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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1891
Page
4
Copy sales rise across city suburbs and country
Sales figures show an 1,468 copy increase in every area including city, suburbs and the country, indicating broad consumer demand growth across regions.
Cyclops and Polyphemus Echo In Massachusetts Tariff Debate
In a November 28 1891 editorial the piece links debates over free iron wool and coal to classical myth. It portrays Senator Hoar and Mr Hoar as warning that Republican protectionist policy endangers New England industries, likening it to Prometheus and Polyhemus and predicting a counterstrike to curb the tariff monster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoak
Polyhemus
Ulysses
Mr. Hoar
Hoax
Massachusetts
Three Actions Urged by The Post Face Boston Today
The Post calls for Controller Lacry to publish Examiner MaGrupER reports on Maverick National Bank. It urges the National Democratic Convention be held in Boston per its earlier claim. It demands rebuilding the Beacon Hill Monument on its historic site as a patriotic duty urged by the Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacry
Magruper
Maverick National Bank
Post
Boston
New England Democracy
Beacon Hill
Middle Atlantic
New York
Philadelphia
West
Europe
Enforce the Lobby Law Sparks Public Outcry
The Attorney-General says he has supplied evidence of lobby law violations to the District Attorney but no indictments follow. Last year a bold attempt to evade the law was exposed by The Post, prompting wider registration. The statute also requires post‑work accounting of expenses, a crucial enforcement element left unacted upon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State House
Court House
Call for Firm Action on Lobby Law Enforcement
A sharp admonition warns that lax enforcement will show at the next session. The speaker urges immediate action and insists there be no more delays in applying the lobby law.
The New New England Awakening and a Boston Monument
A historical essay calls New England to rise again against monopolistic control and fiscal oppression, urging a modern, independent voice led by Massachusetts. It envisions a revived New England, poised to influence national politics, and advocates restoring the Buttinen monument at Temple Street to honor heritage and boost Boston’s appeal.
Industrial taxation blamed for New England leather industry
The Boston Journal argues against a tax on hides, warning politicians not to use industry for partisan ends. It cites The Manufacturer figures showing a 54 percent ad valorem effect on imports from non reciprocal countries, with New England bearing 22 percent and Massachusetts shoe factories consuming most foreign stock. The piece accuses the Journal of advocating industrial suicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Boston Journal
Brazil
Massachusetts
Philadelphia
Harrison
Put It On the Old Site Beacon Hill Monument
By good fortune it is possible to set up the old monument on Beacon Hill on the very site where the signal stood for so many years. The hill has been reduced in height and the plan moves toward reestablishing the marker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beacon Hill
Harvard and Yale grid iron game shows team unity
The Springfield contest proved Harvard equal to Yale in skill and power but lacking cohesive team play. Yale won with smarter, united play and without rough conduct, while Harvard learns the value of collective effort and smoother strategy amid a season of improving economic and market conditions nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Harvard
Yale
Crimson
Blue
High Tariff Hypocrisy Cited By Labor Club President
The Home Market Club president at a McKinney dinner warned that tariff cuts would force wage reductions and pauperize labor. He pointed to recent wage cuts by ex-chairman B. F. Jones and firms like Oliver & Roberts Wire Co in Pittsburgh, Carnegie, and Massachusetts ironworks, noting Massachusetts workers facing wage cessation as in Cambridge Rolling Mills and other plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Market Club
McKinney
Republican National Committee
B. F. JoNges
Niedbinghaus
Oliver & Roberts Wire Company
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Andrew Carnegie
Massachusetts
Cambridge Rolling Mills
Norway Iron Works
South Boston
The Stock Market Outlook on European Distress and U S Prosperity
