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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1880
Page
8
Charles F Barker of Cambridgeport advertises checker lessons and mail instructions. He offers one opening with three variations for 25 cents, fourteen variations for 26 6 1.2 and a dollar for all, plus weekly office tutoring at 80 cents per hour.
A fragment lists letters to and from readers in various cities including Canbridgeport Cambridgeport Union Springs New York City Taunton Mass St Louis Missouri and others. It notes game publications responses and thanks with mentions of Glasgow Cres ton Cincinnati and other locations and requests for future games and analyses.
Boston moves center for chess and checker players at No 15 Pemberton Square room 13 inviting old friends and patrons. Mayer for May issue promises engaging material. Dr Brown of Limerick, Ireland, a noted problem composer, visits for two weeks. Newark headquarters at 74 New Street invites the boys to call, with Fife variation notes.
In Montpelier, the game of checkers is praised for its move toward scientific rigor. The piece cites the World’s Checker Book of 1879, noting it presents 22 openings with numerous variations and 455 original games. It argues the game can be studied like arithmetic, requires strong memory, and mirrors human life through foresight and caution.
A detailed report notes a remarkable medical procedure yielding a successful outcome. Surgeons describe innovative techniques and precise steps that achieved healing. The event highlights skilled professionals and hospital settings contributing to this notable achievement.
Reading despatch recounts William and Frederick Reed, young German immigrants in Pottsville area, driven to near suicide by a cruel joke about Mollie Maguires. Fleeing once frightened, they were found in Reading in distress, one with thoughts of self harm and preoccupied by fear. Officials arranged work then faced their homesickness and threats of self harm. Steps planned to send them back to Germany if possible.
Uncle John Robinson, mencer chief of a Cincinnati menagerie, bought sea lions from James Mullett of San Francisco. George Fisher found a newborn sea lion in a crate on arrival in Chicago, weighing about 18 to 20 pounds. The baby, two feet long, is lively and brown, with a proud mother and protective male. The newborn is said to be only the second sea lion born in captivity in the country and planned for shipment to Marietta then Matamoras in the circus today.
A historic remedy claim markets Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract of Smart-Weed as a powerful treatment for diarrhea dysentery cholera morbus cramps colic and related pains. The ad asserts its efficacy against colds fevers and inflammatory attacks and recommends household possession with a price of Wiity cents by druggists.
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