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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1885
Page
4
The Boston Weekly Globe announces a four week trial subscription for twenty five cents, valid through January 1886. Prospective readers are urged to send one dollar for fourteen months, capitalizing on this favorable rate before the fall rush.
The Globe seeks young men or boys to canvass towns with no agent or few subscribers. New agents can solicit subscriptions without hindering regular work. Poster and sample copies are available upon request.
A lengthy advertisement style note extols The Weekly Globe of 1885 as the best family newspaper with Henry Ward Beecher, Bill Nye and George Townsend content. It urges renewal subscriptions, clubs, and agent rates while commenting on politics, literature, and current events including Ohio cider, Georgia tax bills, Grant monument funds, Miss Cleveland, and library resources. The piece mixes satire and promotional copy, citing Chicago and New York contributions and diverse topics from dictionaries to tea consumption and prohibition era quirks.
A Bangor liquor sale tale shows a druggist clerks’s willingness to dispense whiskey for medicinal use amid flimsy excuses. The honest youth unknowingly serves a customer who asks the purpose, receiving the blunt reply for me, revealing the era’s lax attitude toward liquor sales and deception.
The New York Sun editorialized that many foreign consuls are useless and poorly chosen due to low pay and overseas offices. It urged raising salaries to attract qualified Americans, improving offices, and ensuring useful trade information, or else abolish diplomacy abroad.
A letter asks when General Jackson coined To the victor belongs the spoils. The editor notes William Marcy popularized the line during Jackson's first term amid the 1831 England mission and Senate fight over Marcy’s nomination. The phrase arose from New York politics as Marcy defended victories yielding spoils.
In late summer, readers confront cholera's spread from Spain to France as deaths soar from early July figures to several thousand. The piece warns the disease could threaten American shores, especially New York, Halifax, Boston, and Philadelphia, urging cleaner ports and patient vigilance as summer wanes.
The speaker notes no germ has crossed the waters yet and two more months with no visitation could ensure safety for a year. Until then, preparation for worst case scenarios is urged, urging readiness despite current calm.
The ongoing upturn in business appears lasting though gradual. Rail rates may rise, money remains easy, and wheat in Chicago trends down slightly. A stronger tone is seen nationally with mills reopening, rail steel price talks, and bank reports improving, while repeal of the silver coinage act is cited as key to lasting confidence.
The Nation criticizes Jones Indianapolis postmaster pick for appointing Dopp, a 60 year old cement worker turned canvasser, as politically active yet the piece defends him. It argues poverty does not bar public service, praising workers’ political engagement and warning against ignoring the poor in democracy.
London papers comment on a Guardian advertisement seeking a young unmarried clergyman in the Midlands with moderate views who enjoys shooting. The notice, though odd, aims to recruit a socially fit minister who can relate to farmers and Nature loving congregants, blending preaching with outdoor sympathy.
A dated excerpt portrays TsarHren Hwanett born 1871, ascending to majority at age four. It describes his vast realm of 375 million subjects, his royal duties, and a swift justice system with the emperor as judge, jury, and executioner, in a satirical tone about imperial power.
Tur Grose extends hearty congratulations to the young monarch on his fourteenth birthday. It notes his vast personal fortune of 125 million and vast perquisites, implying his comfortable status. The piece hopes he governs well so subjects need not seek fortunes elsewhere.
Mexico's long debt history with England is outlined from 1824 to 1868, highlighting repeated restructurings, reduced principal, and unresolved guarantees. The piece argues future behavior may repeat past outcomes, notes Punch and The London Standard satire, and ends with a Boston civil service exam joke about a payroll problem.
The piece sharply contrasts a Cincinnati policeman’s pardon with alleged poll outrages by Republican officials. It argues Mullen’s acts are minor next to the “villainies” Republicans applaud, recalling a stolen presidency and defending the legitimacy of the ballot amid partisan outrage.
The British ministry enjoys rural and seaside respite while fall elections approach. About 2,000,000 new voters may influence outcomes, and a new law could curb aristocratic power. Special delivery stamps win favor among lovers and strain budgets. Amherst College links physical culture with study to ease indigestion, while Maine sees launching vessels shift from ordinary to novel amid Republican rise and industry decline.
