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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1888
Page
6
In a Detroit Free Press reminiscence, Mrs Bowser recalls courting and marriage as she helps her exacting husband fit shirts and collars. She teases his vanity with improvised garments, exposes his stubborn pride, and reveals a stash of love letters that sparked ongoing misunderstandings and comic exchanges.
A narrator recalls a childhood mishap with bolivar candy and his parrot Poll. The pink and white sweet causes the bird to become entangled, flinging plumage and chaos as Poll struggles to escape the sticky object and ends in a tense moment of comic distress.
A family journal describes a parrot named Poll laying an egg in a dark box. The bird’s peculiar plumage and the bizarre bolivar motif fascinate eighteen onlookers as they observe the nesting process and the egg’s discovery.
A gas official presses collector about telling Mr. Hendricks to pay today or face service cut. The collector admits he did not have the check because he was visiting the daughter until 12.80.
A witty 19th century tone mocks male prejudice about women’s attire. The narrator imagines Adam reacting to Eve's fig leaf garments with a quip about waistband tightness, illustrating enduring gender dress judgments and jokes about women’s clothing.
A short dialogue in which a young boy named Bobby delays an errand until he learns it is for his father. He finally agrees to find time to complete the task after his sister presses the point.
The minister notes the fish are delicious and freshly caught, while Bobby adds they were caught that morning, sharing a light moment about a Sunday family meal with Mrs Hendricks listening.
Wiggins notes in the newspaper exchange that loud impostors often succeed in public life while genuine merit is overlooked. Bobby counters that it is natural to put the blower before the grate.
In the New York Sun a speaker warns that everyone is liable to be called at any time. A young man replies that he did so yesterday making three men lie down on a pair of deuces.
In Sol’s Ridge a women led aid group raises clothes to clothe heathens in Africa. Maria and the Old Settler quarrel over the plan while he prepares to donate old red flannel shirts and corduroy pants for the effort, joking about their value and the wild North.
A humorous survey collects odd real names such as Rottengoose Honey bim Caultower Wittels Swine Fever Deadhorse and others. It notes a few changed names like Howard and Bodilly while highlighting the oddity of nomenclature and its social impressions.
A fragment from the Albany Journal describes a young lady's unique secular scrapbook. A tourist recently admired a violet centerpiece and a love story featuring Soteneel, noted as a highlight for the fair owner.
Young women at fashionable city schools resisted arm vaccination for smallpox, preferring the calf for marks during the season’s social preparations. An elderly physician and his assistant faced protests before the old mentor’s intervention led to general submission.
Charles H. Fennimore, blind from two eye injuries, runs a rural Lower Gapenkeen store ten miles from Farmingdale. He navigates by counting steps, weighing by touch, and memorizing prices and voices, changing accurately and handling up to a dozen items.
O H Miller reports a dog that seems to know more than many people and even walks upright on two feet. The canine brings a plate and cup, eats, carries leftovers to his kennel, and cleans the cup afterward. The dog is described as a Papist, never entering another denomination's church.
A Covington Georgia report tells of a married woman who waited up to midnight for her husband. Exhausted, she found him asleep in his room after he quietly left the house to go to his own room instead of the lodge. The piece notes the troubles of married women.
A fragmentary comic exchange portrays Robinson and Brown in a social scene with drunken banter about finding the keyhole and getting home. The dialogue evokes playful slang and a late night mood from a New York Sun snippet.
A humorous exchange between a wife and husband about affection after marriage. The husband jokes he stockpiled kisses to last, recalling how before marriage she teased him with affectionate baths.
In an interview with Billy McClellan, a Baltimore club house enforcer, the veteran gambler debunks loaded dice and marked cards and explains modern tricks. He traces cheating from Mississippi river steamboats to San Francisco and describes hold outs, glass work, scratches, and top-sain shifts as techniques, noting decline of card playing as a profession.
A survey of extreme prices for art furniture and jewels. Highlights include H G Marquand’s $46,000 Steinway piano with a London case by Alma Tadema, the Montreal $27,000 piano, Judearry E. Packer’s $47,000 sideboard, and Tiffany and Co. works totaling hundreds of thousands. Also notes on Meissonier paintings, Corcoran and Lenox Library items, and the New York State Capitol at Albany costing $12,000 plus.
The piece surveys ear lore across cultures and eras, noting beliefs about ear tingling and itching signaling fortune or misfortune. It cites early writers, poets, and proverbs, from Molière to Chaucer, and references weather lore and idioms such as walls have ears.
A stance against pie consumption argues pie eating wrecks mind and body. It links pie to crime, divorce, and social decline, urging abstinence by women and caution to men and families. The author cites Beecher and a New England village to illustrate costs and urges moral restraint.
A terse exchange at a gate scene portrays a young man insisting on entry despite a guard’s warning. The blunt retort from the guard emphasizes stern rules and the applicant’s insistence on admission, highlighting a clash over authority at the threshold.
A brief dialogue note from Epoch about Brown bragging of a 16 year old whiskey kept at home and a friend questioning why he cannot part with it. The exchange highlights stubborn attachment to aged liquor.
A husband admits paying a maid to stay silent after she accused him of attempting to kiss her. He orders the maid discharged and declares such a person untrustworthy. The wife reports the alleged incident and the husband responds with financial hush money.
A managing editor dismisses writer Mr Gramby from the paper claiming no longer wanted. The writer protests and demands an explanation as his editorials supposedly gain nationwide copying and Congress discussion. The exchange ends with a reason cited about a sane ball reporter taking a cue.
A Chicago Mail item recounts a State Street shoe store visit where a clerk notes a customer wears white hose. The proprietor explains it as a trade trick, suggesting hosiery signals footwear choices. The fragment ends with garbled text.
A collage of verse snippets and reflections from a Yale publication. The pieces move from romantic lyrics about Mabel to meditations on beauty and reform to a canoeing memory where love and mishap collide with a splash of humor and regret.
A poem describes a small boy approaching home as evening fades. The narrator recalls a familiar message from the house stating the boy is detained and will not return until late. The verse centers on waiting, household routine, and the ache of expectancy.
A lyrical piece depicts a Civil War style encounter between Gray and Blue forces. Vivid nature imagery sets a peaceful meadow scene before a sudden kiss ends the imagined clash.
Poem fragment describing a late night serenade with perfume and music. The speaker recalls a secret romance, the Jocaste scent, moonlit, violins weaving a waltz, and a rival who stole a beloved away, leaving lingering memories.
A lyrical piece from an English Illustrated Magazine excerpt celebrating spring. It intertwines themes of forgiveness, love, and nature’s return, with imagery of robins, snowdrops, daisies, and May’s birth, urging lovers to resume quiet companionship as winter fades.
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