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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1888
Page
6
The Atlanta city’s siege vividly described with blood red July, panic, and Hood’s command. Civilians watch wagons and troops, ambulances fill the park, surgeons operate as shells fall and prices spike in the war torn market.
A Buffalo Express snippet quotes a speaker describing his wife as a country daisy with limited knowledge of urban life. The remark uses caricature and regional diction to illustrate marital tensions within a domestic scene.
A narrator recalls a surprise evening with his partner. She greets him at the door with a warm kiss and a compliment about an ornate area that is “lovely for anything.” The item is then carried upstairs to the spare room as a surprise, followed by a light inquiry about whether a bedstead has been bought to match it.
A profile of Dr. Holmes nearing eighty describes his morning routine of vast correspondence and an amanuensis, afternoons hosting friends, and evenings spent amid a 6000 volume library. The Beacon Street home features a central study with a desk, a wall of shelves, rare editions, and a hidden carpentry shop in the basement where he enjoys quick, neat woodwork between reading and writing.
A fragment of a maritime interview questions list asks steamer captains about voyage timing fog off Banks coal usage earnings and personal life. It probes routes ships comforts and experiences across the Atlantic and beyond with casual curiosity.
A brief exchange in Texas humor shows a government official proud of punctual office hours. When asked if he ever works, he replies he is always at his desk for his "cuties" from 1:15 to 1:15 every other Wednesday, implying a humorous regular break in duties.
A boy notices a congregant who frequently mutters Amen during the sermon and asks his mother if the man is trying to disturb the minister. The exchange highlights curious churchyard behavior in a small town setting.
In a dainty domestic vignette Epoch notes a forecast of fair weather that proves wrong as rain approaches. A husband laments painful corns while the wife declines town errands, comforting him with shared concern and playful sentiment about weather and ailment.
The editor of a new paper declares the motto Onward and upward and three months after launch the publication has not only progressed but risen in stature and reach.
In a Sugar Swamp tavern tale the Old Settler recalls Redtail the Ripper, a famed trout, and Hank Yellrack's rival attempts. A comic episode follows Hank’s capture of Redtail using mammy’s boughten teeth mistaken for bait, ending with the fish wearing the teeth and leaving McGonigle's Run for good.
A satirical dialogue lampoons schooling and city life with mock “lessons” about stuffing children into an old crane of absurdities. Characters discuss a stuffer that mimics schooling and a hammock bound sidewalk inspector, revealing humor and social critique of education and urban work.
A Good Housekeeping essay urges couples to restore small acts of politeness. It recalls tipping hats, offering help upstairs, and saying pardon, excuse me, and thank you to spouses as well as others. The piece links tiny courtesies to harmony and happiness at home.
Thousands of Hyde Park chairs can be rented for a penny each with a history dating back to shortly after the battle of Waterloo. An impoverished English general who had served the realm was granted perpetual right to chair hire for himself and heirs, starting with one hundred chairs. now over 27,000 chairs generate more than $50,000 annually in income.
A crowded Woodward avenue car scene features a humorously inclined passenger attempting to pull the fare register, joking about fare evasion. The neighbor responds that the prank will cost a quarter if six tickets are purchased, revealing the passenger claims to be the conductor.
A Smithville area anecdote tells of a minister dining with a frugal parishioner who, amid hard times, serves bacon and greens. The host asks for grace and the minister prays to be thankful for what they receive, noting the unexpected bacon appears with the greens.
In a brief, clipped exchange a refined elder apologizes for a stumble while a polite ranger explains his awkwardness. He proposes a simple inexpensive article claimed to cure corns, bunions, or ingrown lesions.
Quevedo Awifully clever fellow Curtis ought to go more into society. He’d be a success. Miss Penn-You agrees. The other day he met me on the street and he actually raised his soft hat without appearing awkward.
A chaotic Thoms on Street Poker Club meeting led by Rev Thankful Smith ended in executive session as a rules panel drafted reforms. The proposed rules address betting, card handling, chewing tobacco and discipline with humor from Tooter Williams and Professor Brick as voices. The session closed after the chairman declared adjournment with a plan to review the constitution and tighten kinks in the rules.
The account notes strict modesty among Ainu women, with old norms forbidding exposure and girls wearing cotton gowns while boys bath unclothed. It contrasts cleanliness practices with clothing, purity, and body shape, observing thinner wrists and ankles and noting darker skin possibly from exposure or aversion to water.
