Subscribed readers to receive illustrated water colors
For weeks we sought paintings with high artistic merit to bring joy into homes. We are now able to present every subscriber two lithographed water colors weekly globe six months sunshine for little children, with twenty four large illustrated pages, priced at 3.50 or 2.50.
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Water Colors by Ida Waugh and Sunshine for Little Children
Two limhoed water colors by Ida Waugh, Wide Awake and Fast Asleep, debuting this year with lifelike tone and framing size. Also Mother's Jewels, two more pieces by Waugh, and a large 24 page Sunshine for Little Children folio with fine wood engravings and moral content. The Weekly Globe is touted as the world’s most entertaining weekly paper.
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Ida Waugh
GLOBE
Premiums Withdrawn by Waterbury Watch in July 6 Issue
The Waterbury Watch premium is withdrawn with this issue and will never be offered again. Twenty watches remain in stock and will be given, under the advertised terms, to the first twenty subscribers whose orders are received.
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Waterbury
Weekly Globe Announces New Features For Subscribers
The Weekly Globe will include Talmage sermons, a condensed American news summary, a weekly abroad summary, illustrated fashions and fancy-work for ladies. Summer plans feature short stories by popular writers instead of serials.
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Globe
Talmage
Form a Democratic club to boost subscriptions
A notice encourages forming a local Democratic club to attract new subscribers. It suggests sending for posters, sample copies, and agents' private rates, which are provided free, to grow party support and membership in the town.
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Democratic Party
The Earth Trembled Earthquake Tale Promises Popular Fiction
A Civil War era Charleston earthquake story titled The Earth Trembled is promoted as the latest and best work by a renowned American writer. Readers are invited to obtain back numbers, noting the author’s broad popularity.
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Charleston
Roo
Cleveland Pardons Show Mercy and Public Note Memoirs
The article critiques Governor and President Cleveland Lane’s pardons including Tom Batnam the counterfeiter. It highlights his practice of sending explanatory memoranda detailing mercy and public interest. It notes a tender paragraph about BALuin and his devoted wife pleading for his release and credits the wife with much of the memo.
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Crive Lann
Withal
Tom Batnarn
Cleveland
Baluain
What the Labor Movement Has Done
The labor movement stands as the era’s grand moral effort, a protest against mammon worship and materialism. Its cornerstone is the golden rule and its creed resembles the sermon on the mount. Since the ship carpenters struck for ten hours, the movement through unions and societies seeks economic and social equity by appealing to humanity’s best instincts, despite mobs or violence sometimes accompanying action.
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Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Trades Unions
Knights of Labor
Garrison
Sumyen
Labor unions as secular church of humanity says McNett quote
The piece highlights the early Christian roots and evolution of the labor movement from dependent workers to organized unions fighting for humane conditions. It credits unions with ending personal slavery in practice, securing civil rights, and advancing factory laws for women and children, praising their moral power and public role.
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Thoroty Rocers
University of Oxford
Church of Humanity
George II 88 Promises for New Party Rise in 1888
Dr McGirsy pledges a new land and labor party will win 100000 votes in New York and Brooklyn this fall and show strength nationwide next year. Many see Henry George as a rising force in presidential politics. GOP support shifts toward German and working class voters while Democrats face fiscal and reform pressures.
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McGirsy
Grovar
Psychological refrigeration and the mind cure
A discussion on mind healing argues that illness is faith based. If people believe it is hot the thermometer reads high and cooling sprays appear to work through psychological means. The piece notes potential soda fountain skepticism while acknowledging mind force may yet outpace conventional explanations.
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India
Editorial Odds and Ends Highlight Diverse 19th Century News
A collage of brief items spans bridal trips to Niagara Falls free to visitors on the Canadian side, Wall Street tensions, long serving bank cashiers rewarded, royal processions with Life Guards, unauthenticated birthplace debates about Andrew Johnson, and a tally of Alabama industrial openings in spring and early summer.
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Niagara Falls
Canada
Woman's Mending Bureau for Women and Men in Boston
The piece promotes a Boston Mending Bureau and Laundry Company offering full service including laundering dyeing and repair for both genders. It argues for women operated branches, flexible hours and home service to save time and money, and urges women to form local bureaus to expand employment and practical labor division.
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Mending Bureau
Boston Mending Bureau and Laundry Company
New York
Bureau
Women and Farm Life in 19th Century Industry
A study finds women can thrive in outdoor farming with proper methods and capital. Essays note health benefits and profit potential for women alongside men, stressing business skill and planning. Mentions new Whist teaching by women in New York and the Charitable Mechanic Association opening a dedicated department for women’s work in Boston with space for exhibits and journalism.
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Charitable Mechanic Association
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New England Woman's Pre Association
United States
Marion A. McBride
Manor Woman's Department
Boston
Mass
Une
The Dying Veteran Recalled to War Days
Watt Whitman portrays a dying veteran who longs for the battlefield of his youth. As family and church members tend him, the man’s murmured verses recall cannon, scouts, and the heat of combat, contrasting peace with past fierce life.
