Milk Subscriptions and Payment Details Listed
Boston Post Publishing Co outlines subscription rates and payment instructions. It notes addresses for New York, Birmingham agents, and a Washington office at the Corcoran Building with references to page placement for ship news and other sections.
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New York
Offive
Broadway
Wall Street
Brmogman, Birmingham & Co
Washington
Corcoran Building
Fifteenth Street
Doston Post on Mills tariff amendment taxes art
The May 31 1888 article denounces the caucus amendment to the Mills tariff bill removing art from the free list and keeping a 30 percent duty. It argues no district has an infant art industry needing protection and Treasury revenue is unnecessary. It notes opposition from artists who favor free foreign works and questions the education tax claim.
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Treasury
Indifference to Workers Highlighted in Tariff Debate
A circular from President Foster of the League of Young Republican Clubs questions why the workingman counts little in tariff benefits. The appeal claims manufacturers gain most from protection, citing a Pennsylvania senator whose remarks suggest taxing to curb fat profits. Working people, paying high prices, may sympathize with efforts to curb manufacturer wealth.
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Ingman
Foster
League of Young Republican Clubs
United States
Pennsylvania
Vania
Russian railway menace risks India rule, Tory fears rise
A discussion on Samarcand’s Strategic Railway hints at a Russian threat to British supremacy in India. Lords Salisbury and Bury face criticism for foreign policy inaction as party organs warn Russia could seize India in three months. The piece foreshadows a potential new Eastern scare amid alleged military insufficiency.
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Samarcand
Central Asia
India
Salis BurRy
Branconsfield
Russia
Lord Louisbury
Britain Faces Dilemma Over Asia Policy and Afghan Independence
The passage argues that extending power in Asia is unlikely, urging prudent defense against Russian advances. It warns that continuing the railway to Herat could erode Afghan independence and let Russia hold leverage over India, pressing for organized defense instead of expansion.
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Asia
Herat
Afghanistan
Russia
India
Walker Switches From Independence to Republican Fold
Worcester politician Josefh H. Walker abandons independent stance to join the Republican party in the tenth district. He declares his allegiance in a letter, signaling decisive support for party candidates amid a charged primary season.
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Josefh H. Walker
Worcester
Ratification Meeting Invite Shrinks Independence in Chicago Era
A speaker at a ratification meeting in late June pledges unwavering support for any Republican convention or caucus nominee. He calls the convention the final court for candidate selection, signaling a shift from a prior millity stance and aligning with party machinery for congressional bids.
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Chicago
Congress
Senate speeches challenge fisheries treaty techniques
In opposition to the fisheries treaty the Senate debates echo Mr Fryer's Tuesday remarks. The article blasts Fryers speech as a farrago of misstatements and praises Democratic senators for a forthcoming, decisive, satisfactory rebuttal. It notes Frye exposed the impracticability of retaliation under the last Congress law.
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Senate
Fryer
Fryr
Frye
Blaine Faces Pressure From Chicago Nomination Drive
The piece argues Mr. Blaine avoids direct acceptance of a presidential bid. It cites Walther Law Aerp and Joseph Medill showing Blaine’s acceptance would require spontaneous unity and convention backing. It notes Blaine’s influence on party platforms and predicts a Blaine controlled Chicago convention with Slavicism guiding the campaign.
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Blaine
Wuhiteelaw Rein
Florence
Blaine Best
Walrr Law Aerp
Heratheiily
Blain
Chicago
Joseph Medill
The
Chicago Tribune
Griesham
Medill
Reip Letter of Refusal “Free From Indirection.’’ They All Agree That Mr. Blaine
Rero
Austria Objects To Tisza Speech In Hungarian Diet
The Austrian government seeks to disavow official responsibility for the sharp remarks by Herr Tisza in the Hungarian Diet. He claimed Hungary could not join the Paris exhibition without risking Parisian insult, a pointed jab at a friendly nation.
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Herr Tisza
Hungary
Paris
Parisian
Hungarian minister's apology to France amid Vienna dispute
The Hungarian President of the Council Count Kalnoky, amid a contentious speech by Herr Tisza, offers an apology to the French ambassador. Paris papers protest the insult, while Le Temps questions Hungary's and France's past relations and Alsace Lorraine tensions. France is urged to view Kalnoky's remarks as possibly insincere yet prudent to accept.
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Count KatNnoxy
Vienna
Herr Tisza
France
Count Kalnoky
la Justice
le Temps
Hungary
Bismarck
Alsace-Lorraine
Poland
Italy
Germany
Rights of quotation provoke Stevens copyright dispute
The London Atheneum discusses Mr Henry Stevens of Vermont and his copyright grievance over six Bookworm articles allegedly copied from Recollections of Mr James Lenox of New York. Publishers offer apology or compensation. Stevens seeks £20 and formal acknowledgment, but legal action is deemed unlikely. The piece argues reviews face moral questions in quotation cases and notes potential sales impact on the Recollections.
