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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1883
Page
4
The July 10 1883 issue announces a fourteen month subscription offer for single subscribers and through postmasters or agents. Patrons may secure extended terms with the Globe, with the usual commission to postmasters and agents. Subscriptions run fourteen months or until January 1884 for forty cents.
Mrs Kate Tannatt Woods launches ANOTHER BRILLIANT SERIAL in The Globe this week titled That Dreadful Boy. Back numbers of previous chapters will be sent to clubs and subscribers who order The Globe in the next four weeks. Still another new story ready for publication.
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A Madeira decree suspends grain duties until September 1883 to protect crops. Senator Edmunds faces renewed Mormon questions next winter amid Utah legal losses and large-scale conversions. Democratic circles tout bought votes, while Republicans rely on money to sustain campaigns, casting doubt on voter reliability and principles.
The Chicago anti monopolist convention adopts a platform urging Congress to forfeit railroad lands not earned equitably. It reveals broad opposition to monopolies but is badly split into rival factions, hindering any independent party effort. It is urged to unite with the Democratic party to push out monopolists.
A New York Herald interview cites a steamship agent predicting no further assisted immigrants as the Tuke fund is exhausted and opposition grows, though Fortnightly Review and press praise keep hope alive for continuing next year despite current limits and returns.
The article notes that boards in charge must act more carefully, as public sentiment in England, reflected in the press, could push the Irish emigration plan toward a full district clearance if the mood persists.
The New York Sun argues the Tewksbury inquiry justifies itself amid tanning of human skins revelations. It says political opponents tilt toward unfairness, condemning Butler while the Massachusetts Supreme Court later upholds his veto and the alms house inquiry remains treated as flawed.
Governor Butler sent three messages to the Legislature on Monday two vetoes and a reply to the adjournment request. He argues against an extra session citing expense and risk of corruption while urging adjournment to avoid wasteful actions. He endorses reducing the tax burden and vetoes the Shanly claim after balancing public duty and personal impulses.
A historical critique, using Elizabeth New Jersey as a cautionary tale about municipal bankruptcy. It cites heavy debt, high taxes, and extravagant spending as root causes, comparing with larger cities like New York and San Francisco. It warns that rapid growth without prudent planning endangers all creditors and residents. It notes political influence in post office appointments as part of broader governance concerns.
The passage notes Mr. Brady's vindication by the jury restoring Jim's standing with the administration. Brady carried Indiana with liberal use of what President Arthur jokes as soap, and his services seem in demand again. The Star route crowd returns to business at the old stand.
The Republican party in the state shows deep rifts over legislative adjournment and continued session to finish Tewksbury. Critics fault delaying tactics, blame factionalism, while supporters warn of consequences, and a civil tone clash with calls to protect property over labor rights amid rising tensions.
A Philadelphia paper cites a New York millionaire congressman proposing a two million dollar wealth cap and redistribution of excess wealth. The piece mocks the plan, arguing true change requires addressing laws that foster monopolies, corporate favors, and systemic inequality.
The assistant superintendent Thomas J. Marsh Jr refuses to produce books recording dead bodies sent from Tewksbury to medical institutions. The act is framed as protecting private property, but it signals strong evidence of wrongdoing and links to a broader charge of illegal disposal of pauper corpses.
Reported march of militia to Ely mines to quell unrest after miners seized powder and jailed laborers. Observers note bread shortages for families while managers claim wage payments are blocked by lawsuits. Press account says troops justified by urgent need and enforcement of law amid protests.
An essay condemns outdated legal rules that treat women as appendages to husbands and keep law at odds with justice. It cites Michigan and Boston cases where a woman's nationality or residency depended on her spouse, revealing how legal superstition harms individual rights and fairness.
Utica Observer notes talk of Ben Buller becoming Harvard’s governor and questions Mr Frothingham as a candidate. It mentions Captain John Erics son as a hale octogenarian inventor and describes a blind 22 year old Mexican messenger in Laredo skilled at navigating the city unaided.
A New Jersey man caught an eel with a sleeved button from years ago inside it. Legends tell of a Lake Tahoe monster that bites bowsprits from ships. Hackensack river fish fill the waters, crowding boats. A Long Island angler left his line attached to a stake, found a huge catfish later, and inside it a smaller fish that had swallowed the hook.
A 1827 note issue included £1000 and famed £100000 and £50000 bills. A butcher used a £50000 note as security for a £5000 loan, boasting a second such note at home. A London eccentric exhibited an £80000 banknote painting for years before heirs cashed it. At Hyde Park a Bible marker proved to be a bank bill for £400,000, possibly as a rebuke to a son.
Charles Peterman, a compact man near Kansas City, sports a beard over three feet long and thick, hidden within his vest. A New Orleans Picayune report shares a tale of beard length, family hair, and German siblings, followed by a Jacksonville saw mill discovery of an eight inch shell embedded in a log from Red River, likely dropped from a federal gunboat during the war.
A June 22 1883 note from E W Murray in Phillips Wisconsin describes a well that produces pure ice cold water in summer. The feature is reported as no hoax and supplied to a hotel and neighbors. Also brief items recount a Connecticut frog swallowing a trout and a Cecil county stone shower with crowds visiting the site.
The Lord's Prayer is etched within a circle one sixth of an inch diameter on a gold dollar by engraver A W Overbough. Under a microscope the letters appear distinct and the whole prayer finishes in a remarkable manner. A haunted Greenville farm attracts nightly crowds claiming lights and sounds around the house. Witnesses report seeing a severed headless woman carried from the building.
A specimen arrived yesterday at the Smithsonian Institution. It is five feet of the butt of a white oak tree, five inches in diameter, cut a foot from the ground. A pine board one inch thick and twelve inches wide is driven through the center, left by the recent cyclone.
The Paterson Chinese community celebrated the Fourth by firing sky rockets held in one hand and fought with the other, mirroring Chinese custom rather than the American habit of lighting and fleeing. The New York Sun notes the unusual display and its spirited execution.
An Augusta Georgia Chronicle brief reports a Twiggs county woman bore four children within twelve months. The piece notes the first two children were eleven months apart in age, illustrating a remarkable family situation.
The Weekly Globe offers a special price of 50 cents from now to January 1884 to recruit subscribers and agents ahead of the presidential campaign. A small effort in each town could gain twenty or thirty new subscribers who will become longtime readers.
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