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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1885
Page
3
A Boston meeting marks the rise of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions. Born from earlier women’s societies, it unites efforts to aid heathen women, expand missionary intelligence, and train children. Initial success included adopting Mary K. Edwards for Zulu work and incorporation in 1869.
A list of sentiment engraved ring mottoes used in Cromwell times. Phrases include Death never parts such loving hearts, Endless my love as this shall prove, In thee dear wife I find new life, God alone made us two one, Eternally my love shall be, True love will ne er forget, and similar vows. These lines reflect enduring, devotional language about marriage and unity.
A brief article warns that in warm weather coal and furnace gases can suffocate residents. It advises closing the top door, cutting lower drafts, burning small coal, using an iron plate to reduce furnace capacity, and removing or preventing rust on pipes during summer. It emphasizes regulating fire to atmospheric temperature and keeping drafts shut when hot.
A quick guide to creating a practical infant double gown from cheese cloth with tufted worsted accents. Describes diamond pattern tufting, overhand shell edge designs, scarlet or baby-blue zephyr wool, and simple assembly suitable for a morning project. Mentions alternative gowns in Turkey-red calico and Malaus decoration for additional serviceability.
A notice describes double-gowns for babies as easy to sew and warm. It contrasts these with loose blankets and square shawls, praising a snug sack shape. It also reviews skirt expansion devices such as steel-band petticoats and spiral springs, touting less fabric distortion and neater draping.
In Alaska Street Wah Kee, a lonely laundry owner, adores Tot, a poor dying child across the alley. Tot dies. Wah Kee rides to Fernwood, weeping by the tiny grave, kissing the resting place of what he worshipped with devotion.
Detailed home tips cover cleaning plaster casts with starch paste for stripping, white carpet restoration with salt dampened sawdust, gilding a waste paper basket, washing silk gently, cleaning plush with borax, whitening marble with paste and polish, treating mahogany, rust removal on steel, and keeping glass windows free of grime with glycerine.
A street found diary fragment suggests the owner was a medical man. The entry mentions Miss Boggs, sickness labeled humbug, and a remedy described as Dip seflukken given to an elderly woman who drank it like cold tea. The tone hints at deception and personal notes on her condition.
A Boston woman asked Robert Browning for Elizabeth Barrett Browning birth details. Browning replied he knows neither the day nor month nor year and has never had any curiosity about it. The remark suggests a witty deflection and a badge of literary pride.
A Bridgeport genius sells artificial appendages for both tailed horses. A Dover miss danced the entire twenty eight numbers at a bar masque. Hartford paid over a quarter of all Connecticut taxes last year. A Falmouth man catches turtles for New York and Philadelphia markets. Maine’s fifty four savings banks hold 105,680 depositors with 32,912,835 dollars. Andy McCarty expects 5000 dollars this year as a jockey for Commodore Kittson. Six Pawtucket girls in New Orleans run thread machines at the exposition. Mrs. Daniel Buck of Wethersfield is 101. A 800 piece baseball bat is shown at Fall River. A Meriden woman leaves her husband over a Salvationist issue. Rev. Annie H Shaw resigns to lecture for women’s rights. Norwich ladies favor onion bees as pastime.
Captain Daniel Armistead, 89, recalls witnessing twenty presidential inaugurations from Falls Church area. He details Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Adams, Polk, Harrison, Van Buren, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes and Garfield events with vivid, often humorous anecdotes and crowd scenes.
The Chicago Inter Ocean surveys pneumatic transmission from Papin to Medhurst to Latimer Clark, detailing tubes four and a half feet wide and ten foot four inch pistons, noting Paris and London systems for mail and the limited commercial future. It cites elevators reducing demand and suggests tubes may save labor for city-wide mail and limited-country use.
In a Wall Street News discussion a Boston man questions the Mexican Central railway’s plan to borrow three million dollars while noting the road is new and has already fallen short by eight million on its construction estimate. He emphasizes that Boston has made no profit and that the company invites inspection. The exchange underscores transparency as the line seeks funding.
A St. Louis speculator once thriving in Wabash wealth and wine recalls his rise saying Wabash and me are up. Later a destitute man asks for lodging in a Chicago police station and another bystander notes the fall saying Wabash and me are down.
A Buffalo Express item notes puncis at a Pierre Veron dinner among literary and political men. The joke centers on Richepin and a camel encounter with an Arab, leading to a pun about the Sahara and the poet’s joke about returning to the spot.
In Wall Street News an exchange shows a man recalling a Boston encounter about selling stock in a silver mine. He explains he now runs a fare bank in Chicago to keep his character intact, choosing an honorable business over prior ventures.
The article outlines winter care for houseplants with emphasis on hardy Dutch bulbs such as hyacinths tulips and crocuses. It advises on lighting air, moisture, watering, feeding with liquid manure, and pest control including tobacco refuse and soapsuds. It notes that nonflowering plants like palms and dracaenas add charm, and mentions Califfornica and Sellowlava as notable varieties for beds and containers.
