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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1883
Page
4
Two months almost gone. To encourage club formation, 14 months will be given to each subscriber when two or more orders are placed together via postmaster or agent. Single subscribers pay $1 for 12 months of The Globe.
Every Club Receives The Globe 14 Months A single subscriber receives The Globe 12 Months This reader friendly offer highlights extended access for clubs while individuals secure a year plus two months of news and features tailored to keen readers.
A note states that any person who cannot form a club may ask a friend to order with him and each will receive The Globe for 14 months.
A reader note states that no subscription from a subscriber postmaster or agent will extend beyond twelve months. To secure fourteen months at least two copies of The Globe for a year must be ordered at one time.
A local ad touts free sample copies of The Globe to secure subscribers. It claims The Globe is the best cheap weekly in the United States and urges widespread distribution in town. Pricing is listed as one dollar per year, or six copies for five dollars for a fifteen month term.
A confidential circular and sample copies will be sent free upon application. Samples are free to agents at any time. Push The Globe and double its circulation.
A club of five subscribers enjoys an extra copy free for fourteen months and their papers entered for fourteen months. Form clubs and have papers mailed to one address or to each subscriber. Mailing several copies in one package reduces loss risk compared to sending singly.
The notice promotes a one year subscription to The Weekly Globe delivered to England Ireland or Scotland for 2.04 dollars. It instructs readers to address The Weekly Globe Boston Mass for renewal.
A reader requests credit for ads seen in THE BOSTON WEEMBLY GIABE and asks newspapers to note that they saw the same in the publication. The plea underscores acknowledgment of advertising sources.
The Poston Weekly Globe dates April 17 1883 and invites readers to form farming clubs and recruit non subscribers by sending names of farmers. Under editor A H Ward the weekly aims to rise among agricultural weeklies and offers free samples to non subscribers.
Text praises Jesuit leadership at Boston College on Harrison Avenue and two city churches for temperance and morality efforts. It notes ample room for missionary work among all classes and commends the Jesuits for zealous, satisfactory results in these endeavors.
A historical column notes Chicago’s clergy embracing the press as a public morality tool. It recounts a Fenian navy episode, led by E J Holland, including a torpedo ram off New Jersey and spy intrigue with the British consul. The piece ends urging readers to await the fleet’s first cruise.
The Weekly Globe offers United States and Canada delivery for one year at 100 dollars with six copies for 50. Subscriptions by postal order or draft on New York or Boston are preferred. stamps of one to three cents are accepted. Address letters to The Weekly Globe Boston or Foston Mass and include full names, addresses, counties, and states. Change of address requires old and new details. discontinue notices must state destination. Lost copies are duplicated free, stamped mail not registered. Sample copies are free.
Advertising rates list Ordinary advertising zero cents per line with words per line and editorial notices at fifty cents per nonpareil line. Discounts offered include five percent on eighty ten and ten percent on two hundred.
In Westchester Pennsylvania a pair of Fairbanks scales kept oscillating for over seventy hours with eighty four movements per minute after being moved to a pile of tobacco boxes. Thomas T. Smith owner and staff witnessed the steady pendulum like swing. Professor Sharpless of Massachusetts may study the device to explain the marvel in mechanism.
The Sunday celebration marks the 250th anniversary of the Jesuit order in America. The piece reflects on past prejudice, now fading, and praises their discreet conduct, fidelity to laws, and focus on gospel preaching and education. It notes Jesuit academies and universities rank highly and produce well grounded graduates.
The piece argues against panic before noting a strengthening financial outlook. It cites cautious financiers, strong harvests, rising railroad bond demand, and low interest rates as signs the clouds are lifting. It also notes public curiosity about stage actors and reveals a truncation of a traveler’s real name.
A fragment recalls the aristocratic Joe Goss in his boyhood days in England where playmates knew him as Arthur Stanley Beresford, highlighting a social lineage tied to his early years and identity.
The piece recalls William E Chandler, secretary of the navy, as a New Hampshire politician whose 1876 voting role in Florida is labeled a “great fraud” that helped Hayes win. It speculates on what flashed through his mind during a buckboard accident, describing the crash and its political reckoning as vivid, at times mocking, speculation.
