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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1890
Page
4
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Listings show multiple venues on Washington Tremont and Howard streets with times 2 and 7:30 to 8:30 per show. Productions include The Fall of Babylon The Soudan Castles in the Air The City Directory Natural Gas The English Rose The Sea of Ice Corinne and a Fruit Exhibition.
Hastou Dost reports on the German Austrian royal meeting with light humor about William II and Austria. The piece contrasts with Raum defense in a pension dispute and critiques tariff politics. It notes Secretary Winthrop’s tariff extension proposal and opposition from New York manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce, plus Southern farmers’ protests against the ConGer lard bill.
Protesters oppose a bill restricting a healthful lard compound made from lard pressed beef fat and cottonseed oil arguing it is not deleterious and is properly labeled. The piece highlights Republican Club support for a straight party ticket and intra party strife affecting Tammany Hall and mayoral politics.
Secretary Blaine’s letter to Colonel Cuarp, published with courtesy, attacks the McKinley bill and Republican tariff aims. It skewers New England protections and shows how Massachusetts manufacturers fear reciprocal schemes harming their interests while condemning Senate actions and pork-barrel concessions. The piece also sketches census disputes in New York and praises the Oakland Garden outdoor show for its social and economic impact.
The piece notes a contract dispute over Miss Craigen’s reduced pay and two weeks’ notice ending her services, prompting questions about contract value in theater. It also reports Ipswich honors Eurotisania the Jersey cow for an extraordinary butter yield of 778 pounds in a year, amid a remark on high breeding and feeding.
In Boston the frequent rain brightens the Common and Public Garden while cleansing streets and sewers. Readers note the city’s pleasure grounds remain popular despite showers, and European travel broadens minds, enriching national life with culture, taste, and refined architecture seen in Back Bay doorways by Davis Adams and Aimes.
The passage notes a doorway on the late Benjamin White house opposite the Orphan Asylum on Washington Street. It praises its artistic individuality and graceful curved arch as a stylistic link to ancient Boston architecture, suggesting it could be preserved if the dwelling is demolished.
The Soudan opened at the Boston Theatre with Mr Pettitt and Mr Harris credited on the programme. The piece blends melodrama with elaborate scenery and muscular action set in the Soudan desert and Templecombe landscapes. Henry Neville led the cast as Captain Temple, praised for refined acting and careful stagecraft among a strong company.
Daniel Kelly was arrested last evening by Officer Burnett of Station 1 for the larceny of clothing valued at $50 from W J Ericsson at 166 Richmond Street.
The September Macmillan's Magazine offers Kipling's new story On Greenbow Hill and essays by Arthur Tilley on Montaigne. Goldwin Smith revisits The American Tariff, while other pieces cover Tory Island, Heine, Buenos Ayres, and P. Anderson Graham. Notable illustrations and articles from The English Illustrated, Outing, and The Magazine of American History accompany profiles of readers’ interests.
Lady Monckton starts as a house decorator in London amid reports of Count Tolstoi’s illness in St Petersburg. Quay of Pennsylvania’s daughter Coral heads to Europe for further schooling. Emperor William considers Duke of Connaught for Prussian colonelcy. Ex-Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson plans winter abroad. Mrs Kendal’s drawing room features a wax Quaker figure gifted by Philadelphia Friends. Mrs Surfieid of Dunkirk is the only female Civil War veteran with a pension, having served with Company F, Seventy-second New York Volunteers, in major battles from Williamsburg to Gettysburg.
Dr Joseph Murphy oldest Taunton physician dies Monday night aged about seventy two. Irish born and Dublin educated, he taught at Manchester Medical School before settling in the U S. A Massachusetts Medical Society member and former president, he held several Taunton public offices. Also noted, Herr Deppe, conductor of Silesian music festivals and Brahms associate, dies in Pyrmont Germany.
At the Cambridge Board of Aldermen meeting a letter announced Frederick H. Rindge will visit Cambridge on October 22 morning to hand over the City Hall keys. An ordinance to limit stopping of horse and electric cars at crossings was ordered drafted. A special meeting was set for Thursday at 9 to hear Shepard and Wallace street residents claiming damages from telephone poles. The Common Council adjourned for two weeks.
The President and family rode the Bell's Gap route to Rhododendron Park near Altoona for a five hour outing aboard Vice-President Thompson's special car. They passed the Jorge Shoe Curve and later planned a Grand Army post reception and a visit to Johnstown flood districts the next day.
Victoria B C Sept 16 Many seal ing fleet return from Behring Sea reporting fair catches The Pacific Mail steamship Rio Janeiro reached Victoria after fourteen days delay caused by a collision with the Peninsular and Crustal steamer on her outward voyage Total damage to the Rio Janeiro is estimated at 26000 dollars
A collage of humorous quips and social notes spans topics from shoe thefts and tobacco reform claims at Vichy to old Indian agent tales. It includes witty exchanges, a light jab at Bjones, satire on bachelor apartments, and a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm’s coinage. Also scenes from London, press miseries in Georgia, Bismarck’s fortune, Civil War sock gifts, and a Baxter grumbling about profits.
A Washington Star Indiana opinion deems Congressman Grosvenor not a magnificent success in civil service reform. The piece accuses him of effectively crying wine and selling vinegar, implying dubious zeal or results in reform efforts.
The Providence Journal notes Honorable Matthew S Quay honoring Samuel J Randall praising his honesty and patriotism. The Philadelphia Telegraph predicts trouble for Speaker Reed as many House members may be absent without leave over the tariff bill and rural constituents resent the measure and a mass of notices threaten dismissal after March 4 1801.
Chauncey M. Depew spoke at the New York State fair in Syracuse urging farmers to unite to protect their interests. He urged intelligent organization to educate on crop rotation, to escape middlemen, and to press government for favorable policies. He proposed banners bearing reciprocity retaliation and revenue as core aims.
Washington Sept 16 Commander Francis W Dickins is ordered to the Washington Navy Yard Sept 25 as assistant to the commandant relieving Commander R P Leary who is detached Sept 20 and assigned to duty as equipment officer at the Norfolk yard Sept 23.
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