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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1883
Page
4
Advertises limited time offer encouraging club formation. Three months grant 14 months extra to each subscriber joining two or more orders directly or via postmaster or agent. Single subscribers pay $1 for 12 months of The Globe.
The notice states that every club receives The Globe for 14 months while a single subscriber earns 12 months. Details imply a promotional distribution across member organizations and individual readers with specified timeframes. The source emphasizes value to clubs and individuals alike and notes potential eligibility or distribution steps.
A notice states that anyone unable to form a club can ask a friend to order with them and each will receive The Globe for 14 months.
A notice states that no single subscription from a subscriber postmaster or agent will cover more than 12 months and to secure 14 months at least two copies of The Globe for a year must be ordered at one time.
An advertising pitch urges readers to secure free sample copies and distribute them townwide. The Globe claims strong self-promotion, offering a yearly single copy for $1 and six copies for 14 months at $5, aiming to win subscribers nationwide.
A liberal cash commission is offered to anyone willing to act as an agent. A confidential circular and sample copies will be sent free upon application. Samples are free to agents at any time.
The sender of a club of five subscribers will receive an extra copy free for fourteen months, and the papers of the club will be entered for fourteen months. Form clubs, and the papers will be mailed to one address or to each single subscriber. When several copies are sent in one package there is less danger of loss in the mails than when sent singly.
The upcoming Boston story by Mrs. Kate Tannatt Woods opens under the title Mopsy with chapters hinting at domestic life a new boarder transformation and a guardian role plus travel and a legacy theme as various scenes unfold culminating in legal and gardening settings through the early chapters.
To farmers and gardeners and all land owners the Globe announces free sample copies. Send a postal card with a list of names of neighbors and receive a free issue addressed to each address from The Globe Boston Mass.
A fugitive from justice, long eluding lawmen, now faces a grand jury indictment. If convicted, he would be tried for political crimes in Louisiana, a development the country would find gratifying.
A newspaper column asserts England pressed the United States over Irish sympathizers and warns against interference with free speech. It questions England’s propriety and notes the US stance favors noninterference, arguing the policy reflects long standing rights of political debate and asylum.
In a caustic critique the writer laments the endless sermons on women, arguing ministers, lecturers, and voices from New York to Boston overwhelm American women with contradictory duties and spheres. The piece calls for letting women choose their own paths without relentless instruction.
The Weekly Globe offers one year free postage or six for 2500 across the United States and Canada. Subscriptions by postal order or draft on New York or Boston are preferred, stamps accepted. Address correspondence to The Weekly Globe Boston Mass with full writer details. changes of address require former and present addresses. discontinuations require town county and state. Lost copies are duplicated free. stamps should not be registered. Exchange items go to Lock Drawer 6220 Boston Mass. Samples are free.
England bears annual charges of 4 467 000 dollars for royal support and its entourage. The cost will ease somewhat with the death of John Brown, the Queen’s gillie, reducing the royal staff burden.
The Peacemaker, a Philadelphia arbitration and peace magazine, signals its editors prudence in moral suasion. Dion Boucicault defends Vice Versa in a New York Herald card, noting laughter as spontaneous applause. The Portland Advertiser criticizes Massachusetts reform schools, warning they are costly but not well managed and that Westboro may offer limited guidance.
Baltimore inventor George W. Lindsey announces the Improved hat-holder a simple inexpensive device designed to keep hats off the floor in theatres churches and railroad cars. The device uses Bessemer steel wire bent into a treble clef shape and fastened to seat backs to swing out for use and swing away when not needed.
The design features a nickel plated wire holder with a upper spring loop for hats and a lower coil for umbrellas or canes. Critics note it may be installed behind the wearer and raises theft concerns, urging protection for both hats and umbrellas and praising the inventor’s effort.
The centenary of Washington Irving born April 3 1788 in New York is marked in Tarrytown New York and beyond. The article traces Irving's life from coughing boyhood on the Hudson to his literary rise with Knickerbocker and The Sketch Book to works like Bracebridge Hall Tales of a Traveller and Life of Columbus and his years abroad and as minister to Spain. It notes his style humor and influence on American literature and his place among great writers.
