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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1882
Page
6
A detailed portrait of Broadway from dawn to night describes the street as a living mosaic. It follows shop girls, clerks, and shoppers, the clash of wealth and poverty, and the city’s transition from commerce to theater and nightlife, ending as Broadway awaits dawn.
A witty exploration questions how circus performers spend winters off the road. It muses on whether clowns, riders, contortionists, and trapeze artists maintain odd habits at home, balance on heads to drink coffee, read papers inverted, or pose in parlor settings as if still in the ring. It notes the annual retreat of performers as tents fold and the season ends until spring.
A brisk man asks about Christopher Columbus's death and who discovered America in a Detroit shoe shop on Michigan Avenue. The cobbler jokes his son Shon takes all measures and knows his crowd, while the customer waits for Shon to arrive.
A country visitor described a novel ploughing setup with a enslaved man guiding a furrow, a girl sowing seed, and a woman steering a second plough to cover the seed. One mule served dual labor, pulling both ploughs, a view praised for efficiency yet noted for harsh strain on the worker.
Detroit Free Press recounts Chattanooga and Chickamauga, detailing Bragg's retreat and Rosecrans's strategic stalemate. It notes rail and wagon-line hardships, siege starvation, and the vast toll on mules, wagons, and stores. The piece argues the Federal line preserved East Tennessee under pressure.
An evocative portrait of a Western river port on the Mississippi, recalling a folding stool sitting old captain and the river’s timeless mood. The piece blends memory, scenery, and the lure of steamers as a famed visitor returns to New Orleans, prompting reflections on river romance and distant nights.
A striking unknown woman at the capitol rotunda drew attention at the Garfield tea party. Dressed in gold satin with black lace, she impressed guests with beauty akin to Spanish-American ideals. She revealed herself as Mrs. Ream, daughter-in-law of a Cherokee princess from Indian Territory, marrying into the Ream family.
J Chamberlin's sheep Bob Lusk had his seventh fleece at Chamberlin ranch Belton New Mexico on the 27th alt t weighing thirty six pounds. It brings total fleece weight to 246 pounds thirteen ounces and an average of thirty five pounds four and one seventh ounces per fleece. Bob Lusk is seven years old weighs 127 pounds and remains champion of the world as no other Spanish Merino is known to equal this record.
James Ray of Owensbyville Georgia owns a gander claimed to be 110 years old, based on the 60 year age of Dr. W H Watkins at the doctor’s birth. Charley Furlow notes the bird’s wings drag the ground and that the gander walks a half mile daily to Brughy Creek for water.
A dialogue with Dr. T S Lambert outlines inherited life as fixed but modifiable by care. Vocations influence longevity only when aligned with natural temperament. farmers and judges often show long life. Body proportions, head shape, and facial features are cited as indicators of long or short life. Diet matters little beyond overall vitality. certain foods aid brain or muscle activity depending on work. Notable long lived families, including Morse and Vanderbilt, are discussed alongside regional centenarian patterns.
A fragment discusses aging with a provocative point. It compares two men, one 110 and another limited to 30, arguing that averages mislead and offer little comfort to the shorter-lived individual. The speaker questions the meaningfulness of averages in human life.
New York Graphic urges rapid spring gardening with hoeses rakes ploughs and barrows while spoofing fad items. It mocks seed packages cat deterrents and varnish seeds to force growth and lampoons wild gardening ideas and overoptimistic farming antics with playful satire.
A collage of verse and mockery features T. B. Aldrich contrasts with a New York Mercury quip on wives, then the San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Tribune tones parodying society and politics. Included are literary obituaries and verse fragments reflecting 19th century press wit and social satire.
A family crowded around a baby for a portrait turns from joy to tragedy as the beloved child dies. The piece contrasts loving devotion with the ache of losing the little one, leaving a darkened home in Elmwood and a line about the boy they once cherished.
A stout-looking young man resembling a tramp was bid on before the Richmond courthouse and sold for one year of servitude under vagrancy charges. The bidder paid one dollar. William J. Collins bought him and planned work on the railroad.
Lord Campbell’s memoirs recount a moment when, despite a savage temper, he showed gentleness in court by saying, Let the prisoner be accommodated with a chair. The remark shocked the bar and audience, yet the crier loudly interpreted it as a sign the judge intended to hang the prisoner.
In a Louisiana Russian Jewish colony a yoke of oxen hitched to a plough drew attention as a Russian leader at each handle and a driver with a whip. Five men guided each team, signaling a lack of farming instinct among the group.
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