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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1883
Page
4
To secure a club arrangements, send for free sample copies and distribute them townwide. The Globe boasts self endorsement and promises a subscriber with each copy. It claims to be the best and cheapest weekly in the United States with a $1 yearly rate, or six copies for $5 for 14 months.
A brief advertisement urges forming a large club by securing five or more subscribers. It offers three months extension per missing subscriber, or the option to keep agents’ cash commission. Pricing lists single copies at $1 per year and six copies for 14 months at $5.
A confidential circular and sample copies will be sent free upon application. Samples are free to agents at any time. A liberal cash commission is allowed anyone who wishes to act as an agent. Push The Globe and double its circulation.
A club offer states that a club of five and five dollars entitles the sender to an extra copy free. Anyone can form a club by showing a sample copy to neighbors and friends. A club of ten and ten dollars provides three extra copies free. Sample copies are free.
A club of five subscribers will receive an extra copy free for fourteen months and the papers will be entered for fourteen months. Clubs may be mailed to one address or to each subscriber. Sending several copies in one package reduces mail loss risk compared to singles.
Single subscriptions priced at 1 per year with a one year copy sent to England Ireland or Scotland for 204 cents The Weekly Globe publication address is Boston Massachusetts.
Ocean to Ocean or A Villain's Trail is highlighted as a strong foundation story by M Quad of the Michigan Press. The author, known for Civil War battle sketches in THE WEEKLY GUARD, is praised for vivid, graphic narration and broad scope. Readers are urged to tell neighbors and form a reading group.
Ernest A Young author of Donald Dyke the Detective serials rushes to complete a final novel for publication after Ocean to Ocean. It explores country and city life with enough mystery to spark strong reader interest. The Weekly Globe promises abundant attractions and urges readers to form clubs now.
A newspaper notice urges readers to check the date opposite the name for expiry, then renew and recruit five friends to subscribe, offering a free copy for the referrer and requesting broad readership support.
The first column on this page reveals terms for clubs offering 14 months of THE GLOBE to every club of five or more and to the club-raiser. The offer encourages members to form large clubs by extending the extended subscription.
The Weekly Globe offers one year subscriptions free of postage within the United States and Canada for 100 copies at £500. Send subscriptions by postal order, registered letter, or draft on New York or Boston. Stamps of 1 2 or 3 cents are accepted, not registered. Address all correspondence to The Weekly Globe Boston Mass with full return details.
Mr D M Sabin, age 39, born in Connecticut, has defeated Windom in Minnesota's senatorial contest and risen as a wealthy, influential businessman in the West. He would bolster protectionist interests in the Senate as head of a major enterprise seeking tariffs, while a Sanitarian writer urges reform in medical expert testimony and court funding.
A reflection on social mobility noting that monetary wealth does not determine the ascent of a laboring man to high political office. The passage suggests there is no inherent barrier to a laborer’s rise, even to governor or president, in this country.
The article argues that the drift of Congress on tariff bills confuses the public and harms workers. It warns that unless Congress ends its frantic, all-sides approach to tariff issues, the number of new inmates for insane asylums could rise by several hundred. It mocks the lawmakers and highlights the Morrill and Kelley bills, the tariff commission, and party strife.
The piece challenges the tariff defense that protection shields labor by shielding domestic industry from foreign competition. It argues the policy mostly benefits a few capitalists, raises prices on basics for workers, and creates monopoly and higher taxes. It cites J S Moore’s analysis of tax burdens on food, clothing, and furniture as revealed in the New York Herald.
A discussion on tariff policy notes champagne and castor oil duties at 102 percent and the preference for protective measures. The piece argues that protection benefits domestic interests and urges the reader to study Mr. Moore’s tables before concluding that protection is warranted.
The piece critiques cadet discipline at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, citing mutinous actions after cadets protested suspensions. It argues for strict enforcement of discipline, condemns snobbery toward marines, and supports the secretary of the navy’s measures, warning that arrogance undermines future naval efficiency. The article emphasizes the need for obedience and respect for authority in the service.
The New York Herald frames Congress tariff disputes as a class war with labor at the center. A Connecticut worker’s letter, read by Senator Beck, describes wages stagnation and rising living costs despite protection, arguing tariff policy harms the workingman in Meriden and across the nation.
