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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1884
Page
6
The piece recounts informal exchanges between Union and Confederate pickets including coffee sugar tobacco and newspapers, the 1862 foray by General Gordon to stop trading, and later incidents on the Rappahannock and Dunker bridges, highlighting civilian courtesy and wartime improvisation.
The headquarters offered a month’s furlough to any man who would shoot a comrade in the act of communication with the enemy except when accompanying a regular flag of truce. Afterward, no sociability or traffic on the picket line existed without white flag protection and authorization.
A narrator details a perilous December ascent of Mount Washington, facing six to twelve foot snowdrifts and near precipice drops. After sunrise on Christmas Day the summit reveals rainbow highlights and frostwork, followed by a violent windstorm and rapid fog, then a careful descent to base with memories of Arctic stillness and awe.
An Arkansas traveler recalls a European tour aboard a London to Edinburgh train. He clashes with a nervous Englishman who avoids conversation, then at Edinburgh they exchange stiff politeness and jokes, ending with a toast of a cocktail and tobacco as they vow to “paint the town.”
The Rehoboth Sunday Herald describes a China where mendicants form a vast association led by a Beggar King. Beggars plead at doors under a strict code, earning daily sums that fund the ruler and punish offenders. The piece contrasts this with a Holland fish auction where a boatman directly sets prices.
Sidney Nebraska readers hear frontier telegraph legends from operators recounting a 500 pound bullion robbery at Sidney Cheyenne to Omaha alarms. They describe a Ogalalla rescue by swift train action and other disquieting frontier incidents with humor.
A New York Times feature explains methods used to simulate storms on stage with thunder drums rain machines and wind devices. It covers sheet iron thunder mechanisms thunder drums rain cylinders with dried peas and ragged hoop rain effects wind rigs and a costly explosive for lightning noting a price of 20 dollars per pound.
A San Francisco piano dealer warns of the pressuring tactics used by teachers and commissions. He argues customers often rely on a Milan Conservatory card and a music teacher, who demands 10 percent and pushes the priciest models, while a cheap piano can sound fine but wear out faster.
A Philadelphia Times piece details a dealer exposing bogus gems sold as real diamonds. It traces a brokered loan ruse, a counterfeiters gang, and a basement stash of imitation stones while surveying the enduring craze for colored stones and crown jewels across French and European history.
A former reporter recounts shifting from journalism to religious pulpits. He describes selling sermons prayers and addresses to entertain and profit, including handling two examplary requests from Yale and Chicago. He notes how copied sermons and notices spread through newspapers and churches, leading to a quick sale of a large batch of material.
A historic note surveys unusual rent practices where land was held by pepper corns roses and other odd items. Examples include Bermeton paying three rains of pepper yearly and a 500 year lease at one pepper corn. Some rents resemble symbolic offerings rather than value.
The writer mocks misuse of the words lady and gentleman through anecdotes in Amherst Massachusetts and New York. He recalls a dining room incident with a table girl and a polite child, and contrasts polite behavior with garish attire on a crowded city car.
The narrator observes a hummingbird nesting near a window beside a butternut tree. During a heavy shower the bird covered the nest with a large leaf, revealing a hole in the leaf and a missing stick. After the storm the bird returned and removed the leaf, leaving the nest intact.
A collage of literary quips and verse notes from multiple papers includes wry lines on journalism, mortgage humor, and marriage, plus playful poems about huskers, autumn, and stormy nights. Source items mention Puck Philadelphia Record Burlington Free Press Detroit Free Press New York Sun Springfield Republican CW Foster.
A quirky verse vignette set in San Francisco Ingleside about a young woman and a wooing moment. The piece centers on luck or fate as the title suggests with light romantic exchanges and a blossom imagery.
A compendium note echoes pairings of first loves with marital outcomes from Nashville and Cincinnati papers. It includes a playful dialogue on honesty in marriage and a humorous dog and grapes vignette. Irma van Breserle’s diary entries recount a stormy voyage with love offers, threats, and peril, ending with a dramatic rescue of 300 lives.
A Providence Journal sketch describes a frog joke and then a woman attempting to cross a wet street in rain. The piece humorously details how she struggles to keep clothes dry while wading through mud and reveals the modest comedy of wardrobe mishaps.
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