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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1883
Page
4
During March, April and May, 14 Months will be given to each subscriber when two or more orders are placed together, directly or via postmaster or agent. Single subscribers pay $1 for 12 months.
A note states Every Club Receives The Globe 14 Months and a Single Subscriber gets The Globe for 12 months, outlining a promotional distribution term.
Notice to subscribers and agents: paper delivery cannot exceed 12 months per single subscription. To secure 14 months, at least two copies of The Globe must be ordered for a year in one transaction.
An advertisement invites clubs to request free copies and distribute them townwide. It claims the Globe speaks for itself and will secure subscribers. It touts the weekly as the best and cheapest in the United States with pricing of one dollar per year or six copies for five dollars for fourteen months.
A confidential circular and sample copies will be sent free upon application. Samples are free to agents at any time. Poh the Globe and double its circulation.
Serial fiction note announces the next installment by M. Quad of the Michigan Press. The item invites readers to page 7 of the Hoston Weekly Globe and mentions back numbers are available.
Mr Ernest A Young author of the Donald Dyke detective stories writes a new novel to appear in March. It promises to surpass prior GLone serials in excitement and appeal. The Tur WEEKLY GLone touts its wealth of attractions and urges readers to act now.
The note asks readers to check their expiration date printed opposite their name, promises renewal, and urges inviting five friends to subscribe to secure a free copy, or otherwise recruit as many as possible to subscribe.
The page describes new and liberal terms to clubs. Any club of five or more, and the club-raiser, will receive True Glonk 14 months. If a club of five cannot be formed, any person may send a subscription with their own, and both will receive The Glony 14 months.
Tar WEEKLY GLope offers United States and Canada yearly subscriptions free of postage at 100, six copies for 8500. Subscriptions by postal order, registered letter, or New York or Boston draft. stamps 1 2 or 3 cents accepted. Address to THE WEEKLY GLOBE Boston Mass with full writer details. Change of address requires old and new. Discontinue notices include town county state. Duplicated mailings free. Do not register stamps. Sample copies free.
The page contains advertising rates, a political memoir on Spain freeing Cuban slaves, critique of Cuban racial injustice, relief fundraising for West flood victims, musings on Onondaga tribal customs, sharp jabs at the G O P in the San Francisco Wasp, river and harbor bill costs, Alaska territorial government moves, and remarks on immigration and mining prospects amid varied federal themes.
The text argues Alaska could yield revenue to the United States via coal, lumber, and fisheries if the government devises a plan. It suggests settlement could come sooner or later if profitability is achieved, contrasting current unprofitability with potential gains.
Mr Henry George argues money corrupts elections and institutions, citing the Astor Flower contest where large sums were spent and votes bought. He warns corruption has spread to rural districts and suggests reforms such as government printed ballots, separate candidate slips, open meetings, and ending legitimate expenses to curb illegitimate spending and protect the republic.
The piece argues Boston will surpass current limits with rising population and wealth. It traces census figures from 1850 to 1880, projects future growth toward a million, notes real estate and business expansion, and contrasts Boston's livable, orderly character with other big cities.
We boast advantages over other cities and defend Boston as the hub of growth. The Globe hails ambitious young men, steady merchants, and thriving shops. Let no one despair in the face of the future as Boston builds a stronger, brighter city.
A sharp eyed critic fixes on Boston as the mood shifts, claiming a fake act and planning to move out. The room he occupies outshines the company he keeps, signaling a souring scene amid strained ties.
A historical critique argues Congress, dominated by capitalists and Republicans, will not reduce taxes. Senators amend tariff bills to raise rates, sugar aside, and pledge to cut internal revenue remain unkept. The piece decries wage workers bearing tax burdens and predicts no relief while capitalist interests control Congress.
An Illinois bar address argues reforms to juries and court efficiency, urging arbitration between workers and employers, swift revenue and public project cases, and greater legal input into business. It advocates lawyers using commercial knowledge to aid commerce and reduce court caseloads.
Nevada Assemblyman Johnson pushes a Sunday observance bill modeled after New York laws. The act would ban business on Sunday with fines from 25 to 100 dollars, but exempts hotels barber shops saloons and drug stores and applies only in counties with over 2500 votes. Storey County is the only qualifying county.
A Mayhem filled critique accuses the Woman's Liberty League of advocating violent acts to secure women's voting rights. The letter-writer claims suffragists threaten arson and explosions against opponents including brewers and saloon keepers. The piece portrays the movement as pursuing liberty by coercion and destruction, citing a member's claim of burning property and using dynamite and nitro to attack enemies.
A historical remark contrasts practical reform methods with force. The author cites temperance literature and a 500-women petition as nonviolent means, but also argues that when opponents refuse reason, knocking brains out ends error and secures harmony, invoking Napoleons and Washingtons as examples of decisive action. The tone critiques debate without open-minded conviction.
A commentator links current French political fear to the lead up to the 1789 revolution. Rumors of royalist plots, 80,000 armed men, and sinister dagger conspiracies circulate, with absurd details about crucifix shaped blades and segmented daggers. The piece warns against overreacting to widespread panic.
