Subscription rates and publisher address notice
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Danr Grone
Gloms Newcrarer Co
Washington Street
Boston
Mass
Names for Sample Copies from The Weekly Globe
A call invites every reader whether subscriber or not to send 10 or a dozen neighbor names to The Weekly Globe Boston Mass. A sample copy will be sent to each. The note echoes a truth pledge attributed to George MacDonald about obeying truth and pursuing the known.
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Weekly Globe
Boston
Mass
Outrageous Wool Taxes Threaten Coarse Wool Supply
The article condemns the McKinley tariff on carpet and cheap wools, arguing it discourages domestic coarse wool production and drives manufacturers to rely on imports or substitutes. It predicts increasing agitation by coarser wool producers as supply remains inadequate and prices rise.
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Texas
Ohio
A Little Bit of Earth in the Home Garden
A reflection on home gardening as a source of simple joy beyond market values. It celebrates the humble flower sprigs and the domestic garden as a cherished, cheerful space, lasting six months and lighting daily life before and after work.
A Square Yard of Garden Joy and Personal Growth
A garden excerpt extols tending a small patch of earth as a daily blessing. Planting seed or bulbs in a square yard yields personal happiness, patience, and reciprocity from nature, likening flowers to affectionate reminders and home letters. Even Sundays invite care in nature's seven day work.
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Wordsworth
A Branch of Education Teaches Calm Emergency Action
A moral essay argues home and school training in quick decisive action during emergencies. It highlights real cases of fire, burns, and rescues, stressing prelearned, practiced responses over instinct alone, with examples from ancestral and modern lives.
One of New England's Lost Industries
The article discusses rural New England facing depopulation and industrial decline. It laments the fading pastoral ideal, noting that even birds have left and the air quality and livelihoods have shifted as traditional rural life erodes. It emphasizes hardship in sustaining Arcadia amid hard regional realities.
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New England
Arcadia
Jonnyx
Burroveens
New England Sheep Sadness Sparks Talk of Revival
The essay laments the vanished classic New England sheep culture, noting mournful bobolinks, deserted flocks, and lost farm festivals. It cites Stirnen Atwoop’s merino improvements, then argues factors behind decline, including costs and competing regions, urging capitalists to revive sheep farming with regional advantages.
Editorial Points on Prices and Politics Across the Nation
The piece critiques sugar price speculation and political manipulation while noting Maine tobacco output and wavering economic bets. It mocks Wanamaker for asserting color and politics neutrality, lauds Foraker's convention stance, defends Burster, and ridicules manuscript rejection as advertising leverage in the Ladies Journal.
Hats in Parliament An American View of English Customs
An Augusta Chronicle note compares American visitors’ surprise at British Parliament where MPs wear hats. It highlights the stovepipe or plug hats worn by members, and describes variations in hat use when speaking or listening in sessions as explained by ex Speaker Reed.
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Augusta
Chronicle
Parliament House
Commons
Lords
Jerry Simpson
Reed
Our Active Smugglers Show Treasury Agents’ Vigilance
A New York World feature extols special treasury agents as watchdogs and auditors who deter smugglers through tight cooperation with Washington, consuls, and the navy. It recounts methods like secretive box drops from ships, hidden goods in clothing linings, false bottoms, and clever post office smuggling schemes.
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New York World
Secret Service
Treasury
Special Treasury Agent's Department
United States
Cabinet Departments
Washington
Department of the Navy
Customs Department
Opitt
T Therman
Mackintosh
Custom House
Customs Service
Ocean Steam
Treas
Siply
Special Treasury
Uncle Sam
New York
Padua
Giovanni Destino
William Allen
Southamppson
Mass
Allen
Odd Fellows
Brookfield
London
New York Post Office
United Sates
Miss Liberty
Lee J
Stranger's Light Sparks Prompt Plea in New York
Perkins of New York steps toward a total stranger and asks for a light for his cigarette in a brief, odd social moment noted in an urban encounter.
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Perkins
New York
Fragmentary scene of Perkins and strangers in uneasy exchange
A garbled passage shows Perkins initiating contact with a stranger and introducing him to a second man. The men shake hands and attempt to extricate themselves from an awkward situation, with dialogue that suggests a cautious, tense encounter.
