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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1891
Page
6
Agnes Westfield faces ruin as her fiancé Robert Chandler confronts his brother Fred’s debts and a forged trust. After a deadly storm exposes hidden truths, Agnes discovers Robert did not betray her but was betrayed by family schemes and mistaken loyalties.
The Marlboro Enterprise reports a wedding amid a stormy morning as a flood of sunlight breaks through. The couple anticipates a life of bliss beyond earthly bounds. The prose praises enduring harmony and wishes them radiant happiness on their journey together.
A Chicago Herald tale from a Colorado rail trip describes a handsome man who flirts with a mother and, during a long tunnel, kisses a nurse. After the tunnel, the mother discovers the nurse’s collar and bonnet are rumpled and accuses the man, while the nurse admits the kiss. He continues in the smoker car for the rest of the journey.
The St Louis Globe Democrat notes that typists’ eyes tire from constant movement between the keyboard and page. Reading while perched high and turning the carriage worsens strain. The remedy is developing skill to type without looking at the keyboard to spare the eyes.
Indianapolis News describes how telegraph operators respond to jokes by sending coded signals. Operators use patterns like four dots and a dash to spell ha and occasional hm to express surprise, generating a cold but earnest bedside laughter amid lonely night shifts.
The Denver Times explores the widespread 13 superstition with hotels and offices omitting the number. Many prominent hotels have no room 13, while office buildings skip it or label floors starting at 200 on the second floor, 300 on the third, and so forth. Property owners report difficulty renting rooms bearing the number 13.
A Chicago Times joke dialogue explores jealousy in marriage with a sharp twist. A wife notes her husband mentions certain ladies, sparking her fear of those not named, while the punchline suggests the unmentioned women pose the true threat.
A reflective essay extols trifles as seeds of genius and life’s progress. It argues small acts and tones shape character, relationships, and outcomes, linking ordinary observations to major human achievements through examples from art, love, and exploration.
A discussion of boomerangs warns of unpredictable landings and dangers. It notes the potential to injure people, damage property, or return to the thrower with painful results. Advice suggests starting with small, safe models and using protective trees in open country.
The piece argues for adding measurement data beside portraits on currency. It cites Sheridan and Hancock as examples, notes Grant and Holmes heights, describes Flynn and Powderly as short, and claims many famous figures are misrepresented by their images. It also mentions Sir John Macdonald, Stanley, and Longfellow as discrepancies between face and size.
A Philadelphia man, noted in business and social circles, keeps meticulous records of his entertainments with a score of girls. He explains he tracks costs like theater tickets and carriage hire and credits pleasure as passable time, distributing invitations by who brings the most enjoyment.
A Chicago Tribune report recounts a tense accusation scene between a distressed parent and a daughter regarding an alleged kiss with Hankinson last evening, prompting a public confrontation and emotional testimony.
A Detroit Free Press style piece parodies marital dynamics where a wife endures a severe nervous headache while her husband dismisses it as minor and then feigns illness herself to receive sympathy. The alternation of domestic scenes highlights gendered expectations and comic exaggeration.
Narrator recalls voyage to Johnson's Island on Erie railroad under parole. Guards at doors. crowds curious yet courteous. stations filled with inquisitive locals. Women asked if they thought the war was right. one quip tied to Lincoln’s era ends with a joke about a bridal trip at sea.
The Nephi Ensign editor, a rival to The Arizona Kicker, recounts a recent clash with town postmaster John Witbee at W H Gage's saloon. He describes Witbee as unesteemed and half drunk and notes he was pressed to take a drink during the encounter.
In a humorous card game tale, Deacon Johnson loses heavily to Rube Davis who holds most of the stakes and securities. A misread final card ruins the deacon as the group disperses. The next Sunday Rev. Careful Smith explains the deacon’s absence due to a cold from wearing no coat.
Florence Lockwood argues two central questions about women and girls. She urges recognizing differences in life conditions to improve relations with educated working class women and to avoid patronizing them. She notes leisure and knowledge come from birthright and labor, not from pretending equality.
A Chicago bank robber, boasting about tinkering with finances, pockets his loot and muses on a political path. A detective intervenes, revealing a 44 calibre pistol for examination and likely charges. The scene unfolds with tension as authorities move to secure the weapon and arrest the suspect.
In a Munsey's Weekly sketch a messenger boy questions who sent him on an errand. Mr Smith and the boy debate whether the sender looked clean shaven or with a beard, the beard having grown since the trip began.
In Munsey's Weekly a dialogue shows Edith agreeing to marry Tom Chapman, age about forty. Jack questions age, Edith defends the match, and Ethel approves, noting couples near the same age are often happy.
In a Chicago Tribune fragment, a couple debates leaving the house for a theatre visit. He questions if she packed only one handkerchief as she prepares to hear Clara Morris, highlighting a light, domestic moment in a 19th or early 20th century urban setting.
A London Punch scene in a theatre pit shows an overheated matron clinging to her hat while her family and nearby spectators clash over visibility. The father demands the hat’s removal as the boy Jimmy fights to see the stage, leading to a temporary confrontation and eventual awkward reconciliation as the pantomime resumes.
A New York Ledger note traces the origins of common words and titles. It connects varlet to valet and vassal, explains rotten row to la route du roi, and links dandelion to dent de lion. It also covers madame sir biscuit verum dictum and explains earls popes kaisers huzzy knave caitiff jiminy nincompoop and assassin.
The excerpt notes how dreams compress vast journeys and histories into short durations. It cites Ariel’s quick girdle around the world and the rapid, panoramic scope of dreams across China and Peru. It mentions reflections on historical figures and events appearing within dream time, including Plato, Luther, Cour de Lion, Noah, and the Day of Judgment.
Dr Abercrombie recounts two men who dreamt vivid fates while unconscious. One imagined enlisting, deserting, being tried and executed, waking to a distant noise in the next room revealing the dream. The other dreamed of crossing the Atlantic and spending a fortnight in America, waking after a sea fright to find only minutes passed.
A collage of light verse and mock romance from periodical snippets. Skits on March’s mischief and spring’s heralds mix with playful doggerel about love, cooking, and life. Authors and sources implied include Lippincott's, Youth's Companion, Niagara Spray, and Pack.
Edith M. Thomas writes of bright days, mellow clods, and forest budding pleasures. She recalls winter’s harshness and lingering memories, seeking forgiveness for past grief as spring promises renewal and new growth.
A fragment from a 19th century column includes lines celebrating a Spanish town romance with cigarette smoke imagery and a humorous protest against Mrs Jen ness Miller's dress reform movement. The verse parodies social fashion debates and laments the changing role of the petticoat in society.
In Frank Leslie's Weekly and March Century poems, a lyric speaker contrasts outward plainness with inner courage. The verse notes a common man who has not faced cannon fire, sailed seas, or saved a child, yet longs for a tender response from a feathery heart amid a throng.
A vivid scene centers on Madeline S Bridges entering a shop with frost kissed features and wind tossed hair. She removes outerwear and stands by the register as a tall young man accompanies her, while a narrator teases affectionately about scolding and nagging.
A reflective poem in which a speaker laments failing a beloved partner John Boyle O Reilly Style. The speaker recalls tenderness and pleading from the departed, confesses blindness and guilt, and ends in solitary kneeling beside love s grave with loneliness after his death.
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