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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1889
Page
8
A nostalgic guide extols fishing as a universal, affordable pleasure with scenic spots from Androscoggin to Lake Champlain. It details gear costs, tents, camp routines, water towns, and regional fishing laws, plus recipes and tips for camp cooking and provisioning.
A long trail through camping life covers fishing resorts from Moosehead Lake to Lake Winnisquam with notes on how to reach Paul Smith's wilderness and stories of New England water scenery. It offers practical camp cookery tips, from hoe cakes to ash cooking, bread varieties, and a cod chowder method for seashore meals.
Rev. T De Witt Talmage describes Johnstown Penn disaster scene with 2000 dead and 2000 missing, praises survivors, calls infidels to prayer, honors nurses and pastors, notes aid from outsiders, and urges continued sympathy and reconstruction efforts. He cites Rev David J Beale and the heroic acts during the morgue work and rescue attempts.
A breezy whistling outline of amping out as a vacation mode grows in popularity for Americans. It contrasts male eagerness with female caution toward roughing it outdoors while detailing a long camp gear list. It enumerates cooking implements, utensils, vessels, and supplies needed for wilderness meals, plus items for safety and comfort.
A fragment from a period piece discusses cooking fish and seafood in camp. It mentions frying methods for fish and eels, a clam chowder variation, and notes how a Rhode Island clambake was described earlier. The text extols thrift, resourceful use of wild greens, and culinary lessons from camping life.
Letter to the editor promotes a cure for consumption claiming thousands cured by timely use. The author, T A Slocum M C, offers two bottles of his remedy Frice to readers who provide express and postal addresses, listing 181 Pearl Street, New York.
There are now in use in the United States more than 5650 central electric stations for light and power. There are 210,000 arc lights and 2,600,000 incandescent lamps. There were 59 electrical railways in operation in March last and 86 roads in process of construction. The increase of capital in electrical investments during 1888 was nearly $70,000,000. These are very significant figures and they point unmistakably to the course of inventions and discoveries.
Would be purchaser notes cigars are smaller than usual. A tobacconist explains the cigar manufacturer saw the last two inches were thrown away and now makes them shorter.
The notice explains Pearltop lamp chimneys are made of tough glass by Macbeth & Co Pittsburg. Dealers can obtain them, with prospects of glass options and a payment to dealers for any chimneys that break in use. Lead glass and lime glass are discussed as materials and market practices are critiqued.
An 75 piece Pearl Lace dinner and tea set by a Staffordshire pottery is offered in soft pearl ornament with delicate sprays. Pattern is under glaze and part of the body, ensuring durability. The set includes numerous plates cups saucers and accessories priced with a weekly subscription offer through the Boston Globe.
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