This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1882
Page
2
A pastiche of rural verse praises a diligent farm girl tending gardens and orchards, while an agricultural treatise argues for intensive calf feeding to maximize dairy and beef profits. It details calf hand-raising, milk feeding schedules, costs, and manure value, plus steer Old Abe trials and lameness diagnosis in horses.
The article explains preventing striped beetle damage to cucumbers melons and squashes with frame boxes over hills and netting, then details the striped beetle larva at roots and the squash bug. It urges hand picking to reduce beetles and eggs, notes seasonal timing and winter hiding places, and lists remedies for grape thrips aphids and other orchard pests with notes on regional effectiveness.
Advertises Liebig Co's Coca Beel Tonics claiming relief from palpitation heart affections hair loss epilepsy St Vitus dance chronic throat troubles and bronchitis with a caution to beware of counterfeits.
The article argues for abstinence until maturity but notes advantages to limited early use. It suggests evaluating a stallion’s foal-getter potential by letting a two year old sire a few chosen matings to reveal his qualities, balancing physiological principles with practical breeding gains.
Pro forma report outlines costs and methods for a ten acre potato crop. It details land charges, ploughing, harrowing, fertilizer use, planting, cultivating, digging, carting, soil depletion notes, and expected yields. Also covers insect pests and remedies including guano washes and manuring practices.
The May weather has been unusually cold and wet through the 25th, delaying germination and growth. Early crops like beans corn and squash rotted. greens are scarce. farmers plan delayed sowing for cucumbers cabbage cauliflower and celery while stressing weed control and soil readiness.
The article advises strawberry beds mulched with wheat straw or cornstalks last fall or winter, now ready for harvest. Do not pick while dew is present to avoid mould and souring. hire careful workers rather than children to prevent trampling vines and ensure only fully ripe berries are picked.
A historic advertisement claims Dr. Benson's Skin Cure will render the countenance celestial and radiant by smoothing the skin and erasing tetter, scales, freckles, and climatic discoloration, touting it as a lovely toilet dressing.
The U E A office at 19 Winter Street announces it can place twenty girls in general house work immediately. Call after 10 4.
Nothing is more dreaded than salt rheum and eczema with many species and remedies that fail. The ad promotes Dr. Benson's Skin Cure as a safe, effective treatment for skin and scalp diseases, promising soft white skin, removal of tan and freckles, and a cure for eczema, tetters, humors, inflammations, milk crust, scaly eruptions, hair and scalp diseases, ulcers, pimples, and itching. Sold by druggists at one dollar per package.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.