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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1881
Page
3
A feature on household tasks from laundry to artful finishing work. It covers practical wash-fancy tasks, sewing text cases, a court plaster case, and a cigars case. The piece ponders who can do better in these domestic challenges.
Practical 19th century guide to home upkeep detailing sanitation, fumigation, cleaning methods, and do it yourself repairs. It covers purifying living spaces, wall washes, carpet care, curtain washing, moth control, polishing metals, and systematic room cleaning. It emphasizes prevention, order, and disciplined routines for a well kept home.
A household washing method is described as an everyday emergency solution. The narrator details a two stage process using cold water first and warm water second, with alkali additives when needed, and stresses rubbing out dirt to avoid yellowing. The account treats domestic revolution with practical steps and cautions.
Detailed Victorian craft notes describe making gold or silver perforated card board cases for displaying texts, with back and front panels cut to shape, ribbon bindings, gilt paper lining, and hanging loops. Include a Court Pinster Case and a Cigar Case with decorative stitching, silk, zephyr, and ribbon, plus a quilt by the daughter of J G Chase in Deerfield New Mexico using 6642 pieces.
Poem traces hidden garden gates as two lovers roam paths unseen by maps. It portrays pair bonding through many gates and eventual unity, ending with a single journey to the heart of all and a shared life locked in golden gates of fifty years.
General Grant recalls meeting a young journalist named Reid aboard a river steamboat after the Wittsburg Landing battle. Reid, with long hair and flashy sleeves, boasted about the fight and military knowledge while diagramming plans. Grant notes Reid later appeared in the Cincinnati Gazette under the pen name Agate.
A Belleville New Jersey laundry faced a strike by 20 Chinese workers after one disobeyed rules. The foreman was fired, the rest quit, and threats were made to kill anyone who tried to work. They spent time drinking and shouting with knives and pistols. The item frames this as a sign of progress among the heathen.
A faded beauty once the pride of London seasons fades from memory. Mrs Langtry, no longer spoken of, daughter of a Channel Island clergyman, married to a son of a Belfast Liverpool shipping agent. Times change as Langtry's era of affluence collapses, unable to sustain a West End establishment and its lavish expectations. Also notice offers for general house workers seeking twenty good girls at once through the W E A office at 19 Winter Street.
Mr. H. B. Norton surveys glacial epochs in North America, arguing many periods with oceanic pendulum-like shifts and gradual land submergence. The piece covers Captain Beaumont’s compressed-air locomotive trials, a novel steam yacht propulsion concept, petroleum handling with aqua ammonia, and a German ornamental plastic material. It notes a fatal bomb design, new steel recycling, diamond origins, wool separation from cotton by steam, and brick strength under pressure.
A Vienna note by Herr Salzer estimates optic nerve fibres at about 438000 and retinal cones at 3360000 in a human eye, suggesting seven or eight cones per fibre. Charpentier proposes a distinct color sense separate from light sensation, while water on lead notes soft waters spare lead pipes but hard waters can attack lead.
An intrepid French hairdresser critiques hair tonics claiming most baldness cannot be cured by tonics, citing Dr Bazin and barber experience. He argues baldness from sickness may recover naturally, but gradual baldness resists restoration, and warns against overreliance on remedies while noting scalp perspiration and hat-wearing affect hair vitality. He links night air superstition to illness and discusses alcohol’s impact on the heart, milk safety, apples for digestion, and simple home remedies for sprains and worms.
A Christmas morning in California unfolds with a hunter narrator recalling Jim Malone a lifelong prospector whose luck zigzags from ruin to riches. Malone’s final discovery in a hidden pocket yields a mine’s fortune, shared with his wife and children as workers keep the claim named Malone’s Luck active each Christmas.
A reflective poem urges a child to accept unequal affection as earned not unjust. It reframes longing for love as a habit of becoming lovely, implying love follows merit and character. The piece contrasts generous, earned love with stingy, transactional behavior and promises a growth path toward being loved.
A playful exchange unfolds as a living encyclopedia helps a teary woman seek romantic clarity about Frank. Misunderstanding, affection, and a punchline reveal his real flaw, offspring of rumor and flirtation, ending with a comic twist and a health plug from an ad. The scene blends whimsy with sly social chatter and a segue into medicine advertising.
A Chicago Tribune 1882 notice touts Tropic Fruit Laxative a confection like a bon bon made from tamarind and fig pulp. It promises quick relief from biliousness headaches and sluggish habits without nausea, using chocolate coated lozenges for a tasty, harmless cleansing remedy.
A historical note describes Tropic-Fruit Laxative as thorough yet pleasant in taste. It urges following directions until accustomed, notes mild action and effective results, and highlights suitability for ladies and children who dislike pills. Available in bronzed tin boxes priced 25 cents or 60 cents for large boxes.
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