The article argues that famine reports in Russia and European shortages influence U S grain markets and rail traffic. It warns against exploiting others while noting American farmers may profit from global shortages. It cautions against viewing temporary European poverty as a path to lasting prosperity and highlights Boston’s favorable prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Europe
Boston
Tax on hides and the people’s veto on outrage
After the tax on hides is imposed the Journal suggests it will be felt as a protest. The piece asserts the public will speak out again and the Republican party will drop from sight on this issue alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
Phillida and Corydon. Elizabethan Songs
A fragment from Nicholas Breton about Phillida and Corydon in May. A shepherd couple dispute love, she insists on truth before kissing, and love ends with a kiss and garlands as Phillida becomes Lady of the May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corydon
Phillida
Nicholas Breton
Public Eye Notes On Celebrities And Events Of The Day
Lady Sarah Churchill, sister of Randolph, marries. Rudyard Kipling visits Indianapolis. Count Herbert Bismarck may visit America, without bringing the old gentleman. President Baker pushes a five million dollar loan for the World's Columbian Exposition. N S Amstutz of Cleveland patents an electro artograph to send photographs by electricity. Lulu Hurston exhibition in London features a 105 pound Abbott. Mrs Paran Stevens sued by her chef Schmitt over alleged overwork. Columbus portrait found at a Duc de Talleyrand chateau, photo sent to French Geographical Society. Richard Mansfield travels from Boston to Jersey City for a show. Rev Dr G W T Shedd heads petition to reverse the Briggs decision. Nansen led Swedish North Pole expedition postponed to 1893, allowing risk of his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudyard Kipling
Indianapolis
R. K
Herbert Bismarck
America
President Baker
N.S. Amstutz
Cleveland
Lulu Hurston
London
Abbott
Union Seminary
Briggs
North Pole
Nansen
Dr. Nansen
The Peril of the Theatre by Rev Dr Banks at St John’s Church
Rev Dr Louis A Banks spoke on The Peril of the Theatre at St John’s M E Church, basing his text on Luke 6 46. He traced theatre origins to Bacchus rites, criticized actors morals, theatre’s licentious scenes, and cited historical attempts to moralize venues. He urged listeners to renounce the theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. Banks
St. John’s M. EE
Louis A. Banks
St. John’s M. E
Bacchus
Old Tremont Theatre
Rousseau
William Dean Howells
Mrs Nikisch Entertained At Aspinwall Avenue Soiree
Miss Emma Touissaint hosted an informal at home at her Longwood residence on Aspinwall avenue yesterday afternoon with Mrs Arthur Nikisch as guest of honor. The room featured flowers candles and a gracious hostess crowd of ladies and gentlemen enjoying conversation. This gathering begins a series of Sunday afternoon receptions planned for the coming winter.
Electric stew and political gab in a rimward column
A satirical column ridicules census head Porter and political scenes. It mocks Uncle Jerry Rusk, Hoke, and Hub remarks while lampooning election talk, inequality debates, a drunken citizen at a slot machine, and a consolatory Harvard poem to the team. The piece strings humorous vignettes across figures and scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Rusk
Porter
Census Bureau
The Stranger Within Our Gates and Cambridge Night
A narrator recounts a discomfort with Cambridge's nightly college town festivity while visiting a friend. He endures loud, eerie college-town noise and odd apparel seen from a window, questioning whether the town is alive or a morgue, before deciding not to return for sleep. The piece blends travelogue with humorous反 observational tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Boston
Following Boston’s example in Haverhill plan
The Haverhill Bulletin reports Boston mayor Matthews faced ridicule for introducing a band cart brigade for street cleaning yet notes marked street improvements in the city. The Bulletin urges adopting the Boston plan in Haverhill with local adjustments for a smaller city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Haverhill Bulletin
Matthews
Haverhill
Curious case of missing Melrose boy and unclaimed fortune
About three years after 15 year old Charles L Wheeler vanished from Melrose suspicion grows that he drowned after crossing Eel Pond or was abducted. It emerges he inherited a large fortune from Mr Stanford of Brooklyn with conditions that if not claimed in three years the funds revert to a Brooklyn church. Stanford died two months before the disappearance. The inheritance went to three young relatives with a rule to fund their education. two received shares after probate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles L. Wheeler
