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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1879
Page
2
A Providence tale of a night whistle between an engineer and his wife. The signal, read as a farewell, presaged the engineer Guild's fatal death beneath his engine near Stonington while Providence residents misconstrued the meaning as a forgotten midnight cheer.
A detailed guide to crafting a two-part flower stand a warming pan and a box for heat and soil, plus a patent-free window garden. It covers building steps, materials, staining, and ornamental trimming, plus soil mixes, plant care, and potting tips for year-round indoor flowering arrangements. It also describes shelf and hexagon hanging baskets, and extensive plant culture advice for winter window gardens including many named plants and propagation methods.
A dated guide to home decoration covers silk rag curtains and mantels lambrequins, curtain borders, and moss use for table settings. It cautions against decorative excess, promotes practical art, and offers step by step moss covering and border making for shelves, bowls, and vases with concrete techniques and color suggestions.
Instructions to craft unfading Hyacinth blossoms from tissue paper with green flower paper and covered wire stems. Includes steps for petal fringes, calyx shaping, leaf construction, and assembly on brown tissue covered stems. Also outlines impressions of plants on oiled paper, Snow Tree craft, Enfant’s Wrapper sewing method, and feather flower making with wire and tissue.
This article outlines canary origin from the Canary Isles, domestication in Europe, and the value placed on color and song. It advises on cage styles, feeding, daily attention, and common illnesses, stressing careful daily care, proper ventilation, and a plain seed diet for health and longevity.
A long home cooking column offers a complete fruit cake recipe with butter brown sugar eggs flour currants raisins citron and spices plus oven steps and pan guidance. It includes yeast making sponge kneading bread hints and a housekeepers table with measurement equivalents. Also includes engravings cleaning a method for engravings and assorted old time kitchen tips for roasting baking boiling and laundry.
A guide to graceful behavior in social life outlining how to introduce people, conduct oneself at gatherings, and cultivate conversation. It covers proper bows and handshakes, avoiding private corner talk, and etiquette for morning calls, walking, and evening parties with emphasis on politeness, listening, and avoiding ill bred topics.
A late 19th century health column covers cold prevention with cold baths for most, warns against baths for invalids, and prescribes a chest and throat compress of cold water. It advises sunning beds, careful weaning of infants, simple foods, and cautions on strong medicines. It also notes new consumption therapies, mustard plaster cautions, sulphur for scarlet fever, and DIY remedies including asthma cigarettes, a honey saltpetre gargle, and lip salve formula.
Doctor Engelhart founder of the Physio Medical Institute at 564 Main Street Buffalo New York offers treatment for chronic lung and throat diseases with thirty six years of successful practice. Charges to suit all. Cure for thousands of cases pronounced curable.
A fragment from Ema E Brown in Wide Awake retells the St Martin legend of a beggar and brave Martin. On a bleak November day the soldier shares his cloak with the freezing beggar, transforming the world as summer briefly returns. The piece notes Normandy pagans greeting St Martin’s passing.
The passage advises inviting guests to exercise talents with hostess approval, wearing gloves at parties, and joining dances or games. It suggests trying new diversions to develop unknown faculties, and notes it is better to seem dull than disagreeable if unsure of one's abilities.
Poem fragment in the voice of a lover addressing a west wind and a white rose. The speaker asks the wind to carry messages, kisses, and tender nods to his beloved at dawn noon and night, invoking imagery of morning bloom and a gentle kiss. Attributed to R. D. Joyce, titled Blanid.
Annie Broclin, a relief inmate of a Pitts street house of ill fame, asked the madame for a walk last night and tried to descend from a third story window using a rope of tied sheets. She fell to the pavement, breaking her left leg, and was rushed to the city hospital.
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