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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1883
Page
3
The Woman’s Hour features a critique of snobbish emblems while praising a household craft. An old New England wedding blanket is reborn as a table scarf with gold darns, velvet borders, and rich embroidery, symbolizing American progress from rugged utility to cultured adornment.
Faithful-Women of Letters presents Emily Faithful arguing against solo work in matters affecting the human family. She urges giving women chances to use their talents for dignity and strength, citing mutual partnership as world-changing when a woman and manstand together.
The Literary World asks if American women of letters exist and where they may arise. It praises living women writers yet urges a strong, masculine strength of mind, envisioning a Miriam or Deborah as poet and philosopher. It muses on where the next breakthrough might come from, perhaps the West, and from unexpected quarters.
A Western journal wisdom piece asserts happiness in a cultured home rests on respecting each individual's liberty within shared rights. It warns against jealousy, blanket criticism, or suppressing personal style, urging self control, forbearance, gentleness, and justice to create a perpetual summer atmosphere.
The article surveys early spring trends in dress fabrics and colors. It notes cashmere fabrics, Gay color costumes worn indoors, tight plain sleeves, plaid skirts with plain polonaises, and gold hair ornaments. Yellow shades dominate accessories and jewelry, crepe lisse trims appear, and yellow hues are prevalent in dresses, drapes, and hats.
Describes silk skirt trims and colors from yellow to apricot, noting four bias gathered frills at the hem, self-binding, and milliner folds. Summer styles feature ruff-like hems, lapped edges, two inch velvet ribbon borders, and pinked batons on checked silks.
Crochet pattern text describes creating a circular edging starting with a ten chain ring, followed by rows of treble and double chain stitches. It outlines repeating sequences for scallops, with guidance to form multiple scallops by repeating the first row and attaching to middle points of adjacent scallops as the piece grows.
A sequence of crochet directions across three rows describes chaining and treble stitches, with turns and chains interspersed. It then repeats the second row, forming a tied pattern likely for a decorative crochet piece or edging.
A vintage knitting pattern explains using four needles to cast on stitches divisible by twenty one. It details five rounds of Purt and knit stitches with repeats, including over, narrow, slip and pass over, knit sequences and a reset to the first round.
Detailed crochet and knitting method describes making a raspberry stitch rug rug using thirty eight cast on stitches on long wooden needles. It explains alternating rows of narrowing and widening, binding off after eighteen raspberries, and expanding the end with forty eight stitches. The body size varies with material.
A collection of kitchen instructions detailing croquettes of hominy and custard with lemon, fried smelts with anchovy sauce and parsley, asparagus with clarified butter, yeasted bread rolls, baked rice muffins, cold beef with mashed potatoes, and a milk yeast circuit. Includes steps, ingredients, quantities, and cooking methods.
Instructions for making stiff dough biscuits with milk and yeast, then eggs and corn flour desserts. Also methods for printing ink from ferrocyanide blends, meat patties, hominy with milk, and custards with gelatine and tapioca, all in practical kitchen terms.
Julian E. Ralph relays a New York Sun piece illustrating a German barber near Cooper Institute skewering the era’s attitudes. The satire warns of a rising “buck” danger in city life, mocking pretended fear and social folly through comic dialect and vivid, if period, caricature.
When Watkinsville was the Clarke county site, a bottle of brandy laid away inside the courthouse wall sixty years ago is uncovered as the old building is torn down. Officials of Oconee county note the discovery with humor and curiosity about the vintage relic.
As railroads finish and stages fade the large crude medicines fall out of use. Dr Kvee’s Pleasant Pellets offer a sugar coated tiny form, about the size of mustard seeds, yet made from highly concentrated vegetable extracts and sold by druggists.
Roscoe Rinehart a thirteen year old boy from Bull City died last week. He reportedly had a record heart measuring 12% inches in circumference 644 inches in length and weighed 3244 ounces when empty.
A tall sawyer named Shaw harms his finger with a bugz saw and finds relief as St Jacobs Oil eases pain and heals his hand. An aged man named Meeker, sick a year in Topeker, nearly dies until St Jacobs Oil restores him to health in Osweeger.
A long guide on fashion patterns and dressmaking summarizing the season’s trends including polonaises, vests, open bodices, and ranking details for fabrics and trims. It also covers home upkeep from bedding care to furniture polishing and spring cleaning of ceilings, walls, and cellars.
A reflective guide argues against rush cleaning. It favors delaying until mid April or May if weather permits, then cleaning gradually from garret to cellar. It details airing guest rooms, emptying closets, airing clothes, washing walls, cleaning shelves, doors, windows, and floors, and preserving fabrics while moths are deterred.
A New York Sun piece recounts a jovial Third Avenue car driver in mischievous exploits along Chatham Street and nearby avenues. He jumps between cars, teases passengers including a Chinaman and a girl, and watches chaos unfold as brakes are applied, delighting observers. He recalls past schemes and an unorthodox tenure steering a cross-town bobtail, claiming the boss failed to curb his antics.
Two dogs stole from a Maryland rabbit fancier's pen. A large neighbor dog and a slender terrier conspired to gain entry by removing a board and rock. The terrier retrieved a rabbit, which both dogs shared, feeding together unseen.
A collection of odd posted rules and announcements from the era. Entries include a bank door disappearance note in Iowa, hotel rules banning thrown combustibles, a London street protest on placards, a postmistress reprimand for not saluting, a Tyne pleasure boat description, a British train safety notice, stray mule reward in South Carolina, a North Shields warning about riding a donkey, Vesuvius railway circulars on depatures and fares, and other comic public notices from England and the United States.
A collection of party activities and intellectual games for youths. It describes secret-guessing play using name letters, a questioning guessing method, and performances by a president and vice president with forfeit implications. It includes an eclipse trick with a tea tray, a five-dollar exchange gag, riddle anecdotes, and a catch game where players guess by subtle cues while avoiding obvious hints.
A simple ring game for children uses a pair of scissors passed around a line. The leader demonstrates crossing and uncrossing the blades while each participant repeats words and actions exactly. The aim is to reveal the cross as a harmless trick without exposing the secret to others.
Washington Despatch to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette describes GN Garfield era steward Crump recounting illness moments. He recalls the President begging for water forbidden by doctors, Crump delaying, then nearly feeding the dying man a drink, and finally delivering a glass of water to quell the man’s thirst. The tale ends with the glass emptied and doubts of harm.
A bizarre 18 month old Feejee breed named Zulu from the Feejee Islands competes in New York City's Westminster kennel show. Described as heavy like an Italian greyhound with purple scaly hide, leopard spots, and monkey style claws. Owner reports high offers from Baron and others but declines to monetize via show winnings. dog purportedly sings, improves health, and suffers little from colds or neuralgia.
A Mansfield notice from November 26 1882 advertises Brown's Iron Bitters as a non alcoholic tonic to cure dyspepsia indigestion malaria weakness and lung or kidney diseases. A letter claims relief from pain soreness depression and loss of appetite after taking the remedy, noting improved strength and flesh.
A compact pamphlet style item outlines ways to save money with public tips and club listings. It highlights discounts, membership ideas, and general consumer advice from an early 20th century local paper.
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