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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1880
Page
2
The column presents assorted June gardening tips and home crafts including rustic chairs, a verbena and pond lily culture guide, fancy work projects, home knit laces, a feather duster, a cocoa nut flower bracket, tufted bedspreads, how to make a paper rose, pretty lamp shades, and seasonable receipts.
June garden notes stress personal care for best blooms with focus on staking small plants early to avoid damage, weeding before weeds spread, and transplanting annuals and half hardy perennials to boost flowering. Cultivation tips cover gladiolus planting, verbena seed-pod removal, cactus summering, and hardening before open borders.
A compact guide shows how to make stylish outer leaves for rose themed lamp shades using scarlet tissue paper. Start with a central half square, fold repeatedly toward the center, crease firmly, and slip the finished piece over the lamp shade for a decorative, fashionable result.
A collection of home recipes includes Cherry Pudding Lemon Pie Raspberry Vinegar Veal Cutlets and more. Instructions cover pudding steaming and serving with cream or sauce plus beverages like orange sherbet and Raspberry Shrub using common ingredients and steps.
A fragmented poem speaks of rest and home beyond waking, sowing, blooming, and fading. Refrains promise love, return, and divine patience, urging the beloved to come home soon despite wandering and separation. The text blends religious cadence with ache for reunion and peace.
A preserved letter from John Ruskin to John Holyoake discusses co operation, warning against its misuse by rascals and stressing the danger of political movements among dishonest workers. Also included is a maritime note about the schooner Frank M. Noyes setting a record voyage from Vineyard Haven to Baracoa in six days.
A mixed excerpt blends a nostalgic poem about children and summer with practical poultry care advice. It urges outdoor play for children and then shifts to guidance on cleaning poultry nests and eliminating vermin. It advises monthly thorough cleansing of nests and perches, removing young waste to prevent worms and foul air, and suggests lime or tobacco dust if vermin appear.
A New York Times correspondent reports on urban pigeon farming in Boston with large lefts and free-forage schemes. The piece details compartmented nests, mating pens, perches, and a water trough system, plus cleanliness and ventilation tips to maximize squab production while reducing vermin.
Ruth Earle, a quiet, seemingly cold woman, attracts Charley Campbell, a wild but passionate suitor. After a dramatic elopement attempt, Charley’s wealth is lost and Ruth helps him, later revealing true love. Ruth nurses him through delirium, and a dying moment leads to their reunion.
London Globe notes Mme Fetter a 93 year old cantiniere who served during Leipzig Dresden Austerlitz and Moscow retreat. She lives on Paris fourth floor with a tiny pension of 60 francs later raised to 100 francs after a letter to Marshal Niel. Readers urged to aid her livelihood in old age.
The Massachusetts Sabbath committee urges ministers to condemn Sunday excursions as a rising threat to the Lord's day. They warn such holidays erode worship and moral restraint, harming the poor and weakening society. They urge sermons urging restraint and public discouragement of Sunday outings to preserve weekly rest and religious life.
The article explains Otto Singer’s removal as director of Cincinnati’s festival chorus after tensions over Thomas’s college of music plan. It cites Singer’s criticism of the Beethovens Mass, alleged disloyalty, grumbling, and resistance to the festival board’s aims. It notes a successor being groomed in the College of Music and praises Brand as Thomas’s replacement, while cautioning about discord in Cincinnati music circles.
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