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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1882
Page
4
In many towns only one subscriber exists. If that subscriber forms a club, all papers go in one package. Safer to send several papers than one. Show your copy to neighbors and join. Only $1 per year, 6 copies for $5. Address the Weekly Globe Boston Mass.
The regular agents of Tar Weekly Globe can deduct their regular commission and the Globe will be sent to each subscriber until January 1884. Send for agents private terms and form a club.
A new detective story by the author of Donald Dyke begins in The Weekly Globe next Tuesday. It features Mrs Dyke using keen strategy to locate her detective husband who disappears in Boston. The tale is billed as the first of a powerful series for 1883 and urged to read.
The magazine offer states TRF Weekly Globe often costs fifty cents a year for subscribers. It invites readers to order THE WEEKLY GLOBE and read the list of publications offered with it. Agents may combine other publications with Tar Weekly Globe orders and receive the regular commission on THE Grope only.
The Globe and Century Magazine, published by The Century Company, has raised its wholesale price and now costs subscribers 455 dollars instead of 425, effective immediately.
The Weekly Globe offers one year worldwide delivery free of postage for 100 dollars or six copies for 300 pounds. Subscriptions must be sent by postal order registered letter or draft on New York or Boston, stamps may be accepted. All letters should be addressed to THE WEEKLY GLOBE Boston MA with full writer name and address. notices require former and present addresses. lost copies will be duplicated free of charge.
The German empire consumed an enormous 830 million gallons of beer last year, with Bavaria at 266 million and Württemberg at 70 million, illustrating the nation’s strong beer culture and popular demand across regions.
An ad promotes free sample copies of the Globe urging distribution townwide to gain subscribers. It claims a cheap weekly rate and mocks rivals. The piece shifts to German beer consumption estimates in Baden Bavaria and notes taxes on breweries totaling about 4.2 million dollars annually plus export levies, mentioning Henry Faxon and prohibition platforms.
The article traces Christmas as a festival of merriment before Puritan reforms, noting old practices such as the yule log and boar’s head in halls like Oxford’s Queen’s College. It cites Stowe and Tusser, mentions Herrick, Milton, and later poets, then describes a shift toward religious solemnity and less festive verse until Scott’s Marmion revived nostalgia for the old Christmas spirit.
The notice urges forming a large club by securing subscribers. If five cannot be reached, collect as many as possible. Each missing subscriber reduces the extension of three months. Subscribers pay only $1 per year for six copies and may choose to keep agents' cash commission.
Ex senator Dorsey releases a lengthy Herald interview detailing campaign entanglements with Garfield and party managers. He claims Garfield trusted him and that Morton raised over 150000 for Indiana, with Dorsey central to funding and strategy. The piece questions political retribution and the era’s reform rhetoric surrounding Garfield and Arthur.
A compact portrait tracing General Fitz John Porter from Mexican War valor to Civil War leadership and the sixteen year postwar injustice. The Cincinnati Gazette cites Porter’s early gallantry, key actions at Charleston, Texas, Tortugas, St. Louis, and Maryland, plus his crucial Army of the Potomac roles at Gaines Mill and Malvern Hill, ending with his continued call for fair treatment after the Grant reversal.
The narrative recounts Porter's determined marches from Aquia to Falmouth and Rappahannock Station under Halleck and Burnside. He kept communications with Burnside and Pope, struggled with dysentery, faced paper losses at Catlett’s Station, and insisted on reporting to Pope, challenging perceived insubordination. Congress is urged to recompense him to clear his name.
A section of the Princeton Review features Hon David Wells arguing for tariff revision and abolition of prohibitive import taxes to spur domestic growth. He contends protection does not raise wages and cites census data on cotton, iron, steel, silk, and other industries to compare wages and costs between the United States and England.
The piece describes forming clubs with sample copies and small payments to receive additional copies. It cites Mr Wells on tariff impacts, noting various industry margins and arguing duties of 30 to 365 percent aim to shield American manufacturers from foreign wage advantages.
A sensational Brussels murder case ends with Leon and Armand Peltzer condemned to death for killing Guillaume Bernays to enable Armand to marry Bernays wife. Leon lured the lawyer to a chamber and shot him, then helped frame the crime. Leon’s outburst on sentencing drew sharp comment from the judge.
A collage of brief items and quips from The London Times and nearby papers. It cites England needing America, a Augusta child correcting a color term, a Portland laughter about liquor, Beecher on gambling at fairs, a Gambetta wound, Grant on pensions, New York real estate costs, Southern land sales, and a humorous street scene. Also mentions Jekyll and a judge’s soap joke, Boston church efforts, Robeson and the fast mail bill, Adam and the apple, funny childnier remarks, and Yale student tobacco sales volume.
A collage of brief items covers legal reforms, social mores, and curious anecdotes. Topics include free sample circulars for agents, a neighborly misunderstanding, leather nails in England, apple jack distilleries in Texas, and humorous quips about marriage, hair counts, and penny newspapers. Names, places, and dates are scattered through the miscellany.
A reflective verse recalling the first Christmas night moon and the Star guiding angels. The speaker notes the pale crescent lighting the holy scene and the divine grace blessing humanity, urging solemn gaze upon Christmas cheer and the Christ star.
The Globe announces goals for 1883 including twelve great stories and a weekly agriculture page and ladies department. Champion checker Charles F. Barker will contribute weekly, and the paper aims to be suitable for every family member.
A Richmond Whig excerpt recounts a remarkable 1858 Chesapeake and Ohio rail incident in which a passenger train struck a cow calf at the track, the calf surviving outside the bed and later becoming a valued cow. It also notes a London fire at Whiteley’s, later described as a universal purveyor, and sketches Yorkshire business prowess, a possum driving venture from Charlotte to Davidson College, plus a Georgia farmers’ lament about opossum hunters and a provocative Gainesville Eagle quip on impossible tree removal.
A New Zealander with a severe headache soaked his head in a mash of gum tree leaves to ease the pain. He felt relief but found his hair dyed a lasting peacock blue, a striking effect rivaling Tyrian purple.
An interview discusses rapid town growth outpacing infrastructure. The speaker notes dozens of new houses being built with makeshift construction. Inside plaster and wood framing are covered by thick brown paper to insulate against cold.
Atchison Globe notes a stranger knelt and asked a girl named Buckles for marriage on Commerce street, Atchison, while she walked by. The event is reported alongside items about sudden changes in Stockton and a Mexican man committed to an asylum after a bizarre hot water and cool water experiment.
PA Clark reported from the Platte region that while excavating a ditch last week he uncovered a coffin containing human bones and clothing suggesting a man. The coffin also held five large rattlesnakes and a huge centipede, all alive.
A horse in Saginaw broke from its stable during the night and sought aid from a veterinary surgeon who hid. The animal stood exposed for hours, and by morning it was dead shortly after admission to treatment.
A fire consumed John Lamberson’s residence and ban at Sprithfield, L. I. The blaze killed three horses, a mule and several cows, with one mule escaping after breaking a door. Hay and grain were lost. the event spurred a baffling exchange about an elephant milk myth.
An 1880 Kansas market note reports whiskey icicle sales and Hopkins Bitters praised by a Missouri reader. The letter from William T. McClure claims Hop Bitters helped his daughter after years of ailment. The piece touts aggressive marketing and wide appeal of the tonic.
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