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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1882
Page
3
An essay from Harper's Monthly on American manners while traveling, noting politeness, dress, and conduct. It discusses women’s influence on national manners, traveler behavior, and the need for inner polish over outward show, with examples and reflections on age and social grace.
Observers predict a return of domestic straw use for ladies hats this season, reviving the plaiting trade once managed by Rhode Island and Massachusetts wardens. English regions such as Dunatable Luton and St Albans shaped straw fame, while health warned against chewing soaked straw. water is advised. In 1783 straw work peaked under the Duchess of Rutland, with garments and accessories braided in straw, though today its practical use remains limited to decorative and artisanal items like straw shopping baskets now produced at hat factories.
A detailed cradle afghan pattern using double white zephyrana and Columbia Germantown wool. It describes needle sizes, cast-on counts, color sequences in stripes, and finishing touches with tassels. The text includes repeated knitting rows with specific stitch instructions and colorwork steps.
A New York organization promotes a continuous rail and sea link from the United States to western Ireland via Newfoundland. The plan, led by Dr Norvin Green and A L Blackman, envisions rail from New York to Oxford Nova Scotia, sea crossing to Newfoundland, and a Ireland to London steamship connection, with hopeful operation in 1886 or 1887.
Instructions on safe pickling use porcelain kettles not brass or copper and to keep pickles submerged in vinegar. Details cover cucumbers cauliflowers onions peppers and tomatoes with spices, brines and storage guidance. Also includes washing and whitening tips for lace, muslin and flannel.
Postmaster general receives Bill Nye of the Laramie Boomerang acceptance letter praising the appointment at Laramie with humor about boxes and clerks. Nye pledges frank counsel on Post Office affairs and jokes about general delivery and three centimeter quads as the epoch advances in policy. A secondary item recalls a Wyoming steer on a railway line and a dramatic, fate-laden incident ending with the steer found two days later in a field.
Detailed old fashioned recipe describes soap, honey, alcohol and water wash for silk. Instructions cover preparation, soaking, rinsing, drying, and ironing on the wrong side. Two people advised for better results. Also begins Wansbrog Laces and Muslins with soap, borax, and walnut size.
An OCR reading lists multiple home brew steps for Ginger Beer and Lemon Beer. It details ingredients such as brown sugar ginger root cream of tartar hops sassafras chips spruce essence pimento and yeast plus process notes like boiling water steeping chilling straining and bottling with various quantities across several batches. The fragmentary text lacks clear publication context and a single cohesive action.
In Augusta Municipal Court Judge Andrews hears two youths McLaughlin and Connors in a street affray. A jailed witness explains slang phrases like fins horns and beak, prompting the judge to fine both $6 and costs and urge daily English study. The tale highlights obscure idioms and misused slang in local dialogue.
Frederick W. White recounts six Albany youths who formed a self taught art circle in antebellum times. From wheelwright to barber, they shared crude sculpture and painting in a Broadway shop, later earning lasting fame as E. D. Palmer, James M. Hart, Launt Thompson, Edward Gay, William Hart and George H. Boughton.
Ex Senator Thomas Platt’s wife, summering at the Oriental Hotel, has finally learned to swim after years of trying. Guided by Englishman R H Wallace Dunlop, she uses wood plates shaped like artists palettes on hands and feet to propel herself. Her avid swimming sessions occur several times weekly, drawing attention for the unusual apparatus.
John B. Paul landed in Boston from Belfast and met a smooth-talking local at a wharf. On Fulton Street and Clinton Place an old man demanded payment and Paul was induced to lend $56 after the deceiver claimed he could cash large checks from a pen for a small fee.
A detailed guide describes three fold screens with gold, blue, and satin panels, centered by floral cards and a faux dado. It covers screen construction, decorative painting on embossed papers, lattice and leaf bands, and a host of craft projects including cushions, bags, table covers, pincushions, bonnets, transparencies, and nightdress cases, with step by step stitching and finishing tips.
An old medical feature describes malaria as a debilitating disease with fever and weakness and warns of its broader impact on the body. It promotes Brown's Iron Bitters as a cure for malaria and many digestive and energy issues, claiming it enriches the blood, strengthens nerves and muscles, and aids digestion, available for $1 per bottle from reputable dealers.
The London Globe reports Russia embraces a benevolent autocracy led anti alcohol campaign. Czar orders limited public houses per village and a single pub between nearby villages, with price controls to discourage profit. Fines, loss of monopoly, and imprisonment possible for infringements.
A tie cutter near Spokane House in Helena Montana startled a large grizzly by yelling loudly. The bear stood on its hind legs less than ten feet away, then fled back into the brush after the man shouted.
A Racine Wisconsin writer reports her mother’s recovery after a second supply of Compound Oxygen. Once bedridden and weak, she now moves about the house and performs tasks, with ongoing testimony to Oxygen’s power. The treatise on Compound Oxygen and large size prices is offered free by the sender at Dre Br Alem, 4190 sod 1a street, bin Pa.
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