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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1882
Page
7
Estelle Raleigh forms a fragile bond with Lizzie Gordon and Mrs. Pearce at Hillersdon while Hugo Northcote resists Wilfred's suit. A locked room and whispered pasts hint at danger as Estelle weighs marriage, money, and loyalty, and Hugo intervenes to end the engagement plan.
The Census Bureau issued Atkinson's bulletin on specific cotton manufactures. It covers mills with 10,653,455 spindles and 225,759 looms, employing 172,544 workers who earned about 42 million dollars in wages. It notes cotton usage exceeds fabric output, cites power usage, and contrasts New England and Southern mills, highlighting wage and efficiency differences and the impact of mechanization on output.
Estelle recalls the night with Pearce and Wilfred as she contemplates acceptance, while Hugo Northcote and Igency grow friendly. A letter from her mother announces her father’s government appointment and urges her return home, masking a deeper motive to end Estelle’s stay at Hillersdon.
The London Lancet questions sanitary care in West End hair cutting salons after witnessing close faces above basin holes. It notes air bubbles from pipes rise through soapsuds and warns that sewer-smelling air could be inhaled near the basin, risking disease if basins link to house drains and sewers.
In Bath Maine a schooner remained offshore as a dog leaped into the river and swam ashore carrying a live on the hawser. The dog then swam back to the vessel, grabbed the rope and was hauled aboard as if doing its daily work.
Since last April two to four Swede women have visited Salisbury pond weekly to bathe. This week two appeared as usual, broke the ice, and swam naked in a secluded spot near the ice houses following their native country customs.
A humorous note from Somerville NJ about a street railway laid in Athens centuries late. The piece riffs on Socrates Xenophon and Demosthenes riding a horse car and imagining seat sharing with a non pretty woman while hinting at consumer bias toward Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup as the best value.
A Texan journeying through Mexico told of a ruined Guadaloupe range town with roofless stone buildings and a tunnel rich in silver ore. News from Austin notes reports of go silver and copper in the Guadaloupe Waco area with gold and silver finds near Loon. A Bridgeport court case recalls a domestic dispute over a man hiding under a bed during a row, ending with a frying pan threat. Several housework ads appear for 19 Winter Street.
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