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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1884
Page
4
Agents Offered Liberal Cash Commission for Posters
Agents to whom the regular liberal cash commission will be given under above offers. On application, a Poster, Agents' Circular, and Sample Copies will be sent Free.
No Three-Cent Stamps Accepted Under New Postage Law
The Weekly Globe announces that three-cent stamps will not be accepted for subscription payments under the new postage law. Two-cent stamps replace three-cent stamps, while one and two cent stamps continue to be accepted as before.
Weekly Globe Subscription Offer Across North America
The Weekly Globe promotes national and Canadian distribution with a one year free of postage offer for $100, six copies for $509. Subscriptions may be sent by postal order registered letter or draft on New York or Boston, with stamps in one, two, or three cent denominations accepted.
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GLOBE
United States
Canadas
New York
Boston
Mass
A Story by Julian Hawthorne to Start Next Week
The Boston Globe announces next week a new serialized fiction by Julian Hawthorne son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. English and American reviewers praise him as a leading American fiction writer. More than a dozen stories will be published before March 6, 1886 with subscription and reading details.
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Tun Weekly Glon
Julian Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
GLOBE
Cabinet officers appointed not elected elevates speaker’s wife
The speaker notes that cabinet officers are appointed rather than elected, so the speaker’s wife holds a higher social position than their wives despite her husband’s lower official rank.
Governor Ropinson Proposes Finances and Reforms
The governor notes no new public debt this year and urges legislation to protect Commonwealth interests in railroads and utilities. He outlines tax reform, savings bank loan limits, biennial elections, and stronger election laws, while urging civil service reform and militia support. Educational funding, forestry tax exemptions, weekly wages for workers, and hospital capacity are discussed alongside prison, reform school, and insolvency law changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ropinson
Commonwealth
New York & New England Railroad
Hoosac
Troy & Greenfield Road
Massachusetts
Board of Health
New Serials Claimed for Tag Globe Readers
Upon Hawthorne's tale's end a new novel will appear in Tag Globe written for the publication. Readers urged to subscribe or renew now. Over a dozen stories will publish before March 5 1886, with $1 delivering the paper to subscribers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Hawthorne
Tag Glope
Tax Globe
Expired Subscriptions Warn Readers to Renew
On Saturday January 12 the Globe will remove names of subscribers whose subscriptions have expired. If you do not receive the Globe next week, your renewal is due. Renew promptly and invite others to subscribe with you to avoid missing installments of the story.
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THE
GLOBE
Last Year’s Club Raisers Urge Subscriptions
A call to agents to visit each member and renew the club for this year. Encourages friends and neighbors to subscribe and grow the club with many new names. Claims THE WEEKLY GLOBE is the best dollar weekly in the United States.
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GLOBE
United States
agents Wanted And A World Of Oddities From The Globe
The Weekly Globe seeks permanent resident agents in every town with liberal commissions on every subscriber. Various notes follow, from gold in the U S rising by 300 million in five years to a cured obesity tale of an Italian duke. An NY class rescues dancers and a PA tramp saves a family. Bremish, Bascom, Ex Manort are mentioned along with cautions about gloom and prudence in business. Washington society and etiquette receive satire, while treasury exports surpass imports by 120 million. Governor Cleveland comments on grain shipments and commerce enthusiasm and foreign observations.
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GLOBE
United States
Barnum
Pennsylvania
Sophocles
Grant
Ulysses
Philadelphia
Mason
Guiteau
Fitchburg Tribune
Fitchburg
Tolman Wheeler
Chicago
Washington Boulevard
California Street
Justice of the Peace of
Council Bluffs
Denis Kearney
Lowell Citizen
Bartley Campbell
Hillsdale
Mich
London
Europe
Brother Gardner
Denver
Germany
Lexington
Sing Sing
England
Wales
Ireland
Canada
Sweden
Italy
Sun
Villard
Toronto
Ocean Beach
San Francisco
Pittsburg Chronicle
Judas Iscariot
Americans and the Sea Power Myth Analyzed
The piece argues that Americans will not rule the seas, citing historical trade shares from 1840 to 1882 and noting U S ships fail to prevent their warships from sinking merchant vessels. It urges Congress to cut taxes to aid commerce and labor and curb treasury surpluses temptingly large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New World
United States
Havre
Liverpool
New York
Congress
Henry Villard Seeks Return After Financial Furor
Henry Villard, a German-born yet quintessential American figure, traversed from penniless book agent to war correspondent and financier. He boosted the Northern Pacific, then was crushed by its weight, yet remains driven to try again. How many typical Americans are foreigners in spirit?
