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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1887
Page
1
A high official states he has been instructed to extend his diplomatic mission in Ireland, signaling continued engagement in Irish affairs and ongoing negotiations or oversight.
Tomorrow celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the Constitution with a Philadelphia display of American clothing products. The department store showcases cassimere suits, hats, shoes, and underwear, with suits to order from 20 dollars, silk hats at five dollars, cloth hats at one dollar, fall school suits from four dollars, and new fall suits and overcoats from five dollars. The event contrasts modern production with grandfathers’ methods and highlights national progress.
Advertisement notes G W Simmons and Company located at 32 to 44 North Street in Boston as a business address reference.
Favorable weather ushers in a centennial parade in Philadelphia with the Massachusetts delegation attending. President Cleveland receives ovation at Hotel Lafayette while lighthouse board officials fret over the yacht race. Waltham holds a grand carnival. Ordway’s daughter wed Wilkins of Washington in Warren New Hampshire.
Royalists post a manifesto in capital towns of all eighty six departments urging a monarchy to avert a crisis from republican misrule. Moncrieff reports Nile floods spared cotton and sugar cane only slightly harmed. Irish landlords meet in Dublin and deny rents are excessive. A Galbaly mob ejects tenants and attacks police. In Nevel Russia Poland one hundred houses burn and twelve people die.
Weather reports cooler and fair as the day opens. The New England Polo Association holds its annual meeting and elects officers. Middlesex County W C T U and City Clerks' Club of Massachusetts elect officers. Stock market sees raids on several names. Mrs Emmons’s stolen diamond pin found. Neddo identified as pawn broker. Prohibition League endorses Dr Miner’s letter. West End Land Company sells Beacon street lots at auction. Judge Forsaith rules search warrants for liquors do not authorize touching the owner.
An extra edition of the Post has been printed to meet demand for the Centennial Supplement. Copies are available at the counting room in wrappers for mailings.
Massachusetts party arrives for the industrial parade and a reception for Governor Beaver amid grand decorations. President Cleveland appears, greets officials, and attends multiple events as Philadelphia hosts a vast Centennial celebration with 800 parade divisions and thousands of spectators.
Cardinal Gibbons was honored at a Catholic Club reception in Philadelphia on September 15. Attendees included President Cleveland, Secretaries Bayard and Fairchild, ex-President Hayes, visiting governors, and George Washington Childs.
Brooxyon New York Sept 15 The executive committee of the Leecher statue fund chose J Q A Ward as sculptor at a cost of 29600 dollars.
Paris and London reports detail Comte de Paris issuing a royalist manifesto across France calling for a reformed monarchy with direct universal suffrage, a mixed Senate and Chamber, and religious liberty. The Times notes fear of republican drift. Univers calls it a Napoleonic imitate.
At a Sept 15 conference in Dupuy Irish landlords unanimously deny rents are excessive and urge fair land legislation. They claim no rent hikes since 1840 to 1580 while Britain saw increases. They blame recent evictions on political motives and call for government action with landlord compensation and lower land charges. A mob wrecked several homes near Mitchels town after a funeral, police were stoned, and Inspector Roughan resigning in protest. Rome reports Mgr Persico has made progress in shedding light on a matter.
Loxpon Sept 15 reports 100 houses burned in Nevel Russian Poland with twelve deaths and damage to the Killarney Workhouse. Loss estimated at 5000 pounds and suspected incendiary origin. Also notes on Count Kalnoky and Bismarck talks, Austrian German trade treaty renewal, stock market dullness, and other distant dispatches.
Rep. Bayne of Pennsylvania reports Henry George and Dr. McGlynn plan to start a daily paper in each large city to aid workers. McGlynn questions practicality while George says cooperative papers can succeed without standard press associations and news funding can be raised.
For twenty four hours from 7 a m Friday September 16 cooler with light rains in Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts then fair weather and light to fresh northwesterly winds rising temperatures Saturday. Rhode Island Connecticut find cooler with light rains then fair weather variable to northerly winds. Vermont and eastern New York cooler with light rains then fair weather and variable winds northerly then rising temperatures Saturday. Blue Hill Observatory notes fair weather 2 p m today.
The record compiles yesterday’s weather observations from all stations taken at the same time, detailing temperature, humidity, wind, and other atmospheric readings up to 1 pm. It notes uniform methodology across sites for synchronized data collection.
Senator John Sherman defended the Republican party in an Ohio campaign speech at Clinton county, denouncing Prohibition and Labor parties. He contrasted Republicans with Democrats over the last thirty years, blasted the bloody shirt rhetoric, and argued for a constitutional, pro union program while critiquing Democratic actions in Ohio and national elections.
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