Weekly Globe Announces 1886 Authors for Prize Fiction
The Weekly Globe offers a one year subscription for 14 months at $1 and invites readers to form clubs. It lists contributing authors such as Charles Egbert Craddock, Sarah Orne Jewett, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Octave Thanet, Joel Chandler Harris, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Edward Everett Hale among others, claiming to rival leading magazines.
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Weekly Globe
Atlantic Monthly
the Century
Harper's Magazine
Charles Egbert Craddock
J. T. Trowbridge
Sarah Orne Jewett
Brander Matthews
Elizabeth Stewart Phelps
Louise Chandler Moulton
Frank RB. Stockton
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Octave Thanet
H. O. Bunner
Sidney Luska
Thomas A. Janvier
Mrs. Burton Harrison
B P. Roe
Joel Chandler Harris
Harriet Prescott Spofford
J. Esten Cooke
Edward Everett Hale
W. H. Bishop
A. A. Hayes
F. C. Baylor
Real Estate Paper Seeks Local Agents In All Towns
Advertisement calls for agents across the United States to distribute sample copies and a poster freely. A generous cash commission is offered to each agent who participates.
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United States
The Globe Free Magazine Offer on Page Two
The Globe advertises a list of magazines offered with The Weekly Globe. Subscriptions provide magazines at wholesale prices, with all usual retail profit going to subscribers. Calculations suggest The Globe costs under 50 cents per year on average, sometimes as low as 10 cents.
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Form a Globe subscribers club for free copies
The notice urges readers to gather friends to form a five subscriber club to receive a copy gratis. If five cannot be reached, a three or two member group may qualify. Do not send your own subscription without including another subscriber's name. In single-subscriber towns, that subscriber should form a club.
Before His Time I Wait Dialogue in a Norfolk village
Two yokels discuss the village history aloud. The younger says Romans likely passed through long ago. The elder doubts even a Roman presence and struggles to recall specifics. The exchange preserves a rustic, folkloric tone about local memory.
Influence of the Annex in the West
The article notes how Western girls formerly rejected suitors with a mock term the “best young man” and a ritual called the cold shake. It describes how this bounce act is now termed presenting him with frigid vibration in social etiquette.
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Richmond State
The Bloody Chasm as a Work of Art in Civil War Musings
The Century writer contemplates the Civil War’s grotesque breaks and wonders if a future essay will praise the harmless results of smallpox. The Louisville Courier Journal is cited as the publication of record for this literary reflection.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
A Narrow View of the Question
In the Somerville Journal analysis a Western girl’s arsenic use to improve complexion is noted, while the Chicago Telegram mocks women’s trends in archery and fashion, implying archery and beauty fads fascinate both genders. The piece reflects period gossip and social judgments.
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Somerville Journal
Hatchechub town tale and hasty nuptials tease
In a fragmentary note from the Newman Independent the Philological Editor mentions a Hatchechub town name origin linked to a portly man who sniffed a nutmeg. It quips on youth’s ardor and references Nicolini planning a marriage, remarking the pairing may be hurried.
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Philotogical
Newman Independent
Alabama
Hatchechub
President Cleveland and tariff policy in the 1885 outlook
The Hoston Weekly Globe discusses President Cleveland’s tariff stance as it relates to revenue reduction and protective principles. It argues that the administration supports a reduced revenue from customs while safeguarding American labor and capital in protected industries, praising the message as a strong Democratic position. It also cites Vanderbilt in defending property and warns against radical per capita redistribution theories.
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Turnirone
Washington
Tur Gionk
Monror
Cleveland
Sermonizing on Vanderbilt’s Death and Character
A critical reflection on William H. Vanderbilt, noting wealth brings responsibility, yet warning against shallow moralizing. It contrasts envy with his reputed generosity, democratic tastes, family life, and focus on money as a pursuit, while acknowledging his patronage of art and horses and his lack of aristocratic ambition.
