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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1885
Page
6
An extended diary piece presents Bill Nye musing on amateur gardening, oleander misadventures, and domestic life. He jokes about selling old plants and household odds while wryly contemplating a future in public life and the virtues of timely decisions in politics.
A writer to his son in Chicago recounts a journey aboard a sleeping car during a business trip on the Omehan railroad. He describes his first experience of sleeping on such a car at forty five miles per hour and notes the unfamiliarity of the porter while reflecting on aging and travel.
A man and a woman drift apart amid grand gestures and misread gifts. He travels away after a dramatic goodbye while she sends a box he misreads as a token of longing. Years later their separate yearnings linger, underscored by missed birthdays and lingering memories.
A Lewiston man recalls April 1861 when 220 officers and men of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment faced a hostile Baltimore mob on the march through the city. Brickbats, bullets, and a shattered bridge tested their resolve before reaching Washington.
A humorous yet sympathetic meditation on a man who cannot whistle and the social and personal burdens that come with this flaw. The essay contrasts his quiet endurance with the ease of others who find solace in melody, suggesting destiny and circumstance shape his fate while offering ironic social commentary.
A New York telegraph operator recounts meeting a neighbor girl across a street through pencil taps. They exchanged signals, became engaged without words, and married the next Christmas, illustrating an odd romance born from telegraphic play.
Marc Antony Grig, a famed tragedian of the old circuit, complains the house was cold yet claims he distributed good gold to ushers for a hearty welcome. Mr Ochstein, a plain manager, counters that two dollars cannot buy tumultuous applause or a cordial reception.
A Philadelphia barber, John, accepts a physician friend Louie’s unused Atlantic City pass and travels south. In Camden a conductor accuses him of posing as Dr. Louie to aid a fainting woman, prompting John to imitate a doctor with brandy and ice. The prank unravels, and the barber eventually returns home after two anxious days and a vow not to ride with others’ passes.
A business man questions a clerical applicant about writing across ruled lines. The applicant proclaims native independence and refuses to let a paper-maker dictate his style, asserting he will not conform to the paper’s rules.
A New York San anecdote shows a needy person asking a gentleman for money and receiving five cents. The man asks for the intended use and learns the reply would be to buy beer, prompting a quip about a champagne cocktail.
A humorous note from All Over Texas Sittings questions a man’s love. He acts as a letter carrier to read her letters sooner and to know if she receives letters from others.
A San Francisco Call account describes trapper life in British Columbia and Alaska. Trappers live in isolation, build log headquarters, and patrol ranges of 75 to 100 miles while facing hunger, cold, and predators. Beavers create intricate dam systems, tails used for sensing and structure, and their farming of the land is praised for ingenuity and energy.
A humorous list of travel rules and tips for railroad passengers. It lampoons common behaviors with numbered items about baggage, seating, behavior toward crew, smoking, tipping, dining, conversation, and whistle singing, preserving period voice and tone.
The article portrays Baxter Street as a dense tenement and clothing district, where families live above shops and aggressive sales tactics flourish. A vivid anecdote follows a would be buyer trapped by a row of pushy pullers, with price haggling and comic miscommunications culminating in a $2 to $8 coat bargain and a neighborly deception about a prior purchase.
Rio de Janeiro Journal of Commerce translations reveal slave sale alerts in 19th century Brazilian newspapers. Listings describe female slaves for sale as cooks laundresses nurses and laborers with prices in reis and locations in Rio streets, noting absence of public slave markets and private agent transactions.
Excerpts recall Dumsey describing a singular engagement where he led his company and served as captain in the army. The dialogue touches on fishing and a memory of Bull Run as a backdrop to their wartime reminiscences, with colloquial exchanges between Dumsey and Featherly.
A collage of humorous and sentimental snippets from old newspapers includes light verse about happiness in children, a translated Patrarch piece, a romantic vignette, and a cartoonish quip about a boy named Johnny getting up early to loaf. The pieces evoke a period newspaper’s whimsy and domestic humor.
A collage of light verse and anecdotes from periodicals such as Albany Georgia Forum New York Sun Good Housekeeping and Texas Siftings. It blends playful poems about youth mischief clocks and romance with short humorous passages and domestic snaps reflecting late nineteenth or early twentieth century tone and sensibility.
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