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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1879
Page
6
Boston, May 16, 1879. Abigail Perkins writes of mourning attire and social scrutiny as she visits her husband’s grave, notes letters about life after loss, and recounts a serialized tale featuring Jennie Chase plotting to aid Frank La Grange amid a murder case, with themes of vengeance and societal judgment.
The story moves to the Chase farm where Frank La Grange arrives after a town visit. Farmer Chase, intent on justice for the murdered clergyman, seeks to stop any action that might avert the hangman’s doom while his daughter works to avert the sentence, and the farmer’s stern resolve clashes with family ties.
The Chicago Inter Ocean reports Peter Cook of Nashville village died last year and wished his wife Sarah buried beside him. Workmen moved the coffin on a hillside grave, opened it, and found the body petrified like yellow marble, except for the water-damaged hands. Mrs Dockills died fourteen years earlier of typhoid fever and weighed nearly 500 pounds.
In Boston a broad push educates girls in cooking and housekeeping to improve health and social progress. Miss Parlon leads cooking lessons at 158 Tremont Street while a new North Street school trains young girls in domestic work via miniature kitchens and play, aiming to instill proper habits and better lives.
The article notes a rise in the dead meat trade, detailing twelve months to January imports: 15,455 tons salted beef, 26,161 tons fresh beef, 15,987 tons salted pork, 465 tons fresh pork, and 17,250 tons of meat described otherwise, totaling 69,341 tons, implying hardship for local cattle farmers.
A guest at a uptown dinner party, the younger brother of an English nobleman, voices a candid view of the United States. He says he does not altogether like the country for one reason, expressing frank opinions about Americans.
A dialogue at table contrasts English and American terms for idle people. The Englishman defines gentry as those who never work, with fathers who never worked. The American retorts that such people are called tramps in the United States, prompting laughter and a shift in topic.
A humorous tale follows an amateur farmer who celebrates a spring crop revelation with dancing and kitchen calamities. A bean sprouts wrong and sparks a comic domestic dispute as his wife questions farming logic. The episode ends with anticipation for cucumbers to appear.
A North Side policy court hears a moving plea from a mother, Mary, begging leniency for drinking and neglect, as two children implore the judge to let her return home with them. The scene includes a suspended $100 fine and testimonies of a dissipated mother who once attempted suicide by lake, with other family members present.
A June case before an Indiana justice of the peace featured a female plaintiff versus a bank. The lawyer sought sympathy through tears and rhetoric, but the judge found for the bank, noting the court’s sympathy lies with the law and the record. The decision underscored that justice favors the bank despite courtroom emotion.
In a Georgia tale the observer reports a white woman ploughing while her husband plays the horse. The ground shows expert ploughing, and she quips that this is how she will get work from Elam, making him do what she can. The anecdote reflects the era's rural dynamics and gender roles.
The article details the season's street suits with short skirts and stacked puffed backs, tunics, and a gaily trimmed flounce. It covers skirt plaiting methods, fichu wraps, jackets, and the Incroyable coat, plus numerous trimmings like fan plaiting, Vandykes, shell edges, peKin use, and pekin bands. It notes bold trims, shawls, scarves, and bold color palates, with feathers and wings as key accessories. It highlights fashionable parasols, laces, sachets, and new hues such as silver blue and rose pink, and concludes with a nod to the impion shaded wings for spring and summer.
The court ruled that the injured leg could not be used and the cat carried the tire to the cotton with its three remaining legs. The defendants were found culpable and ordered to compensate the owner for his share of the loss.
Nellie Taylor, daughter of Camden pastor Rev J P Taylor, elopes with and marries William Allcott, a Germantown and Camden house painter. The couple wed in Germantown after secret meetings, despite the rector's objections. Nellie, twenty two and educated, sent a defiant note to her father declaring divine sanction of their union.
A sensational defense of a Chinese bone removal method describes how law bans disinterment yet firms evade it by extracting bones soon after death. The article details alleged surgical steps, rituals, and postmortem processing to pack bones for shipment to China, arguing it proves ingenuity against legislation.
A fragmented column blends risqué verse with social bits and odd anecdotes. It mentions Queen Anne and a discreet chaplain near a bedroom, a New York court scene, marriage statistics from Holland and Paris, a poker tale with four kings, and a Sanitary Police reaction to yard clutter accompanied by humorous bits about household lessons for girls at Five Points.
A South Norwalk physician overhauled an electrical machine and held the crank while his daughter turned the handles. The child asked to play again, and she cheekily claimed she played a hand organ yesterday when she behaved as the monkey.
An American girl at a London ball was found by her mother resting in a secluded nook with a gentleman. When confronted, she introduced him as Captain X and explained she could not keep her dance promise, offering him a sitting-still wait.
A Pittsburg Leader notice reports a Wylie Avenue baker and his married daughter amid a money scheme. The daughter allegedly took 3000 from her husband and gave it to her father who opened a bakery. After a 1100 cash handover, the pair vanished. The daughter is also said to have run a 125 liquor bill for the elder, settled by the husband.
In India four men formed a copartnership to buy cotton. They owned a cat to guard the stock with each man claiming a leg. Beads adorned the legs, a rag with oil was wound on a leg, the cat caught fire and ran into the cotton bales burning the stock. Eight partners sue the tavern owner for damages.
A lighthearted quip from Paradise Pennsylvania features a son asking for meaning of paradise and a father replying that paradise is the next summer when his mother visits her mother. The exchange playful emphasizes family and seasonal plans.
Mrs Merriweather of Memphis defends southern progressiveness at a St Louis woman suffrage convention. She recalls voting for Susan B. Anthony in Memphis, was helped to register by Senator Harris, and notes confederate colonels escorted her to the polls. She argues southern intelligence and calls out Tennessee laws allowing spousal whipping.
A near Cologne tale tells of a rich Jewish family member nearly wed when a peasant woman interrupted the ceremony. She claimed to have smothered her former nursemaid child years earlier, then swapped infants and raised the other child. As a devout Christian, she refused to allow the Jewish daughter to marry.
Governor Irwin toured the Napa asylum days ago and was briefly introduced as governor by the superintendent. A patient, a large elderly woman, greeted him warmly and asked for a walk, then reportedly pressed for a kiss. The incident sparked discussion about decorum and protocol during official visits.
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