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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1881
Page
8
A San Francisco correspondent laments California’s modern estado, criticizing politics, taxation, and press, while praising the state’s wealth and potential. He warns of overbearing reform, legal fragmentation, and capital flight, yet foresees Bear Old California recovering as mining and industry advance under leaders like Leland Stanford.
COLORADO SPRINGS April 24 reports show spring’s advance with lush plains, rising grass, and hopeful stockmen. Farmers expect good crops aided by plentiful rain while mining arguments favor Colorado’s minerals over New Mexico and Arizona due to labor, water, markets, and transport. The Denver & Rio Grande pushes 500 miles of road. the Opera House opens, and Palmer backs a new hotel as Colorado Springs grows as a health resort and residence center.
A Richmond Republic item contrasts value across crafts and trades. It mocks vanity purchases while applauding skill and labor, noting how poets, financiers, and the United States mint transform resources into money. It highlights prices from $2 to $50,000,000 and ends with a quip on labor.
Postmasters and agents are advised to form clubs now while the fourteen months' offer lasts. Sample copies will be sent to all who need them. If a subscriber does not receive a paper, it is likely that the subscription has expired.
A Kansas City reader asks if a father’s grant of 100 acres in Ohio to his children still exists and whether the land can be recovered. The Globe replies skeptically, mocking the tale and advising no inheritance, suggesting a fruitless hunt across Ohio and beyond. It hints at delays, taxes, and the futility of pursuing the land, ending with a jab about asylum admission.
A South African paper recounts a tale of a Indian rajah who learned English and impressed the Calcutta Viceroy by reading an Edinburgh Review. The rajah’s elephant then cut the pages with a carved ivory cutter, returning the magazine and the gift to the viceroy, who kept the animal alive as repayment.
A New York Legislature committee reported favorably on Assemblyman Murphy's bill aimed at Anthony Comstock and his society. The measure would bar testimony by agents or informers for any society or non prosecuting individual when a defendant is charged under a penal statute for violation. An Unwelcome Adoption. Nellie Noonan, 12, of 60 Bedford street, was approached by a drunken woman offering a four month old child. The girl accepted the infant, named Tommy Ford, then boarded a Banker Hill car and fled before a police officer intervened, and the child was placed in the Charaon Street Home.
Beaconsfield faced death with wit and courage as he uttered clever lines and refused to confess to Nihilist plots. He preferred life but would not fear death, leaving England with a celebrated statesman and formidable political figure in posterity’s view per Spirit of the Times.
In this beginner friendly note Barker presents a position labeled No 830 where White to move defeats Black with a forced sequence. The article lists contact for correspondence and notes a separate position No 829 by Barker with the designation Position No 829.
The Wright and Golden checker match in Portland Maine began on the 25th at No 13 Fluent block with many top players present including William H Broughton and Kimball. Wright drew the opening with the Fife movement while most games ended in draws. Wright won two of the later games before an illness summoned him to Boston for a death in the family, halting play and delaying the conclusion by a week. Golden wished to discard games played so far and start anew.
A report details a postponement refusal and a trip to Richmond by Furgeson and McDonald for Mr. Brown with scores listed. Subscriptions to the Wyllie fund total 137 dollars, hoping to grow before Mr. Wyllie’s England tour mid May. Barker’s American Checker Player sales rise since October, with a new edition upcoming. 179 pages, 534 variations, 22 contributions, cloth binding.
Reader letters from Pierson Greenford Lowell Bald Mountain Boston Ludlow and others express thanks for published games scores solutions and contributions. Several correspondents acknowledge receipt and request future submissions.
A collage of wry notes and jokes from various papers, referencing Paris wit, Reform satire, and encounters with notable figures. It mentions a Dedham youth stealing razors, portraits of Carlyle and Eliot, and a mockery of politics and theatre, culminating in playful curiosities about ships, bans, and a Rhode Island senator.
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