Try 7 days of FREE access to billions of articles

Start Free Trial

Boston Weekly Globe in Boston, Massachusetts

We have 4,454,244 pages in Massachusetts

View this page and access billions of articles with a 7-day free trial.

Start Free Trial

This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!

Start Free Trial

Cancel anytime, risk free

Not what you were looking for? Search our billions of articles

Advanced Search

Articles on This Page

This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.

Newspaper

Boston Weekly Globe

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Aug 31, 1887

Page

8

Howard's Letter on Youth and Modern Times

A columnist replies to reader letters debating if today’s youth are different from the past. He contrasts boys and girls with images of seaside resorts and boarding school, recalling Sunday routines, reading, and early journalism in New England. He argues for examining root causes of perceived changes.

Brighton Robinson Crusoe Peter Parley Aries New England John Todd Hafed Kingdom Senone York

Reading Habits and The Press Life Lessons From a Century Ago

In a reflective piece, the author contrasts the New York Times and local papers with earlier era journalism, noting how daily and afternoon papers shaped readers and memory. He questions the impact of sensational content on youths and compares media diet to physical nourishment, drawing on personal experiences and journalistic shifts.

Affection's Dearest Joys and the Globe Pictures

The piece extols a touching mother child scene titled Wide Awake and Fast Asleep with Brown Eyes and Blue Eyes watercolors. It blends art critique with social commentary on youth, media sensationalism, and the pulpit, urging reform through Beecher Brooks and Talmage, and promoting Globe subscriptions and illustrated watercolors for mothers.

The News in Briefs From Across the Nation

A whirlwind of items reports vast cattle losses in the Texan Panhandle due to water scarcity, Manitoba wheat yields, political shifts in Kentucky, international travel and diplomacy, and numerous local incidents. Highlights include shipwrecks, accidents, court actions, and weather events with names and places such as Indianapolis, Hartford, Columbia, and Albany.

National Conference Opens Amid Outlook for Charities Colors

The fourteenth annual National Conference of Charities began in Omaha on Friday as discussions focus on reform and welfare issues. A Grand Army veterans parade including ex President Hayes and Governor Foraker passed without demanding a portrait ban in Keeling West Virginia. News from streams across the continent notes New York socialist stock shifts, Eastport fishing boats released after a fine, and large bank deposits in New York State amounting to nearly 496 million with over 1.3 million open accounts. A Pierre South Dakota dispatch reports Douglass Carlin's wedding to Madien Dupreet before 1000 Indian witnesses, while in Burlington Colorado authorities face bank embezzlement charges. A British Army discharge case reaches a Conn. resident, and a Montreal Herald fire devastates a five-story building injuring workers and destroying firms with a $140,000 loss.

