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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1887
Page
6
Bile Nye reports on a harsh North Carolina winter and a community adopting a single monument as a unifying symbol. Residents recall past divisions while rallying around the shared tribute. Local officials note the monument’s role in civic memory and winter hardship relief.
In Asurviene North Carolina a writer recalls Chang and Eng the Siamese twins. They shared life but differed deeply in belief and choice, uniting in fame and fortune yet living separate households. The piece muses on fate, partnership, and the ongoing mystery of life after death.
A humorous dialogue shows a guest dining with a landlord as requests switch from fish balls to various meats. The exchange features playful mispronunciations and a running banter about what dishes are available, ending with an offer of tea or coffee and a note on stock depletion.
James, a druggist, speaks to the new pay system urging promotion of customer purchases. The fragment hints at sales tactics aimed at increasing quantity per transaction, reflecting early retail incentives.
A shopkeeper offers a small discount and James persuades a single customer seeking one two-cent stamp to purchase the entire stock at a rate of one and a half cents per piece, turning capital and potentially increasing profits.
Milford Gazette presents a humorous meditation on men and women, contrasting manners, habits, and foibles. The columnist riffs on male quirks, secret-keeping, fashion, seating chivalry, footwear mishaps, and the perpetual hunger that makes men cross, lampooning both sexes with sharp, playful observations.
A morning hand bath in cold salt water is invigorating. Warm salt water inhaled through the nostrils may cure cold and catarrh. A pinch of salt taken often can ease throat irritation. Rinsing with salt water in the morning may help constipation. Bathing tired eyes with warm salt water soothes and strengthens. Salt sprinkled on a snowy doorstep is a cleaner effect than ashes.
A Detroit Free Press item describes a shoe store clerk new to the trade who asks a customer her size. A witty exchange follows about shoe width and size with a playful misunderstanding escalating until a second clerk explains that width is labeled alphabetically.
A judge hears a curious exchange as a convict claims Yale college education. A lady visitor expresses surprise at the young man's apparent schooling, prompting a brief, pointed remark about the convict's past and the circumstances of his capture.
Colonel Bailey leads a bold dam project to raise Red River water at Alexandria allowing Fort Hindman Osage and Neasha to pass. Despite scarce materials and fierce current, 300 soldiers and 300 wagons push a tree dam, cribs and brickwork across a mile of falls, enabling gunboats to float over after eight days of work. The Covington and Signal endure heavy fire as they cooperate upstream.
A Chicago Herald column by Hargot Holt reflects on Monday through Sunday as the weekly domestic cycle. The piece contrasts the drab start of Monday with the uplift of the Sabbath, detailing housework, family rituals, and religious observance that frame the rhythm of a typical week.
A collection of arch melodramatic phrases and grand declares from stage personnage such as villains in peril and lovers in distress, none of which appears in a modern drama. The snippets evoke old theater tropes and plot twists.
Puck humorously compliments the witch Czarina for escaping assassination during the night and requests she taste the coffee to see if it is safe, as the two greet each other at breakfast.
Emile Julliard details in April Cosmopolitan the fixed five daily prayers and muezzin signaling in Ottoman life. He describes arranged, proxy-based marriages, early betrothals, haremlik separation, and arranged dowries amid strict gender separation. The Ramazan fast forbids eating, smoking, and perfumery from sunrise to sunset for forty days, with Iftar feasts at night.
A theatrical scene shows Miss Parachute shopping for slippers with a reluctant obsequious shoemaker. They try many sizes and fits, debating heels, arch support, and widths, before she selects patent leather and orders bronze slippers for a later visit.
Washington Post recounts Major Polk arriving in Mexico as he knows little of military matters. General Viele recalls Polk asking the adjutant to draft orders and publish them. Polk forms a squadron, insists on motion, then jokes he knows nothing of tactics. He promises quick promotion if the adjutant stays loyal to his brother, the president.
A fragment from a Morton House theatre item depicts a decayed actor of an anti creed era approaching the bar. The voice is described as McCullough ponderous with Irving lope, conveying period mood and stylized dialogue.
A historically flavored scene shows a white costume French attendant trembling as a decayed actor calls for carbolic acid and ground glass. The exchange has a performative, Irving-like flair with theatrical bravado and dangerous humor.
A collection of humorous brainteasers questions from Tid Bits by F A Stearns. It covers profits from a telegraph reduction effort, age riddles, dramatic troupe paradoxes, costs of meals and lunches, lottery profits, newspaper circulation versus receipts, unit pricing, clergy earnings, minstrel repertoire growth, vanished spring poets, and mother in law jokes. The item showcases satirical arithmetic puzzles and social observations in a playful newspaper tone.
A dialogue between Ethel and Mabel revolves around a Mr Fitz Jones and an odd whistle episode with Mabel describing how she puckered her lips to whistle for him. The piece then shifts to a note about a brass band out at night seeking a tune, suggesting they have not found it yet.
A fragment hints at a marriage binding through simple routines shared in a cottage. The line suggests a life framed by everyday companionship, mutual support, and the small acts that sustain a partnership. The concise phrasing evokes a traditional domestic ideal.
A fragment from Bric A Brac contrasts marriage expectations with romantic longing. It quotes John G. Saxe on wedding ideals and features a coquettish maid and a suitor whose ardor is tested by social flirtation. The piece moves between playful dialogue and a dreamy, moralizing chorus about love.
A lyric meditation on preference for a blonde beloved over dark or brunette ideals, contrasting traditional beauty archetypes with personal devotion. The speaker from John G. Saxe notes the allure of blue eyes yet concludes the cherished beloved remains a golden blonde, timeless and true.
A compact verse and comic moral lesson from John G. Saxe. The text presents a playful madrigal praising a woman with pearl teeth and blue eyes, followed by verses urging a witty young man to temper humor in social life, warning that jest can backfire in parties, sermons, and domestic matters.
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