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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 30, 1883

Page

3

Harper's December number offers varied art and fiction

Harper's Magazine presents a Christmas issue with four extra plates and numerous essays, stories, and illustrations. George William Curtis opens with Christmas themes. Whittier, Thackeray’s daughter, and Mrs F L Mace contribute works. The Century, St Nicholas, Atlantic, and Lippincott's showcase biographies, travel pieces, fiction, and art notes, while Rivera and editors highlight Paul Revere and Venice in December pages.

Harper’s Harper’s Magazine Dielman George William Curtis Whittier F. S. Church F. L. Mace Thackeray Tennyson Alfred Parsons C. F. Holder W. D. Howells Register Edward Everett Hale Susan N. Carter Woman’s Art School Cooper Institute France Devonshire England Francis George Heath Harry Fenn Los Angeles City of the Angels Southern California J. Rendel Harris Johns Hopkins University George W. Cable Dr. Sevier Robert Grant New York J. A. Macon John A. Fraser, Jr Tourgueness Manhattan E. C. Stedmann Old Picture Dealer Wm. St. John Harper Raphael Urbino Martha Carelli Gabriel Carelli Acadia St. John New Brunswick Thomas P. Gill Keyon Cox Antoine Vollon Knickerbocker Eyes Mexico Frederica Bartlett von Gliimer Stedman Matthew Arnold Titus Munson Coan Joel Benton Hawthorne Beatrix Randolph Edward Fawcett Austin Dobson Bier Edna Dean Proctor John Vance Cheney Julia Ward Howe St. Nicholas John G. Whittier Julian Hawthorne Almion Auria Mona Louisa M. Alcott Sophie Mayne Reid Monkstown Castle Mrs. Pratt Sir Athol Kingdom E. Vinton Blake Barnes Mrs. Dodge Mary Hallock Foote E. 8. Brooks R. B. Birch the Atlantic Atlantic Luther Frederic H. Hedge America Mary Moody Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard Grant White Nelson Washington Julia C. R. Dorr H. H California Creek Poverty Gulcch Mr. Stedman Fields

Ex Senator McDonald for the Presidency Emerges

Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal weighs McDonald as the West and South’s choice for the Democratic nomination. He cites McDonald’s war record, fiscal steadiness, statesmanlike experience, and cross-region support, predicting near-certain southern and western backing and possible acclamation if convened tomorrow. Watterson also downplays Holman and outlines Speakership prospects between Carlisle and Randall. The pair plan Hudson visit and a Cooper Union lecture on Revenue Reform.

McDonald Indiana Statesman Henry Watterson Louisville Courier-Journal New York Union Watterson Congress Cincinnati Holman West New York Sun Dana Carlisle Randall House

Minneapolis Artist Rescues Two Women at Lake Minnetonka

In summer 1881 a Minneapolis artist with Maine watercraft training rescued two exhausted women from a catamaran during a gale on Lake Minnetonka. He steered the distressed boat to safety after his companion returned in a canoe, saving wealthy young ladies including a reputed millionaire. The act brought gratitude but no lasting connection.

Minneapolis Lake Minnetonka Kennebeck River Maine

Kiow People Talking in Some Parts of the West

A Utica Observer item notes varied chatter across western locales. Entries reference street fights, fines, ship arrivals, theater times, train meetings, and a cricket match between Windsor and Detroit with Detroit winning by eighteen runs.

Utica Smith Brown Thirteenth Street Alaska Port Huron New York John Blue Detroit Mich Canada Southern Marta Windsor Eleven Detroit Eleven

Advertising as a spur to trade and trust

The piece argues that consistent and generous advertising pays, yet many manufacturers fail to promote their wares boldly. It asserts that articles should reach every household and that family newspapers are essential to spreading knowledge of useful inventions, warning that waiting for neighborly word of mouth delays progress.

Moston and Albany R. BR. CO

Fat Stock Show Highlighting Smithfield Beef Heritage

A Chicago fat stock show compares Chicago’s six year old fat stock exhibit with Smithfield market in London, noting Smithfield’s 12th century origins and long royal control. The report details breeds like Shorthorns Herefords and Polled Angus, prize history, crossbreeding debates, and western U S and Canadian contributions, with emphasis on breed performance and regional progress.

