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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1885
Page
3
A 19th century column denounces flirtations as the chief barrier to happy marriages. It argues young people engage in early love affairs, couples exchange partial affections, and elders must guide youth. A humorous hotel scene and dining-table mishaps illustrate social pressures driving flirtations, urging prudent training of youth.
The article presents knitting instructions for ladies undersvests and a detailed sock pattern. It specifies materials such as Starlight Saxony yarn, knitting silk, and steel No 18 needles, plus step by step rows for shaping the front, back, neck, and sleeves, followed by heel and toe constructions.
The text describes knitting five rounds to narrow toe, washing with castile soap in tepid water, wringing and drying away from sun, pressing between weights. It suggests using two threaded Stan light Saxony and same needles for a warm winter sock. Eva M NileS.
A historical note on yachting attire at Cowes by Jen nie June describes comprehensive wardrobes for both sexes, with outfits for morning, evening, and onshore duties. It highlights semi-sailor suits, special wraps, monogrammed jackets, and the dangers of stiff collars, plus a cream serge semi-sailor suit featuring dark blue trim and white braid.
A detailed guide on travel costumes and wraps from the era. It lists fabrics like mohair, alpaca, foulard, and silk facing. describes long wraps, capes, and ease of removing garments for travel. Emphasizes simple, quiet elegance, practical layering, and warns against ostentation and jewelry on the road.
A collection of simple recipes and methods including Tongue breakfast with eggs and sherry, Chocolate Custard Frozea, Junket variations with rennet and brandy, Green Corn with bacon bits, and Brown Flour preparation for coloring and flavoring. Each item gives steps and serving ideas for small home-scale dinners and desserts.
The correspondence from Mrs M E H of Chelsea Mass and L A of Boston thanks for pattern directions. The August 16 Grose feature notes the knitted edge is simple but must be worked with care until learned.
Step by step pickling instructions yield two recipes for spiced green tomatoes and peppers with onions. The method covers salting overnight, layering with spices and mustard, simmering, and sealing in bottles with vinegar for long preservation.
Recipe lists ingredients: two gallons green tomatoes sliced, twelve white onions sliced, two quarts vinegar, one quart sugar, two tablespoons salt, ground mustard and black pepper, and one each of allspice and cloves. Mix and stew until tender, stir often to prevent burning.
Instructions describe slicing ten pounds of tomatoes with salt, covering with a plate and weight overnight. Drain, then combine four quarts vinegar with brown sugar and mixed spices, heat briefly, add tomatoes, and cook until tender.
Nine pounds of tomatoes and twelve onions are chopped and salted. Add two pounds brown sugar two quarts vinegar one quarter pound cinnamon one ounce cloves one tablespoon allspice two teaspoons black pepper a few red peppers. Stew until tender after draining. Bottle while hot.
A historic food note details using seven pounds of plums and seven pound preserves. It lists two pounds brown sugar three quarts vinegar and spices cinnamon and cloves. Plums go in a jar and hot spiced vinegar poured over for three alternate mornings.
This excerpt describes making a light sugar syrup with water and ginger root. After the syrup scalds three or four times, add peeled apples, preferably cured-pippins, and cook until transparent.
Directions describe preparing pickled cauliflower with mustard seed and vinegar, plus a method for making sun-dried tomato figs. It covers washing, soaking, blanching small batches, packing in jars with spices, sealing, and alternative mustards. Tomatoes are boiled, sugared, soaked in syrup through repeated cycles, dried in sun, and stored in boxes with sugar.
For each pound of fruit use half a pound of sugar. Boil cores and skins in water, strain, and re add sugar to the syrup. Boil skins with prepared fruit until colored. Process pickles to prevent mould. Use seven pounds fruit and seven pounds sugar for tomatoes, let stand overnight, boil, and bottle with syrup poured over.
The Pittsburg Dispatch article portrays Cuban women as small and plump with raven hair and large eyes. It notes church control of schools, strict gender separation, and social norms requiring female companions for public outings. It claims Cuban girls mature early and marry young, forming large families by twenty.
