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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1886
Page
4
The Boston Post Publishing Co announces subscription rates for milk news and daily publication. Daily rates include one year 9, six months 24.50, three months 2.25, one month 75 cents. weekly Friday issue is 1.50 per year. Mail and payment details provided for readers.
The notice states editors will not return rejected manuscripts and will ignore anonymous communications. Writers must provide full name and address with correspondence as a matter of good faith. It mentions financial and commercial departments on pages six and seven and the ship Neuss on page three.
The article notes a clash in Chicago where big packing houses ban membership in labor unions, confronting Knights of Labor and unions. It argues the strike will test if workmen’s demands are essential or if others will accept withheld wages under employer terms, with enough guards to keep peace.
The La Crosse mayor vows to enforce a Sunday statute across all covered businesses and occupations. Plans include closing telegraph offices except weather reports, halting street streetcars, and barring hired church singers. The move tests whether law can halt Sunday activity entirely.
Reports from Baku describe a Tagrifi & Co. site well that began spouting on Oct 5 at 2,750,000 gallons daily, reaching a 224 foot fountain. The phenomenon follows a rising production trend in the region and may intensify Russian oil competition in Europe.
A debate over President Cleveland's Harvard remarks. the Advertiser’s mild censure contrasts with public praise for his candor. Meanwhile Miss Cobbe attacks M Bert from London as he tours Tonquin, with his reply anticipated. Shipping lists and a Leonard gallery exhibit draw city attention, led by European works and new artists, to be sold this week.
The remark notes that progress brings the nation to a critical question about the future of the national banking system, with increasing urgency as months pass.
The dispute over Mr. Tilden's will centers on the trust clause as heirs claim trustees lack discretion. If the court upholds their view New York could lose the great library Tilden sought to found while nephews gain a fortune not intended. The testamentary capacity of Mr. Tilden remains unchallenged.
The Bulgarian Parliament proceeds with electing a prince in opposition to the Czar while a pro Russian revolt leader is arrested at Bourgas. The Czar may view this as casus belli as Europe hesitates to intervene. The analogy likens Russia to a big dog near a cat and Europe as the broom that could restrain. The cat holds firm and spectators admire the stand.
The text argues that the campaign for office rests on a socialistic plan hostile to both laborers and capitalists and appealing to revolutionaries including Chicago bomb-throwers.
Somber note hangs over remarks by Governor Robinson at the President’s reception as the hopeful tone of blessings and graceful sentiments contrast with the looming clumsy possibilities of a near period.
Six or seven years ago Mr. W H Fanning first brought water color collections to the city and returns biannually. His exhibitions display thousands of pictures from European schools and notable masters, showing a broad spectrum from high merit to ordinary pieces, with eclectic variety across English Dutch Spanish and Roman styles.
Mrs Langtry appeared at the Boston Theatre in The Lady of Lyons amid illness and muted influence. Critics note her beauty and grace but fault her lack of stage vigor and declamatory power. Coghlan’s Claude Melnotte is better received though modest. Pickering’s Browning readings show intelligence and taste, with Paneled delivery praised for restraint and refinement.
Mr Arthur Howard Pickering presented two Browning selections last evening before a discerning audience. The critic praised Browning as profound and dramatic, noting the interpreter must be a seasoned artist with wide life experience and flexible voice to convey the poetry’s varied tones.
In Boston discussions on clubhouses focus on light and sociability over lavish interiors. Notes compare local houses with New York clubs and recount long-serving teachers and prominent locals, including Mrs. Cleveland at the Adirondack retreat and her reception by visitors.
Roberts Bros imports four hundred copies of Reynard the Fox English edition deluxe. The satirical epic, with German and French roots, showcases Kaulbach engravings and Wolf wood-cuts. The piece notes its literary history from Caxton to Goethe and marks the Brooklyn Magazine’s broader cultural aim.
A Boston review praises Lord Ronald Gower's Last Days of Marie Antoinette as a reverent portrait of the queen. The sketch covers her arrest, imprisonment, and execution with knightly loyalty, noting the melancholy face and the final grave-digger entries.
Mrs. Wallace offers a prose version of Ginevra tied to Samuel Rogers and Pierpont, with new but familiar illustrations by Virginia Gerson for Clement C. Moore verses. The piece notes poor cover art for both Ginevra and the Saint Nicholas volume and contrasts Wallace’s sentiment with the original romance and art.
The November gathering of the Unitarian Club occurs tonight at Hotel Vendome. Reverend Pitt Dillingham will present a paper on Aristocracy in Religion.
The November issue of The Magazine of American History includes a frontispiece portrait of Governor Thomas Pownall and an article on the colonial statesman by Robert Ludlow Fowler. It is illustrated with views of the Province House in Boston the Abbey Church at Bath and other sites. Additional pieces discuss Braddock's defeat Washington and General Pope with notes on Virginia's Conquest and Historic Homes.
The Eclectic Magazine highlights the November issue with Sir Samuel Baker and M. Arminius Weinbery on Russia and England Batoum and Cyprus. It also notes P Anderson Grahams critique of Swinburnes poetry and remarks on the exiled poets reception. Other essays include Paul Louis Courier by Hutton and The Future Supremacy of Women by Mrs Lynn Linton.
The Brooklyn Magazine offers opinions by Hon. Seth Low on the Irish Home Rule Controversy for readers interested in politics. Also mentioned is light reading by Mrs M J Gorton and others.
The piece argues a narrow escape from defeat could be a blessing if Democrats grasp the lesson, noting several Democratic states should take the warning to heart. It appears in a Northern publication noting political cautions and admonitions for party strategists.
A Providence Journal note warns the silver factor of national currency is dishonest and bank issues face extinction. It emphasizes the vast size and stakes of this danger and urges awareness of potential economic collapse.
The Hartford Courant suggests the next U S president will align with Powderly on tariff policy and be nominated by a Republican convention. It speculates Powderly and possibly Wilcox may influence the outcome or assist in defeating the candidate.
Aly Blaine and his followers celebrate figures from the recent election as proof that Mr. Cleveland is far stronger today with the people nationwide than in 1884, according to Albany Arens.
The Hartford Post commends Osam Randall Sunset Cox and P A Collins as the strongest Democrats in the national house. It says Mr Collins would be a good Ways and Means chairman.
The Philadelphia Times reports labor groups in the city may nominate George W. Childs for mayor and will not accept a decline, warning of major upheaval within the machine’s ranks and potential damage to political ties.
The paper argues that the revenue reform cause outruns its leaders despite Mr Morrison's defeat. It mocks the monopoly press and notes Mr Hurd’s loss does not shield protectionism, as the district now has a protectionist representative.
The World notes Mr Cleveland delivered a direct well worded address to Harvard alumni. It remarks the President also slipped in a quiet dig at the press during the speech, praising his forceful rhetoric.
The Democrat recounts Governor Robinson’s generous bearing toward the President during a Boston visit. It notes his courteous greetings in Boston and Cambridge, performed with manly tact and magnanimity, presenting Massachusetts well.
Mrs. Richard Wood and her three year old daughter were struck yesterday on the corner of Washington Street. They were taken home to Croton Street while the herdic driver exited unharmed. The incident is described as not serious.
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