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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1890
Page
6
The Indianapolis Journal recounts Theodore R. Davis's portrait of General Sheridan and their wartime bond with James Murdoch. Davis details Sheridan and Murdoch's close friendship, recollections of Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, and Murdoch's Harper's Weekly poem.
A compact look at stage slang used by actors and show folk. Terms like paper for posters and publicity, frost for failure, ham for a poor actor, and three-sheeters for short scripts are explained. The piece notes how non pros find the lingo perplexing, while professionals use it to describe scenes, lines, and stage roles.
A San Francisco Call report describes green roses on the Pacific Coast noting their long presence in California and Europe. Florists explain propagation by seeds, cuttings, layering, and suckering. roses lack perfume and have a delicate greenish pink color.
A Wabash avenue millinery clerk notes a rising trend of men shopping for women’s hats and bonnets. She recalls past era reluctance by men to enter shops, praises male taste, cites a prominent lawyer bringing his wife’s bonnet for trimming guidance, and mentions Paris visit showing similar patterns.
A Atlanta Journal piece notes jewellers commonly refuse to extend credit on timepieces. The author questions the rule and suggests cash payment improves clock accuracy after repair, while acknowledging the large credit business jewelers run.
A Northwood NY reader recalls buying a rural farm for $900 and the decade of renovations, water and drainage fixes, and yard improvements. He details costs, including a failed well, a reliable spring, and a veranda filled home. He notes health gains for his ill son and his own reduced annual income yet enduring satisfaction with country life and family happiness.
The piece reflects on how even great poets faced rejection from 17th century critics and publishers. It argues criticism often misjudges literary value, citing Milton and Byron. It asserts public taste, not scholars, ultimately decides a work's immortality and warns against relying on bookmen.
A casual critique notes the chemise is obsolete and praises the woven underwest as a delicate, seamless alternative. It describes square and heart shaped bodices with fine shoulder straps, and notes photographers in operating rooms capture the gleam of neck and arms amid lace and black fabrics as artists adapt to lavish lingerie trends.
A Washington avenue storekeeper recalls issuing a directive for all clerks to call women customers madam after a clerk addressed a customer as Miss and a saleswoman addressed a young woman as madam. He cites threats and a scene as justification for the policy.
Mrs Smallpurse laments lack of income while her husband worries over a simple living. Months later he claims a breakthrough patent, boasting a bar wire safety pocket for husbands. The exchange highlights cautious optimism about a new invention.
The article explains that yarn is spun for weaving and when two or more yarns are twisted together it becomes sewing thread. It lists types including spool cotton, spool silk, chine twist, limen or Hax thread, and evc SARs.
The New York Star laments how names shape life from birth onward, urging parents to choose harmonious, tasteful first names that suit the surname and avoid pompous or ugly pairings. It warns against overlong or foreign prefixes, advocates for perceptive nicknames, and notes how names can imply character, with examples and cautions about biblical or famous stand-ins.
Whitely, former chief of the United States secret service, possessed a long sight and could read a written letter at 80 feet. I recently heard of a man who has cultivated a similar skill, able to sit for room at
A collection of humorous clipping quotes from ads shows misused phrases and oddities. Examples include eau de cologne offered at ruinously low prices, a Chinese laundryman charging two cents for a collar, and a safe company seeking a traveller for a 28x18x8 safe. The piece mocks misprints and vague promises in old ads.
A Washington Post piece argues realism now dominates media. a Daily Press could adopt vivid, dramatic presentation. It cites a woman who fell from a second story window, hanging by her garments, and a bystander’s remark about the height before she was saved by her own presence of mind.
In April Popular Science Monthly a traveler notes Fuegian reactions to Europeans. They feared firearms but accepted knives, mimed cutting with a rubber substitute, and endlessly repeat the word yammerschooner meaning give me. They use requests to point to items and to suggest generosity toward others.
The Chicago Tribune notes a new nation in whist called the duplicate game. Cards are dealt once and players switch seats after the first hands, using memoranda of each hand to track play. Invented by John J. Mitchell of Union National Bank, it improves on early Parisian versions where players memorized cards without changing tables.
Two Harvard youths touring the Scottish Highlands stopped at a cottage in Glen Nevis for milk priced a penny-glass. The cotter’s wife refused two pence and sternly warned against so doing on the Sabbath saying she would not take less than a penny for breaking the Sabbath.
A Burlington Free Press item recounts a conductor asking, Is there anybody from Vermont in the car and inviting about forty-two riders from a Western blizzard into the Pullman to help separate spruce gum from rosin for a lady nearby.
New York Sun notes an exchange on Heaven's nature at a Baptist weekly conference. Rev Dr Hartman jokes that if Heaven’s gate is a pearl he’d like to see the oyster, adding the tale is old and “fishy.” The column pairs with a humorous exchange as Willie admits stealing jam and asks for more.
A New York Times portrait of a Maine lumber camp describes rough bunks and a deacon seat, a cook's role, and the boss who runs the crew. It covers horses, teamsters, choppers, log marking, and the brutal pace of daily work with vivid camp life scenes and nightly mischief.
A humorous exchange unfolds as Long necke questions a high collar from a prospective employer. He recalls a July incident in Central Park where a menagerie keeper mishap led to him being caged by mistake while a date left with the giraffe, denying any dudish motives.
Eugene Field recalls Sergeant Ballantine known for never speaking ill of others. A leader of the bar is said to be praised then gently teased that he never talks about anyone but himself. The remark reflects the sergeant's caustic wit in a London letter.
A fragment from Texas Siftings shows a sister asking Wendell to assess Mr. Hoyt's financial rating after he proposed marriage. The dialogue implies a negotiation about a future decision to marry contingent on financial standing.
A St Paul Pioneer Press snippet describes parishioners who fear the Sunday contribution box and suggests a disciplined approach. It notes services sometimes yield two collections, with emphasis on reaching the required amount from attendees.
The fragment describes a first attempt at a call and response style offering. Contributors pass along an aisle and place offerings on a table beneath pallets near the preacher and congregation. The text implies a method to collect donations, but spelling errors obscure specifics.
A collage of verse fragments and light verse from periodicals, including lines inspired by Margery, reminiscences of kisses, waiting, and April weather. The selections weave themes of love, memory, and longing with playful imagery from several authors.
Excerpts weave poetry, courtroom musings, and domestic vignettes centered on inner doubt and social judgment. A narrator laments harsh verdicts from others while exposing self-critique and intimate scenes, including a wife’s suspicion and a daughter’s eaten oranges, all drawn from late 19th to early 20th century style prose.
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