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Perkins
Rcett Roemith
Ce Badend
Sk Kins
Oxen Ford Roots and Keel Haul Terms Explained
A compendium of word origins and terms. Oxeneford and other ford based names show how settlements formed near crossings. Keel hauled describes harsh shipboard punishment. Demijohn traces to Persian glass works. Egypt darkness, Pharaohs cows, heaths and Mausoleum explain ancient phrases.
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Oxford
Waterford
Biddeford
Isis
Thames
Oxeneford
Bideford
Eng
Saco River
Sanford
Milford
My Faithful Old "T. D." by John M Murphy
Poem voices a smoker’s affection for a beloved pipe labeled T. D. as a faithful companion. It reflects on solace over wealth, penitent thoughts, and hopeful resolutions, contrasting poverty’s fellowship with luxury’s allure. The narrator recalls clouds of smoke soothing sorrow andbuilding imagined realms after toil.
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John M. Murphy
T. D
Hole in Beauty's Stocking from a Shoe Store Quip
A New York Sun anecdote describes shoe salesmen detecting holes in stockings as a social cue. It notes tact and patience in handling women customers and reveals playful deceits about foot size and fit to secure comfortable footwear.
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New York Sun
Apa
King and Queen At Private Audience In De Maintenon Letters
Excerpt describes a private royal audience where the King visits the speaker in her apartments after the hunt. Only the two are admitted, other ministers interrupt with bad news, and the queen notes the king’s tears and limited conversation. She serves him meals and endures his vexations.
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de Maintenon
Viti
Hines
Bible collection sought after by reader in Globe letters
Reader describes a 1686 Amsterdam German Bible with Latin and English notes weighing 36 pounds in two volumes. He notes large engravings and Hogarth like scenes, mentions a 1480 Latin Vulgate fragment, and offers his Tremont Street address for contact. He requests a biblical scholar reply.
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the Globe
America
Hendrick & Jacob Keur
Amsterdam
Holland
Garden of Eden
Adam Eve
Eden
Hogarth
P. P. Rubens
C. A. Greene
M. D
Tremont St
Hot Water and a Handkerchief Remedy for Eyes
A reader recommends a treatment for eye ailments involving hot water and a folded handkerchief to cover the eyes for extended periods, followed by cotton batting and pressure. The method is claimed to cure weakness cold and inflammation of the eyes. GH. PL weighs in on sailing terminology with corrections to staysails on full rigged ships and related vessels.
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the Globe
M. Avb
Nicknames of States Prompted by Old Army Banter
A reader notes errors in a published list of state nicknames. Louisiana is the Gulf State not Creole plural. Rhode Island’s Plantation is part of its official name, while Little Rhody is the nickname. North Carolina’s Tarheel State derives from taunt remarks by Virginia troops.
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the Globe
Louisiana
Rhode Island
Providence Plantations
North Carolina
Virginia
Lawyer fees in collection suit after breach of contract
The court does not regulate lawyer fees in such cases. If charges are excessive you may sue the lawyer to recover only the part a judge or jury would deem in excess of a fair charge. A may pursue such action if the fees appear unreasonable.
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TH. P
Rights and penalties for withholding a will by a lawyer
The lawyer has no right to withhold a will when it is demanded. An action can be brought to compel surrender. He cannot influence the testator to favor one heir over another. A codicil is a writing drawn up and witnessed in the same manner as a will, used to make changes or additions to the original will.
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Chicago
Abraham
Tue Grose
New England
Stirnen Atwoop
Vermont
Kansas
Texas
California
Globe
F. H
Gulore
Wei
Widow's share in small estate case under aged son rule
A man dies leaving a widow, son and a married daughter. the son was a minor at death. After the son comes of age he dies unmarried. The daughter dies without children and without a will. The text states the husband's entitlement arises when the daughter's share, upon her death, does not exceed 5000 in value, granting him the portion of his wife.
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Mautsolaum
Caria
Asia Minor
Mausoleus
Artemesia
Halocarnasus
Rollin
L. BE. B
Lost goods order dispute with big offer card company
A customer reports paying $3 to an agency from the Big Offer Card Company for an order and catalogue worth g2, posted for delivery in about two weeks. Despite two written inquiries, no response has been received, leaving the customer seeking guidance on recovering money or cards.
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Big Offer Card Company
Agent duties after lapse in newspaper service
The writer asks about continuing charges after an agent period expired without notice. The reply clarifies that if subscribers take copies from the office they must pay. A verbal agency contract would be binding for one year only, ending with the contract term.