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London Atheneum
Times
Henry N. Svrevens
England
Stevens
James Lenox
New York
Henry Stevens
Vermont
Svock
Stock
Mr. Stevens
Mr. Stock
Atheneum
America
Pyather
Comic critique echoes in Stevens letters and Wicke Bible debate
A reader quotes Mr Stevens and attacks Mr Stock and his editor for misreading the Wicke Bible story. The piece links satire to Hampden and Charles I, noting the editor’s rivaled zeal and a lighter note in Stevens junior’s Athenaeum letter.
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Mr. Stevens
Stock
Stevens
Diogenes
Hampden
Charles the First
Boston Harbor
Athenaeum
Donnelly Cipher Sparks Minnesota Chronology Crack
Downey resists exposing his cipher for Bacon story while Pyres uses the Donnelly method on Ham Jet to produce a mathematical table and arguments. He claims Donnelly wrote the letter of introduction signed by the plays author. The brochure is hailed as the best criticism the Great Cryptogram has received. It hints that Donnelly's Minnesota political career may be decoded from the same source.
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Donnelly
Minnesota
Donnill
Memorial day reflections and a lament for Mr. Robert D. Smith
The Boston observer notes a softened Memorial day spirit with shops open and parks crowded, praises holiday restraint under a new law, and mourns the death of Mr. Robert D. Smith. It recalls his brilliant legal career, integrity, courtesy, humor, and Southern roots born in Brandon, Mississippi, in 1838.
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Boston
Notable Boston Lawyer and Civic Leader Passes Away
The notice honors Mr. Smith, a Cambridge and Boston figure, detailing his legal career from Suffolk bar admission in 1859 to forming a practice with Henry W. Paine, his Harvard ties, and public service roles. It highlights his devotion to good government, higher education, and multiple clubs, plus his family life and a long residence in Cambridge, Newton, and Boston.
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Robert M. Morse, Jr
John ©. Ropes
Solomon Lincoln
John L. Long
J. L. Stackpole
J. J. Storrow
Mr. Smith
Cambridge
Henry W. Paine
Suffolk
Law
Washington
Paulina Cony Weston
Harvard
Newton
Mt. Vernon Street
Boston
Bar Association
Union
St. Botolph
Monument Beach
Notable Residents and Elections Mentioned in Briefs
The item lists individuals moving residences and pursuing offices, including Professor Holden of Lick Observatory making Mt Hamilton his permanent home, W. C. Culbertson planning a congressional run as a millionaire with lumber interests, and General Boulanger leasing a Paris house for fifteen years at 10,000 francs yearly. It also highlights Bishop-elect Daniel A. Goodsell, Stamford Bluefish Club member and past fog horn blower for the club schooner.p
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W. C. Culbertson
Congress
William Scott
Erie
Kentucky
Michigan
Girard (Penn.) Wrench Company
Alleghany
Irvineton
General Boulanger
Rue Dumax d’Urville
Paris
Boulanger
Comte de Brigade
Daniel A. Goodsell
Methodist Church
Stamford Bluefish Club
Oliver Hoyt
Goodsell
Fishery treaty under discussion in open Senate
A Providence Journal report notes the fishery treaty being discussed in the open Senate and expresses hope it will establish precedent for future similar occasions.
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Providence Journal
Carnegie wages cut as tariff praised by mogul
Andrew Carnegie faces worker discontent as Homestead Iron Works cut wages by ten percent. Carnegie, famed for his fortune, departs on a London jaunt aboard his four in hand to Cluny Castle while praising the tariff as a blessing, leaving laborers to wonder about their place in the scheme.
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Andrew Carnegie
Mills bill under fire by wary Democrats in Chicago Herald
The Chicago Herald notes a Democratic caucus fearfully pressing the Mills bill as reformists face Republican Senate resistance. Advocates struggle to defend the measure while facing high tax opposition and dwindling hope for progress.
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Friends of Reform
Senate
Chicago Herald
Which Said 16 Edmunds or Morrill
The article ponders which Republican Senator Foster quoted about frying Pennsylvania manufacturers. It points to Vermont as the only state with such a Democratic absence and concludes the cited senator must be either Edmunds or Morrill, with no other plausible option.
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Edmunds OR
Morrill
Republican League
Massachuetts
Foster
Mr. Foster
Pennsylvania
United States
House of Ce
Union
Vermont
PROHIBITIONISTS CONVENTION OPENS IN INDIANAPOLIS
Delegates from nearly every state gather at Tomlinson Hall for the Prohibition national convention. John St. John and H. Delano of Connecticut chosen for key posts, with W C T U memorials and a 1030 vote total anticipated. Bishop Turner joins the platform as speakers laud anti-saloon unity.
