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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1891
Page
7
Harry Morse former Alameda county sheriff recounts crime era cases and a life among California outlaws. The piece notes California law allows life or lengthy imprisonment for unspecified terms, and cites Section 213 on robbery.
In 1868 John Langdon, a Sierra Nevada charcoal burner, marries Mary Ashton and bears a daughter before plotting to move his family toward a new life. He vanishes after a staged trip, prompting a dramatic 1873 highway robbery near Wells, Fargo and Co. A robber known as Frank Thomas is captured after a fatal stumble, sentenced to life in California’s state prison. Decades later visitors learn convict No. 20 406, nicknamed Old Mystery, bears his hidden past and silent regrets.
A man tries a late night prank to scare a careless servant by disguising with whiskers and a rig but is unexpectedly attacked when she wakes. He is struck with a chair and knocked to the floor, unable to explain who he is as the attempt backfires.
A garbled OCR fragment describes someone fumbling downstairs, a person named Abe, a door rapped upon, and a plea for someone to get up. The text is incomplete and lacks clear dates, places, or a cohesive event.
The article details a long running rumor involving Lady Brooke and the Prince of Wales, with her husband Lord Brooke threatening a divorce and naming the prince as a co respondent. It notes her wealth, beauty, and social prominence, and contrasts Lord Brooke's poverty and alleged uncouthness.
A Philadelphia Call piece recalls ministers noting brides often show more poise than grooms during marriage rites. It recounts nervous tremors, fainting brides, and grooms who freeze or mispronounce vows, including one who introduced his bride by her maiden name.
A playful verse from Henry Olive in the New Orleans Picayune describes the Speek as an elusive lunar vision that dances through night and day. It depicts the Speek riding comets and beating stars, teasing cows in the sky, and tickling infants, with a whimsy that blends moonlit fantasy and celestial mischief.
Tom Pipeman a Chicago fireman prepares to travel for work telling his wife and children goodbye as a prairie fire blazes in Illinois. He vows to write daily and telegraph from town to town while on duty. The alarm comes from the 157th ward as flames ravage a section of Illinois.
A June New York essay extols summer millinery, gowns, and veils. It notes huge leghorn hats, Parisian flair, and wide brims. features airy Hippen Jas fawns, delicate silks, and lace in cool daywear. Veils, velvet pelisses, and Charles V capes are praised for elegance in fashion and social display.
The piece extols a light blue crepe gown with silver embroidery and a long train, noting its large sleeves and slender, silvery blonde wearer. It comments on millinery wonders seen uptown, praising artificial flowers and decorative devices, while warning primpness.
A monk like figure, Sophocles, lived 40 years in a college yard with a bare room. He used library volumes on the floor beside his dictionary and box with a sick chicken. He cooked eight simple meals on a small stove, kept no table setting, and lived as a frugal ascetic amid academic surroundings.
In a Chicago Tribune column, Miss Laura notes their parrot’s long companionship and sharp intelligence while Hankinson and others discuss a clever parrot at the Casterlins that can imitate a kiss. The parrot in question resists unfamiliar sounds, prompting Miss Laura to remove the bird from the room.
Col Dave Pulsifer owner of the Tenny and Capt Billy Conner watch a painter pass by near the St James Hotel. Pulsifer notes the man follows one of the highest vocations in life. The colorist reveals he “mines ceilings” in a witty exchange.
In the New York Herald Braodsheet a brief dialogue recounts Bronson claiming a husbandly epitaph on his wife’s stone read “t is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.” Longnecker presses for the exact wording.
The Sheffield weekly notes a record year of Alpine deaths in 1890, driven by inexperienced climbers and a surge in mountaineering. It details fatal accidents in the Oetathal Kapruner Thal and Mont Blanc regions, the valor of guides like Carrel, and warns against solo or unroped ascents and bad weather while urging trained guidance.
The Detroit Free Press notes that Mother Goose was a real figure, not imaginary, identifying her as Elizabeth Foster born in 16665. The piece frames the character as a historical person linked to the nursery rhyme tradition.
A Boston hymn writer, long affiliated with Old North Church, died in 1757 aged 92 after years as a church member. Her first song collection appeared in 1716 in Boston, published by her son Thomas Fleet. She lived much of her life in a low one story house with dormer windows and a red tiled roof. She married Isaac Goose in 1693.
New York society women in summer maintain duties and entertainments as seasons shift. They travel between London, Newport, and Bar Harbor, joining dances, baths, drives, and dinners. To fit midsummer mood they must acquire lighter gowns between grave church attire and boudoir robes, a middle ground for social rounds. A recent design was sent to a Newport summer colony member.
Description of a new cheviot gown nearly transparent in pearl gray with shell pink brocade. It features a changeable dark silk skirt, jewelled passementerie trim, a silk plastron, matching drapery with buckled shoulders, pale pink mousseline sleeves, and a pancake pink crepon hat with silver gray lace brim and ostrich tips.
An Open Lace Idyll describes a gray costume of India lawn with hand-wrought embroidery in an open lace pattern revealing pale-green silk lining. The waist follows the fancy blouse order and is worn with a belt, Reprern.
Violet confronts Brice Rutherford over concealing her past as a divorced trapeze performer. Brice urges silence to protect Vance, but Violet resolves to tell him herself. On the beach she reveals the truth. Vance accepts, praising her bravery and choosing to move forward together.
An Arkansaw Traveller account recalls Jim, a new Pittsburg fire recruit, who hesitates at a blaze after forgetting his rubber boots. He asks for an umbrella, misses the ladder, and ends up assigned to assist in a ribbon shop once the fire is out.
A fragment from a dialect passage recalls a man named Dodgynes angered by a request for five cents and a sheriff selling an old master before the war for seven hundred dollars, with an offhand opinion offered on the scene.
A dialogue captures concern over a spendthrift son as a parent contemplates sending him away for the summer to curb reckless expenditures, noting that even a short absence might not reform his costly habits.
A lone elderly man visits Woodward's Gardens daily for nearly a year to converse with the monkeys in their language. He sits at the cage, emits guttural sounds, and the apes respond with chattering, dancing, and attentive silence as he seemingly carries on a private dialogue. Some say he was a sea captain whose crew perished in Brazil, leaving him with the apes as his only companions. He accepts the entrance fee and refuses to speak when approached, fueling curiosity about his past and gift.
A debate unfolds as Grindstone cites 2 Peter 1 20 to claim biblical prophecy lacks private interpretation. Kiljiordan counters that the reference is misattributed to Paul and suggests verifying the passage, prompting a moment of doubt and a plan to consult the New Testament text.
A gentleman seen by moonlight and a thief climbing a ladder to a house are interrupted when a neighbor challenges the intruder. The burglar responds with a whispered refusal to be disturbed, naming a local figure as part of the odd exchange.
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