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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1883
Page
4
A public notice urges clubs to secure free sample copies and distribute them across town. It claims The Globe speaks for itself and will gain a subscriber with each distribution, touting the weekly as the best and cheapest in the United States at one dollar per year or six copies for five dollars.
Advertisement urges forming a large club by obtaining subscribers. If fewer than five are secured, extend the subscription period three months for each missing member or retain agents' cash commission. Offer priced at $1 per year with six copies for $5.
A call to town readers to form a Globe club to save on mailing. One subscriber can group with neighbors to receive six copies for five dollars or a single copy for one dollar per year, reducing loss in transit.
A confidential circular and sample copies will be sent free upon application. Samples are free to agents at any time. The notice encourages acting as agents and promises a liberal cash commission to widen the Globe’s reach.
A club of five and 65 cents earns one extra copy free. Anyone can form a club by showing a sample copy to neighbors and friends. Send a club of ten and 10 cents to receive an extra copy free. Sample copies are free.
The Globe announces plans for 1883 including at least twelve great stories, a weekly agriculture page, a ladies department, and weekly contributions from champion checker player Charles F. Barker. The ad claims the paper suits every family member with a new story Nearly Ready.
The Globe touts a detective story as the best yet written for Toe Guanr promising a year’s subscription value with twelve great stories through 1884. January subscribers will receive all back numbers of this story free.
Publication details for the Weekly Globe advise US and Canada delivery for one year free of postage, with pricing options of 100 and six copies for 8500. Subscriptions by postal order or draft on New York or Boston. stamps accepted in 1 2 or 3 counts. Address to Tut Weekly Globe Boston MA. Include full writer details and change of address notices. Unregistered stamps, duplicate mailings, and sample copies guidance included.
An old column lists advertisement pricing with ordinary ads at 30 cents per line and editorial notices at 50 cents per line, noting average eight words per line and discounts of five percent on one hundred dollars and ten percent on two hundred dollars.
A dated column notes Senator Logan’s persistent enmity toward Fitz John Porter, mocked by colleagues for bias. It cites Rev Dr Shipman defending Sabbath separation from civil rules and critiques on Ireland and American charity, highlighting wartime debts and English policing abuses.
The speaker summarizes a modern European civilization as a half taught, discontented, penniless people, a government apparatus for collecting and spending money, and a small class of capitalists. He adds a contingent of literary men, clergy, natural philosophers, and nobility, each engaged in their own rhetoric, forming a disorganized mass united by money making and dissembling in practical business.
The essay argues that police should promptly publish crime details to inform the public and mobilize the entire city’s investigative energy. It contends secrecy benefits criminals and harms justice, citing Boston and the Bell murder as examples where public reporting improves detection and accountability.
A Massachusetts detective, acclaimed as one of the state’s best, provides advice through The Globe columns guiding readers on security and investigative tips.
A retrospective look at the year 1882 recalls deaths of notable figures from politics religion and letters including Bullock Hale Potter Quincy and Longfellow. It notes political upheavals and legislation in the United States and European tremors from Ireland to Russia, ending with unsettled British cabinet intrigue.
The judiciary committee bill on presidential succession, debated in the Senate, proposes officials to act as president if both the president and vice president are removed or unable to serve. Senator Hoar defends it as necessary but critics argue it erodes representative government by placing succession in the hands of appointed cabinet members rather than the people.
A historical account decries bossism in a Poughkeepsie Baptist church where nine wealthy families fund the parish and push for centralized control. Sentimentalists oppose property tests for salvation, urging a return to brotherly love and reform. The pastor resigned during vacation over disputes, described as having a "rich but sad voice" while still eating with a knife.
A census bulletin shows saloons declined under license laws in several Southern states between 1881 and 1882 while Maine and Vermont gained saloons. Massachusetts fell from 7279 to 6923 with license, and proponents argue license works better than prohibition. John B. Gough advocates moral suasion for reform.
A political critique contrasts Northern and Southern crime statistics, noting Tennessee murders in 1882 and other states’ figures to taunt Democratic majorities. It mocks organs that tie crime to politics, and reports a Cincinnati judge fining two thieves $150 for stealing an umbrella.
The piece argues the Connecticut Republicans stole the state by invalidating election returns over printing errors and plans to seize city government in New Haven. It contrasts with Boston where a Democratic government would provoke backlash, accusing GOP judges of bias.
A collection of items notes women’s rights debates in Britain and America, legal cautions in courts, quirky anecdotes, and quoted opinions. It covers female public speaking, marriage trends, lampooned legal practices, police and budget figures, odd marriages, grammar reform, and various human-interest vignettes.
A column of varied notes criticizes diplomatic cuts, prison conditions, a street beggar with $40, and a postman who found two $100 bills. It riffs on prohibition, voter literacy, and Sunday laws, then pivots to quips about printers, undertakers, and experiments in food science.
In Lynchburg Tennessee Sheriff Joe Hobbs reports William Bruce’s dog at Coffee’s Creek that crows like a rooster after two years of imitation. Also, Solomon Yoder dies in Bellefontaine Infirmary after post mortem reveals mortified intestines and a twelve year habit of swallowing plaster, dirt, rags, and other materials.