Smithfield London Chicago Fitzstephen Old England Posriess Hawthorne Liverpool Pierce Grimshawe America Breeders’ Gazette Prairie Farmer the Gazette Gazette The Duke of Forest Hill Freeport Illinois Scotland J. D. Gillett Indiana Iowa Kentucky Michigan Missouri Ohio Wisconsin Wyomin Ontario Quebec West Garden State

Grant exhibition opens at No. 12 West Street studio

C R Grant launches a two week showing at his No 12 West Street studio featuring a large canvass from last season a landscape with a country maiden and a broad varied program of fifty or more medium pictures plus portraits and New England and French subject sketches. A companion display covers C F Pierces summer sketches George W Harvey watercolors Japanese carved heads and Paint and Clay Club prospects with notes on sales and other Boston art happenings.

C.R. Grant West Street New England France Grant C. F. Pierce Pembroke Peterboro N. H Pierce United States George W. Harvey Gloucester St. Botolph Harvey J. Eastman Chase Hamilton Place Boston Mr. Harvey Faint and Clay Club Paint and Clay Club Washington Street Art Club Co. W. Sanderson C. W. Sanderson Mt. Vernon Street Sanderson Adirondacks

Yellow fever and health notices from Mazatlan region

Sporadic yellow fever cases linger in Mazatlan while Veracruz subscriptions fund aid for Mazatlan sufferers. Smallpox rages in Ocotlan and Sajutla Oaxaca. Manzanillo epidemic causes heavy deaths. Tonto fever widespread in Chihuahua. thin telegraph line between Merida and Progreso nears completion. Oaxaca mendicants swell streets. Guerrero denies Voz de Mexico yellow fever report on Acapulco.

Republies Mazatlan Jalapa Vera Cruz Ocotlan Sajutla Oaxaca Mezcla Island Chapala Jalisco Manzanillo Chihuahua Merida Progreso Yuextan Voz de Mexico Acapulco Guerro

Bank of England reserve ratio rises to 43 3 16 percent

London reports a reserve to liability ratio of 43 3 16 percent up from 42 11 16. The weekly Bank of England bullion increased by £38,000. Paris notes a rise of 2,200,000 francs in gold and a 925,000 francs drop in silver. Liverpool cotton markets show steady demand with various futures quotes posted.

London Bank of England Paris Bank of France Havana Sydney Port Phillip

Imports at Boston and London show vast cargo listings

A long ledger of steamer cargoes at Liverpool and London details hundreds of items from wool waste and tin plates to lamps, bottles, wines, canned goods, and chemicals. Numerous firms such as Baring Bros, Phelps Dodge, and Bray Hayes appear with quantities from cases to tons alongside notes on trade and ship imports. The piece closes with an odd wine tip about champagne bottles and breakage.

Liverpool Eng Palestine Taring Bros & Co Holder & Herrick Thos Groom & Co Mnoise Drexel, Morgan & Co Storer & Co White & Co Merrimac Chemical Co Coleman, Mead & Co Pierce & Robertson Burgess & Goddard Opaline Stone & Downer Zenas Sears E & F King & Co Brass Works London Durham City Wisconsin Central Railroad Boston Pemberton Square

Opium ruin of society belle Mrs Net tie Gurnee in Denver

The Denver Tribune recounts the descent of Mrs Net tie Gurnee daughter of Colonel E J Strong from wealth to poverty driven by opium addiction. Once lavish with $40 000 cash and two children Marion and a son she pawned jewels, rented various hotels, turned to theft to feed her habit, and was aided by the Woman's Relief Society before being sent to New York with a female escort for care.

Denver Tribune Nettie Gurnee E. J. Strong United States Army Denver Marion Windsor Hotel Windsor Twenty-second Street Larimer Street Woman’s Relief Society Nineteenth Larimer Streets Haverstraw Hudson Ladies’ Relief Society Ferris Clinton Gurnee San Franscisco Colonel Strong New Orleans Rockland County New York

A Chicago Man Recalls a Ticklish Time Off Cape Hatteras

An Octogenarian Chicago resident recounts 1862 events near Cape Hatteras when Gen. Butler faced a dangerous voyage to New Orleans. The Mississippi grounded on rocks, rescue arrived from Hilton Head aboard the Vixen, and a crewman quipped waiting for grease as Butler clamped down on discipline while barrels of whisky fueled a sailors’ revelry.

Chicago Cape Hatteras Hilton Head Atlantic New Orleans Butler B. F. Butler Massachusetts Mississippi Bacchus

Speed gauge for railroads inches toward standard locomotive device

Mr E R E Cowell of Detroit has invented a glass oil gauge showing actual engine speed in the cab. A connected glass tube with oil and a driven wheel conveys speed via flexible shafting from the locomotive wheel. He also devised an electrical mileage and speed indicator tested on the Michigan Central. The gauge, he says, is as essential as a steam gauge for future locomotives.

E. R. E. Cowell Detroit Michigan Central Railroad Cowell Michigan Central

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