Evening amusements and theater listings in Boston
Post publishing company presents multiple shows this evening across Roxbury Tremont and Washington Street venues. Daktang Gagven performs The Fall of Babylon at 3 30 and 8 30. Bostox Turatir offers Good Old Times at 2 and 7 45. Lowre Tuearns features The Bottom of the Sea at 2 and 8. Tremont Theatre hosts Louis Aldrich in The Editor at 8. Fay Tem pleton performs Hendrik Hudson and Boston Museum shows The English Rose. Fly Flying Scud and Dan Sally appear at various times. Ship and financial pages appear on the sixth and seventh pages.
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Daktang Gagven
Roxbury
Babylon
Bostox Turatir
Washington Street
Good Old Times
Lowre Tuearns
Royal Pension to Lady Seymour Widows of Sir Francis Seymour
Queen Victoria grants a pension of 300 pounds yearly from the privy purse to Lady Seymour widow of Sir Francis Seymour. Henry M Stanley reportedly improves in health at his Swiss retreat and prepares American lectures. Reverend Winslow extends stay in Franconia and preaches at Forest Hills House. Reverend Dr Andrew Canfield of Brooklyn accepted a call to St Paul Chicago. Senator Charles B Farwell ill at Fountain House Wisconsin with bladder and kidney issues. John Morley attends Brompton Oratory for high mass amid Parliament sessions and sacred music. Professor John R Hanlon invents a new theodolite and transit instrument for precise telescope height adjustment. Archduchess Valerie and husband stay at Notel Victoria Interlaken. guests aware of rank, dine at table, spend evenings reading, walks on mountains with admirers.
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Henry M. Stanley
W. C. Winslow
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Forest Hills House
Andrew Canfield
Universalist Church of Our Father of
Brooklyn
St. Paul’s Church of Chicago
J. Coleman Adams
United States
Charles B. Farwell
Fountain House
Waukesha
Wis
John Morley
Brompton Oratory
London
John R. Hanlon
Pennington Seminary
Archduchess
Valerie
Austria
Interlaken
Switzerland
Senator Plumb Attaches Tariff Bill Amendment
Haston Post details a 31 to 30 vote adding a Customs Commission to the tariff bill. The five disinterested appointees would study commerce and wages, with broad inferences for legislation, salaries of 7000 dollars, and six year terms, amid civil service contrasts. The piece also notes railroad arson arrests, Knights of Labor reactions, and Indiana GOP debates over W. W. Dupuy’s recognition.
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Customs Commission
United States
Congress
Harrison
Lanp-Ford
Utah
Mizner
Tanner
Wanamaker
Ravn
Gray
Indianapolis
Ocean travel safety and risky exaggeration in ship travel debates
The article discusses fears of ocean voyage dangers, noting electric lights on ships reduce fire risk and that safety concerns should be handled by experts. It argues against alarmism and asserts modern travel is likely safer now, despite occasional racing tendencies on a few ships.
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New York
The So Called Reciprocity Amendment Debate
A columnist denounces the reciprocity amendment to a tariff bill as deceitful and dangerous. It argues the Senate plan lets the President suspend duties on U S exports for reciprocity, reimposing taxes at will to cover deficits. The piece predicts congressional clashes and warns against executive power.
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Senate Committee On Finance
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Pennsylvania
East
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France
Congress
Tariff Power Argument Against Presidential Tax Plan
The speaker warns the President could abuse extraordinary tariff powers, noting ten cent per pound and three cent per pound levies would profit sellers but harm consumers and cripple key industries, while questioning any reciprocity justification for such a law. The critique emphasizes fiscal manipulation risks and broad economic disruption.
Pension Office Politics and Pension Agents’ Influence
The piece outlines graft concerns at the Pension Office with agents Lemon and Curry, noting removal pressures on commissioners and the Raum investigation. It highlights inducements to campaign financing from government staff, with Curry pressuring Indiana employees to fund Republican operations and Lemon’s ties to Baum’s notes amid suspicious order disclosures.
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Clarkson
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Lemon
Baum
Rau
Kaum
Lumon
Hakkison
Curry
Washington
Indiana
Republican State Committee
Pennsylvania
Cabinet
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Cromwell mace mystery and wool tariff debate muddle Washington
The piece contrasts inquiries into the Jamaica Cromwell mace with a tone on pension agents and Wool Schedule of the McKinney bill. It notes Ohio political figures like Davin Harrster pressing for tariff relief while wool growers profit, and calls out aging public figures and Chicago’s World's Fair site dispute. It frames American endurance figures and the Donnybrook Fair subplot.
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Ohio
Ebbitt
Washington
The
Post
Congress
Tye
Magazine Notes from the Eclectic Review
The article reviews multiple Canadian and European writings in the Eclectic Magazine and Revue Française for September. It highlights Dr George Stewart and William Campbell, Mark Hopkins sketches, Bellamy on nationalism, hypnotism discoveries, Romanes studies, Balfour satire, Swinburne’s ode to Russia, and other literary portraits and essays, noting acclaim for the periodical’s contents.
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W. W. Folwell
W. Blackburn Harte
George Stewart
Canada
William Wilfred Campbell
Lake Iluren
Campbell
Trinity Church
St. Stephen
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London Atheneum
JF. H. Kasson
Mark Hopkins
Yy. EK
EB. Hale
Edward B. Williams
Eclectic
Bellamy
Wakefield
F. A. Balfour
Goldsmith
Balfour
Swinburne
Hussia
Boucicault
Revue Francaise
Guy de Maupassant
Augustin Filon
M. Ernest Legouvé
Jes Cyclades
M. le Comte de Molly
M. Georges de Dabor
Camping Out in Autumn Life Reflects on Nature and Society
In Boston autumn, an essay extols camping as refreshment and independence from hotel life. It argues camping builds resilience and elevates sentiment, while noting many seek adventure or health benefits rather than spiritual self development. A club scene then critiques greed in the commercial world, contrasting a broker Stockton with a wolflike Carthage.
