Boston Dust on Tariffs and Congressmen Reflections
The piece critiques New England lawmakers for dodging cross examinations, rebukes the Chicago Tribune on copyright reciprocity, notes European powers arming amid peace talk, and warns socialism grows as armaments raise taxes. It laments caucus driven Congress and endorses tariff reform while urging voters to distrust partisan motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
England
the Tribune
Congress
United States
Case Against Campbell in Pittsburg Ends in Acquittal
The English glass workers imported to Jeannette Penn were found to violate the alien contract labor law. James Campbell, president of the Window Glass Workers Association, was linked to the effort, but the trial ended without conviction amid national attention and political connections to Quay in 1888.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Campbell
Pittsburg
Jeannette
Penn
Campbell
Window Glass Workers’ Association
England
Quay
The West End Bill Seeks Boston Elevated Rail Monopoly
The proposed bill would grant the West End Street Railway Company a four year monopoly on passenger transit by rail within Boston and extending to its suburbs. It outlines location, construction timelines, damage settlements, eminent domain rights, and fare limits, with safeguards and state approvals but prompts concern over concentrated power.
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West End Street Railway Company
Boston
West End
Board of Aldermen
Selectmen
Board of State Railroad Commissioners
Railroad Commissioners
Superior Court
Board of Railroad Commissioners
The Presbyterian Dilemma at Saratoga
An editorial discusses the busy Westminster Confession revision debate before a Saratoga assembly. It outlines two stark choices: revise and erase Calvinist tenets, risking Presbyterian identity, or reject revision and leave many clergy and lay members in an unresolved, precarious state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
Westminster Revision Debate Framed by Presbyterians
The piece analyzes tensions around revising the Westminster Confession within the Presbyterian and Anglican bodies. It notes widespread unfamiliarity among lay members, the risk of vague revisions, and proposes possibly replacing the Confession with the Apostles Creed as a temporary fix while debates continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
General Presbytery
Presbytery
New York
Westminster Assembly
Divines
Saratoga
More liquor resolutions in Boston council clash
The Boston Common Council defeated liquor resolutions by a tied vote, with Republicans and most Democrats supporting them. The editor denounces the resolutions as mere delay tactics aimed at challenging a law upheld by the Supreme Court, and criticizes Democratic tactics and anti labor statistics cited by the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Council
Council
Boston
Supreme Court
Board of Police
Warlike Strikes and Notable Public Figures Mentioned
The piece notes that strikes resemble declarations of war and recounts concerns about injury to workers. It mentions General F. E. Spinner’s battle with cancer and his reputation for integrity in Lincoln’s era, plus criticism of stage culture, political opinions by Mr. Vaux, tax issues on jute carpets, English naval recruiting problems, and remarks by Edward Everett Hale about civility in public conveyances. References to D'Oyly Carte, Sullivan, Hopper, and the French and German armies enlisting dogs are included as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. E. Spinner
Lincoln
D’oyly Cartree
Ginbert
Sullivan
Boston Art Students Hold Weeklong Exhibition Opines
The Boston Art Students Association closes its weeklong show at the Art Club gallery. Arthur Smith faces mixed critique for his cow in green fields theme but is praised for form and light in landscapes. Provinencr May 16. J N Barlow opens Paris studio with Moonrise and a Scotch coast scene accepted for this year’s Salon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Art Students’ Association
Gallery of the Art Club
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Arthur Smith
Smith
John B. Johnston
Mr. Smith
Sprerm
Barlow
Electric car poles approved in New Bedford
New Bedford May 16 At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen today the Union Street Railway Company's petition for the right to erect poles and run wires on certain streets for electric operation was granted but subject to conditions including the erection of iron poles as used in Boston for the trolley system.
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New Bedford
New Beprord
Board of Aldermen
Union Street Railway Company
Boston
Methods of the American Board in Boston discussed
The committee of nine chosen to examine administration at the Boston missionary rooms will meet next Wednesday in Boston. The gathering was postponed due to illness of Rev. Dr. Walker of Hartromp who has resumed going out.
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Hartromp
Conn
American Board
Boston
Walker
Notable Religious and Academic Appointments and Movements
Miss Josephine Crowfeather becomes a Benedictine nun. Robert Barrett Browning plans to grant Balliol College most of his late father’s poems. Yale will host Rev. James Stalker from Scotland as next year’s preaching lecturer. Miss M. F. Cusack explains her withdrawal from public life due to illness in a letter to the New York Mail and Express. Mrs. Jefferson Davis is upset by bookmakers flooding the market with “Lives” of her husband. Williams College trustees award the J. Leland Miller chair in American history, literature and eloquence to Prof. Richard A. Rice. Thomas Louie, B.A., Toronto and Johns Hopkins fellow, named instructor in Roman language. G. S. Ellis, ’86, named active Latin professor at Oberlin. faculty changes effective next year.
