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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1883
Page
7
Dick Sylvester grows through care, mischief, and a stubborn sense of justice. He earns money, protects Aunt Mary, and faces danger led by his brave, independent heart while a Boston family weighs love, duty, and a future.
Tom Sylvester awakens among a group of men nursing his horses while Dick lies pale in his arms. A woman offers cordial, another wipes his brow with a river-soaked cloth, and someone condemns the attackers as brute. Tom feels drained yet grateful for aid after the morning’s danger.
A Belleville paper reports the long feared Wild Man of Camas prairie was killed by a hunter named Micklehaney. After the beast sprang from hiding and attacked, the hunter fired both barrels, the wild man collapsed. An axe finish and examination describe a tall, hair covered figure with large head and clawlike nails. Additional details place the incident in the Camas prairie near Boise City’s remote camp.
A small stern wheel steamer named the Yagua Jay lies in the Atlantic basin Brooklyn. Built by John G. Boland at Athens on the Hudson for Jose Carbose owner of a sugar plantation in Cuba the craft has a 60 by 20 foot frame and draws twelve inches loaded. It features a deck pilothouse crew quarters engine room and a tiny galley. The 24 horsepower engines drive an 18 inch cylinder. The Yagua Jay is to be sent to Cuba and the captain may earn 2000 if he reaches there safely.
General Robert Toombs and his wife have moved with longtime servants to a cottage in Clarksvill near Atlanta. The household includes family staff who have served 40 to 150 years, including an aged cook who fought in earlier wars. One servant, "Billy" aged 84, refuses to vote and insists he remains loyal to the old master.
A notable Oconee county resident died and was laid out then revived, telling his wife he would die again at 4:46. He advised his estate before fading at the appointed hour. A servant girl survived a fall that nearly fractured her skull. A Goshen steamboat captain injured by a boiler explosion credited St Jacobs Oil for hip pain relief and called it an all healing lotion.
In Washington on February 26 1861 Luke Leighton Lucas Leighton warns Mark Hamilton of a conspiracy aimed at stopping Lincoln’s inauguration. Creston and Edgeworth are suspected traitors allied with a traitorous group led by Edgeworth. Leighton reveals his spy career under General Scott and the danger posed by loyalties split between Union and rebellion.
Mark Hamilton confronts Edgeworth over Louise's departure while a secretive rally gathers in a central square. Edgeworth absolves his daughter of reconciliation with Hamilton and brands him an enemy. As tension rises, Creston's undercurrents surface, and an ominous crowd closes in.
Port Jervis news tells of Elizabeth Benjamin born Pauline Harcourt in Wales who married Judah P. Benjamins nephew Walter P. Benjamin. She has wandered across the United States, sleeping at police stations, surviving a trail of hardships, and hopes to reach New York to recover a safe deposit key and money for a return to Wales.
Samuel Patch, a Providence, Illinois man, slipped on a roof near the Blackstone river and leaped into the Pawtucket falls. He survived the plunge that sparked talk of diving falls for profit, then met his end after repeating the stunt too often. His mother, a Pawtucket widow, lived to tell visitors of her son’s strange career.
A East Saginaw man reports relief from nervousness headache and sleep problems after using Compound Oxygen claiming better health than in ten years Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen with reports and full information is sent free Drs Starkey Palen 1109 1111 Girard st Philadelphia Fritz Muller Lawrence Mass says Brown s Iron Bitters cured rheumatism five years old
Opinion piece from the New York Herald defending New Yorkers against Boston cynicism. The author questions claims of crustiness and notes extreme summer heat with high mercury readings as a test of neighbors in Boston.
Mrs. R. R. Clark of Irvington Michigan writes Dr. R V Pierce of Buffalo New York detailing a walnut sized breast lump lasting four months that disappeared after starting the physicians remedies in June including Golden Medical Discovery Favorite Prescription and Pellets.
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