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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1883
Page
7
Charles Malvin schemes to seize Willis Armstrong’s estate and wed Clara Malvin, while Lewis Armstrong survives on a hostile island. Robert Earl exposes the forgery and blackmail plots as Clara endures her father’s social fantasies and a looming marriage threat. Clara resists pressure, haunted by Lewis and her restricted mourning.
Frank Chester admits to being plain drunk when called to answer by Justice Dutty. The judge notes it as the first case of drunk real drunk and discharges Chester while advising him to carry extenuating circumstances in future.
A fashionable New York young woman asks who Martin Luther is as papers laud him. Her mother muses on Luther’s fame and wonders if he is a foreigner while recalling a Paris visit where a Mr Luther borrowed $100 from her father and did not repay. The talk turns to tickets for an opening night.
An English woman walked 1500 miles in 1000 hours on her route. A second traveler completed the journey and wore a new dress at its end. The ad extols Dr. KR V Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for impoverished blood with pimples eruptions ulcers scrofulous tumors and general debility. Sold by druggists.
A decades old Hammond homestead near Wareham and Middleboro is said to be haunted after a series of supernatural manifestations. Schoolchildren reported a black clad woman and a man with a heavy stick, cries of women, and a cellar tragedy. Local residents and spiritualists witnessed lights, voices, and apparitions, while observers from New Bedford and Bridgewater recounted fires and eerie disturbances, prompting talk of arson and continued hauntings.
A boy narrator recalls learning art from his father while painting speckled hogs, then wheeling foundling babies in baby wagons for fresh air at a foundling asylum. The tale ends with a moral exchange at a grocery, praising acts of kindness toward orphans and reflecting on family dynamics.
Boston veterinarian Holils certifies St Jacobs Oil as the sole remedy in his practice for horse ailments and says it surpasses any prior cure in forty years. He tried it on himself for mentalism and reports a complete cure. Also notes a clock reform tale tied to Pavilion Congregational Church in Bideford Maine.
A New Haven to New York passenger tale tells of a Naugatuck man sharing a parson’s room. The clergyman prays and places his money and watch under the pillow, warning the thief with a divine safeguard. The other man replies with a clever quip about honesty and smartness.
A man on a slow moving freight train in Chicago last Saturday caught a stray one dollar bill as it tumbled from the sky. The bill appeared genuine and the source of its flight remains a mystery. The item was observed by C. W. Leffler near the vest watch pocket after the paper drifted over the tops of the moving cars. Market health ad copy appears as a stray insert from an unrelated ad segment.
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