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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 18, 1892

Page

2

Labor unions claim victory in Boston garment feud

Union men report payment to nearly 3700 workers and vow to endure through a protracted dispute with the Boston Contractors' Association. General Secretary Reichers arrives to assist as mass meetings rally members at Adelphi Hall and Chandler Hall amid tight security.

Reichers Boston Contractors’ Association Boston United Garment Workers Herald Adelphi Hall Committee of Chandler Hall Essex Street Felz Charles F. Reichers Baltimore Boston Boston Union

Wells Library Opening At Memorial Hall

A reception for Wells Memorial Association members and guests marked the opening of a new library for institute members. Located in the remodeled old New England Hall the space serves as a social, reading, and study room with electric lights rugs and oil paintings. The collection totals about a thousand volumes and includes works loaned by notable artists. Robert Treat Paine sent three bound volumes of photographs of Egyptian scenes. A light lunch followed after observations. brief addresses were given by Robert Treat Paine Josiah Quincy Burt Stone and President Edmund Billings.

Wells Memorial Association Memorial Hall Institute Libray New England Hall Robert Treat Paine Robert Treat Pate Josiah Quincy Burt Stone Edmund Billings

Munich Ladies Art School Leads City Training

A Munich society of lady artists supports a trained school for women art students. Founded eight to nine years ago by the Kunstlerin-Verein, it offers drawing from living models, nude and draped, still life, perspective and art history. Evening classes are open to non members. men teach as needed, with modest pay and equal exhibition rights.

Munich Academy Kunstlerin-Verein New York

WHAT MEN ARE COMING TO IN WEDDINGS

A winter wedding featured an unusual reversal as the groom elect, aiding with decorations, grew so nervous a physician was summoned by noon. The doctor treated him, ordered him to bed with the room darkened, and forbade entry until the ceremony required dressing.

Kate Field Washington Johnson Sumner Jonson & CO Boston

The Tables Turned in a Busy Quest for Work

A field of stores beckons as Post men seek Christopher Columbus’s descendant, Louis Columbus, to confirm work as a plumber. The attic yields a clue, though the tale muses on fame and time, noting purple pride fades as workers wear overalls.

Christopher Louis Columbus Caesar Dock Square Columbus No. 2 Union Street Canada France Columbo Columbus Columbus the Younger

N E A A Meeting Sees Club Representation and Reinstatements

At the annual N E A A A A meeting in Bridgeport last evening twenty three of thirty three clubs were represented. Bridgeport Athletic Club sent two delegates Bowser and Goodsell while Springfield and Columbia Clubs Hartford were also present. J J Perry and G W Penney were reinstated and Heywoods petition for a five dollar fee to accompany reinstatement applications was reduced to three dollars and passed.

Bridgeport Athletic Club Bowser Goodsell Springfield Columbia Hartford J. J. Perry G. W. Penney Heywood

Columbus Names and Boxing Board Meetings Echo in Attic

In a curious scene at a St. Johns Quebec born crafts shop two men named Columbus recount their lineage to the famed explorer while a separate report details the championships committee profit of $198 and a $479.16 treasury as officers are elected to run boxing events and a professional hired as handicapper.

Plumper Columbus St. Johns Quebec Colomb Louis Columbus France Napoleon Italy Treasury Walter Stimpson G. W. Beals J. J. Flaherty H. A. Adams Cornish Flaherty Gloucester John T. Moakley

Strike News From Rails End in Disturbing Fragments

In Toreka Kan Oct 17 reports indicate a Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe strike ended after a bogus Galveston message from D G Ramsey Grand Chief. Operators return to work though Rio Grande lines stay unsettled with small chance of cross-division support. Missouri Pacific telegraphers meet with reports of a possible settlement and wage changes.

Toreka Kan Emporia Galveston D G. Ramsey Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe D. G. Ramsey Dgvyver Denver Rio Grande St. Louis Missouri Pacific Telegraphers Ramsey Gillen George C. Smith Missouri Acific Gould Missouri Pacific

Genuine bargain on men's white dress shirts

R. H. White & Co. offer attractive, first class quality custom made white dress shirts at extremely reasonable prices.

R. H. White & Co

Columbus Day Parade Details Roaring with Italian, Hebrew Groups

The Ancient Order of Hibernians will lead Columbus Day parade with 5000 in line and Hibernian Rifles as escort under Col. McCarthy. 2000 from Suffolk, 1500 from Middlesex, 1000 from Norfolk, 700 from Essex. Italian residents form independent parade. Governor Russell regrets inability to review. staff meeting planned.