Resolution from the Democrats of Cuyahoga County Ohio urges voters to elect efficient Democrats and remove all Republicans from office, targeting state and federal positions. The statement expresses the party’s stance on replacing Republican officials with Democratic leadership.
The cattlemen who leased Indian lands should learn from Lo who sells a mustang and robs a tenderfoot. They cannot blame the government for refusing to support such deceit.
A terse note discusses dealings with a class of beings deemed too barbarian to grasp honest practice. The remark frames a clash between perceived rudimentary ethics and formal negotiation standards.
A collage of brief witticisms and miscellany ranges from chessnuts to whist, old china to tarnished silver, and local squibs about Boston fortifications, Belfast anti scandal clubs, Kentucky politics, and a Boston wedding outfit miscount. It weaves humor with gossip on figures like Bailey, Randell, Tyndall, and Toombs, plus trivial anecdotes from Richmond to Madison Square Garden.
A mining disaster near Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania left 114 men dead with bodies recovered a month later. The report details fire damp causes, failed ventilation and the swift furnace like blast. The search uncovered mangled corpses, burned and contorted in rooms and air passages as investigators documented the scene.
Detroit Free Press notes the ancient practice of tossing coins to settle disputes and mooted questions, detailing how the expressions heads or tails arose and how the method evolved in historical usage.
The passage notes an old English expression akin to “cross or pile” tied to coinage. It explains the cross on one side and a device on the other used in minting. Romans reportedly tossed the coin and cried capita aut navim meaning heads or ships.
Adrianna Brinckle once led Philadelphia society as Addie Brinckle, daughter of Dr. William Brinckle. Stripped of fortune after family losses she was confined in Harrisburg State Lunatic Asylum for 27 years until a letter to Dr. Morton prompted release. She now rests at the Convalescents' Retreat near Glen Mills, Delaware County.
A ladies club is planned in New York with a furnished house to open in autumn. It will offer tea and light refreshments, a reading room, and access to top periodicals. Entrance is 25 dollars with 25 dollars annual dues, dues due December 1. The board has 21 governors, led by Mrs F J Reyes, with 17 already named. Membership may grow to 500. hours are 9 am to 7 pm. doors close at 7 pm to allow members time for other pursuits. The aim is social activity and networking for women.
A Pennsylvanian widower, living near Erie, recently buried his wife. At a dance his partner watched as others danced while the widow’s memory led the partner to refrain from dancing out of respect to his late partner’s spouse.
A Philadelphia Times item recounts a ragged tramp asking for pennies on Walnut Street. An old gentleman, moved by the plea, remarks he would trade half his fortune for a single meal as he farewells the scene.
A humorous verse about a young girl who buys a tiny bonnet to show off at church and ends up distracted by vanity. She leaves the service, hides the bonnet, and the poem concludes with a moral about vanity echoing in worship and the futility of flaunting appearance.
In Mipripury Vermont on August 11 a local paper recounts Eli B. Parker learning of his son Edward B. Parker’s fate. Edward, a Lt. in the Eleventh Vermont Volunteers, died after escape failed during transfer from Libby to Columbia. His letter from Savannah September 1, 1864 describes prison life, scarcity, and his hopes for exchange before his death on October 13. The piece notes Parker’s family and a pension request pending for Eli Parker.
An Austin woman sent her servant to inquire about the neighbor Mrs Smith and the sick husband next door. The message suggested the doctor might be needed soon and implied urgency, but the caller claimed she had nothing else to do.
The article lists measurements for an ideal figure noting a tall 6 ft 4% in for a large frame and a queenly 5 ft 5 in height with specific bust, waist, hip, and limb measurements. It emphasizes balance, with hands and feet not too small, reflecting era beauty norms.
An old advertising rhyme recalls the Castoria remedy used for infants and children across generations. The verse traces its use from baby illness to motherhood, asserting Castoria as the constant remedy through childhood and beyond.
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