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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1891
Page
4
The Cash Commission of THE GLOBE advertises itself as delivering the largest weekly payments by a dollar, targeting readers with promotional claims about sizable weekly earnings.
The Weekly Globe invites readers and nonsubscribers alike to mail a list of 12 to 16 names and addresses. A sample copy will be sent free to each recipient in Boston Massachusetts.
Boston post shows subscription options for Tan Dairy Grone and Tan WireEx Grone with yearly rates and postage prepaid. The notice lists the Tax Girone Newsrarre Co. address and a religious quotation about surrendering the heart.
Appeal promotes Tar Wrexity Goss as a family journal and offers large cash commissions to subscribers. It suggests readers recruit relatives and children to secure subscribers and earn pocket money.
The article notes Tolstoy’s writings promote laboring with one’s hands and favor agriculture over urban work. It cites Tolstoy plowing with peasants and argues growing interest may revive farming and curb the migration to cities, possibly addressing New England’s deserted farms.
J. B. Prusorer argues that immigration patterns and the migratory trait shape American settlement. He notes Ireland Italy Denmark etc and cites a tiny Massachusetts landing from Italy while English and German groups push westward shaping New England as a linking force from Plymouth to the Golden Gate.
A Smithsonian publication warns rapid extinction of native fauna in North America. The buffalo is nearly extinct in this generation while passenger pigeons are almost gone. Domestication saved the native turkey, but the Arctic sea cow and Labrador duck have vanished. The American auk has fallen to hunters and only a few aboriginal species remain, with seals also in danger.
Cranes Hume laments the global slaughter of animals for fashion and luxury. He warns that elephants in Africa and other species face extermination within decades, urging Congress to intervene and curb greed before only humans remain to hunt.
A promotional notice offers agents large commissions for selling a penny to dollar plan. It claims you can earn substantial yearly income without interfering with regular work, and suggests family participation after school hours. The Weexly Grower seeks regular agents in every village and town in the United States.
The speech argues against poll tax prerequisites for voting and outlines early efforts to split mortgage taxes between mortgagor and mortgagee. It notes a long legislative lag before recognition, praises reporter Toomas Griz, and asserts voting rights should not depend on tax payment. The speaker emphasizes equal citizenship, education requirements, and warns money influences in elections.
W H H Murray in the New York World argues the Indian emphasis on home as the basis of society. He notes the refusal to sell lands, aspects of women’s participation in tribal councils, and contrasts these with Euro American land tenure ideas and social norms.
Nat Han Converse argues that Native Americans shaped daily life and political ideas in New England. He cites Indian contributions from corn and baked beans to social equality, challenging views of Indians as inferior and urging humane treatment.
A poem indulges paradox to mock power and reverse outcomes. It contrasts political risk and personal desire with satire on agreement and opposition. The speaker hints a world where deceit, reversals, and social norms invert, challenging expectations in love and politics.
The article contrasts two pony types the conventional Shetland and the hardy Icelandic. It argues the Shetland is short-winded, impractical, and has poor stamina, while the Icelandic is long and rakish in build, tough, and capable of heavy work with longer life. Prices favor Shetland but value is poorer.
A narrator recalls English Christmas customs showing large stock of mince pies without meat, given to village children, and plum puddings boiled and aged for months. The piece contrasts English abundance with New England memories, noting the festive meals, almon decorations, and the long Twelfth Night feasts.
A European tale from Beauvais describes a husband wife and daughter who vowed total silence on life’s instruction from a fortune teller. After years they gain permission to speak only outside the town, with the mother and daughter chatting weekly in Tourney while the father remains mute at home, clinging to hope of fortune.
In New York on January 24 the piece discusses mourning attire for a young lady and a widow. It details a young lady’s black henrietta dress with crape trimming and specific sleeve and collar adornments. The widow’s second mourning gown is cashmere with turrets in the front drapery and lawn trimmings at the throat and wrists.
Detroit Free Press recounts a lake captain’s tale of drowning rescues where the cue to survival is the drowned man’s instinct to grasp a hat. The captain notes many rescues end with the survivor calling for his hat as he regains strength.