Order of Hibernians Hibernian Rifles Charles McCarthy Scannell Board of Erin Suffolk County Middlesex County Norfolk County Essex County Columbus Williams Littl Anna Frances Cummings Thomas H. Cummings Thomas B. Fitz Hebrews Bnai Zion Educational Society Congregational Beth Israel and Association Tifareth Israel Zion Hall Hanover Street Baldwin Place E. Astokwits Aids Philip Pinkofsky Samuel L. Silverman Samuel H. Borofsky North End Citizens’ Committee M. E. Imovilli F. Martorana Sig. A. Brogi S. Sottile S. Grancuore V. Trombetta A. Avvantoggi U. Shrana P. Guerriere O. Pozzi G. la Spina Thomas J. Lane East Boston S. J. Nevins Woburn National Band Commonwealth OF Massachusetts Boston M. T. Donohoe Chicago Commonwealth William E. Rousseau

Fire at Boston Mailing Company on Federal Street

A brisk blaze on the top floors of the six story Boston Mailing Company building at 101 and 108 Federal Street was found by Officer Belt at 8 55 last evening. The fire began in trim mings under a cutter and the entire building housed printers bookbinders and publishers with vast quantities of printed matter. Losses to firms using the Boston Mailing Co will run into hundreds of dollars with water damage on the fourth and fifth floors occupied by Household Publishing Company and S K Abbott Co and slight water damage to W S Best & Co on the third floor.

Boston Mailing Company Federal Street Belt Division 2 Rinters Boston Mailing Co Household Publishing Company S. K. Abbott & Co W.S. Best & Co

Dune as an Oyster Controversy Over Hospital Plan

A city special committee recommends a $3000 hospital project while a second reading moves forward. President G L Olney announces a resolution criticizing scarlet fever reports as harmful and blames the Board of Health and hospital trustees for delays. Olney frames the press and Health Board as conflict sources.

G. L. Olney Board of Health Olney Mr. Olney E. N Quinn

Roll of Great Names Born in the Early 1800s

A Chicago Inter Ocean piece lists prominent figures born 1801 to 1825, naming Cardianl Newman, Hugo, Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whitman, Lincoln, Victoria, Dickens, Tennyson, George Eliot, and others. It weighs immortality claims, notes Renan and Tennyson death, and praises Emerson and Longfellow as enduring American icons.

Colonel Newcome Cardinal Newman Victor Hugo Dumas the Elder von Ranke Hugh Miller Landseer Cardinal Wiseman Ralph Waldo Emerson Liebig Benjamin Disraeli George Sand Mme. Dudevant Richard Cobden Nathaniel Hawthorne Franklin Pierce Johann Strauss Hans Christian Andersen de Lesseps Sainte-Beuve Bulwer-Lytton John Gladstone Abraham Lincoln Poe Jules Favre Motley Jules Simon Edwin Stant Anthony Trollope Dean Stanley Prince Bismarck General Meade Charlotte Bronte Mommsen Livingstone John B. Gough von Sybel James Anthony Froude Emily Bronte Turgenieff Gounod Karl Marx Charles Kingsley John Ruskin J. G. Holland James Russell Lowell Cyrus W. Field Walt Wilkie Collins George William Curtis Professor Huxley Bismarck Tyndall Huxley Renan Tennyson Froude Carlyle America Emerson Longfellow

Sherman Hoar Speaks at Democratic Union Hall Rally

The Democrats of Sherman city held a Union Hall rally featuring Sherman Hoar of Waltham Edward Avery and Philip J Doherty. A flag raising in Union Square preceded the event with music and artworks as the crowd cheered when Cleveland and Stevenson names unfurled. Hoar lauded John F Andrew and praised Massachusetts style in fighting the silver bill while condemning unwise financial laws and politics as usual.

Union Hall Sherman Hoar Waltham Edward Avery Philip J. Doherty Union Square Cleveland Stevenson Hoar Congress John F. Andrew Andrew London Lodge Walker Massachusetts McCall Joe O'Neil George Fred Williams

Columbus history serial by A. Shuman & Co

A. Shuman & Co publish a four page serial on Columbus life with illustrations from rare portraits. The item praises the work as valuable and worth preserving. A Yale student example of metaphor is cited from a Boston newspaper quote.

A. Shuman & Co Columbus

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