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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1885
Page
4
A warning from THE GLOBE alerts that J. T. Jones poses as a Globe agent in Maine and urges people not to pay money to any traveling agent since the paper has no agents in Maine. The message says he will be arrested when found.
The 1886 program lists CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK J. T. TROWBRIDGE BARAH ORNE JEWETT BRANDER MATTHEWS ELIZABETH STEWART PHELPS LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT OCTAVE THANET H. C. BUNNER SIDNEY LUSKA THOMAS A JANVIER MRS. BURTON HARRISON E P ROE JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS BARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD J ESTEN COOKE EDWARD EVERETT HALE W H BISHOP A HAYES F C BAYLOR MAURICE THOMSON THOMAS W KNOX PHILLIP BOURKE MARSTON AND MANY OTHERS.
Public notice seeks agents nationwide to distribute sample copies and posters. Offers generous cash commissions.
The Globe offers a list of magazines on page two with wholesale prices and a large subscriber profit at retail. The Globe will cost subscribers less than 50 cents a year on average, sometimes as little as 10 cents, when bundled with THE WEEKLY GLOBE.
A woman in disguise fleeing a crime travels by stage and stops at a country inn. Travelers alight and she exits with the group. At the porch wash shelf a watching man arrest her after noting how she washes her face, revealing her sex by method.
An evening Buffalo to Philadelphia train carriage carried a young couple alone when the man pressed kissing amid quiet revelry. He cried Sawyer and the woman laughed. He retorted that they have been engaged over two weeks despite the interruption.
Norristown Herald reports Awan in Minneapolis filed a $20,000 suit against a church claiming a stairway collapse he mistook for a dark closet caused injury. He lost the suit as the jury suggested taking risks may have consequences.
Lowell Courier reports a tax sale in Albany where a bidder offered 154 dollars for a land parcel. The OCR note lists a string of numbers and symbols that do not form clear data, but the main fact is the high bid of 154 dollars at the Albany sale.
The Hoston Weekly Globe announces year end 1885, urges renewals and asks current subscribers to recruit new ones. It promotes sample copies, club formations, and watch and book ads with agent commissions. It notes Globe sewing machines and Singer model quality, inviting clubs and mail bundles to be sent to Boston, Mass. It ends with a political note about the Democratic House protecting citizen control in executive selection.
In Congress debates on Hoars presidential succession bill, critics warn against empowering a cabinet official to act as president if the president and vice president die or are disabled. They favor new elections and oppose adopting a system that could place control in a single appointee, arguing for adherence to constitutional provisions and the people’s choice.
An elderly merchant laments shift from feudal to contractual relations between masters and workers, noting pride in a firm’s fortunes has faded. The piece argues for a higher, cooperative industrial order, explores arbitration, sliding scales, and the need for lasting employer worker bonds, warnings about book access and sustainable wages, with a New Year reflection on personal reform.
The text urges pursuing plans with principle rather than impulsive zeal. It cautions against overreaching, noting people fail by trying to do too much at once. Progress comes slowly, like ripe fruit, so set a goal and improve each day, as M. J. Savage advised.
Rumors from Woonsocket claim some woollen manufacturers may defy the ten hour law after January 1 by running eleven hours per day, sixty-six per week, while cotton makers supposedly stay within the spirit of the law. Officials warn against strikes and urge lawful hours to avoid unrest.
A Columbus Dispatch poem skims a girl once sour who, in anticipation of Christmas, proves kind to family and lover. Each gifts her a package labeled Candy, but her dream ends with discovery that the contents are merely sand, exposing a lesson about generosity.
The Chicago Herald notes that children's savings banks hold thousands of toy banks full of pennies nickels and dimes. Those coins, if released into circulation, could ease coin shortages in the money market.
A Hanover Post brief recalls an Elmwood letter about a church scene. A singing parishioner repeatedly cried O yes as the preacher posed a question about spending eternity in hell, a moment that left the service moodily unsettled.
Beethoven Hall hosted a mass meeting last night to endorse a local project named Sodom. Community leaders urged support and attendance, citing potential civic benefits and public interest in pursuing the proposal.
A page from the Messenger presents pen portraits of New York's emerging citizens along with commentary on how some boys graduate into criminals. It portrays social themes and personal fates in a periodical column style.
In a New York reminiscence the author contrasts the millionaire's despair with a loyal groom's steady health, noting Vanderbilt's wealth brought anxiety and decline. He argues money lacks happiness without health and questions whether wealth is worth the price of well being, urging balance between fortune and vitality.
A collage of curiosities from a late 19th century paper notes bans on Bible sales in Rio, a birth and ballet link at St Augustins, and a chaplain paid six dollars for five minutes. It cites congress members, Vanderbilt mourning, wedding ring myths, elopements, a divorce fund, and quirky local anecdotes across cities, courts, and clubs.
A reflective question on what lasts longer for future generations: money or health. The speaker weighs wealth against physique, noting overtaxed fathers and healthy sons, while pondering the fate of a likely fragile, cigarette-scented future. The tone is sardonic and cautionary.
Delicate refined and useful describes the genuine Murray and Lanman Florida Water great as a holiday present. The perfume and perfume water are embodied in a fragrant preparation offered for sale by druggists perfumers and fancy goods dealers.
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