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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1883
Page
4
Two months almost gone urging club formation. Over three months, 14 months free to subscribers who join in pairs or via postmasters or agents. Individual subscribers pay $1 for 12 months of The Globe.
The notice states a subscription offer where clubs receive fourteen months of The Globe and a single subscriber gets twelve months. Details emphasize the differing terms by recipient type.
The note states that any person unable to form a club can ask a friend to order with him and each will receive The Globe for 14 months. The directive emphasizes mutual support and a shared subscription benefit.
A notice states a single subscriber or agent cannot receive the paper for more than 12 months. To secure 14 months at least two copies must be ordered for a year. The item urges readers to place orders together to extend coverage.
An advertising pitch promises free sample copies of The Globe to secure subscriptions. It urges wide distribution in towns and claims The Globe is the best cheap weekly in the United States with pricing of $1 per year for a single copy and $5 for six copies spanning 14 months.
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.
Fourteen month promotion awards the sender of a club of five subscribers an extra copy free for fourteen months and grants fourteen months of entered papers. Form clubs and papers are mailed to one address or to each subscriber. Bundled shipments reduce mail loss risk compared to single copies.
Boston Weekly Globe urges formation of farmers clubs with names of farmers to expand subscriptions. Editor A H Ward Tar Wrexty notes Globe as rising agricultural weekly and invites non subscribers to request free samples via postal card to THE WEEKLY GLOBE.
The Weekly Globe offers nationwide one year free of postage for 100 dollars, six copies for 500 pounds. Subscriptions may be sent by postal order, registered letter, or draft from New York or Boston, stamps at 1 2 or 3 cents accepted. Send letters to The Weekly Globe Boston with full name and address. Notify changes of address with former and present details. Duplicates issued for mail losses. Do not register stamps. Sample copies free.
The notice lists ordinary advertising at 30 cents per line with about words per line and editorial notices at 50 cents per nonpareil line. It notes quantity discounts of 5 percent on 8100 and 10 percent on 200, implying bulk pricing terms for ads.
The article alleges that Lynch, who gave the name Norman, is linked to an Emeralds secret society in New York aimed at aiding Irish resistance to England. It suggests British agents operate in U S cities, using Irish societies to push violence, with Lynch possibly a spy and others manipulated as a propaganda tool to blame America.
The Herald notes John Garner from Lewiston Maine advocates half time schools for young workers. It documents English and New England examples, including Nugland and Naumkeag mills, detailing schedules, pay concerns, and the claim that half-time education can rival full schooling in outcomes.
A 19th century report recalls three month mill schools for apprentices alternating with nine months work, noting initial benefits but eventual discontinuation. The 1872 labor bureau urged Massachusetts adoption, arguing no new law was needed though current officials worry it could create class distinctions. The piece urges study by education authorities overseeing youth training.
A handsome high church curate in a London suburb is drawn into a seduction tale by a seemingly pious young woman. She confesses passion, asks for a farewell kiss, he complies, and soon receives a cabinet photo of him kissing her with eleven more available for purchase at twenty pounds each. Negotiations follow amid scandal.
English observer Freeman argues American papers mix local news with national aims. He notes US journalism reflects daily life better while English press excels in editorials. He cites Tribune as strong yet flawed by personal paragraphs. Herald praised for enterprise but weak literarily.
A man named Chaffee has been earning about $6000 yearly selling pauper corpses to medical colleges. Investigators reveal that infants buried in the almshouse potter's field were covered lightly with earth, leaving skulls and bones scattered as the shallow graves washed away.
An Cleveland scheme by the Educational Bureau gathers public spirited leaders, a central hall, twenty entertainments with concerts and lectures, pamphlets and brief biographies. Tickets cost 150 dollars for the full course, with singles at fifteen cents. Attendance averages 4000. receipts exceed 8000 dollars, leaving over 2000 dollars for expansion.
An American origin plan calls for an international women's college at Florence Italy modeled on US institutions. It would use four languages, offer arts languages and sciences, and serve European women seeking higher education while providing American students a home abroad. The project has Massachusetts charter board trustees endowment target of 100000 dollars and Italian government support.
A Globe summary of O D Ashley's New York letter argues the country is on a rising grade after a period of over-enthusiasm in 1879 and 1880. He pictures excessive enterprise in railroads and steel, but senses a healthy shift toward recovery and asks readers to support the hopeful classes over doom-sayers.
