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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1885
Page
7
In Paris a Russian prince named Constantine Wolzonn learns the Shahovska may be innocent as the Shahovska of Falcon Rock faces imprisonment for a murder tied to a vanished princess. The tale reveals political danger, a hidden crime, and a vow to flee Russia rather than accept its terms.
Elise and the princess reach Jerusalem after peril and theft. A Russian priest aids their journey to the Holy Sepulchre hospice while Elise funds their stay through church donations. Victor paints an ideal head that resembles Thurnelda, revealing a hidden family connection as the artist discovers his father’s lingering love and memory.
General Wolzonn eyes vengeance against Shahovska on Corfu as the famed swordsman fights off a betrayal. A staged duel ends with Shahovska wounded but alive, while Wolzonn departs for Beyrut believing he has avenged his cousin. The exiled officer returns to Florence to watch Victor Shahovska’s progress in study and art.
A San Francisco market scene shows an oyster shell with a woman's head carved as a cameo. Dealers and observers debate the image’s origin while a detective cites the curious resemblance to a missing wife. The report hints the shell’s story links to Guaymas and a vanished woman. Colfax obituary and career notes follow in Minneapolis dispatch.
A Bangor factory makes 7500 pounds of soap weekly. Bremen Maine with 850 people has eight school houses. About 1000 Bridgeport children have the measles. East Hartford Connecticut receives a 10000 dollar bequest for a public library. John Duplan of Bridgeport has drawn 8000 in a lottery. A Brockton family of four devoured 802 pies last year. Connecticut reports 464 post offices, up five in the year. New Haven has 250 Chinese residents, two naturalized. Hartford owes 2487000, more than three other CT cities put together. Mrs Apphia Fisher of Salem New Hampshire, 97, reads without glasses. New Haven erected 412 buildings costing about 1000000 last year. A Connecticut paper offers a village lot among premiums to subscribers. Neither New Hampshire nor Rhode Island built a mile of railroad in 1854. Norwich Connecticut shows an electric light boom with contracts for three companies. Over 1,000,000 invested in New Hampshire shoe manufacturing in two years. Chellis Sargent of Tilton New Hampshire, 86, has read the Bible in 32 days. A 90 year old Fair Haven woman trends young, shucking oysters as well as the girls. Lynn and Haverhill together produced shoes to shoe half the US population. John Edwards began setting type on the Portland Advertiser in 1816 and claims to be Maine’s oldest printer.
New York January 13 General Grant declined interview requests at his residence. He spoke softly on the shock of Colfax's death, praising his integrity, leadership, and steadfast support of the Republican cause. Grant recalled Colfax’s role in Indiana politics, Fremont campaigns, and wartime measures, ending with a reflective farewell about friendship.
CHICAGO January 13 On Thursday of last week Mr Colfax lectured at the Metropolitan Business College on the Landmarks of Life. He fore shadowed his end stating that the hope of a nation lies with its youth whose candle of life burns with first splendor near the socket until burnout.
A nostalgic ad style verse traces Castoria as a trusted remedy from infancy to motherhood, suggesting ongoing reliance in family life across generations with a rhythmic refrain.
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