony Concert
In Boston the Twentieth Symphony Concert offers Berlioz and Massenet works with soloist Mrs. Walter C. Wyman praised for a rich, well trained soprano voice and musical intelligence. Floersheim's Scherzo delights, and the Pastoral Symphony by Beethoven earns high marks. Upcoming Haindel and Haydn festival plans, artist lineups, and season ticket details are noted.
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Twentieth Symphony
W. Sterndale Bennett
Otto Floersheim
Marie Magdelene
Massenet
Mendelssohn
Walter C. Wyman
Floersheim
Brahims
Political and economic notes from a 1890 issue
Governor Nicholls returns the Louisiana Lottery check of 100000 as lawmakers prepare to renew its charter. The article contrasts President Harrison’s appointment, Dakota’s lottery stance, and postal ship sorting debates. British strike news, coal miners, and a New York divorce case against Sheriff Flack are covered, with tariff reform and woollen manufacturers forming a new association led by Arthur T. Lyman.
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New York
Flack
Justice Barrett
Lodges plan on federal election bill draws fire in Congress
The House debate centers on Henry Cabot Lodge's draft election bill. Critics call it a weak revival of the Massachusetts ballot act with judiciary as returning officers, risking politicizing the courts and reducing states' authority. Some praise Senator Sherman for directness in a rival proposal.
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Henry Cabot LodGe
House of Representatives
Massachusetts
United States
Lopge
Sherman
Court of Claims
Crisp
Washington
Loper
Quay
Duplry
Woops
Indiana
Congress
Harrison
Sandford
Utah
Courts and plans clash over partisan schemes
The analysis argues that courts face a more alarming matter as two plans are weighed, with the undisguised partisan scheme of Senator Sherman deemed less dangerous than the alternative. The passage contrasts political strategies and their potential impact on the judiciary.
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Sherman
Business Men and Free Ships Debate in Boston
The Boston Business Men's Association backed free ships with limits and drew a sharp reply from the Advertiser. The association, a representative body of city trade groups, is accused of overstepping its charter by debating taxation and shipping as political matters and is defended as proper in guiding business welfare. Also mentioned is New York's deputy street cleaner Eppie Hagan and Byers' contrasting results in wet weather.
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Boston
Advertiser
Business Association
Shipowners’ Association
Boston Business Men’s Association
The
Feppre’? Hacan
New York
Byers
Broadway
Seventeenth Street
Twenty-third
Twentythird Street
Fifth
Sixth Avenues
Eppie” Hagan
Gas Billing Changes Prompt Reader Complaint
A reader questions the gas company's new bill format. The notice shows only present and previous meter readings with no period covered. The writer notes no reply was received when requesting the dates, and wonders why the billing period is not stated.
Britain’s liquor consumption climbs eighties tax tale
The 1889 value of Britain liquor intake rose 37 million dollars from prior years, led by spirits and beer. The rise is linked to spending by the working classes, the paupers, amid tariff reform debates. The piece argues the extra funds could have been used more wisely.
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Great Britain
Brunswick Selectmen seek tax to fund town watchman issue
In Brunswick Maine a town meeting article proposed a $1 per year tax per day to fund protection. A citizen objected noting the town is losing its liquor stock worth about $4000 to thieves, criticizing the watchman and suggesting a dog for Town Hall security.
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Brunswick
Mob hangs suspect after jail capture in Nebraska
J Stratton shot and killed W W Lewis a Bloomfield Nebraska butcher on Saturday. Within fifteen minutes after jail they dragged him out and hanged him.
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J. Stratton
W. W. Lewis
Bloomfield
Neb
Varied 19th Century News Notes and Literary Gossip
A collection of brief items and notices: remarks on Herman Merrivale, a young musician, Whitelaw Reid sailing to New York with wife, Punch joke, Gordon Bennett's cruise to Ceylon via Cairo to see Stanley, influenza causes linked to winter sleep on springs, Miss Charlotte Fiske Bates' illness and recovery, Lord Salisbury's health and weight, cremation support by the Duke of Bedford and cremation statistics, Dr Nansen's polar expedition plan, Browning manuscript sales in London with notes and anticipated interest from Browning clubs.
