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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1891
Page
8
A New York writer observes three stark city scenes from his study window. A cigarette-smoking messenger boy, a lazy garbage-cart driver, and repeated street diggings leave a trail of dirt, sloppiness, and disrespect for cleanliness. He denounces the careless workers and links their habits to future children, urging higher standards.
A writer reflects on the new urban underclass living in filth and moral collapse. He contrasts old sturdy workers with a degraded gang, observes a brief encounter between a dirty man and an older woman, and argues that while some may help others, true humanity requires personal restraint and self-improvement. He stresses each man’s duty to act by conscience without imposing harsh social reform, urging practical kindness over judgment.
NEW ENGLAND NOTES describe President Harrison's week in Vermont and New Hampshire with formal welcomes in cities like St Johnsbury St Albans and Montpelier and large crowds plus civic parades. He spoke from railroad cars and capitol steps, praising unity and the mixing of American peoples while noting rains disrupted events.
Aug 28 report from Provipencr Rhode Island describes George Comas and companions fishing below Lillibridge. While resting, Choate awoke to find dozens of snakes around him and a chaotic struggle ensued. The largest snake measured five feet seven inches. a headless snake and others were removed from coats and pockets.
A Detroit business card enclosed in a bottle picked up at Stage Harbor, Chatham, reveals a voyage from Detroit along the Erie and Niagara rivers, Lake Ontario, the St Lawrence, and out to the Atlantic. The note says the bottle traveled nearly 3000 miles in under 60 days, a remarkable feat.
In Springfield Massachusetts on August 26 farmer Whitney of Ashleyville, age 70, repelled two well dressed strangers posing as Judge Barker and Dr Chapin. They tried a banco game to steal his farm for 7000 and to fleece him of 1000 in his pocket via a tin box scheme. He escaped, alerted officers, swindlers pursued.
Two fires of incendiary origin struck Beverly Massachusetts overnight with minimal damage first the opera house area where oily rags burned beneath a broken glass pane and then an uncompleted dwelling on Highland avenue owned by Charles Batchelder. Firefighters battled the blaze for about thirty minutes saving the structure and mounting losses around a thousand dollars insured by the company Baers Coffin Rankins.
In North Lyme Connecticut a two year old mystery appears solved when Joshua Halford, while fishing at Hog Pond, opened a large pickerel to find a gold watch and chain inside. The case back bore the engraving of Charles Whaley, a prosperous local farmer who lived nearby two years ago and remained a popular eccentric figure in the community.
Manchester Aug 20 The Supreme Court clerk in Grafton county was ordered to issue writs of venue for a special grand jury to convene in Woodsville for a September term to try Army as soon as possible. It may be three weeks before the prisoner can attend due to wounds, but the public desires a speedy settlement of the murder case.
Port land disptch reports Bowdoin expedition moving toward Grand River to view falls while rival Philadelphia party leads. Across New England, train collision injures Mrs Campbell fatally. Gen Longstreet misses NH encampment. Vermont legislature acts on direct tax and naval battalion. state fair entries, church gatherings, and local accidents fill the day’s notices.
In Wink's Barn Providence Miss Annie Barrett of Providence plans to wed John Leary Kingston. John Cadden, favored by Miss Barrett, arrives to find Leary posed at the church. Barrett reveals she chose Cadden, leaving Leary enraged and the wedding party moving on without him. Leary had prepared a costly wedding outfit and given gifts.
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