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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1883
Page
8
Jacquin Miller reflects on the coming great American play centered on a silent, action rather than speech figure. He praises Dr. Dix of Trinity, praises Talmage at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, and contrasts Western stoicism with Eastern verbosity, arguing the central hero will define a new American drama. He cites Joe Jefferson and Davy Crockett as influences, and lauds American character forged in frontier and military scenes.
A critic lauds Dr Ewer as a unique preacher uniting old beauty with duty while condemning fashionable New York society. He contrasts Ewer with other clergymen and warns that wealth and fame tempt the idle rich to abandon honest life for fashion. The piece condemns fashionable women who sacrifice motherhood for status and artifice.
The piece extols sturdy traditional mothers who raised strong men and defended national causes, contrasting them with fashionable, barren mothers of modern society. Joaquin Miller addresses an audience in New York on March 15, 1883, praising motherhood as a noble duty.
A Rhode Island girl of sixteen wed a man over seventy. A New London barber shows a razor he believes is two centuries old. Greenwood Maine’s Ruth Cummings, 99, had four new teeth. In Montpelier Vermont, fifteen widows live on one street. Various oddities include a Springfield minister wary of work, a Moodus youth seeking $1000 to wed a wealthy West woman, and a Hartford couple celebrating fifty years without a death. A Vermont boy writes home from the West, a Lewiston man touts canal-ats work, and New Haven teachers bridge gutters with planks. A Burlington associable catalogs aged garments worn. a South Hadley monument mimics a fallen tree. A Fairhaven woman prepares for death but is redirected. final note touts Hop Bitters as the cure.
Charles F Barker announces Barker's American Checker-Player a new book from Cambridgeport Mass. It offers twenty two openings with 534 variations and thirty five critical positions contributed by Wardwell and Lyman. The 179 page cloth bound volume is offered postpaid for 75 cents in silver currency or stamps.
Position notes and results from multiple matches at New England Checker Rooms and Glasgow event. Adds correspondence letters from Fairhaven and Greenford with game corrections and draw claims. mentions players Bugbee, Busby, Powell, Wright, G. D. Bugbee, H. Z. Wright, G. H. Powell, and others. includes endgame by Isaiah Barker and various move sequences and verdicts.
The report lists Mr. Martins with 17 wins, 0 losses, and 8 draws. It notes opponents including Mr. C Adamson, Mr. J M Farlane, Mr. Peter Dodds, and Mr. George Izatt. Martins also gave a pleasing vocal and musical display after the play.
A historical puzzle page lists word challenges and notices from Andover and East Boston. It includes No. 1322 to No. 1328 diamonds and rhomboids, with multiple clues for across and down, plus local addresses, readers letters, and a closing note about grist and mail.
A dialogue reports Mr. Godfrey recovering fully using Hop Bitters after doctors gave up. In ten days of treatment, doctors deemed hopeless, yet the remedy restored him. The speaker plans to procure Hop Bitters for a sick acquaintance named George.
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