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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1883
Page
4
Publicity note promotes free sample copies of The Globe to reach townspeople. Claims the Globe will secure a subscriber each time and markets the weekly as the best and cheapest in the United States with a $1 yearly rate or six copies for $5.
A recruitment pitch offers a three month extension for each missing subscriber and a choice to keep agents' cash commission. The deal charges $1 per year with six copies available for $5.
In many towns there is only one Globe subscriber. If that subscriber forms a club, papers will be sent in one package. It is safer to send several papers than one paper. Reduce loss in transit by sharing copies. Only 1 per year, 6 copies for 5. Address the Weekly Globe Boston Mass.
A confidential circular and sample copies will be sent free upon application. Samples are free to agents at any time. Push The Globe and double its circulation.
A club of five and 5 dollars earns one extra copy free. Anyone can form a club by showing a sample to neighbors. Send a club of ten and 10 dollars and receive three extra copies free. Sample copies are free.
The Globe announces plans for 1888 including at least twelve great stories, a weekly agriculture page, a weekly ladies' department, and regular columns by Charles F. Barker the world’s champion checker player. A new story is nearly ready.
The rule of Tae Grorr discontinues all subscriptions at expiration and this week many old subscribers are dropped. If you miss this week’s issue check the date opposite your name on the last paper to see when the subscription expired and renew.
Advertises THE WEEKLY GLOBE magazine at fifty cents a year and lists publications offered with it. Stipulates every order includes a yearly Tax GLOBE subscription and allows no more than one magazine with THE GLOBE. Agencies may mix other publications but receive commission only on THE GLOBE.
A promotional note for The Globe touts A Wife's Strategy and Her Search for Donald Dyke as the best detective story yet in The Givot. It claims the serial is worth a full year of subscription with twelve more stories to come before 1884 and offers twelve great stories for $1. Subscribers in January receive all back numbers of this story free.
Two new stories are in active preparation with one starting soon. A Wife's Strategy will continue for a few weeks and back numbers will be supplied until it ends.
How to remit for The Weekly Globe offers one year free postage in the United States and Canada for 100 dollars, six copies for 500. Subscriptions by postal order, registered letter, or draft on New York or Boston. stamps accepted without registration. Address letters to The Weekly Globe Boston Mass with full writer details. Include full former and present addresses for changes of residence.
A compact montage notes 1880s advertising rates and editorials about fears and prophecies. It references Lincoln, Mother Shipton, and Cincinnati forecasts for 1888 and 1884, plus House commerce committee plans on river and harbor funding and intraparty rivalries among Conkling, Arthur, Logan, and the Half Breeds.
A New York letter by Dr. David Stern argues Jews may eventually rest on the same day as other faiths, urging Sunday services in Jewish houses and warning Judaism could face extinction if not. The piece notes the U.S. pension system’s growth and calls for printing the pension list to root out fraud, comparing with England’s rolls.
Since 1815 the speaker notes the Civil War as the United States’ principal war while England fought Russia in the Crimea and faced conflicts in India, Afghanistan, and minor wars with China, Persia, Abyssinia, and Egypt. The aim is to ensure worthy claimants receive due compensation and fraudulent ones are punished.
The inaugural message reviews state finances showing a debt of 832 611 680 90 and rising sinking funds. It calls for poll tax reforms, free suffrage with safeguards, and a modern ballot system with self sealing envelopes. It urges woman suffrage in municipal elections, a public holiday for elections, and broader naturalization rights, plus economy measures in prisons and civil service, and tax administration changes.
The speaker urges broader tax relief for working farmers and tighter public spending. He calls for equalized taxation on home fire companies, limits railroad worker hours, and full financial disclosures from public-serving utilities. He stresses education, comparing Massachusetts with Iowa and California, and outlines a staged path from primary to higher schooling with practical subjects. The closing pledge expresses no personal political gain and a year of service to the Commonwealth.
President Arthur is expected to sign the Pendleton reform bill passed by the House under Sunset Cox. It creates three commissioners with balanced party representation, sets salaries, and appoints state boards of examiners to conduct practical, nonpartisan examinations for federal jobs. The measure aims to curb patronage and test applicants on fitness.
