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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1891
Page
4
Tar Day Gione One copy per month, 560 cents per year, £6.00. Postage prepaid. Tae Suxpat Gione By can pa00 per year. Postage prepaid. Tex Weextr Giosr By mail, $1.00 per year Tux Girone Newsraven Co., Entered at the Post Office, Boston, Mass., as second class matter.
Advertises a special rate of $1.00 per year with four copies for $3. Readers can secure three subscribers at $1 each to receive The Globe for one year and qualify for a free year for the same term.
The Weekly Globe asks readers to submit 10 or 12 neighbor names for free sample copies. Send names on a postal card to The Weekly Globe Boston Mass.
The piece condemns the government printing office for turning public documents into wasteful prints. It cites 600000 documents by December, 70000 copies of a horse breeding book for members, and 2300 employees. It notes yearly costs nearing two million dollars and ongoing expansion.
The piece criticizes the government printing office for wasteful spending and lists an annual outlay of 3,421,649 for books few read, urging restoration of its legitimate purposes. It urges readers to renew subscriptions with The Globe and to recruit new or lapsed subscribers, offering incentives and life-subscription aims.
The article argues that exports fell by 8.13 million dollars in January and February compared to the previous year, attributing the drop to McKinley tariff reforms. It contends preexisting high tariffs already robbed exports and warns farmers will bear the burden as the nation loses markets for agricultural products.
A promotion advertises genuine Waltham or Elgin watches at bottom prices with warranted movements and cases. It urges immediate purchase before wholesale price increases and notes the bottom has been reached.
The piece discusses intimate cross party friendships among public figures, highlighting Garfield and Tucker as examples. It notes their mutual respect, differing political stances, and influence on events like the Hayes seating crisis. It also mentions Garfield’s near appointment of Tucker as attorney general and Arthur’s friendship with Senator West.
The article highlights contrasting personalities among senators and representatives who formed enduring friendships. It notes Arthur West Taurman Epavnos Cameron Butter ONei Cogsweth and others as unlikely chums, united by common interests like angling and shared moments in Washington, despite political differences. It ends by observing how politics makes strange bedfellows.
ANpnEw H Warp presents a farmer friendly series on making fertilizers at the lowest cost. The article stresses practical methods to cut expenses and improve farm profitability in upcoming issues.
The piece argues that sugar price cuts after the McKinley bill show free trade, not protection, since the sugar tariff was abolished. It labels pro protectionist claims as mistaken and urges broader tariff reductions to benefit consumers. It attacks Republican rhetoric as insincere and dismisses the idea that lower prices prove protectionism.
The second winning entry in the GtLoseE contest for boys and girls is When the Little Feet Went Home by Jessie M. Hurxer. It will appear next week.
The document argues the US Italy treaty promises equal protection for citizens abroad. It questions pensioning Italian families for murders and notes no discrimination against Italian subjects, urging the king to stay calm and consider the point.
The piece argues a sugar price drop challenges protection while suggesting freer trade could ease concerns. It notes Virginia peanut growers, many Italians, fear war could ruin their market, reflecting trade anxieties and immigrant involvement in agriculture.
The page surveys tariff fights in New York and the nation, noting higher egg prices, sugar relief, and the 3000 taxed items. It cites electoral votes for the Democrats, the force bill setback, free wool, Newfoundland calls for home rule, and social tensions from immigration to labor.
Advertises affordable wall paper from The Globe with sample availability and three bundle sizes for rooms of different dimensions. Describes prices from 1.75 to 2.76 per bundle, border included, express shipping, free station delivery on $25 orders, and steps for ordering samples via 5 cent postage. Tut Werxuy Grose of Boston named.
Homer A Norris of Wayne Maine has studied in Paris three years focusing on organ theory and composition. He studied with Dubois Guilmant and Gigout and currently under de Benjamin Godard. His romanza for violin and piano was printed in Germany. He plans to leave Paris for Berlin for the summer and return to America in fall for a major Boston church engagement.
A Texas city clergyman visiting prisoners hears a jail inmate request a morning aper and, later, to bring whiskey with the paper. The exchange reveals the inmate’s sly plea for alcohol and the clergyman’s ongoing philanthropy.
A reader sends a dated verse on rain signs from a distant clime. The message includes weather predictions for Easter Sunday and a folk remedies recipe for coughs, attributed to Sailor Brownsley and a writer identified by initials Pr. Q.
A reader asks if a town can seize household goods or wages for unpaid tax and a first mortgage. The reply notes the first mortgage holder can sue on his note and may pay the tax to save the town sale. The second mortgage must pay the first to stay in rights.
A reader seeks guidance on recovering for property damage from a zinc spout and on debtor actions. The letter covers seizure of horses and wages, bills of sale and recording, and protecting assets, plus questions about dog attacks and damages and when a dog may be killed.
In a letter to Compositor a reader shares that castile soap saved his cracked cold weather hands. Since using the soap nightly rubbed into his fingers, cracks largely stopped within two weeks. He notes similar muskrat trapping tips and bait suggestions using minnows, chub, or meat.
The Oneida Community makes a durable substitute for silver spoons in a limited run via The Weekly Globe. Sub scribers can buy plain teaspoons at 3.30 per dozen by registered mail or 3.80 and 4.05 for initials, with half-dozen options available.
Fragmentary OCR from Rehoboth Sunday Herald discusses miscommunication and social barriers in Gotham. Mentions Mrs Porkly and a puzzled narrator about language, understanding others, and everyday misunderstandings.
A clipper bark Argenta rests at Ivigtut Greenland waiting to take in cargo. The crew, tired from heavy work, grows animated when the mate struggles to heave in a bow hawser. The Norwegian mate rouses the crew by singing a plaintive tune as the windlass labors and the men respond with a rousing chorus.
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