The piece explains the whistle’s core idea of creating a vibrating air column and notes the wide range of devices and methods used to produce sounds. It highlights human whistles as most common and adaptable, then lists primitive whistles like willow, dandelion stems, nut shells, cherry stones, and buck horns as popular early experiments.
A Popular Science Monthly excerpt notes that some individuals describe their habitual alcohol use as moderate. It emphasizes the discrepancy between self judgment and behavior, questioning how real moderation aligns with measurable effects and frugal consumption.
The text discusses alcohol use in relation to meals, warning that stimulants taken without food are most damaging to internal organs. It notes that habitual light sips before meals, and terms used locally for such practices, are particularly harmful even in small quantities. It contrasts sipping with meals versus drinking more at times, urging moderation with meals.
A Yale junior society initiation unfolds with blindfolded candidates led across campus. Escorts subject the man to mock penances, tickling a carted child, bizarre rides, and ritual tasks around College Street, Trinity Church, and Dwight Hall, ending with a wild ride and unsaid rites inside the hall.
A Cass avenue resident and a Third avenue neighbor, long foes over land, agree to reconcile via a mutual friend. A staged handshake plan goes awry when a horse is swapped, prompting a return of the animal and revealing their renewed brotherly sentiment after a day of tears and forgiveness.
A fragment from Old Scrap Book notes a committee revised Twinkle Twinkle Little Star into abstruse lines about irregular light, a heavenly city, distant planets, and crystalline carbon. It cites obscure sources and alternate renderings, reflecting playful scholarly whimsy and linguistic puzzles.
A Chicago Tribune clipping describes a newly arrived minister asking a boy for Brother Hollia ter, who reveals the man is his father. The minister supposes Hollia ter awaits him as he overheard plans to kill two chickens for dinner and to keep the shysob hotel, implying ongoing arrangements.
A Pittsburg Dispatch joke scene centers on Miss Youngbelle debating Miss Neverdy’s age. Mr Jokerby claims fifty four, Miss Youngbelle dismisses the number, and Mr Jokashi Wall indicates uncertainty about the eighteenth birthday.
Harvard Lampoon style dialogue features Mr. Smith and Miss Seaside reuniting after a decade. He recalls a past refusal while she quips about youth and folly. They acknowledge they are now older and wiser.
In a ballroom scene George frets over a missing date while Gladys flirts with Glider and mocks his advances. After a tense sequence of dances and distractions, Gladys engineers an engagement with Glider, leaving George heartbroken and bound for Halifax.
A Detroit Free Press fragment captures a child asking if his aunt was created by God when his mother was young. The auntie explains that God made her first, prompting simple reflections on creation and family.
The excerpt lists names and languages including French German and professors Schwachaugen and Cheri. It suggests varying instructors for language study and asks Alyn about preferred language and teacher.
The Crimson shifts its stance from urging blazer wear to examining broader impact on student attire and campus identity. The argument now centers on how sartorial choices reflect university values and unity among undergraduates.
Blazers have grown as the exclusive emblem of Harvard athletic groups, the nine and crew, and should be welcomed as a natural extension of each member’s privileges. The final step is adopting the Harvard colors, with wearers respecting crew and nine. one monogram should symbolize both organizations.
A collage from 19th century verse and prose pieces features brief dramatic lines about love and fate. It includes a Cynic narrator who Sacrifices for another, a rosy Teaser celebrating a fair beloved, and a playful Perigee poem where a speaker caves to temptation before realizing it was his sister.
In this playful verse from Table Talk, Isaia To pretty Poll coyly rebuts a bargain of thoughts for a kiss. The speaker presses a penny for her thoughts, earns a kiss, and learns that kisses bring blows, while the girl declares her thoughts remain about him.
A playful verse by Eva Wilder McGlasson in Tid-Bits about tea and a coy tea host. The speaker vows affection while praising the offer of tea and the sweetness of sugar and cream in a flirtatious scene.
A lyrical vignette outlines a wooing tale where the narrator falls in love with a reigning belle. He notes a charm that grows from plain to potent as he woos her, facing courage and the shy, surprised smile of the beloved in a dimly gleaming setting.
A fragile speaker claims to be the missing mother of a child, seeking care and marriage from a man who offers to take responsibility. Amid whispers and evasive replies, the improvised pact centers on fulfilling duties of parenthood and partnership with a promise to mend and care for the future.
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