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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1883
Page
7
Gregory Brent escapes the rising Flurry brook flood with Grace Hathaway and saves her from a collapsing dam and a treacherous bridge. Israel Brent, missing after a jail escape, reappears seeking safety while Abner Ferret's schemes cloud the case and a mysterious madwoman appears in the woods.
Grace Hathaway, overwhelmed yet resolute, watches a swift flood sweep through a valley. Debris and several people are carried toward doom as the raging water courses past destroyed poles and ruined structures. The scene captures a moment of peril and foreboding.
Sheriff Gregory Brent is stunned by Israel's alleged escape from Woodstock jail and Beck's accusation of complicity. Ethan Brent fears the charge against Israel, while Gregory confronts the mystery and protests his own innocence. Beck presses the unnamed young man for answers, and Gregory denies knowledge of the escape.
Louise Buford, famed for charity in Woodstock, suffers a near fatal carriage accident when her old horse Bess balks on a lonely road. She is thrown hard to the ground and lies unconscious, as a shadowy man nearby contemplates help yet fears being seen, until she regains awareness.
Israel Brent returns with Louise Buford after rescuing her from a carriage accident seeking shelter and food at the Brent home. He explains a lawyer Ferret aided his escape to avoid a wrongful conviction, while Gregory questions the case and learns Leroy Studevant was murdered by his former insane wife.
During a week of prayer in a Pennsylvania church a brother urged temperance and condemned selling elder. A granger joked of starting that very night, noting he had forty barrels of elder and asking for twenty four hours to sell and ship before facing consequences.
A fragment from a poem describes a woman entering a pew and concealing her face with a fan to appear prayerful. The verse mocks pretensions of piety and public virtue, noting how even Satan would respect such displays before God and mankind.
In Middletown a mother told her boy that prayer could grant any wish. He knelt and asked God for fifty sisters and one hundred brothers. Startled by the odds of such a brood, the mother quickly tucked him into bed, ending the uncompleted prayer with a firmness that kept the house from becoming an orphan asylum.
A whimsical collection of child prayers from Newburyport to Ithaca and Haverhill. A six year old asks God to bless his big brother Bill, while five year old Lily vows to improve and a four year old fears a rumpus if she dies before waking. The Tufts president and chapel prayer finish with a grateful note for providential succor.
Joy at unexpected homecoming leads Mme Laroche to embrace her son in her Rue Oberkampf shop. She abruptly collapses and dies within moments, as a sudden reunion turns fatal. The son had served as a marine in Saigon and Guadeloupe after a misnumbered conscription.
A woman yells for the car to stop and leaves the tram after following it a short distance. The conductor questions her request about Noah and whether any girl aboard wants to see something, then the car continues.
A Georgia woman, Delilahe McMillan of Arlington, reports six years of illness with breathing trouble, chest and stomach pain, palpitations, internal fever, choking sensations, abdominal and back pain, and severe weight loss. After using Dr. Pierce products including Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription, she claims to be well.
Kate Field asserts she knows more about Europe than the United States though she is a bright girl the likelihood grows she may never learn to wheel a baby carriage. Prominent Fastonians Dr W F Buckman and W E Hammond endorse Ely s Cream Balm as a superior catarrh cure priced 60 cents and available at druggists.
A letter from a US Navy officer aboard the Nomad at Boston dated January 10 188 provides a personal account of a grave illness that nearly killed him. He credits a new medical discovery and a dramatic recovery, plans to recount his China cruise, and invites a dinner engagement with a friend, expressing sincere gratitude and belief in the medical breakthrough.
Rear Admiral of the Navy conquers consumption during a South American voyage aboard the flagship Nomad. Brown the sailor shares a cure tale of patent medicines, leading to use of Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery by the admiral, his son, and shipboard doctors ultimately restoring health before returning to Boston.
A rural man visits a village jewelry store after a seven mile walk to settle a quarrel with his wife over eight day clocks. The shopkeeper confirms the wife is right. The man then plans to use his sister-in-law’s death news to get even.
A 13 year old boy, Francis Trainor, was playing in the Simmons building elevator when his ankles became trapped between the elevator sides. The platform could not move and the boy cried out in pain for about three quarters of an hour until workers cut away the bay with an axe to free him.
A Gilroy area girl in poor health earned money by hunting squirrels after her mother offered a ten cent bounty and supplied ammunition. Last week she killed eighty five squirrels, using the activity to regain health and vitality.
Public notice offering Treatise on Compound Oxygen detailing its nature and results. Includes reports of cases and full information available free. Das Star key and Palen advertise at 1109 and 1111 Girard Street, Philadelphia.
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