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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1883
Page
4
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The Globe outlines a year of weekly coverage including twelve great stories, a weekly agriculture page, a ladies' department, and author Charles F. Barker a champion checker player writing weekly. A new story is nearly ready for publication.
A Michigan Press sketch by M Quad portrays a family crossing the plains to California during the 1849 gold rush. The narrative follows their adventure and hardships with hostile Indians, presenting a vivid Civil War era author’s tale suitable for readers forming local clubs.
Ernest A Young, author of Donald Dyke the Detective serials, hurries to finish a concluding novel for Ocean to Ocean. It explores country and city life with enough mystery to engage readers and highlights WEEKLY GLOBE as offering rich attractions. Now is the time to form clubs.
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A promotional note for The Globe touts A Wife's Strategy and Donald Dyke as the best detective story yet written for the magazine. It promises eleven more tales of equal caliber appearing before 1854 and offers twelve great stories for $1.00 a year.
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Advertising rates listed for ordinary and editorial notices with discounts. The text then critiques Bonaparte and French government, jokes about Vienna ballooning laws, and discusses American political maneuvering around the Blaine era. It also notes improvements in British factory acts, employer liability, and civil service discipline.
The text notes officials may forfeit their position and face discharge for assisting in accommodation bills. It cites Washington clerks breathing easier due to civil service reformers' failure to push such a provision, revealed by Consul Merritt of London.
The Paris detectives rely on known chiefs, shared intelligence, and extensive informant networks. Lodging houses stage offices depots and arrivals are registered to track suspects from start. Moutons and musicians provide intelligence while Vidocq era is criticized for disgraceful tricks used to lead people into crime.
A Dublin voiced critique denounces Marquis Hartington for opposing home rule and condemns landlordism as driving Ireland to famine. The piece argues local relief is impossible, condemns imperial funds, and accuses authorities of using coercion and propaganda to depopulate Ireland while starving and expelling its people.
The State Supreme Court invalidates last fall's prohibitory constitutional amendment. It held that wording changed in passage created a material difference between voter intent and legislative passage. Despite a large popular vote in favor, both houses must approve amendments as well as ratification by the people. The decision serves as a warning to legislators about careless, hasty lawmaking.
Massachusetts politician George Frisbie Hoar narrowly wins reelection for six years and faces pressure to curb temper and improve relations with colleagues. The piece criticizes his temper while noting the broader Republican dynamics and tariff debates shaping his term. It references Dorsey, Garfield, Arthur, and the tariff question’s impact on the 1880 election cycle.
The New York General Term case clarifies that railroads are public highways with public duties, despite private ownership. Judge Davis reverses Haight, affirming state power to compel common carriers to perform duties, and notes no unlawful strike action while stressing public harm from refusals. Dorsey resigns as RNC secretary amid Garfield and Arthur pressures.
A column of varied scraps spanning politics and culture. Massachusetts gains a working governor while other notes mock authority figures and urban curiosities. Jokes, conundrums, and brief social observations mix with historical quips about Grant Sherman and aging manners.
A mosaic of brief items across politics, society, crime and culture. Notes on public figures like Grant and Ingersoll, and quirky vignettes about weddings, fraud, punishment methods, and everyday life. Includes demographics, theatre counts, and smallpox tolls to illustrate the era’s miscellany.
Statement denies involvement with any bogus bitters or hops listings and warns victims against fraud. Affirms commitment to paying only bills for genuine Hop Bitters and promotes the Hot BITTERS MANUFACTURING Co as the source of the purest medicine.
A string of curious fires from Wilming ton to Brooklyn reports accidental blazes caused by matches, sparks, and carelessness. Incidents include a studio fire in Tatnall, a rosin blaze at Clackamas mills, a lamp sparked ruin at Stonington barn, a massive Ovington Brothers blaze in Brooklyn, and a Knoxville school floor fire that sent students into the snow with losses near 100000.
A Midway reporter notes Ned the dog attends school daily with children, answers questions by barking, and protects and plays with pupils. The piece includes a Chinese translation and an English caption about a dog saved a tyrant's life in a Chicago Journal item.
A 16 year old negro boy was killed near Mantation in Laurens County while packing cotton. He reportedly lay down inside a bale with about 200 pounds. when hands returned the press crushed him. The incident was discovered by a protruding coat piece. Also noted is the death of a mule at Leary Georgia, described as a remarkable event of the season. The animal died after a pastures mishap and severe injuries.
A Northeast Harbor cat aids in fishing and warns of frostfish, bringing breakfast for its owners. The animal catches and hides multiple fish in a woodshed, traveling twenty rods at night to deposit them. A separate puzzle discusses measuring strips forming a square, asking what happens to one lost square inch.
A passerby tethered a mule behind Bob Henry's shoe shop in Washington. The mule fell into an old brick walled well about two and a half feet wide, thirty five to forty feet deep. A crowd gathered and the mule was rescued with ropes and walked away unharmed.
Grass Valley Tidings reports a cabin hidden behind the Idaho mine was found stocked with tools, weapons, stoves, bottles, and an oyster cake. Boys reportedly built it and used it for high carnival gatherings. Detroit Post notes Mrs. Hayes of Manton hunts with her husband and uses her own gun for deer season.
A Bourbon News item notes a Milton family of father, mother, and six children all chew and smoke tobacco with the youngest said to be 244 years old. A Pleasant letter from Mrs Hagadorn of Union New York touts Ely's Dream Balm as a cure for catarrh, 60 cents at druggists.
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