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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1887
Page
4
An advertisement promotes The Weekly Globe as Boston’s leading and only Democratic weekly newspaper. It offers five copies for one year at four dollars with cash required on all orders, agent and postmaster restrictions noted.
Advertises readers reference titles such as Readers' Hand-Book Dictionary of Phrases and Roget's Thesaurus with prices and subscription deals. Promotes easy reading type, half morocco binding, gilt top, free delivery, and post-free mailing.
An advertisement promotes Worcester's Pocket Dictionary and Handy Book of Synonyms as self education aids. The offer includes a one year subscription to THE WEEKLY GLOBE for $1.25 with two new or old subscribers and $2.09, or the two books mailed free to subscribers, with postage on extras.
The Globe advertises two distinct features the Complete Congressional Record and the Complete Resume of Foreign News. It promises weekly summaries for 1887 covering all significant U.S. Congressional actions and major international events.
Readers are urged to form a four subscriber club for four dollars to obtain a year of Wrecking Guone free. The notice claims no town is too small to form such a club and suggests children may help recruit subscribers.
A New York paper piece argues against subsidies for a national merchant fleet. The writer says producing interests must not bear coast defense costs and urges testing foreign ships under the flag only if it benefits the whole people. He questions paying $140 million to shipowners and stresses defense and economic reorganization over favors to a small class.
A Tur Grozi column advocates simple sensible dishes for good health and practical housekeepers. It notes many women pursue fancy cooking as an accomplishment and potential profit while praising American culinary skill.
A Boston project by practical housekeepers promotes common sense in the kitchen. Parents urged to train children in cooking. evidence shows boys and girls can share duties. Civil service critique voices reform flaws and debates age and appointment practices amid shifting European tensions.
The article argues civil service reform would create unequal patronage, barring capable men who refuse examinations. It cautions exams may exclude experienced workers and critiques shifting power from Congress. It notes youth and age dynamics in elective offices vs appointments.
European war talk cools as Germans vote on Bismarck backed septempart bill and army expansion. Boulangers confidence cited, Roumanian chamber vote shields neutrality, while Russia's influence looms over Balkan dynamics and Romania's historic role.
President Cleveland vetoes an act to empower the agriculture commissioner to distribute drought relief seeds in Texas counties. He argues federal aid usurps limited government powers and undermines national character while urging citizens to rely on personal charity and reinforce self-reliance.
A collage of witty notes mocks trends and figures from 19th century America and Europe. Jokes touch on beer and prohibition, fashion, music therapy, politics, travel by lightning, and social scenes in Boston, New York, and beyond, with pithy quips about public figures and current events.
A nostalgic verse portrait recalls a child's adoration for a Broadway performer. The speaker contrasts sheltered youth with adult disillusion as beauty shifts from saintly to human, admitting love corrupts and cannot be reverent as childhood devotion. The poem blends memory, longing, and aging.
A sampling of reader submissions to The Globe's People’s Column includes domestic life reflections, philosophical questions about death, a puzzle about a marble column shipment, advice on dandruff remedies, and inquiries about English marriage licenses. Responses note signatories, brief answers, and mail-in etiquette.
Two letters discuss a national heating car device with a proposed government bonus, urging fair road funding and broad inventor participation. The second letter offers marital guidance advising wives to support husbands, manage appearances, and avoid deception, ending with AN OLD GRANDFATHER.
A sermon urging parents to mold children with moral courage and truth, teaching them to say no and to feel God’s living presence. It stresses nurturing happy homes, cultivating music, and strengthening family bonds to form a breastwork against evil and prevent children from seeking corrupt paths.
An incident from the Detroit Free Press recalls a pupil refusing to declaim, claiming his father would not permit speech. The boy presented a note asserting that if the Lord wants an orator, he will make one. The exchange highlights stubborn wit and parental authority in school life.
Rev. Thomas Goodman of Charleston, once noted for courting and marrying the Widow Hall the same day he first met her and for delivering Abraham Lincoln's father's funeral sermon, died at age 79 after drawing attention a few weeks earlier.
Report from the Digger reservation in Nevada describes a dance attended by many whites. As guests tried to leave, the old chief demanded twenty five cents per person to exit, claiming entry was free.
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