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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1885
Page
7
An item notes Horatio Alger Jr. as author with a list of titles including The Store Boy Do and Dare Hector's Inheritance and The Back Woods Boy. The line appears as a bibliographic tremor with copyright dating to 1585 on a historical page fragment.
The Albatross faces sudden captaincy after Captain Kent dies, with boatswain Robinson suspecting poisoning by Tom Graves. Kendall becomes acting captain, Graves is restrained, and a leak forces abandonment. Graves and a Spaniard vanish, the ship sinks, and Jack and Jim Dobbs endure thirst and peril before sighting land. They name their refuge Drummond Island after a hopeful voyage.
After a new captain and Jim Dobbs take firm command, sailors Graves and Pedro clash with discipline. Graves mutters an insult at Dobbs as Kendall resolves to enforce duty, signaling rising friction aboard.
Jim Dobbs and Jack travel from wreck to refuge after drifting in a small open boat. They endure thirst, forge a new home, find fruit and fish, signal ships, and uncover a diary from Dr. Wheeler detailing a wreck and solitary life on the same coast. A perilous vigil follows with a strange cave discovery and a grave revelation about Tom Graves.
A colorful portrait of smokers on Washington Street, tracing the social history of tobacco from Raleigh’s era to modern times. It recalls a range of characters from a weary hotel keeper to a newsroom sport and a hustling office worker, all bound by cigars and pipes and the culture of nicotine.
Jim and Jack tow the drifting craft to shore and discover Graves dead in the bottom, his features gaunt and face emaciated. They debate burial and whether to recover the boat, noting the corpse likely died within days. Graves’s fate prompts a grim verdict on his conduct and a plan to haul the boat ashore.
A fragmentary note reads worth £2000 I give it freely to any one who shall find me and see me decently interred This was the last entry to be continued suggesting a posthumous treasure clue or continuation in the documented probate notes.
Odde and Ends of Completed and In completed Devices to an Inventor's Workshop. The Franklin workshop of 8 C Taft houses a museum of curiosities that could spark a Dickensian romance. Taft, an inventor, shares results to aid others rather than gain wealth, showcasing a peanut roaster tool chest, a near finished tricycle, a brewer’s drying machine with 20 percent profit margin, and attempts to make felt boots. He helps nearby manufacturers by devising improvements from his collection of bolts and wheels, while legend says he nearly struck it rich with an air brake patent before a rival beat him by three days.
A vintage promo text traces Castoria as a remedy from infancy to motherhood, noting repeat use as a trusted formula through stages of childhood and parenting, highlighting its place in family medicine lore.
A St Paul Globe report recalls a 2 year old Montana incident on Northern Pacific train No 3 near Miles City. Cowboys in buckskin and revolvers boarded the halted train, jeered at the conductor, tied passengers, teased a fight to pull each other from seats, shone lights off and eventually left after shooting out the lights.
An analysis from Sportsman’s News argues against surrender when attacked from behind. It cites Lewis R. Redmond the moonshiner as an example who refused to yield, notes doctors and self therapy critiques, and praises the dead shot as a defender. It links back to Buffalo detective Curtin and boxer Dan Mace as cases where cover and quick draw deterred foes.
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