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G. G
Responsibility for lost lodge overcoat
A person asks who is liable for a missing overcoat after a lodge meeting. The sentinel warned it would be safe, but a lodge sentinel is not the custodian of members’ clothing, and a person cannot recover damages if personal property is lost while left in a public place.
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BE. J. T
Holiday as a Rest Day and Contract Validity
A reader asks whether an article sold on a holiday remains valid under law. It is optional for a person to rest or continue business during a holiday, and those who trade with him are bound by contracts as on any other day.
Tobacco cessation and home remedy advice from Moses Tavism
The note urges tobacco users to quit for several days and offers home remedies for a crack issue. It recommends applying equal parts tannic acid and vaseline frequently or using barber's cosmetic heated and pressed in, based on the author’s experience.
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The
Globe
Moses Tavism
Lovell Safety Bicycle Offer For 50 New Subscribers
The Weekly Globe offers a Lovell Safety Bicycle to any boy or girl who secures 50 yearly subscribers at $1 each. Delivery is free within New England. outside New England the sender pays express or freight charges.
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Globe
Lovell
New England
Free Bicycle Offer for 50 Weeklies Globe Subscribers
Boys can win a bicycle by securing 50 yearly subscriptions at one dollar each. The Weekly Globe provides the bicycle at no cost once the target is met, encouraging home town or nearby-area solicitation. Send for sample copies and details to participate.
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Globe
Weekly
Boston
Mass
A War Waif and the Child of the Regiment Tale
A Civil War memoir fragment recalls a private from the 2d Louisiana Volunteers in 1861 and a benignant boy who rode with regiments on Yorktown and Manassas. The narrator describes heroic deeds, a pocket Bible pierced by a bullet, and the unforgettable sight of the child cheering on battle amid smoke and chaos. The piece shifts to postal service issues, noting postmaster general duties and rising postage costs.
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A. L
Detroit Free Press
Louisiana Volunteers
Yorktown
Suffolk
1St
South Carolina Volunteers
Richmond
Carolina
Manassas
Stark
Sharpsburg
Bushrod Johnstone
Eqns
Lash
Sean
Dancing and finance clash in a church tale
In a Richmond Religious Herald tale, William F Broaddus recounts a pastor who faces a dance loving young village girl. Her letter declares she will abstain from dancing though many church members think it wrong. A zealous deacon protests, prompting a sharp rebuke about lending money to a distressed brother at usury.
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Richmond
William Ff’. Broaddus
Snoce
Brother
Piheeacon
Postmaster General Franklin Kept Accounts In One Book
In a historical note a reference recalls Dr. Benjamin Franklin as postmaster general of the American colonies. It states that all office accounts were kept in a single book, highlighting early colonial administrative practices.
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Didier
Franklin
Poker in a Dugout in Dakota with a Simple Hayseed
A Kansas City party recalls a summer 1881 Dakota trip near Yankton, where they found a dugout home and played poker with Mr Jones, the settler. The game escalated from a dollar ante to a $200 stake, Jones drawing four aces to beat Johnson for about $400, then paying his foe’s fare back to Kansas City.
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Kansas City Times
West
Kansas City
Dakota
Yankton
Jones
Brown
Johnson
Bedyac
Mr. Agnes
United States
Johnson Ramis
S'manthy
Love's Chilling Baptism in Lake Michigan Tragedy
Sam Haskell of Western avenue and Birdie Brown of 443 South Clark street, lovers torn by betrayal, march to Lake Michigan to end their lives. They embrace at the foot of Pecket and plunge into the water. a bystander and officer observe, a pole with an iron hook used, and both drown. Birdie is saved by a passerby and taken home, while Haskell perishes at the scene.
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Chicago Tribune
Sam Haskell
Western Av
19Th St
Birdie Brown
South Clark St
Sam
Amos
Lake Michicay
Pecket
Gilman
Harrison Street
Traggea
Ashort
Baie
Armory
Birdie
Sign of Courage Hides in Humble Clues
A fragmented 19th century dialogue hints at a mystery around a young Miss Cudaennee and a Berlin setting. The garbled text suggests a tension between knowledge and restraint, with a dense youth offering a cryptic reply as the scene unfolds.
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Berlin
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Persia
Egypt
Moses
Heaven
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