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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1880
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR style recounts the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill with repeated lines about Jill going up the hill to draw a pail of water and Jack tumbling down breaking his crown. The text blends garbled phrases with stray descriptive lines and lingering imagery of meadow and bells.
The article outlines feeding a motherless colt with rich cow or mare milk, progressing to oats, bran, and oil meal gruel, then clover hay water, with warm milk and shelter. It warns against sour milk and excessive grain, advises gradual grass introduction, and notes horse hair on legs and breed vigor. It also covers gentle milking, cleanliness, and timing, then basic butter making and salting without additives.
The article reviews pests like wireworms and maggots damaging crops from corn to cabbage. It cites remedies including lime soot salt topdressings, gas-work refuse, nitrate of soda, and white mustard for soil cleansing, plus sheep grazing and rolling for infested pastures. It also covers apple tree borers, cabbage worms, and canker worm control methods such as wrapping trunks, hot water, hand-picking, and Paris green dusting.
Advice on selecting late potato varieties, deep planting, manuring, and soil preparation to secure a long growing season, strong roots, and high quality tubers. Recommends home made fertilizer mixes, superphosphate, careful cultivations, and drill vs hill methods for efficient growth and labor saving.
Practical guidance on rearing ducklings including shelter, water and feed needs, dangers from weather and predators, and stage-based management. It covers coop confinement, weasel and pest control, gradual water access, and progressive diet from cooked foods to grazing as they mature. It also touches on hay timing, grasses, cranberry culture, and basic livestock notes.
A tale of vengeful love ends in tragedy and mercy as Agnes suffers a broken engagement, a lighthouse voyage, and a perilous sea rescue. Harry redeems himself by saving Fred Brastome from a wreck, learning the truth, and restoring Agnes and Brastome to happiness through rekindled trust and marriage.
Farm Journal advises packing seven round rolls weighing two to three pounds each in salt brine within stone vessels. Cover each roll with a clean cloth, sink under brine with a stove, add salt as needed, and store in a cellar or spring-house. Properly wrapped and brined butter is said to gain value in winter and spring, especially if churned and sealed immediately.
A reflective verse fragment describes a Sunday journey to church. The speaker and Tom share a slow walk, with glancing smiles and inner conflict about propriety and courting. A Boston Globe advertisement at the end shifts tone to summer boarders and hotel clerks, creating a curious juxtaposition.
A youth from Chicopee posed as a girl in Springfield engaging in shop girl social activity. Fourteen year old Allie Keith, cloaked in new attire, fled home from Westfield, adopting female guise to travel to Chicopee. Neither location revealed his sex to those around him as he mingled with young girls.
The 61 Dover Street tailor received a handsome walnut bookcase from the ladies of his clothing establishment on Harrison Avenue in Boston. The presentation occurred recently as a gesture of appreciation. Enclose stamp aid requested.
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