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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1890
Page
4
In the march of progress its action stands evident
A concise note highlighting progress through decisive action, underscoring a clear demonstration of advancement and effectiveness.
Beacon Street’s shift toward business arouses controversy
Boston observers note ongoing conversion of Beacon Street residences opposite the Common into commercial use, with two houses leased for business and a restaurant sign looming. Prompting concern that preserving the slope’s dignified old-time residences and the Common’s character may give way to progress and park front encroachments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beacon Street
Charles Street
Vercelli
Boylston Street
Back Bay
Harrison Gray Otis
Boston
Beacon Hill
Brookline
Chestnut Hill
Amusements This Evening in Boston Theatres and Venues
Oak Ann Garven Roxbury presents The Fall of Babylon at 3 30 and 8 30 at the Boston Theatre Washington street showtimes 7 45 The Soudan GroBe TreatiE Washington street 8 DeWol Hopper Company Castles in the Air Tremont Theatre Tremont street 8 The City Directory Park Theatre Washington street 8 Donnelly Girard Natural Gas Boston Museum Tremont street near Scollay square 745 The English Rose Grand Opera House Washington and Dover streets 745 The Sea of Ice Howard Atte Narm Howard street 8 May Howard Burlesque Company Hollis Street Turarre Hollis street 8 Corinne
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Ann Garven
Roxbury
Babylon
Boston Theatre
Washington Street
The
Soudan
GroBe Treatie
DeWol Hopper Opera Company
Tremont Theatre
Tremont Street
Park Theatre
Donnelly and Girard
Boston
Newspaper section page references and locations
The note lists page assignments for departments: Financial on page six, Commercial on pages six and seven, and Ship News on page three. It directs readers to consult specified pages for department content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ship News
Insolvent Dickison Bank Disclosures Stir Local Press
Fragments report a Dickison county Kansas bank insolvent with notes discounted to farmers at 18 percent funded by Joan Ingaius a misattributed mention linked to a U S Senator Ingalls. The piece also notes railroad strikes and tariff debates alongside Dion Boucicault’s death and Boucicault’s career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickinson County
Kansas
Joan J. Ingauis
United States
Senator Ingalls
Ingaluls
BoucicaulT and Gouercautr: Gallic flair and steadfast artistry
The piece lauds BoucicaulT as distinctly Gallic in talent with Irish flavor in his works and notes his acting genius, while praising Dion Gouercautr as a faithful, industrious artist whose career brought pleasure across the Old and New Worlds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boucicault
London
Dion Goucrcautr
Democratic State Convention at Worcester Distinguishes Itself
The Worcester convention offered a direct appeal to intelligence and conscience, contrasting with Boston's event. It urged tariff reform, civil service reform, and honest elections, attacking Pennsylvania iron interests and Republican influences while praising Massachusetts voters and local reforms led by William E. Russell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Boston
Dupley
Quay
Massachusetts
Jenny F. Russelu
Greenhalge
Russenr
Congress
Pennsylvania
Mr. Russeun
A Dubious View of the Triple Alliance’s Future
The extension of the Triple Alliance among Germany Austria and Italy is seen as a potential peace guarantor but not a sure one. While historically pacific it could drag Europe into a war if Italy opposed France or if Franco Russian tensions shift. The piece notes Germany and Austria benefit, Italy gains naval leverage, and warns a Franco Russian entente could be triggered by the alliance’s continuance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Austria
Italy
Pacific
France
Europe
Allance
Bismaren
Bismarck
Russia
French Republic
Decline of Republican Oratory Cited As Emmett Speech Critique
A Boston era editorial denounces Mr. Greenhalge's convention address as the cheapest by a Massachusetts Republican presiding officer since party conventions began. It contrasts with earlier eloquence of Sumner and Dawes, blames current leaders as underlings to hard-edged moneyed interests, and laments waning GOP rhetoric and moral inspiration. It notes Cicero on moral virtue and cites Quay and Carnegie as power behind organizers. The piece argues no modern Republican can deliver lofty, memorable speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gereenhalge
Massachusetts
Hoan
Dawes
Bullock
Rice
Long
Sumner
Wilson
Andrew
Senate
Gippines
House
Quay
Pearr
Remo
Carnegie
James G. Blaine
Cicero
