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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1883
Page
3
A column contrasts Columbia College’s anti co education stance with Boston University’s recent graduation of co educated students. It notes global trends in women’s education and cites women from Hindustan and Ceylon seeking medical training abroad to serve their communities. The piece frames female empowerment as spreading despite conservative norms.
June brides plan outdoor celebrations amid favorable weather hopes. Features include farmlike park settings from rectory to church, outdoor wedding breakfasts, and English style speeches by groom and best man. Speeches aim for humor with gentle sentiment and praise for bridesmaids.
A wedding breakfast setting favors outdoor cold collation with salads and seafood and a punch bowl, avoiding hot dishes. Guests wear bonnets and remove gloves. some brides skip appearing at the meal, while favors for groom and ushers add festivity. A growing trend bans gloves to prevent awkward moments before the ceremony.
Inexpensive SUK dresses and mall and muslin outfits for summer re sorts. Pretty chine silks at one yard with pinked ruches and velvet facings. Simple gored skirts with overskirts and plain basques. Surahs and satin face silks remain popular with embroidered muslin flounces. Evening dresses in pale blue or rose surah feature ecru embroidery and dark velvet touches.
Printed mull dresses described as sheer white mull resembling gauze with nature hue floral prints. The fabrics are over White silk under waists and sewn to silk skirts forming light summer dresses with scant lace trim.
The article describes stylish light dresses using white Swiss muslins with colored embroidered dots and red trim, plus ruffles, bows, and a hand-work like finish. It notes pleated blouse waists, aprons, and Escurial Spanish lace, with gowns for children using the Mother Hubbard slip. It also covers collars, cuffs, ribbons, and printed muslin squares with vine patterns and varied colored silk mitts in multiple shades.
Fancy scrim toilet set described using drawn work daisies in yellow crewel centers. Plain stripes feature garlands, satin ribbon borders, and lace trim on bureau covers and cushions. Practical, washable summer design. petals can regain shape by glass head press for fresh look.
Instructions describe making a plush mosaic border using autumn leaf patterns in gold, crimson, brown and green. Use maple leaves and varied sizes on plush grounds like a scarf or table coverings with stitch details to simulate natural veins and shading. Suitable for table covers lambrequins and portieres.
A fragmented knitting instruction outlines sixteen stitches and multiple rows. It lists rows with knit and over patterns, narrow and pass slip stitch actions, and brief notes on loops and purling, ending mid sentence at the twelfth row.
A detailed description of a decorative scrap bag to hang on sewing machines. It features a hemmed body drawn up by green silk cord and tassels, white net with filoselle in Gobelin pattern, vandyked lam brequin, red and olive silks, and button-sole stitches. Tassels and cords secure the top and bottom with olive silk borders.
A circular cushion is described with blue corded silk cover and a ruching frill of blue satin ribbon. Embroidery uses three pink silks for flowers, moss green and blue for leaves, and gold thread. A boxed silk setting for a toilet bottle is detailed, with a white flannel border and silk edging.
A practical guide for making decorative table covers. Start with creamy linen as the base and add a crimson cretonne border featuring cut out flowers like poppies and roses. Trace the flower outlines on paper and transfer the design onto the fabric using tracing paper.
Instructions describe laying cretonne flowers on linen, stretching in a frame, pasting, removing, and stitching edges, outlining veins with filoselle, and working stems with crewel. Finish with bee linen fringe and drawn thread filo selle band for ornament.
Instructions describe making a rug by tufting with raveled yarn on stamped burlap. Work in a looping pattern, not trimming, using a finger or pencil to keep loops long so the rug remains dimensional. Old higrain carpet is suggested as a foundation with pattern figures and solid color fills.
Globe Receipts describe a method for candying and drying cherries and other fruits. Fruit is cooled in syrup, washed, dried in the oven, reboiled to the blow, then grain tested, dipped in sugar, drained, and dried between paper layers for packing.