Dayto n Democrat reports farmer Shely near Shaker Village discovered in a recent hog butchering that the left fore foot of three shoats from the same litter carried an extra foot extending from the first joint. The appended foot was cartilaginous, hoofed, and bone free aside from the toes.
A Paris paper vignette calculates that tracing back fifty six generations to Jesus Christ implies 139,245,017,489,534,976 births must have occurred to bring any reader into the world, underscoring vast ancestry.
Robert Martin, totally blind for many years, runs a Newark cigar business without a clerk. He counts change and tracks stock, and as a clever euchre player, describes pricking pin holes on cards to identify them by touch.
Dr. W. C. Greenfield of Guthrie Kentucky owns a Berkshire hog claimed as the largest in the world. The animal measures 8 feet 7 inches from nose to tail tip and 111% inches around the leg above the hoof. It weighs about 1200 pounds and may gain 300 more. his son, the same age, weighs 900 pounds.
A Virginia New Enterprise item notes a Piute case of blackleg cured by a squaw who sat on a sidewalk and chalked her legs into a deception of well-fitting white stockings. She claimed the stockings looked like those of a white woman.
A local man bored a well in Algona Iowa and at five feet hit a cavity. A roaring noise and a sickening gas followed as water rose six feet and the sound echoed far, drawing curiosity about the mysterious cause.
William Manuel, a resident of Germantown Pennsylvania, reportedly consumes a pound of soap a half pound of candles and a pint of lard oil in a single meal. He once drew crowds by performing ostrich like eating feats at a saloon regular engagement.
The Salt Lake Tribune recounts a rugged tale from the mountain country where a fox is secured for winter among the peaks. A boy recalls a late season float at Yankee Fork with praise for the find and the season’s luck.
A lone traveler recounts meeting a brown bear on a narrow canyon trail. With no weapon, he pretended to dance with the animal, the bear prancing alongside as they briefly met and then went their separate ways.
A collage of memoranda from the Mabie family in New Haven and immigrant tales from Bonaventure depot. It records long marriages with many children, a Georgia man with oversized hands, and a Cooper biography anecdote about a wilderness inn offering venison and fish but no fit food save salt pork.
A Huntington Herald report describes a remarkable worm shower in Indiana. Worms about a quarter inch long, dark, with hard heads burrowed through snow, covering a quarter acre of ground. Many floated on water under ice, proving they did not originate from the ground.
A local notice describes a Black woman living in the Mecklenburg Virginia neighborhood who lost both hands after the war. She sews knit and cooks, writes well, can pick up coins, and made a patchwork comfort without hands. The writer notes her contentment, neat dress, and tidy housekeeping.
Adam C. Camper of Broad Creek Neck Maryland found his 300 pound sow four months after she vanished. She had no food or water during captivity and after being freed she refused corn until offered water. A bucket of water triggered rapid drinking followed by an immediate five ears of corn feast.
A Ree Heights Dakota citizen reports finding Timothy grass sprouting along a railroad track side in mid winter. The plant formed a large tuft eight to ten inches across on an elevated unprotected spot and grew from seed transported by a passing train.
Detroit Post and Tribune reports Arbela in Tuscola county boasts a remarkable 88 year old English woman who, with her husband, sawed split and piled four cords of wood in a day and claims she never has a tired day in her life though she weighs 120 pounds.
Local report notes a farmer near Thoroughfare Gap losing his rooster to a flock of wild turkeys each day at daybreak. The bird reportedly crows from dawn, while the farmer seeks to recover it. Meanwhile Uniontown reports Eli Berry proving remarkable strength by bearing 1800 pounds of types atop his head during a recent office move.
A Plainwell ewe is described as extraordinary for a woolly pelt and a tuft of wool growing on the white of its eyeball. The tuft requires frequent clipping to keep its eye clear and seeable, while the iris remains unobstructed.
A giant sweet potato weighing thirty two pounds was shown at C. C. Mc Culloch's store in Waco. The yam, described as the grand-daddy of sweet potatoes, prompted note that sweet potatoes weigh about sixty pounds per bushel, making this specimen a little over half a bushel of solid potato.
The funeral of Mrs Amberson aged 84 was held recently from the residence. Peter Parchment of Wilkins township Pennsylvania and her sister aged 79 in East Liberty died the same day. Both were married on the same day and died on the same day.
A reliable friend reports an enchanted rabbit that dogs pursue in vain and hunters shoot at at close range, seemingly blowing it to bits, yet the creature sits unharmed moments later, astonishing observers.
A Sparta Georgia Times note asks about a man recently married who has two stepfathers, one being his grandfather and the father of the other stepfather. It seeks the exact relation his children would bear to his grandfather and to the two stepfathers.
A Bullitt Pioneer note reports H H C James presenting a curious crawfish with over 1000 young crawfish clinging to their mother in a single brood. The piece references archaic Egyptian knowledge of electricity and suggests long familiarity with electrical heart treatments.
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