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IndiAnapolis
Ind
Tomlinson Hall
Dickie
National Committee
John St. John
H. ©. Delano
Connecticut
Ritter
Dela
J. B. Cranfill
Texas
M. M. Brown
Cincinnati
G. F. Wells
Minnesota
Committee On
Gore
New York
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Wyoming
Committee of Permanent Organization
John P. St. John
Kansas
Sam Small
Georgia
J. B. Crannell
W. M. Boble
Michigan
D. Knowlton
St. John
Babylon
Prohibition Party
National Women’s Christian Temperance Union
National Congress
Turner
A. M. E. Church
Republican Party
Prohibitionists
New England
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Fire at Garrould linen drapers shop ends in six deaths
Lownox May 30 fire at Edward and Robert Gar rould linen drapers and silk merchants on Edgeware Road London claims six shop women killed and many injured from windows. Loss estimated at 200000 dollars. Mr Bright improving after crisis. Ayrshire Derby winner at Epsom Downs.
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Lownox
Edward and
Robert Garrould
Edgeware Road
London
Bright
Ayrshire
Epsom Downs
Dupuy
Ballinsloe Board of Guardians
Harris
M.P
Balfour
Paris
M. Henri Rochefort
M. Rochefort
von Puttkamer
Diet
Mackenzie
England
Constantinople
America
Copper and sidicium alloy mirrors virgin gold in malleability
An alloy of copper with a new metal sidicium is reported to have the malleability and color of virgin gold. A novel submarine design uses power from burning a compressed oxygen petroleum spray mix. Submersion is achieved by a centrifugal pump drawing in water and expelling it through two vertical openings.
Harvard Instruct ors to Change Courses Across Departments
Harvard announces numerous faculty changes for next year across several departments. Toy resumes Semitic courses. Goodwin Wright White and Morgan restructure Greek offerings. Latin 14 will study Catullus. English 2 shifts to Kittredge with new elocution option. German courses reorganized with Zabbitt replacing Hoehdorfer and 19th century literature focus. Gothic and philology added. history sees new instructors including Channing Gross Bendelart McVane Schofield. physics courses reallocate under Lovering absence. instrumental studies and new master score instrumentation by Paine.
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Harvard
Toy
Goodwin
Wright
J. W. White
Morgan
Fowler
Smith
Preble
Catullus
Allen
Kittredge
Insead
Child
Hayes
Jones
Zabbitt
Hoehdorfer
Francke
Kreist
Grillparzar
Ubland
Ruchert
Heine
Keiden
Frandgent
Sheldon
Channing
Dr. Gross
Bendelart
McVane
Gross
Young
Andover Seminary Anniversary Week Programme
Andover Theological Seminary unveils a June anniversary schedule with chapel services lectures examinations and alumni events. Speakers include Rev. George Harris Hon. John W. Dickinson Rev. Alonzo H. Quint DeWitt S. Clark Nathaniel Shipman and other clergy educators.
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Andover Theological Seminary
George Harris
Society of Inquiry
H. A. Hazen
George E. Street
Exeter
N. H
John W. Dickinson
Massachusetts State Board of Education
Alonzo H. Quint
D.D
DeWitt S. Clark
Salem
Nathaniel Shipman
Hartford
Conn
Bartlet
Dainer
Phillips Academy
Elections and Nominations Across States
Baton Rouge voters saw Judge E D White chosen as United States Senator for terms starting March 4 1891. In Raleigh N C G M Mebane, a colored candidate, was nominated for Congress in the second district by Republicans. St Augustine Florida Democrats mapped delegates to St Louis, with governor nominee ballots underway among Frank P Flemking Jacksonville General Robert Bullock Ocala Robert W Davis Palatka and J G Speer Oakland. twelfth ballot produced near evenly split votes among 669 cast. The platform backed tariff reform and the administration.
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Robert D. Smith
Brandon
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Commonwealth Avenue
Edward Burgess
Fairchild
Board of Life Saving Appliances
Burgess
Massachusetts Hurcane Society
Taverner
Professor Holden
Lick Observatory
Mt. Hamilton
Fish
Ohio
Henry George
Arizona
Henry
Omaha Herald
Cincinnati Press
Samuel J. Randall
Randall
Pacific Coast
Oceanic Steamship Company
San Francisco
California
Howe
Atchison Globe
Senator Ingalls
Ralph Ingalls
Wichita
Commonwealth
John Brown
James H. Lane
John J. Ingalls
Jim Lane
General Foreign News
John Bright
Andover Seminary
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