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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1888
Page
3
A playful note in a civic or literary page references May and a domestic scene with biscuits cookies and cheese provoking nerves. The fragment hints at mood, maritime or garden imagery, and social commentary without clear events or names. The piece feels observational and impressionistic.
Surmey Dare surveys child feeding and beauty norms, urging mothers to shape girls’ health through diet, outdoor activity, and measured schooling. It promotes varied meats and broths over bread and milk, warns against overlong study, and prescribes home routines to foster growth, calm nerves, and slender, well-formed figures.
A fashionable young woman narrowly escaped a fall when her boot heel got stuck in a glass-filled sidewalk hole. A crowd gathered as a dashing mail clerk Woodward of Broad Street station freed her heel and replaced the shoe, then vanished into the crowd.
A long commentary urges women to pursue country and weekly newspaper work. It stresses apprenticeship in local offices, the value of local news, and potential for ownership, noting examples in the South and West and highlighting editors and publishers who support women in editorial roles.
A playful poem extols a young boy as a tiny autocrat of home. The speaker praises his majesty, kindness, humor, and love for books and art, calling him a sunny, perfect little paragon who proclaims affection for his aunt.
Aristine Anderson describes 12 scrapbooks including receipt, humorous, household and medical, quotations, steel engravings, Lone photographs, and a poetry collection modeled on Bryard’s Library. She stores weekly scraps in envelopes, groups by author and era, and envisions thousands of clippings cataloged by category, seeking contact with others with similar passion.
An engineer explains why high speed is limited in railway locomotives. Air resistance back pressure and cylinder effects reduce acceleration. Mechanical vibrations and couplings also slow the engine, with eighty miles per hour cited as a practical maximum.
A London Globe passage discusses the intrusive nature of detective cameras. It notes that being recorded without consent is unfair because an image may not reflect true expressions or the real person, highlighting concerns about lawful limits and privacy.
A correspondent describes a visit to Nober’s dynamite plant on Scotland’s southwest coast. Guards, vaults, and metal-free processing zones ensure safety while nitroglycerine is formed in a delicate, temperature-controlled process. Workers in distinct outfits handle the explosive through multiple steps, with ponds cleaned and ponds blasted to prevent accidents. The piece notes nitroglycerine’s colorless fluid form and a historic claim by Dr. William Murrell of its medicinal uses.
A humorous poem recalling medieval courtship and chivalry as an idealized era. It contrasts knightly contests for a lady with modern rivals and police disruption, lamenting the loss of noble wooing and a supposedly brighter age.
Nicola Boraska a Bohemian of Chicago winds and repairs long case and wall clocks for foreign-born clients. For 17 years he has supported a large family from his trade while keeping discreetly to himself without gossip. He lives in the Bohemian district on North Kobey street and speaks German and Austrian dialects.
A Chicago couple faces temptation during their honeymoon with vows about the wedding ring. The husband swears he will never remove the ring, signaling fidelity amid marital strain.
A reminiscence chronicles Charles Sumner’s Senate service from 1851 onward, noting his early presence in Boston, rivalries with the Brent minority, and friendships with Andrew Butler and Judge Mangum. It recounts Sumner’s travels, knowledge on cattle and horses, his vast readings, and shifts in speaking style from memory to written drafts.
A fragmentary verse contrasts Cleon’s vast land and fortunes with the speaker’s view that wealth does not buy happiness. Cleon lives in luxury yet fears death and hides from nature, while the speaker feels vigor, readiness, and lasting joy in nature’s beauty. The piece pits status against personal fulfillment.
A missionary in Africa describes learning native language with interpreters who fail to adapt to European methods. He recalls using a pencil and thumbnail to jot words, only for natives to notice and laugh as he pretended to write on his fingers. The tale highlights communication struggles.
A fragment from the Journal of Education contrasts a failing husband with the bright spring imagery. It warns that neglecting a spouse, even amid seasonal joy, leads to a wretched fate and a lonely grave, urging a timely gift and attentiveness.
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