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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1888
Page
4
The Pope’s recent decree against Nationalist tactics strains Ireland's political scene. It pressures loyalty between state and church as Irish leaders strive to counter its impact while bishops urge clergy and followers to avoid boycotts and the plan of campaign.
The Harvard College overseers, after considering both major and minority reports on athletics, endorsed restrictions proposed by Dr. Wacorr. The vote, twelve to six, supports confining intercollegiate contests to Cambridge and nearby New England cities and limiting student participation with non university organizations to Saturdays and holidays. The editorial notes the stance as necessary to curb abuses while preserving the value of athletic effort in college life.
A Boston reader reports on a proposed Crispus Attucks monument panel depicting the Boston Massacre with a sombre tone and criticizes its realism and mood. The note covers Mohini the East Indian pundit portrait, crossing-sweeper nostalgia, Harvard athletics views, and a brisk miscellany of local curiosities and notable people.
The amateur troupe The Players opened their second season at West Newton City Hall with three short pieces The Rough Diamond A Cup of Tea and Old Love Letters The audience filled the hall and praised the skilled amateur acting of Miss Call Mr Call Mr Statson and Mr Pratt The Players will be seen again this evening.
Residents living within the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts assessor and tax collector are identified as the target group for local property valuation procedures. The notice outlines eligibility criteria and the obligations of homeowners within the district.
The piece surveys Democratic unity behind President Cleveland and his tariff reform agenda across states from Connecticut to New Hampshire and Wisconsin, noting strong reform sentiment, unity in St Louis delegates, and broad regional support for the administration's tariff policy amid Irish and British political commentary.
The London representative of the New York Times calls the European situation highly critical and dangerous yet lacking near term indicators. He warns that Germany’s Frederick III weakens stability and raises the potential for conflict in the near future amid ongoing tensions.
After regional votes across French provinces favored moderate Republicans, the new ministry gains strength to oppose General Boulanger's programme. Boulanger's popularity has waned recently, and he reportedly lacks the courage for a bold move. Analysts suggest his political career may endure difficulties ahead.
The Workingmen's Protective League proposes to substitute for the Home Market Club in a public talk on admitting raw materials free of duty, with the Massachusetts Tariff Reform League accepting. A Boston debate could be arranged soon, signaling sincere alignment and potential reform benefits. Also noted is Hon. P. A. Coutins nominated to preside at the Democratic convention in St Louis, with Collins seen as a strong keynote choice.
The sense of the personal estates tax bill was altered by replacing a semicolon with a comma, wrongly changing its commentary. Properly punctuated, railroad bonds would be taxed like other securities, reversing a Supreme Court view that such bonds are debts offset by against others and not taxable as bonds. The bill aims to tax railroad bonds as property but lawmakers have not yet faced broader exemptions.
An aging Warr Wurman is the subject of lines that humorously celebrate his upcoming birthday, with a playful tone suggesting the speaker has “punted” the traditional tribute to age. The item reads like a light local column note.
The piece critiques Whitman's poem in yesterday's New York Herald, noting a pathetically curious mix of life and death imagery. It questions strength and paralysis, asks whether the poem will stir or fade, and concludes that while there is pathos in the picture, structurally it is not poetry.
An English observer among American senators would find the scene reminiscent of the House of Commons Irish debate. Figures like Major Samperson and Mr Jim Heaay blend in with parliamentary billing, providing a lively comparison to the Irish exchange.
A proposed scheme to supply Paris from Lake Neufchatel envisions a 22 mile tunnel under the Jura Mountains at a cost near 60 million dollars. The project claims a guaranteed flow of 4400 gallons per second and would deliver a dependable water source to the French capital when completed. Dr Brown Séonard reports experiments on breath toxicity, finding an alkaloid poison in condensed lung vapor capable of killing rabbits in concentrated form. He asserts the existence of a volatile, active poisonous principle in expired air, though tests are preliminary.
An English locomotive allegedly reached eighty miles per hour on a downhill run and seventy eight with one car attached on the same track. The report cites back pressure air resistance bearing friction and vibration as retardation factors and notes no closer alignment of actual and theoretical speeds. A AAAS paper tests taste sensitivity across five flavor groups showing bitter most detectable and women generally more acute than men.
Philadelphia Times notes the administration’s open encouragement of unobtrusive men of merit, calling it an admirable service worthy of lasting appreciation.
The passage argues the issue is not free trade but tax levels. It contrasts Democrats who seek to tax only what is needed with Republicans who resist altering the existing tacit tax, suggesting the people will decide the fate of fiscal policy.
A May 2 Quincy Town Hall gathering of the Quincy Tariff Reform League showcases Dr. William Everett presiding with Harvey N. Shepard of Boston and William E. Plummer of Newton delivering reform arguments. Everett argues for reducing a growing surplus and revising tariffs, criticizing current spending and urging swift tax relief and tariff cuts.
The speaker argues the tariff lacks any solid principle, assembled from disparate articles and log-rolling for mutual profit. A practical revision is needed to reduce the surplus and empower industries, while urging workers to seek gains through real national needs and natural economic laws rather than artificial protections.
A collection of satirical items and anecdotes from a newspaper page. It mentions soothing syrup for senators Ingall and Voorhees, a lone remaining Californian Indian, Queen Victoria as a German army colonel, a New York firm failure, and a Dutch warship arrival in San Francisco. The piece also recaps public jests about life insurance, quarrels between neighbors in Detroit, and a Rennes postal order trick during France's crisis.
The J B Lippincott Company prepares two frontier stories by Captain Charles King The Deserter featuring a young officer wrongfully accused and From the Ranks a romantic tale of adventure Also upcoming Too Curious a new English novel by J Goodman a new Vol of Max Furness variorum Romeo and Juliet Hamlet Macbeth King Lear and Othello A Names of God in Holy Scripture by Andrew Jukes coming Next week translation of From Lands of Exile by W S Gottsberger May 5 Clifford Belle renders poorly due to Loti charm Cooke poems volumes and a Chemical Problems by Gratfield Burns at D C Heath Co addressing strabiometry atomic weight gas weight thermo chemistry and general chemistry exam papers Next a volume of Mrs Rose Terry Cooke poems.
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