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Newspaper

Boston Weekly Globe

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Feb 22, 1888

Page

4

Beaton Entered at Boston Post Office as Periodical

The notice records Beaton entering at the Boston Mass post office as a periodical matter with 500 and class designation. Subscriptions for various weekly papers show rates: 50 cents monthly, 6 dollars yearly, and 2 dollars yearly by mail. Addresses include 242 Washington Street for Grope Newsratza Co. and related postage prepaid terms.

Tue Grope Newsratza Co Washington Street Beaton Post Office Boston Mass

By elections signal rising support for home rule

English public sentiment shifts toward home rule as Grapstone Liberals gain ground in by elections. Southwark elects a Gladstonian Liberal by 1200 votes, while Edinburgh West returns Buchanan, a Gladstonian, by 3294 to 3248 after his switch from Liberal Unionist. The trend boosts hopes for justice for Ireland.

House of Commons Grapstone Justice Ireland Southwark Edinburgh Mir. Buchanan Buchanan Glapstone

Ramabai circles spark new social cause in 1880s US

Statistics on Indian widows reveal a grim age distribution and punishment mindset. Ramabai, a high-caste Hindu woman living in Philadelphia, advocates reform in a volume, earning backing from Max Muller and leading figures. The result is a new social circle aiming to relieve presidential year tedium.

India United States Pundita Ramabai Philadelphia Max Mutler Ramabai

A Republican's View of the Blaine Letter

An analysis of Mr Blarne Blaine's letter declaring he will not seek the Republican nomination. The piece debates whether the letter is a sincere statement or a strategic feeler and asks how the party should respond to preserve unity and honor the will of Republican masses.

Blarne Biarne Biatne James G. Buavnr

Beurne named as Republican nominee in protectionist bid

William Douerrty argues Beauver Barre is best suited to lead the Republican ticket on the protectionist platform. He contends the party must nominate Barre if health allows, uniting working Americans dependent on home industries and opposing mugwump free traders.

Buarnr Barre Barve Republican Party Mugwump C. R. Copman Cleveland Democratic Party Beaine James G. Buarve Whiiliam W. Douerrty

Republicans face nominating battle of the 1880s

The piece analyzes potential candidates for the Republican nomination, weighing Blair Blaine and others. It notes Blaine's perceived sincerity if Cleveland remains popular, doubts about Sherman’s backing, and examines Hawtry Evarts Depew Lincoln Shridan and others as possible rivals, highlighting regional strength and weaknesses.

Retirement of Leader Leaves Republicans Without Strong Figure

The passage argues the best role for the brave Sherman is clearly leading the army and that Mr. Blarge’s retirement would strip the Republican party of a strong leader, leaving the party with no obvious successor.

Sherrman Mr. Blarge Republican Party

Chicago claims greatest corn centre title in world

A sprawling column parodies current politics and events with mentions of Chicago pride, Bayard victory, a Dakota blizzard disease, and figures like Sherman, Blaine, and Victoria. It riffs on tariffs, fisheries, labor politics, and international affairs, mixing satire with brief notices of local and national interest.

Chicago

Fashions in spring wool plaids and Henrietta cloths

Fashion notes preview light spring wools in pinhead checks larger checks and invisible plaids. Describes 50 inch wide fabrics at $1.50, mixed colors, and plain clothes to pair with plaids. Includes Henrietta cloths 47 inches wide at $1.25 and colors from greens to beiges. Also references Royal fashions and Princess Louise attire for inspiration.

Havana R. Stearns & Co

Color Trends Describe Luxurious Fashion Tones

The article discusses a palette of hues for fabrics and attire, detailing linden green, cedar, chyrtle, and Sven tints, hunter’s green, moss and olive repeats, Indian and Siam red, Coquelicot and scarlet shading, and various browns. It notes grays souris steel and silver, Gobern blues shifting to clear blues, and black as a versatile accent with bright colors, while heliotrope falls out of fashion.

