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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1882
Page
2
A letter from Country Gentleman argues against expanding shoes and asserts contraction stems from lack of frog pressure. The writer recommends preserving frog/heel contact, removing high heels, and using flat low-heel shoes with frog support, predicting a year to grow a sound hoof. The practice aims to restore hoof health by natural pressure.
Garden notes cover August planting and canning tips for tomatoes cucumbers peppers and corn. It advises buying August pickles for quality and discusses spinach lettuce and popcorn seed, composting manure and weed control while detailing strawberry bed renewal and grapevine pruning debates and best practices.
Agricultural notes discuss seed wheat on poor soil needing more seed, sorghum sugar making with ripeness and juice density rules, and preserving fragile eggs with shellac. It covers fall rye for green cattle feed, dairy cow milk stability, and humane livestock handling. It also notes hog market shocks, coal ashes for fruit trees, calf rearing from skim milk, and fowl and cheese making tips.
A survey of flower color genetics and cultivation notes from Darwin to Lubbock, Muller's butterflies, and Gex Rex Begonia. Practical advice on propagating Begonia Rex and other house plants, with rose care systems, seed sowing, pruning, and winter protection. Mentions Solomons Seal and Vogelcamphor seed germination effects.
A period piece on balancing rest with duties for women, urging vacations near the sea to rebuild nerves and energy. It previews autumn fabrics from Lyons, detailing silks, velvets, and woolen weaves, with notes on color trends, trims, and practical travel garments. A Philadelphia horseback journey concludes the read.
Detailed knitting guide describes lace scallop patterns, ribbing, and waved trim. Includes cast on ten stitches, repeat rows with knit and purl sequences, over pattern, and instructions for rick rack trim crochet methodology. Also covers progressing to a longer point, creating gathered braided edges, and finishing with chained stitches.
The article offers home canning and cooking tips with cucumber pickling in strong brine and a late peaches pudding. It covers pepper ginger allspice flavored pickles, stuffed green peppers, tomato cateup, French pancakes, quince preserves, corn soup, fried fish, and various fruit and veg preparations. It preserves period kitchen techniques, naming ingredients and steps for each recipe.
About 7:30 a.m. a train of eleven empty coal cars shifted to the temporary track near the Aiken street bridge in Lowell started down the incline and pushed a carload of cement off the temporary bridge. The cars then derailed and piled in the water. No one was hurt and the cars were hoisted back onto the track by a derrick.
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