The 1888 Massachusetts General Court Review
The 1888 session produced 444 acts and 104 resolves with major labor and liquor reforms, broad railroad consolidation moves, and notable municipal and insurance measures. Key acts authorize rail leases, regulate polling and caucuses, limit liquor licenses, and expand street railway safety. Banking, labor, and municipal provisions shape investment rules, worker protections, building codes, and city projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Court
United States
Boston
Order of the Iron Hall
Committee On Railroads
Boston & Providence
Old Colony Railroad Company
Ames
City
Old Colony Road
Providence Road
Shoe and Leather Dealers’ Association
State House
Josiah Quincy
Quincey
Nantasket Beach
Hull
South Shore
Old Colony House
Old Colony
Connecticut River Railroad Company
Ashuelot Railroad Company
New Hampshire
Springfield & New London Railroad Company
New York & New England Railroad Company
Providence & Worcester Railroad Company
Boston & Maine and Eastern Railroads
Boston & Maine Company
Eastern Railroad
Portsmouth, Great Falls & Conway Railroad
Boston & Maine
Board of Railroad Commissioners
United Company
Railroad Commissioners
Boston & Maine Railroad
Crosby
Pittsfield
Senate
House
Boston, Winthrop & Shore Railroadmpany
Winthrop
Point Shirley
New Haven & Northampton Railroad
Whately
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad Company
Atlantic Avenue
Hopkinton Railroad Company
Milford & Woonsocket Railroad Company
Boston & Lowell
Boston & Albany
Cambridge
Charles River
Brookline Street
Connecticut & Western Road
Massachusetts
Springfield
Meigs
Newburyport & Amesbury
Merrimac
East Middlesex Street Railroad Company
Chelsea
Marlboro
Fasta
Whitman
Ludlow
West Boylston
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
District of Columbia
New York
Commonwealth
Collateral Loan Company of
Savings Banks Commissioners
Board
Eastern Convocation Speaks on Parochial Missions in Cambridge
The 230th Eastern Convocation of the Massachusetts Protestant Episcopal Church met in St. John's Memorial Chapel Cambridge. Rev Edward Abbott preached morning service and Father Hall urged careful missionary work through missions while cautioning against immediate conversions. A full discussion followed with pastors from Fall River and Haverhill praising mission impact. The evening session featured missionary addresses by Rev Shinn and Rev Sprague highlighting Episcopal work abroad and at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Protestant Episcopal Church
Cambridge
St. John’s Memorial Chapel
Edward Abbott
Father Hall
Mission Church of
St. John the Evangelist
J. W. Suter
Winchester
E. H. Jarrott
St. James’s Church
Fall River
David Avers
Haverhill
G. Z. Gray
G. W. Shinn
D.D
Grace Church
Newton
Philo W. Sprague
St. John’s Church
Charlestown
Episcopal Church
Harvard Athletic Sports Circular Seeks Student Replies
Harvard College seeks full student response to a circular on athletic sports. The committee requests all students, including nonparticipants and spectators, to return the enclosed form or write a brief statement if refusing. Responses are confidential and not linked to names. Also noted are Harvard Glee Club officers and a recent class of 1890 baseball game summary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard College
Hollis Hall
Harvard Glee Club
G. L. Bullard
A. D. Hodges
W. F. Gay
H. H. Darling
J. B. Embick
M. A. Taylor
K. S. Hackett
Berkeley Temple Hosts Seventh Berkeley Course Night