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Mr. Vanderbilt
America
Vanperuitt
Witut Amm H. Vanderbilt
Grerce Pranopy
Peter Couric
Byron
Naroleron
Europe
Willliam H. Vanderbilt
Presidential succession debate and constitutional reform
The piece argues for a permanent solution to presidential succession via a constitutional amendment that preserves popular choice, criticizing Hoar and Morrill bills as temporary fixes. It urges direct election of a president and four vice presidents, with a speedy path to next election, and warns against entrusting power to cabinet or Supreme Court appointees despite political divisions.
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Supreme Court
What shall we do with our girls and trades
A discussion on training girls in trades for independence compares the need to raise girls to be self sufficient with the common question about boys. The piece cites examples like Madame Grenais who mastered multiple trades enabling self support during exile and hardship. It argues practical education over idle dependency.
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Madame of
Madame Pf Graxis
France
Parnell Victory Reported by Irish National League Leader
Secretary Harrington tallies a sweeping Irish National League victory across all provinces and Ulster, noting thirty-nine seats at dissolution rising to eighty-six united. Home Rule and Whig remnants vanish, English Irish votes shift to a minority, and Parnell is hailed as the master organizer of the triumph.
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Harrington
Irish National League
Harrineton
British Empire
Parnell
Soldiers Commit to Lovring Bill for Union Pension
The Antietam Post No. 64 Kansas urges urgent passage of the Lovring bill to ensure pensions for all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors. It vows support for only candidates endorsing it, signaling broad civil and veteran backing nationwide. The article stresses that wartime obligations are being honored by persistent political action.
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Antietam Post
Department of Kansas
Antietam
Editorial Points on Newark Hazards and Politics
In Newark the population chases mad dogs while amateur marksmen practice. Captain Eaps praises Mexico and may seek national aid for a ship railway, as Senator Fain remains in Washington with a modest net worth and heavy board bills. Car ScHURZ voiced many good and sound views Friday night.
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N.J
Eaps
Mexico
United States
Fain
Washington
National Capital
Reform and public affairs in a scattered news column
A dense rounds of political commentary spans Jeffersonian reform, the fall of Scavaz, and Lord Salisbury’s rumored resignation. Notes on Vanderbilt philanthropy, smallpox in Montreal, Boston’s baked beans issue, funeral lines for Vanderbilt, weekly payments in Massachusetts mills, Perrins the wrestler, and election candidacies in London. Includes reform bravado, postmaster beat, and coast defense talk with a mix of satire and headlines.
St Nick Arrives For Christmas From Frisky Reindeer
A seasonal ode urges quick preparation for Christmas and St Nick. Reindeer are eager to depart with a laden sleigh. Children count days until his arrival and stockings are to be filled with toys and sugar plums. The verse blends fur clad St Nick with chimney visits and gift giving.
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H- C. Dodge
Goodall
Chicago
St. Nick
Palmer minister declines higher salary church calls
Rev P Hunter of Palmer Massachusetts receives two church calls offering 3000 and 5000 dollars while earning 1800 at his current church. He declines both, insisting he has work to do in his present parish despite the higher pay. Ministers often chase salary, but he continues where he believes his duty lies.
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Pittsburg
Palmer
Mass
Rev
P. Hunter
Sophia and Fibson clash over women's roles in talk
In a Punch dialogue Cousin Sophia praises Fibson as sensible while he declares he cannot bear intellectual women and believes a woman's mission is to be beautiful. Bella chimes in as pretty, highlighting social stereotypes.
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Sophia
Y. Fibson
Bella
Too Heavy Weight for the Dudes in Beards
A Philadelphia bystander notes beards are unfashionable for local men, saying only New York and Boston men wear them. He claims beards signal abandoning frivolities and settling down from sowing wild oats, and that young fellows avoid beards to avoid looking immature.
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Philadelphia Press
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Just Whooping It Up for Daniel
A political column from Chicago Merald discusses the Daniels surname rising in prominence. It mentions Dan Lamontis in the White House Dan Manning in the treasury Dan Lockwood in office and Battalon Voorhees as Indiana’s favored son and suggests Mr Daniel may win Mahone’s senatorial endorsement.
