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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1883
Page
3
In a period piece analysis, the article discusses rising female engagement in education, beauty, work, and voting, and notes growing participation in meetings once male dominated. It highlights dangers of flirtation and calls for parental vigilance and safer social norms to protect young women.
Miss Louisa M. Alcott argues for a practical education for girls focused on health truth obedience and self control. She urges respect for elders modest dress home keeping lessons and a fallback profession or skill to ensure independence and purpose for women.
Mrs Florence M Adkinson of Indianapolis argues that organized women’s groups provide food nursing homes work training and culture to uplift and empower other women. She notes barriers are falling and urges self-reliance for girls to avoid personal failure.
A writer argues that physical beauty fades and a woman’s value lies in mind and heart. She asserts a woman’s fiftieth year should be as noble as her sixteenth, with learning, conversation, taste, and friendship enriching life beyond youth.
A prominent St. Louis gentleman argues in a public speech that many women doubt the duty and practicality of voting and therefore initially observe rather than join the suffrage movement. He asserts that great reforms begin with a few enlightened leaders and that timidity among the many aids long term progress.
A Harper's Bazar style overview describes mid summer headwear including small capotes and pointed-brim pokes made from white lace with crimped frills, gilt lace borders, and red velvet accents. Straw bonnets in red, blue, green, or brown use velvet puffing and velvet rosettes, with colors matched to the straw and trimmed in velvet ribbons. Prices note untrimmed straw hats around $150 in delicate ecru or black braids.
The article describes bonnet and hat styles in brown gray blue and black velvet, light straw, and basket straw garden hats. It notes four to six velvet string arrangements, Leghorn flats, white net brims, lace trims, rosettes, and ribbons. It also covers dark straw country hats Gainsboro shapes and white straw hats with Japanese silk crape and plumes.
The article outlines simple summer dress ideas with flowers and lace as decorations. It notes hair in braids or loops, silk or lisle stockings, vest inserts to refresh basques, and baskets of flowers as dress adornments. It mentions demi trained brides dresses, cockade ribbon bows, silver beads, long gloves, and Jersey silk gloves with embroidery.
A fashion piece reviews washable fabrics and velvet trim on dresses, noting satins wash poorly but keep color. It describes velvet ribbons on polonaises and skirts, elaborate collars and cuffs, lace details, foulard gowns, and jersey basques with silk foundations. Parasol handles feature velvet trim and lace covers return to favor.
A Kansas City Journal correspondent argues Apaches are the finest fighters, able to hold their country against large forces. He notes their mobility, marksmanship, and tactics as they split and annihilate pursuing Mexican troops, with a Mexican general praising their drained courage and superiority.
An advertisement exhorts readers to comfort mothers of afflicted children, claiming consumption is curable. It argues physicians once called incurable cases but cites Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy surpassing cod liver oil and phosphites, sold by druggists.
James E. Anderson, killed last November, founded this paper and served as first editor. His successor is in the Nevada Insane Asylum, while the third and current editor fights the world flesh and the devil, dodging bullets and soliciting advertisements.
A gardener shares notes from journals on aloe hydrangea and geranium care. Tips cover when to prune, how to divide roots, propagate by slips, and best soil for begonias and shrubs. Readers learn practical methods for robust, lasting bloom.
An essay extols La France hybrid tea rose for its hardiness June to frost bloom, silvery luster, and deep fragrance. It argues future rose diversity rests on surpassing this standard, urges soil testing, manure, leaf slug control, and careful planting depth to boost flower size and vigor.
The High-bush cranberry berries rival the common cranberry and thrive with simple care. Plants grow tall but can be transplanted to gardens, trimmed for shape, and mulched with leaf-mould or coarse muck to promote fruitfulness without constant cultivation.
The article warns against starting tuberous begonias from seed or indoors for open air beds. It advises planting young plants in good soil in June for stronger growth and earlier flowering the next year. It also condemns tuber potting as laborious with poorer results and favors natural rooting for robust, early-season beds.
The article outlines methods to protect roses from rose-bugs and slugs, recommending hand removal or water kerosene, and powdered white hellebore as an effective spray. It notes early morning is best for pest control and suggests tobacco smoke or tea to combat green flies on new growth.
