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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1888
Page
2
At the National Civil Service Reform League convention in New York City delegates chaired by George William Curtis reaffirmed reform principles. Reports praised progress, with a key debate on appointive power denials and a proposed six year presidency term.
Boston readers know C. E. Woodward & Co. druggists at 62 Bromfield street. From another column, a coupon good for 20 cents on a $1 purchase at the store can be cut from the ad.
The New England Woman Suffrage Association closed its anniversary meetings with a Boston Music Hall festival. Notable attendees included Laura Ormiston Chant, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Lucy Stone, and William Lloyd Garrison Jr. Speakers urged continued political equality, recalling past restrictions and celebrating gains, with addresses on freedom, law, and women’s citizenship.
New York May 30 Bishop Fowler opened the Methodist conference. A resolution by Dr Wheeler set a five year pastoral term with specific adjustments for new or continued charges. The conference approved a board of conference claimants to raise funds and named St Louis and Omaha as headquarters and next meeting site respectively. Elections on women lay delegates were scheduled for October or November 1890. A uniform order of service was debated and adopted in part with a seven-step plan.
Several private dinners took place at local hotels last night with hundreds registered. The only notable name among attendees was Count EB Mazarin, Italy's vice-consul, staying at Young's hotel.
A notice from S. A. Stewart & Co. at 118 and 120 Sudbury street highlights a fine stock of carriages for a comfortable drive. The selection includes all kinds, with 80 carriages available and a desirable lot of second-hand vehicles in good condition. Desirable bargains await buyers.
Composed principally of Raw Beef and Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey. It will cure ta first stages of consumption, build up tissue, increase strength, add vitality and life, give good color to the face, form a healthy appetite. If not in stock, send one dollar to the Duffy Malt Whiskey Co. Rochester, N. Y., for a bottle, charges prepaid.
A brisk warning urges readers not to delay and to obtain Benson's Plaster at once for immediate relief. Prominent physicians endorse the plaster as superior for lung trouble, rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, and kidney disease, claiming it works promptly without interfering with daily business.
Certificate shows F S Lovelace as general partner and W B Fonda as special partner forming a Massachusetts limited partnership to buy and sell immother and lumber on commission. Beginning May 1, 1888, ending January 1, 1839, with Fonda contributing five thousand dollars in cash.
In Medford on April 28 1558 F S Lovelace appeared and acknowledged the certificate as her free act before Justice Jesse Cl Ivy the peace officiant.
A Vermont Franklin county notary acknowledgment dated April 30 1888 attests W B Fonda signed a certificate as his free act before Stephen E Royce notary public. A Boston imprint May 16 1883 confirms a true copy witnessed by Henry J Coolidge deputy secretary of the Commonwealth seal.
Harry Brown aged nineteen, son of ex-Alderman Edward F. Brown, died after a bat slipped from a striker struck him in the base of the brain at the Salem baseball ground. He lived at home, worked at the Five Cents Savings Bank, belonged to the Cadets, and was a Salem High School graduate.
New York May 30 ships arriving include L. B. Gilchrist to Buenos Ayres Montevideo Java Barbados Teresina Mes sina Lottie Tuxpan Monsita and other brigs and schooners. Steamers Westernland Trave Adriatic Egypt Philadelphia Barracouta Athos Claribel Carl Know Winthrop and more sail for Antwerp Bremen Liverpool Laguayr ete St Croix Port Natal and other ports.
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