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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1887
Page
6
The Second Division moves to Savannah as Sheridan’s Army of the Shenandoah pushes to Woodstock and New Market. Destruction of property along the Shenandoah Valley is detailed, including artillery, wagons, arms, and supplies, with a Congress resolution praising Sheridan and his corps.
The narrative describes deserted broad avenues on the night of January 27 as soldiers move the arsenal and troops sail up the Cape Fear river toward Wilmington. Returning to Morehead City then New Bern, the author follows Union advances to Goldsboro under General S. and notes news of Lee's surrender and the dawn of peace. The piece ends with thanks and an offer to publish sketches in a $1 form-price booklet.
In a humorous Brooklyn Eagle piece, Sir Isaac Newton is lampooned as a garden thinker who discovers gravity via a falling apple. The essay riffs on schoolchildren, patent jokes, and the Bell Telephone Company's claimed rights, ending with a poke at royalties when things drop.
A Brooklyn couple with occult leanings adopt a fierce black cat named Mary Anderson later Queen Victoria. The cat inspires a cat chorus, outwits several lethal attempts, and survives multiple suicide missions using a water pipe, mortar box, and eventual chloroform. Victoria returns home repeatedly, ending with a grimy, unrepentant resilience as the household contends with her antics and a final bottle of chloroform.
In a Philadelphia Times reminiscence set in a prison, a Confederate officer sharing the narrator’s name persuades a Baltimore sympathizer to mail him pants. The tailor’s measurements lead to absurdly long legs and a snug chest, producing a comic, ill fit that becomes a vivid, cautionary anecdote.
A Columbus courtship tale tells of a handsome young man who feigns injury to avoid a midnight walk home. He manipulates the scene, is carried inside, undresses, and endures a mother’s mustard plaster vigil for two hours until a blister proves the ruse, before reforming.
A young school mistress tells the New York Sun Teaching is a holy calling and delights in shaping future ladies. A male admirer hesitates to continue his proposal, while she apologizes for her own evident zeal and invites him to proceed.
A Detroit prep press item features a dialogue about Sunday work. Jones dismisses Sundays as not the issue while Smith laments the other six days of the week.
A clipped newspaper quip references Adam and Eve and aprons, with Burdett and Hardacre Crosslets delivering a playful line about bathing and attire. The light exchange hints at humor in a broader society page snippet.
An Atlanta Constitution witness recounts two engagements to illustrate taste in romance. She describes first engagement marked by restraint and distance, and a second with more display. The discussion covers expectations of engaged couples, regional differences, and evolving public approach to romance and flirtation.
A Burdette spoof set in Colonel Agamemnon's study where a deserter named Norm visits, the colonel denies knowing him, and distractions of wartime talk mix with plans to gamble and mock heroism. The scene shifts to old comrades recalling Fort Slaughter and Threety-twoth division, ending with bets on subscriber awareness.
A humorous reminiscence on a church fair run by ladies to aid foreign missions. It lists tasks and excesses from baking to ice cream, selling, waiting on tables, and messy finances. The next day a reporter claims the ladies cleared a handsome sum and will host another event.
A four year old in a New Jersey town watches a thunderstorm from a window and misinterprets the flashing as God’s house on fire. He calls for his mother in alarm and soon believes God has a water hose to put out the blaze as rain pours down.
In a Detroit Free Press snippet a man asks a probing question about a turning shaft. Miller asserts the shaft’s center is not turning and explains that the shaft is hollow, prompting a terse exchange about the mechanism.
A lengthy 1887 letter from Shirley on the Piscataquis River asks how New York City visitors should conduct themselves in Maine heat. The World reply mocks urban pretensions, proposes light etiquette guidance, and suggests practical options for handling relatives visiting villagers.
A dramatic scene unfolds as Joseph and Mary, a betrothed couple, prepare to seal their seven-year agreement with a kiss. The solemn ritual occurs at seven o'clock, witnessed by their quiet surroundings and the household cat, culminating in a prayerful blessing after their kiss.
A San Francisco News Letter meditation on a dog yawning revealing naturalness over affectation. The piece describes a dog’s yawn as graceful and unposed, with vivid detail of its posture, jaw movement, and the imagined bone motion, ending with a grave satisfied expression.
A half dozen young men staged a dripping umbrella prank at a Harlem public hall after an entertainment. Audience members fled to safety as umbrellas appeared, umbrellas dripping, and the crowd reacted with excitement and laughter. Weatherbound youths resolved to repeat the stunt elsewhere in the same evening.
An Iowa politician Tuttle warned he would insult President Cleveland at the G A R encampment in St Louis and commander de God calls for divine vengeance. The talk draws sharp questions about leadership and past war service as members debate the provocation and rite.
A clipped conversation from a Rehoboth Sunday Herald column features a wife reproaching her husband for waning affection after marriage. The husband retorts with minimal acknowledgement, while the wife questions his attentiveness and consideration.
Fragmentary dialogue from a historical page shows Burdette and the Grand Army Post of Philadelphia engaging in a humorous exchange. A quip about swearing and a playful rebate to the President appears among garbled snippets involving Friend Fairchild and the Uaker City Post, reflecting postwar social humor.
A nervous hotel waiter asks if the waiter visited Sarah Bernhardt's room as a hall boy recalls a knock at the door. The fragment hints at a sensational encounter involving the famous actress and suggests a dramatic hotel scene from a historical Omaha World article.
Frank G. Carpenter reports from a treasury counterfeiters’ gallery where a guard describes $1,700,000 in fake money, methods of aging notes, and a $1000 bond immitation. He details engravers, ringers, and the roles of Smith Brockway Doyle, and profiles secret service chief James J. Brooks and various counterfeiters including women, Chinese, and American offenders.
A compact antiquarian collage presents verse and prose fragments from a 19th or early 20th century miscellany. It intersperses humorous quips about vanity and wealth with literary allusions from George Eliot and Percival Lowell, ending with a reflective tide poem about longing and sea dreams.
A reflective poem in old style extols the steadfast figure who waits through poverty and delay. It envisions small plodding steps turning to golden outcomes, noting happiness returning slowly, with birds heralding merit and universal acclaim. The final image crowns the patient figure as a just ruler marked by peace.
A fragment from Julie K Wetherill in July Atlantic reflects on love's late, inexorable pull. The speaker weighs bliss and woe, pondering passion that invades sacred moments, then recalls a first kiss shared with a beloved, amid rising spring imagery and unanswerable questions about youth.
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