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Boston Weekly Globe

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 23, 1889

Page

8

Winter Whimsy and the Power of Good Nature

Tork, January 19 recounts a mild open winter in Central Park with bright streets and playful scenes. A long reminiscence contrasts two men: one cheerful and benevolent, the other a rigid Gradgrind whose sourness curdles daily life. the piece ends urging personal good nature as life’s true comfort.

Central Park Groun Orphan Asylum Riverside Drive Uifort Astor House Rotunda Angel of the Lord God Father Dickens Earth Heaven Greenland Himalaya

Bachelor Babcock’s pool of brides and boodle offers

Michigan bachelor James L. Babcock, bound by an eccentric uncle’s will to wed within five years or lose 500000, receives hundreds of marriage proposals from a nationwide pool of over 1000 women. Applicants range from schoolteachers to actresses, all willing to trade affection for money, with letters arriving weekly and kept anonymous by signature.

Ayn Arpor Mich Babcock James L Tue Grose New England United States North Ann Arbor Detroit Michigan Maine Mexico Ann Arbor University Waternam Mass Babc

Heart of Hixon Healed After Major Rib Surgery

In Wortimeron Indiana on January 15 John Hixon of Linton neared recovery after Dr J A Minnick removed almost all of the fifth left rib over the heart to treat a long standing abscess. The operation lasted about an hour with the heart and pleura protected. The patient's condition improved, appetite returned, and he expected to resume work soon. Dr Minnick, NYU 1858 graduate.

Worhers Blawyer Parker's Stampe Wberal Lauchings Wortimeron Ind John Hixon Linton J. A. Minnick Hixson Hixon Dr. Minnick The University of New York

The New Electoral Puzzle of Presidential Power

A parliamentary tone urges readers to study a new table showing how states could swing an election without key battlegrounds. It notes the Electoral College as the backbone of government and teases a popular game titled Society of Politics or The Race for Presidency, offering insight into how a few thousand votes in a few states could alter the outcome.

Harrison New York Cleveland New Jersey Benjamin Grover Bew York Nevada Republic Politica Rai We Ee Homer VICK America Vick Slevshan Mochester

Cider Farmer Withholds Apple Juice Under New Law

Reuben Calvin of Manchester Centre Vermont stores 100 barrels of cider and will not sell due to strict liquor law penalties for cider sales. Indictments and fines have been issued to several farmers who sold by the barrel. Farmers grasp the law's impact, already angered as apples were pressed into cider this season amid a bountiful harvest.

Vermont Routlane Reuben Calvin Manchester Centre

Thawing dynamite explodes. two men killed in Quebec mine

At Caperton in Sherbrooke Que two miners Dennis Conture and Joseph Noel tried to thaw a stick of dynamite at Albert Copter Company mines when it exploded blowing them to atoms. The report notes the tragedy as a fatal blast with no surviving witnesses.

Sherbrooke, Que Dennis Conture Joseph Noel Albert Copter Company Caperton

News in Brief Covers Strikes and Elections

The itemized brief notes a New York clearmaker strike, fatal gas burns in Lima Ohio, heavy Atlantic gales at Halifax, Maine senator re election, early spring blooming pansies in Mattoon Illinois, and a Treasury bond sale. It also mentions the Eleventh New York National Guard muster out, trust-busting bills in New York, Grant monument designs, Ku Klux activity in Kemper county Mississippi, and other varied political, legal, and weather updates from across the United States.

New York Lima Halifax N. C Atlantic Maine Mattoon Ill Secretary of the Treasury New York National Guard Grant Monument Kemper County Miss Evart Mich Anthony Higgins Delaware United States Senate England J. R. McConnel Sepieres Osage City Kan John M. Poore Carbondale Mississippi Lumber Wilmington Del Messrs Cramia & Sons Yorktown Minnesota W. D. Washburn United States Arden Montevideo Philadelphia Trish America Parnell London ‘Times Congressional Committee On War Claims Nat McKay Omaha General Railroad St. Paul Minn Josephine E. Poe Neilson Poe Baltimore Virginia Edgar Allan Poe Thetis Findlay National Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce W. Bragg Ohio State Board of Pardons Foraker Mary L. Garrett Neche D. T Morris Stapleton Oneida N. Y Mary Webber Madison County Eliah Yangheim T. B. Walsh C. E. Scott John M. Phillips Methodist Book Concern Newark Brooklyn Methodist Church Missionary Society Little Rock Fort Smith Road Ovark Ark Secretary of the Navy Kimberly Pacific Trenton Samoa Panama C. N. Cunningham Elmira Cunningham Hoboken N. J Glenmore Liverpool Charleston Japeen Fanning Christiana N. S Georgetown Demerara Dee William Dowell Huntington Ind Mr. Smith Lancaster New England Tobacco Growers’ Association Internal Revenue Bremen Steamship Atah Amakes

Freight wreck at Kent Ohio and other 1850s items

A freight wreck occurred in Kent Ohio when two trains collided in the yards injuring crews and wrecking engines and cars. Reports note a Mississippi gubernatorial order to arrest arsonists in Kemper county. Other items cover the Forty-niners reunion in New York, a Belvidere New Jersey trial, revenue figures, Indiana Senate rules, and a large New York City lodging house opening.

Mississippi New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Kent. O Edward Washiner Galion Gdt Kemper County Associated Pioneers California New York Belvidere N. J Manson Heuntsman Jesus Christ Indiana State Senate Senate Sandy Hook Fort Schuyler Fort Warren Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Sylvania Wis Illinois Senator Gibbs Georgia Abraham Lincoln Ilinois New York City Children’s Aid Society Morris K. Jesup National House Committee On Sixty-second Street First Avenue Patrick Cassidy Peter Reynolds Cassidy Reynolds Jeremiah Hartigan New Decker Indiana Andrew J. Caywood Kingston N. Y Grange County Orange Dutchess Ulster Concord Hudson United States America Poughkeepsie Amercan Pemorical Society New York Forticulturale Society Naure

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