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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1884
Page
4
During February March and April a 14 Month offer is made to subscribers who join in groups of two or more through a master or agent. Individual subscriptions at 1 dollar receive The Globe from now until March 5.
The notice states a perpetual club benefit granting 14 months of The Globe subscription for each club. A single subscriber receives The Globe from now until March 5 1885.
A notice states that anyone unable to form a club may join with a friend to place an order for The Globe, with each participant receiving a 14 month subscription.
A club promotion urges distribution of free Globe sample copies to gain subscribers. It touts the paper as the best and cheapest weekly in the United States and compares it favorably with other weeklies. Special rate: one copy for $1, 6 copies 14 months for $5, good until March 6, 1885.
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.
Readers are urged to form a Globe club by inviting neighbors and friends to join this family newspaper. The notice promotes the long-standing offer and urges quick action to secure a large subscriber base.
The Wefely Globe offers one year free of postage in the United States and Canada for 100, six copies for 500. Subscriptions should be sent by postal order or draft on New York or Boston, stamps of one to three cents accepted. Address letters to Tut Weekly Lobe Boston Mass and include full name, post office, county and state.
A reader notes the paper carried an advertise f he ate in thie issue and requests acknowledgment that THE cap WLLY GLOBE carried the same notice.
The Globe announces a new Joaquin Miller novel written for Tur Globe to follow Hawthorne's tale. Subscriptions and renewals urged, with a $1 offer to receive the paper through March 5, 1886. The notice highlights ladies and children read the Globe's stories.
A sailor sacrifices himself to save a companion as waves swallow the crew member and both perish in the storm. The man battled the cold and rigging before joining his partner in an ocean grave.
The text argues for strict enforcement of land grant rules against railroads and praises efforts to curb land grabs. It criticizes the New York Tribune for misusing the term Communist and notes Congress, led by Democratic principles, has pursued land grant reform for a decade. It highlights education initiatives like Correspondence University and teacher travel summers, framing a broad surge of civic learning and public inquiry.
A call to agents to contact past subscribers and peers to renew the club for this year and add many new names. The Weekly Globe is promoted as the best dollar weekly in the United States, easy to secure subscriptions.
A multi topic column opens with a farming series promising actionable guidance on soil and fertilizers for wheat cotton corn grasses potatoes and more to boost yields and farm profitability. It also comments on public figures marriage race education and disaster relief with observational humor.
The article notes 85 671 physicians at the census, more than lawyers or clergymen, and calculates patient load at about 600 per doctor. It cites city ratios in Boston Indianapolis Kansas City Denver and Colorado, arguing medicine is crowded but not uniquely overfull compared with other professions.
The newspaper urges reform beyond tariffs, condemning the ruling party as corrupt and tyrannical. It calls for restoring the Constitution, rooting out fraud, and placing governance in the hands of trustworthy leaders to preserve a united republic.
An outspoken Southern newspaper spins a fanciful tale about a fragile sixteen year old girl who can move tables and chairs by will. The editor mocks the claims, warns it harms young women, and jokes about the dangers of a wife who can summon furniture to dance at night.
Opinion calls a proposed patent medicine bill an overstep by Congress and warns against turning government into a nanny. It questions police state measures while recounting a Pennsylvania graft case and noting a bold Erie infant sale. The piece also lauds Tue Acro c turnpike family paper and urges missionary attention.
An analysis of Americans as ardent learners describes go as you please education driven by a central supervising head guiding a widespread reading course. It cites the Chautauqua movement and the Society to Encourage Studies at Home as early successful models with nationwide, correspondence-based study networks.
A collage of brief items and quips on society, politics, travel, and manners. Commentary ranges from a Jewish anecdote and Hawthorne quote to police salaries and shipboard panics, with notes on Columbus disaster, theater, and local church fund sales.
In New York on January 23 W A Croffut recalls meeting General John C Fremont and wife Mrs Jessie Benton Fremont at their Staten Island home. The piece covers their family, including sons John Charles and Frank, their travels, and Jessie Benton Fremont’s health and frontier anecdotes about the Bentons and their era.
In Washington a public remark by Mgr Capel claimed women were meant to marry or join nunhood, and that there is no happy state for old maids. He later affirmed the stance, noting the remark was aimed at encouraging marriage, to the amusement of a ladies’ society.
Rebecca R Pomroy 66 died in Newton after a five minute angina attack. As matron of the Newton Girls Home she long served the sick, poor and soldiers, including nurse work at the White House during Lincoln's era. She later led the Newton Centre home under Boston Children's Aid Society and wrote Book Echo from the Capital. Funeral at Newton Baptist Church Sunday at 12 46 PM.
A 14 year old Indiana boy Irving Ritter arrives in Chicago with a self made paper cornet and astonishes a Tremont House crowd performing Il Trovatore and Boccaccio like a brass instrument. He earns a few dollars before partnering with a button fastener peddler to street show his musical novelty.
The Globe offers fourteen months to all subscribers who name one existing or new subscriber. Subscriptions via regular agents enter for fourteen months, but each subscriber may not subscribe for more than fourteen months before March 26, 1885. Subscriptions may start any month. back numbers and sample copies available from Taz Weekly Globe, Boston.
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