Emmerson
Congressman Greenhalge
Lowell
Mass
Boston
Bacon
Oliver Cromwell H
Thomas B. Reed
Cromwell
Crreenhaige
Y. Commercial Advertiser
Rhetoric and reformist zeal in a changing political era
A critical column blasts party orthodoxy and noted orator William Evarts as out of date. It mocks Greenalge speech, mocks a Chicago stage performance, and lampoons a presidential cottage gift. A New York baker's son elopes against his father’s command, prompting a dramatic family quarrel and a cutting retort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pupils of photography and stage scandal swirl in old news
A London Daily News tale recounts a photographer who spoils a subject with lampblack and then offers soap and towels from a cabinet. Meanwhile Saran Bermaror plans to use a live serpent for Cleopatra on tour, and a New York Puritan Club angles for glove fights amid Puritan branding. The New York Herald claims Boston has had ten days without rain, a claimed scoop that clashes with weather records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Daily News
New York Herald
Boston
What Are We Here For Anecdote Recalls Court Desk
The passage recalls a Plymouth Court of Common Pleas scene from forty years ago. Judge, newly prominent, refused Spooner’s request for a continuance, asserting the court sits for dispatch of business. Spooner retorted that it arrived under the impression it sat for justice administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Speaker Reed
Greenhalge
Thor
Plymouth
Court of Common Pleas
Allen C. Spooner
Boston
Spooner
Brookline Highways Special Town Meeting Vote
Brookline citizens debated granting Selectmen authority to petition the General Court for highway jurisdiction. The proposal passed 63 to 60 amid fears of county alienation and delays without local power. Town appropriations totaling 94,730 funded street widening, sewers, Auburn street, town records, a Cambridge bridge approach, water supply work, water mains, Cypress street approaches, and county land damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookline
General Court
Alfred D. Chandler
Boston
Drew
W. R. Chester
Thomas Aspinwall
Lincoln
Selectmen
Jtarvard Street
Auburn Street
Dean Road
Boston & Albany
Brook Street
Aspinwall Hill
Newton Street
Cypress Street
Boston & Albany Railroad
World's Fair plan loses support among commissioners
Chicago Sept 18 A majority of World’s Fair commissioners oppose the double site plan and will urge Washington Park as site. If refused the commission will report no adequate site offered. They may appoint a single director general, likely George R Davis, while the national commission selects a separate official. The salary for commissioner general would be 15000 annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Washington Park
South Park
Washington
George R. Davis
National Commission
Lim
Cambridge School Board Meeting Approves Bills and Resignations
Cambridge board approves salaries totaling 19 191 45 and incidentals 35 25 plus textbooks 3897 75 bringing grand total 22 623 45. Principal Billings bill for exhibition programmes 850 rejected. Several teacher resignations accepted and new nominations, transfers, and leaves of absence granted. Textbook changes and curriculum notes discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge School Board
Gilmore
John OD. Billings
Webster Grammar School
Billings
Emma F. Munroe
English High School
Sarah J. Fahey
Laseile School
Lucia Goodnow
Otis School
Emma F. Cogan
Thorndike
Esther F. Hannum
Webster
Winora Abercombie
Lowell
Ellen N. Leighton
Addie L
Bartlett
Lowell School
Charles F. Warner
Arthur N. Whitney
J. W. Courtney
Laura Emmet
Mary A. Townsend
Ruth D. Loring
Webster School
Miss Townsend
Mary Moulton
Mary A. Carmichael
Gore
Putnam
Eila L. Avery
Laura_A. Stickney
Susan F. Atherson
Harvard
Clara E. Matchett
Cambridgeport Citizens’ Association
Wentworth
Williams
Shepard
Wilhelm Tell
Schilter
Hermann
Dorothea
Goethe
Amherst Opens New Collegiate Year With Setup Changes
The Amherst college year starts at 11 o clock with Professors Harris Richardson and Frink back from abroad. President Gates will begin duties in October, with President Seelye presiding in the interim. Greek professor Henry Bibbons and physicist Marshall Henshaw are aboard for the year. The new athletic field is delayed until spring and a Sept 24 athletic board meeting will set policy. Captain Crocker leads a football training camp as the squad enters the championship season, with about eighty new students and several upper-class additions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amherst
Harris, Richardson
Frink
Gates
Seelye
Henry Gibbons
Marshall Henshaw
Crocker
Pension claim agents rebuked in platform plank
