Daudet’s Pipes Tied to Gustave Flaubert in Legacy
In Scotland Mr Gladstone rents the Raith estate at Kirkcaldy for autumn. Mr Clarkson leaves Washington for a Norfolk Club dinner in this city. Daudet inherits Daudet’s clay pipes from Gustave Flaubert who left them at his death along with other valued items. The French Academy failed to elect a successor to Emile Augier as Manuel and Lavisse contested the votes, with Zola gaining four. C B Snell will become Philadelphia YMCA general secretary June 1. Nina Layard spoke at the Victoria Institute May 8 opposing Darwin on rudimentary human organs, the first such paper by a woman at the society.
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Gladstone
Raith
Kirkcaldy
Scot
Clarkson
Washington
Norfolk Club
Alphonse Daudet
Gustave Flaubert
Daudet
French Academy
Emile Augier
M. Manuel
M. Lavisse
Zola
C. B. Snell
Boston Young Men’s Christian Association
Philadelphia Association
Nina F. Layard
Victoria Institute
London
Darwin
Society
Harvard Overseers Ratify Reappointments And Statute Changes
A special Harvard Board of Overseers meeting at 50 State Street Boston voted to reappoint Lyman Abbott Phillips Brooks William Lawrence as university preachers for 1890 91 and to appoint Brooke Herford Henry Van Dyke and Frank Brewster as instructor for Massachusetts law. The board approved changes to the university statutes detailing structure faculties deans degrees discipline and governance.
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Harvard College
State Street
Boston
Leverett Saltonsta
Lyman Abbott
Phillips Brooks
D.D
William Lawrence
A.B
Brooke Herford
Henry van Dyke
Frank Brewster
Massachusetts
Peabody Museum
University
Harvard
Lawrence Scientific School
Graduate School
Divinity School
Law School
Medical School
Dental School
School of Veterinary Medicine
Bussey Institution
School of Agriculture
University Library
Museum of Comparative Zoology
University Museum
Botanic Garden
Herbarium
Astronomical Observatory
Peabody Museum of American Archanology and Ethnology
University Council
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Boston Post Milk Adends to Postal Matter Note
Boston Post Milk on Washington Street notes it is entered as second class matter and money sent at sender's risk. Checks drafts and money orders payable to the Post Publishing Company.
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Post Publishing Company
Socialism in English legislation and tariff turmoil debated
A Boston editorial comments on Lord Salisbury's social care stance and the rise of social ideas in English policy. It explores Massachusetts Republican votes on tariff measures, the impact on railroad interests, and the Maple sugar bounty debates, noting party caucus control and limited debate in Congress.
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Lord Salisbury
House of Lords
Massachusetts
Mexico
Perkins
Kansas
Behring Sea Policy Debated in Cabinet Row
A Washington report based on the New York Tribune states the Cabinet reaffirmed last season’s Behring Sea seal policy, aligning with Bayard’s approach. It notes Blaine’s adherence to prior plans, while Ottawa hints at U S exclusive claims, and the Dawes era control debate continues amid pending international talks.
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Washington
New York Tribune
State Department
Behring Sea
Blaine
Bayarp
Cleveland
Bayard
Harrison
BiLarne
Bayaro
Ottawa
Kehring Sea
Uncertainty on Revenue Cutter Actions Hangs Over Season
The text notes doubt about how far revenue cutters may act against British dealers this season and hopes that Mr. Buatne will implement the previous policy of Mr. Bayard swiftly and effectively.
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Buatne
Bayard
International copyright clash stirs broad public ire
The piece argues that Congressmen who opposed the international copyright bill faced widespread criticism from across the political spectrum and international observers. It urges reconsideration before session end, highlights names like RocKWELL and CANDLER, and discusses broader issues from publishing ethics to sweated labor and public exhibitions.
Sweating System Sparks Parliamentary Debate on Labor
The piece reviews the term grinding the faces of the poor and the failed remedies from a London parliamentary committee report. It notes two recommendations: ban on heavy hammers calledolivers for women and girls in Cradley Heath chain making and limits on chain link thickness, plus restrictions on government clothing contracts.
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London
Saturday Review
Cradley Heath
Newton Bowling Tournament Final Ends in French Victory
The Newton Club bowling tournament final at the club house features Captain French's team defeating Captain Follett's squad 1402 to 1201. French's leads the competition with the most wins and receives a silver cup as first prize. A handsome half clock will be awarded to the top individual scorer for the year, to be held for a year pending a challenge.
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Newton
Rail stations in Brookline face consolidation hearing
At a Brookline board of selectmen meeting a hearing was set on merging the Chapel and Longwood Boston & Albany stations. It was adjourned after no petition arrived from the railroad, with residents present awaiting company action.
