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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1887
Page
7
An artist circle in Paris gathers around a Venetian mirror tied to a doomed aristocrat Beatrice. A diary reveals a doomed love, jealousy and a fatal encounter at a Paris ball that ends with a murder and a cursed inheritance linked to the mirror.
Miss Edith Ellwood Talmage daughter of Rev. T DeWitt Talmage wed Allan Edloe Donnan of Richmond Virginia before about five thousand guests at the Brooklyn Tabernacle The bride wore corded silk with duchesse lace and diamonds The wedding was conducted by the bride's father and his brother The couple left for Chicago then Richmond to establish their home among notable attendees including General William T Sherman and Senator A H Colquitt
John Dart helps investigate a jewelry heist at the Dart shoe factory and suspects Annie Velga. A search of dorm rooms reveals Annie's red stockings, leading to her arrest but later reveals a staged, misdirected pursuit by a pinkerton thief. Annie is cleared when jewelry turns up with a robber disguised as a factory worker, and John proposes. They marry two months later as the couple’s happiness grows.
Tenafly in Jersey hosts a romance between Sophia Roorback Shepherd a demure 60 year old and John Theodore Bently son of a Presbyterian clergyman. After long wait he renews his proposal and the couple announce their engagement with a New York honeymoon planned at a depot send-off tomorrow evening.
Miss Sophia Koorbach Shepherd, 52, and artist John Theodore Bentley, 26, wed in Tenafly New Jersey. The ceremony honored their noted romance with Bentley officiating and a small guest list. The bride’s gray hair stems from a past engagement collapse when her fiancé was paralyzed. The couple then traveled to New York after a day of celebration.
The piece details Prince Henry of Battenberg's strict treatment, his ties to Beatrice's marriage, and the Queen's handling of Beatrice's godfather and Alexander of Bulgaria. It notes Beatrice’s godfather status, royal decree honors, and foreign policy implications amid court intrigue.
A French inventor proposes bleaching paper pulp by electric current using a magnesium chloride solution about 16 percent strength. Electrolysis releases oxychlorides that are said to bleach the pulp, potentially whitening Libya material.
A large class attended a Boston Cooking School lecture featuring chicken a la bechamel, Scotch eggs, stuffed eggs, macaroni with brown sauce, spinach a la bechamel, and Nesselrode pudding. Detailed recipes and tips on boiling macaroni, freezing mixtures, egg preparations, and spinach cooking followed, with Miss Maynard guiding the demonstration.
In Lovursville Kentucky on February 17 E R Hubble and family escaped a blaze after their 13 year old daughter dreamed of a fatal railroad crash and fiery wreckage. The vision woke them to discover the house filling with smoke and flames as they slept.
Ambrose Bethage, a 52 year old resident of the twenty seventh ward, dictates a bizarre will directing his body to St Michael's Church then to a crematory and a voyage of his ashes tied to a German ship Elba with mid ocean scattering watched by passengers. He bequeaths expenses to his wife and is valued at no less than 100000 with thirty years on Pius street.
In Banksville near Pirrspure Miss Maggie Beadling, long bedbound, rose at 2 p.m. after professing a divine message. She walked unaided with crutches discarded, shocking spectators and prompting religious demonstrations by Rev. Archibald. Neighbors praise the apparent cure as genuine and miraculous.
The text recounts medieval fasting feats by Lucci and Merlatti and cites earlier legends from Panormita, Picentini, and a Padua woman. It describes a supposed 40 day fast in a cell with candles and 消 food, a Gaul priest adrift with long fasts, the canon of Noyon’s three year abstention, and the pope Eugene IV kitchen scene ending in disappearance and bones.
A sprawling page of quirky briefs reports a Dubuque mayor running a lonely counter, a Michigan turkey sled puller, costly tiling for a milk house, hogs chloroformed, a Lukin IL preacher fined, and Boston brimstone preaching. Miscellany notes incidents, marriages, lawsuits, and curious local tales across many towns.
Pensions have been granted to numerous individuals across Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts and Connecticut names include Isaac L Page Lewiston Henry N Fairbanks Bangor Fernando Bennett Bethel Alonzo Sylvester Farmington William Richmond Wayne John Donrae Bangor Meander Prescott Farmington Nelson Gould Farmington Charles Whitten Newport Olive Hinsdale Orvil Barker Meriden Edwards Giddings Thornton's Ferry Ashua Lewis Garrow Aden Benjamin Blake Lyndon Lucius Kent Hinesburg John Williams Kuatlana George Green Lower Waterford Morrisle McLoud Searsburg Lucy A Phelps Montvale Martha H Sanborn Rockland John Barker Bernuardston Nathan Haskell Boston Bullman Edgell Henry Butler Athol Lydia Burroughs Danielsonville Hermon Hayes Simsary.
A Kingston boy owns a tame pigeon that follows him to school. The bird enters the classroom and the pupil is sent home briefly after the incident. The pigeon then accompanies the boy back toward home, prompting further schoolyard attention.
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