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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1891
Page
1
Mrs Morton Mrs Sherman and others discuss the growing power and inefficiency of servants in Washington society. A New York note on servant references prompts reform talk. Leading ladies urge training schools for colored and white servants nationwide.
A Washington visit with Mrs Proctor and other notable wives reveals diverse views on domestic help. Swiss maids impress with thrift while organized training for servants and county schools are proposed to improve reliability and reduce friction in households across the capital.
A reader is told of a prophetic portrait praising a man who will solve the servant girl problem. The piece then shifts to anecdotes about Stanford’s Chinese cook and other foreign servants, including a Japanese nurse with dangerous baby handling, reflecting early 20th century attitudes and humor.
A cautionary guide says many smokers should roll their own cigarettes to improve health and flavor. It argues ready made cigarettes burn faster and hotter, waste tobacco, and cost more, urging readers to buy tobacco and paper and roll evenly for a cooler, smoother, and cheaper smoke with illustrated steps.
A humorous but pointed piece praises a proposed women’s society to care for old bachelors. It imagines feminine efforts such as laundering, organizing parlors, and soothing after club dinners, envisioning a broader movement of gentle ladies extending care to unpartnered men and their daily needs.
General Meade recalls Hancock being sent to assume field command on the first day at Gettysburg. Hancock quickly organized a retreat from confusion, secured the ridge, and held it. Disputes over seniority with Gen. Howard arose, but Meade avoided a breakdown that could have trapped the 1st and 11th Corps. He chose practicality over strict legality to save his men.
A street and Smiths Good News item shows a dealer seeking a youthful helper. The applicant claims extensive experience and jokes about pricing marks and differentiating good cigars from bad by picture quality.
The article notes that few patents exist on surgical instruments. When a physician develops a new device to advance medicine, no patent is granted and others may freely manufacture it, allowing the profession to benefit from this openness.
A frontier Ohio tale narrates Tom Blossom and his friend Dick Chambers discovering a huge wounded panther in their Muskingum cabin loft. Tom shoots the beast from the window after it returns to the attic, saving his crew and becoming a local legend as an old man recounts the incident to children.
Tom Blossom and Dick Chambers pursue a giant panther after a night sighting. Tom shoots, the Panther vanishes with a cry, leaving a blood trail that fades. They track briefly but find nothing, the hunt ending as they return home under the moon.
A critical list of common English usage errors found in newspapers. It discusses phrases like whether or not should be not, I should have liked to have witnessed become I should like to have witnessed, and avoids clichés such as I almost think. It critiques imprecise phrases and French calques used by writers and editors, urging precise substitutes and the elimination of redundancies.
The Hartford convention report dated January 5 1815 drew Federalist support though figures like Lowell Pickering and Gouverneur Morris joined only for unity. By January 24 Massachusetts and Connecticut legislatures adopted the convention resolutions and sent commissioners to Washington to seek an arrangement that would have split New England into a separate confederacy. Adams notes Republicans and Federalists alike understood the implications across the nation.
The Dickson Manufacturing Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania, completed what is believed to be the world’s largest wheel for Calumet & Hecla Mining of Michigan. A 64 foot diameter cog wheel with an 18 inch face, built like a bicycle, it can move 30 million gallons of water and 2000 tons of sand in 24 hours at 10 feet per second. The wheel weighs about 8.4 million pounds and its journals are 23 die grand and feet 4 inches long.
Washington, Jan. 31. Alfred Townsend argues corruption thrives via lobbyists and officials, noting how land, river and harbor projects invite bought Senate seats. He chronicles how a future territory’s two Senate terms could be bought for tens of thousands, illustrating systemic graft in early statehood.
A Chicago Mail item recounts a social mix up over an invitation to a Charity Ball at the Auditorium on January 8, 1891. A downtown business partner signs the invitation, prompting a sly, personal reply from the recipient accepting the offer while noting firm dealings.
Nell Nelson voices a World editorial condemning flirting as dangerous in country towns and cities alike. She argues women invite insult by flirtation, urges dignity and restraint, and says gentlemen should pursue respectful introductions rather than flirtation.
Pittsburg Dispatch reports Alderman Bienhauer proposes a novel domestic remedy to sparing unhappy homes. He advised a wife to imitate her drunken husband, even entering saloons to drink with him until he vows sobriety, a method that allegedly brought harmony and prevented lawsuits.
Vermont claims two core modern inventions originated with its citizens Thomas Davenport from Brandon devised the electric telegraph and motor car before others Davenport worked with Smalley wiring a residence to transfer signals by electricity. Morse later improved with his alphabet but Davenport’s early line and device fore shadowed the modern telegraph and electric vehicle era.
A New York Ledger discussion explains a parasitic fungus that attacks house flies in autumn. It traces spore infection from air to the fly, the growth of threadlike tubes and eventual death, noting Empusa muse as the fungus species and describing the halo of spores on window panes.
Richmond Dispatch notes Confederate archives captured during the fall of Richmond have saved the United States hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Court of Claims. When a claimant seeks compensation for property taken or destroyed, officers comb the archives to prove the petitioner's case, sometimes revealing that the claimant has no home to align with Confederate government.
A Hyde Park Times brief reports a lady on Sunnyside misplaced a pocket-book containing 38 and 19 years ago on Gordonay. This week the owner recovered the item after someone who saw it drop it rediscovered it, returning the money and item to the owner.
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