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Brookline
Board of Selectmen
Chapel
Longwood
Boston & Albany Railroad
Boston Gardens Show Rich Season of Color and Fragrance
In Boston the Public Garden displays a vivid array of lilacs wisteria and rhododendron with Persian lilacs and purple beeches adding color. Amos K. Fiske an editor and Harvard man publishes Midnight Talks at the Club presenting papers on temperance religion and tolerance. A suburban serenade incident ends with a tipsy man joining in song boosting the Solfergio Club’s local renown.
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Somerset Club
Hancock
Harrison Gray Otis
Beacon Street
Berkeley
Mt. Vernon Street
Marlboro Street
Boston
Amos K. Fiske
Harvard
Forum
Asphodel
Solfergio Club
Concert by Pupils of Mr. Gerrish at Steinert Hall
Steinert Hall hosted a pupils concert under Mr. S. H. Gerrish with vocal help from Miss Laura Beck Edith Belches Annie Hazard and Messrs F. R. Sircom and H. A. Thayer. The program ranged from varied pheranine selections and showcased careful study and musical variety.
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Cheeney
Chickering Hall
James W. Cheerey
Sigrid Lunde
Arvilla Forbush
Messrs
E. E. Holden
Henry Berger
Thomas Mullaly
Harry A. Bower
James W. Cheeney
Mendelssohn
Arit
Gerrish
Steinert Hall
S. H. Gerrish
Laura &. Beck
Edith Belches
Annie F. Hazard
F. R. Sircom
H. A. Thayer
Literary News Highlights New Works and Translations
The notice reviews Little, Brown editions of Henryk Sienkiewicz translated by Jeremiah Curtin, and Captain A. J. Mahan’s Sea Power study arguing maritime strength shaped history. Henry Holt & Co. to publish A Japanese Boy recounting Japanese daily life. Scribners adds yellow paper novels by Fred eric, Tuanet, Sullivan, Cable, Harland, and Hate.
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Messrs. Little, Brown & Co
Jeremiah Curtin
Henryk d Sienkiewicz
Blackwood’s
Dumas
Bret Harte
Turcéniet
A. J. Manan
U.S.N
Saurepe
America
Autho
Henry Holt & Co
Yale
Scribners
Lawton
Arold Frederic
Octave Tuanet
T. R. Sullivan
Bonaventure
George W. Cable
Marion Harland
Philip Nolan
E. Hate
London cabmen fear at church and pipe history notes
A collage of quotations and anecdotes covers oddities from London cabmen’s exploits to tobacco pipe origins. It highlights a cab-patron misunderstanding, a modern view on wages, and a tax on pens and knives gifted to Transatlantic MPs. The piece also recalls John Howard Payne’s Leonard Street years and a New York ferry company reorganization.
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M. P
Montreal Gazette
Senate of the States
Ottawa
Pall Mall Gazette
Johann Franz Jakob Vilarius
Vienna
Abram
Young
Fulton Ferry
New York
Union News Company
Union Ferry Company
Kund
Cameroon
du Chailly
John Howard Payne
Broadway
Leonard Street
Payne
Obituary notices of Dr John Butler and three others
Obituary notes Dr John 8 Butler of Hartford a renowned insane asylum specialist who led the South Boston retreat for thirty years and served on Connecticut state health boards. Also reported are the death of Fred G Mead of the American Bank Note Company in Plainfield New Jersey, brother-in-law of W D Bowells, and the death of Amasa A McKusick a Cambridge confectioner and longtime National Lancers member.
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John 8. Butler
Hartford
Conn
Worcester
South
Boston
State Board of Health
Connecticut
Fred G. Mead
American Bank Note Company
Plainfield
N. J
Larkin Mead
W. D. Bowells
Mr. Mead
Lawrence Myers
Amasa A. McKusick
Cambridge
B. P. Clark & Co
Columbia Street
Cambridgeport
National Lancers
Boston Commndery
Knights ‘Templars
Mizpah Lodge
A. M
Universalist Sabbath Union holds thirty ninth annual meeting in Newton
The Universalist Sabbath Union met in Newtonville with seventeen Sabbath schools from Boston Somerville Chelsea Cambridge and Newton represented. Officers elected include President Frank M Hawes and Treasurer George W Wise. The union serves seventeen schools with 516 officers and teachers and 378 scholars.
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Newton
Universalist Sabbath Union
Universalist Church
Newtonville
Boston
Somerville
Chelsea
Cambridge
Treasury
Frank M. Hawes
Sanford H. Dudley
North Cambridge
Cummings L. Lathrop
Cambridgeport
Arthur W. Glines
The Beaaties of New Paper Art on Iceberg Illustration
A critique of morning illustrations from the Beacon Light iceberg collision on May 14. Comparison of Herald World and Sun images notes the Herald and World misinterpret the scene versus the Sun which shows both steamer and berg with lifelike detail.
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Beacon Light
Herald
Sun
World
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