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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1879
Page
2
A garbled OCR fragment presents a portion of Henry W. Longfellow verse invoking Jugurtha and Apollo. The text includes phrases about baths and death in Rome, with distorted spellings and broken words, lacking clear context or complete lines.
In a London tale, Tom Halliday helps recover a lost 1845 parchment deed in a Morpeth case. He finds the seal amid Mrs Moyse’s jam pots, claims a £500 reward from Sharpe and Floyd, and plans marriage to his sweetheart Lessie Moyse with support from Mr. Morpeth and family.
In a grand hall scene, Staunton hosts a toast in honor of the Lady Gandamere. St Leon proclaims devotion, guests pledge to enduring love, and St Leon rightly names his beloved as his mother, amid chivalrous ceremony and dramatic reverence.
A collage of odds and ends notes various figures and names: Catholic population in St Louis listed at 150000, Colonel Mapleson nets 30000, Pacific Railroad snow removal cost 20000, England's cost to kill a Zulu vs US cost to kill an Indian, 5000 lives pledged by the pope, and remarks on currency and satire about Mark Twain and Chinamen. It also mentions a Rothschild mortgage on Palestine, Queen Victoria’s aide John Brown, King Cetgwayo’s John Dunn, and a quip about Moses and Wyandotte.
A long domestic article offers season guidance for outdoor bedding plants and ferns. It covers plant choices for beds, soil preferences, selecting young stock, and porch and garden display ideas. It includes a rustic fern bed method, arranging flower beds, and humorous culinary notes.
A detailed overview of etching on copper including ground preparation, transfer of design, and biting with nitric acid. It describes copper as the preferred metal, improvements via electrotype steel coatings, testing density, and needle types. Rembrandt is cited as the exemplar of technique and tone.
A reader recounts home remedies using boiled onions and chives to combat worms and colds, and notes a physician’s support for onions as brain-boosting nutrition. The piece discusses salt remedies for intermittent fever, the link between health and dulness, vegetarian diets and arterial aging, ear safety in saltwater, ga rtreated headaches with guarana, and general body care including cleansing and eye care.
A Philadelphia lecture by Miss Dods suggests onions and potatoes have greenness that hinders digestion and should be soaked in warm water for an hour before cooking. She advocates gas stoves for steady heat and notes good flour should be judged by performance, not color.
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