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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1879
Page
6
A border village grave digger is described as a jovial, multifunctional figure who sings at work and keeps a close, humorous bond with the dead. The piece details border burial customs, the undertaker’s roles, mourners’ procession, cloaks, and three days of wake while highlighting local pride and ritual.
A sagacious codfish, perched in a hall of lawmakers, speaks with dignity about his people’s fate. He recountsBirch notes of shipboard killings, lobster-styled aristocracy, and the moral rot of politics while the amused scribe is trapped, doors bolted, listening to a fishmonger of power.
The piece contrasts Arab views on female infanticide with displays of beauty and loyalty. It describes Bedouin lovers wounding themselves for love, girls in battle roles, and Omar Pasha treating captured damsels as princesses before offering marriage options to officers.
A Wisconsin girl from a wealthy family, educated at Vassar College, was poised to graduate and marry her chosen partner when her hopes were shattered by a cruel brother. The article portrays a young woman's interrupted romance within a privileged upbringing and a troubled family dynamic.
A Paris apartment house hides a horrific murder suicide on Christmas Eve. In the third flat a clerk named Filliette and his wife are found dead near the piano and bed, while a friend lies shot in the next room. Police suspect a premeditated sequence by the husband, but the case remains shrouded in mystery.
Special correspondence from Washington notes lawmakers press for prohibitory and regulatory bills on Chinese labor. A committee plan limits masters to fifteen Chinese per voyage, with fines, imprisonment, and a sworn passenger list. Col Henry Hinton voices strong California views on banning landing and enforcing sanitary, land, and taxation policies to curb Chinese influence.
A satirical monologue mocks a boastful barrister who boasts of his skill and uses dramatic rhetoric to sway juries. He lampoons defending corrupt clients and attacking editors while revealing how lawyers manipulate testimony and fear to secure favorable outcomes.
A collage of lighthearted sketches and anecdotes from various papers. Bits on a Parian statue request, barber shop banter, a backtown suitor mishap with bracelets, a canine courtship in Davenport, a deadly hug joke in Tours, a Davenport deacon misadventure, a Minnesota frost tale, and European court intrigue surrounding Portugal and royalty, including Grant’s travels and a singer’s former New York fame.
In Newark, two women were attacked by a large cat while preparing a toilet. The elder suffered deep lacerations on the leg and erysipelas, while the daughter sustained scratches and torn clothing before the animal was killed by a bystander.
In Cambridge Maryland Professor Allan T Smith performed a risky operation on a nine year old boy who had swallowed a tin umbrella ferrule ten months earlier. Unable to reach the object with forceps he forced his fingers down the throat and removed it with the child held by the heels head downward. The patient nearly suffocated but artificial respiration revived him and he is reported to be doing well.
Two emigrant wagons halted at Olathe on Thursday night. One wagon with a stove stayed warm. the other, lacking heat, housed a man, his wife, and a child who later were found dead frozen. An investigation followed as the surviving travelers resumed their journey.
The annual health statistics for the English navy in 1877 show a notable drop in mortality and invaliding. Despite nautical risks, the overall death rate from disease is 4.92 per thousand and total deaths from all causes 7.06 per thousand, a strikingly low figure compared with UK landsmen.
For weeks residents along the Big Blue River near Hastings Nebraska suffered depredations by a mysterious animal. Hunters with guns and dogs scoured the area in pursuit but could not locate the creature. One gentleman who...
A Dallas tale recounts Thomas Clarkson who married Mrs S E Foster in New Orleans and, after a life of gold rush trials, wed her daughter by a prior marriage. He later discovers his wife’s daughter is his stepdaughter and travels to Frederick City, Maryland, with plans for resolution.
Indianapolis is credited with a novel sanity inquiry. A stranger justice of the peace visits a woman, a second justice probes her mind, a physician asks many questions, and a warrant claims insanity. An officer escorting her is thwarted as she hides, revealing a plot by a neighbor blamed for derangement. The incident shows how mischief by a possibly unwell resident can threaten sane liberty.
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