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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1880
Page
6
Special correspondence reviews Ireland's post election balance of power, land question, and relief efforts amid widespread distress. Parnell's followers gain seats, land reform proposals loom, and relief funds from Mansion House and Land League shape aid. Conclude with harvest prospects and ongoing charity demands.
An elderly man charters the tug Neptune from Goodall Perkins to take a couple in secrecy beyond the Heads. A clergyman conducts a brief marriage at sea as the bride faints, and the newlyweds, of French descent from Los Angeles, plan a European tour after brief stops in New York.
On the ferry, Judge Van Snyder hears a tale of Dr Potts nearly bursting from yeast swelling after mistaking dough for mush. A cooper and gas tube save him, while talk turns to a medal for a state champion bar. The young informant’s fuller name prompts the judge to note details for a governor’s nomination.
A satirical portrait of King Chulalongkorn and General Grant during a crisis, with mock medical cures and cosmic interventions. The king acts with grandiose plans, while Grant endures a volatile episode described through humorous religious and demonic imagery.
The Williamsburg infant Andrew Geiser, born June 7 1877, shows a skull measuring about forty inches in circumference. Doctors cannot explain the condition, noting no similar case in a hundred years. The family, once well off, now relies on a modest lager saloon for support as the boy remains healthy and content.
A well dressed guest avoids a dinner with a tempestuous actress by arriving in rubber boots and oilskin gear. The husband endures a mishap as the hostess erupts into a kitchen showdown, while the guest quips I am all right and invites the storm to proceed. The scene ends with a blow to the eye from a soup ladle and the guest declaring he would have enjoyed the meal otherwise.
A Petersburg appeal letter recalls the famed Revolutionary War giant Peter Francisco. Descriptions cover his height of six feet one inch, 260 pounds, dark swarthy complexion, large hands and thumbs, strength to shoulder a 1100 pound cannon, and feats such as dancing with his head touching the ceiling. He joined at sixteen, fought at Stony Point, Brandywine, Monmouth, Cowpens, Camden, Guilford Court House, and served bravely in Greene’s southern campaigns.
A Brooklyn Eagle summary recounts John Ray and others petitioning state legislature for relief over lands seized from John G. Leake. It traces Robert Leake’s 18th century service, his New York fortunes, and the vast Leake Watts estate, with a 1827 death shadowed by suspected fraud. The article recounts James Hay and his Scottish and English claims, a romantic pursuit, and a controversial Blackwell’s Island witness.
A Brooklyn Eagle item blends seasonable verse about summer boarding with a comic tale of a lodger demanding endless ice and summer price, then shifts to a German report describing a flying machine claimed to imitate Edison. The piece explains a two bag air craft using hydrogen and compressed air with rudder control and center of gravity adjustment to steer, likened to a bird’s flight.
A collage of vivid vignettes spans Southern dialect humor, a judge in Little Rock, and a Burlington Hawkeye mock scene. Bits of fiction, theater anecdotes, a Judas name tale, a Kansas City delegation note, and a Baltimore surgical breakthrough mix with London gossip on acting and Sullivan.
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