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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1889
Page
5
The Cleveland era ends with the last New Year’s levee at the White House. Diplomats, senators, and military officials mingle beneath chandeliers as Mrs Cleveland greets guests in a pink faille gown. Secretary Bayard hosts a diplomatic breakfast after a noon public procession.
Secretaries Bayard and daughters hosted diplomats at a New Year breakfast at the State Department. Terrapin and champagne featured prominently as naval and military officers in full dress mingled with the foreign corps. Several cabinet wives attended, while Mrs Endicott’s absence and Mrs Schofield’s death limited some calls.
A weekly etiquette column answers reader questions on leaving cards for multiple guests, hosting at dinners, and returning calls. It discusses calling on hosts, placing cards for spouses and grown children, handling invitations to avoid rudeness, and standard timing for card returns and tardy guests.
A period essay discusses ballroom etiquette, seating rules for hosts and guests, and the delicate balance of attention between debutantes and their partners. It notes the principal lady guest sits to the host's right, the gentleman to the lady's right, and muses on social anxiety and chaperonage.
Oliver, Ditson & Co publish piano selections fingered by Marie Lovell Brown including Aira Danser and Fragment de Ballet by Dubois. Waldterriel waltzes Espana and Major McQuillen March by White. Songs by Sagarez, Streiczki, Collins, Reed and Thomas. Also sacred tunes and operatic pieces with varied prices from 25 to 60 cents.
A bustling but cautious market shows light flour demand with small lots and firm values. Butter prices fall on lower quality stock, while cheese and beef trade slowly but steadily. Eggs and poultry supply rise due to warm weather, with prices easing. other staples like fish, hides, and tobacco move with mixed firmness. Receipts for the week are light, stocks small, and the market overall remains subdued yet stable.
New York reports firm cotton with varied grades and extensive flour and grain quotations. Prices cover wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, and by products, with shipments and exports noted. Chicago and St Louis show quiet to steady movement in flour, cereals, and staples, detailing receipts, shipments, and price ranges for key grains and industrials.
Boston markets report quiet butter trade with prices slipping due to inferior winter stock, listings for Creamery and Dairy varieties across regions. Cheese trade steadier, while eggs remain well stocked and prices unsettled amid mild weather. Beans show quieting demand with scarce yellow eyes and mixed regional quotations.
Arrivals for the week ending Friday January 4, 1889 show Western cattle 1085? Eastern 129, Northern 392 total 2482. sheep and lambs Eastern 4600, Northern 2506, Eastern 412 total 7618. swine 16238. veals 427. horses 400. Beef prices per hundred pounds dressed weight ranged 4.00 to 7.00 with quality breakdowns and noted tallow skins and country hides and skins pricing details.
A fragment from New York Weekly presents dialogue between Mr Nicefellow and Miss De Sweet. Miss De Sweet explains she has not pursued music, saying she has been kept busy helping her mother.
Washmeron Dec 31 reports a contrast between Senate and House seat selection. The House uses drawing from numbered balls, while the Senate keeps a confidential book by Captain Bassett where senators record their seat choices, determining future seating and signaling reelection prospects. The piece details multiple seat swaps and strategic moves as terms expire next March, with names like Hawley, Colquitt, Brown, Beck, Hearst, and Sherman appearing.
Bobby flicks Ce aliss Clara and teases about ticklishness amid a quarrel. The dialogue hints at a remembered remark to Mr Featherly and a tense moment between siblings and George, suggesting a domestic scene from a past interaction.
A letter to the editor offers a cure for consumption claiming thousands were permanently cured. The author IT. A. Slocum invites readers to send express and post office addresses to receive two free bottles at 118 Pearl Street, New York.
A Boston chess and checker club run by Edwin A. Durgin lists numerous books and periodicals for sale and subscription options. Prices range from 25 to 126 cents for works on draughts and checkers, with editions, bindings, and special copies noted.
Fragmentary OCR data notes White wins by first position in a Boston area game. Mentions Kirkwood Boston Mass Black and White players with scattered numbers and phrases like king and pirate style tags. No clear teams or exact date.
The piece recounts Santa pausing in Boston to play marathon checkers with boys, delaying his gift duties through the night. He wears a cap and coat, jokes about time, and finally bids the boys good night as Christmas Eve nearly passes, urging children to be good.
By Edwin A. Durgin Boston Mass ending with Mr Heffner black Position No 413. By Charles Hefter Chicago Ill For amateurs White to play and win. Mr Hefter won this from Mr Stark weather. How many amateurs will serve this from the diagram.
The match between C. Barker of America and James Smith of England at Swennymoor began December 24. The score stands Barker six, Smith one with four draws twenty two games remaining.
Dear sir readers learn of a major Australian draughts tournament in the city from Nov 27 1683 with 17 competitors including New Zealand and Queensland players. James Paterson won the top prize of 60 and the Australian championship, with runners up MM Brown and J Galla cher on the podium as trophies and medals were awarded amid a banquet and a 100 guinea gold cup presentation. The event drew travel costs and widespread public attention across colonies, with youth competition and substantial prizes for several categories.
The December 29 contest at the Ne England rooms Captains Mosars Grover and Bailey led a two hour match. Scoring details show a 5 to 1 result with two games still to be played. N Hyzer, former Vermont champion, resurfaced at headquarters claiming practice needed.
A partial, garbled excerpt from the New York Commercial Advertiser recounts a shipboard exchange near Sandy Hook. An admiral speaks with Mr Sawyer and a ship’s carpenter while attempting to parse orders about keeping off the ergap and leaving something aboard. The text includes interruptions and fragmented dialogue.
An OCR damaged clipping notes Edward J. Taylor of Tay r's Higeel and a select summer reset during a hunting incident. The legible fragments suggest a back story or event but remain unclear and incomplete.
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