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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1882
Page
6
A Times correspondent tours a lower Manhattan hand organ factory and talks with the manager about production, pricing, and the organ grinders. The piece explains the mostly untaxed, rent-based street trade, the limited number of tuners, and the economics of barrels, tunes, and changing popular airs.
A small fleet dog chases a large raccoon to a creek. The raccoon defeats the dog then dives water to exhaust and drown the pursuer. A wasp captures a spider under a web then carries it away. The piece asks if instinct governs actions, citing Whately on intention and ends.
A Detroit Free Press recounts a 30 year old frontier incident near DeWitt Clinton County where a horse thief who shot a pursuer was seized by a mob. Lawyer Green led the crowd to jail, then claimed the suspect innocent, citing the man’s $200 cash and his role as Green’s client, warning action against any aggressor.
J M Davis of Fifteen Mile Cayou St Francis county Arkansas describes a panther encounter while hunting. The panther leapt from an oak limb and Davis wounded it twice, killing the beast with a final shot. The animal measured 6 feet 5 inches nose to tail and carried nearly a whole deer in its paunch, said to be the season’s largest in Arkansas.
An American describes navigating the Prince of Wales Royal Theatre in London. He buys a high priced orchestra seat, endures cramped box stalls, and witnesses Sothern’s daughter in a farce before a main act. The piece contrasts London etiquette, dress, and audience behavior with New York norms while noting strong English theatre productions and social rituals.
In Little Rock Gazette discussions, Mr J L McNeely a leading Pulaski county farmer voiced a strong view on capital punishment remarking on its severity and implications. His stance drew attention amid a broader local debate among residents and professionals.
A Philadelphia hatter explains the Guiteau head as lop sided and full of intellect on one side and devoid on the other. He links head shape to character with references to Forney, Curtin, Allen, and Van Buren, and notes large hats and grand heads in light of social quirks and the era’s political figures.
A New York Tribune account details Professor Hutchings at Bunnell's Broadway museum, recounting giants, dwarfs, albino families, and bearded women. He narrates dramatic antics of performers like Megan the strong giant, Sprague skeletons, and tiny marvels, with vivid anecdotes of crowds, shipping adventures, and curiosities from 1860s exhibition life.
A tale recounts Jay Gould dining at a strange restaurant and lacking enough cash to pay. He tries to reveal his name to the proprietor, who calls it too thin, threatening arrest for false pretences. A $1 million check is inflamed by a helper until a familiar man lends him five dollars.
A Denver Tribune account describes a dramatic buffalo attack where a hunter on a horse near forty yards away fires toward the beast. The horse shies, the gun is torn from his hands, and the rider sustains shoulder and ankle injuries after narrowly avoiding a direct horn thrust. The buffalo flees, while the hunter shoots the wounded horse to end its suffering.
A portrait of Jonas Johnson known as Big Jonas, a 6 foot 2 inch, 246 pound Swede in Knox county Illinois. Noted for walking from Illinois to California in 1858 with a wheelbarrow of provisions and for lifting a laden cow from mud and enabling a wagon to move by lifting the road. Now 58, he owns a 120 acre farm in Boone and Hamilton counties and two additional parcels.
Guitean followers and a Fre donia teacher Miss Cummings in Chautauqua County face shoplifting and burglary charges. They confessed, claiming inspiration by the Deity, stealing silk dresses china tea sets silver and other items to aid housekeeping. The piece notes epidemics of peculiar crimes across ages and cites this new felonious trend as highly shrewd.
In the Colorado plains rattlesnakes blend with cactus and grass, making them hard to spot. They creep into cellars and under stacks, prompting a general watchfulness during harvest as crews must beware the deadly snakes that hide under stacks and loads.
John Jurgens returns to Winne mucca from Woodriver and asserts the country will become the world’s top destination for bald men. The Silver State notes climate or water shifts have sparked hair growth among visitors, with Billy Powers showing dramatic thickening since last spring and staying until the new crop roots.
The New York Post reports a Cincinnati man vanished for nine weeks. Detectives tracked him without progress until a close observer advised the Mayor to appoint him to a city government post. Two hours after the appointment the man rushed into the Mayor’s office to be sworn in.
A collage of poems and parlor verse notes from a 19th century page. Items range from humorous exchanges about young men at festivals to reflections on ghosts, seances, and a memory poem. Several pieces critique fashion, theater life, and everyday scenes with light, ironic tone.
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