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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1889
Page
2
Margery Graham exposes Richard Haggard’s crimes and duels fate with a banker’s aid. In Beechwood Manor, Duke Pringle’s threats, a marriage contract, and a courtroom climax lead to Haggard’s fall and a steadfast reunion. Margery vows justice and love, forging a new family.
Two excerpts from Humphrey Boyden recount a London bound confession and a life drama surrounding Beechwood Manor. A POWELL-like narrator describes murder, theft, and a plot to save an innocent man, then blends fiction with truth as a heroine’s tale unfolds amid memories of Beechwood and its mistress.
An advertisement offers a mail package for fifty cents including a copy of Sunshine for Little Children, two engravings by Ida Waugh, and a three month subscription to The Weekly Goss, claimed to be worth one dollar and seventy five cents. The magazine is edited by Rev. J Henry Smythe.
A reader thanks John G Whittier and Oliver Wendell Holmes for a charming set of children's picture heads received with two Sunshine issues. The note praises the gallery as a bright, untaught depiction of childhood and notes an offer to mail the set for fifty cents with payment instructions.
A Brunswick, Georgia man, A C Banks, shows a Panama hat valued around 40 dollars gifted by a foreign captain. The piece, folded like a sombrero, is knitted from fine Panama straw requiring cool conditions to craft. The rare hats take 12 to 138 months to complete and sell for 50 to 126 dollars.
Joseph Oscar Johnson of Macon is condemned to laugh for life after a stroke in Clinton South Carolina left his face paralyzed on one side. The locomotive engineer cannot control his involuntary laughs, fears church ridicule and cannot attend funerals, leaving him to rely on his father in law in Wilmington for support while he waits for relief he prays for. He has a wife and five children and offered a poignant farewell to them before the ailment.
A San Francisco Chronicle essay recalls a kindergarten boy challenging belief in Santa Claus. His father explains truth and love make parents the real Santa. The boy, stunned, asks if the father also fed him devil stories.
A mother remarks that George toys with Gracie’s affections as he calls for a year without proposing. Gracie counters that the mother’s presence each evening leaves him little chance for a private moment. The exchange hints at romantic tension and social expectations.
In a Burlington Free Press vignette a husband jokes about selling frontage land while the wife protests, recalling promises not to sell the beloved lawn. He admits lack of lawn care experience, adding comic relief to domestic tension.
A Detroit Free Press fragment recounts Major Davis’s repeated threats and a people’s whipping after he boasted of buckshot. The tale shifts to a wedding fiasco involving County Clerk Dan Scott and Arabella Johnson, ending with her eloping with a cowboy named French Jim. Additional mischief includes a horse thief chase, a judge gagging on a limb, and a farcical sidewalk nuisance case against the Kicker.
Fifty years ago Sir Astley Cooper guessed a pistol was fired with the left hand after examining a wounded man, then whispered that if the associate Patch were left handed he might be the killer. Patch, who was left handed, was tried and confessed.
A humorous Harper's Bazar snippet shows a playful scene where one person taunts Brown to drop a nickel in a slot, while Brown refuses and instead proposes dropping the coin into a hand to reveal weight age and size, hinting at a lighthearted social joke.
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