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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1883
Page
7
Shad hides from pursuing Indians while guiding Birdie through peril on a rugged peak. Wolves of fire and stone tumble from his grip as he battles a Mohave warrior. A tense search back toward Graybeard and Tom culminates in a perilous standoff amid rocky canyons.
Tom and Brooks, separated from Graybeard, seek a defensible mountain hideout as Mohave Indians swarm above. They conceal themselves among vines and rocks, listening for Shad and the girl and awaiting Graybeard’s return while Indians scan the area for the white men.
Graybeard and companions evade Mohave pursuit after rescuing Birdie. Shad reveals engagement, Tom searches for horses in a Mohave village, and the group contemplates a dangerous retreat with five mounts. Aided by vine descent and careful planning, they flee toward safety as night falls.
Graybeard and a small party flee a mountain assault after Indians set fires and took horses. Tom, the Mohave captive old man, and Birdie escape with four horses as the group heads toward Humboldt range. Behind them, pursuing warriors close in as they seek a secure canyon retreat to defend against the impending night.
In Indianapolis an undertaker Mr. C. E. Kregelo keeps a telephone at home for business. His parrot, a smart talker, has learned the line and shouts Hello this is Kregelo’s hello hello whenever a call comes in, drowning out Mrs. Kregelo’s attempts to speak.
In Northboro a 160 year old elm on Main Street was cut down. Inside the heart of the trunk two hair locks were found, one female wrapped in blue paper and the other male in newspaper. The decayed wrappings require careful handling. An investigation shows a hole bored when the tree was small, with the packages deposited and the hole plugged. The tree’s trunk measured over seven feet in circumference.
Joseph Holton endured a blizzard north of Lake Park and found his way to the d Englebronner farm after digging under a snow drift. The temperature the next morning neared 30 below zero while his team suffered one frozen horse. Madeira Henry Hudson was baptized Thursday by immersion through a hole cut in the ice by Campbellite Mr. Stewart. Reuben Baker of South Dennis, Mass., says Brown's Ditters relieved dyspepsia.
A travel account from San Marcial, N M describes the December to January rail journey from Boston to Albuquerque via Chicago Kansas City and Los Angeles, praising union depots and railroad growth. It highlights land rushes, farming towns, Dodge City Las Vegas and Santa Fe routes, Las Vegas springs, Starvation Peak legends, and the Albuquerque boom with mines Sandia district prospects and multiple line surveys including Texas Santa Fe Northern and St Louis San Francisco.
Report notes extensive tin ore deposits across several localities. Ore is said not to be exceptionally rich but abundant and easily worked, with potential for mail transport.
A freckle faced girl visits a neighbor to wake a Snow man and entangles a boy in mischief. The exchange reveals a chaotic scene with Uncle Dick tales, a mock minstrel joke, and threats of discipline as the girl lures the boy outside despite warnings. The piece portrays neighborhood dynamics, family control, and juvenile antics in a candid, humorous voice.
A Cape Cod fishing practice, the black fish drive or grampus hunt, drives distressed schools ashore using boats in two flanks. Fishermen narrate brutal scenes as schools panic and are slaughtered, with tales of hundreds driven ashore and large profits reported from shared booty.
General Hoke notes the rapid disappearance of one armed and one legged veterans since the Civil War. He recalls Lee’s surrender and reflects on aging soldiers at reunions, noting how time has softened memories and changed the gait of old fighters.
Handy Andy returns to the city via an older fish store boy who visits a South End home. A mistress’s sister in the kitchen gives cake and an oyster can to the boy with the message for her master Mr Brown. The keeper, startled, asks do you suppose she knows I'm married.
Workingmen will economize by using Dr Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets and Golden Medical Discovery. They cleanse the blood and system, help prevent fevers and serious diseases, and cure humors. Sold by druggists.
A Newport correspondent recalls three floods in 1832 1847 and 1883 detailing a veteran survivor’s account. He describes his house on Front Street taking three feet of water and mud freezing on walls and floors. He recounts cleaning methods drying walls scrubbing floors placing water-filled casks as furniture supports and fires lit in every room. He stresses self help and timely effort to speed recovery and warns of difficulty finding help once floods recede.
A woman with a baby sought help at the engine house and received aid, then another woman appeared with the same infant to repeat the plea. Mrs Hogan and Colonel Orville Winston reacted emotionally, but a third claimant arrived with the same baby and the scheme faltered as the mechanism failed.
Captain Jim Wise of the Associated Charities confronted at Lackmann brewery as a poor man sought bread. The attendant demanded identification, but Wise protested that hunger warrants help. A drought letter from California warns cattle may be driven from a ranch to survive water shortages.
A report says a Walnut Street resident died from flood exposure. Friends who visited found him seated in his arm chair, calmly smoking a meerschaum as waters raged. He told visitors that if he needed anything he would squeal. A bystander noted a reporter’s exchange about a Civil question as flood waters overflowed the city.
Two children aged 15 and 14 visit Martz drug store for a prescription in a scarlet fever case in two washtubs. The girl notes Johnnie paddled up with a broom and is watching the tubs to prevent theft. A flood tale argues the disaster fosters class kindness and charity beyond wealth.
A policeman recalls a woman in a third story window who tearfully refused aid, moved by the sight as he carried her milk. Other notes describe charity gifts misfitting their purpose, a disjointed omen of social aid and a Cincinnati English anecdote about gas tanks and a riverfront boat scene with a request for port.
A young girl donated two dollars worth of sugar and eight loaves of bread from saved funds intended for Valentine gifts to aid poor girls. The note lists other quirky items and local happenings including a floating check and a cow moved from a bedroom.
A note urging readers to mention they saw the advertisement in The Boston Weekly Globe when responding to ads in the paper. It highlights the paper's call for reader acknowledgment to support ad circulation.
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