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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1889
Page
7
A historical survey of trotting horses and pacers highlights Maud 8 as a defining figure, recounts decades of record progress from 1800 onward, and notes major lines of breeding and owners. It details top trotters and pacers, key speeds, and the shift from early three minute marks to faster times.
Allen Lowe discusses a 1874 to 1888 overview of trotting horses, noting several stallions and mares achieving fast miles. He highlights Jay Eye See, Rosaline Wilkes, Belle Hamlin, Stamboul, and Prince Wilkes as top performers, with Stamboul showing progression from 2.37 at age two to 2.17% at five and a peak last season. The piece reflects on breeding lines, lineage from Red Wilkes and Mambrino Cities, and expects further advances toward near two-minute miles.
Atlanta residents note many people share famous presidential names with local color. The list assigns seven George Washingtons across trades and homes, two John Adamses, Jefferson as a drayman, Madison cited for chicken stealing, Monroe as a six year old boy, and other echoes including Harrison, Polk, Taylor, Buchanan, Johnson and more, with addresses on Baker, McDaniel, Bell, Pine, Decatur and Seneca streets. The piece blends humorous census-like detail with street-level anecdotes from Atlanta.
A mother-in-law seeks help against her son-in-law Adam Beveridge a teacher turned abuser who poisons and beats his wife while his brother Philip schemes to murder for money The young wife loyal to her husband resists all coercion and a detective shadows the pair amid a web of threats and attempted killings.
A violent struggle ends with a battered assailant collapsing after a poison phial drops. Mrs Beveridge halts the attack by twisting his collar and necktie, while Adam Beveridge staggers in from the car and his wife faints. Post crisis, Philip is sent away as scarlet fever spreads, and Adam’s temper frays under fear of contagion as his wife nurses him, revealing a grim spiral of illness and coercion.
In a New England village near a flourishing female seminary, farmer Peter Buttonwood plans marriage after receiving a spring letter from Nellie eager to wed. Nabby Grant nearly traps him in a springtime April Fool prank with a witnessing seminary, leading to a mistaken betrothal and a joyous wedding a week later.
A bizarre survey of 19th century oddities spans pirates of history and science. Highlights include a salmon with an iron spike in its gut, an ex president Cleveland mail on a postal card, unusual executions, marvels in metals and stones, and curious local tales from multiple states and countries.
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