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Washington
Watt Whitman
No Chiropodists in Stocks in Augusta Visit
A Boston visitor seeking very thin stockings in the capitol city asks a Water street shop for chiropodists. The clerk replies there are none, offering lisle thread and balbriggan alternatives. The anecdote highlights a humorous misinterpretation between 'chiropodists' and hosiery items.
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Lewiston Journal
Boston
Augusta
Water Street
Will the coming man read books asks Henry Holt
In the Norwich Bulletin Henry Holt ponders whether future men will read books if they do not enjoy the job or the act of reading. He argues many cheap novels lack guiding features like prefaces or tables of contents, making them hard to judge.
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Norwich Bulletin
Henry Holt
Fashionable Summer Lace and Silk Dress Trends
The article surveys summer fashion focusing on graceful full sleeves, lace dresses, and Summer silks. It highlights lace types such as dotted tulle, brussels net, point d esprit, and moire silk combinations. It notes lace panels, ribbon trims, and black laces returning on colored silks, with black and white ensembles in light mourning styles.
Lace sleeve fashions for stylish dresses in lace gowns
The article describes lace dress sleeves as graceful and artful, noting full lace sleeves suit thin arms and add soft fullness. It highlights a popular deep French cuff design, often lined, sometimes extending to the elbow, and sometimes made of velvet or silk with buttons.
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Jace
Autumn Fashion Notes From Class Day Gowns To Handkerchiefs
The article surveys sleeves with lace and net options, heavy lace reducing lining needs, and delicate net accents. It highlights class day gowns in black and white lace, yellow lace over satin, and ecru escurial lace on pale blue satin with sashes. Silks like tussah and foulard are praised for drape and color variety, plus many nearly unique dress designs. It mentions lightweight dinner dresses, trimmed with velvet or moire, and a dress with purple hydrangea accents. Handkerchiefs are described as intricate and delicate, with hemstitched edges, drawn-work patterns, and black and white motifs. child and adult options, affordable prices, and novelty designs are noted. Neckwear includes dainty linen ties to accompany chemisettes and jacket styles.
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Dainty Handkerchiefs On Parade In 19th Century Eager Markets
The piece reviews a range of handkerchiefs from cheap 25 cent pieces to $2 white linen lawn mouchoirs. It highlights variations such as deep hemstitched borders, drawn work, scalloped edges, and fine embroidery in corners and inner borders. Descriptions include colored borders, rosebud prints, and frostwork like detailing, noting their charm when used in clothing or pockets.
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Legion
Fashionable lawn tie styles from Emerson and Co
The article describes delicate white lawn neckties with hem stitched corners and tiny dots, worn with chemisettes. It notes scalloped edges with floral sprays, black accented ties, and plentiful plain white ties plus striped percale options to match chemisettes. Emerson & Co and JHAN KINCAID are thanked.
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Neaey
Emerson & Co
Jhan Kincaid
What People Talk About Wherefore the Oil
A reader asks about sperm whale oil: how it is obtained by cutting the head and dipping out oil by bucket, and what purpose the oil serves in the whale. The letter seeks reader explanation on its storage location and function aboard.
Starboard and port history and a call for full facts
The piece explains starboard as the right side of a ship and port as the left, notes confusion with terms from nautical history, and recalls a law abolishing the word port in favor of port for left. It features the People’s Lawyer inviting readers to supply complete facts when asking questions for legal opinions and stresses clarity.
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Newton
Mortgage priorities and rent rights in rescinded quit claim case
A owns real estate and mortgages to B then to C. To satisfy C, A conveys a quit claim to C. C pays the first mortgage interest and expenses but later neglects Shere and collects rents. Can B recover if a forced sale does not fully pay the first mortgage? Subscriber notes that until B forecloses, C may collect rents and is not liable to B unless he assumed the mortgage. Question whether B can sue.
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Shere
People’s Lawyer
Divorce as a remedy for the innocent in cruelty cases
In divorce disputes an innocent party may seek relief if the other party bears fault. If both sides have grounds, neither may obtain a divorce, as parties must come with clean hands. Courts permit full inquiry into the other party’s acts and may admit evidence of infidelity when offered.
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the Globe
Jimmy
Poker Player Misses Train Test of Nerve in High Stakes Chase
A Columbus Dispatch item notes a poker player willing to risk time by playing near the train's start, forcing a dash to reach the locomotive with only seconds to spare and no chance to divide a large jackpot.
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A Mighty Insect Hunter Emeritus Strecker Honored in Reading
Reapixe, Penn July 2 Herman Strecker Ph D of Reading is named the most eminent American authority on butterflies and moths. He has been made a doctor of philosophy by Franklin and Marshall College for his exact learning and vast collection, valued at over twenty thousand dollars, with forty thousand specimens and rare species from across the globe. The article details Strecker’s lifelong study, his notable collection housed in a large brick mansion, and his influential works on Lepidoptera that place him as a leading figure in entomology.
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Copperhead Libel Suit Filed Over Post Office Job Refusal
Henry H. Porter sues Inter Ocean Publishing Co in Superior Court for 15000 dollars claiming libel. Porter says an Inter Ocean article accusing him of being a copperhead during the war led to his rejection for a Dowagiac Michigan post office job.
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Inter-Ocean Publishing Company
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