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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1879
Page
2
A poem urging children to sing through Easter hope. The speaker invites young readers to celebrate rebirth, cast off sorrow, and trust that death yields to God’s eternal spring. The verses evoke winter giving way to spring, bright faces, running brooks, and a hopeful future.
A Russian peasant Nikita Vlassier hoards twenty five roubles in lilac paper, bargains through famine and war, endures family pressure, borrows, and finally loses faith as his fortune vanishes and he hangs himself after swallowing the bill in a delirium.
A devotional verse by Rev. Washington Gladder pleads for guidance and patience in daily toil and faith. It is followed by a short anecdote about a boy who stole figs, being locked in a closet and promising his father would pay for them and provide a beating. The tale ends with the appeal’s effect.
A guide to window garden care in spring detailing azaleas carnations and hyacinths. It covers light water needs air circulation pruning propogation from cuttings and seasonal care for bulbs including hyacinths lilies narcissus and grape hyacinth. It also suggests decorative ideas for displays and chinaware style enhancements.
A Victorian guide to transforming plain wooden tops with white marbled oil cloth and crochet shell edges. It details spray work with Lemon dyes, lambrequins, bed-spreads, and mantel decor using unbleached muslin, crimson sprays, and color variations to achieve elegant, durable room fashion.
A collection of kitchen instructions and recipes including frying salt pork in thin slices, a fluffy omelette method, soap solution for stains, potato strips fried crisp, jelly cake fritters, apple pot pie with nutmeg, minute sponge cake, haw balls from ham, foaming pudding sauce, and sweet potato corn biscuit. Recipes emphasize step by step preparation, soaking times, frying temperatures, and serving guidance.
An article by Dr. Hammond in the Voice explains stammering as a functional brain disorder with no organ defect. He cured himself at nineteen by coordinating a small muscular action during speech, using a finger or hand movement to make words automatic. The text also notes head washing as a preventive measure and briefly mentions stopping nosebleeds with firm finger pressure.
A remarkable English case shows circumstantial guilt not proving life harming. An 18 year old man was condemned for a policeman's murder after drunkenness arrest, but the verdict was reversed. He was pardoned after ten weeks on death row, then life in prison, with the case highlighting flaws in juries and trials.
A collection of practical medical tips from an old paper, detailing nosebleed first aid by applying pressure to facial arteries and timing, plus home remedies and tonics. Advice on outdoor activity for women, blood stopping powders from tea dust or leather scraps, and early rising linked to longevity. Also includes recipes for pain relief and hair growth tonics with various common ingredients.
A fragmented verse speaks of aloes enduring scorching winds and heat as patience tests the plant. It hints at a poem of endurance and fate with a speaker named Hensan Coolidge reflecting on a longwaited bloom and the secret of its fate.
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