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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1879
Page
2
The speaker laments errors and misprints in a published poem and rails at the editor for flawed typography. He cites examples like missing letters and misread words, and complains that a line about a muse is altered and that the publication has damaged his work. The piece ends with a vow to confront the editor.
A long prescriptive essay urges women to delay marriage until age twenty four, seek health and virtue in a future husband, and reject tobacco or alcohol users. It cautions against marrying widowers, divorced men, or those with poor finances, urges careful observation and even phrenological testing to judge character, and endorses advertisement only with safeguards.
Instructions detail making cherry and raspberry syrups by removing pectin through fermentation, clarifying juices, and sugar-ferment steps. Includes blackberry and small-fruit jellies, canning with Mason jars, and a potato bread method with yeast and soda. Notes on equipment and process accuracy.
Beecher shares practical health rules from Christian Union ideas. He likens the body to a machine, advocates balanced fuel and sleep, morning cleansing, and a light breakfast. He urges regular naps, cheerful living, and disciplined routine to maintain vigor and prevent fatigue.
A collage of verses and quips ranges from T. B. Aldrich style lovers who say no yet mean yes, to a daylight lesson on summer religion and a Punch style joke about small profits. Scattered snippets include a bathing suit remark, a New Haven joke, and Hartford court protest.
A Cincinnati Gazette correspondence details a reader’s August onset of hay fever and a home regimen. He describes outdoor exercise, skin care, and tonics including Peruvian bark and cherry bark, plus a medicated rinse and quinin solution for sneezing. He notes Langell’s remedy for asthma, cough remedies, and avoidance of ragweed dust.
A historical medical note outlines home remedies for children including croup treatments with calomel and tartar emetic, liniments and warm compresses, and emetic use. It also covers bowel disorders with chalk, rhubarb, brandy, and starch laudanum enemas, plus a discussion on the health effects of smoking boys supported by the British Medical Journal.
The New Haven Register reports on Rev. Hayden in the county jail awaiting trial for the murder of Mary Stannard. Hayden receives visitors, writes no sermons, and plans his defense with George H. Watrous as reading counsel while Lynde Harrison handles the state's case. Trial set for September with potential Supreme Court judge involvement.
A druggist and reporter tour a busy apothecary shop where goose grease sits among mutton tallow and olive oil. The store doubles as information bureau post office and a social hub, offering loans, letters for clandestine correspondents, and even after supper political discussions, all while keeping shelves stocked and prices set for profit.
Pittsburg Telegraph reports a sensational discovery about Slade the Medium. A steamer voyage reveals Slade was a woman with a heavy moustache, defying public perception and boosting the tale of fraud surrounding Spiritualist leaders.
A string of suicides and violent deaths is described across Genoa Rome and New York with multiple family tragedies including drownings stabbings and a mutilated murder victim later found alive. The text notes a George Francis Train prophecy about Tremont Temple and a Parker House claim in the Tremont fire context.
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