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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1894
Page
10
Washington May 26 American invention fills the Patent Office with oddities from poisoned honey flowers to drown destructive moths and luminous fish lures. Other devices include trap rigs for rats thieves and a doorbell like musical piano and self playing instruments.
A guide to reviving home apothecary skills with bellis daisy lotion, green salve from common herbs, elder flower water, cedar tincture, and hyssop ointment. It discusses gathering plants, preparing decoctions, infusions, and salves, plus uses for burns, sprains, skin care, and nervous fatigue.
An exchange argues that officers must outfit themselves with civilian clothes for off duty wear, plus fatigue uniforms, dress uniforms, full dress, an overcoat, caps, epaulets, swords and belts. Initial costs run from 600 to 750 dollars with renewals when regulations change.
A list of prominent figures includes Adelina Patti Ernesto Nicolini Alma Fohstrom Antonio Galassi Marie Roze Signor Arditi Marcella Sembrich Myron W Whitney Marie Litta and Mme Fursch-Madi, reflecting a crowd of celebrated singers and cultural personalities.
Bronson Howard has returned from Europe brown and thoughtful and plans to write during the summer for a fall production by Charles Frohman. He spends the smoking stage at night mapping theme and scenes, the roughest part of playmaking, after which he drafts dialogue. He has written many plays but completes them slowly.
A wealthy Chicago man pays 18 000 a year to keep a Jersey cow on a fenced city lot. A neighbor offers 300 000 for the land with the cow refusing, the man wonders what he would do with the cow if he sold. The odd tale highlights rich men's whims and family silence.
A Detroit Tribune excerpt tells of a bright job seeking boy who arrives at 7 am to plead for work. He explains he left school to work and asks for any available job. The merchant questions him, but the boy insists he can start immediately and stay as long as paid. He starts work within half an hour and is likely to keep it. A quip about sowing wild oats accompanies the anecdote.
Ground was broken last October for Harvard’s Fogg Museum of Art facing Cambridge Street opposite Memorial Hall. The $150,000 two story horseshoe building of buff Indiana limestone will house a 700 seat theatre, a cast museum, drawing rooms, and a library with art lecture space. Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg funded the project to serve Harvard and Boston with a new art museum and ongoing art acquisitions.
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