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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1887
Page
4
Horse Cars and Dangerous Rails Raise Townsfolk Concerns
A reader reports on streetcar service and rail conditions, noting sanding tracks to reduce slipperiness and recounting a near disaster when a horse slipped under a moving car yet emerged unharmed. The driver claims one horse often falls per trip, highlighting ongoing hazards on city streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rand
Taverner
Obituary: Hon. Albert Palmer Former Boston Mayor
The Hon. Albert Palmer ex mayor of Boston died at his Boston Highlands home after a brief pneumonia illness contracted at a Queen Kapiolani reception. Born January 17, 1831 in Candia New Hampshire, he studied at Phillips Academy Dartmouth and taught at Boston Latin. He served in the State Legislature and Senate, shifted from Republican to Independent Republican then Democratic, won the mayoralty in 1882, and died leaving a family while serving as president of the Massachusetts Mutual Accident Association. Funeral will be Tuesday afternoon with Forest Hills interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Palmer
Boston
Forest Street
Boston Highlands
Mr. Palmer
Candia
Rockingham County
N. H
Phillips Academy
Exeter
Dartmouth
Boston Latin School
Jamaica Pond Ice Company
Palmer
State Senate
Senate
Samuel A. Green
Green
Massachusetts Mutual Accident Association
Forest Hills
Veto turmoil and gerrymander talk across states signs of political strife
Boston residents read of Governor Ames vetoing Beverly division legislation to save 4732 votes amid party agitation. The piece contrasts Salisbury's sharp attack on dissenters with lengthy Pennsylvania redistricting criticism, noting a gerrymander that clusters Democratic counties and scales districts by whim rather than population.
Collision of Celtic and Britannic Off Sandy Hook
A fog bound collision between the steamships Celtic and Britannic occurred 800 miles off Sandy Hook. The Britannic suffered the greatest damage and loss of life, with five passengers reported dead and others injured. Some passengers claim the dead were thrown overboard the night after the collision, complicating the death toll. An thorough investigation is hoped for to determine blame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celtic
Britannic
Sandy Hook
McGrynn Faces Choice Between Obedience and Excommunication
A letter from the Pope to Archbishop Corrigan signals Dr. McGlynn must soon decide between submitting to church authority or risking excommunication. The pope’s language implies swift consequences for the priest’s course, contrasting with the archbishop’s stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. McGrynn
New York
Rome
Corrigan
Dr. McGlynn
Church Standoff Over Conscience and Doctrine
The dispute centers on Dr McGlynn's right to preach his beliefs outside the church when they clash with church doctrine. Mr Henry Grover argues about property rights and papal infallibility, but his points are deemed of little consequence in the face of ecclesiastical authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. McGlynnn
Henry Grover
Dr. McGlynn
Land Reform Aims Railroads Demands Public Land Restorage
Secretary Lamar submits a plan to the President to revoke withdrawals on lands held by railroads and open the public domain to settlers. The administration seeks to restore thousands of acres to the public domain, citing extensive illegal fenceings and large-scale occupancy by railroad interests. The move, endorsed by the President, aims to curb rapacity and reform land policy, with 30 days’ notice to corporations to show cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamar
Department
Secretary of the Interior
Colorado
Rhode Island
Interior Department
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
Northern Pacific
Miller
The Boulanger Bubble
The piece discusses France’s cabinet crisis after M de Freycinet’s refusal to form a government. It argues Radical Clemenceau should moderate, notes two main factions: a peace faction seeking military cuts and Boulangers’ supporters. It highlights hopes for a stable Republican administration amid divisions and the fate of Boulangism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Pe Freycinet
France
M. Clemenceau
Riccard Swiveller
Republican
M. de Freycinet
M. Rouvier
M P. Freverert
Peace Party
Boulanger
Bowlanger
Retn
Boulangers Rise Stirring France and British Court Feuds
The piece analyzes Boulangers popularity in France, arguing it does not guarantee a government shift or war with Germany. It contrasts press influence with political reality, notes Queen Victoria's hostility to Gladstone and Home Rule, and recalls the death of Albert Palmer plus a cipher claim about Bacon and Shakespeare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Victoria
Mr. Gladstone
Lord Palmerston
Foreign Office
Giladstonian
England
Titania Yacht Reappears as Possible America Cup Challenger
The Titania’s construction in New York as a potential America Cup contender recalls the 1851 race where the original Titania was decisively defeated by The America. The new Titania may fare better this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Conscience Manuscript Found and Trinity College Catalogue Update
Literary notes report the discovery of an historical novel Hertog Jan I in three volumes by Hendrik Conscience. Trinity College Dublin nears completion of its extensive printed catalogue, first volume A and B published in 1864. Sir Richard Temple and Arminius Wumberg prep articles for Asiatic Quarterly Review on Victorian India and Central Asia. Frances Ellen Colenso, coauthor of History of the Zulu War, dies at Ventnor after contributing political chapters and military narrative. Her death mourned by Zulus. she was Bishop Colenso’s daughter and a noted editor-in-waiting of her father’s letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendrik Conscience
Trinity College
Dublin
Richard Temple
Asiatic Quarterly Review
India
Queen Victoria
Arminius Wumberg
Frances Ellen Colenso
Ventnor
Edward Durnford
Colanso
Daudhtar
Anniversary week in Boston reflects progress and eccentricities
In Boston during anniversary week the author notes crowds, shifts in public interest, and changes in meeting management. He recalls physician carriages, the old chaise, and notable doctors like Dr. Bigelow and Dr. Ware, then discusses bachelor judges, a divorce case, and a street-art display about prophecy. The piece closes noting Sunday trading tolerance as warm weather arrives.
