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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1883
Page
7
Dick Sylvester wins West Point entry and endures the first year of brutal discipline. Tom and Bessie face separation, tug of family love, and changing rooms. Rosie and Grandpa offer support as Dick grows Taller and tougher, writing cheerfully home about hardships and home-sick moments.
Dick Sylvester and Preston enter military life facing harsh hazing and spartan quarters. The passage notes brutal discipline, unequal treatment, and their resolve to endure four years of siege while maintaining hope and dignity amid strict rules and public scrutiny.
A family tale tracks Dick Sylvester’s years at West Point, the influence of his mother and friends, and his brave service in the Northwest frontier. Letters from home shape his conduct. in danger and distance, family bonds endure as Dick earns honor and faces uncertain futures.
An officer's letter fragment describes Fort Arne under threat as autumn fades and snow thickens. While some homes burned and crops lost, garrison life focuses on sheltering civilians, rationing, and wary reliance on Christian Indians and missionaries amid looming danger from hostile forces. The excerpt ends with a newsboy's cry of Fort Arne attacked and a Massachusetts officer praised for bravery.
Dick Sylvester comes home maimed but steadfast after years away on the frontier. He heals with family and community support, recounts old lessons, and plans a abroad holiday with Bessie and their mother as Tom and Grandma adjust to life after the conflict.
A boy narrates a chaotic Buffalo Bill inspired prank with Indian costumes, capture of a Boston girl, and mock raids on a barn and alley. Pa’s failed bicycle ride ends with tangled limbs, torn clothes, and laughter as the boy reflects on grownups acting like kids and the police wagon passes by.
The eleventh annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Women in Chicago October 17 18 19 featured speeches on suffrage education and race relations. Notable talks by Mrs J Ward Howe Mrs H L T Wolcott and Mrs Jennie Marsh Parker addressed women land labor and home life with debates on negroes in the South and the need for moral uplift through hearth and school.
Woollen outfits will dominate this winter with velvet or wool combined for stylish results. Cloth suits lead for daytime wear, with lighter wool options and long trains, trims of chenille and braid, and stockings in black, gray, navy, emerald, or cardinal. Hair styles favor two looks, the French twist and low knot, plus new artificial cuts like La Grande and Baby bang variants.
Advertises Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a health aid for sedentary workers. Claims to stimulate the liver purify the blood and treat consumption described as a scrofulous lung disease. Encourages purchase from all druggists.
A tall rabbit, larger than the fox and sometimes knee high, is described as the polar hare. It notes an Irishman’s hare that proves to be a donkey and explains how the hare stays still when golden eagles or snowy owls hunt, blending with the snow to avoid detection.
Valparaiso Chile reports Senor Ricardo Staven a leading commission merchant says rheumatism cure came from St Jacobs Oil after trying all other remedies. He makes this public.
A young man visits a Georgia lady Culprey and, seeing her cross the ball in a Mother Hubbard, waits outside after judging he has called too early. Benna received. He notes it’s hard if Mr Frew likes gray hairs, except on others. If hair grays, restore youth with Ayers Hair Vigor.
The passage argues that conservatism would shut women from education and limit their talents to church fairs. It champions progress, rejects aged authorities, and envisions a future where Western society offers electrifying work and opportunity that women should embrace rather than be constrained by the past.
Instructions for crocheting a lamp mat using four greens cream white and yellow shades. Details cover skein colors counts rounds stitches treble stitches chain depth and edging. Includes placing eight calla lilies with white crochet and yellow stems and wiring.
Fragment of knitting directions describes making a striped tidy with garnet and old gold yarns. Includes cast on twenty two stitches, back-and-forth knitting, repeating rows, binding off in groups, raveling dropped stitches, three stripes wet and two gold, crochet fringe, and joining stripes without a right or wrong side.
Pattern instructions describe casting on five stitches and knitting across. Row by row steps include placing knits, yarn overs, and successive knit sequences with two-stitch decreases at multiple points, detailing each row from first through eighth.
The instructions describe chaining ten stitches joining in a ring, crocheting twenty six long stitches, forming six shells and six long stitches per round. Repeat with one added stitch each chain, placing shells and long stitches opposite. Break thread, start again to form a six sided piece. Add a short fringe or edge as desired.
A reader requests help with a shaded Germantown yarp or shaded worsted knitting project. They describe casting 30 stitches on two needles and 31 on the third, with a sequence of knit and yarn-overs and a note about the last stitch. They ask for guidance on knitting tidies with outer cotton yarn and an explanation of peep corn stitch.
An elderly physician, retired from practice, claims to possess a vegetable cure for bronchitis, catarra, asthma and throat lung ailments, with a radical remedy for nervous disorders. He offers to mail free of charge the German or Hebrew recipe with full directions from Rochester New York to all in need, hopeful to relieve suffering.
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