Perkinses at Home Father Recovers to Visit Legislature
Boston scene from January 1879 features Abigail Perkins recounting her father’s health revival. He plans to address the legislature on reform while criticizing the Republican party for serving fat jobs. The letter notes the speech, its controversial reception, and Abigail’s hopes amid family concerns and shop talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Melvina
Abigail
Republican Party
Rome
Napoleon
Italy
Xerxes
Feliers
Hamlet
Felief
Richard the
General Grant
Sepubarty
Hannibal
Rocky Mountains
Mr. Talbot
Frank
Frank Sanborn
Jean
Kem
Geome
Meek Wives and the Duty to Self Respect in Marriage
In London Touchstone, the article argues wives should assert their own rights within marriage. meekness empowers husbands to be selfish and abusive, while a wife who yields feeds temper, and the solution is firm, dignified conduct, resisting undue control and preserving personal dignity.
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London
Scotchman loses bonds. duplicates sought from Treasury
A Scotch traveler in the centennial year lost a portmanteau containing 500000 in bonds of various countries including United States six percent cotton bonds valued at 5000. Scotland authorities arrested suspects. they burned the bonds to avoid detection. A relative asks the Treasury for duplicates, with European governments granting similar requests. If approved, duplicates would be deposited with the Treasurer to secure the government against loss. interest would accrue and redemption paid to the owner when called.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Treasury Department
Scotland
Prices of living compare 1828 1832 and 1852 in Cincinnati
A Cincinnati Gazette correspondent presents a comparative view of prices from 1828 1832 and 1852. He shows food costs and clothing favorable today versus earlier periods with lower dry goods prices and rent reflecting contemporary affordability amid political rhetoric.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Gazette
Orleans
New Orleans
Pursued by Wolves in Langola Narrow Escape
Mr Miner with his wife and three children faced a pack of five amber wolves near the Joselyn house while driving to Morrill's. The dogs fought the wolves as the family escaped by urging the horses to speed away. The dog was killed and eaten, but the family was rescued. Wolves’ assault is rare in Benton county and appears driven by hunger.
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St. Cloud
Minn
Miner
Langola
Benton County
Troy
Gilmore
Levy
Troy House
Mme. de Murska
Music Hall
Mme
Dt Marsha
Maggie Lair
Maggie
St. Antoine de Tilly
Canada
Maxime Labonte
Deserving Charity A Boston Home For Working Women
A Globe reporter visits the Temporary Home for Workingwomen at 327 Tremont Street corner Tremont and Jefferson, where matron Miss Louise Tolman explains the institution aids 824 women in twenty months, 451 found work, and urges a purpose-built facility to achieve self sufficiency while serving working women with housing, meals, and employment support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremont Street
Pleasant
Tremont and
Jefferson Streets
Boston
GLOBE
Mies Louise M. Tyulman
Lanecaster
Dedham
Standry
Iutsland Street
Miss Tolman
Turner Sargent
John E. Lodge
Mra
Cabot Lodge
James
Miss Putnam
Hartman Kuhn
Miss Mason
George Abbott James
Charles Albert Prince
Arthur Dexter
Home offers dressmaking and tailoring services for patrons
The home provides dress and pant making, ladies and gentlemen's underwear, cleaning and repairing clothing, weekly or hourly help at twelve and a half cents an hour, family washing at seventy five cents per dozen, and supplies competent workers on short notice. The matron notes patrons' demands are met with ready response, delivering both finished work and workers as needed.
Terrible Tramp Rescue on Icy River Near Linden Park
Two Hamtramck men Gelock and Bears chased a rabbit onto river ice. Bears fell in up to his arm pits and both men battled the freezing gale. Walter Schweickhardt and William Gay found them, revived and warmed them, saving them from likely death. Bears and Gelock suffered severe frostbite and knee injuries, but survived with care at Schweickhardt’s home.
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Walter Schweickhardt
William Gay
Detroit Free Press
John Gelock
Antoine Bears
Linden Park
Hamtramck
Rabbit
Gelock
Bears
Beller’s
Earl Says
Getock
Belle Isle
Depar
Mr. Schweickbark
Messrs. Schweickhardt and
Gay
Unstrained society news at a Washington reception
A Washington Post report describes a lavish reception by the charge d affairs from Alexandria at a chateau on the island near Seventh street. The event showcased elite guests including Admiral Rattling and Count Sumuth with elaborate decor, food, and witty detail about costumes and wines, ending with lasting memory for the host and guests.
