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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1885
Page
4
The Poston Weekly Globe invites a young man or boy to canvass towns with no Globe agent and to expand small subscriber bases. Existing agents are urged to grow their clubs. posters and samples are available for free on request.
A promotional note for The Weekly Globe 1885 touts sermons by Henry Ward Beecher and humor by Bill Nye, plus letters from George Alfred Townsend and Joe Howard. It cites tax figures, population shifts in Dakota and Ireland, and various political and social items. The piece mixes promotional content with disparate news notes and opinions.
The passage notes that unless conditions improve in Ireland the country will see no future for its residents, leading to broad emigration as the only option. It highlights a bleak demographic outlook and the exodus trend as a consequence.
A historical column argues that Republican senators under scrutiny during the Grant era misrepresented tenure of office debates. It recalls 1867 69 votes on the tenure of office act, notes hypocrisy of Epmun ds Logan Dawes Hoar and others, and warns about party control over federal appointments during recess. It also cites Butler and Morton reactions and laments political double standards.
Secretary Waitney argues for strict contract enforcement in the Roach case, saying public officials should follow ordinary business rules. He criticizes past administrations for lax principles and credits recent changes with restoring discipline and accountability.
An old tale of rubber boots that bounced a man higher than his fall is linked to a Royal Engineers plan for rubber-coated warships. The idea claims gum rubber shielding would keep ships buoyant and resistant to missiles, while recoil from a boarding encounter is noted as a humorous caution.
The text describes a naval tactic where one ship blocks enemy fire while others maneuver to direct cannon fire at a target, turning war into a matter of precise angles. It humorously notes copyright protection for the carpenter who would likely sue for infringement.
The Virginia Democrats back Friz Huey Lee as standard bearer to crush Mahone and his repudiators. Republicans, once split from honesty for power, rallied to a short lived party, now doomed. Jonn 8. Wiser was their choice, a bid to pull through on ancestral name amid looming defeat. Ler, a famed figure in the state, tops the Democratic slate, while Republicans fall short of fair play and are outmaneuvered.
The piece warns that English bankers have lent Mexico 100 million, arguing such speculation harms Mexican finances and could invite foreign subjugation. It condemns English greed, cites India Turkey Chili and Egypt as victims, and asserts Britain cannot repeat Egyptian policy in the Americas while affirming U S strength and independence.
A long narrative recounts a Mrs. Rogers and her daughter Littis Emma who divorces her first husband Karur then elopes with him to resume a former marriage. The tale shifts to political notes mentioning Maine senators withholding approval of Morton as postmaster at Augusta and calls for President Cleveland to appoint Morton. Also mentions Earl Carnarvon’s tax dispute with Limerick and city council resistance.
The article notes possible swift removal of Irish lord-lieutenant due to taxes, cites a high exports total of 741,893,683 with 726,496,716 domestic and 15,396,967 foreign, imports at 577,476,860, and a record $164,416,833 export surplus. It records gold and silver imports surpassing exports by 1,010,798 and emigrants at 2,968,158 in five years, predicting US population near 60,000,000, echoing Homer Greeley’s 100,000,000 forecast for 1900.
Cheap gas days drive rivals into the natural gas field with new finds from Ithaca to Pittsburg and Allegheny. A controversial memorial idea proposes moving General Grant's birthplace house to New York City, prompting calls for broader annexation.
A digest of miscellaneous items from Worcester Times and multiple papers. Humorous anecdotes on a penny-ante huckster, a boy inoculating for cholera with green apples, a New Hampshire twin age note, Punch quips, and various brief observations on funerals, Langtry, Whitney, Grant, and public life. Includes remarks on whiskey, snakes, and summer resorts with light social commentary.
A collage of snappy items references an emperor's scare, Spain's finances, Toombs on slavery, Goethe and Concord debates, labor in prisons, poetic ego, a tornado portrait, a Mary Walker tale, a Denver reporter scare, horse racing records, Adams family threats, circus day signs, a religious meeting scandal, and partisan speech battles.
A Harper's Weekly poem urges patience in love and growth. It counsels delaying blooms until their time, accepting rain and sorrow as part of dawns to come, and ends with reassurance that paradise awaits the patient heart.
A Chinese plant known as the laughing plant produces seeds that emulate laughing gas. Bright yellow flowers woolly pods and small black seeds lie inside each pod. In small doses the powder makes a sober person act like a clown, dancing and laughing for about an hour, then he sleeps and remembers nothing upon waking.
A Connecticut man rescues eight from drowning while residents across Vermont New Hampshire and Massachusetts boast odd feats and curiosities. Highlights include a 1568 Bible claim from Rutland a 75 year scythe run in New Hampshire and a 96th birthday nearing for Jacob Proctor of Lunenberg plus various unusual incidents and local legends from Hartford Guilford and Burlington.
A Baltimore Sun summary recounts the deaths of U S presidents from Washington through Garfield with details on illness, deathbed scenes, burials and final resting places. It covers Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Garfield and the circumstances surrounding their dying moments and interments.
In an interview, Sir Peter Lumsden describes the salt lakes in the Yar-oilan valley. He details a thirty mile long, eleven mile wide basin divided by a ridge, two lakes with distinct salt beds, depths above sea level around 1420 and 800 feet, and salt deposits that ride like ice.
Dr H A Ward discusses using PunKa powered by langurs to replace slave labor. He notes the Neilgherry langur learned to operate the moving cord and enjoyed the work after being fed candy. The Indians then captive bred the animals for the utility.
The Nashville Union notes that placing packages and papers atop mail boxes is unwise. Letter carriers will not remove items that hinder delivery of first class mail, and such packages may stay until the next day. Mail must be placed in the box or at the post office to enjoy U.S. mail protection. If a package is stolen, the finder bears no federal liability. only state laws apply.
In a New York Times interview Dr Ward recalls a pivotal moment in his career abroad. While studying howlers in Nicaragua he shot a monkey whose fall revealed a dying mother clinging to its infant. The humane scene moved him deeply and led to a reformation of his hunting ways.
A Haverhill laborer laments Boston’s decline with a toppled elm. Joseph Cook leaves farming and Bill Nye targets her coiners. The baseball nine falters and Music Hall becomes a beer garden while only the Cogswell fountain remains untouched amid the upheaval.
A witty note from the Somerville Journal ponders a hypothetical article that would accuse a man of many crimes he admits only to inexperience, predicting an instant libel suit and a chaotic circus of press reaction.
A family debate over a newborn’s name unfolds in a poem. Fathers, aunts, and cousins clash about fitting options from Beatrice to Imogen, but the final line hints at the timeless choice of Mary as the enduring, beloved name. The piece blends sentiment with familial pressure and literary allusion.
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