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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1880
Page
2
A mother mourns losing her baby to a growing son as night fades to morning. She recalls the soft baby features and cherishes the memory while hoping the dear child returns to cradle and lullaby. The verse contrasts newborn gentleness with a boy’s lively rippling energy and fleeting childhood.
The Weekly Globe announces an open agricultural department inviting farmers to contribute essays questions and discussions on soil cultivation livestock and stock management. Topics proposed include sugar beet culture dairy cow winter feed and winter hen feed with a call for readers to share experiences and guidance.
Discussion of cow pea origins and varieties, analyses by Professor LeDoux showing nutritional value versus beans and clover, plus broader farm yields and market signals. Reports on wool, cheese, butter, salt, wheat and corn crops, and storage tips for potatoes and roots, with prices and export remarks.
The article surveys pear varieties under three groups: established varieties like Bartlett Seckel Duchesse Lawrence Flemish Beauty Sheldon and others. regionally valuable types such as Gray Doyenne and Marie Louise. and promising new varieties. Notes on Duenesse d'Angouleme Bantlett, Summer Doyeuxe, Doyenne Boosgook, Flemish Beauty, Secklon, and others follow with remarks on hardiness blight resistance flavor and market appeal. It also covers black knot on plums and cherries its fungus basis and remedies plus grape grafting, salt effects on pear blight, pruning, and orchard management including variety selection and market demands.
The article details turning cotton seed into compost with muck soil in alternating layers, adding wood ashes or potash, and maintaining moisture and temperature for proper fermentation. It advises harvesting wheat in moderate weather, explains forest impact on rainfall, and covers hops export, berry varieties, lice control in poultry, and the value of varied animal feed. It also warns about hickory wood treatments, winter timber prep, logging timing, and a large Charleston cotton shipment to Sebastopol.
A report surveys the Varis exhibition of 1878 detailing 36 murderers’ skulls with unusually large cranial capacity. Dr. Vordier’s Broca study compares to Solutre and L Homme Mort specimens, linking brain structure to behavior, avatism, and prehistoric traits, then shifts to medical home remedies and cures.
The piece argues New England should boost lamb and mutton production to meet rising Boston market demand. It notes 560000 head shipped abroad from Boston this summer and urges eastern farmers to supply the export market with high quality carcasses averaging around seventy five pounds. More sheep farming would aid New England farming overall.
A fragmented verse by Henry Jabbay on love as the universe’s keynote, contrasting the warm welcome of festival crowds with the cold neglect of strangers and priests. It laments fame unattached to heartfelt music and urges love as true renown amid provincial light.
The Diamond Wafer Company of 40 Water Street unveils fifteen magical tables, seven for ladies and seven for gentlemen, plus one with instructions. They claim any name number or item can be conjured instantly, with orders sent postpaid for two three-cent stamps. The items promise wonders and unspecified health benefits.
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