A light rich soil suits the spotted calla and it thrives in medium to large pots as leaf growth is emphasized. Outdoors it tolerates garden planting with ample water in dry spells. In fall lift rhizomes, dry them in sand away from frost, store through winter, and may divide offsets to grow to full size.
A French journal recommends spraying both leaf sides with a weak mix of silt and water, then a stronger wash of sulphur and lime in water. After settling the mixture is bottled, and a gill of the solution is diluted in three gallons of water for syringing the plants.
A begonia tuber when sprouting can be divided into two or three parts each with a sprout to produce good blooming plants. However the trade often uses seed for natural species and leaf-cut hybrids rather than division.
Three Colorado miners William Downing Arthur Hastings and Edward Hughes left Leadville for Kokomo to work an old claim on Fletcher mountain. A sudden snow slide buried Hastings in his tent. Downing and Hughes rescued him but he died about an hour later in a miner's hut no further help could be given.
A Columbia curiosity features an egg with two pins. A Charleston boy captured forty four bull frogs in one day. A York Easter egg 106 years old from Thomas Jefferson’s Batavia farm. A papier mache church for 1000 seats planned in North Carolina. A Franklin girl jumped rope 6158 times in just over three hours. A Missouri farmer killed 200 Freke snipe during a two week bun. Portland plans a million dollar bridge and $5 million railroad workshops. Sitting Bull sold autographs near St Pierre Oak, possibly $200. A rifle shot killed two buffalos at 1168 yards near Cave Hills Montana. A Charleston Md firm shipped 1800 jack snipe, averaging seventeen cents each. Wager’s $200 bets in Brunswick Missouri on a 25-snipe kill in two days with fifty shots, he made 28. A strawberry from John A Edwards near Stanislaus County measured nine inches in circumference. A Lafayette Indiana law student feigned a slander suit before a sawhorse and cordwood. Henry Cownover’s mother hid a shotgun to stop hunting. a vege was injured. Dayton Wyoming Territory man drew a six inch trout from his well. Tom Carroll in Washington Nevada county weighs over 200 pounds at 6 ft 4 1 4 in and lifts 204 pounds with one arm. A Center Hill Calaveras bachelor burned by bedbug folly. A Missouri girl leaped into a river to die but survived. she now aims for a warmer season. Zinc white gate posts in California show actinium, a new element with actinic effects, found with zinc ores.
In severe coughs and early consumption the tonic by Dr Pierce strengthens the system and purifies the blood. The preparation is sold by druggists and marketed as a cure for weak lungs and lingering coughs.
The article surveys wash dress fabrics and trims for summer outfits, praising dotted muslin, lawn, and nainsook with Swiss embroidery. It details skirts, basques, and draperies, notes color and ribbon preferences, and compares cambrics, ginghams, and calicos for durability, washability, and fashion. It cites prices per yard, patterns, and care notes, praising practical, stylish options.
A Chicago admirer recalls Billy Harper a later deceased gambler in New York Sun remarks that Harper claimed he could repent and be wed according to church doctrine. He lived by the idea he would come out right after death and kept his faith despite a life of vice.
A fragment suggests a man named Billy died or “gone to heaven” after a period of warning and with a chaplain’s arrangements. The tone implies moral judgment and a celebration of his fortune rather than tragedy.
A Salt Lake Tribune tale recounts a lurid dissection of a Black man whose body at autopsy revealed a rudimentary tail. The piece notes the controversial context, medical spectators, and claims of ancestral tailed traits, framed as scientific curiosity amid sensational rumor.
A San Francisco Chronicle piece follows Wong Fat and Loo Fun as they discuss a motled shirt marked Detective Dullacre. A comical yet edgy tale unfolds with a Colona man accusing a Chinese man of murder, mischief, and a complex chain of accusations and rival punishments.
A solicitor, famed as an art connoisseur, paid 26 dollars for a portrait. A clerical stranger then offered 50 to 125 dollars for a local charity if the lawyer would sell the same painting to a family member. After pressure, the man confessed as a dealer and offered 1260 dollars for the chef d oeuvre, a piece said to be worth 7500 dollars.
