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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1889
Page
4
The 1889 Poston Weekly Globe repeats subscription figures including Guone-One at 50 cents monthly and six dollars annual prepaid, with Pestage prepaid and tax details. It notes by mail rates and postage prepaid, and lists the Boston address for Newsfaree Co. at 242 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
Tre Boston Gloze unveils aggressive promotion for its Weekly Edition aiming to reach one hundred thousand homes in four months. The paper touts superior reading matter, non repetition of the daily edition, and a $1.75 for 50 cents offer tied to Sunshine Publishing Company of Philadelphia to broaden reach nationwide.
A family endorses the Sun light for Little Children offer, praising the words written and urging readers to read the eighth page advertisement carefully. The small fifty cent subscription is requested for three months including Engravings and The Weekly Goose, with orders to be sent to the given address.
An advertisement extols The Weekly Globe as a premier family story paper with superior stories, urging readers to form neighborhood clubs. It touts low prices, four copies for three dollars, and one dollar per year, inviting subscriptions via sample copies from The Weekly Globe in Boston, Massachusetts.
A July only offer invites readers to subscribe to The Weekly Globe for three months and receive two water colors plus Sunshine Magazine. The deal is limited and will be withdrawn August 1. Subscribe early or form a club to ensure delivery.
Chicago courts rule that the board of trade must share its official quotations with bucket shops. Judges deem these quotations of great public importance and treat them as public property amid Chicago gambling scenes. The decision hints at a move toward broader public access and reflects on the reach of state socialism.
Jamestown board of education in Chautauqua County New York has passed a resolution declaring that any teacher who marries during her contract period may be terminated and discharged. The note questions why male teachers are not similarly treated and warns such rules may foster secret marriages.
The Shah of Persia's imperial representative Hapnsi Hosszin GuooLty Kany is returning home amid Western satire. An Eastern embassy, with staff of about 75, watches foreign coverage, while jokers in America mock royal pretensions. Brains should curb the indignation before Guooty Kuan sees fit to retaliate.
A remark questions whether the enduring oriental nature of Guooty can ever grasp such things after twenty years of Ping post jokers. The passage hints at cultural friction and a sense of fading comprehension amid a period of two decades.
Friends of reform urge eminent divines to deliver sermons nationwide on Thanksgiving to spur civil service changes. They note President Harrison has until then to fill offices, arguing sermons could align moral pressure with ongoing appointments and potential practice.
The piece traces Dives’s expansion into multiple city and country clubs across Newport Lenox Mt. Desert and a New Jersey Tuxedo style club. It notes the lure of social hunting and sport with winters filled by ice boating tobogganing skating and sleighing, while lamenting the difficult servant problem amid a busy schedule.
The American Grocer defends the sugar trust arguing the 40 percent price rise would occur without a trust due to a short supply. It questions refinery shutdowns by the trust and suggests building beet sugar refineries in the Eastern States to spur beet farming as cane sugar sells at wholesale for 10 cents a pound, making beet sugar profitable.
The article portrays Halford as the President's secretive private secretary turned White House clerk. It notes his loss of communicativeness, caution, and sphinxlike view of administrative policy, while praising his efficiency in handling daily letters and press office duties. He remains busy, dining at his desk and balancing work with visitors.
The act features Agnorion and Porkopolitan Pleasantries with Mr Tooter Bareatone performing The Harp that Tears Through Overalls. Interlocutor William and Richard trade quips as the crowd waits for Mr Kark Geetis to sing Down Where the Sandwich blooms.
A satirical piece cites the Eleventh Commandment as minding one’s own business. It contrasts the priest and Levite’s passivity with the urge to avoid interference in others’ affairs and scandal, posing who actually upholds this rule.
Correspondence editor notes a young woman asks if she should let her young man take her arm. The religious editor counters that the decision hinges on whether she has a plump arm, framing a humorous debate on etiquette and propriety.
A king offers half his realm for a ship that can sail both land and sea. Three brothers attempt it. only Osborn, aided by a mysterious old man and a crew of odd companions, succeeds. He completes the king’s trials and wins the princess, marrying amid a magical, perilous journey.
A rustic tale follows Little Boy Blue after his parents die, his dismissal by a harsh farmer, and his sister Azura. A mysterious silvery voice invites them to the elves kingdom, bringing hope and a promised new home beyond the hills. The narrative centers on loyalty, hardship, and magical rescue.
On a narrow path amid climbing plants a grotto opens to a dream realm. A dazzling elfin scene unfolds with a king and queen, a silver stream and flowers where Little Boy Blue becomes shepherd and his sister queen spinner. They live happily together.
A seven year old Japanese prince Haru at a Tokio school entertainment orders a boy to remove his hat. The American boy defends himself and they briefly fight before being separated. Later Haru shares ice cream and cake with the American’s yellow haired sister.
An Oneida woman, finding a log blocking a wagon path, cuts it in two with an axe. She discovers a bear mother and cubs, returns with men armed, but the bear attacks. With no help, she kills the bear with a single axe blow and saves three cubs. She adopts one cub and returns home to scorn her fleeing companions.
A traveler notes India’s dense population and poor housing in the Ganges valley, with two to three acre holdings and 1200 people per square mile. Despite hardship, locals are lively, sharp, well mannered, and similar in features to Anglo-Saxons, Greeks, and Indians. He contrasts six cent daily wages with governor Lansdowne’s $100000 salary.
Washington Post summary notes that women tend to avoid humor as they favor sympathy and reform over laughter. It argues that humor targets human weakness, prompting self defense and restraint in women, who would rather be earnest helpers than witty jokers.
A young widow, newly married for a fortnight, collapsed as her husband's coffin was lowered into Pere Lachaise. She was carried to a porter lodge but died before medical help could reach her. Her husband, aged 6 and his wife’s age 26 are mentioned in the report with tragic framing.
A Boston merchant learns thrift from his clerk by staying home rather than renting seaside cottages. The clerk keeps a detailed three month seaside budget costing far less than a year in the city, prompting the merchant to rent and build four Maine cottages for year round profit. The piece notes broader summer travel costs, shopper prices, and a shift of patrons from hotels to city stays.
A Philadelphia Record item reports a young woman approached a Broad Street Station official Friday at noon and asked, Is this the safest way to heaven. She claimed to be on a quest seeking the safest route.
In the aftermath of the Conemaugh lake dam disaster a Chicago heiress, Miss Mollie Robbins, wandered in a dreamlike state claiming she was promised to a suitor. She believed her betrothed perished in the flood while a physician advised returning to Johnstown to confront the imagined reunion and restore her reason.
Theodore Child in July Harpers reviews the imperial winter palace of St. Petersburg. He condemns the exterior as bombastic rococo and immense but dull, praising only Peter the Great’s throne room and St. George's hall for real grandeur amid overall “bad taste.”
The Atlanta Constitution notes Captain J. B. Sharkley, a Boston customs house measurer, calculates Revelations 21 height length and breadth match. He converts the city’s 12 000 furlongs to feet, estimates rooms and spaces, leading to 2 970 000 000 000 000 inhabitants cited across hypothetical worlds.
A fifty cent offer includes a 48 page Sunshine for Little Children folio with two Ida Waugh engravings, plus a three month subscription to The Weekly Globe mailed postpaid. Proceeds aid Grant Memorial University Athens Tennessee. arrives within 100 days.
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