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Washington Post
Alexandria
Hhis
Seventh Street
Gladensburg
Washingwu
Admiral Rattling
Mrs. Rattling
Miss Sarpaulin
Great Falls
Admiral Ratthing
Count Sumuth
Falls Church
Justice Buckwheat
Kentucky
Judge Cornjuice
Quantico
Georgetown
Uniontown
Steam snow shovel proposed to clear blocked railways
A Utica Republican correspondent urges a steam snow shovel design to clear snow from rails. The concept borrows from steam sand shovels, proposing a platform car with rear locomotive power, wide above tracks, revolving cylinders with buckets to lift snow onto the platform, then scrapers to eject it away. He asks machinists and capitalists to test a small model and to envision a rapid restoration of service after storms.
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Utica Republican
Rome
Watertown
Central American Coffee Trade Turbulence Affects Pacific Mail
The Pacific Mail Company's coffee trade with Central America faces declining profits amid Wall Street stock influence. Costa Rican and Nicaraguan planters and San Francisco merchants feel the impact as complaints rise over forwarding invoices from Punta Arenas and Guatemala ports. A China steamer voyage was organized to gather coffee for San Francisco, possibly delaying an independent coast line by an English company next year.
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Pacific Mail Company
Central America
Pacific Mail
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
San Francisco
Chronicle
Wall Street
Punta Arenes
San Jose de Guatemala
la Libertad
Panama
What Women Owe to Newspapers in Modern Life
A Philadelphia Press essay argues women gain culture and domestic harmony through reading newspapers. It praises education, argues newspapers widen a wife’s view of world affairs, local news fuels charitable action, and claims men should provide papers to wives and daughters to improve households and society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
Madame de Stael
Mme. Destael
Reading and self-improvement focus for women readers
A reading program emphasizes self-improvement for women, praising tidiness, housekeeping, cooking, nursing, and motherhood. Anna Orbit is cited among the readers, highlighting virtue and family devotion.
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Anna Orbit
Prank by Toronto Journalist Hits a Baptist Paper
A Toronto Telegraph writer named Hance, visiting New York, deceived a Baptist editor by altering a religious weekly’s content. He replaced news with sensational boxing and racing items, printed a double issue, and vanished before subscribers learned of the ruse. The next issue returned to normal church news.
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Montreal Gazette
Montreal
Toronto
Albany
N. Y
Gazette
Hance
Toronto Telegraph
New York State
W. R
England
Philadelphia
Rance
New York Meet Wilkes
Times
Gell
Dramatic
Jem Mace
Joe Cockburn
Maceh
Canada
United States
New York Stave
Sensible Talk on Women and Morality in Society
A Courier-Journal column argues fools waste time on women and divides blame between male adulterers and their wives. It extols preacher and physician figures, notes temptations they face, and condemns sexual intrigues as driven by vanity, excitement, money, or love, while referencing Abelard, Eloise, Beecher scandal, and classical cases to crown the point.
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Ccourier-Journal
Abelard
Eloise
Beecher-‘lilden
Voltaire
Mirabeau
Anthony
Cleopatra
Crimeon
England
France
United States
Ice crop delays threaten Boston sherry supply and prices
Boston townsfolk confront scarce ice as warm spells curb harvests. Chelmsford and Fresh Pond see reduced activity while Hamilton crews store 11,000 tons already cut. Maine snow and mild weather slow freezing, raising costs for the ice trade. Women’s independence and potential marriage choices sparking debate about trades for sustenance.
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Boreas
Boston
Boston Ice Company
Chelmsford
Fresh Pond
Jacob Hittinger
Hamilton
Drivers’ Union
Wenvam
Charles Russell & Co
South Boston
Roxbury
Maine
A Retrospect in BRIC-A-BRAC and Curiosities
A collage of reminiscences and oddities from the Globe page, including a tale of Dickens early reporter days at Ipswich and the White Horse Hotel, a colossal sapphire found in Ceylon, spiritualist hoaxes in Brooklyn, theater antics, and a grim Canadian death scene with cats.
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Perkinses
Father
Paris
Perkins
Wwe
Yne
Parson Dodge
Tay
Reuben
Seerseee
Unstrained Society News
Hus
Haidee
Papa
Miss Faithful
QD Culcass
Krave
Sunday Globe
Dickens
Ipswich
Eng
Pickwick
Great White Horse Hotel
Charles Dickens
Morning Chronicle
Suffolk
Great White Horee
Brooks
Billy Brooks
Humorist
Mr. Pickwick
White Horse
Vistors
Ceylon
Telegraph
Gemma
Kowan Empire
Constantine
Mysicians
Albert James
Philaphia
Miller
Brooklyn
Spiritualistic Society
Banner of Light
Brooklyn Society
Searce
Thomas
Wil
Rockland Courier
Burdette
Charlie
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