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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1883
Page
7
Netta Howard nurses hope as she aids Captain Brown and Judge in Brookline. The judge reveals Isa’s elusive past while Netta pursues a hidden link to a lost relative. Mrs Sweeton and the household share meals and plans amid mystery, illness, and quiet triumph.
The judge prompts Netta as Captain Brown and Thomas stand by near the steps. The judge urges Isa’s child to speak, asking if Isa is living. The reply comes that Isa is not living, but her children are. Isa’s children provoke surprise from the judge.
Captain Brown and Netta uncover a Boston chapter of a long-hidden past. A girl’s deathbed letter and a judge’s search connect Isa’s children to a guardian, the Sweeton boarders, and a surprising Boston homecoming. The judge vows to shield the mother, while Isa’s kinship unites long-severed families and transforms a rural farm life.
Readers are urged to consider Compound Oxygen by Drs. Starkey and Palen after a self-conducted test on 41 cases. Claims include cures or great relief in uterine issues, consumption, bronchitis, liver disease, neuralgia, debility, and nervous disorders, with notes on limitations and authorial self-justification.
Locals hear pounding from a farm near the Berkshires as workers enlarge a house for Mrs. Howard and build a new barn for hay. An old farmer notes a bearded, white-haired judge from Boston visiting, while townsfolk discuss the scene and people passing by on the river road.
The New York Morning Journal reports Mrs Kellogg lay paralyzed for weeks before St Jacobs Oil cured her completely after seven physicians failed. The St Louis Post-Dispatch notes Mrs Phasbe Rice, sister of Jay Sexton, chief of the fire department, who suffered years with acute rheumatism. Initial use of St Jacobs Oil gave instant relief and continued use restored her to full health.
Colonel W. A. McDonald smiles describing his twenty second daughter as the "girl baby No. 22" while noting the medical claim of Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" to address female complaints. The notice appears in the Coffee County Georgia Gazette.
In a railroad car a woman wears a broad back of braided lace in an elaborate pattern. An old man studies the interwoven design, tracing lines to reach the center without crossing a braid, a puzzle that renews his boyhood fascination while the woman frowns at him.
Miss Carrie Fenn of Wallingford Connecticut, after a two year lapse caused by cerebro spinal meningitis, suddenly recovered her memory for music last Saturday. She had been a skilled pianist and church organist but lost ability to recall notes and pieces. Friends watched as she played her difficult selections for hours, regaining former skill.
A newborn child in Turkish Kurdistan draws attention for a full beard and exactly forty fingers and teeth. Visitors pay to see the marvel as the infant snaps its thirty two teeth at onlookers, prompting the removal of front teeth. The cradle scene shows the baby stroking its beard with its forty Hogers.
A Georgia farmer returning from Americus reports a large bale of fire moving along the road and across a graveyard causing him to flee to his home where he became seriously ill. The piece also advertises Ely's Cream Balm and a Philadelphia fashion magazine with Strawbridge and Clothier as distributors.
A New York shopper laments how ordinary soap sinks and wastes water. A clerk explains floating soap exists but wears away quickly, noting current castile varieties and portable toilet soap floaters are limited. She bids for a durable, buoyant soap that remains usable.
A Louisville crowd recalls Bob Atwood once a bright, generous business man and college educated. After prison for embezzlement he tried to escape his past, wandering West seeking work but facing recognition and distrust at every turn. The tale ends with him securing a street car driver job in San Francisco after much struggle.
A French mante-clock on exhibition at Shreve Crump and Low’s was procured by New Englanders for the Continental Guard of New Orleans. The Grecian temple form features eight gold bronze columns and a gilt base, with a gold and marble dial. An inscription on a silver plate runs the full base length: Presented to the Continental Guards of New Orleans by the New England Mardi Gras Excursionists of 1883. The clock includes a pair elegant candelabras 14 inches high of polished brass.
John Russell a 60 year old miner and English born printer died at Bellevue Hospital with no friends or home. He left twelve bark books showing deposits for $40,000. Cause of death Bright's disease. Public administrator took charge. no claimants.
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