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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1887
Page
7
Mara Burgoyne faces a diehard Confederate world with her suitor Owen Clancy amid rival loves Ella Bodine and Captain Bodine. The Charleston earthquake tests loyalties as barriers fall and Mara reconciles with her heart amidst wartime prejudice.
Amid burning ruins and smoke marauders, Clancy, Mara, and Aunt Sheba save Mrs. Hunter and her children. Mara and Clancy rescue a man from a fire as tremors stress the city. Bodine debates trust and love while tending the injured in the chaotic square.
Belle Grant Armstrong launches a sensitive article on Dress versus Fashion in the October 16 Woman's Journal. Her first in a series discusses how appearance and style influence daily life and personal expression.
A collage of fashion admonitions on women’s dress and self reliance contrasts with a long illustrated set of amusing parrots from Providence to New York. The piece links dress taste to personal strength while recounting parrots that mimic and prank, from car drivers to ministers.
Witness Tom Anjerry, UT student, appears before an Austin justice of the peace. The official warns against perjury as the dialogue reveals confusion over his name and studies. The fragmentary report shows a scene of questioning and lost details about his pursuits.
In a period of sartorial freedom women choose fashions to suit face and figure. Rich fabrics yield festival gowns with draping and jewels while tailored outfits offer masculine lines for street and travel wear. Descriptions include a shirt front chemisette and a fawn derby, plus a red and blue fur coat ensemble and coachman's cloth coat.
The Lewiston Journal recounts Luther Sampson, founder of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, wandering eastward on horseback before railroads. After prayer by the roadside, his horse turned right, guiding him to establish the Kent's Hill institution for learning.
James Spencer uses a patent fly pauper sheet method to estimate fly weight. He weighs 21 sheets totaling 44 ounces with flies, and 21 empty sheets at 4 pounds 4 ounces, deriving an inferred fly count and average of about 20 flies per square inch on the papers.
The Hour repeats warnings about bogus at home work schemes aimed at women. It details how schemes like the Blank Art Co advertise easy earnings painting on silk and similar tasks, require upfront payments, send worthless materials, and trap victims. The Boston-based Woman's Educational and Industrial Union investigates these swindles and offers to provide guidance on specific firms.
A reader inquires about a referenced article on stocking knitting. E A E Torrey led a special lesson at a Boston school, with forthcoming pieces promised by Woe on the topic. The note appears in a 19th century style column inviting letters to editor Jean Kinecaid.
A Western voice rails against changing fashions and women adopting masculine traits. He warns that women imitate men, abandon home roles, and chase trends such as champagne, racing bets, and poker. The speaker laments perceived erosion of domestic duties and natural order.
The piece discusses M Coquelin two actor classes and Henry Irvineys critique. It contrasts actors who merge with characters against those who separate self from role. It cites Edwin Booth and Shylock as examples and notes realistic portraiture has minor place in tragedy despite strong English and French tradition.
A Kennebec Journal piece notes sympathy for a jailed boy in Vassalboro while blaming neglect and exposure to cheap dime novels. It recalls a case where a leader asks about his reading and a search reveals more similar books arriving from sisters, highlighting influence of sensational literature.
A Missouri man named McIntosh turned a skeptic town into a melon hub by proving watermelons could thrive in California. He planted seed, faced ridicule, and soon a fortune grew as Lodi melons gained fame and thousands of cars carried them to markets.
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