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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1885
Page
6
The narrator recounts the Aladdin claim saga staged by a journalist syndicate with How Long the Chinese laborer. A later strike, salted assay, and failed payout highlight folly and fraud. The Rural Belle essay paints a vivid, humorous portrait of country ethics, manners, and courtship in vivid period voice.
A tale of Valentine Wagstaff drawn to a glittering 18 karat gold chronometer balance in a pawnshop. He borrows against his salary, buys more trinkets, and slides from respectable citizen to debtor as vanity and greed unravel his life culminating in a late night errand with a dairy lunch attendant and a kiss.
Clara Belle narrates two Juliet performances near Union Square with verbose, clinical detail. The piece contrasts Margaret Mather and Mary Anderson as their scripted farewells unfold, describing their “Romeos” gripping their bodies in exaggerated, almost medical terms.
A New York Star anecdote recounts a crowded train ride from St Louis to Chicago. A man helps a supposed widow who claimed a purse contained 90 dollars, but only 50 remained when the purse is opened. The widows tale and missing funds lead to the man facing a police inquiry.
A fragment from Peck's Sun quoting the New York Tribune ponders time using past present and future. It muses on improving the present, recalling the past, and eyeing a near and dim future as a choir is urged to sing.
Somerville Journal notes a sunny day but a man missing his keys casts a pall over the town. The playful line hints at a broader mood of frustration and everyday misfortune among residents.
A veteran recalls regimental conduct in combat notes from the Seven Days battles near Richmond. He describes melee, long range fighting, bayonet clashes, and the moral restraint of vengeance. The piece recounts Pickett's charge, battlefield discipline, and the dogged endurance of the troops as the war shifted to modern warfare.
A fragmented line recalls that the Army of Northern Virginia under General Lee was never fairly whipped, reflecting a faded sentiment about its endurance through vicissitudes of war.
A quixotic tirade attacks rural villagers as ignorant while praising city wit, quoting Miss Kate Field on Clifton Springs and New York urban cleverness. The piece contrasts fooled rural life with city crowds, stage-horse crowds, and urban “intellectual” mockery, ending with a call to enlighten country villagers.
The San Franciscan recalls Jo Badger telling a crowd a fishing tale about a Sunday morning shot at a distant crow. He describes aiming with a single-shot gun and missing the target completely, prompting the crowd to ask if he hit it. He replies with a disarmingly innocent, Never mind, I missed it.
The San Francisco Chronicle notes a playful, reflective take on rain, contrasting genial cinema rain with steady downpours. It imagines farmers grateful for rain yet affected by persistent wet weather and mockingly muses on weather tailored to farming needs.
I asked a Chicago street car driver about a nearby bridge. He admitted he did not know where passengers went after leaving his car. I watched one rider, lugging two suitcases, walk to the bridge torn up by the roots, then circle back in distress.
A couple share a farewell kiss at the door as she compares her fiancé to a now-deceased poodle, noting his kiss reminds her of the cherished pet. She then wonders aloud why he broke their engagement and went West.
Washington Letter highlights how famed authors like George Bancroft and Frances Hodgson Burnett work. It notes Bancroft’s orderly desk, peculiar paper, and daily routines. Burnett’s breakfast-room cadence with children present. Mark Twain’s chaotic chair, tobacco pipe rituals. and others such as James, Cable, Eliot, Dickens, Scott, Thackeray, and more, mapping writing habits across eras and places.
A Washington Hatchet piece humorously warns bashful youths about striped stockings. It catalogs types of stockings from striped to pink and red, declaring striped and white stockings reveal character, warning that certain wearers may be dangerous or soulless, with playful literary allusions.
A nostalgic reminiscence recalls magician Robert Heller and his famed Bird Cage vanish trick. The article details the delicate construction with dual wire compartments, springs, elastic cords, and sleeve action, revealing how the sparrow appears to vanish but is closely tied to precise handling and timing.
On Cooney Island a great ball featured Patsey Coogan and his accordion with a new song about a mule that carted bricks away. The crowd roared when Patsey lifted his wooden leg to prove his joke, while stories of hoop snakes spurred a comic schoolmaster tale of three boys and a mysterious snake near Devil's Lake.
A mother recalls a morning scene where the daughter and Harry argued over who should sit in the big chair at home. They only quarreled briefly, each insisting the other take the seat, and finally compromised by both taking it. The mother reflects that she herself was once a girl.
A man ordered a fountain in New York but failed to arrange water supply. Weeks later he complained no water, asking when fountains begin to squirt. An investigation found no water run possibility. A Chicago Sun item notes a pawnbroker posing as an actor.
In a Chicago Ledger piece a lawyer explains to a jailed client that legally he is free though physically confined. The dialogue stresses that admission of incarceration compromised rights and that retrieval requires legal action and funds to overturn the lock in, not mere desire for release.
An austere, red faced woman boards a Sixth Avenue street car and provokes a heated scene among fifteen passengers. The old woman, stout and drab dressed with a prim bonnet and military feather, eyes the conductor, signaling an imminent dispute.
A collage of light verse and comic exchanges from various papers includes banter about love and performance. Fragments range from a playful lyric on longing to a Bohemian money joke and a pun filled tavern question.
A rhymed verse imagines a nunly vow as love’s claim. The speaker protests any vow to become a nun while asserting possessive devotion. Imagery mixes religious symbols with romance, noting bishops, cupids, incense, and candles with playful disbelief.
A Chicago Telegram note argues young people prefer casual parlor settings over traditional prayer meetings, claiming a small cozy sofa and a comfortable parlor draw two thirds of the youth away from planned gatherings.
A speaker in Harper's laments being treated as a card in a lover's game. The poem compares romance to gambling with references to cards, tricks, and fate while asserting that true wins come from winning the beloved, not the game. It critiques manipulation and echoes the line that love cannot be played by fixed rules.
A Detroit Free Press item describes a four year old girl left in bed on the third floor during a violent thunderstorm. When her mother checked on her the child exclaimed that the wind had blown the sun up just now and expressed delight, showing fear had vanished.
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