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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1888
Page
7
A study tracing John Adams presidency and the Massachusetts figure who challenged King George in the era of the Alien and Sedition Acts. It examines the cabinet discord and its subsequent dissolution within early U.S. political history.
John Adams looms large in this review of his presidency and the Federalist split. It traces his war diplomacy with France, the XYZ affair, the Alien and Sedition Acts, cabinet clashes with Hamilton, and the ultimate realignment that followed the 1800 election. The narrative highlights Adams as principled yet misjudged, and Marshall’s enduring constitutional influence.
Rabbi Solomon Schindler spoke on Moses Mendelsohn and his era at Temple Adath Israel. The talk traced Mendelsohn’s rise from a Dessau apprentice to a Berlin philosopher who bridged Judaism and Enlightenment ideas, translating the Bible into German and shaping liberal Jewish thought amid Prussia’s disputes and royal policies.
A Athens Banner correspondent recalls a retired undertaker discussing coffin profits. He notes high prices for metal caskets from 126 to 300 dollars and cheaper wooden variants yielding 400 to 500 percent profit, with ancillary gains from carriage hires and related funeral merchandise.
A humorous dialogue in a Somerville Journal spoofing courtship and money. A dainty lady is asked to be valentine while playful lines mock income and affection with lines about half a million.
A San Francisco Chronicle anecdote recounts a husband who regrets giving his wife a free state pass. She uses it freely, but the lack of payment leads to trouble and social awkwardness as she travels south and back, highlighting the inconvenience and cost of a supposedly economical privilege.
A Chicago Herald account recounts brakemen exposed to brutal Dakota blizzard conditions. Locomotive engineer details constant braking in ice and wind as men crawl between cars on ice and snow, with temperatures well below zero and no shelter, dozens freezing their feet.
An old Newport Post tale recalls a theater actor in a farce who needed a large dough nose. On arriving at the theatre the star found no flour, sent for more, and the nose swelled unexpectedly. The incident ends with a comic, escalating mishap during a key scene.
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