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Herman Merrivale
Trenton
Whitelaw Reid
France
New York
Gordon Bennett
Nice
Ceylon
Cairo
Stanley
Charlotte Fiske Bates
Toddie
Goliath
George Washington
Lord Salisbury
Dorsetshire
Duke of Bedford
England
Cremation Society of England
Woking
Nansen
Behring Straits
Ssiberia Islands
Browning
London
Dramatic Notes On Manager Pitt And London News
Rumors that Mr Pitt resigned as acting and stage manager at the Museum are false. Mr Field cites praise from Mr Gillette for Pitt’s faithful rehearsing of All the Comforts of Home. The Museum benefit for Mrs Vincent Hospital is set for April 24 with tickets likely in April. London notes mention Terriss's Paul Kauvar at Drury Lane May 10 and various theater moves including Langtry and Farren.
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Home Journal
Pitt
Museum
Field
Gillette
Pittin
Boston Museum Company
Mrs. Vincent Hospital Fund
Boston
London
New York
England
United States
Fred Leslie
Nellie Farren
Henry Neville
Eugene Tompkins
Minnie Palmer
America
Edward Lloyd
Etruria
Barnum
Hans von Bislow
Saale
Mass Boucicault
Governor Nichols Rejects Lottery Aid for Flood Defense
Governor Nichols of Louisiana refused a $100000 gift from the Louisiana Lottery Company to fund flood protection while the charter renewal question remains unsettled. In New York a wooden bridge collapse at Glen Falls caused two deaths and four injuries. In Olneyville Rhode Island a strike at Atlantic Mills ends with workers to return to duty. A landslide in Troy New York killed three in a brick house on Haverman Avenue. Mrs. Grover Cleveland laid the Eye and Ear Infirmary cornerstone in New York with Abram Hewitt presiding and Bishop Potter offering prayer. Harry W. King of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind faces charges of mistreatment and mismanagement. In Schenectady six prisoners escaped from jail. one has been recaptured. Northwest colliery near Carbondale Pennsylvania had a boiler explosion killing two and injuring several. Buildings were demolished.
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Nichols
Louisiana
Louisiana Lottery Company
Glen Falls
N. Y
South Glen Falls
Twe Atlantic Mills
Olneyville
R. L
Haverman’s Avenue
Troy
Grover Cleveland
New Eye and Kar
New York
Abram
Hewitt
Bishop Potter
George William Curtis
Harry W. King
Pennsylvania Institution For the Instruction of
Schenectady
Northwest
Carbondale
Penn
Tech students steal signs from shop window
Officer McKinley reports Augustus Robinson, a Institute of Technology student, nabbed for taking Jetters from C. P. George at 18 Buckingham Street. He notes a spike in similar vandalism by students who steal letters to apply for a society, claiming it grants membership eligibility.
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Verdi
Mme. Albani
Patti
Rossini
Lilian Nordica
Music Hall
Elijah
Mmes. Lehmann
Wyman
Walker
Lloyd, Ludwig and Whitney
Israel
Egypt
de Vere
Poole
Lloyd, Ludwig and
Whitney
Ams
Mme
Lilli Kalisch-Lehmann
Haindel and Haydn Society
Marion Manola
McCaull Comic Opera Company
Tremont Theatre
Clover
Chickering Hall
Mrs. Vincent Memorial Hospital
E. L. Davenport
Schuecker
L. Adamons&l
Gertrude Edmands
Grace van UD. Cook
Howard M. Dow
Charles F. Thwing
Board of Regents
State University of Kansas
Harvard
Thwing
Cambridge
Minneapolis
C. F. Butler
Bibliotheca Sacra
West
Chicago Theological Seminary
Edwin Booth
Louis Mestaver
Bromfield
John Bromfield
R. B. Forbes
Atahualpa
Theodore Lyman
Macao
Sturgis
Forbes
Jem’ Sturgis
Taverner
Boston Post
Milk
Washington Street
Ship News
Assast
Mississippi
Nicholls
Warmouth
New Orleans
Dakota
Lottery Company
Wanamaker
New York Post Office
New York Sun
Liverpool
Chean
Les P. McClelland
Customs
McClelland
Custom House
National Association
Arthur T. Lyman
Heach
East
Ohio
Beard
New “England
MR. Lodge
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M. Ferry
M. DE Freycinet
Chamber of Deputies
M. Leon Say
M. Constans
M. Tirrard
Carnot
M. Floquet
Chamber
M.pe Frreycinet
Mr. Washineron
Joan Fiske
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