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Thoreau
Stockton
Bookbinders Strike At Hearn & Co Over Labor Costs
The workers at James A. Hearn & Co. 92 Federal Street yesterday walked out alleging the firm sought cheaper labor to assign a $10 task to a $15 job, signaling a wage and workload dispute.
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James A. Hearn & Co
Federal Street
Obituary: The Rev Henry Parry Liddon Dies at Weston
The Rev Henry Parry Liddon D D canon of St Pauls Cathedral London died suddenly of heart disease yesterday at Weston super Mare. Born in 1820 he studied at Oxford Christ Church College graduating in 1850 with a BA and second class in classics. He became a noted preacher and scholar shaping high church thought, with famed Bampton lectures on the divinity of Jesus Christ and service as Ireland professor of exe gesis later a St Pauls residentiary. He declined a bishopric citing health and left a lasting legacy in sermons writings and editorial work.
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Henry Parry Liddon
D.C.L
St. Paul’s
London
Weston- Super-Mare
Oxford University
Christ Church College
Johnson
Theological College of
Liberal High Church
Oxford
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Jesus Christ
Lindon
Avanon
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Ireland
Church of England
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Moyland
Walter Kerr Hamilton
Salisbury
Andrew
William Bright
the Times
Wilberforce
Pusey
Albion Dearborn Dies Former Detective Officer of City
Albion P. Dearborn a former detective attached to the city police department died in the South Boston Insane Asylum on Monday at age forty six. Appointed in 1872 he worked on many notable cases before resigning in 1878 to form a private detective agency with G W Chapman. He had been at the asylum for several years.
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South Boston Insane Asylum
G. W. Chapman
Bordowski
Guards
Dramatic and Musical Notes at Boston Theatres
The Boston Theatre offers afternoon and evening performances of Good Old Times as the last week of the engagement. The Soudan will follow next week with Henry Neville in a grand romantic spectacle. Kate Claxton and Charles A Stevenson present Sea of Ice at Grand Opera House with new scenery. Music Hall opens on the 22nd with Robin Hood, featuring Marie Stone Jessie Bartlett Davis Grace Reals Hoff Barnabee Cowles Macdonald and Frothingham. Seats go on sale Thursday. Donnelly and Girard bring Natural Gas to Park with new acts. tickets on sale Wednesday.
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Boston
Colonel Linn
Grand Opera House
Bostonian
Music Hall
Marie Stone
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Grace Reals
Messrs
Hoff
Barnabee
Cowles
Macdonald
Frothingham
Donnelly
Girard
Miss Templeton
Te Park
Boston Symphony Orchestra to Auction Season Tickets at Music Hall
The Boston Symphony Orchestra announces sale of season tickets for twenty four concerts and twenty four public rehearsals. Tickets will be sold at auction at Music Hall next week with full sale details in another column.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston
Music Hall
Young burglars arrested in South Boston break-in
Officers of Station 4 last evening arrested John Ford fourteen of 40 Cove Street William Pelham sixteen of 209 Essex Street James Moylan sixteen of 831 West Second Street South Boston and Dennis Griffin fourteen of 311 Federal Street on charges of breaking and entering 116 Chauncy Street and stealing a silver watch belonging to Abraham Bamber. The watch was found on one of them.
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John Ford
Cove Street
William Pelham
Essex Street
James Moylan
West Second Street
Boston
Dennis Griffin
Federal Street
Chauncy Street
Abraham Bamber
All Sorts and Peculiarities in One Flowing Page
A collage of lighthearted notes and curiosities. Temon and Raum pair as a natural duo while Maine election talk and Reed’s refrain echo pop culture. Haircut relics from Cardinal Newman, odd pension mentions, and a humorous tale of pig cornering.
Reed drive to boost GOP victory in Portland district
Current comment notes Mr Reed and authors of key tariff and force bills have left Capitol duties to stump in Portland district. McKinney claims lowering Reed’s vote next Monday would cut down the Republican party nationally, underscoring strong party push.
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Congress
Capitol
Portland
McKinney
Old Orchard
N. Y
Panic settles for Reed after Maine campaigning
The Springfield Republican notes that Thomas B. Reed gains a handsome indorsement for Speaker as Republicans in Congress and his own appeals rally support. Reed and allies had feared a setback after leaving Washington to work with Maine Republicans, but the panic is allayed by yesterday’s majority for Reed.
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Thomas B. Reed
Congress
House of Representatives
Reed
Washington
Maine
Springfield
Ind
Reed Sees Victory In Maine Shakeup For 1892 GOP
Reed defeats Blaine in Maine signaling a boost for Reed as a possible 1892 Republican candidate. Blaine’s campaign abstention and tariff stance dispute, plus editors note the defeat may affect party factions. Reed’s win positions him to influence party strategy and slate decisions in coming contests.
Reed as undisputed Republican leader reshapes Congress
The article declares Thomas B. Reed the uncontested head of the Republican party, dominating Congress for the remainder of this session. He will control House actions, shape the tariff bill in conference, and likely become Speaker or minority leader depending on next election outcomes. Blaine’s silence underscores Reed’s ascendancy.
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Washington
Thomas B. Reed
Republican Party
Harrison
Blaine
House
N. Y
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