A Sunday school session features a parson and a guest speaker recounting the fate of cities burned by fire and the reward for those who follow God. A class of eight year olds is asked why Lot's wife was turned to salt with one boy delivering the blunt answer that she was “too fresh.”
Townsend argues American railroads sustain a vast capital network, praising the resilience of banks, investors, and workers after 1873 to 1884 panics. He profiles leaders like Jay Cooke and Vanderbilt, notes rail stock activity, and defends public-private rail growth while warning against Bearish speculation and wartime-style disruption.
An interview in the New York Sun explores global and American tower clock history. It notes Westminster clock from 1288, Canterbury, Exeter, and compares sizes from 40-foot diameter faces to 9-foot dials. It cites two New York clocks of 12 feet diameter, the Produce Exchange and factory clocks, with bell ringing via electrical connections. Clock mechanics are described, including dial sizing, bell weights, and maintenance, with prices ranging from 300 to 7000 dollars and works estimated at 1700 dollars before fittings.
John Russell Young recounts his long association with General Grant in Europe and America. The interview covers Grant’s intellect and memory, his view of Napoleon and Wellington, his dislike of music and art, his English sympathies, and his American character. Grant’s humor, loyalty to Lincoln, and quiet shyness are noted, alongside his guarded circle of friends and influence of his confidant Eam.
A New York Times report details the difficult art of cutting and polishing diamonds in the United States. It notes only 75 to 100 cutters nationwide, mostly in New York and Boston, with most training in Europe and wages from 25 to 60 dollars a week.
The piece contrasts telegrams with letters, arguing letters reach recipients reliably when properly handled by experienced mailers while telegrams are prone to misdelivery. It recalls a sleepy boy delivering telegrams, delays, failed transmissions, and the high rate of messages going astray.
A judge questions jurors about their verdict in a case. The jury admits they have not reached a decision, and the judge wryly comments that he could have decided it in two minutes.
A Stockton teacher corrects a grammar class example with phrases like it are very cold and it are durnad het, illustrating mistakes as a student named John watches and wipes sweat from his forehead. The moment captures classroom mishap and effort to teach proper language.
The Detroit Free Press reports a press puzzle about permuting the 26 letter alphabet. It states the number of distinct arrangements as 403,291,461,126,606,646,585,000,000 and the total letters needed to express all changes as 1,048,557,798,929,174,042,184,000,000. Writing on 100 words per square inch would fill a sheet 26,119,530,511,110,400 square miles, about 161,914,759 miles square.
In the Chicago Herald piece a fifty ton ice machine costs 85000 dollars each and is installed in several breweries. The author argues ice can be profitably produced in the north and cites a Cairo fifteen ton unit doing well. He claims lakefront setups could freeze ice cheaper than natural harvests with fewer crews and storage needs.
The text discusses freight from lakes to the city and the potential for a lakefront ice machine to undercut natural ice. It notes purity advantages and the ability to produce blocks from one ton per day up to thirty-five tons, with block sizes ranging from smaller to very large 28 inch cubes weighing around 200 pounds.
A terse dialogue from a Chicago Rambler strip features a cowboy describing a quiet man who has killed many, presenting a doctor as a dangerous figure. The tenderfoot intuits the contrast between appearance and deeds as tension builds.
A dialogue shows an examiner testing color perception with eye patches. An engineer names colors green and black and questions the color of a flag. The exchange ends with confusion over white and glassy tones, reflecting color vision ambiguity.
The King of Siam is described as very married, reportedly having about 3000 wives. The household compounds are described as a city within itself, kept closely guarded from outsiders with restricted access for Europeans and most male natives alike.
A fragment from the Louisville Courier Journal notes a traveler’s odd tale about a Frenchman and his wife claiming a count of twenty five poets in the army and six at one time, illustrating a curious historical aside with unclear details.
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