13 Jan 1891
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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1891
Page
1
A fashion guidance piece on coiffure as the crowning touch of street and indoor attire. It urges natural elegance, warns against over-elaboration, and discusses face framing, hair height, and versatile styles for brides, young women, and matrons with illustrations of fashionable arrangements and decorative pins.
The illustration shows twisted strands formed into a tor ace pattern taken up and pinned across the hatter on the top of the head. They are carried down until the ends disappear as the loops of the lower strands vanish.
Providence Journal presents a census based list of U S cities with populations over 50 000. Cities are grouped into five classes from over 400 000 down to 50 000 70 000 with figures for the current and two prior censuses.
A Mrs Bowser laments repeated delays from tailors and dressmakers as Bowser confronts his own pride. A sequence of missed deliveries and sarcastic exchanges reveals how tight shoes and late suits trigger farcical tension, ending without resolution.
A letter from Washington describes a vast hunter's paradise west of Puget Sound. The Olympic range country, spanning Clallam and Jefferson counties to the Pacific, holds bear elk and black-tailed deer in abundant numbers. Until last summer this region offered undisturbed game and rugged access remains a challenge.
In a commemorative moment the generous tea merchant tells his longtime bookkeeper that after forty years of service he will install a fire escape on the counting-room window to show appreciation for his loyal staff. The exchange highlights respect and planning for safety in the business.
The Citizens' Security Investment Company of Virginia formation with New England office in Boston promotes a single $100 bond plan maturing near $235. Boston officers guarantee timely payments, pledge personal funds if needed, and invite buyers to review circulars from the Boston office.
A detailed old method explains suspending a ring by burning a salt soaked thread. The thread burns away leaving ashes that supposedly support the ring. A variant uses a square muslin frame and an empty egg as the suspended payload, with care to avoid drafts.
In 1889 Mr. and Mrs. Tuck were sent from Boston under the Ladies' Methodist Society to start a school at Ounalaska in the Aleutians. Facing Russian church opposition they leased a house from Alaska Commercial Co. and began teaching reading writing arithmetic and vocal music to Aleut and mixed-heritage girls, aided by an organ and government-placed boarders.
The article stresses phased daily practice to build strength and skill, detailing captain duties like selecting a capable, balanced team. It emphasizes weight, speed, and intelligence over sheer size, with roles for rushing, tackling, center positions, quarterback brains, and disciplined team play to outmaneuver opponents.
Globe reporter describes the ice harvest as icemen cut and store blocks for summer use. In Boston and Wakefield large crews work to reclaim frozen lakes, cutting through snow and ice with saws and groovers as Lake Quannapowitt is stripped of its winter cover for the season.
A Wakefield visit details how the Boston Ice Company harvests ice. Flags mark grooves, saws cut lanes, and machines chunk blocks for storage in Woburn Weymouth and Chelmsford houses holding tens of thousands of tons. The process spans from marking to loading, with teams of men and horses operating scraping, marker, and saw equipment to yield 100 to 150 cakes per mass.
The article describes ice production and movement in two Boston camp sections. Cakes are produced, lifted via inclined railway, and moved on belts to storage and houses. Workers direct the flow, with cakes diverted to side tracks and distributed along a network of belts and tracks through multiple sheds and houses.
J G Morrill converts houses once used by the People’s Ice Company to storage. Workers harvest cakes of ice weighing 650 to 700 pounds from a lake a mile and a half long, supplying growing demand with a small three day start. J C Ed gbrly.
In a January St Nicholas piece Charles Dudley Warner discusses how children have varied reading needs and passions. A boy who loved inquiry learned from books by probing topics like earthquakes and electricity, turning reading into a practical, exploratory education that built curiosity and problem solving.
Gustav Larson of the Minneapolis sewer department enters a jammed sewer on 27th Street and Tyn Dale Avenue with two workers. He becomes separated, shouts for help, and vanishes into a shrinking passage about three miles from the entry, with rescuers unable to reach him.
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