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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1889
Page
4
Boston Post publishing company lists daily six monthly and three month subscription prices and notes payment instructions. The notice shows the Washington Street address and Corcoran Building contact details for the office.
The notice lists page allocations: Financial Department on page six, Commercial Department on pages six and seven, and Ship News on page three. This indicates where to find department content in the issue.
The piece indicts Secretary Weapon for harming the US smelting industry and provoking Mexico with strict ore examination rules. It notes carbonate miners at Salt Lake City denouncing him for not fully extending prohibitions on ore importation, labeling him an enemy of home industry.
The piece blasts Hal Stead and Foraker over a forged contract, noting Harstead published the fake document bearing Governor elect Campbell’s name with signatures of Sherman McKinley and Butterworth. It argues these Republicans were active stumping for Foraker while the forgery circulated and accuses them of gullibility.
The Chicago News reports Illinois Republican managers worry about a hostile local climate, the unsettled Legislature next year, and a split party battling for patronage. Democrats unite on tariff reform and target the Legislatures and U S Senate seat with General John M PatMeER amid a Lincoln campaign echo.
The Postmaster-General distributes a souvenir advertisement to foreign delegates visiting Philadelphia for the Pan-American Congress. He touts his retail shop and urges delegates to present his ad to their governments as part of their congress report. Critics call it an unprecedented intrusion on official conduct and commercial ethics.
Captain Codman argues against subsidies in a Massachusetts Tariff Reform League address. He compares American and British steamship wages, noting 38 percent higher crews on American Atlantic fleets and 27 percent higher fares, challenging the wage protection argument used by Dingley supporters.
Judge Cauris C. Nort argues in the Nation that New England agriculture deteriorates due to Westward land bounty, railroad subsidies, tariff biases, and regional trade shifts. He notes western competition, harsh winters, and higher costs, with little prospect of natural revival through fanciful plans such as deer parks. many farms east of the Alleghenies face uncertain futures.
The passage notes non corn cereals falter against Western wheat, but New England diversifies with tobacco broom corn fruits and peaches. It highlights rising tariff opposition as the key factor for profitable farming and envisions a shift away from Berkshire's deserted villages toward a broader agricultural region in New England.
Congress opens next week and four cities New York Washington Chicago and St. Louis compete for the right to host the 1892 World’s Fair. Western contenders push ahead with large guarantees while New York debates site and funds amid questions of prep time and public support.
The Rev Dr Bartel plans a California trip while Mr and Mrs Andrew Carnegie to spend winter in Washington. Ex minister Phelps returns to New Haven after Christmas. Rhoda Broughton writes a new novel Alas. Froude works on Beaconsfield life. Sardou wins damages from Gil Blas over La Tosca. Boulanger expenses funded by provincial workers. Tanner and Dudley form pension and claims copartnership in Washington. Phelps hosts Berlin dinner for Count Bismarck. Mrs Phelps present. Paradies signs with Coquelin for a star tour across Russia visiting St Petersburg Moscow Kiev Odessa Chaikov. Debut before Russians occurred in St Petersburg last night.
The English university extension is described as a national effort to popularize knowledge. It offers three years of study with university supervised exams, local colleges, and centers across towns, led by Cambridge Oxford and London. Critics warn of a false notion of a royal road to learning, yet direct student teacher contact remains its strength.
The Dramatic Mirror begins a series on the drama with essays by leading dramatists and critics. Boucicault argues against realism and naturalism, insisting art imitates nature but uses its own methods to give pure, noble pleasure, calling for careful distinction between art and science.
A London reader complains that fast steamers are uncomfortable in head seas at high speed, a common fault for any vessel in rough weather, noting landsmen blame the motion in such conditions.
The remark notes that Northmen built a settlement at Stony Brook about 800 years ago and a French pilot sighted Minot's Ledge in 1543, underscoring America’s long prehistory.
Mg Avcusrin Daly begins his season showing vigor as a second quarrel arises with one actor. The dispute adds tension to the new production and may affect rehearsal momentum.
A light comment notes that Governor-elect Bores will not be part of the traditional inner circle, suggesting he breaks with a long standing political stereotype. The remark hints at expected disappointment among some Iowa politicians.
A letter to the editor from W E Hown defends Lehigh University against a Lehigh football crowd incident misattributed to Lehigh. He says the fracas occurred at Lafayette College in Tea and notes a milder version has occurred there before.
The writer critiques the Herald’s Beacon Street naming choice as misapplied to Charles Gate West and argues Massasoit Way would better fit the area. He then weighs Henry James, praising his Patagonia story while noting flaws, and muses about inviting Dom Pedro I to Boston amid notes on social life and Beacon Hill interactions with figures like Tavern er.
The will of the late J Warter Merrill lists bequests to Baldwin Place Home for Little Wanderers five thousand dollars American Baptist Missionary Union fifty thousand American Baptist Home Mission Society twenty five thousand American Baptist Publication Society ten thousand Colby University ten thousand Newton Theological Institution twenty thousand Conference of Baptist Ministers sixteen thousand Massachusetts Baptist Convention five thousand Trustees of the Daniel White Charity five thousand Brown University ten thousand Vassar College ten thousand. Executors named are Thomas Watson Merrill and Moses Perkins White.
Arthur Weld reviews the opening concert featuring Mr Baermann with Kneisel and Hekking. He praises the trio in B flat, Schumann sonata, and Beethoven trio, noting bold yet refined performance and the group’s synergy. He expects the series to draw large audiences.
A Newburyport artist Laura Hills exhibits sixteen pastel pieces ranging from intimate portraits to woodland fantasies like The Fairy Tale. Critics praise her graceful handling, English influence, and vivid color, while noting minor execution faults. the show runs through the 23rd inst with additional works by Woodbury, Paskell, and Greensleaf in the same gallery.
A collage of brief notes touches on modern folly and humor from lost balances and silly legends to jokes about royals and editors. It surveys rising sea levels around France, tallest princes in Europe, long-serving Anglican clergymen, and a Queen’s elusive publishing gambit. It ends with China’s industrial rise and Japan guiding engineering as a rising, teaching force.
The Hon. Elijah A. Morse may reflect more distinction on Massachusetts in Congress than Daniel Webster. It may be unlikely Webster would have written identical letters to two Speaker candidates promising support and seeking appointments.
Ex-President Cleveland spoke at the New York Chamber of Commerce dinner on Tuesday evening. He urged selecting businessmen for public administration and delivered a practical speech that critics say will not stop press attacks on President Harrison over Wanamaker’s appointment as Postmaster General.
The Philadelphia Times argues Massachusetts and Iowa will defend wage protection while opposing tariff taxes that burden workers. It claims they seek cheap American goods without lowering wages, supporting free raw materials and reduced tariffs, urging a thorough tariff revision or revolution nationwide.
The November New England Magazine features Louis C. Elson on the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a set of articles on New England towns Sandwhich Yarmouth and the revival of country towns. Contributors include Edwin Mead Chamberslayne Adams Cranch and John D. Long with travel notes and an unsigned piece on Sir Edwin Arnold at Harvard.
Henry Siders, lifelong Hingham resident born June 30 1816, died after a long illness at his Main Street home. He worked in groceries, lumber, fishing, and steamship clerking, served as librarian and postmaster, was a longtime selectman and school committee member, and active in the Old Church Society. He leaves a widow and three children, and suffered from a knee bullet wound from a Nantasket Beach accident in youth.
In a morning article the claim that the Swedish method of gymnastics was devised in the last century is disputed. ABON TM, SE writes from Boston that the system was invented in the present century, dated November 21.
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