What is he about Governor Hill and the Mugwumps
In heated editorials, Democratic and Republican papers question Governor Hills motives for promoting a Grant to a high office. They debate if Hill is out-Mugwumping Cleveland and ponder the political meaning of the patronage move. Prohibition rhetoric contrasts Mississippi violence with temperate reform proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Governor Hill
Hill
Cleveland
Chicago Herald
Dem
Mississippi
Philadelphia Press
Democratic core shapes the new South yet remains Democratic
Readers see a Democratic South defiant of Republicanism, insisting on no sectionalism while laboring for party dissolution of Blaine’s faction. Reform advocates push state printed ballots to curb candidate financing and ballot stuffing, opposing corruption at polls. Growing crime spurs cries to tighten immigration rules as U.S. debates next Congress actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New South
Blaine
Republic
Atlanta Constitution
Too Much Government Warns of Increasing Controls
A Sun editorial criticizes rising government power in New York and warns that continued paternal measures will curb liberty. It imagines a future where government regulates nearly every facet of life from restaurants to churches, comparing it to total oversight in other nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
St. Petersburg
Berlin
Sun
Another Side To It In Russia Assassination View
The piece argues that protests against tyranny may employ assassination when peaceful avenues are blocked. It questions whether killing a czar is worse than czarist violence and notes Americans’ horror at political murder while urging consideration of the Russians’ limited means to oppose despotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
N. Y
Dem
Kate Claxton
Sherman to Consider Reciprocity With Canada This Summer
The Philadelphia Record notes Senator Sherman will examine commercial reciprocity with Canada this summer while Mr. Blaine pushes for union with South American states. The piece views both leaders entering the field of free trade, acknowledging that unrestricted commerce may threaten the world but could benefit the two Americas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Sherman
Canada
Blaine
South America
Mr. Sherman
Temple of Free Trade
Americas
Philadelphia Record
Ind
The Detection of Crime Analysis Requires Broader Detective System
A New York Tribune impression argues that current detective methods miss non professional crimes and murders. It contends detectives focus on professional criminals, lack induction and finesse, and fail beyond practical ranges. The piece urges filling a gap to ensure justice in obscure and peculiar crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y. Tribune
Brooks to Preach at St Pauls and Westminster Abbey
The Rev Dr Phillips Brooks is slated to preach this summer in St Pauls and at Westminster Abbey. Also, John E Fitzgerald will be Boston's Fourth of July orator this year, selected as internal revenue collector. He is a handsome speaker who should reflect credit on Collins O Brien and Fitzgerald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Jacob Bigelow
Summer Street
Flenry J. Bigelow
Chauncy Place
Bedford Place
Phillips Brooks
St. Paul's
Westminster Abbey
John E. Fitzgerald
Internal Revenue Collector
Collins
O’brien
Fitzgerald
Springfield
E. C. Bolles
First Universalist Society
Salem
Mass
Bleecker Street
New York
Sandwich Islands
Prince Leopold
Germany
Kapiolani
Hewett
Williams
Rast Fifty-fourth Street
N. Y
New York World
Paris
Notable New Hampshire Figures Die in One Weekend
John M. Shirley a prominent New Hampshire lawyer died in Andover at age fifty six. He served as Andover postmaster from 1856 to 1859 and represented the town in the Legislature in 1859 and 1860. Reverend Joseph Marsh collapsed at Sandwich dying in his ninety first year. Born in England, he came to America in 1821 and preached for sixty eight years, helping establish multiple churches with his last charge at Pocasset in 1854.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Shirley
New Hampshire
Andover
N. H
N.H
Joseph Marsh
Sandwich
Brattle Lane
Eng
Pocasset
YACHTS AND YACHTING SPECIAL EVENTS AND REGATTA PLANS
