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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1881
Page
3
Guide for planting and spacing annuals such as sweet peas, stocks, asters, pansies, and mignonette. Emphasizes open ground, thinning for robust growth, and hedging use. Describes bulb selection for Easter lilies and lilies, and notes on gladioli and tigridia borders. Explains rooting cuttings in warm, light conditions with glass covering for cubits and hardwood cuttings.
A long sermon on practical laundry mastery, warning young housewives about hazardous washing fluids, soap quality, and fabric care. It explains common faults from overuse of soda to poor rinsing, offers safer alternatives, and shares tips on making pure soap, preserving fabrics, and selecting suitable linen and embroidery materials.
A. Wright and colleagues in the American Journal of Science discuss estimating the glacial era timing in eastern North America by examining a large peat-filled depression near Pomp's Pond, Andover, Mass. They compare sediment accumulation rates with orbital cycles to test 80,000 year versus 10,000 year timelines and question long astronomical synchrony.
A farmer, weary from hardship, urges frugality to save wood, sugar, and money while his devoted wife bears endless chores and bills. His three sons witness her toil and finally cry out that true saving means preserving mother, not simple luxuries. The scene highlights domestic strain and moral plea.
A fragmented line notes Tennyson’s claim that nightingales have not sung at Farringford since the prince consort’s death. It mentions an old man Alf keeping pace with a procession and a quip about American liars wearing him out.
The excerpt quotes M. Muntz claiming alcohol exists in water air and earth. It rails against Shakespeare and observes smallpox in milk and trichinosis in pork, suggesting pervasive contamination in common things.
The page presents multiple word puzzles and acrostics from The Grist Mills with solutions and prize notices. It lists names like Sphinx Maud Lyon along with numerous No. entries and contributors, concluding with postal addresses in New York and Boston era exhibition notes.
A verse heavy with classical references recalls Alma Delsart, a Boston woman who loved art and aesthetic charm. The speaker details a courtship colored by Del Sarto and Titian, ending with Alma marrying an artist barber despite mutual, unfulfilled love.
A recipe suggests mixing carbolic acid solution with glycerine and soft water in a 1 2 4 ratio to make a lotion. Application is several times daily on affected parts until dry, with adjustments for numbness by adding water. Six parts water yields a gentle lotion for chapped hands and face and inflamed eyelids, claimed gentler than glycerine.
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