Berkeley Temple overflowed with listeners for the seventh Berkeley course entertainment. Performers included Miss Alice May Bates soprano Miss Georgia Nixon contralto R W Willard tenor Joseph W Leach bass Dr William Rice violin H G Hopper piano Mrs B F Bates accompanist. Leach sang Nazareth with expression and Rice’s Palm Branches on violin drew praise. Nixon’s tease of a voice pleased, closing quartet Old King Cole featured Bates Willard and Leach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley Temple
Berkeley
Alice May Bates
Georgia Nixon
R. W. Willard
Joseph W. Leach
William Rice
H. G. Hopper
B. F. Bates
Nazareth
Nixon
Old King Cole
City government meets to break deadlock again
Both branches of the city government met yesterday afternoon and attempted to break the deadlock. The council held a 34 to 34 vote on the matter. The board of aldermen approved a motion to non-concur with the council by 6 to 4 and adjourned to meet Friday at 1 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Aldermen
Vriday
New Books History of Essex County Celebrates Lyceum Era
A two volume history of Essex County Massachusetts delivered to subscribers highlights prominent figures through engravings and essays. It chronicles local leaders, early lyceum movement origins in Methuen and Boston, and the national spread, praising the Essex Institute as enduring monument to popular education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Essex County
Judge Parsons
Timothy Pickering
Leverett Saltonstall
M.D
Richard
Endicott
Joseph Peabody
Francis Peabody
Nathaniel Lord
Ipswich
Nathaniel
Otis P
Stephen C. Phillips
Stephen H. Phillips
Robert Rantoul
Uriel Crocker
Elijah Upton
Judge White
Cornelius C
Samuel Felton
Thorndikes
Beverly
Israel and
Albert
H. K. Oliver
James H. Wdunean
Frederic Tudor
John E. Lodge
Rufus Choate
Caleb Cushing
Salem
George Bachelor
Place
B. Willson
Feltons
Rantouls
Abiel Abbott
A. P. Peabody
George B. Loring
North Andover
H. C. Lodge
Charles G. Osgood
Henry W. Foote
W. T. Davis
Plymouth
A. P. Putnam
Brooklyn
Commonwealth
Lyceums
Robert S. Rantoul
Lyceum
Pickerings
Cabots
Crowninshields
Lowells
Nathan Dane
Manasseh Cutler
Rufus King
Theophilus Parsons
Joseph Story
Derbys
Peabodys
Jacksons
Grays
Lees
Pickmans
Hoopers
Cleveland
Phillips
Bowditch
Lynde
Sewall
Dummer
Massachusetts State Lyceum
Twentythree Lyceums
National Lyceum
Daniel Webster
Exchange Coffee House
Boston
George B. Emerson
Massachusetts
Josiah Holbrook
Edward Everett
National Lyceum of America
United States Court Room
City Hall
New York
Stephen van Rensselaer
Albany
N. Y
Thomas 8. Grimke
South Carolina
Universal Lyceum
Henry Brougham
Josiah Holbroeck
Emerson
Beecher
Parker
Holmes
Starr King
Chapin
Curtis
Whipple
Essex Institute
Rantoul
Goodwin s Pilgrim Republic reviewed with mixed praise
A harsh critique of John A. Goodwin s The Pilgrim Republic, noting overlarge scope and excessive digressions on Aborigines and Early Explorers, while praising clarity and scholarship. The reviewer cites factual errors, biases against Puritans, and a strong but uneven narrative, yet finds value for serious readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Young
Mr. Goodwin
New England
Goodwin
Morton
Bradford
Winslow
Bradhead
Hamden
London
Plymouth
John Hampden
Oldham and
Lyford
Salem
Massachusetts Colony
Massachusetts
Plymouth Plantation
Deane
Nathaniel Ward
Ipswich
Michael Wigglesworth
Pilgrim Annals
The
Pilgrim Republic
Colony of
New Plymouth
John A. Goodwin
Boston
Ticknor & Co
Life of Camp Meeting John Rev. John Allen
Rev. John Allen known as Camp Meeting John was a revivalist famed for wit and a sunny, youthful spirit. He embraced temperance at 29 and quit tobacco after a sermon, converting at 30 and dedicating his life to preaching. He lived to over 92, recalled for warmth, second marriage at 81, and enduring popularity. memorials praise his character and tributes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