Herald of Health outlines practical daily habits. Keep regular sleep, morning routines, and meals. Emphasizes cold or tepid sponge baths, frequent teeth brushing, open air exercise, filtered boiled water, and comfortable clothing. Encourage mental activity and steady routines into old age.
James R. Small tipped off the office with an Ipswich clam weighing 23 ounces and measuring 744 inches long and 4% inches wide. Veteran clammers say it is the largest they have seen.
If you are in arrears when you send a theory in solution of the prize story you are not entited to enter the contest. Look at the date upon the wrapper of your paper and if your subscription has expired please renew immediately. This is important. No answers will be received after this week.
A reader advises onion juice as a cure for chilblains. Soak feet in hot salt water for 25 30 minutes crush onions in a bag rub juice on feet three times weekly for three weeks and wear tight shoes without chilblains since nine years ago. The note ends with Agnes's hopeful wishes for wide awareness.
This fragment includes a method to gloss linen using biborate of soda and acacia, plus a dosing regimen for health and constipation remedies. It also contains reader questions about water rights after a brook was diverted and a pedlar dispute about unpaid goods, with brief editor responses.
A reader asks if a foreign minor becomes a citizen at 21 and how long residency is needed for naturalization, noting parental naturalization affects youth. The reply suggests contacting the Soldiers' Savings Bank in London for procedures and bylaws to reclaim funds due at age 21.
The text discusses penalties for opening a letter addressed to another person. It notes Miss A's letter, opened by her brother B, as a violation under United States law. It cites Revised Statutes section 892, allowing a fine up to 500 dollars or imprisonment up to one year or both.
The fragment discusses whether a first wife can claim an estate if a husband deserts and remarries, and whether the second wife can sue for damages. It also asks about punishment for bigamy, damages for character, and whether three years of separation allows remarriage without divorce. It notes that without divorce, wife No 1 could claim an interest, bigamy punishes the husband, and wife No 2 has limited remedies.
The customer ordered nursery stock from an agent for 2.26 and paid in advance. Delivery was two to three weeks late, no one was home to receive it, and the stock was left in the gutter. The question arises whether the agent can recover payment or sue for non delivery, with the reviewer finding possible negligence and noting gutter delivery does not satisfy designated delivery.
The text states that parents are not responsible for debts contracted by minor children, with or without their knowledge, unless the debts are for necessaries or things required for the child’s station in life. It notes that parents must have advertised or notified the public not to trust the children.
The correct path is to file for a desertion and non support divorce in New York. You should hire a lawyer to pursue a regular divorce action since extended absence alone does not qualify for a divorce where you live.
A little girl was named Nellie May by her parents during baptism. The mother was away, her father, not baptized, waited in an ante-room and was asked the child’s name, given Nellie and May in the ceremony.
The question concerns whether the child, originally named Nellie May by her parents, is correctly called Nellie May or Cornelia May after the minister’s change. The parents insist Nellie May is her proper name, and she has always been known by that name.
Charles Morris outlines snow's wide impact on climate and seasons. He notes light snows fade with spring sun but deep northern snows chill surface air and delay agriculture, while snow melt can flood rivers and spread cold southward.
A New York Sun observer recalls Queen Wilhelmina as a child more fond of dolls pigeons and country rides than royal ceremony. Her French tutor now replaced by Miss Winter and a small military household, she studies languages music and drawing before tending her birds ponies and dolls daily.
Pittsburg Dispatch reports Duquesne barbers condemning the habit of using water on hair in winter. Barbers say wet hair freezes quickly, causes earache and neuralgia, and that dry brushing is sufficient. The chatter exposes common myths and practical tempers on grooming.
The waiter returns with a bill for nothing. Sunset Cox, the humorist, reveals it was a prearranged prank. The crowd roars as the judge realizes he will not pay, and Cox pockets the $50 lunch cost as part of the stunt.
A Providence Journal anecdote from a national bank shows a visitor and cashier noting a misindorsed check. The reader learns officials usually correct mistakes politely, suggesting publishing the error to save trouble.
Agents are told to review the Globe subscriber list and renew all expired subscriptions to avoid missing the $300 Prize Story. Subscriptions end promptly at expiration and many readers risk losing their Globe this week without prompt renewal.
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