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Josephine Crowfeather
Robert Barrett Browning
Balliol College
Oxford
Eng
Yale
James Stalker
Glasgow
Scot
Scotland
M. F. Cusack
Kenmare
New York Mail
Express
Jefferson Davis
Trustees
Williams College
Richard A. Rice
J. Leland Miller
Thomas Louie
University of Toronto
Johns Hopkins
Ellis
Oberlin
Miriam O'Leary
Boston
Mr. Field
John, Peerybingle
John Mason
Caleb Plummer
George W. Wilson
Edward Plummer
Errol Dunbar
Tackleton
James Burrows
Fielding
Kate Ryan Tillie Slowboy
Mr. Charles
Abbe Bertha
Evelyn Campbell May
Grace Atwell
Mary Hebron Nan
Tom Dibbles
Harry Collier
Thomas L. Coleman Charley
Junius B. Booth
Simpson
Charles
Edward Wade Nan
Miss Campbell
Bertha
Keep Off the Grass and Other Common Reflections
A Boston writer laments trampling on newly sodded Common turf and notes signs fail to deter some walkers. He muses on pruning trees, Columbus anniversary curios, and a pre Columbus Chinese cannon at Charlestown Navy Yard. Also discusses Maine lakes ice out, fishing lore, and a young writer debating best study times for verse, favoring evenings.
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America
Charlestown Navy Yard
Charlestown
Europe
Theatrical Gossipy Week Ahead at Boston Theatres
Boston theatre gossip runs through next week with Daly company at Hollis Street Theatre presenting The Great Unknown and Nancy and Co. The Salvini engagement at Grand Opera House spans four weeks including The Duke's Motto with Lagardere and a 7:45 precursor The Bonne Fishwife. Miriam OLeary headlines a Museum benefit with two plays, while The Passing Regiment and The Montebank run at the Park and Boston respectively. Nearby Tremont hosts Aunt Jack and A Man of the World as Madison Square company ends a Tremont run. News on critics, New York vs Boston clashes, Robson in New York, and Warde heading to Europe cap the item.
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Alexander Salvini
Grand Opera House
John Brougham
Mr. Salvini
Lagardere
Messrs
Lucius Henderson
John Lane
Benjamin Hornung
Raymond Holmes
Mesdames Belle Archer
Virginia Buchanan
Genevieve Beaman
Frederick Warde
Park
Montebank
Silver Falls
Boston
Jack
Madison Square Company
Tremont
Agnes Booth
the Tremont
Globe Theatre
A One-Eyed Organ To the Editor of the Post
A letter to the editor critiques a Transcript commentary on May 14 about Mr Butterworth and the McKinley bill. It argues the Transcript misreads Massachusetts opposition to taxation of raw materials and notes frustration within New England manufacturing circles. The writer mentions Mr Andrew's speech and Massachusetts district misplacement on May 15.
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Butterworth
Massachusetts
New England
Andrew
Petition to Russia for Siberian prisoners gains Boston signatures
A Boston drive for a petition to Russia on behalf of Siberian prisoners moves slowly but builds as Philadelphia hosts the headquarters and receives about 1000 names daily. Advocates led by Mr. Kennan and other friends urge rapid collection, hoping public support will yield aid.
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Russia
Siberia
Boston
Philadelphia
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Boston Post
Washington Street
Post Publishing Company
Asuingron OfFics
Corcoran Building
Fifteenth Street
Ship News
Boston Dust
St. Petersburg
William NI
House of Representatives
New York Bureau of Labor Statistics
Iolanthe
Webber
Shaw
Columbia
Randall
Vaux
Edward Everett Hate
New England Magazine
Hopper
New York Herald
the Fine Arts
Art Students’ Association
Studio Reception
Providence
the American Board
Maine Lakes
FFI
Luna
Walter Scott
William Seymour
Abbey & Schoeffel
Hernshaw
Stuart Robson
Proctor’s
Twenty-third Street Theatre
Robson
Proctor’s Theatre
Cohasset
Mass
King Arthur
Mark Twain
Howard P. Taylor
D. P. Bowers
Troy
Henry VII
London
Oswald Crawfurd
the Mirror
Crawford
Dramatic Mirror
Henry Arthur Jones
Shaftesbury Theatre
Dick Venables
Mr. Willard
Olga Brandon
Bessie Hatton
Roger Carleton
F. Kerr
Charles Fulton
Cauinge
Mr. Buchanan
Adelphi
Ada Cavendish
Frank Marshall
Aphrodite
Harriet Jay
Spear
Psyche
Thalberg
Zephyros
South
Wanamaker
Springfield Republcan
Robinson
Jones
Burlington Free Press
N.B
Connecticut
Holy Cross
Charleston News and Couner
New South
State of
Georgia
Protection
Prohibition Party
Charles Dickens
Wilkie Collins
Moonstone
Woman In White
Collins
Dickens
Baby McKee
Chicago
God
Jesus Christ
Christ
TW. Parsons
Strauss
der Freischutz
Weber
Siegried
Wagner
Eduard Strauss
Johann Strauss
Nicolai Sol Sc
Vienna Wood
Tschaikowski
Sylvia
Delibes
Caucasus
New York Custom House
Raymond
Thomas
Chopin
Johann Strauss Potpourri
Moszkowski
Josef Strauss
Johann
Vlage Swallows
Eduard
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