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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1891
Page
8
The Boston Post announces a sky bulletin plan for Harvard versus Yale, using balloons and sky bombs to signal first-half results and final scores. The scheme promises wide readership as Boston awaits the game, with crimson and blue balloons signaling Harvard and Yale outcomes.
At the twelfth annual Old School Boys Association banquet in Boston, 200 members gathered at Young's with lively speeches. Curtis Guild praised public schools with the line if you would behold their works look around. Speakers warned of threats from luxury and foreign influence while stressing the need for thorough, practical education and stronger supervision for truancy.
The Boston Philharmonic at Tremont Theatre presented an afternoon program featuring Sakuntala overture, Grieg Bergliot melodrama, Peer Gynt suites, Saint-Saëns melodies, Grieg Suite, and Tschaikowski concerto movement. Bergliot received mixed reviews as theatre music. Listemann earned applause for Tschaikowski performance. overall playing showed improvement with occasional untuneful moments.
A Boston gathering featured speeches by United States Marshal Doherty, William C. Lawrence, Charles H. Allen, and Edward H. Dunn, ending with an original poem depicting Boston fifty years past. A brief business meeting elected officers: President Augustin Kuss, Vice-President Micah Dyer Jr, Secretary and Treasurer William Lawrence, and a slate of directors including John F. Newton and Curtis Guild.
Governor Russell attended a patriotic performance titled The War in Song, with Silas G. Pratt conducting the Centraial Anniversary Overture and an Allegory of the War in Song. The program featured the First Massachusetts Regiment, Germania band, and choral renditions including The Star Spangled Banner and Columbia, ending with America as the audience joined in. The event supported the Grant Monument Fund, and the Gilt Edge expresses service between Heston and New York is praised as a premier line with unmatched parlor cars.
A preview compares Harvard and Yale for tomorrow's big game, noting Harvard’s 13 games to Yale’s 11, and detailing team form, key players like Corbett, Dexter, Bangs, and Heffelfinger, plus weight and line strength. It highlights Yale’s stronger rush line and Harvard’s experienced backfield, with coaching by Arthur Cumnock and Dallas Lake leading scorers.
The piece analyzes Yale and Harvard lines and players including Heffelfinger, Wallis, Waters, and Connell, assessing guard strength for Yale and tackle strength for Harvard. It notes expected contests at ends, backfield, and the feud over who will carry the game, with predictions hinging on Heffelfinger’s endurance and Corbett’s or Trafford’s plays.
Yale faces Harvard with injury concerns as Stillman and Wallace hinge lineup decisions. Captain McClung leads practice under coach Wal lace and Rhoades with Heffelfinger in top form. A special train leaves New Haven at 10 a m for Springfield as Yale eyes victory.
An adjourned meeting at Tremont Temple formed the Boston Shorthand Club with nearly 100 attendees. W A Callen chaired, W J Haines was secretary, fifty membership applications were filed, and a committee reported on permanent quarters as the group planned another gathering in two weeks. Try ing to prove his mother insane.
Nov. 19 proceedings detail overruled exceptions in Ellen H Hendricken vs Meadows for injuries from an open register hole. Thurston petition for dissolution of trust from 1883 affirmed by Supreme Court. Listed cases include Williamstown, Old Colony Railroad, West End Machine Co, Boston Gas Light, and numerous tort and contract actions with verdicts and references to judges and counsel. Friday is last day for law case argument in Suffolk Superior Court sessions.
The case moved to dissolve an injunction, the bill lacking equitable grounds and standing of holders of unmac tured certificates. The court took the matter under advisement with counsel for plaintiffs and defendants. Harvey Young et al versus United Order of Golden Lion seeks injunction against further business after alleging illegal assessments. temporary injunction granted. Jernal Circle et al.
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