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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1882
Page
2
Guidance on deep soil preparation, drainage, and manure to maximize wheat yields. Emphasizes soil texture, color, humus, and underdrainage, with notes on climate, sowing density, early plowing, and the value of mellow, compact soil for winter wheat.
Advice on duck and goose care from hatching to adult, including enclosure, feeding, and protection. Ducks should be housed at night to protect eggs, hens raise ducklings, geese require monogamous pairing, delayed full growth, and seasonal feeding plans for optimal egg and meat production.
The guards prove so watchful that no intruder can enter the enclosure unnoticed as their sharp cries announce any presence.
In a Rochester meeting on orchard labeling a durable wood label on copper wire is advised. Healthier trees yield better fruit and a yellow foliage tint signals trouble. Improve grape health with top-dressing and proper trellising. Fall is best for planting many fruit trees, spinach and turnips aid fall dinners, with straw mulch as cold nears.
The piece extols currants for hardiness and long bearing, urging cross fertilization with red and white varieties like Cherry and White Grape to breed superior types. It warns of misnaming in strawberries and raspberries, recounting historical mixups such as Germantown, Bartlett, and Manchester, and stresses careful description by experts to avoid false new varieties.
The piece discusses how fruit names multiply through synonyms across regions, noting pears like Doyenne Blanc and Williams Bon Chretien, grapes such as Black Hamburg, Frontignan, and Tartarian cherry. It cites historical renaming, regional variants, and the test of fruit excellence seen in diverse labels despite identical origins.
A long analysis on upcoming apple shortages in England and Europe and how American apples may fetch prices if quality and packaging improve. It warns against past missteps of dumping inferior fruit, notes preferred varieties, and urges better cultivation to withstand drought. It also predicts corn woes but a vast cotton crop and suggests using cotton seed mixed with potatoes to feed stock.
The article outlines feeding costs for potatoes and cotton seed meal, stresses soil stimulation and restriction for small fruit culture, and details pruning and planting practices. It covers straw berries raspberries currants and blackberries, ditch grading seed collection weed control pasturing rams feeding and timing for harvests and storage, plus seed packing and labeling.
A man claiming to be an agent for the Victoria Needle Company of the West, named Charles A. Adams, rented a room at 33 Harrison Avenue and recruited job applicants with a promise of $250 daily pay after collecting $26 security. He absconded Friday with over $500 from duped applicants, leaving little more than a doorway card and a trail resembling a prior similar scam by a “C. Bostwick.”
The New York Sun recounts Professor W. E. Sawyer once pivotal in U S Electric Light Co history. His four foot long electrically powered locomotive and other devices were seized in a sheriff's sale at Walter's auction rooms East Broadway. The tale traces his rise with high bank balances and a high profile court life, the 1880s prison spell, a second marriage, invention sales, and a fall from grace amid dissipated habits. The locomotive reportedly carried a capital future, but internal parts were removed to protect secrets. He remains under medical care.
In Reno a hungry stranger swallowed a large coat button while dining on hash. Doctors treated him for pneumonia three days before he could explain. They later retrieved the button with a buttonhole tied to a string. Boarders now screen hash before eating using a cane-bottomed chair as a precaution.
A Louisville Commercial report recounts James Williams, a black coal cart driver, claimed by an elderly aunt to have been kissed by John Brown on the day of Brown’s hanging at Harper’s Ferry. The tale describes Williams’ family ties, Brown’s kindness to enslaved people, and the moment of Brown’s final gesture toward the enslaved community.
Captain James L. Fowler presents the Poleer drag an umbrella shaped sea anchor with an oil releasing bag. Dropped over a vessel’s bow it holds head to wind and smooths seas. A test from the Gallatin off Nahant impressed observers and plans call for further sea trials aboard other ships.
The Glamorgan of the Warren line docked at Grand Junction wharf East Boston on Saturday evening bringing a large cargo for stock breeding. Among items are ten Hereford heifers from Aberdeenshire two-year-old bull and Shropshire and Southdown sheep, two black and white collies, plus two Clydesdale stallions a mare and foal. Owned by G W and N E Hollis and Henry Wilkinson of Clark County Ohio they will be housed at Baker farm Wellesley Mass. This shipment is described as the most valuable in some time and drew many stock enthusiasts.
Shawmut Baptist Society purchases Brattle Square Church from Sears estate and undertakes major alterations to improve acoustics. Two large galleries will expand seating by 246, and a new chapel on adjacent lot will seat 430, with three classrooms, costing about 40,000 dollars. Mead Mason Co. leads contractors.
Advertisement seeking readers to write about the disease treated with Brown's Iron Bitters and the benefits obtained. Four chrome heads promised to those who respond, with a request for address and details of prior use, addressed to Brown Chemical Co. of Baltimore Maryland.
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