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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1880
Page
6
Mrs Anigatl Perkins-Doak, widow of the late Massachusetts legislator and surviving spouse of Deacon Archibald Deak, travels abroad as a noted relic of her husband and family history. Her activities and status as a social figure are highlighted in this column.
A humorous travel diary fragment recounts a Boston couple in London. The narrator mocks a deacon husband, hides expenses, and dodges costly meals. While visiting wax figures, a spill stains a sofa and milk erupts, prompting a public scene and a hasty exit. The piece ends with cautionary travel morals.
J P Benjamin a Texas shoe upper maker rode 2400 miles to New York from Fort Worth May 10 to August 27 with Ellsworth Black. He faced malaria in Arkansas and Hatchee bottoms, slept outdoors, endured mosquitoes and gnats, and crossed rivers by horse. He sold his lead horse at Pittsburgh and continued to New York, preferring his city to the countryside between.
The Clough dairy ranch near San Mateo canyon features a new 1500 dollar dairy house built 18 by 56 feet in rustic style. A 52 gallon churning system powered by a coal tread wheel drives dashers, with goats aiding the wheel during playful frolics. The herd of eight to ten goats ranges from old billy to a very small kid.
An elderly man quips at breakfast about sauces and cruet placements. The exchange centers on walnut sauce mustard pepper and caster as he jokes his wife is an angel yet lacks wings. The humorous scene ends with his playful flattery.
The New York Sun piece predicts a grand Spanish royal birth for Queen Christine and outlines court rituals, political rivalries, and the fight over the title Prince of Asturias depending on whether the child is a boy or girl. It notes Canovas’s influence, royalist fervor, and the public gaze on Madrid during this awaited event.
New Haven Register notes the back to school mood as children endure long hours and new books, parents pay for supplies, and teachers brace for a busy term. It contrasts youthful eagerness with parental routines and hints at the humor and strain of reopening a classroom world. The piece also covers a Canadian Puck joke segment and a somber note about a youth’s descent into madness.
A scene shows a merchant challenging a seller with erasing techniques. The aspirin cashier demonstrates scraping ink and erasures to remove trace of a correction. If he succeeds in destroying all trace, he is invited to leave with his hat. Some tasks may be done too well.
The Little Rock Gazette reports a chaotic scene as Allen Eckridge a dorky preacher faces his daughter Mandy and another girl in a rock throwing duel. Onlookers and neighbors watch as the clergyman proclaims life as a struggle while Mandy sustains injuries. Beebridge is jailed and fined in police court for his conduct and scriptural lesson.
A London paper reports Mr Justice Hawkins could not find his black cap when ordering the death sentence at the Old Bailey. He delivered the sentence in a plain wig, raising questions about its legality and prompting calls for dress reform to clarify official authority.
The article notes George Eliot before marriage with Cross discarded all clothing from her life with Lewes. It mentions her large trousseau, marriage in white silk with orange blossoms, and plans to live in a new Chelsea house with new furniture overlooking the Thames.
Dublin dispatch details Lord Lansdowne and agent Trench enforcing a harsh unwritten code on Kerry tenants. Evictions, fines, and refusals to shelter kin are cited alongside stories of famine era brutality, tenancy rules, and Land League resistance. The piece condemns landlord power and notes American sympathy for Irish distress.
A Little Rock Gazette column retells a tale of Buck Horn, a colored man, and Mrs. one-eyed Nicholas eloping to Little Rock. Nicholas vows vengeance and confronts Buck with a pistol and briar hook but relents over whiskey and hospitality, easing the simmering feud with humor and a drink.
A collage of vignettes and jokes recounts clever lies, quirky characters, and social satire. Lively anecdotes feature Mrs Peters and baby comparisons, hypocritical jewelry talk, a Bull Run joke, a lottery tale with a China man, a track obstruction farce, a picnic poem, and a doorbell lie by a servant named John.
A five year old boy, Eddie of Memph is two months from six, weeps over a break with Mildred after her claim to love his brother. He attempts suicide by hanging with a curtain cord but survives when the cord breaks, leaving a blood ring. His father attributes the heartbreak to a misdirected romance and urges care.
Frank Abels a Grand Trunk conductor living in Battle Creek owns a cat with a remarkable love of music. When Edith plays the piano the cat enters or stays by her side, purring and keeping time by rubbing its head and walking about. If outside, the cat fusses at the door seeking admission and then sits beside Edith until the piece ends, jumping into her lap to urge more playing.
John B. Coyner, a farmer near Pales tine in Hancock county Indiana, was watering nine cows when a small cyclone appeared suddenly from a clear sky. It struck near the pump, snapping five beech shade trees, sending the herd stamping toward cover amid puzzled calm.
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