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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1881
Page
6
A Chicago Inter Ocean correspondent recalls a cold Christmas Eve in Lyons where a stylish, self reliant woman travels alone from the Paris train to the Grand Hotel. She arrives without servants or luggage, presents her card bearing a named proprietor, then proceeds.
A Paris bound American widow, Mrs. Ogden, travels with two trunks and cashless means seeking her brother-in-law H. Bertram. A telegram hoax, prison, hospital, and a judge’s intervention reveal her past as a companion in Paris, a New York widow, and life as a sensational figure known as la americaine tres belje-tres spirituelle.
A Washington City woman used grocer paper bags for bustles. Her son blew one full of air, tied it, and she wore it to church. A loud pop startled the congregation, drawing wary glances from her husband and a surprised hymn reading. Afterward, they returned home with the boy admitting he blew the bag. Boys will be boys.
Olive Logans London letters discuss Princesses of Wales childrearing fashion in simple dress under ten dollars, Wilberforce scandal with Miss Wilberforce, Dion Boucicault injury, a Philadelphia betrothal halted by a death, and Windsor garden party season with European visitors and American travelers amid hot summer weather.
A Milwaukee church choir story reveals mischief behind pious looks. The soprano and tenor spark a prank involving marked hymn books and shoemakers wax causing a chair mishap. A peppermint candy laced with cayenne pepper fuels a later solo, ending with a dramatic pewside scene and a vow of revenge.
John Madden, initially jailed for drunkenness, proved sane only briefly. He escaped confinement on a horse, galloping through Dallas with guards in pursuit. After an exhausting ride toward Gainesville he returned, requesting to be chained again as fear of himself lingered.
A Fiji Times account describes a Na Drau native teacher who was offered food containing human flesh after a government officer was killed and cooked by locals. The teacher escaped after threats to kill him if he refused the meal, and he alerted the coast authorities. Officials cite government dissatisfaction as the motive.
Captain Coleman at Dover Point claims an apple tree brought from England in 1627 sits where it stands. If correct, the tree is 254 years old and perhaps the oldest in the state. Last year only a few apples were gathered, and this year many small apples are present.
Mr and Mrs George M Pullman have embarked on an eight day tour in Scotland General F Tracy of Brooklyn sails to the continent The column notes a lack of vacant berths on first class steamers until October 15 and a sentiment that many who reach home will not return any time soon
William Nues, a lone prospector near Humboldt Gulch, was attacked by a bear while preparing dinner. He survived after a six hour operation by Dr. Shoemaker, receiving fifty two stitches to head and face amid shocking injuries. Nues, a widower with two children, wandered three miles to a neighbor’s cabin for aid. The bear, accompanied by two cubs, fled.
A. K. Abbott of Boston and Charles Smith, ex-Smith and Parkhurst, acquire Petite Menan Oint near Bar Harbor Maine. They plan 2500 sheep, duck stock, wool sold in Boston, lambs in demand, and note ample water and a 14 foot deep wharf. Weather and feed on kelp support year round sustenance.
In a twelve acre corn field near Americus the black fire-filled whirlwind rose up to a hundred feet, splitting into three parts that carried cornstalks away. Three visiting young ladies were burned by fiery sand as they fled, while the corn remained unharmed.
A Philadelphia Times correspondent travels from Richmond to Gaines Mill and Malvern Hill, recounting a one-armed veteran at New Cold Harbor, relics along the Chickahominy, and battlefield echoes at Seven Pines, Savage’s, and Frazier’s Farm. He notes ghostly sunlit parades of history, old guns repurposed as horse shoes, and skeletons unearthed in fields as he traces the peninsular battle lines toward the James River.
A Buffalo Courier essay satirizes the Republican Party’s shifting standards and public heroes. It traces flips in suffrage, money, and leadership, noting Woodford Woodin Colfax Chase Grant and Seward as examples of party driven reform and demotion. It argues party expediency alters morals and memories.
A tangled miscellany from various papers includes a melodramatic verse about distant love, quips about a silk worm silked dog, a market mishap with a ripe melon, and humorous city scenes. Readers meet farm lore, Civil War chatter, a Bellville marriage mix up, an antelope knife tale, and brisk captioned anecdotes from Jack-knife timing to a Mexican judge.
A post mortem on J. A. C. Palmer reveals five diseases at once fatal. Lungs nearly wasted with tubercles, thin heart walls and a long clot threaten immediate death. Ulcerated stomach, ulcerated small intestine with intussusception and mortification mark a rapid decline. Palmer, small and frail yet ravenous in appetite, died within days of the last sickness.
Mrs. Julia Ann Estep of Forestville Virginia is in her 91st year and has a large brood. She is mother to twelve, grandmother to eighty six, great-grandmother to 146, and great great-grandmother to ten, totaling 254 sons and daughters. One son has one child, another two, leaving ten children with eighty three offspring among them. The household is described as happy with the motto More the merrier.
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