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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1880
Page
6
A first person nightmare narrative titled A Mad and An's Memory recounts a descent into hellish landscapes, demons, lake of fire, and a serpent’s chamber. The narrator endures episodes of terror and doubt before awakening bound to rocks then dissolving into elemental existence, only to regain reason.
Pumbingo repairs a boat near Sailors' Snug Harbor on Staten Island while three aged mariners watch, critique, and fantasize about his work. He resents the scrutiny yet continues caulking, grappling with the old sailors' jibes and his own stubborn pride.
A Detroit Free Press report recalls a gravely ill ten year old boy living with his mother who died alone after others refused to care for him. Friends and neighbors berated him, then all vanished leaving him to die in a dreary room. He died in solitude, exposing a lack of mercy in the community.
A young man invited to deliver a Fourth of July speech explains the private interview. The old landlady accuses him of drinking, citing past drunken town criers, and hints at police intervention if he proceeds. The tale blends humor with social caution about public orations.
A Puck column extols presidential spouses, detailing Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Hancock as remarkable women. It parodies gipsy prophecies predicting future presidents, traces early talents of these women, and urges virtues like teaching, marriage, raising children, and musical skill.
Mrs Lillyone and her daughter fled their rural retreat in Alameda upon rumors of an English lord staying incognito at the International Hotel. A landlord confirms a party from Australia lodged there, while townsfolk speculate on the guest’s true identity and purpose as the drama unfolds around the hotel stairs.
A dramatic tale describes a bold woman who seizes control of a colonial, drags him downstairs, bundles him into a car, settles his bills in a flash, and carries off her prize to a lavish hotel. She rents splendid apartments for him, stirs the old man to tremor, lends 500 to the astonished Australian, and introduces her vivacious daughter Agnes, then retires satisfied with her so-called duty as a mother.
A satirical poem from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat recaps Dr Tanner attempting a forty day fast in Clarendon Hall. It charts his diet abstinence, the crowd’s marvel at his pale frame, and his surprising gain of forty pounds after the fast ends. The piece lampoons medical rivals and mocks extreme fasting.
A Louisville Courier‑Journal tale titled What is the Woird's Honors to Meet recounts a slave’s account of a plantation death in Nashville. The master endures grief as others rush to aid mistus, while a brave enslaved boy spreads the news.
An 1800s Boston Globe interview replays Moses Kimball and P. T. Barnum’s mermaid hoax. Kimball recalls acquiring a Japan sale for £6000, doubting its genuineness, and selling to Barnum who claimed it may be fake. The creature now sits in the Philadelphia and Boston exhibitions as a paying oddity.
Jeremiah Winfrey, a profanity loving lifelong skeptic in the riverlands of upper Arkansas, distrusts preachers until a prank by a boy, Abe, makes him swap roles with a circuit rider. After a mocked bet, mysterious barn voices push him toward revival and ordination, ending with a contrite but faithful Jeremiah praying as he remains a preacher, despite the joke and sly deception.
An amusing courtroom scene unfolds as Jasper Clay, a small Black man, is identified in court with bravado and taunting, while a colored Amazon confirms his meekness. The exchange ends with Clay being led away in a quiet manner, his bravado met by the magistrate and by the witness.
A ragbag of humorous vignettes and brief notices. A self styled exchange fiend visits a sanctum as a maid in a spoofing tale squeezes out a memoir title. Short satirical items include a colored sermon, a courtroom moment with Johannah McBride, temperance tales, a Shanty street scene, and a London Truth note on Bradlaugh’s oath dispute.
The Milwaukee scene reports a satirical take on hugging in public parks. A reader notes a Sentinel editorial calling for park seat removal to curb hugging, while defenders praise the act as harmless, even uplifting, amid constitutional quips and local levity.
In a public plea a speaker denounces forceful removal of park seats. They urge the sentinel to refrain from actions against the benches, underscoring that 50,000 young people lack a formal channel to express their needs. The request seeks continued access to the parks without displacement.
In Terry Mississippi Enterprise humor recounts two brothers both named Podger, lawyers in the same town. A man seeking legal help forgets which Podger he needs and learns that both share every flaw from divorce to forgery accusations to intoxication, with the punchline revealing the more sensible brother.
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