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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1885
Page
15
Abigail Perkins dramatizes romance and peril in a 19th century Boston scene. Clara Arnold and Charles Hodgdon navigate forbidden love, deceit, and risk within a matronly house, while Hallett schemes to drive a fatal wedge, and a theater episode culminates in a dangerous exchange of letters and a looming threat to fidelity and fortune.
Rev John Scott quotes a biblical measure and explores heavenly dimensions with vast figures. The piece includes footnotes on cubic feet rooms and hypothetical world inhabitants, plus a humorous aside about an English traveler and a schoolroom debate.
A Lakefield man was struck by a locomotive yesterday and killed instantly after being knocked over the smokestack. authorities attribute the accident to whiskey, marking a rare report of a locomotive alleged to have caused a fatal intoxicated incident.
The Marlboro Times hints at Mr. Howells next novel portraying the creation and management of a great newspaper. The piece playfully notes the author may rummage the office for facts, but journalists and literature lovers will welcome the enterprise.
An editorial pokes at E Stone Wiggins the weather figure described as a spider legged man with middle parted hair and a delicate scarf pin. It cautions that his earthquake rhetoric may provoke poetical backlash if he continues his provocative public talk.
A Chicago guest complains of butter at a hotel prompting a proprietor to joke about axle grease. The New York Sun mocks the episode while a Chicago anarchist quips imprisonment with hard labor could be worse. A Canadian scientist notes the Atlantic’s unsettled bed as seasick chatter continues.
A New Haven news snippet mentions a substance said to be clearer than glass. The note offers no solid details, suggesting it might be a man’s excuse to his wife for not returning home before 2 a.m.
A Chicago jeweler has created a self winding watch and Puck jokes the Waterbury Watch Company should buy him out. The idea would tire a workman winding it itself, the cartoon notes.
Dialogue from a German stage piece features Herr Schmock debating headwear size and value. The exchange jokes about paying the same money for a large hat versus a small one, highlighting whimsy and character wit.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a drowning note or alert with garbled phrasing. It mentions a drowning and a warning tone. Context and key names or places are unclear due to corruption.
A jumble of vignettes cites red haired girls at Castle Garden, moonlight thieving in Caledonia, Ga baptisms in dresses, and peculiar wordplay in Yreka. Reports of Americans abroad include a bakery sign in California and plans by a St Louis man to ship corn to England. Other items describe curious happenings from Sioux Falls coin shortages to a Brooklyn masquerade marriage and a bolstered watermelons tale.
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