The method describes preserving raspberries and strawberries by mashing raspberries in an earthen jar with 5 to 10 percent sugar, then allowing alcoholic fermentation to clarify the juice. Strawberries are prepared unmashed in bottled fruit with sugar, shaken to form a clear syrup, then strained and preserved by adding alcohol.
A dessert method combines sweet milk with gelatine and sugar, then adds beaten egg yolks and grated chocolate. The mixture is heated to boiling, cooled, folded with stiffly beaten egg whites and vanilla, chilled, and served with sweetened cream.
Instructions describe braising pigeons in broth with bacon, carrot, onion with clove, sugar, parsley. Pigeons are layered breast up in a stew pan, stock added to cover, topped with bacon slices, simmered until tender. Serve on buttered toast with spinach border.
A concise old fashioned recipe describes making a chocolate pie by simmering grated chocolate in boiling water, thickening with egg yolks corn starch and sugar, baking in a crust, then topping with meringue and browning. It instructs beating egg whites with sugar to a stiff froth and serving cold.
A nineteenth century recipe describes picking and washing currants, syruping and juicing, settling the juice for fermentation, skimming surface froth, resealing through a jelly bag, then adding sugar and stirring until dissolved. After 24 hours the jelly forms a transparent preserve that keeps like cooked jelly.
Put currants in a stone jar and set in an iron pot with water just covering them. Boil until done, mash and strain the juice, then add one pound White sugar per pound of juice. Boil a little water with sugar to a light syrup, add juice, and boil rapidly for twenty minutes without stirring.
Boil bruised barberries with salt and water then mix liquor with vinegar sugar and ginger. Pack the best berries in jars and cover with hot brine or strong salt solution. When surface scum forms, skim off and replace with fresh brine.
A recipe for tomato and water cress salad uses equal parts peeled sliced tomatoes and water cress dressed separately with salt white pepper cayenne oil and vinegar. After five minutes combine and rest briefly before serving for a balanced sharp and mellow flavor.
Take the remnants of fresh roasted meat and cut thin slices. Layer with plain boiled macaroni, pepper, salt, and a touch of walnut catsup. Fill a deep dish halfway, add finely chopped onion, and pour over tomatoes or tomato slices soaked in stock or gravy. Top with mashed potato crust and bake brown in a moderate oven.
Take two large or four small white catfish, clean and cut them. Simmer with lean bacon, onion, parsley, pepper, and salt in water until tender. Beat four egg yolks with butter flour and hot milk, warm and thicken. Remove bacon, ladle fish into tureen, pour soup, and serve.
Instructions describe preparing cucumbers by grating before yellowing, draining juice, sieving out large seeds, bottling half the pulp, discarding juice, and adding an equal amount of 10 percent vine gar. Cork tightly. When used, add pepper and salt. salt is added as vinegar is put in.
A four to six pound fish bakes best when cooked whole. Prepare a dressing of bread crumbs butter salt and parsley with one egg. Fill the body lay in a pan with salt pork strips for flavor bake about half an hour and baste frequently.
Advertisement from World’s Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo New York offering a pamphlet on cures for nervous weakness impotency sexual debility and related conditions. Request includes address and two stamps for delivery.
The Utica Observer recounts Zingha, ruler of Matamba and Angola, as a formidable and brutal queen who slaughtered rivals, feasted on human flesh, and used brutal intrigue to extend power. She formed an uneasy alliance with Portugal, converted to Christianity, and allied to preserve her throne before dying peacefully at 82.
A persuasive appeal urges trial of Compound Oxygen for invalids and weary sufferers. It claims healing power and invites readers to request a free Treatise from Starkey & Palen at 1109 and 1111 Guvard Street, Philadelphia.
A Chicago auntie recollects early postal service in 1852, when the post office operated from a log building on Lake Street. Jonathan V Bailey was postmaster, Uncle John Bates deputy, with letters stored in a candle box at times. Growth from a pound and a half to about 100 pounds marked the era, and the deputy would show residents there were no letters for them. A Frenchman visited weekly.
