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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1879
Page
4
The notice asks if you are in arrears and offers renewal for five yearly subscribers to receive one extra copy for a year. It suggests showing a sample copy to neighbors to form a club of five to obtain the benefit.
The ad urges busy readers to enlist neighbors for five subscribers to secure a paper for a year. It appeals to wives and children to recruit, offering a simple path to a yearly subscription through communal effort.
A club may admit both old and new subscribers from within the same town or from neighboring sections. Every name received counts as one toward the five needed to secure an extra copy.
A notice urges every subscriber or reader to begin canvassing at once for the WEEKLY GLOBE and persuade friends to do the same to become entitled to receive the publication for one year.
An appeal seeks active agents in every town and village across the United States. It promises a one year subscription for every five subscribers or a cash commission. Details and the commission amount can be learned by contacting the publishers.
The notice offers to send sample copies to potential subscribers and assist agents. It guarantees each subscriber will receive every paid issue and will forward a duplicate at no charge if an issue does not arrive, for any denomination under 15 cents, at our risk.
Randall performed a delicate task selecting chairmen for fifty two committees guiding legislation. He acquitted himself creditably, rising to magnanimity above party feeling. He treated rivals well, hinting a focus on national welfare over past conflicts. Kentucky Republicans mock Democrats with loud resolutions and praise Grant, pleasing Benny Bristow.
The article argues that forty three House members back immediate relief for business and industry amid debt and taxation burdens. It praises the Democrats for seeking rapid change, urges congress to fulfill pre election promises, and appeals to legislators to enact immediate measures to aid the economy.
The passage praises relief efforts by workers and businesspeople as beneficial to the country and party. It denounces Republican mismanagement that harmed the nation and warns against complacent inaction while party schemes and monopolies go unharmed. It calls for genuine reform and swift fulfillment of promises. The public seeks uprooting old systems and bold changes.
A months-long wave of African Americans moving from Louisiana and Mississippi toward Kansas is described as a local, disorganized stampede rather than a genuine migration. Economical distress, political rhetoric, and sensational reports spur the movement, but officials warn it has little lasting impact and will likely subside, with future emigration organized and orderly if pursued.
A partisan forecast argues Grant will lead the Republicans in 1880, framing the campaign as a bitter sectional clash fueled by slander, corruption, and a revival of the “bloody shirt.” It condemns Grantism as disreputable, urges Democrats to persist, and touts Democratic chances to win and end Grant influence.
A collage of brief items covers politics, crime, theater, and society. Notes mention Widow Oliver on a southern lecture tour about Simon Cameron, assassination attempt on Denis Kearney, Neapolitan lottery lore, New York Academy of Music pricing, a San Francisco playcourt fight, Count Schouvaloff’s gambling, and editorials on Butler misstatements. Also touched are Maine Republicans, Beacon Hill adjournment, a young Evansville elopement, women’s rights growth, witchcraft reports in England, East-West freight rates, and railroad-crony concerns in Massachusetts.
The item surveys a mix of notes from courts resisting dictation by societies, a Detroit clairvoyant entering real estate, a Cincinnati fortune teller linked to a tragedy, Edinburgh bells after Wellington’s death, a Neuchatel prehistoric canoe, Dean Stanley potentially joining Rome, Yale tutor Thomas Thacher coal prank, and depictions of Russian official corruption. It blends curiosities, humor, and social commentary with named individuals and places.
The Hon. F. P. Dewees, Pottsville, declares the Greenback national committee will nominate a president in 1880 with Tilden and Grant as likely Democratic and Republican choices. He sees wide soft money support in the south and west, bets Iowa Wisconsin Texas go Greenback next fall, and warns many disaffected Democrats may back Nationals rather than their own parties.
Mrs Dr Spettigue recounts alleged abuse and theft by Angus McDonald in a Cambridge home scandal. She asserts he insulted patients, misused household funds, and pressured her toward divorce while defending Mr McDonald as modest and innocent. Her testimony follows routine court proceedings with mention of impending divorce.
Earl De La Warr introduces a peer bill making employers liable for injuries to workmen when caused by overseers or subordinates. The English press largely supports the measure though noting legislative challenges. Mr MacDonald advocates the bill in Parliament arguing it will shift responsibility to mine owners.
The piece argues minimum safeguards must be added by mine owners to prevent disasters and cites Reynolde Newspaper condemning owner greed. It predicts the bill will pass both houses largely as introduced, marking a significant advance in labor protection.
William Broadhead a Sheffield saw grinder and former secretary of the saw grinders union died recently. The Sheffield Telegraph notes his 1867 trade union commission evidence where he admitted hiring men to shoot non unionists and to blow up their wheels and houses. He paid fifteen pounds to Crookes and Hallam for Linley’s murder, Linley having entered the trade against union rules. Broadhead was licensed then by the bench, lost the secretaryship, and faced pecuniary troubles. a subscription was started to help him emigrate.
A frail fifty nine? or sixty year old Broadhead spent years in quiet obscurity after returning from America where he found no work. He ran a small erocer's shop in Meadow Street, Sheffield, until his health deteriorated and he became partially paralyzed for a long period.
In a Boston city case, a 22 year old youth, nearly destitute, is accused of stealing from the home of R.M. Cushing after being lured by Margaret Stevens, keeper of a Pitts street maison de joie. Police, with a warrant, found Cushing items and took in Stevens and Mary Harding as accessories as the young man’s illness worsens.
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