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Villard
Illinois Prairies
Willard
Boston sewer system proves science yields gold for cities
The essay lauds Boston's vast sewerage network as a pinnacle of engineering, noting its capacity to transport daily flows to the sea. It argues sewage is a valuable nutrient source worth about $2 per inhabitant annually, totaling nearly $800,000 for Boston, suggesting future use to enrich land rather than discard it. It calls for urban engineers to adapt the sewage flow to land fertilization, citing Pullman and English experiments as models.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Vioron Huco
Boston
Moon Island
Pullman
Illinois
England
1883 Economic Review Shows Growth Amidst Disasters
The year 1883 featured strong trade, large foreign commerce profits, and record railroad earnings. Clearing-house payments topped 14.04 billion dollars, while failures rose from a few large speculators, yet overall liabilities remained low. Oil speculation reached extreme levels, but the overall industrial outlook remained optimistic.
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New York
Industrial readjustment and wages in a changing economy
The text argues that synchronized production had depended on shared sacrifices and falling prices. Workers resisted wage cuts, while profits and dividends fell but not ruin. It predicts a gradual readjustment of industries and trade with no long delay to recovery, despite current hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Diverse notes and quips from Leap Year to Nihilist news
A long, eclectic column of humor and social observations from late 19th century press. It includes playful quips about leap year fantasies, fashions, show business, and civic anecdotes, plus brief notes on politics, economics, and crime. Notable items reference Barnum wealth, Prof Sophocles, Denis Kearney, and a Nihilist incident involving the Czar.
The Michel Rudolph Marshal Ney Story A Pure Fabrication
A Boston Lady's Album extracts unfold a sensational false tale about A T Stewart's body. The piece recounts a vault burial, a $50,000 ransom, masked men, a servant’s delivery of funds, and Hilton’s wary negotiations. Edmund Florence Stedman signs off as the editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michel Rudolph-Marshal Ney
New York
A. T. Stewart
Garden City
Judge Hilton
Westchester County
Hilton
Stewart
Michel Ney Baptism Document Found in Saar Louis
A note describes a document from the mayor of Saar Louis proving Ney’s parents lived and died there and a church register transcript showing infant Michel Ney was baptized in the town. The fate of Michel Rudolph I remains unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saar Louis
Ney
Michel Ney
Michel Rudolph
Fanny Davenport and the Globe Theatre Debut Tale
A reader recalls Fanny Davenport at the Globe Theatre Boston debuting twenty years ago and a garden scene in Roxbury. The note mentions Storm Beaten at Union Square and a shift to Bartley Campbell's A False Step with Coghlan and Ellsler in New York. Stetson backs Coghlan despite past misgivings and has secured American rights to Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera except Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fanny Davenport
Fanny
Globe Theatre
Boston
Twen
Mr. Davenport
Old Roxbury
Clarence
North Pole
Union Square
Mr. Shook
Bartley Campbell
France
Italy
Charles Coghlan
Effie Ellsler
Maud Harrison
Eleanor Carey
Winning a Wife Elopement With Sleigh Breaks Down
A young Pole and a Belle from Chettews ford elope by sleigh but their escape ends when the sleigh breaks down and they are intercepted by an elder man described as the old man, prompting a public notoriety in a local notice.
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New York Sun
North Chelmsford
Chelmsford
Farmer Nelson
Pole
Tileski
Nelson
Miss Nelson
Miles Johnson
Johnson
Juliet
Jeski
Lowell
Chelmsforn
Ee Iim
Worm Syrup Remedy Hailed By Mother Swan’s Wording
A historical fever remedy named “Mother Swan’s Worm Syrup” is cited for treating fever restlessness worms and constipation with a distinctive taste. The product claims quick relief and notes its soothing effect on uneasy children.
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