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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1888
Page
7
A concise review of James Buchanan's presidency within the broader arc of early United States political development. Includes context of 1850s tensions, party dynamics, and implications for national governance. Highlights key events, policies, and their lasting influence on American history.
The piece surveys the Buchanan administration amid prewar turmoil, detailing Kansas conflict, John Brown, tensions with Britain, Utah troubles, and the Harper's Ferry raid, with notes on the 1860 census, finances, and looming Lincoln era. It highlights the border wars, diplomacy, and internal divisions shaping the nation before the Civil War.
Lincoln Journal reports a new matrimonial bureau offering to match applicants. No. 1 a 28-year-old healthy orphan seeks a loyal partner willing to wash and care for him. No. 2 a 19-year-old poet and pianist desires a well-off husband. No. 3 a cler k in Lincoln store seeks a graceful society girl. No. 4 a tall, bald, $40-a-week suitor with jaundiced whiskers invites a photograph and letter from a patient partner.
Captain C F Moulton of Dunstan Corner placed under 500 dollar bonds not to leave his premises until a specified time as a precaution against spreading diphtheria.
A fragmented Detroit Free Press ad promotes healthy eating with a quirky line about a banana’s nutrition, implying peel waste relates to outdoor dangers. The copy hints at prudent shopping while stressing safety and value.
A quirky note from the Philadelphia Record notes a humorous calculation about collecting a pound of honey from clover. It cites 62000 beads of clover and 3750000 visits as the required effort, presenting an oddball statistical aside rather than a formal report.
The article surveys late spring fashion with wraps, capes, and gowns. It highlights pinking’s fall, introduces smocking as a new trend, and details black shoulder capes with Vandyke pins, lace, and jet passementerie. It notes jewelry advances including enamel buttons, gold filigree, and ivory cane handles, plus whimsical tooth charms and moonstone pins. Jean Kincarp.
The piece describes moire ribbon wraps with lace trims and long sashes, alternate silk and lace turns, and navy cape styles for travel and evening wear. It notes short jackets for street use, new Redfern designs, and upcoming naval cape trends. From Jewellers' Review, eye glass holders, tortoise shell pins, green gold anchors, lace pins of thistles, woven jewelry, and new garnet ball bonnet pins are highlighted along with tiny bracelets and Egyptian mummy pendants.
A New York lumber dealer, stout and aged, nearly suffers a shock when told that his timber yard is on fire. The tale, delivered gently by a tactful niece, misleads him into fearing the worst. He mutters about insurance as the imagined blaze fades, then collapses in relief as danger proves imaginary.
The National Republican notes that Congressmen overall are eminently respectable in appearance. It cites Belmont with a Prince Albert coat, Governor Long in cutaway suit, Gibson's well fitting attire, Leopold Morse’s sack coats and light colors, Phelps with a sailor’s jacket and bright necktie, and concludes the House presents a respectable, well dressed image though few flashy dandies.
A New Haven sporting man plans to quit poker after a high stakes four kings hand aboard a riverboat. After watching players and the grim odds of a $5 to $10 pot, he reveals he is finished with poker and will play only occasional gigs at policy, despite a run of luck at Gravesend.
Portland dressmaker reportedly made over 23 dresses for a single young lady in eight weeks yet the girl fears another outfit crisis before fall. She owns only one good dress and worries about what to wear to church or a quilting party.
A Lewiston Journal item notes a Portland man who travels by handcart selling rich looking soil for house plants at five cents a peck. Patrons buy on sight, with quick sales.
A St Louis journalist claims to have discovered a key to Donnelly's Bacon Shakees sarcarean cryptogram, asserting the breakthrough in decoding the historic cipher. The report presents the journalist's assertions as a potential step toward solving the puzzle and notes questions about verification and interpretation.
A scattered harvest of curiosities from early days includes a drunken Reading man with 1722 dollars on him, wages of a mechanic in Astoria buying a barrel of flour, a Georgia Supreme Court argument over 15 cents, and an average Mexican laborer living on scant per diem. It notes oddities from railway to war veterans, odd legal quibbles, and curious local tales across towns and states.
A prose fragment recalls Evaline, an old maid left alone after her parents and sisters married. The narrator, dwelling on her loneliness, notes her dependence on John and the pity of neighbors, imagining what might happen if she finally wed.
New York hatter offers social guidelines for men: raise your hat to ladies and those saluted by your companion, remove hats in hotel elevators when ladies are present, and greet as deferentially as to any other woman. The advice emphasizes respectful recognition in public spaces and when assisting others.
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