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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1885
Page
7
At Blankhampton Scarlet Lancer Steeplechases crowds watch Bootles and Mignon amid high society and racing pomp. Gilchrist dies after a broken back, leaving a will making Ferrers guardian. Boots discovers Mignon is Gilchrist’s child and later learns Helen Gilchrist seeks access, prompting a dramatic revelation and upheaval as love and duty clash.
A critique of magazine editors for discourteous manuscript practices. It cites folding and unfair return policies, stamps misused, lost or delayed submissions, and misaddressed or mismatched material, highlighting personal hardship for writers reliant on timely payment and publication.
Archdeacon Farrar lectures on Dante at Tremont Temple praising Dante as a lifelong teacher of strength and moral allegory. He argues the Divine Comedy is a monumental vision blending love philosophy exile and politics into a single moral work. He warns readers that true understanding requires cultivation of light and humility.
A Boston Sunday article describes 1885 liquor law enforcement, noting hotels with first class licenses, grocers, and bars evading restrictions. Reporters witnessed secret passages, registration schemes, and guarded rooms while police and sentinels patrol, yet some venues served none.
In Paris the sapeur-pompier is a soldierly, well known figure admired for physical prowess. He earns fifty to sixty centimes daily, a lean wage after coffee and tobacco costs. The article playfully contrasts the life of a pompier with the English term tireman and notes social sights around the Tuileries gardens.
A Dayton man strolling along York street in Newport at about 11 pm was accosted by a excited woman who accused him of infidelity. He denied the charge and walked her to the next lamp post where she misidentified him as her husband. Realizing the mistake she departed in the dark.
A venerable narrator recalls childhood joys of puzzles and brainteasers, from the goose fox and corn riddle to jug dividing capers. He laments aging while praising enduring mental gymnastics that fascinated past generations and still stir curiosity today.
A scattered survey of curiosities from around the world notes births outpacing deaths, aging students, whist playing contrivances for the blind, and a New York digger that tosses 750 barrels a day. It covers tax tales, auctions, antiquated laws, rare specimens, and oddities from Indiana to Paris with brisk, obituary‑less storytelling.
The Boston Cooking School at 174 Tremont Street announces a new season with Mrs Olive C Daniglls, late with Miss Parlon, delivering lectures on cream of cauliflower soup baked egg plant Swedish timbals creamed oysters prune pudding and custards. The class opened at 10 30 am with demonstrations and practical lessons for the season.
In Oldtown on Indian Island five nuns led by Sister Frances teach Penobscot children reading arithmetic and practical skills. They guide squaws in cooking and sewing, influence marriage age, and conduct a distinctive wedding and dance ritual rooted in Catholic and tribal customs. The community values their religious work and daily cottage visits.
The sphynx used to propound mysteries to the awed traveller in the desert and Syim son crafted his sweet riddle over the carcass of the slain lion.
A nostalgic verse recalls a child’s illness and a mother’s remedy using Castoria across stages of life from infancy to motherhood, capturing a historic product slogan echoed in family lore.
In Woodbury, Bedford county, a young man is building a walnut clock over five years, planned to stand 12 feet high and 5 feet wide with eleven dials showing times from Washington to St. Petersburg. A figure rises from his chair at set hours, while railroads of the country bow and depart.
A New York woman begs a doctor for relief for her husband after a caucus night. He spent the day with his fellow candidates and promises, showing political life can exhaust public figures. Senator B K Bruce recalls a car episode and credits Warner's Auto Cure for his stamina. The Globe notes overwhelming delegation.
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