The piece highlights Governor Butler’s popularity and the wide interest in his inaugural message, noting shifting Southern sentiment toward Butler since the war. It compares press reactions, discusses France’s child labor laws, critiques British publishing, and observes judges growing wary of expert testimony in court trials.
The article notes President Arthur pardoning a man jailed at Albany for counterfeit money after Treasury officials declared the coin genuine. It also critiques expert testimony and calls for city government reforms and accountability, with other anecdotes on fashion, crime, and a fatal fright.
A miscellany notes slave trade on Africa’s east coast, wealth and discipline in San Francisco households, a Victoria census counting pagans, and a flood of literary sales since Dickens’s death. It also covers gossip on Miss Blaine’s engagement, anecdotes of bankers and lawyers, and regional curiosities from Maine to Kilburn, plus financial totals and ostrich farming in California.
A collage of quips and brief items includes jokes about a Calipharem scene, a bootblack buried by a New York embankment asking for a box, medical schooling anecdotes, and reflections on Gambetta, Masons, and gas prices. It captures late nineteenth century humor and social vignettes.
A parade of oversized produce and unusual measurements from various locations includes an eight pound radish in Florida, a ninety-two pound squash in Wyoming Territory, a 32 pound yam in Texas, and a fourteen inch ear of corn in New Jersey. Mentions of massive oak remains, record logs from the Skagit, and a pink tea rose add to the miscellany.
A piece from Science for All explains that human walking follows a diagonal pattern. The right arm moves with the left leg and the left arm with the right leg, creating a parallelogram of limb motion observed in athletes and workers alike.
Abbe Gras details Coco Gris a gray parrot from Gaboon now over fifty years old. The bird mimics commands, sings, and offers apt remarks in French. During a railroad trip he asked What have they done and declared he was not hungry when reproached for not eating.
Ralph Corbit a 12 year old from Honeybrook Chester county Penn designed a battery of Leyden jars on an iron plate connected to bait. When a rat touches the plate and bites the bait the circuit discharges killing it swiftly. He charged the jars with a self made electric machine, clearing his father's cellar of rats in two days.
A hunter near Custer heard a noise and found a deer running with a wild cat clinging to its back. He shot twice, killing the cat as it approached, and the deer died shortly after from the injuries and bites sustained during the ordeal.
A well dressed man partly drunk at J. C. Thompson’s grocery cut down a hog displayed outside, shouldered it and collapsed in the street. He rolled with the hog in the mud, claiming he had defeated it as he clambered to his feet amid the comic misadventure.
A Chinese fisherman on the Napa River grabbed a small fish that slid headfirst into his open mouth. In an effort to dislodge it, he forced the fish deeper, smothered it, and later struggled as dorsal spines kept catching. Fellow Mongolians advised and aided by forcing the fish further down.
Michael Sullivan was crushed in the Lead mine at Bingham day before yesterday and is now in Sisters Hospital in a grave neck injury severing brain-body communication. Doctors experiment as Sullivan jokes about electricity, a rare local medical case.
A letter from the Rolla Herald describes a man traveling from his castle at Boiling Springs to Frank Aaron's. He feeds a panther three basses to deter it as it trails along the Springfield road, noting the animal quickly devours all on the string. The writer notes no gun was carried and expresses no remorse.
A New York grocer set a hogshead with soft soap on end and filled it with eggs grapes and a large number of live rats. Twenty nine rats filled the tub. four dogs were brought in and killed five of the rats before the remaining rats killed the dogs. Police were called and killed the rest.
A bowing dog near the Sneed Brothers store draws attention as one fore leg is broken. The animal hobbling with an inclined body balances on the single functioning side while the missing hind leg drags, creating a curious street sight in Jackson.
A California man returning home in the night发现 a furry intruder in his hall. He aimed his shotgun and fired two shots after judging the creature to be a bear, waking his wife with hysterics. He found the beast wounded and his bearskip coat damaged.
A New York family suffered three sudden deaths from consumption. Margaret Clifford died Monday, her brother Maurice Clifford followed five minutes later, and James Clifford died soon after upon learning the news. The three were buried together.
Colonel Duncan was presented with 1000 acres of mountain land by Mr. Stith as compensation for saving his life last week. Stith then returned 600 acres for an apple brandy, and within the next half hour returned the remaining 500 acres for the same consideration.
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