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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 20, 1886

Page

2

The Mormon Problem A Plan to Curb Polygamy in Utah

A special letter argues polygamy will fade with outside civilization and fashion changes, but Mormon hierarchy and persecution claims keep it alive. The writer urges equal, strict enforcement of laws against illegal cohabitation, civil marriage records, and penalties to stamp out polygamy and curb Gentile influence.

Utah Tabernacle Judiciary Committee United States House of Representatives Congress Senate Salt Lake Israel Castle Garden

Gloucester Fisheries District Vessel Totals and Losses

Gloucester reports 487 vessels in the district, 25 225.44 tons in Gloucester harbor, 51 vessels at Rockport, and 4 in Lanesville. Since Sept 1, 1855, twenty six vessels totaling 1 761 700.79 tons valued at 164 000 have been lost, with ten deaths leaving twenty two widows. Forty nine fishing firms fit out 529 schooners and boats. top fitters include John Pew & Son with eighteen vessels and Capt. Andrew Leighton with seventeen.

Gloucester Gloucester Harbor Rockport Lanesville Bay View Annisquam John Pew & Son Andrew Leighton John F. Wonson & Co Rowe & Jordan James G. Farr Cunningham & Thompson D.C J. Babson George Clark & Co Samuel Lane & Bro William Parsons 2D. & Co Reed & Gamage George Dennis George Norwood & Son Oakes & Foster Pool, Gardner & Co Sayward Bros F. A. Langsford & Son McKenzie, Hardy & Co Pettinger & Cunningham C. F. Wonson & Co

General Lew Wallace Lectures on Shiloh at Tremont Temple

General Lew Wallace opened a lecture series at Tremont Temple under Post 15 G A R on the Third Division Amy of the Tennessee at Pittsburg Landing. He defended his handling of the Shiloh order mix up with fairness toward friends and detractors. The talk was graphic and engaging, leaving the audience convinced the division acted with energy and loyalty.

Lew Wallace Post 15 Tremont Temple Amy Tennessee Pittsburg Landing Wallace Grant Shiloh

Law School Marshals Named for Anniversary Torchlight

The law school elected marshals H B Cabot H M Williams and R D Smith for the first second and third class. They form a committee to arrange costumes and submit a report at the next meeting.

Law School H.B. Cabot H. M. Williams R. D. Smith H. L. Clarke Bolsten L. Meek. Gams Laurence Scientific School Arvise Tj Harvard Jarvis Field

Banquet Honors First Corps of Cadets at Young’s Hotel

The First Corps of Cadets held a formal banquet at Young’s Hotel to mark the 145th anniversary of the corps’ organization and the 160th anniversary of its joining Massachusetts militia. About 160 guests attended, including Governor Robinson and Colonels Holt, Rockwell, and Currier. Colonel Thomas Fk. Edmands presided as the evening passed with addresses from several gentlemen and a cordial, sociable atmosphere.

Young’s Hotel Massachusetts Robinson Holt Rockwell Currier Thomas Fk. Edmands

Charleston relief committee approves advertising bills

The Charleston relief committee met in the Mayor's office and voted to authorize payment of all advertising bills and sundry expenses. The fund is nearly closed with more than 877,000 in aggregate. Eben P D Jordan agreed to be treasurer of the Eastport fund and will receive contributions at the Mayor's office. J Montgomery Sears sent a $100 check today, bringing the total on hand to 250.

Charleston Eben PD. Jordan Eastport J. Montgomery Sears

Cod Liver Oil and Juniper Tar Soap Ad

An old advertisement touts Cod Liver Oil as the purest sweet oil made from fresh livers on the seashore, claiming physicians favor it over others. It also promotes Juniper Tar Soap by Caswell Hazard & Co. of New York for chapped hands and rough skin.

Caswell, Hazard & CO New York

Boston artists and studios in old Chestnut street

The article discusses Boston art figures Hunt Rimmer and Fuller, praising their impact and noting Mr H O Walker has taken a Chestnut street studio. It contrasts their influence with current local art, reflects on Assisi and Italian scenes, and ends with a quip on lighting the Statue of Liberty.

Old West End Hunt, Rimmer, Fuller Whistler Limipses Italy H. O. Walker Chestnut Street Hunt Boston Rimmer Tunt George Fuller Fuller Somerset Street

William Graham Stands Apart in Boston Art Acquisitions

The article extols William Graham as uniquely superior in Boston art acquisitions. It lauds his instinctive precision, refined training, and delicate subtleties, claiming no American who studied in Italy preserves individuality as Graham does, aided by Italy’s influence and nature compared with others.

Boston William Graham Italy Graham

Whistler Responds to Chase Lampoon Portrait

In a near factual note Whistler comments on Chase's caricature of him. He recalls offensive aggression and a painted portrait that presents him as charming yet mocked. The exchange highlights tension between Whistler and Chase over Whistler's image and modern portraiture in art circles.

Whistler Chase

David Before the Combat by George T. Brewster

The Art Review in New York lists George T. Brewster’s statue David Before the Combat as a notable illustration. Brewster, a Stoughton native who studied at the Government School of Fine Arts in Paris, has resided in New York since returning. His work receives praise though he has few public commissions due to limited influence.