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Chicago Merald
Daniels
Dan Lamontis
White House
Dan Manning
Treasury
Dan Lockwood
Battalon Voorhees
Indiana
Mahone
Sultan of Turkey Remains Rich Through Poetry Wives
In Norristown Herald style squib a note claims the Turkish sultan has 250 wives and annual personal expenses of 12 million dollars. It adds a 3 million salary and 9 million earned writing poetry for rural weeklies. If wives learned housework and dressmaking costs would drop.
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Norristown Herald
Turkey
Original Raphael Found In Chicago As Turkey Clock Bet Rumor
Pittsburg Chronicle reports a claim that an original Raphael has been discovered in Chicago. The city is noted for a long Raphaelist tradition with residents preserving Raphaels for turkeys clocks and watches, offered in a $1 per chance gamble.
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Pittsburg Chronicle
Raphael
Chicago
Two Women Paint Creighton Hue Run Afoul of Authorities
Out West in Omaha two women set out to paint Creighton butternut color in the early hours and landed in the cooler before dawn. Authorities noted the nocturnal decorating spree as a minor society misadventure blending local campus mood with urban mischief.
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Omaha Bee
Creighton
The First Barrel Usually Kills
The text notes a Lowell Courier item about a silver question being double-barrelled and asks if it is designed to secure a dollar and how to discard it. The fragment suggests a satire or consumer question piece with unspecified details.
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Lowell Courier
Beechers Sermon on Living with High and Honorable Impulses
Reverend Henry Ward Beech er preaches in Brooklyn on December 13 urging readiness for death through living a life of virtue and duty. He contrasts Old Testament death imagery with New Testament hope and urges daily piety in work and family, avoiding morbid fear and extemporized prayers.
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Brooklyn
Henry Ward Beecher
Man
Two Packs of Cards in Whist Questioned by Players
A correspondent questions the rule to use two packs in Whist, noting players often ignore it. A club social game anecdote reports four men drawing hands all of a kind, one with all trumps from St Stephen, and a Philadelphia precedent long discussed. A seven round double dummy problem follows.
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Courier
Secon
St. Stephen
Philadelphia
Different Messiahs in Jewish Expectation and Christian Claims
Rabbi Solomon Schindler concludes his lecture series at Temple Adath Israel arguing that Jewish messianic hopes rose in times of national calamity and often featured multiple claimants. He questions Christian universal redemption, noting Jesus did not fulfill political or global salvation and that modern morality grew independent of Christianity.
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Solomon Schindler
Jesus of Nazareth
Bar Kochba
Rabeni Molcho
Sabbatai Zwi
Jesus
Molcho
Rubens
Sabbatai
Solomon Moicho
Palestine
Massachusetts
Cleveland
Free Republic
Jesw
Pussy and the missing cream tale from Harper's Young People
A short verse tale recounts a child scolding a cat for stealing cream. The cat confesses and admits it drank the rest, revealing a playful lesson on honesty and mischief.
Beetle Nuisance Sparks Humorous Local Row
A Norristown Herald item jokes about a young woman swarmed by beetles, noting 9490 species on the continent. The scene imagines the beetle alighting on her neck and triggering a dramatic howl, mocking vanity and panic over an exaggerated insect invasion.
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Norristown Herald
More Likely He Is Drunk
A Milwaukee Sentinel excerpt mockingly describes a Boston person who shuts his eyes drops his jaw lolls his head and appears to be undergoing a “devitalization” to rest his mind. It jokes that such a state should be easy to endure and ridicules the notion of needing medical help.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Boston
Brakeman Describes Suffering in Corset Quip
In Utica a brakeman injured between freight cars telling his wife of the pain, she quips that is how it feels breaking in a new pair of corsets, reflecting a humorous reaction to an accident.
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Cettine
Utica Press
Chicago boy runs away to become pirate king
A 14 year old Chicago youth fled home seeking piracy glory. Captured by police, he was returned to his parents after a brief talk with his father and was said to be acting normally again.
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Norristown Herald
Chicago
Something new in butter dishes
A boarding house scene in the Atlanta Constitution features Mrs Pompano noting new ads and a Quip about opium addiction. The piece pivots to a Red Star Cough Cure pitch, touting purity and narcotic-free relief for 25 cents.
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Atlanta Constitution
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