The New York Hour contrasts Vanderbilt society debut with Barnum's spectacle, praising both yet noting Barnum's calliope edge. It suggests the ball signals the Vanderbilt entrance while the Knickerbockers resist, and recalls sensational finances and transport workers enduring long commutes to support families on low wages.
A city music scene notes a regular practice where artists request an encore after each rehearsal. Accompanists report rehearsals are crowded with repeated practice of encores, neglecting proper preparation of the main program while managers struggle with widespread morale decline.
The piece rails at Democratic and Republican factions, calling out party hypocrisy and cross-alliances, mocks “taffy” rhetoric as two cents a ton, cites figures like Curtis and Dorsey, and warns Democrats to recognize partisan bias while noting pneumonia risk from April weather and the need for precautions and exercise.
A pasted miscellany of quotes and wits from St Paul to Syracuse spans politics and manners. The piece notes a saloon encounter in Minnesota, echoing editorials, jokes, and sharp lines about marriage, virtue, and public figures from Whitman to Ingersoll, with sly city anecdotes and global notes on Diaz and malaria theories.
English Mechanic reports Herr Gruber studying insect hearing. Cockroaches react to violin notes and glass vibrations. beetles show reaction, larvae mostly unaffected. Aquatic insects like corixa respond to bell tones and bow strokes, signaling true hearing rather than reflexes.
A Chicago family buried one of several large Newfoundland dogs in a cemetery plot bought for the pet. An exquisitely silver mounted casket lined with white satin held the body, laid out in a white cashmere robe with lace. Lifelike attire and flowers accompanied the pet in a grand ritual reflecting its life of elegance.
The waiter Geniscain who swallowed a spoon four months ago in Paris and underwent gastrotomy by Dr Felizet died after a recurrence of inflammation. Despite initial recovery, he resumed solid food, the suture reopened, leading to peritonitis and death. Also, a Paris workman lost 2000 francs hidden in a cellar. fragments of banknotes found in a mouse nest and sent to the Bank of France for reconstruction.
The Kingston Freeman reports Mrs L Winne owns a handsome intelligent parrot that speaks many words and forms sentences. It bids farewell when hats are donned and asks how you are while whistling at the dog. The bird shares a dish and scolds the dog if not treated fairly. A Quebec parrot once told a quip about a donkey eating thistles and laughed.
Dr Hamilton reports a remarkable living curiosity aged 18 born to slave events near Grenada Mississippi. The boy, Moses Bee, bears alligator like skin from shoulders down with black scales that shed in summer and regrow. He traveled here with his father and step mother during Exodus times.
A round shot embedded in coral was found at the Stone depot among ballast from a vessel arriving from Martinique. The five inch cannon ball appears to be one of the balls fired by Admiral Lord Rodney in 1782 against Count de Grasse, sinking five ships and capturing the French admiral.
Doctors in Sorbonne Paris study a seven foot ten giant who grew one foot ten inches in a year after a long halt in growth. The emaciated man, once six feet tall at nineteen, now faces possible death from consumption as he suffers severe growing pains and cannot straightene himself fully.
A Tarboro North Carolina brief reports that W L Dozier woke his brother claiming his son Charlie had died from a telegram. The next morning J B Coffield received word and sent a messenger. It is later learned Charlie died in Florida while Dozier believed him dead.
The Schuylerville monument inspection found several plate glasses shattered by sun exposure. Five by eight foot panes broken while the north sun window remained intact. The unheated shaft suffered uneven expansion in extreme cold, and experts suggest substituting mica or another material for the glass.
Alfred Anderson, facing execution in Portland Oregon in two weeks, crafted a rope of beading and fake noose acts to wake the death watch. He pretended to sleep when jailers returned with keys, causing a tense, unsettling scene at the jail.
Fauquier county landowner Mr. Robert Beverly reports a natural curiosity a mouse that sings chirps and mimics birds noting notes as sweet as a mockingbird or canary. The odd creature reportedly warbles and moves with birdlike qualities in a rare domestic display.
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