The Fall River Herald notes a plank urging Congress to enact legislation to abolish pension claim agents and create direct facilities for presenting and investigating claims to spare honest veterans from embarrassment and delay. The piece questions the proposer’s reflection on what makes such conditions possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Fall River Herald
Dem
Tribute to Mr Russell as Democratic State Leader
The Lawrence American Republican edition congratulates the Democrats for again naming Hon William E Russell as their State ticket head. It calls him one of the brightest and cleanest young men in the party and notes his strong showing last year. The piece argues it is preferable to run against a strong leader than a weak candidate, commending Russell’s leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Central
Hudson River Railroad
T. V. Powperty
Knights of Labor
Powphery
Ler
Russell
William E. Russell
Lawrence American
Rep
Legislative Ring at Boston Convention Focused on Minor Offices
Delegates at Boston convention sought three small offices with about $3000 each. Most delegates had prior service in the General Court, signaling a shift of Massachusetts political power toward veteran lawmakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Massachusetts
Springfield Republican
Ind
The Art of the Speaker in Harper's Weekly Ind
The piece criticizes the speaker’s tactics to justify party actions. It notes debates suppressed, a tariff bill and an election bill pushed as national mandate, and claims pledges were fulfilled while a key pledge was ignored. It urges Blaine to prove he remains a force if he won’t withdraw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaine
Harper’s Weekly
Ind
Massachusetts Republicans Shaped by Machine Rule Critique
The Providence Journal notes that Massachusetts Republicanism appears controlled by machine politics and bourbonist ideology, urging educated citizens to abandon the party. It contrasts this with the Democratic party, praising its national policy distinctions and local prospects as more progressive locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenialge
Massachusetts
Democratic Party
Boston
Providence Journal
Sale of Water-Color Paintings at Leonard Co
Second day of W. H. Fanning’s collection auction at Bromfield street saw Otto Binm’s The Grand Canal Venice fetch 74 dollars, Showery Weather Trouillebert bring 3750, and A Young Holstein Varveer sell for 37. Sale continues this afternoon at 3 with A Normandy Landscape by Trouillebert among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Fanning
Leonard & Co
Bromfield Street
Otto Binm
Grand Canal
Venice
Trouillebert
Varveer
Treat Iment
Amor
New Hampshire Rain Streak Sets Longest in 25 Years
A storm lasting ten days in New Hampshire ended today, marking the longest such period in more than a quarter of a century. Total rainfall reached 3.94 inches, with rain falling each day of the sequence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concorp
N. H
Oddities and Anecdotes From A Bygone Era
A collage of society notes from an Illustrated News page recounts theatrical figures, poets, and travelers. Mme Modjeska tours California before visiting Polana. Prince Mohammed Burhaneddin begins naval training. King Alfonso XIII’s church scene shocks the crowd. a Georgian shoots a neighbor over gossip. Chicagoans flock to Stratford, echoing urban wealth and culture. reflections on autograph books, sentiments, and the ritual of the extemporized note.
Second Day's Sale of Symphony Tickets Noted by Auctioneer Jackson
The second day of ticket sales at Music Hall drew a solid crowd despite modest attendance. Speculators were visible while bidding remained brisk, with Row HE delivering top prices of 70 dollars for paired end seats and 29 to 38 dollar premiums for various rows. Row F and H also yielded the highest prices, and Rehearsal-day premiums of 31.50 and 21.50 were cited as typical of the time. The overall prices lagged those of rehearsal sales, though this was expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Music Hall
Greenhalge Speech Draws Fire From Critics Across Papers
Across several newspapers critics fault Congressman Greenhalge for humor over seriousness at the convention. They question his grasp of key issues while noting his habit of caustic tirades. Some praise his wit but call for firmer stance on major questions of the times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressman Greenhalge
Greenhalge
Lawrence Eagle
Polo at Hamilton ends in Myopia ties 14 to 8 win
Hamilton report notes visiting Hingham Polo Club members A H Alden T D Bradley B B Fay and B R Core facing Myopia Club second team at A C Gardner F A Warren James Parker and M B Abbott. Myopia won 14 to 8 in afternoon match.
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