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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1885
Page
3
A vivid portrait of the Anchorage on the Maine coast, where a hostess hosts elegant summer tea parties on a shaded piazza. Guests mingle amid flowers, a hammock, and varied pastry courses, with meticulous service from a young maid and a caretaker staff. The piece blends domestic detail with a celebration of hospitality and sociable conversation in a charming seaside setting.
A long excerpt recounts San Lorenzo as protector of macaroni makers in Florence Italy and a legend from a Palermitan noble's kitchen. A cook creates pasta tubes and the master exclaims Ma, cari leading to the name macaroni. The tale blends culinary invention with a saint’s feast and artisanal display.
A Medford correspondent asks for a hood pattern and an invalid subscriber seeks a high necked knitted undervest. The pattern uses three skeins of two thread Saxony in old gold and three skeins in scarlet, with a 200 stitch cast on and a Puritan style hood forming a broad head piece and two strings.
Crochet pattern for a fascinator using two-threaded saxony yarn. Create a ring with eight stitches then rounds of increases at each corner. First rounds describe 5 chain foundations and double crochet in specified stitches. Continue repeating rounds eighteen more times, increasing at each corner. Border rounds use 13 chain and double crochet sequences with targeted spots and corner increases.
A collage of old time kitchen tips and recipes including Gossamer Gingerbread using buttered sheets and a crisp result, Green Corn prepared with milk and cornstarch, Mrs Lincoln's Tea-Cakes with berries, Peach Short-Cake with peaches and cream, Pracu Frirrers batter fried peaches, Tapioca Puppe with Peaches in a wine sauce, Virginia Beaten Biscuit with stiff dough, and Rice Waffles with boiled rice and yeast.
A New York Sun piece recalls a Sara toga resident, Mr. Smith, as an original member of the Toboggan Club. A child on the Grand Union porch asks to see him ride, praising his speed down the hill.
A Buffalo Commercial Advertiser fragment recalls a candid romantic moment as a young woman recounts a proposal and her relief that a different suitor moved the scene forward, noting a conversation with her mother and the hopes tied to an engagement.
Townsend comments on European travel amid cholera fears and dirt in Europe, contrasts with New York summer hotels and city life, notes English lodging, fleas, and the lure of Paris, plus a critique of modern American urban growth led by Gould Vanderbilt and Thompson. He shares anecdotes of Captain Mason and urban vice on Ludlow Street near the jail.
James Crutcher, after weeks in Tennessee, returns to Barnesville with a walking cane made from a musket ramrod found near Murfreesboro. He crafted 1060 pieces from 106 kinds of wood, building up the head first and gluing each piece until the stick formed, then smoothed and shaped it into a novelty cane.
In a Philadelphia Call cartoon Mrs Dusenberry jokes that in Thibet a woman may have four husbands. Mr Dusenberry wonders why four. She replies that with four husbands the odds favor receiving a new bonnet when she asks.
A San Francisco report cites a Boston paper praising Buffalo Bill's skill in mounting and bucking horses. If a Boston man gains experimental knowledge of a live mustang, he may focus on mounting, as the horse will attend to bucking with notable force.
A vignette on curly hair as a sign of vitality and beauty across genders and ages. It riffs on hair, moustaches, fever effects, barber tricks, and a dog with a curled coat, interweaving social taste and odd anecdotes from fashion and myth.
Boston Sun report details how Endicott rose to the cabinet through social and mugwump support, and why Richard Olney opposes his Boston collector candidate. It traces the inner New England political circle, the Adams building coterie, and Olney’s clash with Peter Butler influence, amid Cleveland administration maneuvering.
A Norristown Herald note observes that readers will soon have relief from sensational items as summer resort chatter and baseball headlines fade with the season ending about the same time. It mocks the lingering long strings of city papers and lists a playful mix of local gossip and sport blurbs.
Boston August 8 1885 communications to Charles F Nose Cambridge Cheeses and Checker Players Headquarters announce Barker's American Checker Player a 179 page cloth bound volume with 22 openings 534 variations 35 critical positions from Wardwell Lyman etc price 1 post paid orders for three get one free includes Position No 1204 End game by Isaiah Barker 1205 by William Keller 1203 by J Smith.
In Meridian a white woman testified she was a negro to shield her husband, married about a year, from incest charges. Her 17 year old daughter swore she was white. The husband was found not guilty.
A summary of checker games and positions offered for sale by Charles F Barker Cambridgeport and James Smith of Spennymoor announces match games Freeman Barker Wyllie Freeman and five positions by celebrated players. Price thirty cents post paid. James Smith open to play any England player for a stake.
A brief cartoon caption from The New York Sun shows a bishop greeting Bobby with a quip about hotel bills. The piece notes a Berlin doctor inventing a brain lookup machine and mentions no rights sold in Philadelphia.
On Monday evening the 17th Mr Strickland staged a blindfold display at Shakespeare Hotel Leeds. Opponents included Willie Gardiner Owell Moss Goodall Bownas and A E Hodgson in order. A large audience watched intently as the position of each board was explained mid play drawing applause. Board 2 results noted as double.
The Northern Leader reports Mr J Dempster of New York played five simultaneous blindfold games Tuesday evening July 25. The scoreline shows Dempster won none, drew one, and lost four across boards labeled Cross Strickland Ayrshire Lassie and others. The event offered an engaging display as spectators followed each board.
Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island reports the removal of a malignant tumor over five inches in diameter after an arduous abdominal operation. Dr. Allen led the procedure, severing the tumor and controlling a severed artery amid an ether explosion. Despite a dangerous collapse, the patient revived, with brainy and morphine injections aiding recovery.
The account recalls General Burnside repeatedly declining high commands until ordered, his humility in victory, and his readiness to accept responsibility. It recounts a meeting with Lincoln after Roanoke Island, the president's offer to promote Burnside’s three brigadiers Foster Reno and Parke, and Burnside's gratitude for their service.
An undertaker criticizes a boy for lacking tact in funeral duties after a widow buries her fourth husband. The boy asks the hour of the ceremony to gauge when to attend, risking loss of business for his father.
A fragmentary exchange presents two children Mary and Johnny, ages seven and six respectively, sharing a humorous and dignified dialogue. The wording hints at a scholarly tone and a playful contest of wits across a domestic or school setting.
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