14 Feb 1874
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Newspaper
Massachusetts Cambridge Chronicle
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1874
Page
1
Poem urging aid for Bay View Mission as winter chills the verdant plain and widows and children suffer. It calls Christians to gather lambs and support the mission, recalling December's holy birth and the angelic plea to help those in need.
The article traces Prospect Hill in Somerville, later leveled to fill the Miller's River Basin, detailing its fortifications, links to Charlestown and Cambridge, and roles in the siege of Boston. It notes Patnam's stand near the road, Washington era brigades, Greene's command, and Putnam's flag raising. It also recalls New Year 1776 symbolic flags and the hill’s later reference as Mt Pisgah.
In Drake’s Historic Fields and Mansions of Middlesex the fate of Mount Prospect is lamented as homes, mills, and fortifications are eroded for development. The text recalls 1776 alarms from Cambridge and Prospect Hill, British and Hessian positions, and the once proud fortress that may vanish to make way for a park or building.
A long historical survey of emeralds rubies sapphires topaz and amethysts traces origins legends and trade. It notes emeralds from Bogota and Peru Mexico Siberia and royal collections while detailing ruby corundum links to spinel and legends from Pliny to modern finds. The piece closes with civic idiosyncrasies and light verse.
A brief record states that the text was entered according to the Act of Congress in 1873 by Lins Boyp Powran in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
In a 1950 51 winter scene a teen candy girl Ella Hastings meets kindly stranger Albert Anderson while skating. He buys her candy, offers aid, and arranges shelter with Mrs Haynes in Giles's Row, pledging education and protection for Ella, who agrees to trust him as guardian. The tale continues as Anderson secures a new home and support network for the fourteen year old.
A reader in the Chronicle responds to C M H and a New York Tribune writer. The letter defends interpretations of Longfellow Aftermath, questions assertions about poppies and Europe, and challenges claims about poetic merit and farmer references.
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