Treasury Department Indianapolis New York Congress Thomas Kentucky Protestant Episcopal Church James Ledwith George H. Champlin St. Peter's Hartford Conn Walnut Hills Cincinnati Wayne Junction Pennsylvania Railroad Maginley John Ruth James Manning Thade George Thompson Fitchburg Mass Thomas McFerran Allegheny City Penn Columbia D.C Hespiler John Sachs Henry Fenway Edward Johnson Gramps The Fish Commission Labrador Funk Islands Lee Avery United States Navy Page New York City New York State Cleveland John Myrick Henry County Alabama Union Pacific Sand Creek Col Engineer Masterson Cesader Alexander McCue Solicitor of the Treasury United States Commissioner of Fish Professor Baird McCue Baird Jacob Sharp Keating Ludlow Street Bourke Cochran Sharp William Lloyd Garrison Bennington Centre Bennington Journal of the Times Benjamin Lundy Garrison Baltimore Miller Ind Clara Manistee Olson John Gustavson SRO Chicago Northwest Chattanooga Atlanta Kenesaw Mountain Albert P. Miller New Haven People’s Line of Albany Albany People’s Ine McGlynn Grand Army Hall Williamsburg Division No. 3 Ancient Order of Hibernians City of Palma Majorca New Jersey Central Railroad Crawford N.J Eustace Gibson West Virginia McGinnis Huntington Gibson Sweden Pennsylvania Hanan & Son C. E. Bartlett Sumter National Bank Sumter D. C Chico H. A. Johnson Gorham Village Washington Pearl Bear Point Barrow Henry W. Slocum Land Army of the Republic St. Louis Knights of Labor of Quinn National Assembly Pa Club South Carolina Oxie Cherry Capitol Messrs le Fevre la Fleur Montreal Illinois Internal Revenue Bureau Bond Limbdi Bengal London Henry Watters H. 8. Whitney Excelsior Academy Lake Minnetonka Minn Samuel Fabyan Philadelphia Joseph Fabyan Baltimore & Ohio Easton Siding Wheeling W. Va McDowell County Toronto Dufferin Street William Priestman Chicago Masonic Insurance Company Souris Cruiser Bureau of Statistics Napoleon Siberia J. B. Vincent Martha’s Vineyard Cape Navarin Healey Professor Swift Warner Observatory Rochester N. Y William Brooks Re House Observatory Phelps Iota Canori Brooks Warner Hibernians Brooklyn Division No Sylvester Jane Knights Templars Lyman Johnson Charles Abbott Kansasity Elm Park Great Southern Whitney Babbitt Knights of Labor Anna Dickinson Honesdale Rocceits Bonar Edinburgh Waller New London Florists Phanix Insurance Company of Patriotic Irish Exiles Iyland Edmunds Interstate Commerce Commission Conkling Ottawa Dominion Washington C. DePauw Indiana McIntosh North Santee United States Treasury Lloyd Louis Kossuth Turin Courmayeur Fis Mme. Ruttkay United States Charles F. Goss Henry Ward Beecher Stamford Conn Horatio C. Ring oRressman White Edward W. Bok Halliday Seth Low Father Strain St. Mary's Cathoric Church Lynn Holy See New England Tenn Virginia Midland Railroad Culpepper John Cooke George Washington G. W. Butler J. ¥. Wedding J. H. Lane Hendricks Smith Bennington County Vermont William O. Burnus John I, Bishop Edward W. Perry International Stove Moulders’ Union Canada George R. Watkins California Watkins Ossipee Yokohama David Seymour Jamesville Fannie Henry Seymour Henry Europe Dawes Cairags Indian Investigating Committee White Earth Minnesota Atlanta Daily Capitol Jefferson Davis Davis Henry W. Grady Mr. Davis Ira Cleveland Freedom Connecticut Michigan Ira Wisconsin Massachusetts Sixty-ninth Newark Boston Croke John J. Riordan Castle Garden Our Lady of the Rosary Troke National Conference of Charities Omaha New York Daily Leader United Labor Party Grand Army Hayes Foraker Ohio Keeling Eastport St. Andrews N. B Pierre Dak Douglass F. Carlin Madien Dupreet Carlin Carlins B. A. Werner C.H. Shepra First National Bank of Pburlington Kansas City Feey Henry J. Ayers Naugatuck Queen Victoria Ayers

Deaths of Prominent Navy Officer and Fall River Leader

Rear-Admiral Thomas T. Craven died suddenly at the Boston Navy Yard on the 23rd, aged nearly 80, after a long career from midshipman in 1822 to the Mississippi engagements and Vicksburg. Jefferson Borden of Fall River, aged 86, longtime agent of American Print Works, headed multiple companies, led the Fall River bleachery, and presided over the Metacomet National Bank until 1879.

Craven—Jefferson Borden Fall River Florence Thomas T. Craven Navy Boston Navy Yard Henry G. Craven Thomas Tingey Craven Washington Tunis Craven Thomas Tingey Tunis Cravens Mobile Bay New Hampshire Pacific Peacock Craven Brooklyn Fort Jackson Fort St. Philip Mississippi River Vicksburg Jefferson Borden American Print Works Company Borden American Linen Company Troy Cotton and Woollen Anawan Fall River Iron Works Company Fall River Machine Company Fall River Ion Works Comany Fall River Gas Company Theetacomet Manufacturing Company Fall River Steamboat Company Metacomet National Bank

Notable Deaths Across Nations Mark End of Era

Aaron J. Vanderpoel famed New York lawyer dies aged 62, senior partner at Vanderpoel Green Cuming and counsel to Western Union. Also, Mrs. Sarah Jackson widow of Andrew Jackson Jr dies at the Hermitage aged 81. Viscount Doneraille dies in Dublin from hydrophobia after a fox bite. he sat in the House of Lords since 1886. Judge Daniel Goodwin of Michigan bench passes away in Detroit. Rev. Moses Rogers, descendant of John Rogers, dies at Fresh Pond aged near 94. Dr Edward W. Germer dies in Erie. Eliza Howard Powers dies in Washington at 85 for wartime service.

