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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1880
Page
6
In Caudle's Soliloquies Martel Marmont narrates Mrs. Caudle’s plan to visit her mother while Mr. Caudle hosts a Mason and Skylark gathering. Her absence exposes his selfish meddling and a night of household disruption, followed by a sharp moral about hospitality and domestic harmony.
The Pioneer of Allahabad cites nine Simla observers to support a claimed occult event. Mme Blavatsky purportedly identified and retrieved a lost brooch via clairvoyance at Mr Hume's Simla home, with the recovered item matching Mrs Hume's description and ownership.
Patrolman Richard Wilson of the Sixteenth precinct reports an organ grinder abused a monkey on October 7. The Court of Special Sessions addressed a filing error using a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children blank, delaying the trial to December and then to November with Henry Bergh’s involvement.
The Chicago Times reports two exclusive female bucket shops on Dearborn near Randolph and near La Salle and Randolph. Women, mostly 30 to 50 plus an older matron, speculate aggressively on grain with margins funded by a $10 stake, using a mock exchange with contracts and telegraph quotes. They buy aggressively, cling to losing trades, and suffer losses philosophically, while proprietors claim high returns amid heavy risk and margin calls.
An elderly man who spent 38 years at Fairbanks Scale in St Johnsbury now works for Howe Scale in Rutland. When asked if he felt strange leaving St Johnsbury he quips about liking octane and moving to a place where attending the Enreorest church and voting Democratic isn’t forbidden.
The Cincinnati Enquirer profiles John T. Crawford a man famed for eccentricity and risk taking. A Mexican War spy and Scout he sought danger from battlefields to prisons and flames. He left a will giving his estate to fund an Old Man's Home. He despised women yet helped suffering African Americans and earned both admiration and fear for his volatile temper.
A society woman's pet canary on Fifth Avenue near Mayor Cooper's home fell into a self destructive spree. The bird refused food and repeatedly tried to drown, hang, or strangle itself, finally dying as the cage wires were pressed and the bird aimed to end its life. The incident is followed by a London World item about Mr. Forster in Dublin, where a dining room exchange led to sharp remarks about Buckshot Forster.
A Globe report recounts a Russian Nihilist execution of a spy named Kulakov in a Kiev village, carried out by three associates. The tale links to Dr. Nathan Ganz of Boston and outlines letters from Shishkin and other officials, plus a later appeal from Nihilist leaders urging sympathy and support from America.
A Chicago noonday Y M C A prayer meeting featured two former prisoners from the Confederacy and a prior delirium tremens episode. Walter C. Douglas plans a tract on the encounter as J. H. Reed meets a St. Louis bookkeeper who both say they became Christians after shared hardships from prison to Moody meetings.
A correspondent calls the civil service exam a farce used to shuffle political creditors aside. Senator Conkling’s letter to Dr Goodrich led to Adams attempting the exam, only to quit, exasperated by remembering questions from 30 years ago. The clampdown on nepotism is mocked as a setup for favoritism.
A mishmash of satirical vignettes and literary fragments from Vanity Fair style pieces. It blends Poe inspired verse with social curiosities about marriage, gambling, barrooms, and post office doors. The collage traces feigned moralities, flirtations, and comic misadventures across urban scenes.
The Penn Yan Democrat reports Leon Lewis’s wife Harriet Lewis alive. Believed dead after an Osburn House Rochester funeral, she was seen en route to Europe and later living in Paris. The saga ties to Leon Lewis’s failed publication and a supposed mystery solved by family sources.
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