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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1885
Page
7
The column presents Ruskin's views on women's roles, education, and virtue, urging noble guidance over idle vanity. It includes sewing and feather stitching tips, parasol fashions with detailed descriptions, and notices seeking help for women’s industrial work and correspondence for the Woman's Hour column.
Patterns for knitted edgings include Saw Teeth Epor and Double Oak Leaf motifs with cast ons, rows of knit and purl, yarn overs, and two together decreases. The text references Mrs Niles and mentions 4 Be stitching on flannel with diagrams from Dor agazine, noting the technique is hard to describe.
The piece describes fashionable parasols and sun-shades for the season. Natural wood handles are preferred, with few ivory or ebonized options. Shades feature conical tops, spring placement between lining and outside, and new color accents in black white and silks with chenille or velvet spots.
A Washington letter recalls precocious remarks by ex-officials’ children at social events. A child asked Lieutenant Greeley if he ate the Dutchman, prompting blushes and laughter as families note the transition from old to new administrations. Greeley plans a summer in England with leave and invitations to lecture.
A Victorian note on charms and rituals for love seekers. It lists wishing chairs and gates, a horse shoe rite, and a piebald horse omen. It describes a Cleaveland glass and ring divination for marriage prospects, moonlit hair‑finding on St Andrew's Eve, and a method to glimpse future hair color using a silk cloth.
Lawrence Crowley recalls the 1864 battle off Cherbourg between the Kearsarge and the Alabama. He describes the chase from Cadiz to Gibraltar, the boarding at Fayal, and the dramatic engagement off Cherbourg, noting desers, prize rumors, wrecks, and the crew’s prize money and pride in victory.
The article discusses Earth's magnetic force per Gaus and Mayer, estimating the planet's magnetism with a hypothetical one-pound magnet as a unit. It reports the earth’s total magnetic capacity, distribution, and field orientation from south to north, comparing it to sunlight rays and noting how it permeates all matter.
A fragment from the Pittsburg Chronicle warns that if the old woman who lived in a shoe does not return the article she will be arrested. her name is reportedly known, and MissCc is mentioned as the address reference.
A Pennsylvanian farm family reports five children of John Fink aged 7 to 21 struck by a mysterious affliction. The eldest, Caroline, believed she was bewitched by a cat. doctors say the children were under magnetic influence, not actual witchcraft, with a tramp possibly involved.
A Pittsburg Dispatch item recounts a fanciful tale about the oleander’s deadly leaves and a heavy tub, mixing gladiator feats, a Queen of Sheba visit, a frost night misadventure, and a court case over misused property. The piece uses burlesque moralizing and comic exaggeration to warn of danger in domestic oleander care.
A New York Sun piece surveys how leaders from Garfield to Blaine and Chandler have believed in luck and signs. It cites doctors like Dr. Beard noting financiers and politicians act under powerful but harmless delusions. The piece recounts specific superstitions such as counting white horses and pins, and notes alienists see no illness in these beliefs, only potential to grow.
In La Crescent Minnesota Mary Moore an 18 year old girl has gone forty three days without solid food and drinks little water. She wastes away yet shows bright eyes and free movement of hands. She cannot swallow nourishment and retches when feeding. Born mute she has otherwise been healthy until this illness.
A Jackson county man owns a remarkable elderly colored man aged about ninety who was left in the Cherokee nation twice by John A Murrell. He is now the father of forty nine children and can plough as well as any man, earning fame for his strong character and endurance.
Captain Le Blanc and the La Vendee chase a British frigate toward Manila. After a bold boarding action the French escape with their American passengers aboard the Ganges. In Manila they observe a bustling port and the clash of British and French sea prowess, while Jack Bruce and Davy Dorn face mutinous threats aboard the Oolong as the voyage continues.
A Birmingham tradesman's wife elopes with a handsome man, leaving her husband furious. Monday morning the husband and four friends pursued the lovers to Shirley, trapping the man in a hay wagon and dunking him in a horse trough. After public humiliation and a chase across fields, the lover escaped badly drenched, while the husband escorted his wife away in Birmingham.
In Portland a Pullman train from St Paul carried two women traveling west to meet husbands. One woman, married in Chicago on Christmas day 1882, hoped her hazel-eyed baby would resemble its father. The other, Mrs Taylor of Liverpool, hadn't seen her husband since April of the previous year. At East Portland the captain, the father, appeared. the mother placed the child on the seat and ran to embrace him, as tears moved many passengers who stayed back to respect the reunion.
A fragmented note from the New York Tribune discusses Professor Pheps and a Yale College course on municipal affairs. It hints at teaching methods amid academic tensions and policy debates, and mentions an odd instruction theme related to handling a police figure during a teacher’s appointment.
Position 1182 ends with J H Harrison from Somerville and Mase BLACK. Checker Editor The Globe discusses a variation of A shire Lassie with the prompt What ending forms a study for readers. He notes white can win but it is not a walk over as forces are balanced and stronger moves are suggested.
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