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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1881
Page
6
Mary A. Brigham of Lowell recounts brutal treatment in English and American asylums, detailing restraints, cruel attendants, and neglect. She argues the modern humane aims mask enduring coercive practices, urging abolition of restraints and harsher scrutiny of care in Worcester and Danvers institutions.
Ex Utah governor Frank Fuller discusses Mormon polygamy, its religious basis, and the political path to ending it. He urges federal enforcement, notes the enormous number of polygamous practitioners, and argues capital interests in Utah would back government action. He predicts eventual decay of the Mormon system despite strong beliefs.
The article argues that growing societal influence and closer contact with Eastern States will erode polygamy as Mormons increasingly confront Gentile society. It notes initial prejudice toward the United States but predicts that modernization and population pressures will humanize Mormons and weaken isolated practices.
A Louisville planter in love with actress Ada Rehan offers marriage only if she accepts lifetime tobacco use and ten years continuous residence. She counters with two demands, one to stay in acting and one to cease tobacco except cigars. He balks at ending chewing and leaves, never to return.
Fashionable New York circles swirl around hypnotism lectures by Drs Carpenter Beard and Hammond. Private demonstrations appear in physician and literary parlors, featuring trance performances among millionaires and bankers. Spectators laugh as guests reenact schoolyard games and dramatic scenes while debates on animal magnetism linger.
A New York Medico-Legal Society meeting featured Professor William A. Hammond discussing hypnotism and syziznoscism. Subject Gray, under hypnosis, simulated burglary murder and forgery, with demonstrations of automatic actions, double consciousness, and simulated crime to argue for legal limits on hypnotic influence.
The Nation reprints a comic illustration from Karl Fanlmann’s Silustrirte Kultur-Gesebichte showing a mock English dialect and its Germanized parody Amerikanisch. It contrasts a Dutch-like transcription with a corrected English rendering and notes this as a specimen of American speech. It also reports on M Alfred Dumesnil’s earthless plant preservation method, with demonstrations in Rouen and Vas eeu. It also quotes a Tammany Hall speech honoring Jefferson, reflecting European monarchies and revolutions with warnings of upheaval and reconstruction in Europe.
In Virginia City Chronicle style a man claiming to be a hammer chewer seeks private talk with Manager Piper at the opera house box office. The applicant asserts he is not a doctor but a hammer machine and sparks confusion with broken English and strong offense, leaving Piper bemused by the linguistic mishap.
An old statute from 1794 in Tennylvania made profane use of God punishable by a sixty seven cent fine or twenty four hours in jail. A Philadelphia case saw Henry A Chesley charged for calling the women liars after they accused him of running a disreputable place with liquor. The magistrate invoked the act and fined Chesley, who paid promptly.
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes a dual presidency where James Abram Garfield of Ohio signs commissions while James Gillespie Blaine of Maine shapes policy and vengeance. The piece warns that two heads in the executive office may lead to chaos, echoing Simon Cameron’s line about a “hog of a time.”
Tales recount Princess Dolzorouki’s visions during the czarist era. She allegedly foreknew the czar’s last journey and banishment news, reacting at the Holy Image before collapse. Her words and the shattered marriage ring feature in this sensational account.
A long excerpted Detroit Free Press piece notes a curbside dispute over Noah's Ark timing at Central Market. A humorous Chicago Belle lament is described alongside a spelling bee tale, a satirical Senate squabble, and rapid transit quips in Galveston style narration.
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