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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1887
Page
2
A Farmers column explains stump removal methods, arguing against blind stumps and proposing root digging, oiling, and burning. It details oil treatment, drying soil, and burning on windward side, plus lever and log-chain techniques to lift large stumps. It also notes smaller stumps can be pulled or burned, with cautions on moisture and timing.
A farmer argues a twenty acre sugar bush with 800 trees can yield high profits from syrup, pasturage, and timber. He details equipment costs, notes he nets about 1.25 dollars per gallon, and urges neat, disciplined processes including use of Champion evaporator, tin 12 quart buckets, and careful filtration and sealing to secure a premium market.
A Wisconsin reader asks if field pease are good fodder for sheep and how to cultivate and feed them. Field pease are nitrogen rich, supplementing corn which lacks nitrogen. clover hay is advised with corn. Peas should be harvested green as they begin to swell pods for best sheep nutrition.
Farmers can greatly increase wheat yields by spreading winter manure on fields before spring harrowing. The manure protects seedlings, prevents crusting, and, when combined with spring cultivation, pushes nutrients into contact with roots. Phosphate availability improves with the added carbonic acid from manure and soil work, aiding crop vigor and aiding clover seeding.
Practical notes advise humane milking cures and gentle handling for cows and calves. It covers milking techniques, old cow fattening economics, October and November calf timing, early maturity sales window for steers, and winter milking benefits. It warns of bacon bugs in hams and methods to prevent maggots, mold, and pests. It stresses early colt handling from three months, halter training, and progressive work to build calm control.
John Thurman, a resident of a Tennessee village, lived in New Orleans after the war. He bet $50 that he could borrow $100 from a stingy tavern keeper, Hal Smith, and proved lucky when a Havana lottery ticket he carried paid out $50,000. News of his win spread, and he was celebrated by friends at Hal Smith’s, though no big party occurred that night.
A young man in a North Dakota county planned to marry during a blizzard. With roads impassable he rode snow sleighs twenty miles to reach the bride’s home and arrived on time, earning his fiancée’s pride.
A discussion in the Journal of Education notes that Aman from Down East appeared temporarily insane and did not identify a specific fan during the event. It later emerges he went tobogganing with his wife, adding context to the incident.
A new cavalry recruit explains the strict entry process, noting only about one in thirty applicants are accepted after thorough examinations of eyesight, hearing, and mind. He details card and voice tests, mentions pay for extra duties, savings schemes, clothing allowances, and post enlistment opportunities, with many ex-soldiers returning to land.
A- period piece outlines Chinese society with sweeping judgments on gender roles, marriage rules, wealth, education, and customs. It notes bachelors as jokes, daughters' dependence on husbands, and that sons bear father's debts while women incur debt only through husbands. It describes greetings, attire, and social behavior, lampooning norms with heavy generalizations.
A traveling man asks a friend how he likes his new job and about his pay. The friend says the position is first-rate and that his employer treats him well, having given a raise last Sunday night when he visited his daughter.
A Hartford Times anecdote recalls a wife boasting of her husband’s writing talents. In a sharp reply another woman quips that she already has a trunk full of his letters stored away.
A Burington Free Press item reports an unsigned packet of fourteen spring sonnets sent to a local figure, with Mr. Montague identified as tracking the case. the sender remains unnamed and is described as a goner.
A short distance from Neckbridge in New Haven lies the mysterious Fenian ram, which excited much wonderment among locals and visitors alike.
A house dog named Jack, despised by a pack of ten or twelve greyhounds, fled a hunt across the parade ground and lake. He outpaced the pack, dashed for home, and escaped into the house as hounds surged and tore a straw hat on the lawn. After the chase, Jack refused to speak to the hounds again.
In Paris the Place Maubert hosts a brisk market for cigar stumps. Megot guides a morning tour of buyers and stallholders, with stubs valued by length and weight. About 50 people support the trade, which locals say yields up to $150,000 annually, including exports under Tabac de Paris. Megot’s crime ends with police imprisonment in a place called a fiddle.
A district school incident in which a teacher asks the class for the color of the golden robin. To provoke answer, she shows a costly ring and a precocious seven year old blurts Brass, exposing a playful misdirection in class.
A short, enigmatic line about a fashionable bonnet and notice value appears in the Bartington Free Press. A crisp remark suggests taste and significance beyond mere appearance, inviting readers to ponder style and substance in a playful manner.
Samuel Appleton spoke to Parker Memorial science class on The Human Foot Its Use and Abuse. He argued boot and shoe makers know little of foot anatomy and design shoes for style over function, noting pointed toes harm feet and buyers follow fashion.
The article outlines twenty six foot bones: seven tarsals, five metatarsals, and phalanges with two for the great toe and three for others. It highlights the astraltus as the keystone of the arch, the plantar ligament, and elastic tendons supporting weight like a wagon spring.
A discussion emphasizes the arch's health and undisturbed movement, warning that high heels and narrow shoes crowd the feet, distort balance, and strain muscles. It urges foot fitness, proper arch support, and caution against fashion-driven footwear to prevent lifelong pain and gait issues.
The article argues that narrow pointed boots with high Louis XV heels distort the foot, causing cramps and circulatory stress. It notes the bunion risk at the big toe joint and compares upper and sole patterns, concluding that style tyranny harms people, especially women, by deforming feet.
A Boston Cooking School demonstration led by Miss Maynard featured dishes such as chicken soup braised tongue and Parisian charlotte. The lecture included detailed steps for preparing cream mullins cocoanut flavored desserts and cream muffins with instructions on whipping cream making a two quart mould pudding and finishing tips.
Professor T. Baldwin descended from a balloon at 1000 feet using a patent parachute. Clad in pink tights, he landed in a cottage yard after a rapid descent that broke a small wattle tree. Thousands watched as he recovered and performed a back somersault. Some blamed the chute diameter and expansion timing for the speed, suggesting a larger parachute for safer landings.
A compilation of quirky anecdotes and short notes from various places and times. Entries include a Pasadena druggist advertising for horned toads, peculiar quotes about women and dyspepsia, a private wedding due to mourning, and light reports of odd happenings across cities.
A fragmentary notice advertises valuable books offered free to recipients, but the text is incomplete and lacks full details.
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