Charles H. Reed, Guiteau's counsel, is chosen to defend William Pitt Kellogg who faces indictment for conspiracy to defraud the government in the star route contracts. Kellogg ought to know better.
A collage of brief anecdotes from London and America. Humorous quips about drunkenness, court scenes, a boy’s zenith riddle, serenade tattles, an iron sailing ship by Joan Roach, a mill town intoxication tale, and remarks on politics, undertakers, and banned proprieties. Includes references to Detroit Free Press tidbits, Paris notes, and New York social quirks.
A patchwork column reviews court and crime anecdotes, oddities from taverns and seedy bars, social curiosities, and spoonfuls of humor. Notable items include a drunken row with a gambling angle, a queen’s stockings gag, athletic and naval chatter, and newspaper quips about ministers, police, and politicians.
Boston journalism shows marked growth with The Globe management raising daily and Sunday editions to front rank. Last Sunday’s issue was a quadruple sheet of sixteen pages seven columns to a page and about 64 columns of ads. Circulation neared 50,000 copies, reflecting strong advertising patronage and reader interest.
Taunton Gazette notes that through vigorous advertising and a quality paper The Sunday Globe has raised its circulation to 50,000. The piece argues that newspapers practice the advertising medicine they prescribe to others and that success proves the method works.
The Boston Globe Sunday edition printed sixty four columns of ads in a sixteen page sheet and sold 60,000 copies. The New Bedford Mercury notes the Globe’s substantial results and well deserved reward for its enterprise.
Fail River News notes the Boston Sunday Globe issue dated the 15th, praising its size and circulation. An advertisement extols Kidney-Wore as the spring cleansing remedy, claiming it expels poisonous humors and cures headaches and constipation in both dry and liquid forms.
A string of odd prayer stories shows people from quizzical confessions, a Kansas deacon’s slander damages, and long earnest invocations. From a Greenfield toddler to an English family famed for cats, prayers spanned minutes to hours, with dramatic lines and provocative conclusions.
North Butte hunter Tom Clyma trapped an animal described as a rare grasculus or gyasentus, resembling a fox with one side of its body longer than the other. The creature is said to move easily uphill but cannot turn and retrace, a vulnerability hunters exploited by circling the hill to meet the animal face to face.
The case of Christopher Lynch in St. Mary's Hospital is highly unusual. He suddenly became totally blind without any prior eye trouble while working last month in Butte county. Doctors diagnosed a sudden hemorrhage at the optic nerve junction near the brain, a rare cause of blindness with only one similar case on record.
Near Gaylesville in Sumerville Ga Burnside was buried alive while digging a fifty foot shaft in search of silver. As the cave formed he refused help and shouted curses. Two workers drew dirt from the shaft and summoned him, but the bucket was not raised. The cave collapsed and Burnside was found dead ten feet under the surface that evening.
Mr Sterling of Kentucky related a curious tale from his farm about a hollow black locust containing a second tree. The interior tree, ten inches thick and twenty feet tall, grew branches within a confined hollow space. It remained alive and thrifty, despite lack of air and light, puzzling the observer.
Savannah News recounts a remarkable tale about James Terrentine of Houston who cut down a large oak and discovered a live frog in the tree's center. The frog apparently entered long ago and survived for decades without air, remaining healthy inside the solid trunk structure.
A Lewistown fox hunter chased a fox three miles then hid in a hollow log. Another fox emerged from the log, drew a longer circuit, then returned. The hunter plugged the log and split it open to trap four foxes that had teased the dogs and could have worn them out.
In Dooly County near Vienna a peculiar pond covers three or four acres and periodically loses its water through a bottom orifice each May. A loud noise precedes the drainage, water escapes over days, and many fish are caught for a local fish feast hosted by residents.
A Benton Record item notes a plan to establish a town near the Judith River mouth named Giantville. The scheme seeks 820 acres to be divided into lots and streets and to set laws allowing only six footers to own lots while females below five feet eight may settle there. The goal is to create a race of giants over time.
A pinion tree root knotted to resemble humans stands face to face with hands clasped. The Pueblo Chieftain notes the remarkable natural oddity and contrasts it with the pomp of European and American tributes to George Peabody and the memory of Dr Graves Heart Regulator as a cherished remedy.
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