John Allen
Allen
Stephen Allen
Boston
B. B. Russell
Beecher Addresses Collection Highlights Beecher's Patriotism
John R. K. Howard presents a 34-piece set of Beecher addresses sermons and articles spanning February 1850 to October 1885. The compilation covers Freedom and Slavery Civil War and Civil Liberty with Beecher’s emancipation and Union preservation work foregrounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ward Beecher
John RK. Howard
Beecher
Asteroid studies and new youth literature reviewed
A professor Kirkwood volume on the asteroids traces discovery, origin theories, and vast cosmic scale. The Knickerbocker Nuggets promote Lays of Ancient Rome and other poems. Mary F Hyde editors Practical Lessons in the Use of English for schools. Alden’s New Robinson Crusoe satirizes classic tales. Noah Brooks’s Lincoln biography for youth. Clark’s Temperance History of Massachusetts. Noble Deeds of Our Fathers. Chip’s Unnatural History. and other minor works reviewed with prices and publication details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirkwood
University Indiana
Mars
Jupiter
Tere
Ceres
Pallas
Juno
Vesta
Rome
Lord Macarday
Mary F. Hyde
Boston
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Stey
D, C. Heath & Co
Albany
DeFoe
G. P. Priam
Noah Rooks
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Washington
George F. Clark
Massachusette
Massachusetts
King Clark
Winth
Chip
Mil
Daniel Kirkwood
Philadephia
J. B. Lippincott & Co
Clarke & Carruth
Price
Lord Macauty Knickerbocker
New York
G. A Putnam’s Sons
Langrhyton, Macdonald & Co
Bosston
D.C. Heath & Co
Mary F.dfyde
D . C. Heath & Co
New Robinson Crusoe
W.L. Alden
Harper & Bros
Young Pieox PLC
Noah Brooks
G. P. Pullam’s Sons
George Faber Clark
Henry C. Watson
Boostoms Lee & Shepard
Frederick A. Stokes
Laughton, Macdonald & Co
Kindergarten for the Blind fund list donations
The treasurer of the Kindergarten for the Blind fund acknowledges subscriptions from Mrs J P Shep Anne Wiz hard Ellen M Henry Woods and others. Totals show receipts and a memorial gift, with final noted totals around 29 867 dollars from the charities of the Unitarian Church in Lancaster Massachusetts.
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Fund For the Kindergarten For the
J. P. Shep
Anne Wizhard
W.J. Brigham
Charitable Society of the Unitarian Church
Lamcaster
Mass
Pigeon Cove House Opens at Cape Ann Resort
Cape Ann region welcomes the newly opened Pigeon Cove House hotel at Pigeon Cove thirty six miles from Poston, touted as one of the neatest summer resort accommodations for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Ann
Poston
Pigeon Cove House
Also Mentioned on This Page
Monwealth Safe Deposit and Trust Company
United States Safe Deposit and Trust Comany
Manufacturers’ Loan and Trust Company of
Holyoke
Manufacturers’ Trust Company
Mutual Life Insurance
Landlords’ Liability Insurance Company
New England Live Stock Insurance Company
Workingmen’s Building Association
Workingmen’s Loan Association
Police Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Morocco
Beverly Farms
Avon
Stoughton
Lowell
Lewisbury
Taunton
Wilmington
Fourth District Court
Middlesex
South Scituate
Norwell
Medford
Fitchburg
House of Correction
Worcester
Brookfield
New Bedford
Needham
Peabody Es
Mansfield
Brookline
Randolph
Quincy
Monson
Leicester
Rockland
Abington
Fairhaven
Riverside
Malden
Lynn
Board of Registrars of Voters Reorganized
Woburn
Eastern Convocation
Harvard Athletic Sports
D. Hamilton Hard
Philadelphia
I. W. Lewis & Co
England
Atlantic Monthly
Howard
L.beecher
Pescher
Coln
Grant
America
Red
Fords, Howard & Hulbert
Kindergarten
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