Art Review New York David George T. Brewster Young Brewster Stoughton Paris Government School of Fine Arts

Grant Statue for Chicago Faces Prolonged Delays

A skeptical note questions Chicago’s prospect for a good General Grant statue as a foreign clay sculptor wins the commission. The author suspects the model used in Washington years ago and criticizes committee manipulation and evasive tactics by officials.

General Grant Chicago Washington

Head of Rameses Compared to Modern Rulers

A writer notes the likeness between the head of Rameses in a window portrait at the Old Corner Bookstore and many contemporary men who rule. The profile is common among leaders whose narrow heads above the ears suggest pyramids and sphinxes built by others to their glory.

Rameses

From physiognomy to convents in an Italian tale

A keen observer links trust breaches to insufficient scrutiny of individuals beyond social ties. The piece discusses physiognomy, artists’ discernment, and quotes Edwin D. Mead on William and Mary College. It then surveys Italy’s confiscation of convents, highlighting the famed St Francis of Assisi monastery once bustling with popes and 30,000 worshippers, now deserted with only a monk or two remaining as bells toll in fading echoes.

Assisi Clory William and Mary College Edwin D. Mead Old South Church New World Italy St. Francis of Assisi Florence Rome

Back Bay ivy naming sparks garden corrections

Readers debate the correct botanical name for a climber covering Back Bay houses. Corrections distinguish Japanese creeper ampelopsis versus common mislabeling as ivy, noting La France rose mischaracterizations and stressing accurate plant naming.

Post Taverner Virginia Arlington Street Beacon Hill Japan New York Boston

St Luke's Home Trustees Elect New Officers at Annual Meeting

The annual meeting at St Luke's Home for Convalescents on Roxbury Street elected a board including Bishop Paddock as president and Rev Phillips Brooks as vice president. The home reported 208 patients cared for with an outlay of 675052 and a treasury surplus of 882470 to sustain operations until December 1.

St. Luke’s Home Roxbury Street St. Luke's Day Bishop Paddock Phillips Brooks M. Lindsay Killner Francis W. Lawrence Joseph 8. Fay J.D. W. French Francis C. Foster Charles F. Shimmin Vincent L. Bowditch M.D Cecil Haven Russell Sturgis Robert Lovett F. EK. Oliver OW. Doe

Murdock's Liquid Food Praised by Medical Societies

Prepared food claim extols Murdock's Liquid Food as superior raw condensed nutrition. It asserts wide professional endorsement by British and American medical associations and cites support from Jesuits and hospitals funded by A. Lb. Murdock, asserting counterfeit extracts mislead.

Murdock British Medical Association Brighton England American Medical Association A. Lb. Murdock

Free Beds and Forty Food Preparations Promised

An advertisement touts 140 free beds and 38 000 feet of four as part of a liquid food product claim. It promises eight percent new blood weekly and vitality restoration for infants with five drops added to each feeding. It cites a Saratoga report from 1836 and lists milk, grain, pep tonoid foods and beef extracts as key products.

Fragmented 19th Century Public Notice Listings

A damaged OCR fragment shows a dense list of bonds, banks, railroads, and insurance firms with valuations and dates. It includes references to Merchants and Miners Transportation Co, Old Colony Rd, Boston & Maine, Springfield & Cincinnati Rd, Cambridge Horse RR, Bay State Live Stock Co, Metropolitan Bank, and Brookline water lien notes. The item reads like a municipal or financial notice with stock and debt entries dated 1893 to 1896, lacking readable context.

Bok Toeaiebanks, Co Do Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Ca Lo Boeviston, Ins. Co Old Colony Boston & Maine Col Springfield & Cinn Quincy, Alton & St. Louis FSC West Amesbury Branch Boston, Concord & Mont. RR Ada Cambridge Horse RR Boston Consol St. Ry. Co Boston & Alhany Rd Cambridge Horse Ri da Bay Staite Live Stock Co Fitot Natl del” Metropolian KR. Co Alo oMogisten Insurance Co

Auction Notice of Shares and Securities Sale

By order of Executor shares of Lawrence Natl BRR of Lawrence 14 shares Boston Gaslight Co 55 shares alo Boston Revere Beach Lynn RR 10 do Union Telephone Co Francis Henshaw & Co Auctioneers Brokers and Appraisers Ro S13 State Street Merchants Exchange First Floor Room L Telephone 1665 Auction Sales every Saturday at 12 M

Brighton Warren Avenue Boston KR. L. Day & Co Merchants’ Exchange Building News OS State Street 14 Exchange Place Lawrence Natl Brr Lawrence Boston Gaslight Co Alo Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn RR Do Union Telephone Co Francis Henshaw & Coo Atctioneers Sate Street Merchants’ Exchange

