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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1889
Page
4
An old newspaper notice lists subscription rates for different papers and the annual price. It notes per month and per year costs in conte and pounds, with postage prepaid. The Weekly Gronz and Goose-One copies are offered, with mail delivery terms and stated year rates.
An offer declares six copies for four dollars and an option for a free one year Globe by obtaining four neighboring subscriptions at one dollar each. Postage is free, with single subscriptions priced at one dollar per year, sixty cents for six months, and twenty-five cents for three months.
The Weekly Globe urges readers to form clubs and recruit subscribers. It offers free sample copies mailed from the office to potential subscribers and invites readers to send names of those to receive samples.
The Globe announces a two month sequence on soil origin nature and cultivation. The first paper details minerals composing soils and defines geological terms used in soil discussion. Readers are urged to secure every Weekly Globe issue for the series.
The Weekly Globe informs readers that if their subscription expires in February or March they will receive an expiration notice. The notice highlights a renewal offer and urges readers to renew, promoting the Globe as a valued family service and inviting referrals and free sample copies.
A vivid engraving shows a farm district scene with a country home, open barn, lawn, and orchard. In the foreground a family works the fields as the father forks bay and the mother and daughter gather it, while a small son stands nearby. The image promotes farm mortgages at 6 and 7 percent interest.
A literary scene of a family laboring to lift a seven percent mortgage stands in as a critique of high farm interest. The piece notes widespread mortgage burdens on U.S. farms, compares regional rates, and cites tariffs and policy as drivers, urging secure land ownership as France’s model.
Despatches from St Louis suggest all barb wire patents in the United States are void due to a prior French patent from 1865. The Wasupura Moon Company of Worcester gleans large profits from barb wire patents. Speculation links this to the mysterious claim the famous Doc Wilson had on Mr Moon.
The Parnell commission's open court promise collapses into farce as the attorney general acts without notice to expose forged letters. Richarp Piccott, ex editor of a Nationalist paper, aids a vendor in peddling the trash while claims of seven autograph types intensify forgery allegations. The Times solicitor faces confusion amid hearsay and bribery accusations, threatening to reveal a rotten scam behind stolen letters.
Massachusetts Medical Society urged action on diphtheria as a community burden. The piece notes 6000 plus cases and 17065 deaths over five years, argues disease is airborne and shared, and calls for public health registers, ward committees, and citizen cooperation to curb fatalities amid urban crowding and varying ventilation.
The passage argues that disease affects all classes equally and will spur organized public action similar to antiwar efforts. once realized, society will mobilize to preserve life and oppose destruction through warfare.
A political comparison contrasts President Cleveland leaving office with President Harrison entering. Cleveland departs claiming unmade conditions altered the outcome while Harrison rises amid accusations of patronage and graft. The piece frames the transfer as victory tainted by political dealings and power shifts.
A Druggists' Bulletin whale milk tale is debunked as a hoax while church elitism sparks debate on poverty and funding. Tariff and labor disputes surface with wage cuts and protection folly. International tensions rise over Samoa and German diplomacy, and politics touch the new states and Panama canal idle labor. Cattle social status sparks tragedy as herd behavior meets amateur cowboys.
Washington reports Treasury estimates on how the tariff bill would cut revenues. House plan reduces customs by 50,350,346 and internal revenue by 17,610,234 total 67,060,679. Senate amendments forecast 47,882,667 in reductions with customs down 13,976,887 and internal revenue down 33,105,780. Secretary Fairchild cautions these projections rely on assumptions and may mislead.
The People’s Lawyer notes he cannot answer all inquiries but will consider letters promptly. Answers cannot normally be repeated. Name and address are required but not printed. Postal cards or multi‑sided letters cannot be published or answered.
A question arises whether a benefit society created in a shop with employers contributing to a sickness weekly allowance affects liability. The inquiry asks if such a plan exempts employers from damages claims under employers liability acts for injuries.
In the case of a Mr A who dies unmarried and intestate, three sisters survive plus a niece, daughter of a deceased sister. The question asks whether the niece is an equal heir with her aunts in the uncle’s estate. The scenario requires legal guidance on intestate succession and the niece’s rights as a heir versus the aunts who are siblings of the deceased.
A 20 year old man explains he and his sister work and live with their mother under a nonworking stepfather who drinks and has threatened violence. He asks if the police or courts can force him to leave or if they must pay rent and support him. The responder notes the renter’s right to decide who stays and that they are not obligated to support him.
