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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1879
Page
7
Easy routine guides for breeding and raising mockingbirds and other songbirds in cages. Detailed steps cover feeding, hydration, housing, temperature, cleaning, and enrichment. Practical tips include hand feeding schedules, specific foods, supplements, watering, bathing, and ways to prevent disease.
A guide to affordable home crafts describes stained glass like prints on transparent paper, leather carving for frames, and creative wreaths. It shares steps for applying designs to glass, making basil leather carvings, and creating decorative mats from corn husks, canvas, burlap, and repurposed textiles with practical instructions and tips.
A long review of Peterson's Publications listing T B Petersons new titles with prices and formats, praising Col Thorpes Scenes in Arkansas and Pretty Little Countess Zina, plus The Shadow of Hampton Mead and Jarl's Daughter and Other Stories. Also discusses political cipher despatches and Indiana politics, praising Voorhees and critiquing naval funding.
A suit has been commenced against the company to recover 10000 dollars it forfeited by its refusal. The action seeks to bind the monopoly to respect the government and compel payment of dues to Uncle Sam, with Attorney General Devens urged to press for full redress.
A patchwork of sentences notes figures and personalities from 19th century politics and society. Mentions Earl of Beaconsfield, Jeff Davis, Georgia salaries, a German dentist, Julia Ward Howe, French ornaments valued at 100 million, Russia financing press supervision, and varied anecdotes about public figures, clergy, and courts.
Journalistic expose traces the rise of vagrancy in Massachusetts, detailing laws, the Bridgewater Work-House, and interviews with Captain Nahum Leonard Jr. It includes inmate histories, routines, and a contract with Springfield to employ convict labor, arguing for stricter tramp laws and noting echoes in New Hampshire and Vermont.
A Mayhew Street School House on Hawkins Street will be converted into a lodging place for homeless wanderers. The city budgets 400 dollars to fit it up under overseers of the poor. A three member supervising committee will manage nightly operations from 7 to 10. Applicants must obtain a station-house card, provide personal details, and receive a bed ticket. Baths, drying room at 170 Fahrenheit, and hospital-like wards will house guests. Rising hours vary by season, with meals and work assigned after breakfast. dumb-waiters move food from the basement kitchen to the dining area.
A three days’ debauch ridden man enters a squalid reading room where locals know him. A ten year old girl, neat and bright in a shabby dress, enters and her childlike dignity stirs pity and a moral lesson in the quiet space.
A young girl visits a room door to door asking for charity and coins. One man initially refuses but a penny request leads to a five cent gift and peer pity. The girl comforts the poor man, urging him to buy bread, and a charity assistant hugs him as he distributes money. The scene ends with the man raising over $40 for a cause.
A Boston hotel case of a dying wife from Europe was investigated after rumors claimed foul play. Police found no ground for suspicion. the wife died peacefully with her husband by her side and mournful relatives and hotel staff attest to his kindness and care. The mysterious Chelsea visit was a grave visit to her mother in law, arranged at her request.
Chicago correspondent notes Miss Emma Abbott’s successful season and social receptions at Palmer House with prominent citizens and clergy. She wore black velvet and diamonds, joked about fans and lyricism, and remarked on yellow hair drawing affection from college youths, while her vivacity remains captivating.
A Burlington Hawkeye excerpt recalls a once promising college man who built wealth, married, and had three children, but fell to drink. The tale traces his downfall from prosperity to poverty, noting a grim arc from success to ruin and a final remark that sometimes it ends with power or wealth in a sobering twist.
Miss Susie Jones daughter of Captain Jones a pioneer settler after noticing goys treeing an animal near her house armed herself with a gun and pursued the creature through willows and forest with dogs for nearly a mile. She confronted a large catamount in close proximity, fired and felled it becoming a local tale of hunterly bravery.
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