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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1889
Page
3
Edgar Nye recounts the unloved hotel bell boy as a bridge between hotel staff and guests. A red haired bell boy resists interview, delaying until a set hour, revealing a restless, shifting demeanor as the narrator seeks his story.
A bellhop recounts a life in a New York hotel, recollecting early work at the Palace Hotel, the harsh owner Dewey Little, tipping habits, odd guests and thefts, mischievous diversions, and a transom prank involving an inventor guest. He reflects on his father’s failures, the mother’s death, and a chaotic but vivid hotel world.
A bell boy recounts an odd incident in which an elderly man, deaf and unsuspecting, was repeatedly placed in a bathtub by intruders who also used a transom entry. The tale notes lack of autopsy and the caller’s impression of the practice as extreme, with further guests invited to visit. The narrator departs abruptly after sharing the peculiar details.
The Husbandman recalls Elmira Club experiences with muck bed spread on upland fields. Despite hundreds of loads and thick applications, returns failed to cover hauling labor. The piece explains peat acidity, alkalinity, and fermentation, outlines a composting method with soda ash and ground phosphate, and gives a costed two ton recipe and farming advice for timely shallow tillage and weed control.
A Cincinnati broker notes corks for pint bottles cost four cents each in France, explaining cork quality as crucial to champagne exports. He cites a French house losing 75 percent of American sales three years ago due to poor corks, and says only the best corks are now used, valued for their cloneras and expansion.
A Philadelphia Inquirer note states that a recent partnership settlement yielded $2.8 million to the retiring member, with the plant valued at over $4.6 million. The article credits newspaper advertising as the driver of such fortunes and predicts more gains from ad spend.
A brief, dialogic item shows local youths trading barbed pleasantries under watchful eyes, with exclamations about forgiveness and parental oversight. The exchange hints at neighborhood tension and childhood bravado in a domestic setting.
Fragmentary ODInat asides reveal a reader letter about pigs and writing looser columns. The brief notes a visitor in Odinatas offers casual commentary on local life and mail column style.
The solubility of carbonic acid in water drives rock weathering and soil formation. Rain dissolves atmospheric CO2, reacting with granite to slowly crumble rocks aided by freezing water. Soils form and, when plant life can grow, carbonic acid provides carbon and dissolves minerals like phosphate of lime for plant uptake.
In the July growing season the potato crop often hinges on moisture. The soil beneath stores water from fall and spring, and capillary action brings it upward unless the surface is hard. A two inch mulch of mellow soil slows moisture loss, holds water around roots, and reduces waste from evaporation, aiding potato yields.
Prairie farmer explains mulching to keep soil cool and conserve moisture for crops like potatoes (vines of 4/1 kinds), tomatoes, melons, cucumbers and squash. Use partially rotten bagasse or old straw and weeds as mulch to reduce irrigation needs, suppress weeds, and allow later planting if moisture is preserved.
The text analyzes how hay value varies with cutting time and curing. It notes pasture yields more nutriment than hay, but when making hay farmers should pick peak actual nutriment, often at full bloom. An example compares clover yields at full bloom versus later stages, with implications for small versus large farms and pony care.
Readied for July work, guidance covers harvesting winter onions if ready, drying and sorting for sets, and storage. Officials warn on storage conditions for white onions and note Danvers red Wethers may keep, while cabbages require steady growth to avoid splitting. Emphasizes loose soil, deep cultivation, and careful seed sowing for turnips given hot, dry midsummer.
The article advises preparing mellow soil with deep ploughing and harrowing before sowing seed. Cover seed lightly with fine soil, using a brush harrow to leave some soil on top. Lettuce and onions should be sown early, with slight sprouting to promote germination, and warm, moist ground aids seedling establishment.
A farmer shares a 16 year success plan to grow abundant blueberries. Each August or September he mows two acres, burns the ground, and in spring new shoots appear. After two years a large crop yields 10 to 20 cent per quart berries. Keeping a portion cut yearly maintains supply and pasture appearance.
The article argues for cutting raspberry canes after harvest rather than leaving them. Early summer pruning preserves root nourishment for new canes, aids growth, and reduces plant damage. Blackberry vines benefit similarly, while straw around roots protects young shoots against cold.
The article explains using spring grain such as oats or barley as green manure contrasts with clover. It notes spring grain is bulkier and less nutritious, but still beneficial when plowed under after a light frost. It suggests sowing early on bare spring land for corn or potatoes and recommends cutting losses by feeding heavy oats or barley to fill bare plots.
The article argues feeding unthreshed oats saves binding and threshing costs and improves cattle nutrition. It notes oat straw’s low albuminoids, recommends combining grain and straw, and explains chopping, moistening, and timing cuts to improve digestion and storage while outlining baling and housing methods.
A farm advisor urges growing fodder corn with limited seed per acre, stressing 10 quarts maximum and one kernel every 10 to 12 inches. He argues fodder corn, properly harvested and combined with cottonseed and linseed meal, can rival hay for nutrition and fertility, enabling higher tonnage per acre and better farm profitability. He also notes hay needs replacement to maintain fertility, and mentions calves suffering constipation, scours, and rough hair.
