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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1891
Page
7
A fragment from an 19th century Brooklyn Citizen item features a playful mix of flirtation and garbled dialogue about love and a tease about the next year’s “fire” moment, with stray phrases about a Tig and a sealskin and trinkets.
In a rural anecdote a butcher, delighted by the birth of a son weighing nearly eight pounds, hefts the child in his shed and jokes about the weight. He then warns to consider the bones, quipping with a final exclamation about the baby’s frame.
A dime museum lecturer mocks a family by claiming their baby is unremarkable while the mother defends the child. The scene highlights perceived stagecraft in show business and the cost of fame.
Lowell Courter notes Boston objects to paying 850000 more for a project budgeted at 460000, now costing 1450000. The writer questions who can blame the city and warns of a delayed, costly library if the project proceeds.
A Norristown Herald reader recalls a banquet scene where a reporter jokes about the “table groaning” under the season’s delicacies. The anecdote highlights the reporter arriving early with a sharp pen and appetite.
A New York Weekly vignette shows a mother pressing Mr Lakeside about marriage prospects for her three daughters. Lakeside questions a Western friend’s suitability, noting he likely prefers to marry only one.
A man presented himself at the editor’s door claiming to be the real American reformer. He was met with a curt, informal greeting urging him to wipe his feet remove his hat and stop chewing tobacco before sitting down for an interview.
A fragment from Puck notes Deacon Elliott F Wanamaker teaching a men's Bible class on the parable of the ten virgins and contrasts five wise and five foolish Virgins with a New Guy named F Allen Angell.
A fragment shows a dialogue about ownership of a house and a new cook-lady. no sale confirmed and a mention of a new household staff. The text lacks clear events or dates.
The night editor ends his shift with a final greeting at four in the morning and retires. The next day on the avenue, the sun shines as he meets the afternoon with a polite salutation to a passerby.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quips on nature in Norristown Herald noting the eagle and wolf contrast. The playful line compares the screaming eagle to the howling wolf as a reflection on fear and odds in everyday life.
A Binghamton Republican item reports Mrs. Oldsaget fretting over her daughter after a nighttime incident. While asleep the young woman murmured Charlie you’ve shaved off your mustache raising questions about her health and personal life.
A short humorous note from the New York Herald features Bjinks presenting an ink bottle invention. Bion anticipates fortune while Bjinks warns of an approaching mucilage brush, framing a playful early 20th century tech gag.
A Munsey's Weekly snippet shows Amy teasing Van Duder about foolishness while noting the minister’s bright face and his worn trousers at the knees. Amy protests and the exchange hints at a light rural caricature among locals.
A fragmentary dialogue from Texas Siftings hints verses awaken a longing to go out before a dog breaks its chain. The readable lines show a desire for freedom and timing around a threatened restraint.
In Texas listings a cautious shopper questions charges at drugstores. A clerk replies that the best quality tooth drug costs 25 cents, while ten cents buys only lower quality product.
The item notes a person named Cobu ger Hes being clever yet described as a man of a misspent effort. It mentions he wound an eight day clock each night for five years as a striking detail.
A humorous note from Baltimore American about a young man saving for a sleigh ride and the idea he deserves to win a place in matrimony as a reward for thrift.
Fragmentary captions suggest a witched collage of humor notes. The text references Atchison Globe Puck Philadelphia Times and a playful question about a woman's age and secrets. It reads as a miscellany of quips rather than a complete story.
In a rural Irish American setting Mrs Finn entertains One Lung the Chinese laundorman. Their talk touches opium use and language barriers while a goat and a burglar goat chase unfold culminating with a drunken Mickey and a flying escape as the goat and brown paper scene end in a rustic midnight.
A Philadelphia Times piece describes winter insect activity as sun warms forests. Gnats emerge from moist earth, midges dance in sun despite cold, and arctic examples show insects near Greenland. Wasps, beetles, and mourning cloak butterflies appear in sunny winter days, even under snow, with ants awakening when warmed indoors. Different insects endure cold differently, and severe winters reduce populations.
The article explains constitutional contrasts between Army and Navy powers held by the President. It notes the president can appoint or remove generals from the Army with or without Senate consent, unlike the Navy where promotion follows strict seniority. It discusses Supreme Court rulings on presidential appointment authority and the enduring preference for seniority in naval promotions.
Mrs. C. M. Dearborn succeeds Miss Maynard at the Boston Cooking School and led a demonstration on tomato soup and saddle of mutton. Instructions cover thickening with cornstarch or flour, croutons, proper browning, and a brown sauce with currant jelly, plus oyster and scallop preparations and a charlotte russe mold.
A Mt Vernon relic shows George Washington at age 13 kept a neat arithmetic notebook with over a hundred rules of civility and behavior. Mice damaged several rules at his table and in company, including cautions on laughing, table manners, and modest self-presentation.
A compact roundup of assorted facts and oddities. Notes on postage costs in India, Magna Charta signatories, global blindness rates, czarist residence, a Polish doctor in Paris, advances in platinum wire, wealth of Wiley Jones in Pine Bluff, and world mineral production in 1888. Also mentions a New York debt collection scheme, Korean envoy’s missing son, an artificial lake at Soldiers Home in Leavenworth, Van Rensselaer dining table in Akron, diamond mine geometry, and social curiosities in Paris and New York society.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt depicts Rev Goodman questioning his hired man John about Christianity and swearing. After a brief exchange the reverend instructs John to settle a $4 bill for thawing a water pipe and to speak with the man about the charge.
A fragment describes a Norman lady in a Chautauquan setting with a slender graceful figure. Her aquiline features Hazel eyes and chestnut hair swept in smooth plaits fall to the waist, captured on her bridal day as she wears a pure white robe, the scene conveying a matronly tone.
Albert Meyer of Stillwater reports a new tuberiferous plant from Asia named Stachys tuberifera or Stachys affinis Sieboldi. It yields edible tubers with a sweetish taste, winter hardiness, and potential high prices. Berlin and Paris experiments show promise. Minnesota farmers plan trials next season.
A suburban telegraph office tale shows a wife trying to send £5 then £6 to her country husband for money. The clerk questions the wording and counts words, noting a ploy to keep to a dozen words and a threat to pawn the parlor carpet if funds fail.
Harper’sazar fragment shows dialogue with a poet claiming three lines of verse and his wife replying she has three lines of wash. The text presents a playful exchange likely satirical in tone without further context. The snippet emphasizes domestic and literary motifs.
The column reports women discussing servant needs, proposing a job idea for a cook with grief service. A speaker argues that a widow’s grief, especially from love disappointment, makes a servant more teachable and productive, noting widows cry and adapt after six months before improving.
Somerville Journal presents a new Tears poem by Bei Ignii A Bite See, capturing lyrical reflections on emotion and memory in compact verse.
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