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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1881
Page
3
A sentimental poem printed in Harper's Young People May 10 tells Rover the dog’s plea for shelter and mercy. The narrator recalls Rover's years of service and joy, then laments abandonment and cold, begging a kind traveler to provide food, shelter, and forgiveness.
The piece outlines ladies craft using breast feathers and fur for rugs borders, frames, and centers, with fabric, satin, and plush panels. It covers feather borders, chamois panels, varnish for furniture, re framed mirrors, decorative screens, Easter tokens, lace and brocade embroideries, burlap painting, and gilded gourds as latest table and wall adornments.
Reader guidance on lace cast ons and complex knitted stitches followed by patchwork quilting advice. It discusses bed quilt construction with star diamond blocks, piecing steps, and fabric remnant use. Sewing lore highlights child sewing skills, economy, and decorative crochet and towel patterns with embroidery techniques.
A Scribner's Magazine excerpt presents a dialect heavy reminiscence of past rural life and labor. It contrasts old and new ways including bread and fish gathering, temperance, and shifts in social order amid African American labor and militia imagery. The piece uses strong regional speech to evoke nostalgia and critique.
A satirical Detroit Free Press piece promotes a fantastical summer ulster with dramatic features and gadgets. It exaggerates pockets, hinges, drink tubes, and even a moving jibsail, projecting humor about fashion and practicality. It also teases a later note on Charles Darwin amid reader responses.
The excerpt notes widespread awareness of vivisection suffering, recalling a box patient who endured agony and the operator who performed it. It emphasizes a moral response, suggesting remorse for the harmed subject and urging sympathy rather than indifference. The search centers on this poignant meditation within Darwin's work.
The Paris sale at Hotel Drouot revealed Mile Schneider's lavish tastes. From a doorway crest with Je chante to a Venetian onyx bath and Titian-linked bed, the grand duchess’s restored rooms were rich with Renaissance and Louis XV detail. Diamonds drew crowds as portraits of her life emerged from a career that began in Bordeaux and Paris, ending as a celebrated operetta star and emblem of empire elegance.
A Brooklyn hostess consoles a Boston girl sharing a melodramatic tale of forbidden love. The father imposes a stark choice between an Easter hat and the lover, forcing a painful separation described in a lyric, dreamlike colloquial style as a moral tale of broken dreams.
A London Truth account notes Mr Evarts as head of the American section, a cultivated lawyer and bibliophile. It recalls his fifteen-year acquaintance, his clear speech, and a Geneva victory of £5,000,000 sterling for the United States over Lord Cockburn, all amid remarks on language use and a nod to women recovering with Lynia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
An essaylike survey traces secret manufacturing methods in historical Europe and beyond. It notes Meissen porcelain guarded by oath and exclusion, tinware born from a stolen trick, and cast steel pride in secrecy, alongside varied uses of mica and other industrial curiosities of the era.
Wade W Hampton of Luray Page County Virginia reports a German Bible printed in Strasburg in 1615. He cites a tradition that it was hidden in a hollow tree trunk during the thirty years war and mossy stains along leaf edges come from moisture in the hiding place. The Bible was brought by Nicholas Spiry, maternal grandfather of Hampton’s wife.
A New York restaurant scene features a sales agent touting the Skidmore indestructible Rubber Chop as the greatest invention for save-waste dining. The device uses tough rubber chops that resemble real meat, be used in place of regular cuts, and even offers rubber lobsters for salads, with claims of five year warranties and no misseeing by customers.
Miss Emma Lake rode in a Brooklyn performance when her bay horse refused to mount. The horse lay down, faced calm defiance, and only the ringmaster’s lash and equipment inspection broke the impasse. The audience watched as the saddle girth broke, revealing the horse’s stubbornness. The tale ends by praising the horse’s discernment and Miss Lake’s skill.
The piece contrasts Jefferson Davis’s steadfast stance with others who surrendered to the Civil War’s outcome, praising Davis's magnanimity and signaling reverence for his refusal to seek pardon. It also notes the era’s tensions as a Confederate symbol remains at center stage. A later item describes a new England method of inlaying wood using zinc plates and steam compression to embed designs in walnut.
The page lists multiple crossword and word puzzle items from The Grist Mill including Diamond and Acrostic, Double Cross-Word, and Charade challenges with initials and clues. It notes prize winners, locations, and contributors across several newspapers and cities, such as New York, Augusta, Savannah, and Dorchester, Mass.
In its columns the Globe notes Mr Medina offers convenient inspection of hair goods before payment and endorses his house as strictly reliable in good faith. The item highlights inducements to try before buying and affirms trust in the supplier.
A discussion claims planetary alignment has noticeably affected the sun and climate, with winters growing colder and mortality rising. An Orange New Jersey physician touts Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, recounting a patient with Bright's disease who reportedly improved after taking six spoonfuls daily, asserting strong personal success.
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