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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1889
Page
4
The Boston Daily issue notes the President's proclamation opening Indian Territory lands to settlement by Creeks and Seminoles and the pending April 22 occupancy date. It warns that violators face legal penalties while suggesting hopeful restraint among eager entrants near the line in Kansas.
The New York postmaster Pearson, a Republican loyalist to civil service rules, faces a push to replace him as his term ends April 2. Presidents Cleveland and Harrison have both weighed reform versus patronage, with party factions seeking a favored successor.
The piece questions Corporal Tanner’s push for a broad pension policy and warns veterans and officers like General Kine and General McMahon resist the service pension plan. It cites Colonel Duprey boasting Tanner is his man and fears the pension bureau becoming a party machine.
The piece contrasts new diplomatic picks under Premier Blaine and General Harrison with senior choices. It eulogizes John Bright as a leading English reformer and orator, recounting his career from the anti corn law era to his later opposition to Home Rule and his enduring influence on Anglo American relations.
The speech criticizes a proposed consolidation of city departments into a board, arguing it would remove accountability from the Mayor and foster executive irresponsibility. It warns such a change would invite corruption, dilute public oversight, and harm taxpayers while noting current systems work well and should be retained.
The text analyzes General Harrison’s stated desire for a leader with culture and literary ability akin to Morey Lovett and Charles Francis Adams, noting a gap to a lesser Illinois lawyer. It criticizes the replacement of Pendleton by Halstead at Berlin as part of a broader pattern of weak leadership figures.
City Solicitor Bailey presents a bill to establish mandatory railroad commission powers to order grade separation with costs shared equally by railway and township. Chairman Crocker supports a case by case board rather than a permanent statewide body. The measure moves discussion forward and could yield practical legislation.
A German emperor plans royal travel with preparations for England and now Constantinople on his list. He may visit this country next to address the Samoa issue in a friendly manner.
A large audience witnessed Miss Judi and Signor Jules Perotti make notable Boston debuts. The program featured Verdi and Wagner arias, with Perotti praised for a flawless high tenor and dramatic vigor in Faust. Other performers included Miss Emma Juch and Signor Clemente Bologna. next Saturday a reprise of Il Trovatore with Campanari is planned.
The administrators of the estate of the late Henry E. Howe convey to the Saugus selectmen a $10,000 bequest for erecting a soldiers' monument.
The Confederate Home committee met and set a mass meeting for April 8 at the Old South Meeting House with speakers Colonel T. W. Higginson Rev M J Savage Rev E A Horton Judge Woodbury and John E. Fitzgerald Colonel Walker to preside. A musical entertainment is scheduled for April 24 at Mrs E R Rollins residence 72 Waltham Street and donations were reported including admission of Mrs Charles Henry to membership.
At the annual stockholders meeting the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company elected officers led by President Charles M. Seaver with David C. Chadge as clerk and Gorham Rogers as treasurer. Directors include F. W. G. May J. E. Dodd David H. Coolidge and others. They were authorized by a large majority to close affairs and sell the real estate.
The letter lauds Edward L. Davis Worcester park benefaction and Nahant club plans. It notes Davis wealth and public spirit, cites Stephen Salisbury, and praises a Tudor era garden house as club hub. It also jokes about Nahant charm and warns against eavesdropping while sharing a public transport anecdote.
Harvey J. Church of 84 Stamford Street, employed by George M. D. Legg at 4 Faneuil Hall Market, was arrested on embezzlement charges totaling $800 from his employer. Streetcar routes for Winter Hill residents to evening theatres will shift via Washington Essex Harrison Avenue and Beach Streets after 6 p.m. The report also notes a lecture by John D. Billings on the Spottsylvania battlefield at Chauncy Hall and a record Berlin opera advance sale at the Boston Theatre with single-night seats starting today. Emma Juch and her concert company will visit the New England Conservatory at 1:30 p.m. today by Dr Tourjee. J Howard Richardson hosts a long-running reception at Odd Fellows Hall attended by about 160 couples with F A Russegue as floor director and Richardson’s orchestra providing music.
President Benjamin Harrison announces that lands ceded by the Muscogee and Seminole nations in Indian Territory will open to settlement at noon on April 22 under the March 1889 acts. The description traces boundaries along the Canadian and Cimarron Rivers and various Indian reservations with two acres reserved for government use.
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society opened its spring show in the lower hall due to a fire elsewhere. Notable displays include two umbrella pines from Japan, lavish orchids, tea roses, hyacinths, azaleas, and exotic specimens, with premiums awarded to Gardeners such as W. Frost George Stone and W. Rawson for radishes lettuce cucumbers and other vegetables.
In Brookline the annual town election produced a 1206 vote total the largest to date with 134 for women and 1072 for men. Officers elected include Town Clerk Benjamin F Baker. Selectmen Watts Bowker Horace James and others. multiple positions across library, cemetery, sinking fund, and water board. License No. 505 approved 487 against 487.
Mayor Newhall signed the order to appropriate 45000 dollars for the purchase of the two Newhall estates for the erection of a high school building in Lynn.
A mosaic of clipped witticisms and social barbs from cabalistic chatter. Banter on fashion women steamships and the White House game echoes through this playful slice. A managing editor’s blunt orders reveal pressroom humor and civic satire in brisk social vignettes.
The Vendome lease was wrongly reported. it was signed about three years ago for five years with an option to ten, with C. H. Greenleaf controlling the property. The piece also notes a recent Edward W. Kinsley Post 118 G A R reunion at Young's, and lists guests and arrivals at Parker House, Crawford House, and various hotels, with names including J. M. W. Hall, William E. Russell, Carrol Page, and many others from New York, Boston, Chicago, and beyond.
Giuseppe Ruffoni, the Italian arrested for a murder in Italy and jailed on Charles Street, was released after a New York dispatch showed Italy’s consul did not seek his extradition. Judge Nelson discharged him as Ruffoni appeared eager to return home.
General Francis A. Osborn chair of the state civil service commission and Richard H. Dana will speak Friday at 7 30 oclock on The Practical Workings of Civil Service Form as Embodied in the State Laws. The Cambridge Civil Service Reform Association sponsors the meeting.
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