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03 Jun 1884

Page 7

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Boston Weekly Globe

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 03, 1884

Page

7

Woman of Wax remembers her own fate and joins case

A dramatic turn of events follows Ada Ricard's return to New York. Gobson is freed on bail, the crowd cheers, and Ada publicly reconciles with her former husband. Pending revision reveals political maneuvering, while Dow and Saunders pursue an ever-widening trail linking Ada, Gobson, and Colonel Forster through a dangerous, entangled vendetta.

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James Gobson Criminal Court Kelly Mortimer James Midler Peters No. 17 Twenty-Third Street William Dow Central Police Office Mr. Kelly Miss Ada Lam Dow Twentythird Street Ada Ricard Mary Mr. Gobson Gobson Tven Ada Govson Ada Hicard Mr. Robertson, Jr Robertson, Jr Nore Saunders Mr. Saunders Staten Island Colonel Foster Mr. Robertson Robertson East Twenty-third Street Sam New York Colonel Forster Wil Ham Forster Hin Harlem Edward Forster Robertson & Co William Dowall Staten ‘Shind Robertson Agency Higher Criminal Court Davis O'Neill New York Harbor Douglas Es Frank United States Ada Treard Macready Gorson Gaip Iask Lils Captain Young Young William George Boston Buffalo Jefferson San Francisco Keley Robwetean Union Hotel Jefferson City Missouri Que Wiliam Dow Mr. Dow Miss Aa Don Washington St. Louis Worning Gald James Golson Lis Hull Thomas Bernett Thonas Bernett Tom Bkyng Tom Byng Ana Omaha Mgr. Saunders Desert Rocky Mountains Velug Foulmore Cooper Captain Mayoe Reid John Butler Butler Dakota Iowa Secre James Govson Sioux City Chicago Faust Jimie Jim Tey Fort Dakota Prairies Washall Winka Buller Makenl Ian Aqa Dave Willam Dow Washah Jimin Pacific James Gobs No Willie Saunders James Gubson Jolin Mr Ada We Sherman House Omata Benton Wyoming Territory San Franciscd
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The Happy Clam and the Thoroughly Persecuted Mollusk

A humorous Boston scene explains why clams and oysters flourish under pressure. It contrasts New England and New Yorker labels, notes varieties like quahaug and littleneck, and details Rhode Island clam digging and Indian style cooking with seaweed covered clams baked over seaweed and rocks.

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New England New Yorker Boston Bunker Ail Monument
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Fees and honors paid to physicians in historic courts

Before retirement, the high incomes of physicians are noted. Radcliffe earned special fees for visits to Namur and St Petersburg, Granville 5000 and travel costs. Sir W Gull received 5000 each for two Pau visits and 7500 for Perthshire travel plus time with a patient. Dr Dinsdale in 1768 inoculated Empress Catherine and her son at St Petersburg, earning 60,000 down plus a life pension of 2500 and a baronial dignity.

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Radcliffe Lord Albemarle Namur Granville St. Petersburg Sir W. Gull Pau Perthshire Dr. Dinsdale Catherine St. Petersbure
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Brazilian Coffee Growth and Market Prospects

A cautious advocate notes Brazil’s coffee progress since the 1770s near Rio de Janeiro. Virgin forests yield high-quality beans with soil magic from ash, trees per hectare, and four-year fruiting. An official association backs global exposure, with Amsterdam exhibits and rising exports. From 1877 to the 1880s exports more than doubled, Brazil supplying about half of world production in the past decade.

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Rio de Janeiro Brasil Amsterdam Brazil
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Advertisement of a new liver pill reads clearly

A signer from Macon asks if a billboard promotes a circus, boss race, or a liver pill. The reader misreads the lines and jokes about earning a day’s pay to stand on the square and gulp pills to prove they slow the public.

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Detroit Free Press Macon
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Waiting Outside the Riggs House Speaker's Humble Ride

Washington Letter notes a modest Riggs House brougham seen each weekday before 10. The speaker, once unnoticed in Washington, arrived quietly after years as Lieutenant-Governor and six years later is now speaker. He then promotes ex-speaker Randall to chairman of the appropriations committee.

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Washington Riggs House Standall House Randall Committee On Appropriations
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The Doctrine of Free Will in Philippine Island Courtship

A Detroit Free Press anecdote notes a Philippine custom where a suitor asks the elders for their daughter and must seek her before sunset. If found first, the match is made. if not, the suitor forfeits claim. The girl has one hour to start and may decide her own path.

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Setnders Dow Butler Saunders Sioux Dakota Semmes William Dow John Sanders Young Bim Detroit
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Just What It Is. A California Lie From a Western Paper

A Western paper claims Mr Meeker of Argo Colorado hatched a duck with a nickel embedded in its yolk. The item is dismissed as a California newspaper lie and not a freak of nature.

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New York Graphic
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Turtle as Big as an Ox Captured in Monterey Bay

A humpback turtle about seven feet seven inches long and four feet across the back was netted in Monterey Bay last week. It weighed roughly one thousand pounds.

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San Francisco Chronicle Monterey Bay
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Marvelous recovery claim from Compound Oxygen cure

In Mississippi a patient declares a marvellous change after using Compound Oxygen starting last December, noting rapid improvement from nervous prostration and surprising recovery. The ad offers a free treatise on the remedy and lists diseases it purportedly treats, with doctors Starkey & Palen at 1100 and 2111 Girard Street, Philadelphia.

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Mississippi DRS. Starkey & Palen Girard Street Phi
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