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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1892
Page
2
Twelve year old Davy Whitman braves dusk and woods to find five year old Caroline who has run away. Towser finally tracks the girl to a walker’s edge, and Caroline returns home before nightfall, ending the anxious search.
Theodore Roosevelt extols cautious big game hunting with trained dogs and still hunting, notes grizzlies’ fierce persistence and occasional charging behavior, and critiques trapping as unsporting while praising waves of methods from baiting to ambush in frontier settings.
The English football association game spreads in the United States with Harvard Hoboken and Cosmopolitan clubs leading interest in New York area. The sport uses five forwards three half backs two backs and a goalkeeper with no hand use except by the keeper. Philadelphia Chicago St Louis Pittsburgh Detroit and Cincinnati report growing clubs and competitions like the Childs Cup.
George Aldred Townsend chronicles political figures and events, praising Blaine and Elkins while recounting conversations in New York and Boston hotels. He compares finance era leaders, recalls Hamilton's system, and notes shifts in national power from Massachusetts and Virginia to New York, framing the era's evolving centrality.
A collage of curious items includes a Brooklyn clergyman’s schoolroom joke on Jacob’s adder, speed comparisons for locomotion, Whitman’s will, overalls for women, rail plans to Jerusalem, and various odd facts about people, places, and inventions from London to Chicago.
Uncle Davy, a very particular boy of twelve, searches the night for Caroline Briggs who has run away. Mrs. Briggs and neighbors recall a white flash on the road and Davy finally finds clues before being brought home by his father. Caroline is later found safe, and the family prepares to reschedule the party.
A brief description of the work notes Joell Chandler Harris author of Uncle Remus tales and related titles, highlighting the Turner plantation setting and narrative perspective. The item emphasizes Harris's broader bibliography and storytelling focus in a regionally flavored literary context.
In a late night scene in the sitting room Mrs. Rambo accuses Absalom of being involved in a fight. He insists he was not in it, speaking with careful, deliberate calm as he defends his innocence amid the domestic tension.
The San Francisco Examiner recounts a wealthy man who underwent the Gold Cure and emerged in a ruined state with eyes rolling, paired with Sullivan’s display of delirium tremens. It notes the claim that one can stop drinking, but warns against treatment, highlighting a morning emetic as insufficient cure.
A Sunday Herald meditation on imagination as a tiny portable ship that grows with use. The piece likens it to the divine bark guiding legends and heroes, praising thought as a craft that carries ideas, heroes, and rewards across land and sea.
A historical ad copy emphasizes that initial visuals attract attention but the true impact comes from repeated exposure. The piece discusses the need for ongoing advertising to convert observers into customers.
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