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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1883
Page
6
Detroit Free Press recounts the Corinth campaign with Beauregard and Halleck, detailing siege lines, evasive retreat, and a calculated Confederate evacuation. It contrasts Halleck’s cautious siege with Beauregard’s orderly withdrawal, noting vast lines, supply moves, and deceptive signals.
A lyrical meditation on June as a living dawn of nature. The passage follows sunrise from pale east light to amber and gold, detailing birds, larks, forests, fields, and meadow life. It contrasts morning energy with afternoon calm and a moonless, star-filled night, capturing June’s fleeting beauty.
A nostalgic portrait in Forest and Stream extols the simple joys of boyhood fishing. The narrative traces a day from selecting a pole and hooks to baiting worms, casting with a whistle and plunge, and marveling at the varied catches. It celebrates patience, anticipation, and the pride of a youngster with a string of fish and the prospect of another outing.
An evocative reminiscence by Pren tice Mulford in the San Francisco Chronicle on life as a gold miner. It details dawn to dusk routines, damp clothing, rough meals, sluice work, camaraderie or hostility among partners, and the toll on bodies from year-round labor in harsh Sierra conditions.
Japanese carpenters sing as they lay foundations and frame timber for buildings. They voice wishes for the owner's prosperity and invoke the gods, especially the fire god, to protect the work and all involved. The singing carries for miles, though no fixed tune exists.
A Chicago tale of a three year old baby guided by his grandpa through a shop where curiosity leads to mischief. The infant vacates ledgers, taps a safe knob, scatters violet air, damages a trade ornament and a dog’s tail, and ends with coal dust and lard oil, both punished and enjoyed.
London Spectator essay speculates on future human evolution over millennia. It envisions closer intermixing of races, a browner, slightly smaller future man, increased labor, brain toil, and eventual intellectual quiescence, with the coming man resembling a refined Chinese archetype.
A vivid, chaotic scene follows a boy singing loudly through the street awakening babies and dogs. The spree includes breaking a parsonage window, injuring a chicken, scolding a market woman, firing a nigger shooter at a farmer, hitting a dog, removing a picket, stealing a cooky, and intruding a school. The morning chorus features a student’s praise for a beloved teacher as mischief continues.
The cross signature arose to stand in for a handwritten signature among illiterate people and as an oath among the Saxons. It was used by both literate and illiterate signers, tied to sacred associations and the clerical class. The cross thus symbolized oath and faith, influencing phrases like God save the work.
New York graphic describes a night in lower Manhattan as a stern, crushing stillness among granite walls. The piece conveys a sense of menace and corruption lurking in the financial district, contrasting with natural scenes of quiet are absent.
A polemical tour through royal beauty, tracing Victoria's daughters, the Empress of Austria, Eugenie, Elizabeth, and lingering on the English Princess of Wales. The piece blends anecdote, portrait, and social critique, noting public fascination and the personal costs of palace life.
A Burdette letter to the Hawkeye discusses a well to do tradesman or mechanic employing a servant to ease domestic life. The servant lives alone, leaving the wife and child to manage without daily help. The piece explores social expectations and the strain of single-parent or wife-led households in a town setting.
A critical essay describes the gypsy as a historic outcast and wanderer from India, detailing their nomadic life, camp life, and roles of women as fortune tellers and traders. It contrasts myth with reality, noting cultural misperceptions, craft, and travels of Romany people to America while highlighting the persistence of nomadism and limited literacy.
Bill Nye recounts a tall tale about Exgeadle, a mover of coins and fireworks dealer, who quarreled with Shoshones near Fort Benton. He paraded a fiery serpent device, spooked the warriors, and fled with ponies, later becoming a famed peace commissioner in western history.
An impoverished but clever performer at a depot uses a hand organ, a breast pad labeled I am blind, and a transformed army costume with a bandaged arm to charm crowds. He employs a violin, a dog in a basket, and a clever act to earn loose change, insisting he would not sell the dog for less than the hundred dollars.
A San Francisco Jews letter features verses and quips on youth and age. A youth declares he aims to be a mighty general while the aged sage admits he has fired and has no aim. Other items include a raffle joke about a bottle labeled Parego7f-c and light verse on lamplit love.
A nostalgic verse recounts a broken romance after twenty years. The speaker recalls a former lover, notes changes in her life, and mentions her later marriages and widowhood ending with a small humorous schoolyard anecdote about a sick child and a quick game, set around Hartford.
Ella Wheeler argues against rushing life toward death and urges patience and hoarding vitality for youth. The New Orleans Picayune recalls American Indian wigwam burning to prevent kin disputes over a deceased relative’s property, contrasting noble savagery with civilized quarrels over wills and small inheritances.
A reflective verse by LG H Jessop explores how blues descend on a sunny day and crowd avoidance, then proposes relief through smoking a cigar. The speaker notes mood lifting as smoke wafts, clouds thinning, and the blues fade with the final puff.
The Bugle extols Fandera as the cheapest place to live, best to marry, hardest to die, ideal for business and real estate in western Texas. It paints a pastoral scene with fresh mountain air, clear waters, abundant flowers, live men, handsome women, many children, and plentiful food and canned goods, noting only the ugliest thing would be more.
A reader recalls a past scene of memory and delusion as a cashier challenges an impostor claiming to be his son. The exchange reveals a humorous clash of appearances and the notion of identity tested by family ties and a future reunion.
Fragmented verse exploring longing and rekindled love with lines about bonds of memory. Repeated refrain For old times' sake emphasizes intense emotion and defiance of pride and public disapproval. Reader impressions of yearning, memory, and renewed affection emerge through imagery of roses and angelic sighs.
The San Francisco Post is accused of a libelous claim about Washington crossing the Delaware not standing in the tableau pose but sitting and holding a seat. The Baltimore Sun is urged to bring the case to trial in this city with witnesses ready to swear they rowed in the historic boat.
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