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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1879
Page
6
The article surveys numismatics, detailing why coins fascinate collectors, how prices rise with rarity, and the value of major collections. It notes a Boston market, key collectors like Lorin G. Parmeice, and the 18th–19th century coinages with prices from modest to thousands of dollars.
M Aubriot the Paris worker who won £5000 receives daily appeals from widows, orphans, and many others seeking help. A group of seventeen women seek £8 for a cooperative store and vendors, artisans, and families beg for sums to cover debt, education, or business start ups. The flood of requests fills his letters as he and his wife draft a terse stock reply declining most offers.
Abigail Perkins writes from Boston in 1879 detailing her home life and plan to publish a book. She describes hiring a servant, family antics, and her father’s politics and drinking, while chasing support from relatives and neighbors and hoping to gain recognition through her manuscript.
The Toronto archbishop discusses divorce, noting the Catholic church allows separation a mensa et thoro but not remarriage, while asserting only death dissolves a legitimate marriage. He cites Henry VIII, papal limits, and argues no dissolution of valid marriages by church or state.
On a farm tour with Farmer Chase, Ethelbert La Grange recounts his life, revealing a past linked to William Etheridge and a name change. The moment turns tense as the host reacts with a surge of anger upon hearing the lineage hint.
Margaret Keck daughter of Peter Keck, a Troy Grove farmer, was kept in a bare room for sixteen years. Neighbors and trustees describe her emaciated, naked state and the steps taken to clothe and heat the room. Doctors urge humane care after viewing the prisoner and noting instability blamed on prolonged isolation.
A long fashion roundup describes spring dress styles, fabrics, and trims. Separate basques versus one piece fronts, reverses and paniers, new ribbons and silks, and Parisian tournures influence both walking and evening gowns. Bonnets feature English straws, Breton lace, and variety in color from faience blue to roseau greens, while mummies cloth and cottons like coteline appear in soft patterns.
Captain George Prince of Maine, 62, a former pension clerk, received 18 000 through forged names and counterfeit seals and is jailed with restitution offered if his sentence changes. Rutherford B Hayes of Ohio, 56, appropriated 50 000 yearly via frauds and forgeries, faces harsher fate with no restitution offered and a lasting historical stigma.
Attorney General Devens orders recall of a Civil War era act challenging military jurisdiction. It concerns Indiana Gold Circle members Milligan Bowles Humphreys and Horsey tried by a military commission in 1864 and convicted for southern sympathies with a death sentence previously imposed.
Miss Minnie Hauk, en route from Philadelphia to Baltimore, faced a faux pas when told a chair car was not ready. F. C. Croft fabricated a tale of a wreck to placate her, describing fatalities and injuries. She inquired about safety, then accepted a private seating area, staying at the Mount Vernon hotel after the journey.
Cincinnati Enquirer previews February skies with Venus as evening star and Jupiter obscured by a sunward boil. Mars as morning star rises early, Uranus in solar opposition, and a westward stellar drift noted amid playful, period-voice astronomy.
An apparent German visitor enters the office daily and spins a bizarre tale about a Glock clock owned by Greenfodder's grandmother, claiming aatek moral lessons and a plan to test money by multiplying and dividing numbers. The scene ends with the odd note that the trap-door is being edited and the dog is in the cellar.
John Jacob Goodman, born 1783 in North Carolina, aged 96 or 97, long resident of Monroe County Kentucky since 1804, with a life spanning distilling work, large family, Baptist Church service, and Democratic politics. He has 39 descendants married, plus a long marriage to his second wife after his first’s death.
The Times reveals more Irish born men in London and Liverpool than in Cork and Limerick, cites 34000 in Manchester, and notes small Irish fractions in Newcastle Halifax Bristol. It argues Irish voters gain influence in several constituencies, and claims the Times leader exposes, rather than proves, the vote's weakness.
A collage of humorous sketches, court-room quirks, and traveler tales from era newspapers. From a mocked stove mishap and a loaded coal joke to a flirtatious train scene, a singing prisoner and a dog with a conscience, plus letters and odd anecdotes from distant places.
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