In early Chicago the mail service served northern Illinois and half of Wisconsin. Farmers and townsfolk from Cook to La Salle counties used the city for mail, with carriers visiting every few weeks. The narrator recalls President Andrew Jackson and Postmaster General William T. Barry in office, noting the honor of serving the government.
Swarms of swallows welcomed the President as he readied to move into the cottage at Soldiers' Home. The interior has been renovated with new furniture including a white oak dining table and ornate buffet, blue papered rooms, and a study filled with tropical plants and a carved rustic eagle centerpiece awaiting his judgment. The scene emphasizes simple comfort and period plush, with portraits of Lincoln and Grant, and a view of the Potomac from the chamber window.
In 1839 a Darmstadt amateur kept a female spaniel named Poodle who howled at false notes. The dog would also respond to discordant sounds by barking and biting when provoked, becoming an unlikely musical critic in German reports.
New York Run reports discoveries in Anderson township Ohio altar mounds where native gold is found among ornaments of mica shell bears teeth stone copper iron and silver. Copper pendants covered with gold sheets and silver plated hammered bracelets and ear rings reveal a cultured people predating North American Indians burial practices in stone boxes along the Ohio River.
A two and a half foot greenish brown snake appeared in a strawberry crate bought by a marketman. About 200 butchers mobbed the scene as the snake hissed. A barrel stave dispatched the reptile. Some blamed a prank, others blamed chance. The snake remained healthy. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription touted as a standard female remedy.
The article surveys letter writing for young readers, advising third person for strangers, first person for close ties, and careful paragraphing. It notes handwriting trends, margins, and page usage, warns against awkward endings, and stresses clear purpose, punctuation, and concise replies. It also discusses tone, emphasis, and the decline of cross writing and excessive salutations.
About a mile from Adelsburg Austria and three miles from Trieste the Adelsburg cave is described as Europe’s most wonderful cavern explored to nearly 8000 yards to a subterranean lake. It features a 180 yard long ballroom 100 feet high with crystal curtains and stalactite columns formed by stalagmites. The river inside runs eight miles, eventually joining Laibach’s navigable waters. Proteus specimens are found in the cavern lakes.
A farmer named Glenn reported finding a large egg in his barn. Upon breaking it open a five inch snake was revealed inside. He will swear there was no hole in the shell beforehand.
The notice outlines early signs of consumption such as general debility pallor and night sweats and cough and urges prompt relief measures. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a superior blood purifier tonic and pectoral for weak lungs and related affections and notes it is sold by druggists worldwide. It instructs sending two stamps to the World's Dispensary for Dr. Pierce's pamphlet on consumption.
CURERA Poston writes from November 26, 2082 praising Brown's Snow Mirrens sold by Brown Chemical Co. Baltimore. She says after years of severe dyspepsia relief came quickly and she now eats freely without distress. She identifies address 3 Maverick St Boston and notes the product bears crossed red lines and a trademark on the wrapper.
A Boston area train tale recounts a fifty eight year old man who tries his luck with a young saleslady. She and friends stage a prank yielding laughter as the man realizes he has been cleverly thwarted before alighting at his stop.
A flooded old rock quarry nine miles from Chicago hosts numerous fish including crappie sunfish perch buffalo pike and large catfish. Gar and snapping turtles are aggressive killing waterfowl, with geese drawn down and hunted by these predators. The owner plans to dynamite gar and replace them with German carp.
The New York Sun reports on a science breakthrough using photography to capture sound variations. It notes that bargains are hourly by telephone in the city but lacks preserved records. If refined, this method could provide legal evidence of telephonic transactions and reveal vowel and consonant sound curves through vibrating plates.
A Detroit Free Press item describes a duck pair above the Grand River dam. One duck wounded, the other lured a pursuing dog toward the dam, then dove. The dog failed to seize the bird, nearly drowned, and the escape was noted alongside a column on the Townsend Chimney in Glasgow and a St Jacobs Oil verse.
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