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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1891
Page
4
A call for readers to submit 10 or 12 names of neighbors for sample copies. The note invites postal card replies to The Weekly Globe in Boston Massachusetts.
Boston Globe 1891 notice lists subscription options for Tre Datty Grove and Whole weekly news service with prices per month and per year. Rates shown include 50 cents per year and 82.00 per year with postage prepaid, from Boston Newsraren Co. at 242 Washington Street. The item notes postal handling and classification details.
A promotional note extols Tuk Wesxiy Grose and Tuk Werxiy GuoneEe urging readers to recruit subscribers for a family journal. It promises easy earnings and a large cash commission for those who secure a few new subscribers, suggesting children may earn pocket money.
The WrEcKLy GLOnE promises the largest commissions and annual earnings for agents. It claims you can earn a large sum without interrupting regular work, even youths can work after school, as Tue Weexy Goose seeks a regular agent in every village and town in the United States.
A preacher urges readers to drop past successes and failures from memory, stressing learning from mistakes, helping others forget their faults, and avoiding dwelling on afflictions. The piece then details the United States Board on Geographical Names and its work standardizing government geographic spellings.
A short note wishing readers a happy new year and suggesting topical thoughts on rheumatism and personal health with a light tone. The author jokes about sharing medical woes and urges polite forgetfulness to start the year.
Tur Wreking Goose condenses weekly news to keep readers informed at home and abroad. It emphasizes concise broadcasts of all major events without lengthy stories, helping readers save time and remember key happenings.
The text recounts Corsican boy memory feats of hundreds of words said aloud to be reversed without error, a physician recalling Paradise Lost from years past, Euler memorizing Virgil after blindness, and a Stirling beggar known as Blind Alick who could name Bible book, chapter and verse from memory or provide exact quotes. It discusses memory as sheer practice versus cultivated skill and cites anecdotes about verification of accuracy and limits of verse counts.
A brief quarrel unfolds as one neighbor reports an encounter with a vulgar young girl from the new household. The exchange centers on an awkward glance and accusation, highlighting neighborhood tension and judgment.
As the season progresses, fashionable entertainments grow and demand multiple toilets daily. Changes in styles since October affect outfits, with foot trimming like pleating ruching and rose ruching returning to finish skirts, distinguishing newer orders from earlier ones.
A fashion illustration describes a gown in electric ore cloth with three deep tucks and a gold and blue edging. The coat is velvet brocaded with a black ground, opening in a canal to Goth with a red embroidered cravat and a feathered finish.
Describes a gown with cerise de chine bodice and sleeves, a front of the skirt in demi train shot velvet, darker in tone. The gorget and girdle feature pointed upper edges. RuEprery.
Birmingham firm Taunton Delmard Lane & Co builds a 15 inch dynamite gun using a waxed pellet explosive in a shell with a telescoping tail and 5000 psi pneumatic charge. Aimed at three miles with 600 pounds of dynamite, trials at Portsmouth will compare it to the Gafnakt gun with real charges.
A Cincinnati Enquirer report describes a letter found in the Washington dead letter office addressed to Jesus Christ in Heaven. The note appears from Lowell Massachusetts and is from a young girl asking for money to buy clothing items.
A community effort formed a purse of nearly $60 from a dead letter office to aid a girl whose mother was poor and unable to buy essentials. The money was sent to her, and it is believed someone helped, though the funds were not returned.
At a special Lime Kiln Club meeting in Detroit, Brother Whalebone Hawker died after a street incident and a long life filled with loans and anecdotes. Members and speakers described him as patient and humorous, with turns of phrase about Columbus, oysters, turnips, and debt. The gathering approved resolutions and adjourned.
A Grass Valley lawyer delivers a fervent peroration urging jurors to acquit his client, comparing liberty to a protecting banner and invoking Demosthenes and Cicero. The address features dramatic lines about midnights in tents and a plea against persecution amid public applause.
A writer reviews 500 old letters, half business and half personal, finding only two examples of formal closings like Your Obedient Servant. Yours truly dominates, while Very Respectfully and Yours Respectfully appear for elders. rest are plain or lazy signatures.
Epoch reveals Bertha M. Clay as a trade mark not a real author. Mrs Braeme, English, sent advance sheets from Conway London signed Bb M C with initials written backward. The American publisher sought a named author and used B M C as a pen name after diplomatic effort to learn more about her.
A fragmented snippet from Harper's Bazar references Minnie Gages and a faded sonnet line about money and longing. The text is incomplete leaving meaning unclear and no concrete event or context.
A reader submits a home remedy for colic using pulverized opium and morphine with instructions for pill dosing. The letter includes questions about legal terms beggaring the question moving the previous question adjournment and related parliamentary rules, followed by a long family dispute over a deed and potential claims against a son and his wife.
An 1891 promotional notice from The Weekly Globe in Boston announces Rural New Yorker as a premier rural weekly. It touts authorship by agriculturists, experiment stations, and seed gifts to new subscribers joining The Globe plus Rural New Yorker and a gift valued at $2.50.
The text states that a person who marks goods with a wrong brand to mislead customers commits fraud and cheating and can be punished. It highlights deliberate mislabeling as illegal and prosecutable.
A reader asks about remedies for a broken engagement when the fiancé has no property and whether she can force marriage or stop him from marrying. The reply notes breach of promise yields no gain if the man has nothing. A second query requests guidance on patenting an improved article, answered: follow the official patent office rules available from the commissioner of patents in Washington.
A Parisian tale recounts Mme Potin outwitting a male passenger in a smoker's clash aboard a railway coach. He pretends to light a cigar after her refusal, she challenges him and her dog is theatrically dropped from the window to prove a point.
A witty exchange shows Max and Mrs Newwed arguing about the cook and kitchen access. The husband complains the beefsteak is burned and roasts are underdone while the wife says the cook never enters the parlor and she cannot enter the kitchen.
Harvard Lampoon dialogue shows an editor urging careful artful writing on chapel subjects while a literary aspirant recalls a peer expelled last year for attempting the same. The exchange hints at college censorship and high stakes for student writing.
Agents asked to review the Globe subscriber list and renew all expired accounts to avoid missing the $300 Prize Story. Subscriptions are discontinued at expiration and many readers may lose their Globe if renewals are delayed.
An article from Crystal Palace, London, highlights Miss Tina the animal educator who trains cats, rats, mice, and canaries. Cats walk tightropes among scattered prey, carry rodents on their backs, and leap through rings of fire without disturbance. Trained from four months old, the animals are gentle through kindness and perseverance, with the rat and mouse accepting the cats as companions.
The piece recalls how hats are treated in Congress, recounting the fate of Speaker Reed’s derby as rivals surge for desks. It notes hat swaps among desks, the potential for a leader to lose a seat, and questions how Reed’s hat will be treated next year on the floor.
An agreement among Pittsburg officials and milling interests is submitted to the Chief of Police for action, with details posted for public notice.
Rehoboth Sunday Herald notes rising female adventures. It highlights an Englishwoman trekking 1500 miles across Russia with a valet, sleeping rough and dressing in unorthodox attire to write a book. It also cites an Alaska voyage, solo world travel losing novelty, and Norwegian women as notable fishers and mountain climbers.
Back numbers supplied. Until further notice all new subscribers will be given free the opening chapters of the $300 prize story Saved by Death so they may enter the prize contest. Read the particulars of this contest in the introduction to Saved by Death on another page. Agents wanted in every town. Send for circular.
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