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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1879
Page
2
A nostalgic speaker revisits a small church beyond the jail by a brook. He recalls a youthful romance with a girl in yellow hair and a happy smile, now long past, as sunlight, prayer, and a butterfly stir memories. The sermon and verses deepen his ache, and he vows to attend the church again for the sake of those days.
A gardener lists favored white plants for winter color including Eupatorium Mexicanum Azaleas Calla Abutilon Boule de Neige and jasmine. It covers care notes for bulbs, tubs and containers plus varieties of primrose geraniums chrysanthemum and lily of the valley with tips on fragrance height and bloom timing.
The Household suggests keeping winter blooming whites from frost and pests, with overhead moisture and routine cleaning. It recommends natural groupings by plant orders, notably rosaceae for roses and related shrubs, prunus varieties, and ornamentals like rhododendron, azaleas, lilac, catalpa, and wisteria, to bring order from many cultivars.
A New York Tribune discussion argues a $2 weekly per person food budget is feasible for a well kept table. It weighs portions, costs, and substitutions from butcher shops, markets, and household economy, urging smart shopping, skilled cooking, and frugal, balanced menus to feed a family without waste. It highlights butter, coffee, tea, meat, fruit, and vegetables with concrete prices and practical prep tips.
A Clinton Hall sale of John Rice’s collection in New York August 11 12 and 18 featured rare U S locals and proofs with top prices including Brattleboro 5 cents buff at 8250 dollars and New Haven 5 cents envelope red at 2 dollars plus many other high values for British Guiana Nova Scotia Newfoundland and Mexican issues. The sale totaled about 1500 dollars with select lots drawing strong competition across multiple nights and regions.
The article celebrates September as oyster month, praising the delicacy and noting varied regional varieties and farming methods. It explains oyster life cycles, planting grounds from New Jersey to Providence, decline in prices over years, and Baltimore canning and steaming practices that sustain a vast export trade.
Reverend W A Murray delivers a hard denial to public gossip and creditors amid claims of clandestine departure. He asserts he traveled for business, faced an $80,000 property lien to cover $6,000 debt, and plans to repay if health allows, while retiring from public life and condemning slander.
This note from Demorest's Magazine describes making toilet sets, bureau covers and mats by cutting Turkish towelling into desired shapes and sizes. A border is crocheted in shell stitch lace in coral or scarlet split zephyr using a medium-size fine steel crochet needle.
The sale featured rare stamps from the Sandwich Islands and other holdings with prices ranging from modest to astonishing. Highlights include a $550 D O Blood & Co. stamp and a City Despatch Post items at $875 and $950, while several stamps from 1860s Australia fetched hundreds. The piece notes many items were valued highly despite questionable condition.
The process begins with forging from best steel at the anvil using hard steel moulds, shaping to the required form. File cutters sit at benches and hammer teeth into soft metal, creating curved teeth with each strike. A sixpence per file is earned, though the trade is not highly lucrative. Finished teeth are tempered, hardened, cleaned, lacquered, and packed for sale, protected from moisture to resist rust for home or foreign markets. Many workers operate from cottage homes on outskirts, taking work from town employers.
Eduardo Zola and Adelina Occhetti, runaway Turin lovers, wed yesterday after she yielded to his threat to will himself at stake if she refused. He is nearing thirty and stands to receive $80,000, while she gains half of his fortune as condition of consent.
In Trenton on September 3 a man named John Tourdon bound his wife in a bag while naked. Neighbors freed her, but she died soon after. Tourdon then seized his young son and fled to a canal where he jumped in and drowned. the child reached shore.
New York reports September 2 on Gowen of Reading proposing a temporary suspension of winding in coal shipments to curb ruinous policies. Lothrop, Hoyt, and Dickson discuss the idea with varied openness. Delaware and Hudson signals willingness to meet halfway, suggesting possible industry-wide restraint.
The Charleston Courier reports a new ammonia-based refrigeration method that keeps a six-story building at about forty degrees without ice. Machinery continuously cools air while drawing off heat, preserving perishables like butter beef and eggs. Experts say mammoth refrigerators may spread to cities and ships, with potential homes cooled artificially for hot weather.
A historical note recalls Sherley baking the United States first pretzels in Lancaster County Pennsylvania aged 52 years ago. He sold from a saddlebag while riding an old horse, after which pretzels spread from Pennsylvania to New York and beyond, with rapid innovations like an automatic machine producing sixty to one hundred per minute.
A description details an engineless apron carrying sixteen moulds where rolled dough is shaped into pretzels by a curious device. The dough forms, drops onto a movable board, is transferred to an empty board, and the machine includes a feeder cutter roller folder presser and movable board for evenly spaced pretzels.
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