The era of major yachting events centers on the Eastern Yacht Club regatta August 12 with a $1000 Herald prize for single stickers. New York boats may extend the New York Yacht Club cruise to Boston to enter. The Boston Globe will sponsor a June 25 open regatta off City Point with about $700 in prizes. Fortuna sails June 1 from Marblehead, likely to Greenock and Ireland, then plans to join English Jubilee fleet before returning for America's Cup races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Yacht Club
Herald
New York Yacht Club
New York
Boston
Eastern Club
Boston Globe
City Point
New England Yacht Racing Association
Fortuna
Beverly
Marblehead
H. 8
Hovey
Greenock
Ireland
British Isles
Southampton
Eng
America
May Festival at St. Vincent's Asylum Draws Thousands
The St. Vincent's Orphans' Asylum May festival attracted nearly 12 000 children by 10 am in the Mechanics' Building. A grand march led by M H Keenan with Hayden's National Band opened events, followed by a juvenile minstrel show and a two hour May pole dance. Clergy and Sisters assisted with the day, which netted a handsome sum for beneficiaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Vincent’s Asylum
Mechanics
St. Vincent’s Orphans’ Asylum
M. H. Keenan
Hayden
J.B. F. Emery
George Patterson
Harvard Hasty Pudding Club elects members and tennis start
Harvard College announces new Hasty Pudding Club members from 88 names including Abbott Anderson Austin Baldwin Bancroft Barnes Bradlee C Browne Brush Cabot B Carpenter G A Carpenter Chase Cheever Choate Churchill Clarke Clement Codman Fuller H H Furness W H Furness Gamson Gilbert Goodwin Grover Hale Hallowell Hay Holden Keasley Leighton Leroy Loeb Lund H L Mason R Norton Paine Palm Pease H M Plummer Rantoul Reynolds Sanford Suarts Schermerhorn Shepard. The annual spring tennis tournament begins Tuesday this week. Sears brothers and Snow win the singles and doubles but are barred out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hasty Pudding Club
Abbott
Anderson
Austin
Baldwin
Bancroft
Barnes
Bradlee
C. Browne
Brush
Cabot
B. Carpenter
G. A. Carpenter
Chase
Cheever
Choate
Churchill
Clarke
Clement
Codman
Fuller
H. H. Furness
W. H. Furness
Gamson
Gilbert
Goodwin
Grover
Hale
Hallowell
Hay
Holden
Keasley
Leighton
Leroy
Loeb
Lund
H. L. Mason
R. Norton
Paine
Palm
Pease
H. M. Plummer
Rantoul
Reynolds
Sanford
Suarts
Schermerhorn
Shepard
Sears Brothers
Snow
Pentyre Town Ghosts In A Dark Sea Ballad
The poem evokes foam over black rocks and night shipping in Pentyre Town. A fisher’s lover stands at an open door as gulls wheel, voices rise, and a white bird calls, while ships and doom bar loom and love’s loss lingers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pentyre
Lerayne
Pentyre Town
Graham R. Tomson
Anniversary Week Rain and Murder Tales From A Century Past
A mosaic of 1880s newspaper gossip and notices touches on anniversary week weather, a murder story, temperance debates, a Pittsburg church singer's death by own action, and comic quips. It features Longfellow and interstate commerce riffs, Dutch irony over US currency in Canada, and local obituaries and civic tributes. The piece cites Breckenridge statue progress, James Payn on Primrose League origins, crematory tallies, and theater life updates on Kate Claxton amid travel rigors for touring shows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Longfellow
Abburrahman Kahn
Ameer
Afghanistan
Chicago
Boston
England
Henry D. Coggswell
San Francisco
Russell Sage
Pacific Railroad Commission
Morosini
Henry Villard
Josiah Allen
Illinois
Davenport Allen
Enfield
Mass
Pelham
John C. Breckenridge
Lexington
E. V. Valentine
Richmond
Breckenridge
James Payn
Victoria
Lord Beaconsfield
Germany
United States
France
Austria
Scotland
Ireland
India
Hungary
Switzerland
Lancaster
Penn
Washington
Buffalo
N. Y
Chicago News
Ind
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Ames
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Lord ‘“Salisbury
Dulness
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Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Philadelphia Times
Sea Serpent
Clearfield
Centre
Elk
Forest
Clarion
Berks
Lehigh
Jackawanna County
Land Reform
Ministry of War
Figaro
General Boy-Langer
République Française
General Bounaincer
M. Boulanger
General BouLancer
General Boulanger
MM. Brisson and Ferry
M. Clemencrat
Mr. Labouchere
Wendell Prinurs
St. Paul Pioneer Press
McNarrus Doxnelay
Bacon
Shakspere
Ianarius Donnelly
John Ware
Gamage
Holmes
Douglas Jerrold
Supreme Court
Pugilist
Horticultural Hall
Daniel
Providence Journal
Congress
Quincy
Harvard College
Ruggles
Mr. Ruggles
L. 5. Ipsen
St. George
St.Andrew’s
Yama She Bates
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