A reader notes startling figures: $40,000,000 yearly for 37,000 lawyers, $7,000,000 for 40,000 clergy, and $50,000,000 for 17,000,000 dogs. The piece argues dogs cost more than clergy and lawyers combined, highlights wide salary ranges among clergy and lawyers, and suggests these numbers influence career choices and perceptions of the professions.
A thoughtful gentleman warns that many past-prime, thrifty men struggle to find work, a girl misreads a bow-legged man as a tunnel, and a Georgia mother miscounts her twenty-one children. A clergyman receives a gratitude note from a poor donor instead of cash. Russians solidify kerosene into candlelike tallow, a bear dances for a hunter, and New York workers are praised or questioned by papers in contrasting views. A Detroit report recalls a scene in the Senate lobby with Senator Dawes.
A collage of short items recounts political theater over duties on carpets, speculative store auctions, Thirteen Club rites in New York, snowed trains with a crav box, Irish Castlerea floods, witty editor banter, global typhoid cures, Wagner's early dramas, Russian women studying, whiskey bills in Congress, Victorian letters, and vivid political and literary asides, including Jefferson and Isaiah contrasts and Ohio floods.
A Hudson river farmer seeks a better horse in Yonkers trades with a Baptist deacon. After three days the farmer complains of hidden defects in the horse. The deacon cites a biblical passage about sin and trades back. Then the text shifts to Angina Pectoris and Dr Graves Heart Regulator claims.
The notice asks readers to reference The Boston Weekly Globe when answering any advertisements in the paper, requesting recognition of the original source in all ad responses.
Mary Anderson paid a fine of one dollar and costs for drunkenness in Boston Police Court. Various figures including Charley Ross, Alfred Tennyson, George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Benjamin Franklin Butler, and others are described as jailed or charged with crimes in cities such as Petersburg Baltimore and East St. Louis. The passage also mentions a colored George Washington in Virginia and a don Cameron of St. Louis affecting legal actions against N A Richards. The last lines reference Washington and Martha Washington involved in a fraud case in Savannah.
Last Sunday a rare weather phenomenon formed over the Virginia city as extreme cold caused steam from local works to rise in tall, silvery columns then condense and frost the air. Clear skies and sunshine made glittering frost particles fall softly like almond dust.
Mr. Rose Price of the Tussahyn district hunted birds when dogs chased a large gray fox. Reinforcements joined the chase for hours until the fox sought refuge in Aleck Norman's house. It ran up the chimney but only briefly, then hid under a bed where it was flushed out and killed.
The Brown block is being remodeled to house Western Union Telegraph Company needs. Over 1100 wires are supported on the roof and will be threaded through the building. About 150,000 holes with 3/8 inch diameter must be bored across cleats and joists four inches thick. The resulting continuous hole equals nine miles. A separate contract covers boring this nine mile passage. Buffalo has even larger bores elsewhere.
A Davie county correspondent recalls coast life with elderly men near a hundred and their feats. The piece mentions Saynmy Mann and Neddy Payne, famed elders, and a curious tale of coast gatherings where sticks were whittled to settle a violent dispute over lineage and funerals.
A Williamsport area young woman swallowed a pin lodged crosswise in her throat. Doctors called the case hopeless until her brother advised swallowing a button with a string. The boy pulled the string, dislodging the pin. her throat was torn but not seriously injured.
An owl battled two crows for an hour near Bethlehem, Tennessee. Sunlight put the owl at a disadvantage but it killed one crow and blinded the other after moving between trees. A mob of about twenty crows pursued the owl toward the woods seeking vengeance.
A valuable Locust Valley cow died after illness. Post mortem found four handfuls of horseshoe nails in her stomach. One nail pierced the heart, embedding the point about half an inch. Blacksmith Kirk of Locust Valley owned the animal.
The Mountain Signal reports that two years ago Mr Williams tapped a well on his property, which supplied water in dry periods. In wet seasons the flow drops and during recent heavy rain the well went completely dry, leaving the site lacking water.
Eastern city residents complain about excessive railway whistle blowing used to salute wives or sweethearts or to wake sleepers. They vow to stop the nuisance. A white squirrel is received by Henry Schwinge of Indianapolis from R A Huston of Kennard, a fully grown playful specimen. Polk Miller of Richmond displays a nearly white Virginia partridge at his store.
Newton residents are amused by a double-tongued baby born to Mrs James Thompson of 380 South Warren Street. Both mother and baby are doing well and the child is a girl.
A village resident recalled finding a huge turtle in Grassy creek about three miles away. The flesh fed four families for five days until exhausted, with much shared to neighbors. The marvel was the shell, repurposed as a wheat measure.
The Atlanta Constitution reports Miss Jennie Thomason from Gaddistown district Union county stands five feet tall and has hair measuring five feet eight inches. At 18 her hair is described as black as a raven's wing and has drawn public attention.
Milton Sharpless of West Bradford township Chester county owns a dozen singularly colored lambs. One lamb resembles a fox color another is chocolate hued and another is spotted like a fawn. A walnut knot on Joseph Jacksons farm near Centreville, once considered worthless due to decay, recently sold for export to Europe.
An Athens resident reports a large Indian peace pipe weighing five or six pounds found in a Greene county mound. The item is described as exact in shape to a pipe and sound as when carved. Also noted are local commentaries on marriage licenses and a remark about Hop Bitters for sickly children.
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