A Macon man recalls entering a Texas saloon with eight cowboys who challenged him. He taunts them to arm wrestle or fight, takes their pistols from the barkeeper, and claims he defeats all eight in ten minutes. He says cowboys now tip their hats when they meet him.
The account tells how Messersmith, a Gettysburg bank cashier, counted Confederate troops during Lee’s march. He counted 100 men per grain of corn, tallying until ten thousand grains were used and then repeating the count to reach sixty thousand. He reported the numbers to Governor Curtin after the march.
The New York Tribune notes a unique Jerusalem fire response where a small detachment of soldiers carries guns and four men with broad-axes march ahead. With no water supply a fire engine is useless and traditions forbid such effort, so the soldiers perform their duty as they recede.
Fourteen sailors on the Tallapoosa tested the fourteen oared barge at Potomac. Commodore English Naval Contractor Wilson and Commander Kellogg were observers. The barge, built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard without appropriation, drew mixed reaction with the President reportedly uninterested in barges or balloons.
Dr. Pierce of Buffalo touted the Favorite Prescription and its rival Favorite Protosime as cures for women’s ailments. Early skepticism faded as thousands of ladies used the remedies and reported rapid improvements.
An 1880 Loganport notice touts Brown's Iron Bitters as a quick cure for back pain caused by kidney liver or digestive issues. A testimonial from O. B. Lancent claims improved appetite weight gain and restored health after one month of use. Leading physicians and clergy endorse the remedy.
A local Times reader describes a unique wood carving gifted to Sumner Southworth of Williamstown Massachusetts. Crafted by Alanson P. Dean of Cawego from a boxwood root, the piece uses the tree’s natural curve to form a handle. A lion slays a serpent sits below the curve, with the recipient’s name date and inscriptions along the shaft and maxims and sacred emblems finishing the work. The creator used only a jack knife to produce this elaborate and elegant carving.
Collins Cumberland a spiritualist who had been working in Richmond for about a month caught fire during a seance in a cold parlor. A blaze spread to one side of his material self before water quelled the flames. Investigators found heat from the stove had heated a bottle of oil of peach in his breast pocket causing the stopper to pop and the contents to ignite.
In a Pittsburg Despatch report experts fix the cost of stopping a train. Eminent railroad authorities support the find. An opposing counsel shows stops on one division multiply to over twice the road's gross earnings. The Railroad Gazette sets the cost at about one cent, including staff time and fuel while standing.
London Globe cites a rule to delay death by own action for 24 hours. It references Herr Landtmann, Hamburg member in the German Reichstag, who reportedly would have survived if he waited, as news of an impending business failure arrived after the crisis had been addressed, with an inquest proceeding.
The Reno Gazette notes a bootblack known as Laxey who worked here for years and played pool. It states he recently built a $20,000 building in Denver and was once noted for bootblacking at Hammersmith where Belz's barber shop is now.
A Mississippi incident recounts Lilly Runge of Brandon being shot on a train platform. The ball hit a steel rib of her corset and glanced off, saving her life. The writer notes it is needless to advise all girls to wear corsets.
The article notes 5S Landes of Mount Carmel Ohio setting up 100000 walnut trees for his wife and children. With proper care the trees should grow to about fifteen inches in diameter in twenty years and yield an independent fortune.
A Washington Post reprint notes an error in reporting the NY papers. The Union Arch over Cabin John Creek on the Washington aqueduct line is the world’s largest masonry span, 220 feet clear, not 200 as earlier stated.
In six months Georgia has had four governors. A Boyd county man rides a Durham bull to town. Crystal Springs Mississippi twins ship rosebuds to Chicago. Alabama sees six lynchings with eight hanged in a year. A Crenshaw County chicken has four wings and four feet. Kentucky wedding gifts include lamps and a corkscrew. A Stanford child weighs one pound at birth with a silver dollar covering its face. A Birmingham editor notes improvements affecting a Southern widow who runs stock farms in Tennessee and a North Carolina mansion. Mississippi reports 606 deaf mutes. 317 white and 289 colored. James L Burgas cites Brown's Iron Buyers for indigestion remedies.
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