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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1882
Page
3
A satirical, verse styled matrimonial ad from Harper's Bazaar listing preferred traits for a wife. The narrator blends humor and social commentary, noting color eye color and various domestic expectations, while signaling the era’s gender norms and idealized domestic role.
The poem calls Jews to awaken and revive the Maccabean zeal to defend Jerusalem. It cites Mizpah, Jerusalem, and the heroes Mattathias and his sons Jonathan Eleazar Simon and Judas the Prince, urging a renewed banner and readiness to strike in defense.
An elder exhorts a young man to push forward with effort yet avoid sloppiness. He warns against overreaching and overreaching too long while emphasizing steady progress. The verse counsels balance between ambition and restraint and ends with the speaker’s closing lines.
A fragment from Coleridge on nature and labor contrasts work without hope with nectar in a sieve. Nature stirs while the speaker, idle and unproductive, wanders among amaranths and streams, lamenting hope lacking purpose and the inability to create.
Describes party games for youth including Jingling Jimmy and Bear Walk played in a ring or yard. Details blindfolds, a central jingling actor, and the pursuit rules. Also outlines Telegrams game with leaders directing players to adopt city names for a global telegraph themed activity.
Describes playful practices for children including traveling tradesmen role play, base tag chase, and a sequence of tag and pursuit games. Rules detail two-line lines, catching, and prisoner exchanges, plus an anecdotes word game, wall tapping races, and a backwards spelling Congress party cue for fun in schools or family gatherings.
A Texas period piece contrasts old Yankee stereotypes with modern mutual respect. It notes Massachusetts and Boston as American citizens, praises Boston for disaster relief aid to the South, and ends with a wary, humorful jab at Boston’s alleged foibles and public spirit.
A wide survey of decorative embroidery materials and methods explores bullion threads floss purls and spangles, with notes on bullion substitutes, bead and platework, and the craft of shading. It covers modern floral monograms, table linens, and religious motifs, plus practical guidance on curbing issues like durability and color retention.
A Boston style magazine argues that women may pursue professional or domestic success by choosing their talents. It favors division of labor, warns against overemphasis on sewing craft, notes hair care dangers, and cites Our Continent on the law of choice influencing household spending and fashion trends.
Notes on various sewing and embroidery crafts for home use. Describes narrow ticking bags with gilt braid, round boxes lined with silk, pincushions, chair covers, plumage of cretonne, embroidery with tinsel, and numerous small items for sale at fairs. Includes patterns for knitwork, aprons, petticoat borders, and shoe bags with detailed instructions and design ideas.
An advertisement extols Brown's Iron Bitters as a universal tonic for wasting diseases and strength recovery. A Baltimore reader, G Decker, recounts postwar stomach injury and paralysis, saying two bottles improved digestion and vitality, enabling him to rise and move again.
The advertisement promotes Brown's Iron Bitters as a complete non alcoholic tonic for indigestion dyspepsia malaria weakness and related illnesses. It claims to enrich the blood strengthen muscles and restore nerve tone.
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