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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1891
Page
6
Gertrude, Jessie Parks, and Jack Bonner become entangled in a playful deception at a summer hotel. A joke about flirting exposes hidden feelings, tests loyalties, and ends with confessed love and forgiving mischief between Gertrude and Jack. Jessie’s fiancé is revealed as a protective twist in the tale.
Read in the St Louis Republic, this notes how many animals are deemed unlucky to kill such as the stork robin swallow and wren and martin. Legends tie these birds to biblical scenes including the cross at Calvary with the robin and swallow and even a tale where the cross mark on an ass cures whooping cough while the animal would die. Another cure for whooping cough is sought by consulting a piebald rider with a cross-like marking.
A lively Pullman car tale from Chicago to New York describes a boy who just grew into trousers, making him the happiest boy on earth. The speaker notes a conflicted view of his faith and fate, hinting at a broader belief that he was sent for a special destiny.
A fragmentary reflection speaks of finally having trousers, planning to remove them at night and keep them on until a hoped return to God. The speaker muses about being 80 or 90 years old, awaiting a possible revival and not waiting as long for such items next time.
In this New York World piece, Mr Bowser lectures his ailing wife on common sense while she tends him with tea. The scene flips as he fears a throat illness, and she orchestrates care with quiet authority until he awakens stubborn yet grateful, praising grit and fortitude.
An East Main street barber in Rochester details a humorous scene with a rural farmer who just sold his cabbages and complains after paying seventy five cents for a shave and “frills.” The man storms out, tossing a silver quarter and seeks solace at a nearby saloon.
A Missouri town tale recalls a Gravois river fishing trip ending with a crowd gathering at the blacksmith shop to claim hundreds of pounds of fish without payment. A St Louis drummer tried selling goods to a storekeeper and asked the wagon boy about the fish, receiving a blunt reply.
A newly married Vassar graduate asks a grocer for similar hams. The grocer confirms ten hams of the same lot hanging up. She decides to take three, playing on the idea of a single “remarkable pig” as a humorous anecdote.
The article traces early U S coinage from 1784 Liberty notes to Martha Washington dimes and the first silver dollar of 1792. It describes San Francisco mint operations, 1804 dollar rarity, motto changes, In God We Trust origins, Morgan’s mint mark, and the evolution of the dollar symbol. It also covers postal currency, fractional notes, and modern bullion practices in New York and San Francisco.
A Chicago Tribune item depicts a morning watering prank where a comedian delays the water stream, only to be drenched as the nozzle malfunctions. The exchange turns tense, with quips about jokes and disputed intent ending as the early riser resumes watering and comments on the joke.
A novelty bed from Hiokasaka Japan uses a six o clock setting to trigger under mattress rollers that lift and shake a sleeper awake. The mechanism then ascends the bed and drops the sleeper onto a matting floor, with a final slam that jolts the occupant upright. The device can even smother if one fails to move quickly.
A New York Herald piece uses engine metaphors to compare machinery and a woman. It asserts similarities in admiration fear disruption and danger with light satire on male reactions to both engines and women.
Fragment from a Chicago Tribune excerpt shows a back and forth about checks, mailings, pew rent, and an order for pink gauze for peach baskets. The dialogue style hints at a domestic or workplace scene with lingering pauses and incomplete lines.
A humorous dialogue shows Mr Selfidge debating a fifteen cent charge for two oysters in stew. A waiter confirms the price while a quip about ink costs and a penned note suggests higher stakes in writing.
A narrator details a perilous cross country journey by hitching rides on trains from Denver to Chicago. He describes methods used to jump freight and passenger cars, encounters with brakemen and police, and the highs and lows of riding coal and stock trains across multiple states, ending with arrival near Chicago and a help from a generous Ohio gentleman.
In a cluttered office scene a telephoner and Carpenter exchange whispered romance as the office boy, bookkeeper, and clerks react with sotto voce humor. The prankish mood flares with teasing banter about love and sleep as the cast teases the couple. Carpenter finally bolts from the box in comic desperation.
New York Sun describes Canadian Pacific railway track walkers who inspect after each train to prevent fires. They live in remote log cabins across Ottawa to Winnipeg, travel 12 to 15 miles per hour on rail bicycles, and endure solitary, lonelier lives with little social contact, especially for the women who accompany them.
Two women on Fulton street discuss a supposed half holiday for overworked clerks. One says New York was closed last Saturday, and both reflect on the irritations of restricted time off. The exchange highlights public mood over clerks’ working hours.
A humorous Indianapolis Journal item features a dialogue between Mr. Summerboard and Mr. J Hay Seed about setting a hen, with a punchline about also setting a rooster at six in the morning and expressions of weariness at daybreak.
Humber asks Miss Scadds to walk on the porch while he plans to propose. She declines a wrap but suggests overcoat. Conversation hints at an impending engagement.
Bleecker-We New Yorkers spend four million dollars annually on umbrellas while Philadelphia traders claim better sense in rain. The exchange frames a city rivalry over shopping habits and rainy day expenditures.
Washington Star notes a survey of fishing lures and traps from around the world. Descriptions cover Indian wicker funnels for eels, thorn-branch traps, Siam inverted vases, Japanese pound nets, firelight fishing in Southern waters, fish wheels in North Carolina, and varied nets and lures from Esquimaux to Fijians, plus evolving hooks and modern spinning baits and artificial flies crafted from global materials.
A New York World recounts a jeweller sign that shows eight eighteen after Lincoln's assassination. The maker recalls being told to paint the hands to mark the hour, and since then every sign he produces bears the same inscription.
Walter Besant discusses wild flowers and their sober coloring, noting numerous whites and blues, reds, purples, pinks, and many yellow shades. He observes a strong prevalence of star shapes across flowers and ponders links between light, sound, and natural form while admitting gaps in physics.
A garbled excerpt contemplates color definition and knowledge limits. It hints at mystery, suggestive of a riddle about color and meaning, mentioning fields trees and charms, and a possible money puzzle as a preserved clue.
A poetic collage recalls awakening love and destiny amid absence. Two voices intertwine across time as lovers endure separation yet feel an eternal bond. Reflections shift between exalted union and longing, ending in a vow to cherish one tender moment of the past.
A fragmentary verse tableau captures a remembered first kiss and aging hearts, contrasting a tender romance with a playful, laughing contemporary muse. The piece blends nostalgia with a humorous aside about a neighbor’s laughter, ending in a bashful, teary note.
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