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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1890
Page
2
A detailed critique of Stockton's Ardis Claverden praises its human depth and characters while noting overlong plotting and stock impulses. The piece also reviews Meredith, Whitney, Guernsey, Walford, St Johnston, and others, comparing narrative methods, moral tone, and staying power across recent novels and notes publication details.
A review of the Gentleman's Magazine collection on architectural antiquities led by George Lawrence Gomme. It traces John Carter’s writings on English architecture, his Saxon versus Norman distinctions, and the pushback against early nineteenth century restorations.
The passage discusses a book praised for its wit and faults in taste that sharpen rather than dull its remarks. It notes Hogarth and Carter influence, comparing to Mrs Schuyler van Rensselaer on English cathedrals and modern architecture treatises, with a nod to The Gentleman's Magazine Library edited by George Lawrence Gomme.
Last evening at Music Hall the Bohemian Girl was performed by the Bostonians with Mr MacDonald Florestein Miss Davis Miss Golden in the leading roles. The piece, long ridiculed for its sentiment and verses, remains popular with opera-goers despite weak instrumentation and melodious but overfamiliar numbers. The performance was smooth, with hearty applause for familiar ballads and an occasional boisterous note from Mr Schutz when recalling his homeland.
In Curiaco on Oct 10, creditors filed attachment suits in Superior Court against the Eureka Silk Manufacturing Company, the Chicago branch of Seavey Foster Bow man, seeking between 2000 and 25000 dollars. Banks named include Webster, National Revere, Townsend, National Shoe & Leather, Northern, Merchants', Neponset, and Blackstone, all foreign corporations, with claims from 2504 to 10525 dollars.
A Chicago boot and shoe dealer Benjamin of 156 Twenty second street is said to have decamped leaving about two ten thousand dollars in debt. Principal creditors include Wright and Richard Boston C M Henderson Co Selz Schwab Co and Harry Childs Chicago Donovan Lane Brooklyn Plymouth Rock Boot and Shoe Co Plymouth Mass. Before leaving he sold on hand goods to Chicago Northwestern boot and shoe Co. Childs obtained a writ of replevin and took stock. the boot and shoe company replevined the goods.
Philadelphia Oct 6 Congressman Richard Vaux accepts the citizens nomination to run as an independent. He will oppose William McAleer the regular Democratic nominee. Republicans have not named a candidate.
Notes on Abraham Lincoln describing his deep melancholy and kind nature shaping his political path. Anecdotes recount his grocery boyhood friend Uncle Billy Green and the grief over Ann Rutledge. A letter from 1890 praises Warner's Safe ure as a cure for kidney disease in a daughter’s recovery.
Laura Ward of Boston sues Nathaniel Ward of New York for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty and neglect to provide support. Petition filed in Suffolk Superior Court Boston on September 26, 1590 requests decrees as proper.
The Boston Superior Court orders libellant to publish notice of pendency to libellee Nathaniel Ward and mail or serve an attested copy of the libel and order before November. The document also records THOMAS K. CAMPBELL of Boston seeking a court decree to quiet title on about 3000 square feet of land in Dorchester, tied to a mortgage from 1853 paid long ago, seeking a declaration that no action may be brought to enforce the mortgage in future.
A dense catalogue of assets offered for appraisal on a Wednesday in 1890 includes rights and shares in Boston and Maine, Norwich and Worcester, Portland, Saco and Portsmouth, Boston and Albany, Consol RR of Vermont, Amoskeag Mfg Co, Blackstone Natl Bank, Merrimack Mfg Co, Fitchburg RR preferences, Maine Central RR, Nat. Tube Works, Lawrence Gas Co, Dover Gas Light Co, Union Stockyards of Sioux City, Reece B H M Co, Jarvis Conklin Mort. Tr. Co, City of Rockland Me, Wisconsin Cent RR mortgs, Oregon Short Line RR mortg, Ogdensburg Trans Co mortg, Nat Mort & Deb Co of Boston, American Steel Car Wheel Co, Boston Water Power Co, Merchants Nat Bank, National City Bank, Newton Nat Bank, Faust Tennessee Land Co, terminal City Co, Suffolk Nat Bank, Conn Rivers RR, International Buttonhole S M Co, Passumpsic Rivers RR, Tonawanda City Water Works, and others.
On Wednesday October 8 1890 at 12 o'clock items listed include N Bank of Commerce New Bedford State N Bank de Metropolitan N Bank and other railway and financial securities with bond numbers and quantities such as 1000 Ore Short Line Utah No RR inscrire 1000 Salem Lowell RR 68 1893 and 85004 Atch Topeka Santa Fe RR 4s 1989. Also noted are cash items 21000 Burl Mo Rivers RR 73 1895 L and 2000 City of Minneapolis 8s Feb 1891. The sale includes theater seats winning Nos C239 C240.
Middlesex probate court appointed commissioners will sell at public auction two parcels of Mary D Boyden estate in Billerica Massachusetts. The fifty acre parcel will be offered first with two hundred dollars due at sale and remaining balance in ten days. A second one acre parcel with one hundred dollars due at sale, balance in ten days. Auction date October 22 1899 at one forty five p m and four thirty p m respectively at premises. Commissioners Dudley Foster Albert R Richardson Charles H Crumet.
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