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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1882
Page
3
The poem recalls a solitary forest scene as spring awakens a fragile bloom. A narrator watches the bud endure winter and summon life with sunlight and rain, until a vivid awakening breaks the hush. The imagery blends renewal, nature’s seasons, and poetic reverence for a blossoming springtime maiden of the woods.
Rob recalls a gallery of beauties while seeking the perfect likeness for his love. A mysterious portrait hints at a tragedy as the speaker discovers the elusive face is Countess Kate, dead a century, revealing fate’s cruel mark on romance.
A long running dispute over a narrow land strip pits Brown and White against each other. White is dead and his heirs, now with strangers, toil while the mill and miller’s home are owned by Lawyer Gray. Brown remains a mill worker earning ninety cents a day as lawyers harvest the rest.
Fragmentary verse about night, serenely smiling shorelines, a gondolier in Venice, soft music on the sea, and a novice in a monastery offering charity to the troubled. The poem weaves imagery of oars, moonlight, viols, and retreat to Genevra's balcony.
In a summer field Phebe warns Colin of ill luck like a cuckoo. She taps his shoulder and declares the cuckoo signal gripped by fortune. He responds with a vow and a gift, while she blushes and asks time and place, recalling the cuckoo as omen.
A fragmentary poem excerpt by H. W. Longfellow describes a dark river and tangled woods guiding a hidden, unveiled path. It moves from cold hearts to thoughts stirring as clouds veil love and reveal unspoken feelings.
Poem fragment reflects a sealed farewell tone with a lovers’ final kiss amid darkness and impending separation. It contrasts April airs with autumn blast as they meet, kiss, and feel division dissolve, then the moment passes with unresolved longing. The lines echo a last farewell in life and love.
A lyrical meditation on graves scattered from east to west across oceans and lands. The speaker to a patient Earth reflects on endless burials from stormy north to serene sunlit isles, noting the moon watches every lone grave as shipwrecks of life fade. The tone is somber and reverent.
An 1880 letter dated July 6 describes Compound Oxygen performing notable work. The extract implies significant impact but provides limited specifics beyond the reference to its achievement and the celebratory tone surrounding the accomplishment.
Patient praises a five week improvement after a treatment sent April 12. He weights gains fourteen pounds and now walks three miles, stating physicians had given up six weeks prior. The message accompanies a treatise on Compound Oxygen with reports and information from Drs. Starkey and Palen of Philadelphia.
The piece debates sewerage in villages and towns lacking systems. It weighs surface irrigation as a method, subsoil irrigation with flush tanks, and cesspools, highlighting dangers from pollution, odor, and disease. Examples cite Memphis Lenox Princeton and a 300 inmate institution with enteric fever linked to poorly emptied cesspools.
A narrative describes couples visiting the Treasury vaults in Washington and being shown a supposed $20,000,000 bundle of $10,000 notes called the Bridal Package. The piece explains the scheme, noting the bulk of funds lie in New York sub-treasury and that the $10,000 notes lack signatures, rendering them worthless.
Middlebury Vermont jeweler Mr 8S Holton built a cuckoo clock that theatrically replays the Garfield assassination. A wooden depotscape shows a ticket agent telegraph operator and train workers as Garfield and Blaine appear, Guiteau shoots, a funeral priest, and Guiteau on the gallows. The scene ends with doors closing and the clock restaging hourly in about three minutes.
Washington Capital notes Mass Chace, daughter of Rhode Island congressman, rising as a leading student of political economy. The piece mocks superficial social butterflies and foresees her impact in intellectual discourse, praising her youth and charm as tools for achievement. It frames women in high places as challenging old norms and predicts a shift toward earnest conversation and merit.
In Indian Territory Osages vote for chief with two tickets, National led by Joseph Pawneepashe and Union led by Hard Rope. The National candidate wins by four votes, and Strike Ax, also National, becomes second chief by six. The result signals progress toward civilization and the vote passes quietly. DyspPepsiA, the epicureans’ bugbear, is noted to be relieved by Brown's Iron Bittera.
A literary society discussion explores whether women spend more on dress than men and the factors behind extravagance. The piece contrasts viewpoints, notes that individual taste outweighs general rules, and covers spring fashion items, coats, hats, gloves, trains, and dress goods from the Bazaar’s offerings.
The spring millinery is lovely with straws in many colors and Parisian white crape bonnets. Porcupine satin straws, Hazel hats, and beaded or flower crowns lead trends, with wide ribbons and lace. Silk ladylike fabrics, cashmere and silks, bold embroidered trims, and widening skirt silhouettes define outfits for ladies and children.
The passage describes knitting lace edges with multiple rows, repeats, and instructions for two motifs Wheat Eur Edging and Diallo. It lists steps for stitch counts, knits and purls, thread overs, and sequencing to restart at row one, plus material suggestions and yarn types.
Home decor notes advise modern papering concentrated on full wall surfaces with a wide top frieze above the picture rail, using flat backgrounds with designer motifs such as palm branches and damascened textures. Do not overprint purple tones, consider room light and color harmony with existing paint and upholstery, and tailor choices to room orientation for comfort.
House and garden plant guidance for summer supply, propagation of geraniums verbenas heliotropes lantanas and adyranthes with focus on General Grant geraniums and rosette care. Details on potting timing root health cooling, and seasonal flowering sequence from snowdrops to June roses in central New York.
A reflective note urges readers that misery stems from self blame and can be altered by personal choice. It emphasizes responsibility and the possibility of adopting a healthier outlook through deliberate change.
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