Financial list of stocks bonds and shares from Boston area institutions

A dense OCR style catalog lists numerous securities and corpora tions including Boston Marine Insurance Company Mass National Bank Trustees orders Nat Jit Kacti Bank of Quincy Market Nat Bank Lowell Mi g Co Lyman Mills Highland Street Railway Middlesex Railroad Quincy Railroad Bridge Company Boston Consolidated Street Railway Hawkes Lasting Machine Company Union Stock Yard and Transit Plymouth Nail Bank Consolidated Railroad of Vermont Boston and Maine Railroad Rutland Railroad Burlington and Missouri River Railroad New England Telephone and Telegraph Cambridge Railroad National Banking interests Boston Concord Montreal Railroad Boston and Maine Railroad Kansas City etc reflecting collateral and executors orders with various dates and share counts

Mass. N. Bank Nat Jit. Kacti Bk Quincy Mase Market Bank. Naumkesg Nat. Bk Salem Union Bk Lowell Mig. Co Lyman Mills Highland Street Ry Middlesex RR Quincy RR. Bridge Co Union Stock Yard & Transit Nanmkeag Steam Cotton Co Plymouth Nail Bank Masigeo Consolidated Vermont Boston & Maine Rutland Rd Burlington & Missouri Lolo Lowell New England Telephone & Telegraph Co Cambridge RR Nath Bank Nashua & Rochester RK Kansas City Maine Charlestown North Adams St. Louis Chicago Cleveland Louisville W. L Boston, Concord & Montreal & R Boston & Albany RR Eliot Natl. Bank Pacific Mills Ft. Scott & Gulf RR

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Gloucester Fisheries General Wallace Harvard College Notes THE Charleston Fund Willam and Mary College Ivy the Post Sunday Herald la France Lir Henry John Antoine Francois ST. Luke's Home Richmond American Institute of Fiomecopathy Saratoga Hin Looo Llomaphic Duneian Murdock’s Free Hospital For Free Surgical Hospital For Huntington Avenue West Chester Park Gainsborough Street Causeway Street Avoction Sales 8. R. Knights & CO Washington Street Mauin St Cambridgeport South Margin Street Concord Street Gale Porkey Telephone Philip Sosnowski Catharine Sosnowsi Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company Suffolk Chapman Street James Hooton Flenry R. Plimpton William H. Leatherbee Thomas B. Burnham Mendlewitz Myers Myers Jacob Myers Samuel Myers Ester Weber Herman Weber Massachusetts Hospital William J. Bowditch Otober Ts Lssg A. M. Bates Boston Garlings —Reasitery Haverhill Street East Side Boston & Maine Depot A. My the Repository Oper Bugeies A. F. Bates Brice S. Evans Equitable Building Bulfinch Place Bulfinch Street Howard Street New Court House Bowdoin Square J. Franklin Fanon Surmmier Street C. F. Libbie & Coo COC Re FM Murdock’s Liquid Food Co Louis Papanti Hawthorne Park Street Doll & Richards Doll & Richards’s Chickering & Sons Papanti Broadway Cambridge Salem Lead Company F. A. Brown, Treas Mass Baeder, Adamson & C.O Atoption Sales Massachusetts Titles Insurance Company All Street Boater Nathaniel J. Bradlee Arnold A. Rand United States Supreme and Circuit Courts Administratrexn Dorchester District County of Charles H. Leach Dorchester Dorchester Avenue Mt. Vernon Street Crotty Hanley Kimball Jana McKay Buttonwood Shelburne Streets CL. Briggs & Co Buttonwood Street Sheburne Street Charles Hf. Leach L. Briggs & Co Leach Addie A Pinkham Jay Eascly Leach and Burbank Moseley Addie A. Pinkham Hares Annie L. Leach Georgee Z. Adams Albert Howe & CO Market Street Richards & CO Reade St John C. Wilmerding Wilmerding, Hoguet & Co White St Townsend & Montant Auctioneers and Commission Merchants SL Leonard Street Philadelphia Samuel Bunting’s Lippincott, Son & CO Muriket Street Boston Stock Exchange Gare Elo Hood Co Tre Brookline Natl. Bank, Brookline Len Salean Ferchants’ Nath Bank Nath Webster Bank Street Rv. Co American Shoe Tip Co Concord Montreal New Atlantic Nath Bank Nee & Nion Bank Tremont Nath Bank Yale Lvulann City of Bath M.L. Irigan Concord & Claremont RR Eng Mert. Sec. Co Sus AIS Bo. &P Purbanks. Co Taunton Copper Co Concord & Portsmouth National Webster Bank Market National Bank National Revere Bank Floridase First National Bank Haverhill Cambridge Horse Ra Ustate— Manufacturers’ Ins. Co Vermont Conperns Co Central Rd. Co Sado Ado Do Ado Do Boston Marine Ins. Co Cincinnati Cheshire RR Burlington & Missouri Riv. RR Anon Roxbury Gas ‘Light Co Boston Consolidated St. Railway Co Hawkes Lasting Machine Co Aton Atchison & Nebraska Appleton Co Middlesex de Columbian Nat. Bank Portsmouth Falls & Conway Tal Doe Waite Ewo. És Chicago Rolling Mills Aten Nat. Tube Works Co Shoe and Leather Insurance Co Do Commonwealth Insurance Co Horatio Harris & Co., Auctioneers and Commission Merchants State Street Gorham, Rogers & CO Dundee Seed
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