The article rails at witnesses in a Dublin murder trial, calling informers vile and questioning the Crown case. It notes imported American beef replacing English fare and laments Irish-English conflict with sardonic bite, referencing O Donovan Rossa and a Celt feud.
A collage of era trivia and anecdotes notes on Mormon family storage habits, English women owning property, steamship inquiries, rapid-fire quips, and humorous vignettes. It covers politics, industry, and social oddities with names, places, and dates sparingly anchored in a scatter of non-fiction snippets.
A remarkable parrot in Charleston died last Thursday after a life of remarkable mimicry. The bird could learn long sentences and place them in apt combinations. Notable phrases included a professor asking about health at the dining table and a North Carolina copperhead remark about Democrats.
Maryland hawk and owl traps prove effective for pest control with steel jaws and crows poisoned on Gardiner's Island. Indian Territory fences span vast pasture fields. Major Drum's sixty miles of cedar and barbed wire fences support a booming cattle trade. Hamilton Ontario lists 14 men over six feet four inches as potential fire escapes for Ottawa’s tallest buildings.
Travellers report a wild man discovered in a forest sixty miles west of Onkaparing. The creature has a single massive leg ending in a broad flat foot with a five to six inch heel behind the ankle. It moves by long hops, crossing streams twelve to fifteen feet wide, and efforts to capture it have failed.
In Bodie California a picnic party from Bodie visiting Lundy lake lost a small ear ring during fishing. On Monday John Murphy of Mill Creek caught a three pound trout at Lake Lundy while fishing Saronge a hole in the ice. The earring was found embedded in the fish gills after it had been swallowed and pierced the gill as the trout tried to swallow it.
Passengers aboard the Peninsula and Oriental steamer Malwa faced an odd crisis when a drunk Indian knife-cleaner tied around his waist about 600 table knives and jumped overboard. The ship halted and retraced, but rescuers failed to recover the man, forcing diners to use penknives until Alexandria.
A Louisville Courier Journal correspondent recalls a superstition tale from near Hagerstown Maryland. A baby with a fire mark on the face was rubbed by a deceased old woman’s cold hand hoping to erase the mark. The mother says the mark faded and disappeared over months. The girl is now 19 with a fair complexion.
At Vineland station on Sunday afternoon fast riders in a wagon threw a lasso and caught a Chinaman. He was dragged for a distance and suffered dangerous injuries. Villagers reportedly laughed loudly at the incident, even during the evening church service.
A collection of rural proverbs reflecting Southern farm life and practical wisdom. The sayings caution about hardship and timing, using imagery of weather, crops, and animals to convey life lessons relevant to farmers and households.
A damaged clipping describes a quail hunting shipment on the Marietta and North Georgia road with a baggage car full of dogs valued at 2000 dollars, hunters valued at 6000, guns at 1400, and lunch valued at 20 while on return $580 worth of birds were counted. The text also mentions $50 in hunters and a coach worth 1400 dollars.
A Dakota farmer near Grand Forks discovered smoke from a straw stack and attempted to douse it. As he climbed in with a water pail the interior was consumed and the top collapsed, plunging him into the blaze where his body was entirely burned.
Tom son of Ignatius Bevans of Williamstown shot and killed nine quails with one shot while out hunting. He fired at about twenty five yards and uniquely, all birds in the flock were slain.
The San Francisco Herald reports the Truckee River froze to the bottom freezing a glassy surface. Schools of trout remained fixed where the cold wave struck them as ranchmen along the river take to fishing with axes.
A bear killed in Fimer township Sanilas county is claimed on examination of a foot to be the same bear that escaped from James Minard's trap twenty one years ago.
Religious philanthropists in Somers Connecticut opened a large skating rink hoping to lure youths away from dances. They expect skating to be more engaging and keep girls from clinging to partners during dances, making the experiment costly but potentially successful.
A letter from Neweronk New York dated August 11 1880 describes a sufferer with a refractory liver using Hop Bitters to ease symptoms and praising the tincture as greatly helpful and not afraid to say so ending with Jos Billings signature.
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