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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1882
Page
6
In Atlanta Hood fights to break Sherman's grip as McPherson and Schofield threaten flanks. Hood's move toward McPherson fails after Hardee's hurried assault fails to turn the Union line. McPherson rides to front and the Howard House action becomes pivotal as Confederate lines hold near the city.
An account recalls the Confederate general Hood near Decatur in a pivotal Civil War assault. Cheatham and Smith led Georgia troops in a fierce hour long battle with heavy casualties as Hood’s force pressed Hardee’s corps and McPherson’s line, the fight turning on a mile of front amid artillery and musket fire.
A Texas wife earns praise for unmatched patience in a humorous traffic of temper tests. Ferguson returns home drunk to make a scene. she greets him kindly, tolerates the chaos, and even proposes a cheerful supper on the floor. He admits fooling her. she buys him new clothes with his money.
A Devonport resident visited a Plymouth editor seeking any Telegrams naming Englishmen killed in Alexandria. He spoke of a “token of death” heard by a mother and brother, then on Wednesday learned Rev ington was shot in Alexandria while on police duty.
In Torrington a servant girl cried out to Mrs. Baldwin that a snake was in the kitchen. Mrs. Baldwin found a black snake in a chair waking at the cat. She struck the snake dead with quick blows while the cat lapsed into stillness outside.
A funeral in which Harvard classmates sent a floral offering bore the message S. Y. L. Noone understood its meaning. A curious friend asked a student the significance. The reply: See you later, of course, was the intended noble sentiment.
A Kansas story describes three mice guiding an egg down a stairway without breaking it. One mouse holds the leg, while the others roll the shell from step to step, keeping it on its back to protect the egg. They allegedly transfer the egg to a small hollow on the floor to steady it, then cut the shell open with a tool and remove the contents.
A vivid account of a Mexican Seville style night in Silao with dances, cigars, and cascades of lanterns. The piece describes a Jamaica festival after Lent, vendors booths with wines and salads, a peasant procession, and a gypsy-belle songstress amid ornate décors, then shifts to the bull fight spectacle in La Plaza de Gallos with gatekeepers, picadores, and azadores.
A Burlington Hawkeye observer describes a man learning to send a telegraphic despatch. He misreads dates and names, struggles with a long message, then has it shortened to ten words, revealing the cost and craft of mid century telegram use.
A wide rich survey traces umbrellas from ancient rites in India to modern trade and fashion. It highlights royal signification in the East, early English ridicule and evolution in materials, frames, and handles, plus the spread of satine, steel ribs, and decorative options. It notes patents, market growth, and cultural quirks, ending with umbrellas as public property and a social mirror.
A tender reminiscence of a baby girl who dies after hours of illness. The narrator recalls her clouded blue eyes and need for maternal comfort then laments the child’s departure with the final whispered plea to be wiped away. God will wipe away all tears in the end.
A collage of prose and verse for Puck and Philadelphia Craft, with fragmentary poems and satirical pieces. It references a sultry stage star, a Mora photograph, a jovial pie scene, and a humorous moral on mounting a horse, all tied by period voice and newspaper-era tone.
The speaker notes that frontier leaders come from distant places, not the rear. In Yellowstone country most men hailed from the eastern Dakotas, the Black Hills, or western Minnesota, moving westward to seek new homes and opportunities. Their repeated answer: they wanted to go farther west.
The piece notes a shift in jewelry use as the wealthy hide valuables in dressing boxes and display restraint at social events while poorer neighbors wear gold bangles and locket openly. It argues that naked arms and throats mark the famine of adornment among the rich, contrasted with visible possessions among the less affluent.
A fragment from the Rochester Union presents a wordplay riddle about a sleeper and the object that carries it. The piece explores how a sleeper rests and how actions around the sleeper result in waking, ending with an odd note that there is no sleeper in the sleeper on the sleeper.
In a note attributed to church authorities, Bishop Elder once barred Catholic girls in Cincinnati from certain hair styles under penalties. Now the bishop of Three Rivers Canada bans curls for the ladies of his diocese, with more prohibitions anticipated by another bishop on hairstyles.
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