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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1889
Page
5
Harrowing Paris memoir by Blakely Hall recounts drawing poker with American classmates in a French capital, plus misadventures over meals labeled Dinner of Emperors. The narrator details cheap eats, inflated bills, and a clash of American expectations with Parisian dining, ending with a mystery dish name and a warning about credulity.
The narrator deciphers a slang phrase lapin du toit meaning rabbits living on the root, then studies gutter stones and visits a grim cellar supper where two senses of poverty clash. For two cents patrons fork a pot for whatever they can pull up amid wretched crowds.
Tables detail 1888 livestock and dressed beef exports from the United States and Canada to British markets by ship, with shipper lines, destinations, and quantities. Included are monthly cattle movements by the Warren line, losses, and freight figures, plus grain and staple commodity notes across ports and cities like Montreal Boston New York Philadelphia and Liverpool.
Pittsburg Penn Jan 18 Henry F Voigt former cashier of the defunct Farmers and Mechanics Bank of the South Side is under arrest in default of 84000 bail for alleged embezzlement amounting to nearly 200000. Directors Lorg Laferty Nusser filed four charges. experts vetted the books before the arrest and ongoing investigation.
Mason Crry Ja Jan 19 A Cowen 79 years old challenges any man his age to a 40 rod foot race and to crack his heels in the air. He opens the race to the world with June as the target. Four sectungenarians have already replied. For overworked and worn out women and girls Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is praised as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic.
The dry goods market remains satisfactory with overall sales below the season’s average, but orders are flowing. Cotton fabrics attract heavy attention while woollen goods stay dull. brown and bleached sheetings, prints, and checks hold firm prices. Demand remains strong for carpets and linens as stocks tighten and forward orders rise.
The boot and shoe market is quiet with retailers driving small duplicate orders by mail. Factories stay busy on cheaper lines while finer grades move more freely amid mild weather and steady prices. Jobbers seek timely deliveries as several markets trend toward a moderate spring demand.
In New York Chicago and St Louis quotations for staples show cotton steady with varied grades and prices. flour receipts and exports noted. Wheat and corn markets weak with mixed red and white wheat pricing. Barley and oats steady to dull. overall market activity subdued with irregular prices and subdued demand across regions.
In Boston on Monday January 21 butter receipts rose amid dull demand causing price declines across multiple brands and creamery types. Cheese market remains firm with slight price upticks. prices for various beans fruits vegetables and staples are listed with mixed signals amid oversupply and seasonal shifts.
Weekly livestock arrivals show Western cattle 1803 Eastern 120 Northern 844 total 2172. Sheep and lambs 8400 Northern 2858 Eastern 250 total 11508. Swine 26700. Veals 455. Horses 247. Beef cattle dressed weight prices 4.00 to 7.50 per hundred pounds. Western cattle price classes listed. Hides, tallow, skin prices noted for Brighton and Tamiba region.
Edwin A. Durgin of Boston lists an assortment of chess and checkers literature available for postpaid by subscription or single copy. Prices range from 20 to 160 cents for titles including Paisley, Ayrshire Lassie, Alma, and Baker and Reed's works, plus diagrams and primers. Subscriptions for the American Checker Review are offered, with six months at 1. The listing advertises hours from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and welcomes all visitors.
The article covers a draughts match setup between James Smith and Charlies Francis Barker in Spennymoor England. It details match rules, openings, stakeholder duties, and deposits, plus reports on the preliminaries and first day games with a drawn first match and a second game ongoing.
A handicap chess or checkers event begins February 21 at Taylor's 12 Water Street. Entries close February 1. Players assign draws as wins for handicaps, with black or white chosen for the first game and alternation thereafter. Names listed span multiple classes with numerous players including Wright, Edwards, Irwin, Jones, and others.
The catalog lists numerous piano works including Santiago by A Corbin, Rob ert Coverley Hungarian March, and Valserillante by J Oscar with prices from 1 to 76 cents. It notes guitar and lute pieces, operas Said Pasha and Potpourri by Blake, and sacred songs 84 pieces with 146 pages, plus beginner tunes and Greig cradle song.
A Maine soldier recalls southern troops raiding zig zag fence rails for firewood. A Virgin planter complained to a nearby commander about vanished fences. The officer issued an order permitting only the top rail to be taken, leaving the ground rail intact and the soldiers satisfied.
The Boston Cooking School demonstration covered bread making and a curry of mutton with rice. Miss Maynard guided recipes for white bread muffins biscuits and s rich curry with maraschino jelly and oysters au gratin, emphasizing slow simmering no boiling and careful kneading and flour choices.
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