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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1887
Page
4
Milk price list shows daily and weekly subscriptions with various terms. Daily rates include one year nine dollars six months four fifty three months two twenty five and one month seventy five cents. Weekly Friday issues priced at one year three dollars.
The text discusses efforts to accelerate scholarly work in American folklore by naming scholars involved and aligning resources. It emphasizes coordination, recognition, and prompt results to advance the study of folklore traditions.
Second class matter entry states all money sent at sender’s risk with payable checks to Post Publishing Company. Provides New York Agency address 140 Nassau Street and Washington Office 515 Fourteenth Street plus Ernest F. Birmingham as manager.
The mayor's decision after talks with department heads allows city laborers to work only long enough to cast ballots, a move praised as duty bound and lawful. Public opinion backed the measure, seen as a decisive setback to demagogic efforts to politicize city departments and raids on the treasury.
The Postmaster-General reports the telegraph system costs Britain £10 880 871 with £326 71 annual interest. Revenue last year was £1 354 879, £499 840 short of operating and interest costs. 40 137 135 messages were sent, up 10 million, with telegrams also rising.
In a interview Sir Lyon Playfair compares England and the United States arguing free open competition is essential in England. He notes 2000 to 3000 annual open competition appointments and says education and merit now govern service entry. He claims the system improves standards by admitting sons of common workers ahead of nobility.
The piece links Russia’s frontier military activity, a new Nihilist plot, and Agra rian Bank of Moscow estate sales to Russia’s broader social upheaval after emancipation. It also surveys New York politics, noting the crowded contests for state offices and Congress, the Nicolll versus Fellows matchup, and a shift in newspaper loyalties amid heated, personal turf wars.
The piece argues that frontier military activity serves as a destructive remedy used by a semi barbarous government. It claims such leadership prioritizes financial interests over politics and seeks to divert national attention from internal deficiencies toward external expansion.
The Hawaiian government agrees to cede Pearl River harbor as a coaling and repair site to the United States under a reciprocity treaty, on the condition that the U S interprets the grant as Hawaii retaining sovereignty while the treaty lasts. The concession benefits the United States for a possible navy buildup and renewal should the treaty end.
The article describes coastwise and deep sea derelicts drifting from Florida to Newfoundland and beyond. It cites the derelict American schooner Manantico as a dramatic example, reporting a voyage of about 9000 miles from its 1886 start near Cape May to the Azores area. It notes many derelicts between 15 W and 60 W longitudes, ice dangers, and calls for navies to clear these floating hazards.
The Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic for November lists over 200 derelict vessels and adds many more. It notes a waterlogged craft towed in by United States vessels during September and October.
The New York Chamber of Commerce backs official recognition of arbitration when diplomacy fails between the United States and England. The piece warns that formal treaties cannot guarantee enforcement if national passions rise, and urges cautious government action rather than immediate commitment to a permanent arbitration scheme.
American scholars are urged to back a Folklore Publication Society with a low 3 annual membership, including the journal. Committee members include F J Child Harvard, Brinton Philadelphia, Crane Cornell, Mason Smithsonian. Only 104 of 200 names secured. petition urged to contact W W Newill Cambridge for membership.
A large Sleeper Hall crowd enjoyed Otto Bendix in a modern pianoforte program at the New England Conservatory. Chopin ballade and Moszkowski caprice espagnol drew praise, with Grieg songs and Saint Saëns arrangements closing. Bendix praised for mastery and expressive depth amid favorable conditions.
The piece surveys current and upcoming engagements in Boston and New York theatres. Boucicault’s Shaughraun and other hits lead the bill at Hollis Street and Museum while Jefferson and Boucicault plan new works at the Globe and Hollis Street. Irving stars in Faust at the Star with a five week run before tours to Philadelphia Chicago and Boston, alongside other major bills and revivals noted for the coming week.
In a Boston club the cynic mocks rival New York editors Dana and Pulitzer calling them charlatans and thieves while noting the state of civilization has degraded for ink not blood. A playful exchange follows about domestic labor and a mother-in-law.
In a Springfield Republican editorial the writer warns that American social order faces violent attack from foreign elements. The piece urges a determined fight to preserve traditional institutions and values in the republic.
The article argues the petroleum monopoly will cut oil production to half the average, a result of coal barons not squeezing enough profit lately. It claims monopolists control oil and other essentials, and threaten a grim winter for the poor.
The New York Herald insists war talk is nonsense and hopes for a fair, speedy, honorable settlement if Mr Chamberlain visits. England and America seek a square outcome without conflict.
The piece argues that tariff reform is pivotal for the Democratic ticket and potential reform legislation from the next Congress hinges on New York Democrats backing revenue reform. It warns that a defeat reduces reform prospects, while success could drive House action and shape the 1888 national canvass.
A heated battle among New York newspapers over the Nicoll campaign unfolds. The Sun shifts from backing Nicoll to opposition citing World support and a past shooting. The World retaliates with sharp attacks on Sun editor and Pulitzer nickname. theater visit sparks further digs and protests.
A Boston reader corrects a Post report about memory lecture assistants at the Young Women's Christian Association event. He states the helpers were local public school youths of ordinary intellect, not professional performers or travelers.
A collage of observations on art and color, politics, and humor from a bygone era. Jests about Turkish dismemberment, Chicago anarchists, and a hotel waiter mock heroics. Odd vignettes on tailors, wedding fashions, Roumanian industry, and a schoolboy in Washington.
On account of Mr. Gericke illness the Schumann Symphony No. 2 from the second concert will be repeated next Saturday, replacing Brahms's first symphony. Also on the program Beethoven Ruins of Athens overture and Rupert Focus Serenade for strings No. 3. The Ruins of Athens comprises nine numbers. The work is not among Beethoven’s best. The serenade is a light, graceful string piece without special value.
Three of the forty immortals have died in Paris aged 85 in rapid succession Caro Vier Castel and Cuvillier Fleury Lesseps at 81 is the oldest academician Nisard the oldest member Senorita Matilde Montoya becomes Mexico's first female doctor in a Mexico City bullfight fundraiser Miss Ethel Mortlock returns to London studio plans to paint the president's wife Professor Heins nearly proved a punch steerer then the real bunco steerer is arrested Moritz Jokai declines fiftieth anniversary celebration noting 1592 as proper year for the tribute
Union compositors in Rochester New York walked out on Wednesday seeking a raise from 35 to 35 cents per thousand. In Harrelson County Georgia moonshiners killed William Morgan at his home amid suspicions he informed to authorities.
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