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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1885
Page
3
A domestic periodical urges mothers and teachers to collaborate for child development, praising conscientious teachers and advising outreach like teacher sociables. It also discusses public engagement announcements as a social norm to discourage hastily made marriages.
Crochet directions for a baby skirt using white Berlin wool with 156 chain stitches and 12 round scallops, plus a Time Jacket pattern. Details include treble crochet sequences, missing loop techniques, and steps for creating two garment pieces in scarlet and other colors with specific stitch counts and decreases.
Letters to the editor recount Old New Hampshire schoolgirl dress in 1829 with calico gown and sunbonnet, then a tale of pantalets heated at a stove leaving red marks. A New Bedford reader apologizes for a delay and declines to send a quilt rule request, citing length and time to copy.
Captain E L Cortell discussed Tehuantepec ship railway aims before Society of Arts. J B Eads argued the project offers an economical alternative to a canal, claiming it could open vast western markets and shorten sea distance to Plymouth Rock. He urged public support as a historic, transformative enterprise.
A bright eyed fourteen year old Italian fruit seller talks of weekly pay, schooling, and life on Commercial and Washington streets in Boston. She recalls selling bananas for seven years, father bringing fruit from market, and a wish for Saturday afternoons when reporters and customers are "flush." She was born in California, spent time in Italy, and has lived in Boston about ten years.
A feature on the Boston Cooking School course for physicians and nurses detailing beef essence and tea, gruels, and jellies to aid recovery. It explains choosing lean meat, proper simmering, and serving temperatures, plus recipes for beef tea, crackers gruel, oatmeal mush, tapioca, and calves fruit jelly style broths for convalescents.
Philadelphia readers are advised by Professor C C Vanderbeck M D in a Wagner Institute lecture on safe sea bathing. Rules include starting after arousal but before low mood, preferring tepid baths if weak, avoiding long cold immersions, preferring brief open air dips when sea is calm, and avoiding bathing before meals. Special cautions cover children, the very young, and women, with rest, moderate activity, and digestion timing emphasized.
A scaffold at the new Baltimore post office near Lexington Street collapsed at 4 30 PM injuring seven men. John Rogers aged 55 from Washington died instantly when crushed by bricks. others suffered severe injuries but none fatally. Names include Richard Shaw Samuel Watts Miller Stephen Young Howard Jenkins Henry Gibson. Coroner Hill set to hold an inquest tomorrow.
A New York Herald column reports European travel remains affordable and comfortable despite war and cholera fears. Agents note low general rates, wide cabin options from $30 to $150, and elastic pricing this season, with space plentiful and tourists favored.
Speaking of deluded wives, one woman has uncanny nasal accuracy to infer her husband’s activities from his breath. Beer means at Schenkelberger’s, sauer kraut signals east side electioneering, tobacco implies the Adelphi, whiskey points to poker, and champagne would lead to a separation suit.
Norwich Bulletin reports a crew led by Captain B. J. Gardiner catching nineteen large porpoises in Gardiner's bay using a strong net. Largest at nine feet four inches and girth five feet ten inches. Fish were brought to the cay, transferred to City of Boston, and taken to New York. Gardiner seeks a fishing steamer to commercialize porpoise fishing there.
Yonkers Gazette notes a First National Bank check for fifteen cents framed as a nineteenth century curiosity in a Yonkers real estate office. The Fishkill Standard recalls a petty lien man receiving seven cents from the U S treasurer in a business settlement.
Ex secretary Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen died at 5:30 p.m. in Newark after a six week illness. Born August 4, 1517, in Milltown, he rose from Newark lawyer to attorney general of New Jersey, U.S. senator, secretary of state under Arthur, and a noted charitable figure and Dutch Church member with deep New Jersey ties.
The Denmark of the National line carried 109 Percheron horses from France including stallions and mares valued up to $2800 each. Edward Blewett, Oregon Horse and Land Company manager, plans to ship most animals to Baker County Oregon and Fremont Nebraska. The company reports branding 8,000 last summer and intends to hit 11,000 this year.
Emma Studley married Eldredge on January 23 and has a second husband in Hyannis. The first husband is pursuing legal action. The woman has been placed in a Boston institution. Four generations of her female ancestors have been bigamists. The case likely to be tried in Brockton, promising remarkable developments.
A peculiar display in a School Street cigar store window shows a Havana cigar from a box sent from the West Indies to the Spanish coast. An accompanying placard identifies the item as a Havana cigar and notes its display dates back forty seven years.
A fragment notes a conical cigar six inches long with a leathery wrapper and coarse filling. It contrasts with modern cigars, suggesting forefathers enjoyed such a luxury but it would not suit a fastidious person on an afternoon constitutional.
An 8 to 12 foot water wheel can lift thousands of gallons daily at 25 feet. costs range from 150 to 210 dollars with pump and tower. A 25 foot wheel could raise 100000 gallons daily for about 1200 dollars. Also described are paper slippers using papier mache uppers, leather belting prep, and various coatings and pigments for clean finishes.
In Adrian Michigan a lady asked a gentleman attendant what church the engine house with a steeple resembled. After reading the sign Deluge No 3 he guessed it to be the Kind Baptist.
May 19 Sprinatreep New Jersey United States Senate ballot result shows John A Logan chosen as successor after long delays. Lodge, War party wrangles, absentees read, final total 204 votes with Logan at 103 and Tree 96. Compliant Democrats pivoted to Logan as cheers erupt. Telegrams pour in forecasting Logan’s national prospects.
Logan, elected to the U.S. Senate after a long, close contest, praises Illinois officials and stresses his intent to represent the state fairly. He emphasizes cordial relations with his opponent Mr Morrison and vows no bitterness, aiming to serve his party and constituents honestly. The speech conveys mutual respect and a commitment to duty.
A New York Journal item on the Fulton ferry features a philanthropic man offering a youth a ticket marked Ho every one that thirsteth. The youth replies he does not drink, prompting the older man to label the ticket a Scriptural message while the youth quips about mistaking it for a beer pass.
A New York Graphic cartoon caption shows a minister gasping as he struggles to fasten a four ply collar. He exclaims bless the collar while his wife asks for the morning text and he stammers the fourteenth verse of the fiftieth Psalm.
A Providence Journal excerpt recalls Mormon visitors to the White House meeting President Cleveland who promised impartial law enforcement. The anecdote likens their reaction to a jilted suitor learning the jury would act as desired, illustrating political tensions and perceptions of justice.
The article presents two chess problem endings. Position 1187 by Isaiah Barker records numeric play and alternatives for moves and outcomes with two variants A and B, ending in a win for B. Position 1188 covers an endgame between C W Simon of Liverpool and J A Kear of Bristol with scores and move sequences, concluding in a drawn result.
The Book of Match Games is ready at 30 cents per copy via C. Farker No 8 Houghton street Cambridgeport Mass. Includes match games between Freeman Barker Sherson Wyllie and others with portraits. a valuable addition for players.
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