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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1889
Page
4
The notice invites readers to request postal card copies of The Weekly Globe and distribute them to form a large club. It promises free, one year subscriptions for the address, and notes the weekly issue is rich with instructive and entertaining reading that justifies the subscription price.
In the April North American Review Yan Puow Lex argues against anti Chinese prejudice with sarcasm and reason. He challenges charges that Chinese threaten republican institutions, notes limited emigration from China, and defends Six Companies as benevolent, while asserting Chinese desire for progress.
A critical view of prohibitionists who demand instant, forceful changes to society and temperance policy. The writer compares medical cauterization to drastic laws and condemns quick, sweeping prohibitions as harmful, arguing for patient, gradual reform and warning against coercive attempts to coerce public opinion.
Yan Pooyu Lee defends Chinese in America, arguing Americans benefited from Chinese labor and that Chinese citizens deserve naturalization. He lists modernization efforts and contrasts beliefs about intoxication, crime, wages, and immigration, challenging the idea of Chinese exclusion. The writer portrays Chinese as patient, taxed, and productive, urging acceptance.
The piece contrasts Dakota prairie fires and brutal winters with the safe East, arguing New England offers comfort and that the West lacks charm. It questions why one would leave the East for the unsettled West, noting better climate and stability in the East.
In the April North American Review Karl Bump discusses air navigation, stressing power to weight balance. He notes aluminium and condensed fuels cutting weight, instant steam generators replacing boilers, electricity as a hopeful motive power, and the chance of new forces. He foresees air travel becoming as vital as land and sea travel.
The author argues that violent social control through prohibition creates new evils while reducing visible saloons. Local reductions in arrests mask broader moral contamination via evasion and perjury. Prohibition, the text claims, is unscientific and impractical despite well meaning motives.
The Findlay Republicans held a special election at Senator Sherman’s request to record voters’ preferences for postmaster. The letter argues for a nonpartisan business basis to select a capable official and questions current patronage. It warns civil service reform could threaten partisan control from the President downward.
A farm with four heirs has one heir mortgaging his share for 900 before division. After division the mortgagee forecloses and if the mortgagor’s share is not worth 900, can the mortgagee seek the balance from the other three heirs and can they be given clear title. Wea. T.
A discussion on hens trespass and remedies. B asks if he must silence his hens if notified by another. The answer states yes only if trespass occurs on B’s grounds. It adds you may not shoot hens that cross onto your land and should sue for damages instead.
A man dies intestate leaving two adult children after a wife bought a house in the wife’s name. Can either child claim a share? A and B own land. can it be divided if one wants it and the other objects, or can one force sale or buyout? Also a question on whether an alien with no military service or taxes paid can vote for president in any state.
A reader asks The Globe for guidance on proposing marriage. He seeks letters from young men, women, and married people sharing methods and successful proposals, to be signed and within 200 words. Contributions from readers are welcomed as a contemporary human interest matter.
A reader asks if a steamer named City of Boston sailed from New York to Liverpool on Feb 11 1870 and disappeared, and seeks the port of departure and destination. The letter also requests national gender population data and asks for the exact number of cotton mill weavers in Fall River on strike.
London Globe essay on cheap hand made cigarettes praising their aroma and the imagined origins of the tobacco. The piece muses that a cigarette contains a three volume novel of memories of cabmen waiters and other smokers. It reflects on youth beauty fashion vice and virtue through imagined shadowy smokers.
In Harper's Bazar style a suitor asks Tenaweek to marry his daughter. The Graftfather replies he will keep her under parental roof. Tenaweek indicates no objection will be raised to that arrangement.
The piece contrasts the two fates for modern workers, arguing to push forward rather than rust out. It examines theater life through Edwin Booth and Barrett, notes weariness from repetitive roles, and laments scarce leisure. The author urges ambition, play, and varied work to sustain spirit amid relentless pace.
A young man, attempting quiet conversation with a married hostess, pores over a photo album. Misread captions reveal family roles and a smirking premarital photo, triggering awkward questions and a sharp warning as the album is finally closed.
The New York Graphic depicts Jane Hading with a large portrait on writer’s table and recalls her shipboard farewell. Her final words scorn fashion, claiming American ladies influence beauty and vowing never to wear a veil again. She nods at the question of the Hading veil and remains silent afterward.
In a small town scene a Philadelphia drum merchant visits Robert White the postmaster and country storekeeper. White balks at purchases but names calico galluses and ten cent socks as needed. Partridge exits confident his fortune awaits in Washington.
A distraught mail carrier argues with a doctor about exercise and brain rest as the physician prescribes hammock rest and reading reviews of Robert Elsmere. The dialogue hints at social goals and starting a business, closing with a contact cue for a writing opportunity.
Warren New Hampshire April report debunks maple sugar myths while detailing sap collection methods, primitive equipment, and the stark contrast with Maine and Vermont practices. It notes deceptive practices in the market, including diluted syrup and adulterated products, and closes with a cautious offer of genuine local maple sugar despite flaws.
The piece details bat materials and origins with Indiana ash as prime, forest ash and Maine saltwater ash as alternatives, and describes large Western manufacturers led by Grand Rapids with Milwaukee and Vincennes, ind. following. It notes a Chicago firm selling “Wagon Tongue” bats, consumer trends from painted coats to plain professional bats, pricing from a nickel to six dollars.
The article surveys blacksmiths, teamsters, drivers, brickmakers, bakers, cooks, charcoal burners, glassblowers, iron puddlers, and other trades. It links outdoor work and extreme heat with rheumatism, bronchitis, pneumonia, catarrh, skin eruptions, eye issues, and fatigue, noting vascular problems and accidents in high temp environments.
A letter to the editor claims a "positive remedy" cures consumption and promises two free bottles to readers who mail their express and P O address. The author, J A Slocum of 11S Pearl Street, New York, asks for consultation and addresses, urging timely use to help hopeless cases.
A young woman in Americas Georgia faced a bold suitor who offered a splendid ring to secure her future. He warned that if she refused more than sisterly status, the father would object to the ring’s cost. The incident ends with the couple pursuing marriage as wedding bells loom.
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