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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1883
Page
4
The Boston Globe announces in July 1883 a fourteen month offer to single subscribers via postmasters or agents, aiming to recruit more readers this summer. Each subscriber receives fourteen months, with postmasters and agents getting the standard commission. option remains to subscribe until January 1884 for forty cents.
Mrs. Kate Tannatt Woods a celebrated Globe author prepares a new serialThat Dreadful Boy to debut in Tok Weekly Globe the ongoing publication season hints at a lively tale of mischief and youth. The note signals another hit for readers awaiting Woods distinctive fiction in the periodical.
The Weekly Globe offers domestic and Canada distribution with a one year free of postage option and discounted multi copy rates. Subscriptions require payment by postal order draft or registered letter. stamps acceptable in 1 2 or 3 cent denominations for immediate attention. Include full writer name and address. note changes of residence with both old and new addresses. indicate town county and state for discontinuations. Lost copies duplicated. stamps should not be registered. Sample copies are free.
The article rails at repeated croaking over a nation’s fate while noting Yale and Harvard’s annual eight oar race in New London. Harvard’s longer stroke won, suggesting slower pace may prevail, as ships pay and politics sour the era with wasteful costs and stubborn figures.
A reader reports a caller offering a $1 per day wage for a chamber maid to live in with servants, claiming four educated ladies have applied that morning. The editor questions whether such a position could train children and maintain refinement, asking if America’s youth are valued beyond dishwashing.
The Republican managers confront a double bind over the Marshes removal and ex Governor Talbot's role as board chairman. A whitewashing report seems doomed as it condemns Talbot and defends the Marshes, forcing the party to choose between restoring the Marshes or punishing Talbot, with political peril at the polls. Tewksbury looms as a rough road.
A New York plumbers convention denounces common caricatures of their trade as high charges and idle time. They argue that costs depend on contracts and warn against public mistreatment, noting a tragicomical monk patron saint and public distrust aided by sensational writing.
Charles Francis Adams Jr, Harvard graduate, before a Greek letter society, denounces college training for its sins of omission and commission. He argues that graduates lack readiness for real-world work and that university equipment is inadequate for serious life work. The piece echoes Horace Greeley’s view and contrasts classicists with practical men.
A critical review of Mr. Adams speech arguing Greek study wastes time for most students. The writer condemns fetid worship of classics and asserts Adams shows genuine value in modern languages while still challenging university miseducation that fails to prepare men for real world tasks.
A critic reviews Hyland C. Kirk’s bold volume arguing the logical possibility of immortality. He contends that mortality rests on current knowledge and conditions, suggesting future discoveries could prove life without end. The piece notes the theory’s ingenuity while questioning its practical appeal.
Governor Butler accuses state officials of malfeasance and seeks a legislative committee with power to investigate during recess. The Republican Senate refuses, delaying inquiries into prison cruelties insurance rot and Hoosac Tunnel contracts while Cornell explores dual professorships in political economy to teach free trade and protectionist views.
The speaker argues that while some experiments may be harmful and repress inquiry among students, every new experiment with potential benefits should be pursued.
Senator Voorhees debated a continuance motion and attacked the attorney-general's office for hiring costly special counsel. He cited high fees paid to Bliss Merrick Ker and Gibson, totaling over $120,000, compared with $80,000 for 21 government lawyers, and urged reform and overhaul of the justice department.
A wide miscellany notes oyster jobs in Maryland and strawberry picking in lean months. It records Sunday trains on the Central railroad of New Jersey as a needed service, mentions murder cases in Mercer county Kentucky, Voltaire’s Geneva Bible Society link, and a tall eucalyptus claim in Australia. It lampoons bankers, jokes about deacons, rails against New York elevateds, and collects cartoons of public figures and editor feuds.
The item mixes brief social commentary, political opinion, and curiosities from 1880s discourse. It references Harper’s Weekly views, patent gaps for Black inventors, Judge Hoadly, George Bancroft, and the Phillips Exeter lineage, plus Rio of politicians and the New York scene. It closes critiquing tariff platitudes as inadequate to wages.
In stark personal verse, Will M Carlton describes a farmer’s ruin under a relentless mortgage. Through seasons of crop failure and illness, debt silence grew louder than weather, foreclosure followed, and the wife’s death is linked to sorrow and financial strain. The poem condemns mortgage as a universal destroyer of homes.
A survey of wealth and populations across regions and institutions. Includes Spain’s Catholic population and church count, San Francisco hotel cost, Florida timber lands, yearly wooden barrel hoops, Prince of Wales demography, Vanderbilt estate, University of Texas endowment, Selma watermelons, Colusa wheat crop, Tennessee copper production, congressional treasury, Baptist and Methodist counts, Peel Island rail system, railway property value shifts, religious denominations totals, bond issue plans, Wisconsin fish distribution, and US valuation figures.
The New York Sun reports a new echis carinata snake seen in England, first of its race. At 11% feet long with dingy gray color, it is deadly within an 18 inch reach and coils in a figure eight to strike. It challenges attackers with swift venom and fearless defense.
The article surveys odd death superstition tests used by authorities, notes on drowning and fire cases, and reports on Flint silet disease in Albany linked to mill work. It also recounts a remarkable Oswego cow yielding large annual milk and high daily production, praised as native bred and prosperous under favorable conditions.
A Fort Smith New Era item describes bread made from pounded corn meal and beans, flavored with lye, wrapped in corn shucks and boiled in lye. The ferment is preserved since last fall, a curiosity as stove cooking becomes common among the Indians. It also notes a Chicago-bean earrings tale, Atlanta performers with a bear and jackass, and a Tokio noble mapshed turf and rock country model four hundred feet long with inlets rivers and mountains detailed by telegraph lines.
Isaac Robinson, a sober New Comerstown resident, found a giant serpent on the Nugen farm while clearing woods. He attacked it with a pitchfork. the creature fled into a log hollow, leaving details of its length and girth noted by local observers.
A giant snake leaped from Mr Robinson’s hand and sped down a hill in a hiss filled frenzy. The creature, described as the largest ever seen, rose several feet above the ground and left a sled like track through weeds, prompting fright and speculation it is the same giant snake spotted a decade ago near the aun farm and scarawas river area.
The Republic, the largest Irish American Democratic paper, is advertised with a yearly rate of $3 for the Republic and Weekly Guide. Copies are sent free by addressing The Republic, No. 243 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. The notice urges readers to obtain and read the paper for full news coverage.
The Weekly Globe presents trial subscriptions at 50 cents from now until January 1884 to help establish a foothold before the Presidential Campaign. Subscriptions and agents are urged to recruit twenty or thirty locals, who will likely become permanent readers.
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