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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1892
Page
2
Dick and Tommy vent frustration at adults and restrictions on boys. They argue about rights and loss of airguns, and discuss uniting to resist control. The dialogue hints at forming a boys’ solidarity akin to Knights of Labor to seek safeguarding their freedoms.
Dick and his friends form a secret brotherhood demanding higher wages and shorter hours. They raise funds, acquire a box of dynamite for a protest, and threaten their parents with a dramatic display. A mix of bravado and fear leads to a near-disastrous plan, and the next day the boys face the consequences and a change of heart within the family. Dick confesses a talk with his father who forgives, promising a yacht outing and a family party.
Walter Hough of the United States National Museum traces the origins of skating from ancient ice bones to early European practice. He notes Icelandic terms for ice bones, 12th century London shin-bone skates, and Dutch influences, with anecdotes from Pepys and Scottish skaters, illustrating skating’s long, global history.
Fragment discusses snowshoe use and evolution from necessity, noting the hunter culture and Arctic mobility. Mentions English influence,Whittier, and the idea of snowshoes enabling swift pursuit of game amid snowstorms.
A Victorian note describes attempting to apply the flying machine concept to snowshoes. A forgotten inventor tests wide shoe surfaces, using twigs and raw hide to create a light bevelle rammed frame that resists snow. The Jetliner and various Inuit designs are mentioned as contrasts in snowshoe forms.
A quirky 1891 glimpse surveys footwear from various cultures. It describes California Indians as “ hoops of wood with coarse netting,” ranks the Aino as second rudest, and notes Labrador, Japanese, and Norwegian styles, mentioning wide snowshoes, netting, spurs, and sledge-like runners in a humorous catalog of travel oddities.
In Chapter Seven of On the Turner Plantation Joel Chandler Harris follows Jim Polk Harbert and Mr Snelson as they tree a coon and attempt a careful fall. A mishap leaves Snelson knocked down while the hunt resumes with dogs and river chase ending in a pitch soaked scene.
A caller asks if Mrs Withers is engaged and is told she is not. The maid responds with indignation that Mr Withers has been dead for only three months.
A revenue inspector describes smuggling tips travelers, sailors, and cattlemen used to evade duties. He recalls a mate with cigars and bay oil, the doctor aboard a Leland boat, and a cattleman in Liverpool who hid tobacco in a silk hat. He notes women’s jewel smuggling and the near eradication of wholesale smuggling due to strict enforcement.
A New York Herald piece recounts a dining hosts claim of monkey trained tea pickers in China. It describes the famed imperial tea bushes in Peking guarded by guards under penalty of death and mentions costly tea from cliffside plants gathered by trained monkeys.
A long mosaic of curiosities and misprints spans kings and harebrained stunts. It notes royal hostages in Ashantee, saloon licenses rejected in Chicago, wages for shop girls in London, a Macon county farmer’s hidden fortune, a Savannah lawyer’s river wager, and a New Mexico cleric called Rev Innocent Wolf. The itemized miscellany covers telephones Paris London, shipwrecked coinage, curious clocks, and oddities from cities and farms worldwide with names, dates, and figures anchoring the tableau.
The Chicago Tribune notes that no medium is better or cheaper for advertising than the newspaper, especially those with a large circulation.
Charles J. Lummis extols the Grand canyon of Colorado as the world s finest sight outshining New Hampshire s White Mountain notch and Franconia notch. The canyon lies mainly in Arizona with arms into Utah Nevada and California and spans about 700 miles long with depths over a mile. Its top width ranges eight to twenty miles and from above a river appears as a silver thread. The piece quotes Charles W Warner saying there is nothing else on earth to approach it.
New York Recorder describes Pekin, capital of the Chinese empire and Chihli province, as a complex of Kin Ching, Hwang Ching, Nui-Ching, and Wai-Ching with about 1.6 million people. It notes walls, gates, palaces, imperial rituals, and temple sites including the marble bridges, the tranquil palace of heaven, and the temple to ancestral worship with the vast Nine Gates district and the crowded Chinese city.
The St Louis Republic outlines a theory of perfect bodily proportion using precise body measurements. It asserts height equals fingertip span, hand and foot length ratios, and torso to limb distances, detailing head to chin and chin to armpit relationships.
A. J. Mercer of Burden Kansas sent a few grains of corn with a remarkable history. A railroad cut in an Indian mound two years ago yielded a sealed pot of corn. Eight seeds survived. three matured. The grains are described as beautiful gems. The corn will be tested in the agricultural department next year.
The Honeymoon piece traces the word to Teutonic roots and notes a popular wedding drink metheglin made from mead and honey. It describes honeyed beverages at noble marriage feasts and mentions a dated superstition tied to a wedding feast and indulgence.
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