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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1882
Page
3
A long piece contrasts Boston and Western women in culture and dress. It notes shared clubs and studies across regions, critiques the Boston stereotype, and details bonnet styles with velvet, ribbons, and floral trimmings for promenades and visiting outfits.
The Woman's Hour begins a weeklong series on preserving and increasing facial and body beauty by natural means. It focuses on hygienic toilet practices, warns against artificial aids, and outlines scalp cleansing, hair care, and brushing routines to promote healthy hair and vitality. The piece previews further discussion on complexion care in the next issue.
A fragment notes fashion items and seaside favorites, mentioning Verso dress bonnets and seahorse style cues. The brief highlights changing tastes and local shop chatter about accessories and apparel.
William Harper buys a carpenter’s oil stone from a junk shop on West 37th Street. Heating the stone exposes a hollow block containing eight nitro glycerine cartridges packed with grease. Police, led by Sergeant Wilson and Detective McSherry, recover the contraband and discard it in the North River. The stamp holders, two Englishmen who sold the tools, left no names.
A Harper's Bazaar inspired guide details DIY holiday gifts. It covers clover leaf tables, knitted fringe mats, worn textile scraps turned into scarfs, rugs, and bureau covers, plus decorative pillows and chatelaine bags. Emphasis on practical, craftable items using garments, old shawls, carpet rags, and silk remnants. Includes stepwise knitting patterns, fringe methods, and color coordination for handmade presents.
A detailed Victorian style craft directions for making moss crosses using moss, lichens, and dried botanicals. Includes frame size, gathering moss, making stilt paste, attaching scarlet and white caps, moss twigs, ferns, old man’s beard, bittersweet, pressed leaves, berries, and hanging moss to create a decorative Christmas emblem.
A detailed, era style crochet guide for making polo and Tam O Shanter caps. It covers materials such as single zephyr wool in colors like scarlet blue and olive, tool sizes, and step by step crochet rounds. It notes variations in color, tuft options, and marking starting rows for accuracy.
In Rue Vieille du Temple Paris a 14th century house yield 7822 gold coins valued over £4000. Coins bear superscriptions of John de Good Charles V Guillaume de Beauregard and others. two workmen found the vase, were paid the value under treasure trove law, then disappeared. Coins will be examined and sold at public auction. The house was once occupied by the peaxqi d Effiat marquis of France and superintendent of finance.
Pastor Strasser of Grindelwald recounts a catastrophic October storm in the Ober land. He notes the John wind began at 4 am and raged nearly a day with immense force, ripping roof stones and rocks, likening debris to cannon balls and detailing extensive destruction.
Families hid in cellars as fierce gusts battered buildings and dislodged stones. Brave workers risked injury to repair damage while many structures remained ruined. A record rainstorm followed, soaking winter forage and battering roads with falling branches stones and tiles, though no lives were lost.
ConsMerable cites London Milk Journal and Dr Benjamin Clarke noting warm milk, not boiled, as a remedy for diarrhea in the East Indies and for typhoid fever. A pint every four hours is said to stop diarrhea, calm dysentery, soothe the intestines, aid sleep, and strengthen fever patients. Scarlet fever guidance urges giving all milk the patient will take to maintain strength.
A historic article urges proper waste water disposal near homes with a stone vault system and dry soil locations. It then surveys 1851 England mortality by occupation, noting miners and mariners as high risk, and discusses diet and beer as factors shaping character and health.
A celebrated beauty at sixty shared two secrets for preserved beauty. She washed with hands and a gentle sponge, used clear water or warm water and white castile soap at night, then rubbed cheeks with a flesh-brush. If staying up late, she slept as many daytime hours as she would stay awake. Soft water and sound sleep ward off wrinkles and spots.
An aged physician, long retired, reveals a vegetable remedy from an East India missionary said to swiftly and permanently cure consumption, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, and all throat and lung ailments. It is claimed to also cure nervous debility and nervous complaints after extensive testing in thousands of cases.
The Grist Mill edited by comucs invites communications to W H Todd at 26 Lincoln Street East Somerville Mass. The column features multiple word puzzles including inverted pyramid cryptograms square rhomboid and other word games from Somerville and nearby towns with prizes for top solvers and notes from contributors and editors about submissions and responses.
In Waterbury Mr. A pleasant pastime involves tying oat grains with thread to create entanglements among pigeons. Each grain is spaced along the stalk so when birds attempt to fly the long line hooks onto others, trapping the flock and causing mass confusion. The scheme relies on synchronized flight and shared motion to disrupt the birds.
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