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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1881
Page
4
The notice asks readers to display this offer to neighbors until December 1 and form large clubs. It references an announcement on the eighth, urging widespread community participation and organization.
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Editorial notes critique reform talk and President Lincoln era health reports. It reports New York factory data, Southern solid backing for Democrats, and a physician Dr Bliss recounting a wartime autopsy that confirmed a missed shoulder bullet as a fatal misjudgment.
A moral tension surfaces as a fellow townsman refuses to intervene during a life‑threatening moment, citing professional etiquette, while Dr. Agnew acts decisively with a knife. Bliss faces a choice between a false narrative or an unflattering confession, shaping the president’s fate and the public record.
The piece blasts missions to convert Chinese in San Francisco and Brooklyn, noting limited success and cultural resistance. It mocks reliance on pecuniary motives, cites Ah Lee’s wage dispute, and warns against hasty civil service reform while urging steady, small steps and careful appointments.
The piece surveys reformers amid a reform coach metaphor with Dawes plans and a Massachusetts delegation debating postmaster examinations and appointments. It contrasts this with sensational but false Billy the Kid lore and argues for measured public economy and tax reform without overstating debt or disruption.
The text argues that while economy in expenditure is sensible a wise financial policy should not suspend the process of liquidating the public debt.
The withdrawal of 100 Chinese students and China’s order to close the Hartford mission shocks backers of Americanization. An emissary warned that studying Americans would corrupt Chinese traditions and threaten imperial rule, while critics say emigration serves only to bring cash and cheap labor home. The article contrasts mass laborer conservatism with selects scholars gaining republican ideas, prompting Pekin to recall the students.
The first page features a suggestive cartoon of the Czar of Russia in a boiler plated apartment, surrounded by Cossack guards, writing a condolence letter to President Garfield. Editorial remarks argue rulers must think, noting the Czar’s failure to grant voice to his people and warning that ill-judged autocracy invites upheaval and plots against him. It cites historical examples, urges reform, and discusses parallel political crises in Virginia and Peru, plus a call for a dog-led hunt against the James gang and a critique of Republican repudiation rhetoric.
A fragment argues that criminals carry weapons and until law protects peaceable citizens, people should retain means to defend themselves. The statement emphasizes self defense and adequacy of legal protection against highwaymen.
A roundup notes Jim Keene’s $10 million telegraphic scheme and Western Union’s potential capital changes. It mentions Charles T. Congdon drafting a beginner’s handbook for journalists, a drowning at Long Branch, and debates on sea bathing limits. The column surveys Conkling, Irish politics, tariffs, Blaine, Garfield, and generous yet criticized donations to Mrs. Garfield. It also covers Gladstone, Pendleton in Ohio, Grant’s comments, spoils-system talk, and brief editorial quips on kissing, cyclones, and Irish land reform.
A collage of urban jests and social quips covering eccentric characters in Texas and Missouri, jokes about disarmament and crime, medical fables of doctors called death’s carpenter, ocean of beer water in Chicago, comets in Wisconsin, and sly blows at detectives and liars. Includes sharp lines on Conkling, Widows, Sitting Bull, and a playful note on Hop Bitters.
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