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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1890
Page
2
Edited by Frances Hodgson Burnett presents a fragmentary passage about stems of pasta leaves dried and a wound described. The text includes scattered phrases on a base of a blow gun and a range of about 180 feet, with references to poison potatoes and an expert native, indicating an incomplete, contextless excerpt.
The passage discusses riddling quests in traditional ballads, citing voices about charity in old verse and the motif of a hero’s chance to win love by solving enigmas. It references Halliwell’s Popular Rhymes and notes archaic spellings and misprints in translations and titles.
A chaotic scene unfolds as two workers cling near the 100 foot height on a tower scaffold. One man’s hammer swings and misses, causing a dangerous near miss with another, while observers below recount a frail battle amid winds and dangling ropes.
A sermon by Barnom discusses how to live a happy life after eighty, stressing a sound body, honest effort, and self-control. He cites the liver as a metaphor for physical health and argues that worth living depends on inner factors, environment, and choice, with examples ranging from poverty to wealth.
A garbled OCR piece describes a demonstration at the Boston Cooking School with scattered phrases about Miss Maynard and various activities. The readable text mentions discipline, mathematics, and a piano song, but many words are indecipherable, leaving a fragmentary glimpse of the event.
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