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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1880
Page
2
A poetic obituary by William Winter laments Lilian Adelaide Neilson once seen as divine, portraying her bright life cut short. The verse mourns her beauty and talent while mournful images of night winds, lost smiles, and lingering grief fill the poem.
A detailed guide on apparel and home crafts including velvet painting, brocade velvets, plush trimmings, shawls, and gowns. It covers laces, lamp shades made at home, dye techniques, lace albums, flower making, mats and borders, tassels, and decorative textiles for dresses, mantles, and dining room settings.
A long list of at home pickle and preserve methods including cucumber brining, green coloring, canning with hot vinegar, mixed yellow pickles, pear and grape preparations, tomato catsup, stuffed tomatoes, peach and plum treats, and various dessert recipes. Practical tips cover brine strength, air exclusion, skimming scum, and sealing jars.
Jubilant verse portrays birds, breezes, and blossoms forming a continuous music. It blends thrushes and bees with scent and color, celebrating a universal harmony that transcends earthly notes and hints at a divine rhythm guiding nature and season.
In Waveport Bay View cottage Lily Forester forfeits a wealthy engagement to Mr St Pierre after a confrontation over a missing hundred thousand, and Walter Norton contemplates leaving town. Lily and Walter reconcile, renewing their engagement as villagers react with mixed feelings to the couple's renewed betrothal.
A Sunday Magazine verse where the speaker leaves holidays and watches the harvest of grain as a symbol. Farmer Gale urges that the harvest yields the greatest fruit, yellow sheaves of good deeds and pure thoughts. The poem blends rural imagery with Christian faith, ending in a longing to be gathered at Calvary.
In a dramatic exchange a well-dressed witness refuses the judge’s request to kiss the Bible, declaring he believes in the moral law yet will not kiss the tome. He asserts he is a book agent and questions the case, prompting astonished spectators and a tense courtroom moment.
The San Francisco Chronicle recalls the troubled life of actress Adelaide Neilson. A friend describes ceaseless persecution by interviewers and eager admirers who crowded her during her stay, leaving her nervous and dispirited. The piece notes her wish for quiet and her maid’s routine.
Daisy and Nell stage a frog topic lesson on the piazza and yard. Nell explains frog life from eggs to tadpole to frog, frogs lungs and gills, teeth, tongue, and jumping power. Daisy questions oxygen, air, and frog behaviors while observing a glass jar frog.
A brief poem by Josephine Pollard about a slow girl named Dilly who dilly-dallies at breakfast and in the evening. The whimsical verse repeats Dilly-dally as a playful moral on haste and laziness.
Wordplay clues describe sequences of behead and headchange transformations, listing items like a Scripture chief goddess river island tree and a brave Englishman and Irishman, plus initials of revolutionists. The text also references logographs Tamafish and wordplay on behead transpose and meadow, with notes on accuracy and formatting.
Wordplay riddles mix decapitation sounds scrap crape rape ape and charade. Lines hint Burns poetry and diamond puzzles present dromedary spikenard and transposed proverbs. The page features mesostich and a CAS ADE style puzzle, blending cryptic word tricks and aphoristic maxims.
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