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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1879
Page
7
Boston editor Charles F Barker notes reader solutions and corrections for the World’s Checker Book. Letters from J W Miller Anson Minard B H Studley and others discuss moves, corrections and requests for problem publications, with readers in Maine New Hampshire Rhode Island and Pennsylvania contributing comments and inquiries.
Position No 624 by J T Murray Black. Position No 625 by M A Markham White. White to move and win. Position No 626 by H P Eastman Occurred in Play Black to move and win.
The text discusses corrections to Hefter's 11.16 and later placement, references an old contributor called Eureka, and questions Purcell's draw restoring to the 20th move. It suggests a potential black win at move 25 with an 8.11 alternative.
A collage of chess match notes and corrections from The Globe’s Pennsylvanian checker editor. Includes Barker versus Kirkwood and Bugbee versus Isaiah Barker games, Barker’s moves, noted draws, and corrections by W Smits, Parrow, and Eugene A White, with positions and results cited.
The note explains a chess position where the sequence shows numbers and moves. It states the position should have been recorded as White to move and win last week, but was marked as a draw. It references Ingalls and a specific position number with a misrecorded result.
The Vermont championship match between Colonel C D Gates and E N Hyzer ended 5 2 drawn 13 after four days with Judge Perley refereeing. Gates claims out of practice, plans a winter rematch while Forsyth toured Nova Scotia and Labadie Dykes bidding future fares, with rumors of fixed games and fifty draws to bolster reputations.
The catalog announces The World's Checker Book a two authors volume containing twenty two openings three hundred fifty five original games and twenty four original positions priced five dollars in board covers and six cents in cloth cover mailed on receipt to William R Barker and Charles F Barker at Cambridgeport and Tremont Row with J A Maynard as superintendent.
In Norwich Conn on October 3 A M Gravelin a 71 year old Frenchman was tried for seducing three girls Agnes Eliza and Mary Jane Day aged 18 nine and six respectively. A mob attacked Gravelin before police rescued him. The court fined him 26 dollars costs and ordered 30 days in jail with threats of lynching if caught again.
An aged physician in Rochester New Jersey reveals a mis sionary gifted formula said to cure consumption and related lung ailments plus nervous conditions. He offers to mail the recipe in German French or English with full directions at no charge upon request by sending the paper name and stamp.
In London the game between Mason and Potter ends with Black resigning after a convoluted sequence on move 40. White pieces press from Ki th Opening, with a series of captures and threats leading to decisive material and positional advantage.
Address all communications to W. W. Curran at 21 Exchange Place as chess players urge action on a national congress or tournament. The writer laments paralysis when a concrete plan is proposed and calls for a clear yes or no from players so the committee can move forward without delay.
Manhattan Chess Club committee reports mixed replies on organizing a national congress for chess. Thirty two responses show broad support for a tournament in New York but minimal club willingness to fund or host a congress. October follow up hoped to ignite broader national backing and action from Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland St Louis clubs.
A London News excerpt surveys beard lore from Darwin and social myths. It contrasts primitive popularity of beards with later female preference, cites Maori proverb about wives and bearded men, and notes Icelandic and Egyptian trends, including priests’ clean shaven appearance for sacred reasons.
The article contrasts facial hair across civilizations noting Egyptians, Israelites, and Assyrians. It cites Beards as status symbols and insults, with Joab's use of an envoy's beard as a killing act, and mentions Greeks varying in beard customs and on monuments.
In Sparta Oregon May 30 1879 G W Easterbrook reports a dairy trial using Butter Maker. One gallon of sweet cream churned at 55 degrees produced four and one half pounds of butter with golden color firm texture and rich flavor in twenty minutes. Same cream churned without the powder yielded four pounds with lighter color and longer forty five minutes. Recommends the preparation to friends and public.
The article surveys diverse legal ages for marriage across Europe. Austria sets fourteen as the age of discretion, Russia allows eighteen for females, Italy fixes eighteen for men and fifteen for women, Turkey has no general law, and France and Belgium permit eighteen for men and fifteen for women with discretionary powers. Greece Spain Portugal limit fourteen and twelve, with parental consent in Portugal. Prussia and Saxony once allowed earlier. Swiss cantons vary, some requiring parental consent up to age twenty-five. Climate is noted as influencing maturity between south and north Europe.
An 36 year practice physician in Buffalo offers cures for chronic lung and throat diseases and hay fever with Clover Blossom promising instant relief. Descriptive circulars and certificates from prominent users available. Price one dollar and six months. Also agents for Hickory Nut Cream Hair Dressings. Hop Bitters advertised as a cure. See notice.
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