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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1880
Page
3
Advertising rates shown for Keene Ordinary list 30 ets per line with about eight words on average. Military notices priced at 50 ets per nonpareil line. Discounts offered: 5 percent on £100 and 16 percent on $200.
A note promotes The Wrexty Group offering a $100 yearly rate and fourteen months to a single subscriber who recruits five others and 35 more. It claims the cheapest newspaper in the world should be shared weekly, with no monetary gain, just neighborly calls.
Instructions for subscription payments urge postal orders or drafts on New York or Boston with stamps accepted in one two or three cent denominations. Letters should show writer full name and address including county and state, and notices must include former and present addresses or discontinuation details. Duplicated free of expense. Mail to Lock Drawer 5220 Boston Mass. Sample copies free.
January 27 notice directs readers to the paper’s last page for a new Clubbing List and promotes securing the WEEKLY GLOBE free with others, noting a great reduction option.
Subscribers are urged to check wrapper dates and renewals with offers of two years free for immediate $1 with six months to expiry, or 14 months free for $5 plus five yearly renewals. The piece also notes a boom in strawberries, a New Jersey firm selling fruit at high prices, and various political and legal ruminations. It references Potts and a Faro scheme, plus a courtroom drift and a grinding-crystal discussion.
A narrow escape is attributed to Hayden, who credited the contempt many jurors hold for finely drawn scientific theories as a key factor. The remark highlights the tension between rigorous theory and practical juror perception in complex cases.
A political diatribe accuses Daniel F. Davis of illegally seizing Maine's executive chair with militia support. It condemns General Chamberlain, warns of a Mexican plan in the United States, and details a partisan struggle over certification, the rightful legislature, and the dangers of force in government.
A Maine house committee report on fusionist claims presents a straightforward, nonpartisan review of the past two months. It details how governor and council examined election returns, opened sessions for corrections, and compared town records with open town meetings to resolve discrepancies. The process followed constitutional and legal duties without bias.
A sensational note exposes a 19th century fad among clergymen described as a kissing mania. Reports from New York and New Jersey recount ministers accused of kissing congregants and cooking up a proposed legal remedy. The piece cites Haferman of Hoboken and Cowley references plus a satirical legislative proposal to curb the practice.
A long row of curious items from a 19th century pages: Georgia girls hunt rabbits by moonlight, Detroit robins seen on the 18th, five wives quorum in Cannon family, Garibaldi declines marriage, Romeo dies a vial death, Leadville fortune return, Orville Grant in Chicago leather trade, and a parade of pithy notes on marriage fees, politics, weather, crime, and culture.
A historic act details penalties for kissing a woman outside marriage. Magistrates must display a red petticoat with a K to warn single and married women of an infectious disease. Offenders face a porous mouth plaster. penalties scale with mouth size. Clergymen forbidden to kiss female congregants or cooks. Act takes effect upon passage.
A long catalog of new books and music notes appears with descriptions of two novels by D. A. Moore and Theuriet's Angele's Fortune, plus Hyde Park Sketches by A. R. Western. It lists prices, publishers, and brief praise, with additional items on Mormon churches in Britain, politics, and curiosities from around the world.
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