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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1885
Page
12
The Globe announces a 14 month subscription for five dollars for its weekly Democratic newspaper in Boston. Agents urged to push subscriptions to Democrats and remind readers that The Weekly Globe is the leading and only Democratic weekly newspaper in Boston.
The Poston Weekly Globe announces plans to grow to 100,000 weekly readers in 1887. It urges forming clubs, renewing subscriptions, and recruiting new subscribers with premiums and commissions for agents. Fourteen months of access offered for direct or agent subscriptions.
The piece argues that Russia and France, ill prepared, would likely join against Germany yet lack the funds to sustain war. It cites Russia's 6 billion ruble debt and triple interest burden, plus widespread wildcat currency. France reportedly spends nearly four billion francs annually, with a budget gap of 1.2 billion compared to pre 1870s. Both nations need peace and retrenchment.
The essay argues that public sentiment trends away from reverence for wills as courts strike down plain language and testators’ control fades. It favors gifting during life, warns against binding future generations, and questions inherited endowments. It cites Harvard and Andover as examples and urges directing wealth toward real societal service.
The author argues against restricting land given to a theological school to only that creed. Time moves slowly but relentlessly, and future needs may require the land for general use. Testators often leave discretionary bequests, and a law extending binding power beyond a generation would benefit posterity and public progress.
The article warns that diphtheria and typhoid fever kill far more than cholera and victims include the young. Logansport Indiana reports about 100 child deaths, with wealthier families affected too. Massachusetts towns Malden and Weymouth Landing also suffer losses, underscoring the need for public, scientifically grounded information on symptoms and remedies.
In the wake of ex President AntouR's death at his house, Edmunds publicly welcomes Briar while Epmunps shuns the scene, provoking Vermont readers to question motives. The piece critiques political posturing and party feuding as mourners clash over cordiality and recognition.
The piece argues the British government edges back toward coercion in Ireland citing Joan Ditton's prosecution, bans on Nationalist meetings, and Dublin’s military show of force. It condemns the Tory ministry as serving landlords, warning that brutal repression will fail and provoke international protest.
The article notes Joan Briant as a supporter of the Tory government amid a new forceful policy in Ireland. It recalls past friendships with GLApSsTONE, and mentions SALIs Bury Courcuity & Co. A French doctor says hunger’s sensation, not mere lack of food, drives outcomes.
A bizarre claim suggests starvation as a form of death by suppressing appetite. Bernheim is probing a rumored discovery that could end hunger without food. Provision dealers are warned that he may be removed to prevent unveiling the great secret.
Friends say Ohio will support Sherman at the next Republican national convention though past Ohio delegation pledged little. The column surveys politicians, editors, and international figures, noting Cleveland, Bismarck, Salisbury, and Beatrice in a mosaic of political opinions, reforms, and foreign affairs.
A brief verse fragment shows Ernest Whitney referencing a Christmas Nicholas scene and a childlike dialogue with crickets. It captures seasonal imagery and lullaby-like sounds greeted by weather shifts, ending with the crickets' cries turning to sleep and wakefulness themes.
A periodical offers readers a monthly knit and crochet feature with Christmas gift ideas. It details patterns for a baby cradle cover, tam o shanter cap, gentlemen’s underdrawers, and driving wear in Starlight Saxony. Instructions include yarn types, needle sizes, stitch counts, and step by step rounds.
The article provides detailed instructions for crafting ladies slippers in crochet using Scotch yarn and bone hooks, plus a complete Jersey knitting pattern with three thread Saxony, outlining stitches, rows, increases, sleeves, neck, and button details. It notes finishing touches like shells, elastic rims, lining options, and ribbon embellishments.
Detailed pattern outlines casting on 76 stitches, forming gores, widening stitches to reach 96, knitting multiple plain rows, seams, and finishing with cords and tassels. Describes two identical legs and assembly with body gore, then tassel accents for final fit.
Instructions describe crocheting a purse using Corticelli silk, starting with a chain of 100 stitches and single crochet stitches. The pattern notes an open weave, back-and-forth rows, edge joining at 90 rows, then sewing ends together and adding rings fringe and tassels.
Instructions describe a forty two stitch chain for a nine inch neck piece. Rows guide forming shells of trebles, with widening at specified shell intervals across rows one through thirteen, ending with a mix of plain and back/front shell work and spacing before completing the final five shells.
Readers from Reading to Medway Mass write in with requests and thanks about knitting crochet and pattern rules. The editor notes suggestions will be referred to editors, and a new rule will soon be published in the Hour.
Two Gardiner youths hunting foxes near Kennebec misidentified a red heifer calf as a fox. One fired, killing the calf and triggering a $40 settlement with the owners. The episode, recounted in the Portland Advertiser, shows the hunters' miscue and the ensuing cost.
Gentlemen and ladies seek warm, stylish wraps for balls theatres operas and parties. French makers distinguish opera theatre and ball cloaks with varying weights trims and linings. Cream and plush hues dominate with embroidery feathers fringe and fur accents matching the wearer's gown.
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