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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1879
Page
2
A detailed guide to making decorative fire place aprons using tissue paper, colored edges, fringes, and roses. Includes variations such as pond lilly and daisy aprons, plus methods for borders, leaves, and trailing garlands. Also offers cabinet and decorative display ideas with craft notes.
Public health note highlights cleanliness and hygiene with Muslim practices, cautions on hydrate of chloral and carbolic acid antidotes, describes gelatine medicine tablets, warns of arsenic in toys, and gives several home remedies from borax water to arrowroot broth and bronchial lozenges, plus a brief political note on a 19th century local election.
Colonel Peter Lyte died in Philadelphia last week born Christmas Day 1821 in Spring Garden His early years show his love of military matters forming a boys company that grew into a crack Pennsylvania unit He commanded the Nineteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers and served in the Civil War wounded at Antietam in 1862 Mustered out with his regiment in 1864 after three years of service
Diana Powellson, widow of Thomas Powellson, living on land rental from William Chick near Kansas City, describes a seven year struggle with intense spasms and fatal cycles starting August 1870. Medical witnesses recall organs failing, near death, and a vision near death after which she reported a vivid afterlife experience and spiritual insight. The account, examined by Drs Thorne Luorne and Shorne with Kansas City observers, is framed as a verified case amid contemporaneous social notes from Larchmont Manor and a Havana incident involving an American citizen.
In SupBuRY Massachusetts on July 28 a wave of prostrations struck families in Acton and surrounding areas after consuming beef pressed by a South Acton butchering firm. Doctors attributed the illness to gases formed in the meat when left on ice too long before serving.
Catherine Webster was executed at Wandsworth jail for the murder of her mistress Mrs Thomas in Richmond. The confession and mutilation of the body followed a plot with her lover Church to seize the victim’s property and flee to America. The execution was private with few present, and the body buried in the prison yard.
A fragmented excerpt presents Bayard Taylor reflecting on spring, labor, aging, and discontent. It weaves rural imagery with thoughts of family, work, and missed paths, centering on the tension between duty and desire as time and weather press on. The speaker muses on aging, love, memory, and the yearning for meaning beyond toil.
A playful exchange in a Yeast City doorway shows a butcher boy and a German baker's daughter courting with bread puns. Their flirtation blends pastry imagery with affection as they joke about dough, crusts, and future happiness.
An elderly man recounts returning to Hope and Eighth streets in Williamsburgh to find the town altered. He laments closing his shop, fears new braziness, and recalls old writers and the absence of a thriving news scene as he wanders past familiar spots. The fragment hints at nostalgia and frustration with modern changes in the neighborhood.
A Western Ohio tale of Lawton is told in letters from Reading Pennsylvania. The wealthy lawyer Lawton and his wife endure a long search for their missing daughter Mabel later revealed as their own daughter. A stranger in New York learns the sister was abducted, raised, and known as Mabel Letcher. The revelation tears the couple apart as the sister and wife is exposed, with both families left to bear the consequences of their past. The piece ends with news of Italian missionary work and Rev. Van Meter touring the United States to raise funds.
A Chicago Tribune tale humorously depicts a goat seeking life insurance as an anaconda proposes a mutual company driven by low expenses and high personal gain. The serpent squeezes the goat during a mock assessment, delivering a cautionary moral about subtler schemes and greed. Advertising for summer boarders appears in TurnsTon Daily Globe.
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