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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1879
Page
2
poem fragment reflecting on love’s fate and enduring memory. Speaker laments parting caused by death and nature, noting love survives beyond loss. Mentions Atlantic Monthly for October as publication source.
A long reader piece offers practical tips for efficient laundering focusing on summer sun bleaching, careful wool and silk handling, ink stain removal, and color preservation with pepper water and oxalic acid, plus step by step for blankets. It expands into home textiles care, carpet selection, window box gardening, and decorative crafts to enhance tidy, stylish living.
A brief remark on threads twining in a close network that resists wear and tear under many feet, praising the durability of finer fabric patterns over larger designs.
This article offers budget decorating ideas for homes including wall coloring with pigments mixed into kalsomine, painting or wallpapering rooms, and crafting affordable chair and sofa covers. It describes Java canvas embroidery in red yellow drab and brown, and Daisy tidies made from bleached muslin with yellow worsted rosettes for chair backs.
A long list of knitting instructions with multiple stitch patterns and rows follows, including cast ons, knit and yarn over sequences, and alternating plain sections. It then shifts to garment finishing notes for a flannel skirt, followed by diverse domestic recipes and household tips for canning, preserving butter, pudding and cake recipes, and fabric care advice.
A collage of home remedies covers corns warts and skin care. It recommends beef vinegar poultices gunpowder salve plantain leaves willow ashes and vinegar applications. It also cites nitric acid nitrate of silver and chloral for warts and discusses scurvy remedies and general health cautions.
The poem from the Vicksburg Herald portrays a rural work ethic urging laborers to hasten their cotton harvest as time and weather press. It uses dialect to reflect Southern plantation life and ends with a note of prayer and moral exhortation as thunder suggests coming rain.
A string of eccentric notes reports on Sojourner Truth at 104 inspecting exodus, a “colored boom” delight, a Dublin police watch for pellet shooters, a church accident in Chatham Virginia, and a painter’s landscape machine. Other items mention pumpkin pie, a Somerset Md shooting, London theatre tricks, and social prompts in Cramarse Garden.
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