The article cites Professor Mezzeroff predicting a dynamite driven collapse of England’s banks, railways, and merchant fleet. It argues his interview inflames English fears, notes the ease of credulity toward sensationalists, and defends the government from being blamed for his words.
A collage of quips and observations on society politics and manners. Items include a schoolyard definition of good breeding a critic on wealth blinding perception comments on Chandler Blaine Logan and the New York World, a note on law and crime, medical advice on dry soil for consumptives, gossip on poetry promises of elopement, arsenic in wallpaper colors, wives opposing the Masons in Condersport Pa, and oblique remarks on Oxford scholars many dying young.
A squabble between the Festival Board and the College of Music over May 17 at Music Hall for Gounod’s Redemption or Berlioz’s Damnation de Faust is highlighted by Deacon Smith. The clipping also notes varied notes on politicians, births, crimes, and public life across multiple cities.
A sensational account describes a Royal Street five story house once owned by Mme La Laurel. The cruel mistress allegedly tortured enslaved people in a dungeon and well, with grisly acts in the garret. A mob confronted the building, she fled to France, and the house became haunted and later a girls high school abandoned due to fear.
The American Quick Transit Steamship Company reports the Meteor will be ready for sea in sixty days with new engines. The hull and engines were originally priced at 69,700 dollars, but the contractor will bear any loss from engine failures. The vessel, after repairs, will be owned by the company at the original contract price.
Report from Columbus describes two little girls giving milk to a deserted lamb by the river and presenting a cloak stained with its wool as they carry the animal home. The piece also notes Dr Graves Heart Regulator claims to cure nervous prostration sleeplessness and heart disease.
A collage of curiosities from across the United States notes small towns with few amenities, unusually aged twins in Virginia, a clergy jury for a liquor case, ultra heavy individuals in Tennessee, and remarkable natural wonders. It highlights Pittsburg glass shingles, a 700 acre peach farm near West Point, a dramatic ice incident in Minnesota, and the vivid Silver Spring in Florida with its transparent, mineral waters and rainbow reflections. The piece mentions a large family, a famed Irish figure’s brother, and a mapped route from Silver Spring to the Ockalawah river.
A Milwaukee correspondent describes Mr. Morrison Heady of Normandy Kentucky, deaf and blind from a young age, who uses a glove with capital letter markings to spell words by touch. He reads books and news by having friends read and spell extracts. His ingenuity keeps him connected to the world.
At a Micro scopical Society meeting H G Hanks described a paper on notable features of the San Francisco snowstorm. He showed snow water was muddy and milky, containing fine sand and desert sands. A Fresno telegram noted a mud shower with quiet skies. He estimated the storm deposited about seventy five tons of sand per square mile.
A Philadelphia society reporter notes an ultra fashionable girl at the Academy in a proscenium box. Recently a season's bride, she appeared en grande tenue and drew hundreds of opera glasses as she calmly used a tiny gold-rimmed spying device on a slender chain. Her poised gaze and composure outshone any embarrassment.
Columbus Ga Sunday night Jesse A Beard dreamt his brother T J Beard of Chambers county Alabama visited and spoke of a fire destroying smoke-house stable barn and grain with no insurance. Monday he received a letter from the same brother confirming the details and noting the residence was saved with unknown total loss.
A Chenango county sportsman keeps a dog fitted with a back mounted contraption holding a loaded shotgun. The dog wears a string trigger in its mouth to release the gun when it nears birds. In trials the device has killed or bagged over fifty partridges and attracted high offers for the animal.
A humorous exchange between two Southern doctors contrasts Saint Raphael’s pure air with Marseilles. One physician boasts he has not treated a cold or bronchitis there, while the other insists Marseilles air aids longevity. The St. Raphael native counters that octogenarians are common there, as the Marseilles doctor retorts that centenarians flourish in Marseilles.
Nebraska judge Griffey quits the bench citing his aged illness and a horse named Old Doll that carried him through war and hunts. A curious item extols a Lubeck polka about boiling eggs and suggests music timed cooking, plus ads urging Kidney-Wort as a trusted remedy.
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