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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1883
Page
4
The seventh column announces a new fourteen month offer for single subscribers, sent by themselves or via postmasters or agents, aimed at boosting summer enrollments. Subscriptions run fourteen months for forty cents, or until January 1884, with standard commissions for postmasters and agents.
Mrs Kate Tannatt Woods launches another brilliant serial That Dreadful Boy in The Globe last week. Back numbers with all previous chapters will be sent to clubs and single subscribers ordering The Globe over the next four weeks. Still another new story is ready.
The Weekly Globe offers one year free postage in the United States and Canada for $100 or copies for $500. Subscriptions should be sent by postal order, registered letter, or draft on New York or Boston, with stamps of one two or three cents accepted. Address all letters to The Weekly Gong Boston Mass and include full name post office county and state. Change of residence notices require former and present addresses. Discontinuation notices include town county and state. Lost copies are duplicated free. Ads exchange addressed to Lock Drawer 5220 Boston Mass. Sample copies are free.
A Boston advertiser notes a organized effort praising Tewksbury to sway fall campaign opinion. The piece criticizes Republican officials over Marshes removal, mocks party misfortunes, and condemns attacks on Governor. It discusses Cassagnac Ferry duels, German pork import rhetoric, and Ohio campaign dynamics with Hobbling mudslinging and cautious party analysis.
The passage notes that Ohio can no longer be depended on for Republican majorities. It argues that when Republicans forecast a tight race in their strongholds, Democrats tend to win decisively by large margins.
Governor Butler leveled sweeping accusations of misuse and neglect at the Board of Health Lunacy and Charity and the trustees of Tewksbury. He cited forged or erased accounts, improper handling of inmate remains, and ties between the Marsh family and illicit activities. The investigation concluded with leaders ousted on a technicality while final arguments and a report submission followed the next week.
Through its acting trustee Mr Fallon the agency notified Captain Marsh and Thomas J Marsh Jr they must leave the premises after July 1. The defense and the Republican Board of Health Lunacy and Charity corroborated the governor's position, acknowledging their prior error and conceding his correctness.
The Massachusetts House faced a contempt dispute over Thomas J. Marsh Jr. as Republicans allied with a Tewksbury ring to block production of records. Despite court precedents and arguments by Morse and Joyner, party members defended the insult to the committee, marking a disgraceful day for Massachusetts Republicans.
In a Tewksbury investigation closing hearing Mrs. Warner claimed Willie Marshall was taken to an institution and exposed to disease. The defense read records showing two entries for Willie Marshall, proving the first admission and discharge were real and exposing the defense as falsifiers. Governors and committee members noted the discrepancy and the public may judge.
A harsh essay condemns drones who blame fate for failure and urges youths to pursue a strong goal with pluck and perseverance. It contrasts drones with hard working, principled individuals who seize opportunities and build lasting success.
A sprawling collage of anecdotes and snippets from The Salvation Army finances in Europe to jokes about cooks, judges, and stock market talk. It includes roving remarks on wages, servants, wall street figures, Indian uprisings, clergy salaries, and a parade of humorous one liners from multiple papers and cities.
A New York Sun item notes a massive sponge in a Williams Street display case beside a smaller sponge. The dealer recalls it being fished off Key West and valued at $300, weighing about twelve pounds, with local fishermen marveling at its size.
In Denver a week ago R R Paulison of New York City and J H Acklen of New Orleans hunted Estes Park. Paulison killed a 600 pound grizzly on the first day while Acklen later bagged two cubs after following the trail twelve miles. Also noted is a Nashville horseman’s three legged bay colt nearly a year old and described as very agile despite lacking one leg.
Captain Augustus G. Hall and the crew of the schooner Annie L. Hall report sighting a gigantic five trunk turtle on March 80 near the Grand Bank at latitude 40 10 and longitude 33 The creature measured about forty feet long and thirty feet wide with twenty foot flippers The crew did not attempt capture due to its enormity and danger to the vessel
A letter in the New York Tribune recalls a hunting party in a California ravine where a bear joins their camp, grabs the boiling beans, and disrupts their supper. The tale follows a Oregon incident of a train striking a mother bear and cub, and notes two Napa century plant stalks reaching twenty seven to twenty eight feet, with a one day nine inch growth before flowering and dying.
A humorous, rambling tale in Peck’s Sun about a stubborn boy who hides guilt over a cat explosion and a string of Fourth of July misadventures. He jokes about sitting up with a sick boy named Duffy, a girl, and a borrowed Soldiers’ Home furlough, while detailing a chaotic Independence Day with burns, clashes, and a farmer’s trick. The narrator reflects on patriotism and folly, ending with plans for farm chores and future celebrations.
A Philadelphia Press letter describes a boat passing through Tucka waxen Pennsylvania on the Delaware and Hudson canal drawn by two four year old mules. One mule is afflicted with malaria showing chill and fever symptoms like humans. The captain notes the animal is nearly cured by quinine, after initial resistance to the bitter remedy.
An advertisement claims Kidney-Wort cures rheumatism piles malaria constipation and liver kidney and bowel derangements. It touts dramatic health recoveries from fevers chills and weakness and promotes cheap fashion magazines from Strawbridge and Clot hter in Philadelphia with wide page counts and new music.
The Weekly Globe offers a 50 cent rate from now until January 1884 to help subscribers and agents establish a foothold in towns before the approaching presidential campaign. A small effort can gain twenty to thirty subscribers per town who will become permanent readers.
Reader request asks advertisers to mention seeing the notice in THE BOSTON WEEKLY GLOBE. Public notice encourages reference to the Boston Weekly Globe for ad authenticity and sourcing.
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