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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1885
Page
3
Townsend sketches the Tiffany firm from its 1837 beginnings to its 1860s expansion, noting its shift from imitation to real jewelry, Paris manufacturing, and bronze gas fixtures. He links Tiffanys to Newark’s crafts, cites steel and silver trends, and reflects on American industry, finance, and social changes influenced by Irish labor, politics, and culture.
A detailed guide to arranging tableaux for winter evenings using boxes frames cloth and lighting. It covers stage construction curtain systems gas or candle lighting, costumes and three example scenes Justice Mercy and Peace Love's Disguises and The Roman Girls at the Shrine of St Agnes with notes on faces gloves wigs and draped backdrops.
The piece surveys fashion prompts and social pressure around ladies hats at theatres. It notes Gainsborough hats as public nuisance and describes towering millinery from Madame La Mode, urging removal or hooded hats to improve sightlines while praising London crush hats as a new trend. It lampoons sartorial norms and anticipates stricter dress guidance.
The idea began in Paris with hats first used in a satirical play. Parisiennes quickly adoption follows and the opera hat, made in silk or cashmere, features a front bow. Illustrations show its closed and worn forms, described as pretty and comfortable for evening dress and deserving popularity according to Harper's Bazar.
Warm boot toppers for leather boots. Instructions describe chain and double crochet rib edges, star stitch construction, and a large shawl border method. Materials include Star Light Saxony yarn with bone crochet hook No 13, chain counts, and step by step rows for shaping heel and top. The pattern uses increasing and decreasing rows, with a tassel added at the top and a center seam alignment for the joined pieces. The star motif forms in rounds with eight initial stars and subsequent rounds building symmetry for a square-shaped finish.
Six handsome oranges yield orange jelly served in orange cups set on ice. Russian sauce combines horseradish mustard salt sugar and vinegar to cover meats, a tangy accompaniment. MKS 8 C D.
Practical home candy guide with recipes and craft tips. Includes chocolate caramels, coconut cakes, meringues, peanut candy, Dotty Dimple vinegar candy, lemon cream candy, vanilla chocolate cream drops, sugar candy, candied fruits and nuts, and pink coloring, plus packaging ideas using small baskets and ribbons.
Fragmentary Chicago style note from Boston dated December 2 1885 requests department communications and addresses Boxer 12 Houghton Avenue, Carlesport.
The fragment shows chess move records and commentary by J. KR. Yeomans and K. Price, detailing Black as a strong near-term position and listing multiple game scores, moves, and notes across games 2065 to 2069 and related analyses.
The veteran champion Wyllie accepted an invitation to Spennymoor, home of James Smith, to arrive January 4 and remain until the Smith Jackson championship of England concludes. Locals expect a grand reception for the famed draught player, hailed as the monarch of the magic squares.
Lady Vera conducts a department open to all readers. Write on one side of the paper only and send answers with a stamp for replies. Pastime Association members are invited to use this column. Send inquiries to L. H. Patterson Danvers Mass.
Puzzle items from No 131 to No 137 appear with places such as Orland Me and Taunton Mass and authors like Dickens. Entries include anagrams, charades, word squares, and a numerical clue set, naming multiple numbers, letters, and phrases across a series of short wordplay challenges.
Fragmentary notice in a department column asks readers to enclose a stamp with any reply. It reminds to include necessary details and to observe the proper mailing procedure for correspondence.
Beginning with this issue we shall not give any small prizes. The person who solves the most puzzles and has the most contributions accepted on April 1, 1986 will receive a handsome silver medal walked at $10. If a person solves five of our puzzles of last week's issue correctly and sends in two accepted puzzles it will count him seven, if the writing is neat and punctuation good a total of two or one will be added making his total eight or nine. We shall publish every week the number of answers received and puzzles accepted and each four weeks the grand total. Entries can commence at any time and we shall hear from all our friends in puzzles received but shall require a better class of puzzles written. On and after this date we will not publish any four letter squares or diamonds and we do not care for many central puzzles.
The article explains puzzledom as a diverse group of puzzle editors publishers and creators in the United States with about 4000 interested readers. It notes major puzzle organizations including the Weekly Girone Eastern Puzzlers League and New England Puzzlers League, holds conventions in Boston New York Concord and lists common puzzle types such as Numerical Hexagon Pentacon Dismond Square Cross Word Central Prefix Annex Greek cross Rhomboid Charade and more.
Full report of the convention next week. The Globe puzzle department, largest in New England, previews a New Year issue with charades and puzzles from Cohannet Minne Holt and others. Delphine offers a thirteen letter octagon and more hard anagrams from Guess Readers Next Aga Memmmon H A Mes. Fraternally Lapy Vera.
A reader asks about sorting trumps in whist and whether to keep them in a fixed relative position. Arguments suggest fixed placement reduces opponent information, while some note minor effects. The discussion covers proper leads in plain suits and the strategic use of trumps to control the hand.
A syndicated page features multiple numbered word puzzles from Auburn New York, with folded items and clues touching letters, birds, animals, and geography. Readers are invited to solve a series of playful riddles and cryptic prompts across No. 140 to No. 144, by Dr A Mann and others, in a retro 19th century style.
Three week timeline outlines for AAS SPCHEM 107 108 Beechnut shows contestants. Items include Gravista corrections and multiple entries such as Tamarind Boston Weekly Globe Deat Rom bod Deethoven All's well that ends well Look before you leap Grover Cleveland Mansard roof and various solver codes with names like Hallie Phillips and Lardy Dah.
Acclaimed contributor Arthur Welch Fullerton known as Spot dies at home in Providence Rhode Island after seven weeks since his last noted letter. Remembered as generous-hearted quiet and fun-loving, he made friends everywhere and will be missed in the community.
A notice describes ongoing word-hunt competition titled TYPOGRAPHICAL with ten cent entries. It bans foreign words, allows repeated letters in a word once, and states that after the stated date no more five-letter diamonds or four-letter sanares will be accepted.
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