Death of a humorist Petroleum V Nasby D R Locke passes away

D R Locke known as Petroleum V Nasby dies at 6 35 AM in Toledo after long battle with Brights disease Born Sept 20 1833 in Broome County New York He edited several Ohio papers and wrote the Nasby letters shaping Republican era satire He rose to fame in Ohio and England and later joined the temperance movement before parting from the Toledo Blade He authored Divers Views and Swingin Round the Circle among other works

D. BR. Locke Petroleum V Locke Broome County N. Y Cortland Ohio Plymouth Advertiser Mansfield Herald Bucyrus Journal Lindlay Jeffersonian Petroleum V. Nasby Kentucky America England Josh Billings Artemas Ward Boston Toledo Blade Woman's Christian Temperance Union R. Locke Swingin

Solitary Horseman Heads to Gloversville on Snowbound Night

A lone rider halted at the Medberry Hotel in Ballston Spa seeking a rail ride to Gloversville. With trains abandoned due to snow, he urged the landlord to look after his horse, then rode 22 miles on horseback toward Gloversville to reach the wedding of Sam, his intended destination.

Albany Argus Medberry Ballston Spa Gloversville Galway Village Schenectady Sam

A Delightful Dinner in Atlanta Described by City Constitution

The Philadelphia Ledger cites a unique Atlanta dinner praised as highly agreeable. After soup, hosts rose and gentlemen moved to the next right, with ladies remaining. The ritual repeated each course so that by dessert every gentleman had met every lady, then returned to his original escort.

Philadelphia Ledger Atlanta Sondowan

A Literal Broken Heart Case From A Surgeon

A veteran physician recalls a true case of sudden death from a ruptured heart in a healthy 12-year-old boy. He describes how lifting a heavy load caused fatal cardiac rupture found at post mortem, noting it as a rare occurrence in such a young subject.

London Standard

Newburyport Gentleman Delivers Witty Philosophy

A well known Newburyport figure, famed for debate and study, delivered a brief philosophical piece last evening. He argued that when a married man claims to be the boss of the house it signals either deceit, grave error, or brutality.

Solomon Newburyport Herald Newburyport

Affection's Dearest Joys in a Sleeping Babe

A glowing publisher note extols the beauty of a sleeping infant depicted by an artist showing a mother tiptoeing to kiss awake her child. The critique praises the expressions in Wide Awake and Fast Asleep in Sunshine for Little Children. Also advertised are yearly and half yearly magazine access and watercolor sets from Brown Eyes and Blue Eyes with The Globe publication.

Heaven Sunshine GLOBE Weexty Guone

A Gypsy Bride Or True Love Is Best

A Gypsy girl Novagenda marries a rich tourist, breaking with her gypsy lover Arrodine. Algernon Cleveland and his mother discuss her fading health and the fear she longs for life in the gypsy camp, while he vows to shelter her from hardship.

New York Morning Journal Novagenda Arrodine Loth Mr. Cleveland Algernon Nova Algernon Cleveland Jem Cormon

Love and Ambition Return to Romany Lovers at Moonlit Brook

Novajenda returns to Arrodine after years, confessing love and longing. She aches to be with him again, recounting the old days and the pull of romance over ambition. He pleads against death, yet she leans toward a fatal embrace by the moonlit stream.

Arrodine Lov

Complex chemists rule in a daily sentence for wives

The New York Sun notes chemists boast simple statements about patented coloring matters. Industrie describes making alkylised diamidobenzophenonamin chlorides and related auramines, with processes to form mono and disubstituted aurides and various halogen compounds. The piece ends with a jibe about wives saving the line for husbands returning late from work.

New York Sun Industrie

Life's Vicissitudes in Oldtown Newsroom Tale

A Bangor Commercial correspondent notes a Boston letter writer was interrupted by the 5:30 newsboy cry and purchased the paper. He found, in the issue, an obituary for the person he had written to, who had died last Sunday after their extensive business dealings.

Bangor Commercial Boston Oldtown

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