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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1885
Page
7
A frontier artist Barbara Gowan endures grandpa's death and a city fire that destroys her home. Duke Gowan contemplates Europe while Barbara faces parting, new guardians, and a path toward music and study aided by a banker.
A playful poem in the Columbus Dispatch mocks promises from ice sellers who claim to beat the sun by delivering ice before breakfast, noting their evasive conscience and the breakfast delay. It shifts to Peck's Sun criticizing a Boston canary canard, clarifying that a potato bug likely grew with a potato, not a canary.
A swell reception scene features several gentlemen admiring a striking woman as she passes the hall. A witticism reveals a husband’s long tenure, while other remarks highlight social tone. The item alludes to Moses and a satire on public displays and unintended consequences.
Describes two methods to cook an egg. Boiling a fresh egg for two and a half minutes yields a partially set white and undercooked yolk. Pouring boiling water over an egg and resting it warm for ten minutes cooks it through and makes it easy to digest.
Mrs Puginire remarks on the Pope writing another book and praises his Essay on Man. She notes the need for a copy and muses on the poor Indian whose un tutored mind sees God in clouds and hears Mim in the wind.
An assortment of quips and quotes from Boston figures and New York commentary. Miss Beacon asserts resilience and pride in Boston. William R. Travers dismisses bucket shops on Wall Street as swill barrels of finance.
An old advertisement lists Hale's Honey as a cough cure priced at 26 cents and 500 g1 Glenn's Sulphur Leap promoted for healing and beautifying. It also touts German Cove Remover for corns and bunions, Mills Hart and Whisker Dye in black and brown, Pike's Toothache Drops claimed to cure in one minute, Dean's Rheumatic Pills labeled a sure cure, and related patent medicines.
Portiano July 22 Captain M Cobb of the schooner Dreadnaught reports sighting a sea serpent five miles from Half-way Rock. After harpoon strikes and a boat chase the creature yielded and towed aboard, weighing about 1200 pounds with a hard shell armor. It died later from its wound, and officials plan to exhibit it while experts call it a rare turtle or sea serpent.
The Cook notes that European paper napkins are made from mulberry fibers processed through drying soaking washing boiling lye and repeated pulping. She explains interior fibers yield fine paper and urges adoption of such napkins in hotels restaurants and public tables.
A New York report states that nine tenths of firecrackers originate in Canton where convicts work in prisons to produce tokers. The process is done inside bamboo-fenced compounds. powder and crackers are handmade and packed for shipment to Hong Kong and world markets. In 1884 shipments included boxes of forty packages each containing sixty-four to eighty crackers.
The Philadelphia Call reports that the ocean floor is largely covered by lava and pumice with widespread dust from meteorites. These celestial particles, likened to miniature comets, accumulate beneath seas and create a vast, imperceptible layer two miles deep between Honolulu and Taluitie, illustrating continual cosmic bombardment.
The page reports bizarre incidents including a Pitkin County man losing an arm and eye while trout fishing with powder, a Memphis man thwarted in a suicide, a Milwaukee bedstead twenty four feet wide with nine compartments, a Cuban man fundraising a shark hunting steamer, a California miner's inch of water defined by a one inch square opening, a New Orleans clerk advising on stamps using mucous sides, and a San Paneae death by own action connected to household acts and furniture.
The article features Victor Bovy's one and a half inch revolver, weighing under half an ounce, with six chambers and self cocking mechanism. It notes its miniature power, tests showing penetration and accuracy at four and a half feet, and its toy like appearance masking real weapon capability. Also mentions D A A Buck's tiny engine and a Montana tale of cowboys and a watch tossed across Main Street.
Advert line traces a family use of Castoria from infancy to motherhood. It shows how the product is linked to child care, growth, and the routine of feeding infants and caring for children across generations.
A transcribed list of periodicals with subscription prices and notes on limits. The entry enumerates titles from Arthur's Home Magazine to Westminster Review, with prices and remarks on substitutions, delivery, and address requirements. It notes one magazine per address and that orders begin with a specified issue.
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