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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1885
Page
3
A long, vivid look at hat frame making in a large millinery factory known as a bleachery. Operators press buckram over hot molds, trim brims with cords, stockinet covers, and finish frames with stockinet hats in many colors. Prevailing shapes include walking hats and turbans with tall strong crowns and high narrow fronts.
Detailed knitting and crochet instructions describe starting with chain stitches from the neck, forming 26 groups of treble stitches, adding white cotton ties for increases, and shaping shoulders through multiple rows with strategic increases. The pattern extends to a long cape with silk or Saxony yarn, chain work, and a feather-like finish, ending with a plain row and button closures.
Townsend discusses social topics and railroad consolidation while noting a knitted waist pattern for a child aged 24 to 3 years. The piece blends sewing instructions with reflections on theatre drift, urban life, and prospects for railroad mergers in the United States.
A Travelogue through Cranberry country recounts the Norfolk Massachusetts episode, detailing a local cranberry farm with J Daniel Round and his harvest party. It notes 12 to 15 pickers with 36 to 43 workers last week, describes rakes as unnecessary, and explains how natural meadows are used to protect berries from frost while harvesting.
A crowd of cranberry pickers maintains steady work while others take brief breaks at the meadow edge. One young man smiles and chats, wearing a distinctly feminine hat, and a young woman sports a masculine hat as they pick berries. All workers bow toward a central direction. after finishing they return to the simple 20 by 16 foot cranberry house.
Mr. Round, formerly of the State Board of Agriculture, now runs his brother John M Rounds cranberry lands in Providence Marshfield. He describes ten acres total with six not yet bearing, costs per acre for bog preparation, drainage ditches, sand layering, vine sets, and weed control. Flooding with dikes flumes and a sixteen acre reservoir enables overnight water control to protect berries from frost.
The Cranberry House stores about 150 barrels in crates of thirty four quarts each, with planned season output around 176 barrels. Prices range from eight to eleven dollars per barrel, influenced by worms and frost, fires in New Jersey, and market overstock in Boston and New York as berries head to Washington.
The article describes bogs flooded from November to May to grow cranberries, then drained briefly for berry worms, with vines needing replanting as they mat and yield declines. It chronicles pickers—mostly women and children—earning two cents a quart during September, with some days earning $1.50 to $2. The piece also outlines sorting and packing steps in the cranberry house, including air exposure, screening boards, and grading to market.
A West Indies captain laments decline of American seafaring recruits. He cites foreign crews, limited advancement for American youths, and wages as low as $8 to $12 monthly for ordinary seamen. Greeks Italians Greeks and Italians predominate among crews with distrust of non natives. Various nationalities discussed with notes on promotion, discipline, and pay.
A guide to canning and preserving pears apples grapes plums citrons and fig tomatoes. It covers jars seals tests for air tightness and detailed steps for syrup making cooking times and the proper order to jar and seal. Also includes citron quince and brandied fruit methods and Jane Tow Grose references.
Instructions describe knitting a child's skirt using Starlight Scotch yarn and specific needle sizes, rows, and repeats, plus a placket and silesia band. Also includes a yeast and bread recipe from the Hour, with hops tea yeast method, Goop White Bread steps, temperatures, rising times, and flour quantities.
A drum er with a serious air offered to sell the Free Lance an iron safe. The piece humorously questions what paper could do with such a safe, imagining it used as a hiding place for the editor when questioning callers arrive with strong opinions.
Fragmentary discussion references Rev Sam Jones and a professional baseball player. It questions if a batter should wipe his feet on the plate when an umpire is present. The readable portions show confusion over proper conduct at the bat line.
Analysis traces the evolution of numerical signs from Arabic origins to modern usage, noting the late adoption of zero in the 9th century and the gradual replacement of Roman numerals. It highlights historical scribal practices, mixed scripts, and variable forms of digits such as 1 6 D and V. The piece also cites examples from Florence and Salzburg to illustrate changing numeral representations.
Fragmentary Chicago News piece shows dialogue around a sermon by Sam Jones and remarks on women who shop. The text hints at humor or controversy about shopping and heaven. Names and clear events are unclear, but the dialogue implies a social anecdote.
A Pittsburg swindle sells dyed English sparrows as canaries with about 1000 birds bought in the summer that lost color in ten days. Reports also note Winchester Virginia’s wartime capture history, a Wall Street broker’s stock order via private telegraphy, and a violent New Orleans religious incident with a Theresa leaping through a window. Additional items include British female blacksmiths and horseshoe nails, plus a poker game among two gentlemen with somber outcomes.
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