Melrose
Eel Pond
Young Wheeler
Mr. Stanford
Brooklyn
N. Y
Stanford
Bon
Boston Post Nominates Colonel Allen for War Secretary
The Newburyport News notes the Boston Post names Colonel Allen of Lowell for Secretary of War under President Harrison. The piece downplays any immediate military action, urging calm and stating there is no fighting to do.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburyport News
The
Boston Post
Allen of
Lowell
President Harrison
Don’t ‘Tremble
Beacon Hill Monument Restoration Initiative
The New Bedford Journal notes the Boston Post is spearheading several schemes, with the Beacon Hill monument restoration as the latest. The effort appeals to those with strong historic ties and aims to revive a key local landmark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford Journal
New Boston Post
Beacon Hill Monument
Harvard and Yale Declared Result Via Sky Signals
The Boston Post plans to announce the Harvard Yale football result this evening using sky signaling. The new Post manager emphasizes advertising as a prime business element in modern times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Post
Harvard
Yale
Post
Public has rights over Maverick Bank report
Editorial urges public access to the assistant bank examiner’s findings on Maverick Bank. It argues citizens deserve to know if officials are performing duties impartially and carefully and questions disclosure to Washington authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburyport News
Washington
Conditions versus Theory Echoed After Mill Shutdown
From Newport News the Gilmore Eustis rolling mill in Cambridgeport Mass shuts down after McKinley’s Home Market Club speech. Proprietors say fiscal pressure from Republican tariffs on raw material and high rail prices forced the closure, not financial distress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News
Gilmore-Eustis
Cambridgeport
Mass
McKinley
Home Market Club
Eustis
Republican Party
Investigation Will Do No Harm in Hyde Park
Comptroller Lacey smiles at public demand for Mr. Magruder's Maverick National Bank report. The piece argues state and national banking supervision needs thorough congressional investigation after troubling developments in Philadelphia and Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Hyde Park Times
Lacey
Magruder
Maverick National Bank
Philadelphia
Boston
Denmark
Boston Post Urges Democratic Convention in Boston
The Boston Post argues for holding the next Democratic national convention in Boston, citing strong New England backing and Congressman George Fred Williams who says Massachusetts best serves the party's aims. The Post predicts an earlier spring date to facilitate a lengthy educational campaign ahead of the election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holyoke Democrat
Boston Post
Boston
New England
George Fred Williams
the Post
Massachusetts
Steel cylindrical rail car debuts at New York and New England station
A steel cylindrical rail car arrives at the New York and New England station, weighing thirty tons and seating twenty seven. It offers greater strength and safety with minimal splintering and no fire risk in a wreck. Returned from five weeks across New England and the West, it was leased by B A Atkinson & Co to distribute printed materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York & New England
New England
West
Messrs. B. A. Atkinson & Co
Washington Street
Philadelphian Leaves Liverpool on Maiden Voyage
The Leyland Line steamer Philadelphian sailed from Liverpool on Saturday bound for Boston for her maiden voyage. Joined by the Columbian and Georgian this trio of freight carriers marks a peak for the line, which recently entered the port with three new vessels in a year. If weather permits, the Philadelphian should reach Boston next Monday and depart again Wednesday December 9 on the first eastward passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Leyland Line
Liverpool
Boston
Philadelphian
Governor Russell skip Augusta Exposition attendance
Governor Russell cannot attend the Augusta Exposition on November 23 due to prior commitments. The Rev. Stephen Herbert Roblin of Bay City Michigan has been called to assist Pastor Dr. A A Miner at the Columbus Avenue Universalist Church and likely will accept. Roblin, born October 4 1858, studied at St. Lawrence University and has worked mainly in Western churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell
Stephen Herbert Roblin
First Universalist
Bay City
Mich
A. A. Miner
Columbus Avenue
N. Y
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