Weaving Looms Help New England Preserve Hand Craft Industry
The article outlines how New England’s hand weaving of linen, silk, and wool resurges after a long decline. It highlights studios and coops across Massachusetts with blind workers at the Cambridge center, Deerfield, Marblehead, Hingham, and Lynn, and notes Swedish loom work in Hingham. It also traces origins, regional centers, and educational programs like Berea College rug weaving and colonial Deerfield craft traditions.
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New England
United States
Massachusetts
Arts and Crafts Association
Boston
Deerfield
Marblehead
Hingham
Lynn
Central Square
Cambridge
Massachusetts Commission For the Blind
Charles F., Campbell
Industrial Department
Detroit
Mich
Duluth
San Francisco
Far East
Berea College
Berea
Tennessee
Queer Food Customs Across Cultures and Beliefs
A discussion of various superstitions around food and meals from different regions. It notes beliefs about spilling salt and ill luck, thirteen at table, stirring liquids east to west, oat cake offerings, nine knob birthday cakes, mince pie etiquette, and the idea that sampling pies at many houses brings future happiness.
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Judas
Christ
Lord
Scotland
Love's Thread of Gold Poem by Jean Ingelow
Verse portrays a night scene where a woman weaves with a sacred thread of gold as the speaker sees life’s years unfold. The poem blends memory, fate, and love, suggesting the beloved’s influence threads through the speaker’s life and future. The speaker's tears accompany the weaving, and a final tomorrow is woven into the web.
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Jean Ingelow
A Heart for Every One Poem Fragment
A fragment of a poem speaks of a heart for every one and seeking true love before youth passes. It reflects on two hearts made to suit each other, the challenge of finding it, and valuing home and the treasure of a loving union. The speaker urges haste to guard the treasured bond enshrined in love.
Voice of the Forest from Lloyd McAlin
A poem lament condemns tree killers as Slayers of earths price less things and Vandals of a mammon age. It warns that forests fall to famine and death, predicting deserts and suffering for future generations and hungry peoples.
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Earth
Seeds in Garden Show Diverse Fates and Human Echoes
A poem contrasts seedlings thriving or harmed by weather and stones with a single plant reaching sunlight. It parallels human lives in a city, where a genius, a pauper, and a royal prince all exist side by side within the same world. The verse links natural growth to social destiny and justice.
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Jeannette C. Klauder
Unto the End by Frederick R. Marvin
Poem excerpt on longing, sea spray, and enduring love. A speaker stands between sea and land awaiting a distant fate as winds shift and life persists through love. The verse expresses acceptance of transience and devotion across unknown journeys.
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Frederick R. Marvin
Honest Doctor Endorses Peruna For Patients
R S E Smith of St. Louis writes that exposure and dampness left him with bronchial catarrh but Peruna restored his health in three months. A W Perrin of Brooklyn says he uses Peruna himself and recommends it to patients for catarrh, noting it was unknown when he started using it.
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R. Sylvester E. Smith
Granite Block
St. Louis
Peruna
A. W. Perrin
Halsey St
Brooklyn
N. Y
Fragmented Punchy Ad Texts and Quotations From A 19th Century Page
A scattered OCR page shows a mix of courtly quip about the duchess of Cleveland and pheasants, an advert for Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething with price, a Farrarquote about sympathy, an Allen’s Foot-Base promotion with testimonials, and a religious line about sufficiency of the day.
Winds and Wild Flowers excerpt by Mowry Bell
The poem speaks of love, fate, and reunion beyond death. A speaker asks a departed beloved to return for them, trusting God’s plan and promising to follow when freed. The verse blends longing with faith and hope across a partitioned life path.
Sunrise Never Failed Us Yet a Celia Thaxter Poem
A reflective verse about dawn overcoming sorrow. The speaker notes sea sadness and sunset regret, yet insists the sunrise restores light and hope, urging comfort and memory that dawn has never failed. Celia Thaxter.
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Celia Thaxter
Where the Place Called Manning Lies
A poetic fragment questions the existence of morning and day and asks a distant scholar to explain where the place called Manning lies. The speaker, a childlike pilgrim, wonders about mountains, water lilies, birds, and foreign lands while seeking wisdom from a raised figure.
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Manning
Emily Biszinson
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Voice of the Forest
Lloyd McAlin
Duchess of
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Farrar
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Dodds
Crae Oh Products
Libby
Vienna
Carters
Aresigg Cives
Astac Relief
Anakesis’ Tribune Bidg
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