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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1879
Page
5
A dense historical treatise arguing for paper money and state-backed credit. It criticizes metallic money, extols national paper money as a stable medium, and discusses France, England, and Venice as case studies while denouncing gold as intrinsic value and urging expansion of credit to avert panics.
The Norwich Superior Court hears Brown's probate appeal revealing the life of Captain Jim Smith of New London. Twain described him as a raging yet tender seafarer who amassed wealth, governed with bluster, and retired to Granite Street with a Kanaka but no women. He died in 1877 after a long decline, leaving his estate to a Kanaka boy and a nephew, sparking a legal fight over the will amid doctors and clairvoyants.
David Cutter, seventy, of West Pittsfield Shaker family, drowned himself in the whill-pond after being rejected by the Shakers who had expelled him four weeks earlier. He returned Tuesday seeking reinstatement and left a letter about the future not inviting, asking a friend Francis to handle burial and effects. He has relatives in Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts.
The San Francisco Workingmen convention chose Denis Kearney as president. The platform pledges a forty percent city tax cut, evacuation of Chinatown with Chinamen moved outside the city, caps on water company income at $500,000 annually, and nominees must accept a forty to fifty percent reduction and transfer the difference to the treasury.
A long letter from James G Blaine to New York merchants argues the decay of American commerce since the Civil War. He cites shifts in shipping, British competition, and the need to preserve navigation laws while promoting home shipbuilding and a general system of government aid for U.S. iron steamships and wooden ships to revive the carrying trade.
The text argues naval strength as essential to national defence and pride, noting the steam merchant marine as a trained sea militia. It calls for protective duties to foster manufacturing and for great commercial lines to key ports, urging Americans to learn from rivals.
Agnes E Hall a Fitchburg woman and wife of Jackson F E Hall took prussic acid at her home 50 Fayette street to avoid testifying against Emma White in a larceny case. The 35 year old committed death by own action after visiting the jailed friend Wednesday night. The case was to be heard in municipal court.
A German farmer Jacob Schuler near Kapunda and his wife welcomed five children in a single stretch after a remarkable sequence of births from 1873 to October 1878. Neighbors and a six-penny fund support the family as medical authorities in Adelaide verify the case and Britain’s Queen Victoria is urged to consider bounty extensions.
Inquest at Bangor Maine found Dr Addison F Packard dead on a railroad bridge from a bullet wound. Key clues included a hotel bag with cartridges, a revolver, and a diary suggesting wild speculation and possible fraud. The body was found after a man on the bridge reported a pistol shot and a railing blood stain.
Philadelphia June 18. Evidence suggests Parr did not die from strychnine but from morphia injections given to counteract it. Dr Gilpert, coroner, says hyperdermic treatment caused death after 250 grains of laudanum were administered, not the poison to Parr. Analysis showed only a small trace of strychnia in the stomach.
The Blue Book presented to Parliament details British and foreign shipping disasters for the year ending June 1878. It records 5 total British losses, 1621 serious casualties and 198 minor ones. Foreign vessels lost 69, with 111 serious and 220 minor casualties. Across British coasts and abroad, total losses reached 850, with continuing uncertainties in casualty counts. Lives saved by boats and rockets numbered 4070 at home and 121 abroad, while 88 vessels were listed as missing. Thirteen UK deaths and eighteen abroad were recorded among the lives lost.
An 1877 Pittsburg Commercial extract extols CARBOLLN FP a deodorized petroleum hair treatment claimed to restore thinning and gray hair. It asserts scalp cure, dandruff disappearance, and gradual shift to darker color, with rapid visible results after few uses and broad praise from users.
Davisville Cal November 8 1873 Chas Langley Co San Francisco receive testimony praising CARBOLINE as a hair restorer from baldness to healthy growth within weeks. Notary public James D King records. Other endorsements from Allegheny City J Gallagher and attorney Joseph E Pond Jr Brill Co and Gustavus F Hall note dramatic regrowth and satisfaction.
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