The piece explains autumn planting to winter stock plants, spring cuttings in sand, and potting into 2 to 4 inch pots. It advises low temperatures, pinching to form a globe head, and August timing to prevent bud injury. Guidance covers soil, drainage, fertilizing, mulching, pest control, and summer care for strong display.
The article explains pelargoniums, called Lady Washington geraniums by the public, their flowering season, and the care required for exhibition. It details training for England shows, temperature controls, pot sizes, soil mix, and room needs, plus color varieties and breeding advances over decades.
The article notes lantanas as highly useful for both flower and window gardens. They thrive in full sun, warm summers, and bloom from June until frost if left, with easy propagation from cuttings or seeds. Seeds can be bought or saved, then started indoors or in a warm bed, frame, or sheltered plot until ready for lighter quarters and more sun. They are native to tropical and sub tropical America.
The text advises on fern keeping in urban rooms, praising Lomaria as the best cheap centerpiece fern and detailing care. It suggests nightly water pallings in a cache-pot, removing water in the pot, and using saline treatment to keep fronds fresh for months. It notes sphrea fades faster but can regrow when trimmed.
A historical method for cooking pressed beef using lean shoulder clod or upper round. Slow simmer until meat falls apart, remove bones and fat, chop while hot, stir in gelatine, season, and press with a weight overnight. Keeps juices, saves flavor by condensing steam to return to meat.
Directions for preparing a molded chicken dish using boiled meat, gelatine, and white and dark meat mixed together, then pressing in a dish until set with an ornamental hard-boiled egg garnish. Also describes Hog’s Head Cheese with boiled head meat, ears, and feet, seasoned and packed for cold slices or fried breakfast use.
Lead cut is soaked overnight in cold water then eyes and ears removed with a knife. Head is cleaned and boiled in salted water until tender, bones picked, chopped and seasoned with pepper sage or summer savory and a touch of love. Mixture pressed in a colander, placed in an open oven for an hour to render fat.
Instructions for seasoning sausage by weight and batch size. No 1 uses ten ounces salt two ounces sage one large spoon of pepper and ginger, with meat cut into strips for grinding to mix well. No 2 prescribes three tea cups salt four sage two-thirds cup black pepper half cup cloves using lean and fat meat and notes testing for taste and long storage.
A tested beef salting recipe describes cooling the meat, cutting into pieces, packing tightly in a vessel, and covering with a brine made of cold salted water. Add one pound of sugar per 100 pounds of beef, press with a weight, and store until spring. The method outlines drying and rolling in salt at the vessel bottom.
A simple candy method combines four cupfuls of white sugar and half a cup of milk boiled without stirring for ten to twenty minutes until it cracks in cold water. Add half a pint of hickory nut meats after removing from heat, stir, cool, and beat until it sugars, then press into greased shallow tins.
The author notes coarse pieces from vegetable preparation can be cooked in broth until tender, then enriched with cream and butter and thickened with flour. Celery is highlighted as a good nervine vegetable to use whenever possible.
A historical recipe describes a fritter batter using one pint of sweet milk three egg yolks flour salt and baking powder. Whipped egg whites are folded in then spoonfuls dropped into hot lard and fried until done, about a tablespoon per cake.
A compact recipe card lists ingredients for Chocolate Cake with two cups sugar one cup butter yolks of five eggs whites of two milk flour baking powder and a frosting of sugar two squares chocolate milk. Also includes Fruit Cup Cake with eggs sugar currants raisins milk flour lemon rind juice and wine.
A concise historical pudding guide lists ingredients: one cup molasses, one cup boiling water, three cups flour, one cup fruit, one tablespoon suet or butter, two large teaspoons baking powder, steamed three hours.
A large tablespoonful of sugar and butter the size of an egg are creamed. When cold, beat in one egg and a little boiling water. Flavor with nutmeg and wine if desired.
Recipe notes mix two eggs four tablespoons sugar two tablespoons corn starch yolks flour and sugar, stir in one pint milk, add lemon flavor, bake, and frost with whipped egg whites and sugar.
The Providence Checker Club arrived January 3 for an exhibition at the New York Checker Club. New York beat Providence 20 to 6 in four hours of play with stars like Robert D. Yates and Charles F. Barker watching. Other items note H D. Lyman resigning as assistant postmaster general to join Bell Telephone, Simpkins the northern Georgia champion visiting Atlanta, and Freer and Bishop finishing a 20 game match.
The Barker of Boston and Priest of Philadelphia start the America championship match with $400 stake on January 26 in Philadelphia. Officials time the games as Barker leads after the first day and the match ends day one Barker 3 Priest 1 drawn 45. Spectators include notable players and the stake holder Dunlap witnesses the start.
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