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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1885
Page
8
A humorous local column follows a plainspoken bachelor Mr. Hayseed as he shares his method for growing a remarkable pumpkin. The piece blends rural charm with practical gardening notes and light comic tone.
In a Maine tale Ichabod Hayseed hustles a giant field pumpkin to Bangor for the agricultural fair. He feeds it milk to grow it huge, wins attention at the display, and clashes with a teamster who sues for the oxen’s prize loss. The pumpkin’s fame helps him seek seed and pie fame.
Ichabod buys up seeds and pie in town and rides to a county fair with a crew of riders. He hires seats for fifty cents each, profits reach twenty dollars, and he rekindles a comedic chase with a hog race and a rambling cohort. The scene blends rustic humor with playful banter and a flirtatious exchange about pumpkin seed earnings.
In Bangor a public quarrel erupts over a stolen pumpkin seed scarecrow. A fight breaks out as townsfolk accuse rivals, with Ichabod shielding a woman and fleeing in a hayrack toward home. Courtship and chaos mix in the aftermath as seeds fly and reputations rattle.
New Haven September 2. Prince Williams sixteen year old daughter elopes from a gypsy camp near Yale sville with a youth from Elm City. Father Prince Williams, a wealthy Boston livery stable owner, enraged at the idea of marriage outside the gypsy fold, dispatches detectives to locate her as the camp ostracism threat looms.
A massive shell heap at Falmouth Foreside on Underwood Water Company land is about thirty feet deep and extends 100 feet. Two ancient oak trees mark the mound, with fire‑scarred shells suggesting centuries of burial. Dr. Charles L. Browne will oversee next week’s excavation, with Governor Robie and Mayor Deering invited to observe.
The town of Fairhaven dedicated a new school house costing 125000 dollars presented by Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil of New York. The ceremony at First Congregational Church featured addresses by Rogers Dexter Dean Jenneys Fox Tripp and Leighton with poems and children’s choir. Rogers hosted a dinner for fifty citizens at Parker House afterward.
A hunter near Georgetown, Washington, found a well preserved skeleton in the woods with clothing and letters addressed to Frank Porch of Baltimore. The letters reveal family troubles and authorities believe the man may have died by his own hand, leaving the scene in the Potomac region.
Reports from South Boston credit a man-eating shark captured off Rainsford Island to Richard Freeman and exhibited at Grant House. Nearby sailors recount bizarre post-capture antics and odd survivals, while a separate Washington note records decennial census funding and Colorado, Dakota, Nebraska, and New Mexico results.
A Cincinnati physician ridicules superstitions of old women and fortune tellers who offer cures for toothache, smallpox, and other ailments. The article passages detail amulets, charms, and bizarre treatments from ancient and modern practitioners, including rings, eggs, and charms invoked against disease. The physician warns such practices hinder proper medical care and recounts examples of failed remedies.
A correspondence in The Whist Table debates when to avoid drawing the last trump. It analyzes problem No 17, detailing how to force reentries and manage long suits, with expert opinions from D. H. V. and Clark and noting disagreements among good players on trumping strategy.
Lew Bement’s Newfoundland Bruno was muzzled to comply with village rules. He removed the muzzle at a shop, left it with the worker, and walked away with defiant innocence. The muzzle reappeared later but Bruno has since disappeared. Sickly children and infants for strong and ruddy under the use of Liebig Cos Coca Beef Tonic.
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