A Boston installment purchase case raises whether interest may be charged after January 1, 1889 when the signed lease lacked any rate and the added clause was inserted post signing. The claimant argues a man is not bound by terms added after his signature without knowledge, and that no agreement on interest existed.
A reader asks if the President may leave the United States while in office and whether any law forbids it. The response notes no specific law exists that bars travel, and observes that no president has ever left the country during a term.
A landowner reports 12 years of ownership with their land raised about a foot while a neighbor later dug into their own land by about 18 inches to level his lot. The result is the neighbor's digging causing the complainant's land to cave in and the fence to tilt. They ask what can be done and request the neighbor to restore the fence and repair the affected area.
A writer living with an elderly relative asks if a signed receipt for back board can be legally binding if future heirs challenge it. He cites twenty years of board without pay to support a large family and seeks guidance on just actions and lawful protection.
A reader outlines assembling a wolian harp from beech wood with a box body, three large holes, and 12 alternating brass pins and steel pegs. Twelve first violin strings are looped and wound, tuned in unison, with a thin board above to boost draft, then placed in a partly opened window with a door opened for airflow at Pawtucket.
In cribbage play A lays a 6 and B a 7 then A uses a 5 for a run of three and a 4 for a run of four. A then plays a 6 and asserts a run of four. Is this claim correct. The Globe letters discuss drafting in war times and constitutional scenarios including what happens if the president and vice president elect die before or after inauguration.
A speaker questions identity and duty, urged by an inner summons to imitate nature and attain a vast, self-contained life. The starry vault, sea, and sky answer with a call to independence. The echo declares that embracing one’s true self ends inner misery.
A Somerville Journal piece muses on memory as a dual gift and burden. It contrasts two pivotal moments when a woman first said Yes and then later No, leaving the reader pondering how memory shapes belief and choice.
A series of brief items report fires in Brandon Manitoba and Memphis Tennessee causing heavy damages, yard fires in Nashville and a multi-state political scene. Other items note vetoes by the President on private pension bills, Maine pardon petitions, mining disruptions, brewery purchases in Rochester, and Canada leprosy trends. Numerous incidents include ship trials, drownings, fires, and legal moves across cities such as Philadelphia Nashville Chicago New York and Ottawa with names like Yorktown Brongon Pike Pike, Deerlodge, and Hamilton.
Nearly complete county returns show the Nevada constitution amendment authorizing state lotteries defeated by about 500 ballots. Other items note an export duty dispute, an impending Pottsville mill reduction, and a wave of local incidents from fires to drownings and political shifts.
A compendium of political moves and incidents in the United States and abroad. Goff, Kenna, and Dorr navigate a West Virginia senatorial race. Delayed Indian affairs actions include a Delaware payout. A boiler explosion on a Philadelphia & Reading line kills and wounds workers. Deaths and funeral notices across New York and Boston medical circles. Canadian Canoe Association gets Sugar Island access. A New York artist’s suspected suicide found with his work. Prohibition drives in Iowa counties. Connecticut Mutual Life probes and monetary failures prompt audits. Barbed wire patent origins traced to France. School attendance enforcement and probate recourse discussed in Haverhill. Creek nation land cession bill advances in Congress with homestead protections. Norwich youths arrested for packing war boxes. Ogden Utah elections show anti-Mormon gains amid careful policing. Jersey City shoplifting spree foiled by undercover detectives. War secretary’s report criticizes signal corps and urges reorganization and expanded enlisted strength.
Secretary Bayard and Attorney General Garland faced a hearing at the State Department in Washington on the Nicaragua canal bill to gauge legal objections before presidential action. Minister Hubbard seeks a treaty with Japan while Pan-Electric probe targets President Cleveland’s statements via Garland and others.
A playful essay notes cats as mysterious yet familiar pets while dogs are seen as frank and open. It contrasts feline secrecy with canine candor, highlighting a cat's silent suspense and a dog’s tendency to bite enemies but not betray friends.
The Toronto Mail reports two rock falls at Niagara Falls over Friday and Saturday causing the falls to shift from V to a reversion toward its old horseshoe form. The falls are moving southward, carving a deep rock chasm. debris is ground to powder and carried to Lake Ontario. Predictions say the falls may retreat about two miles, stabilizing at a height of around 10 feet. The limestone layer under shale erodes, forcing a backward step once the shale is exhausted.
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