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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1879
Page
6
In Boston a mother letters voice hardship as father’s illness strains finances and the family. The tale shifts to a prison scene where La Grange awaits execution while Jennie seeks letters that might prove Alice Wilton alive and alter the doomed fate.
La Grange awaits execution in a cell as Jennie Chase visits, sharing a silent embrace and recalling the trial. Frank La Grange’s morning drive ends at a cottage with Melvina, while Abigail Perkins writes for money and a Chicago Tribune correspondent describes prison interiors and looming punishment.
A Boston reader recounts nights on the common and waterfront where homeless and hungry wanderers sleep rough amid police rounds. A carpenter who lost his wife and three children tells how drink and despair drove him to the banner of rough streets, while others seek rest in doorways, stores, and wharves as charity and society confront duty and mercy.
The article advises economical dressing with taste and forethought, urging minimal wardrobes, black and neutral tones, and well-made pieces. It covers dress care, storage, and the latest bonnet, hat, and button fashions, along with ribbons, gloves, shoes, and fabrics for summer outfits. It highlights millinery styles, parasols, and decorative buttons as key details.
A gossiping Ottawa note recounts a strained exchange between Lorne and Louise Gweliers over a man named John Brown. The dialogue, presented with irony, hints at royal pride, class tension, and family power dynamics within Rideau Hall.
The article notes that Joan Brown, son of the American abolitionist John Brown who led insurrection efforts and was executed, has volunteered to aid suffering negro refugees. The piece frames this as a continuation of the abolitionist legacy through music and public action.
A New York Herald snippet shows Justice Wendell presiding as John Wilson faces a wife seeking reconciliation. The couple tests vows on stage like a mock trial, with comic reluctance, threats of habeas corpus, and a stubborn mother figure, ending without a real resolution.
A look at Massachusetts 1878 act creating the Suffolk County probation officer, its aims to spare youth from prison, and the case of a Boston woman helped by the office. It praises the measure's humanity, outlines duties, funding, and early successes, noting 218 cases placed on probation with two thirds of youths aged 17 to 25.
The article describes a spring real estate upturn with Back Bay demand rising and property values edging higher. Chester park and Commonwealth avenue lots fetch $126 a foot and $2 per foot respectively, while city houses remain hard to sell except at sacrifice. Newton homeowners see slight depreciation.
Mr. Flatley succeeded in steering legislation toward a discretionary reading. The bill changed from forcing officers to prosecute offenders for drunkenness to allowing officers the option to prosecute under the new wording.
A Carlisle Mercury sketch portrays Mr Smith, a Cincinnati Gazette correspondent, bouncing between Carlisle and Lexington. He causes a scene at a St Cloud hotel, gets hazed by locals, and narrowly escapes as a would-be mob tries to tag him with conspiracy. He leaves town on Monday, owing debts and chasing a draft he never received.
A humorous column mixes a would be urban farmer who plans to turn 200 square feet into a vegetable garden with misadventures in ploughing. It also recounts a deacon’s dangerous home remedy, a spelling bee misfires, a home fair anecdote, and a couple’s hurried attempt at marriage.
Benjamin Singerly once Harrisburg state printer lived at Fittsburg and died from sun stroke in July 1876. He left 200000 and weighed 400 pounds at burial. The body later exhumed near Philadelphia weighed 95 pounds and hardened to yellow marble like substance. The coffin and suit deformed into stone and the seven foot six inch long coffin was moved to Philadelphia for reburial.
A Louisville youth, a Sunday school teacher and choir leader, courts the alto singer. He joins lively chatter after a rebuffed advance while the minister fondly recalls Brazil. A child asks about travel, prompting talk of Sister Floy and Lapland during a quiet Sunday night chat.
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