The article urges grazing and succulent foods for pigs to improve fat and muscle, noting grass and middlings yield healthy hogs with minimal fat. It warns against pen confinement and promotes rye meal and turnips, linseed meal, and potatoes. For foals, it emphasizes monitoring bowels, soap suds injections if needed, and gentle stomach rubbing, with warm, moist care and careful feeding to prevent constipation.
The article explains stool ground layering as an efficient method to increase woody plants. It details site prep, spacing, preparing stems, burying layers with loam, and post rooting steps, noting water needs, timing, and the potential for roots in weeks to years, plus related horticultural practices and bee, wool, and crop observations.
Ex mayor Hewitt’s remarks on steel making foreshadow a flood of Thomas basic slag, a phosphatic fertilizer imported from Germany. Tests at the South Carolina Experiment Station compare it with floats or ground rock phosphate on oats, showing strong phosphoric content and superior performance, signaling wide agricultural impact.
The text explains sodium salts occur in both plants and animals with chlorides and carbonates common in tissues while potassium salts concentrate in specific plant parts. Plant ashes hold water insoluble sodium compounds due to phosphates binding. It cites Salsola as an inland-sea ash example showing gains and losses of soda versus potash with location.
Experiments confirm burn manure’s broad usefulness across soils, aiding mechanical texture and moisture absorption. Its carbonaceous matter boosts fertility, while mixing bone dust plaster marl air-slaked lime or superphosphate through manure in layered heaps improves intermixture and reduces labor.
The Garden hails the American Newtown Pippin as the world’s best apple as of March 6. The piece stresses thorough cultivation on a single, well prepared loamy ground. It urges protection from cattle and pests, careful pruning, and deliberate thinning to ensure a quality crop.
An 1880s perspective by E B Elliott projects the population reaching about 64.5 million by June 1890, with growth from 4 million in 1790 to over 30 million by 1860 and rapid expansion thereafter. The piece speculates on reaching 100 million by mid century, notes immigration lessons, and expresses confidence in American societal progress and patriotism.
A humorous dialogue scene from a Binghamton Republican page features Billy questioning his father about knots in wood. The exchange ends as the father dismisses the child’s knot theory with irritated, final remarks.
Sergeant Von tracks Josephine Cadonr and accomplice across Chicago Ogden Omaha and the Pacific toward San Francisco then learns they sailed for Yokohama Hong Kong and must proceed by next steamer to locate them before any arrest. To be continued.
A Boston hotel waiter recalls a highly intelligent rat at the Metropolitan Hotel kitchen. The rodent reportedly selects doughnuts and strings them on its tail like beads, then drags the prize away as if assembling a parade. The tale adds to several anecdotes of the creature’s precocity.
In Waldo county Maine an itinerant shoemaker known as Blake or Moving Jake traveled constantly with a large family and a hen cohort. Churchgoers attest the hens learned to lie on their backs with crossed legs when Blake’s furnishings left a house, then were tied together by a string once he appeared. Residents of Frankfort Prospect Stockton and Beavport corroborate the hens remarkable intelligence.
A New York critic praises Kansas City's enterprising literary society for writing to authors abroad about methods, favorite writers, and art creeds. The group collects letters and responses, but recently questions Edith Thomas about her writing process reveal a misstep as Miss Thomas, famed for many monthly stories, has never written fiction.
In the New York Sun three years ago Mind Reader J Randall Brown, a witness in the Bishop case, staged a Grand Opera House seance in San Francisco. A front row elder urged Diogenes to speak, and Brown claimed the philosopher's spirit would answer questions. He asked if Diogenes had found that honest man yet, triggering laughter and breaking up the event.
A short Youth's Companion text about Florence as a young girl who loves the outdoors and insists on rubbers. One morning she rushes to tell her mother that the hens have not yet set on the rubbers, fearing they will catch a sneeze.
In a backcourt exchange the sharp-eyed speculator asks a Chicago citizen if there is any chance to buy his insane asylum. He contemplates moving it home to Richmond and placing it on the Libby prison site for exhibition.
The hostess at a social gathering quotes Galuchet who says he can endure even dull parties. He smiles and asks the hostess if she is enjoying herself, implying a light, wry tone about social tires.
Mr. John E. Sullivan of B and Sullivan received word from Roc land that Mrs Burns had borne him a baby boy.
A brief humor item notes a wife telling her husband to say grace again because the soup isn’t cool yet, prompting the husband to ask why. It reflects light domestic wit and period voice without sensational detail.
A Burlington Free Press item notes J A Michi man bought a pair of corsets at an auction because they were cheap and then sat married to have someone to give them to, reflecting a curious local incident and social quirks.
fragmented trove of phrases from Philadelphia Times hints at a dated notice or literary snippet about a book collection or reading visit. readable bits reference a hay bank or booke and a phrase that resembles a quote or catalog entry, suggestive of a local curiosity column or advertisement.
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