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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1889
Page
4
An editorial urges careful handling of introducing physical training in schools. It criticizes the School Board for lack of formal vote and premature rollout, calling for independent debate and public clarity. Also notes upcoming literary and public figures and events.
Weekly issue details state one year subscriptions issued Fridays with second class matter. All payments are at the sender’s risk and should be made payable to the POST PUBLISHING COMPANY. Washington office located at the Corcoran Building on Fifteenth Street.
The Boston West article notes Lord Salisbury's Nottingham Conservative conference remark that a federation for Great Britain is utterly chimerical. It argues England may resist while Ireland Scotland and Wales lean toward it, and warns Imperial Parliament is overburdened suggesting a relief measure will come.
Witnesses like the dock department chief clerk admit no oversight of leases and that the city pays nearly 50 000 a year for care. No competitive bidding is found for supplies, coal costs rising from 885 to 4847 in three years. The clerk describes a pattern of buying high and selling low, with misused assets and mispriced sales revealed.
Brazilian leaders aim to honor old government pacts while stabilizing finances. The minister in Washington says most Brazilians accept the new regime and want peace. Army navy and people support the change, and unity shows the republic’s permanency as leaders must prove real progress beyond personal ambition.
The author argues against reviving the Greenback era and warns that the silver movement, aided by a Republican platform in Chicago, repeats old rhetoric. The St. Louis silver convention is described as a continuation of familiar money policies and advocates for "cheap" money.
The passage heckles a policy stance arguing that favoring creditors harms debtors, warns that gold standard adoption by global markets hurts the middle class, and claims cheap dollars are the only cure. It mocks earlier advocacy for easy money via printing presses over stamping machines.
Mr. Columbus Delano prepares to lead wool manufacturers and growers to Washington for a Tuesday gathering after Congress adjourns to demand full protection for the wool and mutton industries. The plan pairs mutton with wool, signaling a new stance and possible wobble in support amid Ohio politics and Whitman’s free wool plea. The strategy argues that more importation could boost American production and fabrics, potentially reducing foreign competition.
The Boston blaze caused by likely crossing of Time Company wires with electric line lines led to $10,000,000 in property losses and widespread concern. Fire crews from nearby towns aided but the incident underscores growing dangers of expanding overhead electrical networks and unsafely routed wires.
Major L S Burt of the Pennsylvania Steel Company argues for removing the tariff on iron ore to boost seaboard industry. He warns current duties raise costs, cost jobs, and hinder growth, urging free ore and renewed tariff reform as essential for American manufacturing.
The piece argues that electrical wiring in buildings poses life and property risks. It calls for earnest, persistent search for better safety methods and precautions as electricity's dangers have often been underestimated despite its usefulness. The fire yesterday underscores the danger.
The Post questions the schools command system as experimental. It cites Mr Winsutp alleging Ling system uptake across grammar schools under Dr Poss, with teachers gaining and spreading the method. A second note records Claus Spreckels amid sugar trust schemes and Vanderbilt comparisons.
The New York World dismisses Admiral Walker’s criticism of its plan to send the squadron of evolution to Brazil. The paper’s sharp retort questions his fitness to command a tugboat and praises its own naval expertise, even joking that the World’s editor should be put in command.
The Philadelphia Ledger states that an able honest country-loving Democrat is as common as a Republican of that kind and argues no party monopolizes virtue. It notes the paper’s Republican standing could earn it the Mugwump name if it continues such talk.
NY papers praise a sudden fund push reaching toward a 5 million goal with 116000 still needed. The burst of enthusiasm is praised as inspiring, even in Chicago. The text juxtaposes Thanksgiving humor with a quip about cranberry sauce.
The Boston fire sent enormous cinders across Beacon Hill and Tremont Street, threatening structures near the State House. The Ames building on Bedford and Kingston streets, a Richardson masterpiece, burned, underscoring the city’s architectural losses and the need for safer construction. Wet weather restrained spread, while comments at clubs reflected alarm over potential expansion and fire-protection gaps.
A survey of contemporary magazines and critics. Wilkie Collins, Pinero, Moore, and Marlock are weighed for storytelling and drama. Other essays cover Russian characteristics, German strength, working women, and Anglo literature reviews with numerous author critiques and brief notices.
The English illustrated issue showcases wood engravings in an enlarged remodelled form. Veronese's St Helene’s Vision graces the frontispiece and masterwork, while Thompson’s Esther drawing contrasts with John Gay’s verse. Lord Lytton’s The Ring of Amasis lingers, and Arthur Paterson offers a dull story, yet Mrs Oliphant’s Margaret of Scotland provides pleasing illustrated reading.
Anne Thackeray Ritchie provides a rich illustration of Thackeray’s boyhood with photographs drawings and facsimile letters. Theodore Roosevelt Buffalo Hunting Tudor Jenks The Professor and the Patagonian Nora Perry opening chapters featured. The issue is lavishly illustrated.
The Harvard Monthly's November issue includes Francis C. Lowell on conservative university morals guidance and German versus English-speaking systems. It also features G R Carpenter's German translation of Ibsen's The Lady of the Sea Acts One and Two with cautions on its strong, fantastic themes.
The editor Rev J H Allen writes The Ministers Mental Outfit in a wise spirit. Other pieces include Symbolism in Religion by A B Curtis and Yima a Persian Apologue by James Vila Blake.
The article reviews four papers on Hamlet related topics by H B Panteoast L M Griffiths and John Taylor. It likens their work to a social picnic with stale provisions and mocks the Bankside Shakspere discussion.
The Belford's Magazine issue features D. Higbee's poorly received In God's Country set in the South, Felix Oswald's longevity curiosities revisiting familiar ground, Jefferson Davis recalling A Constitutional Tariff, Celia Logan's Music Hath Charms, and Passing Notes with some sharp, fair criticisms of Saltus's A Transaction in Hearts.
A collage of notes from Harper's Weekly and London exhibitions. Mentions include gold discovery in Montgomery county North Carolina by Sanders brothers, a lantern ad display inventor in the city streets, John McLure Hamilton praised in London pastel shows, and portraits of Emperor Frederick and William at Windsor. Lisbon’s St. Vincent church hosts Braganza mausoleum visitors while mourning wreaths from Portuguese and foreign colonies fetch high prices.
In the Providence Journal item, it notes the president will devote substantial space in his message to defending the administration’s civil service reform record. The piece also acknowledges broad agreement that reform is needed.
The Providence Journal notes Boston voters exercise care in electing school committee members but warn the selection often hinges on theology and is often careless. It argues schools need exceptionally qualified members to avoid harm from poor choices.
A Pittsburgh Gazette opinion defends the President amid civil service friction and party politics. It argues the President must offend for proper appointments while upholding the law and placing competent Republicans, and asserts disappointed leaders will soon regain composure.
The Springfield Republican reports Lynn will rebuild its shoe industry in a more substantial way after the fire. Haverhill and Marblehead are cited as models, with new plants expected to feature modern machinery and better workshop layouts. The revival includes removing a dangerous grade crossing once used by express trains and calls for railroad officials to address the nuisance.
Charles Ledyard Norton will publish A New Guide Book to Florida with Longmans Green & Co. early in December. The volume follows a Baedecker style and revives the 1885 Florida Annual with a broader plan. It features county maps and outlines new railway systems.
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