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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1891
Page
2
Royal Champion faces police detention after challenging the Bay District Company in a growing strike. Pickets guard offices while leaders plan calls for solidarity and discipline amid accusations of theft and intimidation in a tense confrontation.
The article reflects on Robert Louis Stevenson as a Scottish boy in Edinburgh whose imagination spanned Robin Hood tales and Arabian Nights. It recounts his youth, love of travel, and later life at sea among Pacific islands, where he encountered French and native cultures and taught by priests and sisters, while detailing tapu beliefs and island customs.
An New York dealer explains that human skeletons are bought and sold as legitimate transactions. Skeletons come from hospitals and museums, prepared by experts, and sold to academies, schools, and displays with prices up to 3800 dollars for first class cases. Paper pulp imitations exist for fraternal rituals and can fetch 75 to 150 dollars, while real bones fetch far more in legitimate channels.
An excerpted 1889 overview details William A. Conklin’s Central Park menagerie in New York City. It lists enormous annual feedings—horses, hay, corn, oats, fish, bread, and more—plus costs, daily meal routines, and the animals’ tastes. The piece notes meat eaters like cats and bears receive specific portions, the Sunday meat-fast, temperature controls for different species, and health issues from pneumonia to a rare cold, with medicines and occasional dramatic care measures.
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A Cape Cod Item verse wonders if fate sickness or sorrow dimmed the muse and asks if a beloved inspiration’s eyes and brow show sorrow. A message from the muse arrives promising restoration curing ills without potions as health returns. Street & Smith’s Good News Iowa humor closes with a playful office-boy exchange about whistling.
A Pittsburg Bulletin humorous vignette about the Woman's Society for Reforming the Earth meeting. Mrs Wiggins questions bonnets at the Sorosis annual gathering. The president’s remarks are interrupted as the adjournment hour passes while she finishes.
The snippet presents a quip about the firm Schwindel macher & Co. not standing but sitting, followed by satirical lines about self-satisfaction and disappointment in others. It showcases humorous exchanges and moral reflections typical of the periodical’s tone.
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