Aaron J. Vanderpoel New York Vanderpoel, Green & Cuming Western Union Oakey Hall van Buren Sarah Jackson Andrew Jackson, Jr White House Jackson Hermitage Viscount Doneraille Dublin Parlane Ireland House of Lords Mary Anne Lenox-Conyngham Lord Doneraille Pasteur Daniel Goodwin Nestor Michigan Bench Detroit Geneva N. Y Union College William H. Lewacd Doane Potter United States Moses Rogers John Rogers England America Fresh Pond Suffolk County L. L Geechee Edward W. Germer Erie Penn Germer Baden Pennsylvania Berlin Eliza Howard Powers Washington, D.C Florence Nightingale Association United States Sanitary Commission of New Jersey Congress

The Muses Were a Baseball Team in Their Day

Report notes that the Muses, once a local group, belonged to a baseball lineage with ties to B. B. Nine Amuses, a club mentioned in Burlington Free Press discussions. This brief recalls a historical sports lineage and local culture surrounding early teams.

Burlington Free Press

Brown Eyes and Blue Eyes Water Color Offer

A colorful advertisement promotes a water color set titled Brown Eyes and Blue Eyes. Sunshine highlights a one year subscription to The Weekly Clothe for $1.30, inviting readers to choose and read the advertisement for details.

Traced burners aimed to burn town in scheme by night watchmen

Plainstrip NJ August 28 a gang of night watchmen paid by private parties attempted to burn the town for over a year and a half to justify their pay. Seven were arrested after a midnight stakeout at a Lee Brothers house. The plan involved terrorizing police and police protection was cited as weak. Names include John Jackson and several alleged conspirators among workers.

Plainrstrip N. J Persorts Carey West Front Street Union Avenue Patrick Lynch Edward Murphy Lee Brothers Neeson Europe John Jackson George Reed Lewis van Nest Horace Van_ Nest Theodore van Nest Dr. Fitts William H. Penny Robert Skinner Jackson

Water color pictures to popularize art nationwide

OUR REW PICTURES claim to resemble water colors and convey refined beauty. They boast lithic-like watercolor and etching tones, appealing to taste and modern deco parlor standards, and promise affordability for widespread private ownership to drive subscriptions.

United States

Also Mentioned on This Page

Howard Sam Mhen Masconomo Saratoga Grand Union Nantasket Beach Richfield Springs Long Branch Coney Island Presbyterian Church Little Tommy Jones Op of Commerce Evening Post Reneton Evangelist Tribune Times Wreeley Alon R. Glenn NEW York Herald New York Times J. Howard, Jr Augustus Maverick the News of the World Kingdom of Heaven Tte Heaven Sunshine GLOBE Rome Greece Beecher Talmage Lucy Tommy Luc Pan Weekly Globe Brier Forest Grove Finestock J. J. Jones Longworth St Nightingale Northwestern R. R St. Paul Minneapolis Dubuque Des Moines Lowa H. G ROOT Pearl &T N.Y Magneto MAG. Neto CO Broadway CP U.S P. Box Agents’ Journal Bromile Street Wylf Mull A. Slouum Mason P. O Marston Vo Marston Remedy Co Park Pl Lapteus Warsaw U.s.a N.E. Card Co Wallingford Brewster Holly,Mich J. Stephens Lebanon Chicago Scale Co Star Card CO Station 15 Rvorce John T. Melvin
Search Courier

Search the Boston Weekly Globe Today with a Free Trial

We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.

Not Finding What You Were Looking for on This Page of The Boston Weekly Globe?

People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!

Looking Courier

Browse Newspapers

You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!

By Location

By Location

Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.

Browse by Location
By Date

By Date

Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.

Browse by Date
By Publication

By Publication

Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.

Browse by Publication