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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1891
Page
8
Mrs Logan s Home Magazine Farm Journal and Mrs Logan s Rome Magazine promoted as the best deals for subscribers. The trio costs 80 cents for a year and is advertised by THE WEEKLY GLOBE of Boston Massachusetts urging readers to subscribe early.
Frank G Carpenter, famed Globe Washington correspondent aged 85, travels Mexico’s plateau from Silao to Mexico City. He details climate, agriculture, deserts, and vibrant attire of Mexicans, Aztec heritage, and contrasts East and West, noting vast populations, diverse languages, and cultural richness. He observes brigandlike sombrero wearers, black women, Indian dress, and future potential of Mexican civilization.
Denver News reports that rubber shoes are produced much like leather but cemented to lasts rather than sewn. Rubber comes mainly from South America and is processed, vulcanized, and cut into parts before being fitted onto lasts by workers. The article notes about 70 percent pure rubber in final shoes, prices of paraffin, and factory details including child labor and daily production figures.
The piece outlines Mexico as a young republic with large mineral wealth and growing agricultural potential. It contrasts Mexican and U S populations, notes ore prospects in western coasts, railroad influence, andoca economic development. It sketches geography, population centers, and key cities like Mexico City and Guadalajara.
A skirmish on the Chicago Tribune sidewalk ended when a clerks intervened. Two men, meeting by accident, repeatedly maneuvered to avoid collision, then were pulled inside the door as one finally passed. Readers are urged not to mock the men involved.
A mature 41 year old woman affectionately calls a noble old man papa. He sits proud of family name ancestry and social position while she leans over him with tender eyes and soft voice, seeking the old word father in English.
In a Chicago Tribune dialogue Sharpson recalls finding a five cent piece on a Monday ten years ago. A merchant woman hired as business manager turned lover, then left with another man after six months, provoking Sharpson to question whether luck guided fate or folly.
In Munsey's Weekly a dialogue unfolds with Penelope fearing a beggar’s promise to cease his impertinent attentions, while her father questions what calls for tears and sees the threat as tied to the vow.
A druggist asks a clerkship applicant about expected wages. The applicant names twenty dollars a week, then proposes a compromise of three dollars and fifty cents, noting no need to attend the telephone.
Whitten notes fixed alkalies render organic matter soluble to feed plant roots and speed decay. Over years, carbonates can either deplete or preserve soil organic matter. Calcareous earth and lime boost plant nutrition by enabling nitrogen from the atmosphere, especially via leguminous crops, and foster nitrate formation in composts and artificial nitre beds.
A Kentucky tribute marks the unmarked grave of George Wilkes at Ash Grove Farm near Lexington, praising him as the greatest sire in trotting. The piece details his impact through offspring, listing famed progeny and notable daughters, and notes Kentucky’s definitive regard for his legacy.
The text notes soda ash helps vegetation by dissolving vegetable matter and carrying it into the roots, where it may form sob.
A Civil War era oil on canvas portrait of Grant Sherman Sheridan and other Union generals, with three presidents shown, mounted on campaign horses. The 24 by 86 inch work, sold for 25 000 dollars, is advertised with a weekly Globe subscription for 1 40 a year, mailed to any US address from Boston.
A New York Commercial Advertiser piece touts a new glove with a hidden chamois-lined purse sewn into the palm. The salesman claims it stores change and small coins securely, helping foil pickpockets while keeping money unseen.
The Pittsburg Dispatch reports a curious Pacific coast creature called the eye snail. Described as a pea half shape with many tiny legs, it allegedly moves under the eyelid then jumps about seeking foreign matter before resting lifeless in the eye pocket. Locals warn divers to beware grains of sand hurtling into eyes.
Indianapolis Journal reports Prof Hazen of the signal office argues flying machines cannot be perfected. He cites insurmountable obstacles including energy limits, birdlike efficiency, and weight constraints. He notes birds’ power links to their environment and suggests a manned self-raising self-propelling craft is impossible.
The article asserts hot water treatment as a key simple remedy. It cites headaches, neuralgia, croup, constipation, and stomach relief from hot foot and back neck applications, warm compresses, and drinking a cup of hot water before breakfast, claiming rapid relief and soothing effects.
A buyer in Columbus, Ohio reports buying a plating machine from H. F. Delno & Co. for five dollars to plate tableware and jewelry. The note claims high earnings potential, suggesting one can make from gs to ten dollars per car ware and inviting readers to write for circulars.
The astronomer described a primitive Earth spinning so fast that days lasted three hours and liquid oceans churned. The sun’s rapid tides caused the planet to split, forming the Moon, which now orbits at increasing distance while tides continue to rise on Earth in response to lunar gravity.
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