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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1882
Page
6
A veteran observer surveys country entertainment routes from New York to remote towns, detailing barnstorming players, magic lanterns, ventriloquists, temperance lecturers, and roaming dramatic troupes. He catalogs key itinerants, their regions, and the lure of itinerant shows across America.
A Chicago News correspondent reports on Saxon youth training in Germany, detailing early education, daily routines, morality, and disciplined childhood. He contrasts German and American boyhood, noting schooling, work, sports, and military service shaping character and future roles.
A Kansas City Times correspondent portrays Henry Watterson as a muscular, combative Louisville figure in the Democratic party. The piece sketches his fierce temperament, quick wit, and stubborn rise from obscurity to influence, highlighting his role in the 1876 convention and his nickname “Tariff for revenue only.”
An old Berlin anecdote recounts how street organ grinders were once tolerated at court. Under Emperor William I’s era, organ players performed nightly under the King’s window, each earning sevenpence halfpenny. Even during the King's illness, they were not expelled, continuing until his death in 1840.
A Louisville incident reports a game cock from Bangs confronting two intruding roosters in Mrs. Lorr’s yard on Clay and Gray streets. The fight ended when Mrs. Lorr intervened with a stick, the attacking bird then turning to strike her and causing injury including a torn lip and a missing front tooth.
A Dorunn government employee met a young woman in the castle park who suddenly kissed him after consulting a so called wise woman about a facial freckle remedy. She claimed kissing the first gentleman met would make the freckles disappear. they then walked together and later married.
In Lyndon Vermont the Trefan family faced a run of double events within two weeks. The household dogs produced eight pups, a hog house litter yielded nine pigs, and Mrs. Trefan welcomed twin boys who are reported to be doing well.
An extensive Detroit Free Press piece recaps the Civil War blockade fleet off Charleston and other ports. It details early empty threats, rapid wartime improvisations, coastal surveying, lookout routines, and the constant danger from runners, gales, torpedoes, and Confederate ironclads.
The narrative recounts ferocious Civil War naval actions against Union blockaders. Confederate and Union crews played cat and mouse with fast blockade runners and rafts, including a daring boat assault that captured a schooner and burned its supporting works. The piece notes extraordinary vigilance, misdirection, and harsh conditions endured by those serving at the blockades.
A Chicago Tribune editorical room scene mocks a young author's romance tale. The horse reporter rejects the apple tree romance and emphasizes fidelity to nature. He advises the writer to revise and return with a different approach and a more credible ending.
Winiata, a Maori murderer, fled to King country and found sanctuary as King Tawhbiac refused extradition. A farmer of mixed descent lured him with alcohol, knocked out four companions, and subdued the fugitive by force. After Winiata was executed, natives offered £1000 or 5000 acres for Barlow’s capture, risking reprisals for the supposed traitor.
Enormous ropes manufactured in England are prepared for service in New Zealand to haul ships in soft mud. A twenty one inch white manila hawser is 120 fathoms long, nine strands of 16 yarns per strand, with a second rope fifteen inches and similar length and construction. Twelve inch ropes are the largest normally produced.
A compiled jumble of verse and prose fragments from Cincinnati Saturday Night and similar sources. It threads poems by Harriet Prescott Spofford Margaret Eytinge and others, reflecting on gifts roses pockets and aging. Gentle wry observations link poems about affection and absence with social quips about pockets and thieves.
A Prescott Telegraph item describes a Kemptville wedding moment on a train. The groom, newly married about fifteen minutes, tries to keep the honeymoon private as a newsboy proffers a box of baby rattles for five cents. He begs for a pause and jokes about future housekeeping and buying the whole caboodle if profits are good.
An anonymous notice tells of a newborn girl living in a room with no lineage or flag, described as a curious craft lacking rigging. The piece critiques honesty and cites a Ontario incident where a jilted sister’s ex-lover is beaten by her brothers, illustrating a triumph of dishonesty.
An investigator from the post office arrived in Iron Rod to correct irregularities. He found the office split into a saloon, a post office, and a fare bank. Mail was rummaged, letters scattered, and a candle box used as a delivery tool. The bartender stated the postmaster was gone and Bill Jones would run the office next week. The agent, following local custom, departed, noting Iron Rod’s post office closure.
A poem contrasts two villages one by the river and hill where life and work persist and sounds echo while the other lies silent and idle with thatched roofs and shut doors. A weary soul prays to join the lost wife and child, answered by patient refrain that the village shall hold them all.
The piece argues postal cards invite unwelcome scrutiny yet reveal little. postmasters secretly read little, while readers feel the same discomfort. It notes post employees would read statistics if banned and laments the burden of guarding secrets while admitting the cards leak private messages.
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