26 Feb 1876
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Newspaper
Massachusetts Cambridge Chronicle
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1876
Page
1
A Washington impersonator hosted a tea party at the Methodist Church in East Cambridge on the 16th. G H Loomis performed as Washington and led an after-tea entertainment featuring a humorous reminiscence of childhood incidents in verse and prose.
The February city board meeting discusses petitions for assessment payments in Cambridge and Washington street districts, hearings set for March 1, and appeals on Watson street widening. It also covers ordinances on sinking funds, Putnam avenue layout, and memorials for the Washington Elm.
President Allen chairs a regular meeting as a vacancy on Ward Two arises from Councilman Gay's death. Petitions from John Davis and others and Louis Vaupel for lamps go to the Lamps Committee. S. M. Parsons seeks a Ward Five room then to Public Property. Harbor Commission matters on Prison Point Bridge sent to Ordinances with a report to amend the ordinance. Ordinances report for shade tree protection deemed inexpedient. Meeting adjourns to Tuesday evening February 29.
The piece argues for careful study by the School Committee before altering teacher pay, noting increased work and reduced time, with calls to examine grade workloads and possibly adjust salaries. It suggests a May to October school term and paid summer work to cut taxes, ending with varied newspaper notices praising the Swedish Quartette and the Temple Quartet competition.
A string of old time tales cautions about drinking and romance. A Detroit widower tests a fiancée over life insurance as a lesson in motives. In Vicksburg a courting rites clash with farm year constraints as a wary father lays down terms for a match.
A fragmentary humor column recounts a short haired woman delivering a thirty seven page contribution urging marriage to sturdy men, a Pan Handle train encounter with hackmen and a man’s umbrella confrontation, a tale of a loan ruse, opinions on Carlyle and Macaulay, a skirt remark at a party, and Marshal Soult’s boast about a stolen picture with an aid’s quip.
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