Is Opera Dead In Boston and Other Rambling Notes
A column questions the fate of the New Imperial Opera company in Boston and opera’s appeal amid rising costs and changing tastes. It riffs on Paderewski’s earnings, bicycle therapy in asylums, railway bookkeeping fraud, Cuban sympathy, and a merger of social satire with local disputes. It ends with a Chicago court case about a licensing dispute and a noisy organ dispute sparked by a music-loving neighbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Stokes
Mrs. Cross
Stokeses
Crosses
Debated trusts and tech, pension surge, and odd notes
Matthew Marshall argues in the New York Sun that combination reduces production and distribution costs while large trusts face inevitable competition. The piece cites stock corners, 19th century monopolies, and evolving pension costs, then shifts to ideas from electric ice planes to calendar reform and Cuba’s war, ending with a Santa figure and dynamite line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthew Marshall
The
New York Sun
Combine
Cordage Trust
General Electric Company
Nail Tion
Cor’ Sre
National union plan for building trades council formed in St Louis
The St. Louis Building Trades council promotes a national federation like the AFL to unify bricklayers carpenters electricians and other trades under one banner. A national working card and city bureaus would draw nonunion workers into the fold and enable coordinated efforts across cities. Local endorsements from Chicago Cincinnati and others back the move as a conference is planned in St Louis to create the organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Federation of Bus Trades
St. Louis
National
Building Trades Council
Building Trades
American Federation of Labor
Building Trades Council of
St. Lonia
National Council
America
Building Trades Bureau
H. W. Steinbiss
St. Louis Building Trades Council
Chicago
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Grand Rapids
Hartford
Philadelphia
J. W
Latagoity Brotherhood
Est
St. Louis Republic
Government Mechanics Examinations Set For January
The civil service commission adopts new mail based examinations to test age character experience intelligence and physical ability for government mechanic positions in the engineer branch with a 90 percent weight on technical parts. If successful the method will expand to all government mechanics and testing will occur January 13 for junior engineer roles including inspectors aid and surveyors. Albert S Rennie sues Edwin Grant House and Mrs Rennie for 20000 damages claiming alienation of Mrs Rennieaffection and seeks divorce while House counters with a demand for 25000 damages alleging hypnotic coercion at the Grand Union hotel on December 25 1895.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Service Commission
Albert S. Rennie
New York
Edwin Grant
Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn
Rennie
Morgan buys Iona Island for charitable summer casino
J Pierpont Morgan has bought Iona island on the Hudson near Peekskill and plans a summer casino for poor New York families. The project, not yet public, is described as philanthropic. Buildings would be offered to orphan asylums and other charities in which Morgan is involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Pierpont Morgan
Iona Island
Hudson River
Peekskil
New York
Mr. Morgan
Question on Texas conduct and performance
A fragmented prompt asks why Texas conduct has been worse, but provides no concrete events, sources, or entities to summarize. Without verifiable details, a factual newspaper card cannot be produced.
Campaign Urges Nationwide Mission Appeals on Jan 10 1897
A Christian campaign calls for a united effort across the United States and Canada to promote evangelical missions. On Sunday January 10 1897 sermons on missions will be preached in all evangelical pulpits, followed by prayer meetings and invocations for foreign missions. Local committees will organize district rallies in larger cities, with mass interdenominational meetings planned for Friday January 15 in each town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eers
Bea Teen Jno
United States
Canada
Sentign
Evangelical Alliace
Foreign Missions
International Bible Training School planned in Washington
An international Bible training school for lay workers is being organized in Washington under the American Society of Religious Education the National Gospel Mission union and the Central Union mission. It will be incorporated in the District of Columbia with a 15 member board drawn evenly from the three societies and will offer two courses for mission evangelism training and for new converts. The societies pledge perpetual support and the National Gospel Mission union will arrange employment for graduates, creating a permanent interdenominational evangelical work aligned with churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Bible Training School
Washington
American Society of Religious Education
National Gospel Mission Union
Central Union Mission
District of Columbia
Washington Post
Dangerous Skyscrapers Raise New York Safety Concerns
New York Superintendent of Buildings Constable and Mayor Strong warned that about 3,200 large buildings in the city are unsafe with seven showing cracks. He blamed adjoining structures and deep caissons for instability, noting insufficient sewers could trigger future epidemics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constable
Strong
New York
Buffalo and Watertown Nurses Leave for Havana Mission
Leon M. Lynch of Buffalo and George Heath of Watertown professional nurses depart for Harrisburg and join Joseph Cox of Youngstown to form a hospital corps for the relief of the sick and wounded in Havana. If insurgent lines are unreachable they will seek permission from General Weyler to establish a field hospital for both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon M. Lynch
Buffalo
George Heath
Watertown
N. Y
Harrisburg
Joseph Cox
Youngstown
Havana
Butte Volunteers Form Cuba Bonded Enlistment Plan
Captain T. J. Bordeaux builds a Butte company to join Texas rangers and sail to Cuba in January. Enlistments hinge on U.S. recognition of Cuban belligerents, with about 200 already enlisted. Governor Elect Mount of Indiana rejects a brass band circus at his inauguration, saying such a governor is an ornament to his state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
T. J. Bordeaux
Cuba
Texas Rangers
Bordeaux
United States
Elect Mount
Indiana
Ideal Panacea Praised By Chicago Alderman
James L. Francis of Chicago Alderman extols Dr King’s New Discovery as an ideal cough remedy after five years of exclusive use. Reverend John Burgus of Keokuk Iowa lauds its speed and benefits from fifty years in ministry. Trial offers free at Owen Hill's Drug.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James L. Francis
Chicago
Owen
Hill
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Carthage
New
Imperial Opera Company
Boston
Mapleson
Amelia
Henry Abbey
New York City
Patti
Campanini
Paderewski
Kadijah
Jook
Kalamazoo
Political Economisto
Shetty
Dave
Mr. Stokes and
Mr. Marshall
Weyler
Spain
Egypt
Great Britain
Santa Claus
National Union
Federation OF All the Building Trades
H. W
Steinbiss
Government Mechanics
Texas
Captain Glass
Montana
Mackey
Otto P.hill
Dunn’s Furniture Store
East Mill St
Rice Hill
Rush County
Suracey
GHO. Lans
Osborne
Rushville
Vens & Titsworth
Att’ys
Mercer, Henley & CO
Waverly
Indiana Bicycle CO
Indianapolis
Ind
Hill Bros
Mary E. Odell
Main Street
Carthage, Ind
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