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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1881
Page
7
The interview charts Harry Sargent's rise as Boucicault's traveling manager and Modjeska's promoter, detailing Sargent's industry craft, Boucicault's work habits, and their joint impact on elevating theater stars. It recalls early Boston theater roots, backstage anecdotes, and the duo's disciplined routines and public relations savvy.
London Rowing Club member H J Wildner claims Hanlan used four brass wheels fitted to the heel of his shell. The wheels, driven by the sliding-seat and triggered by a spring, supposedly accelerate recovery, keeping headway and providing extra stroke length, explaining Hanlan's early lead.
In an English stable two neighboring horses are lifelong pals. One slips out to grab mash from a bucket, while the other neighs for a share and gently takes from his friend’s mouth through the bars. The scene illustrates mutual help rather than harm. Hop Brerns does not exhaust and destroy, but restores, cures and makes new. See another eyeo.
A historical survey of shipwreck causes from fog and ice to currents and faulty charts notes how advances such as current charts and lightning conductors reduce losses. It recalls Gulf Stream fogs, icebergs from Davis Strait, shifting sand bars, waterlogged ships, magnetized compasses, and lighthouse dangers, urging improved safeguards.
New York Sun reporter interviews actor J. K. Emmet known as Fritz. He recalls saluting a lone front row patron at a Columbus matinee who paid fifty cents, insisted on full show value, and inspired a single audience performance that boosted box office and earned Emmet over 1200 dollars a year later.
Rev. Washington Gladden critiques temperance advocates in the Independent accusing them of spying, slander, and intolerance while condemning non teetotalers. He argues their self denial is voluntary not compulsory and warns their actions may harm the cause by aligning with evil.
The Nebo picked up three starving sailors from the German bark Tiger after it drifted off course from Liverpool and faced weeks without water or food. Captain Krenger’s crew killed their dog for sustenance and endured frost, with the Nebo delivering biscuit coffee and water while guarding recovered provisions. Meanwhile in Greenfield, Jarvis Nelson Phelps pleaded guilty to the August murder of Sadie Grover, receiving a life sentence after a dramatic confession detailing the assault in a Shutesbury wood and his later suicide attempt.
Despatches from Nelsonville New York report Louis Hamilton a Kentuckian pensioned and eccentric who died when a horse toppled on a hill. He was 71 or 72 weighing 280 pounds and left an estate though his eight children were raised in isolation with odd names Avenue Belle China Figure London Judge Hebrew Fashion and Southern Soil. He never trusted others and voted against public projects while neglecting papers he did not read. The death occurred after the horse threw him breaking his neck. the body lay in the road as the horse grazed nearby.
A peculiar Bradford area resident once housing nitro glycerine under his bed vanished after years of reckless displays. The man, now a newspaper canvasser, claimed familiarity bred contempt with the explosive and blamed others for possible blasts as he lay atop several hundred pounds of the material.
A Hartford Courant correspondent cites Dr Crosby defending methods of his Society for the Prevention of Crime while critics condemn them. Detectors visit dens and drink with inmates for evidence, agents warn gambling houses to dodge police, and a list of supposedly respectable persons persists, inviting blackmail concerns.
In Stuttgart eight year old pianist Tiana Ribenschutz sent a laurel wreath in a gilt glass topped casket to Vienna. Customs weighers question the contents and the official discovers a duty for laurel per kilo while ribbons are ignored. The box is nailed down and weighed at two kilos before duty is calculated.
Washington correspondent says Don Cameron has blossomed as a debater this session. The Pennsylvania senator reads speeches from manuscript, trembles on the floor, and his voice is so faint others in the chamber cannot hear him. His look of discomfort and fatigue suggests the seat brings him little joy unless it yields power.
An English lady traveling alone in a German railway carriage reproved two foreigners for smoking in their own language. They refused, citing local custom, so she cleaned gloves with benzoline to disgust them. Passengers noted the scene as she insisted it was the custom of her country.
Nassau district presented Prince William of Prussia with 800 dozen old hock on his wedding day. East Prussia sent six horses. The centerpiece of the gift is a plate service costing £20,000 from 100 towns. It covers a 50 foot table and features a Venetian gondola centerpiece, two thirty-one light candelabra, ten seventeen light pieces, four sardinieres, four competieres, and 550 silver plates displaying Germanys chief natural products.
An exchange on female virtue cites a preacher claiming three contrasts for women. He says a woman should be like the snail inside yet not carry all she has, like an echo when spoken to but not with the last word, and like a town clock reliable in time yet not so loud the town hears every chime.
The Mackays hosted a grand ball in Paris with extravagant display and a cotillon cost pegged at 100000 francs. Suppers overflowed with luxury including abundant fresh strawberries. Report compares the event to Sir William Curtis and friends at the Albion dinner noted for costly, extravagant catering and unusual transport of goods.
Ballock Medical Institute at 110 Court Street corner Stoddard promotes itself as the oldest established medical school in the city. The ad emphasizes longstanding presence and the institution’s location for prospective students.
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