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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1880
Page
8
Boston files list communications for the department to Charles F Barker Cambridgeport Mass position numbers 572 573 574 with players M H Wardell Walter Smith and color designations black and white. The notes include Black to move and draw White to move and win for beginners.
The second edition of The World's Checker Book by William R. and Charles F. Barker offers twenty two openings with 355 original games and twenty four original positions. It is sold in board covers or cloth covers for 75 cents, mailed on receipt of price. Address William R. and Charles F. Barker at No 8 Houghton street Cambridgeport for orders.
Cited replies from multiple correspondents including H. C. Wilcox Belfast Me J. W. Miller and A S Ingalls commend correct moves and positions. Letters express approval of published solutions and request continued submissions while noting scores and examination positions.
The item lists individuals with initials and state affiliations including E M Durfee New Brunswick Massachusetts J F Combs F an New Jersey Austin Brown Vermont Charles Kimball Maine George Willard Maine F R Newton Iowa D Ma loney Indiana reflecting a multi state roll of people connected to various notices.
Mr G W Dearborn of Lowell and Mr H Jewett of Monson visited Springfield last week and played with feuding local players. The scores show Dearborn and Allen, Hallock, Smit, Wrentham, and L Jewett among others. Dearborn later played Barker in Boston, with results 1 0 2 and 2 drawn. Also Seymour sells rubber checker recording posi tions for $1 postpaid to Holyoke.
Mr Charles F Barker announces checker instruction at 8 Houghton Street Cambridgeport Mass offering one opening with three variations and fourteen variations by mail or at his office. Weekly position and game notes for beginners, with formal rules covering board size piece shape placement move order timing and penalties.
The article explains moving rules for men and kings, when pieces promote to kings, and how a game ends in checkmate or draw. It notes board coordinates and describes win by taking all opposing pieces or trapping them, with a brief mention of Chess and ears headquarters at Tremont Row.
The Old South audience included many teachers and benefactors as forty eight children, half colored, demonstrated kitchen duties from bed making to table setting and washing. Miss Emily Huntington's Kitchen Garden manual supports the lessons, with two city sites aiding children’s skill and cheer.
Olive Logan in Paris notes a romantic episode as Kate Santley’s lover, Tom Hohler, poised to marry the Duchess of Newcastle. The duchess, heiress of Hope banking, separated from her duke after scandal, and now contemplates a match with the English tenor.
A 1863 Naples observer recalls sensing an earthquake in his hotel room with dizziness and a tilting chair. He notes Calabria and Sicily suffered damage, fissures formed, and many were affected along southern Italy. The experience is described as novel and unsettling while near Vesuvius.
A calm sea and unclear wind caused a ship to lose stance with guns likely to break from their mounts. Damage in the ward-room pantry was notable and stewards found the scene oddly amusing. The incident may reflect submarine convulsions or an undersea earthquake, with land impact unknown. New York probate news follows. Charl Morgan, the steamboat king, will, valued at 12 million, be divided per New York law. his wife as executrix. some heirs object. An Buffalo medical ad promotes the Physio Medical Institute founder Doctor Engelhart with 36 years of practice curing chronic lung and throat diseases.
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