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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1882
Page
7
In a discussion of Miss Cobbe's view on female public spirit, the piece argues that educated women should engage in public questions, shaping opinions for truth and justice. It contrasts fashion advice for mountain resorts with guidance on grate decorations and evolving dress styles, including divided skirts and hair trends.
A century ago buyers paid extravagant sums for 5000 square foot cottage lots in Martha's Vineyard’s Oak Bluffs area. Boston speculators created fictitious companies and plans, selling worthless scrub oak lands at huge profits. Numerous dubious deeds named fake avenues and misrepresented locations. Cases of misled buyers, odd anecdotes, and even a tale of an unwitting bride and groom paying to marry and then unmarry, illustrate the farcical, fraudulent nature of these schemes.
Rev Henry M Ladd details the rise of Mahomet Ahmet from Dongola to Abbas on the Nile. He describes his escape to Gebel Gedir, gathering Baguara and Shillooks followers, and a failed Khartoum expedition leaving Khartoum officials slain and the governor of Fashoda killed.
Aroostook Me Republican recalls a youthful couple visiting a local lawyer asking to be united in marriage. The ceremony occurred and the groom asked for the bill. The lawyer said the fee was at his generosity. He handed the lawyer three dollars and left with his bride. About a fortnight later, as.
Work on the new post office extension is nearing finish. The granite Grecian structure, four stories plus a dome, will feature iron beams and marble floors, with electric lighting in halls. The basement will be used for marking, and rooms on the first and second floors will house the postmaster, treasury, money order, pension office, U S district attorney, marshal, and the Commissioner's Court. The total cost including land is about $5,000,000.
A Providence story notes an early venture turning sole leather scraps into nails and buttons. The process yields 30 000 to 50 000 pieces daily, with eight manufacturing steps and adaptable styles. Leather buttons gain hotel and rail car orders, driving brass nail prices down by half.
Frank Leslie's Magazine recounts Nantucket's name origins with multiple legends. Oldest inhabitant claims islands passed to daughters Rivda Rhode Island Elizabeth Martha and Nan, but the tale lacks solid merit beyond 870. Alternate lore cites a Great Spirit pipe story and Norse origin, while a map from 1630 shows Natocko.
Albany works produced a 263 foot three quarter inch iron rod, free of flow and plump from end to end. The record exceeds all prior rods in the country, with experimental aims to test maximum length under supervision of Superintendent Williams and roler Caleb Giles at Albany iron works.
Senator Castelar writes in tribute after Garibaldi’s death, praising his life as a universal beacon. He lauds Garibaldi’s sacrifices for freedom, compares Caprera and St Helena as symbolic tombs, and signals the Latin Confederation as a future, enduring legacy.
A London Anti Oppression League discussion features Frederic Harrison on Egypt showing European debt, officials, taxes, and control. Arabi Pasha rises in Cairo as Egyptian nationalism grows amid bombardment. Judah P Benjamin’s remarkable English bar career is recounted with his exile, writings, and rise to prominence despite Civil War era setbacks.
A letter from Constantinople to the London Daily News describes public slave sales in Stamboul, with a 12-year-old girl among those sold. The report details abduction, harem abuses, and the brutal, lucrative trade in Circassian and African girls, urging Britain to enforce anti-slavery treaties and curb demand.
The London Post examines the June 1882 comet as a startling celestial event. It explains what a new star means for suns with planets, and warns that sudden heat increases or drastic brightness could destroy life on dependent worlds.
In Corning, a veteran printer, Grandpa Prescott, works ten hours daily at the Gazette office. The aging craftsman, possibly among the oldest in Iowa and perhaps the nation, continues his steady routine despite age.
Deen printers remain faithful to the craft after sixty three years of service. If weekly output is five days a week at 5000 ems daily, estimating total miles of type used shows a vast career. The withered arm moves toward retirement, yet he clings to the cases and types, his skill steady and indispensable.
An acorn suspended near water in a hyacinth glass sprouts after months, sending a root into the water and a slender green shoot upward. The writer notes elegant small trees on a mantle shelf but observes most die within months, likely from infrequent water changes depriving them of nourishment.
Moscow correspondent reports Skobeleff died after a lively evening with companions at Ermitage Gardens and supper at Hotel A'Angleterre in Petrovka. Some allege foul play, others a drunken brawl. Observer notes secrecy, with hotel staff denying knowledge of the general or his death. The body was later moved to Hotel Dusaux and declared dead from heart disease.
A Worcester state will case involves the testament of Alexander DeWitt of Oanford. Chief Justice Morton’s rescript and Judge Devens consider the handling of annuities versus legacies in Sophia Earle’s heirs dispute. Colonel Hopkins questions whether an annuity should be paid in the first year.
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