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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1882
Page
4
Weekly Globe subscription rates and mail guidelines
The item outlines subscription prices for the Weekly Globe at one year for 100 dollars and six copies for 500 dollars. It explains payment methods by postal order registered letter or draft, and notes stamp denominations of one two or three cents. It gives address instructions and guarantees duplicates for lost mail.
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Globe
United States
Canadas
New York
Boston
Mass
Maia
Advertising Rates and Discounts Listed
Ordinary notices and editorials priced by line with 50 cents per line for regular ads and nonpareil lines. Discounts offered of five percent on one hundred dollars and ten percent on two hundred dollars.
Continent Reacts to Naval Spending and Suez Crisis
A Washington chorus denounces the river and harbor bill as shameful while Congress trims funds for the District of Columbia asylum. Debates on naval plans, Goos river town lots, and Conkling’s comeback mix with post office self support and a looming Suez canal closure by England. France and Germany likely to protest Britain’s action as Europe watches.
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Ingalls
Kansas
Congress
District of Columbia
Suez Canal
Seymour
Egypt
Mediterranean
Red Sea
England
France
Germany
Great Britain
Europe
Gladstone Blunder Alleged Over Red Sea Link Control
The passage discusses control of the water link between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean and portrays Mr. Gladstone as having blundered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Sea
Mediterranean
Mr. Gladstone
England's terrible responsibility in Egypt’s ruin
A critique of Britain's 1882 Alexandria bombardment. The author condemns England for intervening in Egypt, destroying property and lives, failing to protect European civilians, and inflaming Arab and Muslim hostility. It argues Britain bears moral and historical blame alongside Arabi Pasha and calls for addressing human costs beyond river and harbor improvements.
Rivers and Harbors and Education Rally in Congress
A patriotic Congress pursues river and harbor development with 19 million dollars in mind while some doubt the funding route. At Saratoga an illiteracy based education resolution urged liberal national school support, highlighting Southern needs and calls for federal aid to educate the nation.
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Congress
Saratoga
National Treasury
United States
South
The War in Egypt and English Control of the Canal
The piece argues the Egyptian conflict stems from England's fear of losing canal control and prejudicial interests. It traces Beaconsfield's diplomacy, foreign powers' views, and British schemes to secure a permanent strategic grip, risking a wider religious and regional war as Egypt asserts independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Egypt
Beaconsfield
Khedive
Europe
Russia
Germany
France
Turkey
Alexandria
Gibraltar
Port Said
Calcutta
Ireland
Census Bureau reveals manufacturing by city and wages
The census bureau publishes statistics on twenty leading cities showing total employment of 948,515 in manufacturing with $379,384,931 in wages. Males over sixteen comprise 70 percent, females over sixteen 24 percent, and children eight percent. Highest wages prevail in Washington with San Francisco and Brooklyn following. Baltimore employs most women. Baltimore leads in fruits and vegetables. Boston tops the year with refined sugar and molasses.
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Washington
San Francisco
Brooklyn
Baltimore
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Boston
City by city trade values in refined sugar and meat packing
A detailed list shows regional economic figures for refined sugar and molasses, meat packing, clothing, iron and steel, flouring mill products and other sectors across major cities including Brooklyn Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Jersey City Louisville Milwaukee Newark New Orleans New York Philadelphia Pittsburg Providence San Francisco St Louis Washington with billions in dollars in trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Boston
Brooklyn
Tee
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Detroit
Jersey City
Louisville
Milwaukee
Ewar
Rae New Orle
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Providence
San Francisco
St. Louis
Washington
Buffalo
Cincinnat
New Orleans
Iron and Steel
Newark
The French Convict Brides Of New Caledonia
A Cornhill Magazine account describes France's penitentiary system offering married life to selected female convicts in New Caledonia. Wards under Augustinean nuns gain husbands arranged by the colony governor, with conditions and ticket of leave, often involving warders or soldiers as suitors.
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France
Augustine
Cornhill
New Caledonia
Noumea
Robie nomination hailed amid Maine election bribery claims
Daniel Stickney of Presque Isle accuses governor hopeful Robie of winning via bribery and party tricks. The letter attacks Republican methods as widespread corruption from primaries to polls, naming politicians and voters, and laments Maine's political rot and clergy support for corrupt victory.
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Daniel Stickney
Presque Isle
Sunrise
Portland
Thomas
Robie
Colonel Robie
Aroostook
Brother Stickney
Eliza
Hale Committee
Sproul
Veazie
Snow
Skowhegan
Harriman
Kennebunk
Wallace R. White
Blaine
United States
Idaho
Augusta
Codyville
Maine
Daniel
Lynde
Major Smith
Temple of Justice
Republican Party
Arctic expedition members skirt distant native huts
The narrative notes the party passed within fourteen miles of a hut where twenty reindeer carcasses hung for food, yet no native guided them. A village thirty miles west of their landing site lies north of Bulun, where natives winter. The rifle proved useless to secure their route.
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Bulun
Costly coffin in Milan and a witnesse dwarf tale
A medley of items notes the Milan cardinal Borromeo relic in a crystal casket costing $800,000, a humorous courtroom remark by Judge Wylie to a prairie witness, and varied clippings from Uncle Millett to Cairo, Egypt. The brief items include jokes, curiosities, and social sketches across different locales.
Hat mischief and grand finance in wild pointers
A jumble of rural humor and sharp critique appears in the clipping noting a Florida alligator with a jug in its stomach and a reflection on stolen property via big financiers. It contrasts petty theft punishment with the seeming immunity of large corporate plunder and highway control.
Savoy inventor claims solves aerial navigation and electric mail
A Savoy man, unnamed, works alone on several inventions he hopes will make him world famous. He believes he has solved aerial navigation using small model machines powered by a string and a revolving propeller. He also outlines a plan to transmit mail by telegraph or electric power, proposing cigar shaped mail casings and a shipment capability of 100 pounds from New York to San Francisco in thirty hours. Wonders in science are cited as potential precedents, with the inventor optimistic about beating them all.
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Milan
Cardinal Borromeo
Omaha Granger
Berlin
Millett
John
Squire N
Minot
Lewiston Journal
New York
Secor Robeson
Robeson
Arabi Pasha
Garfield
Egypt
Jimmy Tuffboy
Haver Register
Indiana
Vermont
Alexandria
Utica
Thomas Jefferson
South Carolina
Jane Gray Swisshelm
Cameron
Pennsylvania
Boss Cameron
Washington
Philadelphia Times
Alexander Dumas
Garibaldi
Dumas
Mediterranean
Red Shirts
Naples
Pompeii
Montana
England
Chicago Times
Seine
Paris
West End
London
Europe
New York World
Simon
Chile
Pittsfield Sun
Savoy
San Francisco
Saroyan
Philadelphia Society Stirs Over Delayed Royal Wedding
Miss Alice Bouvier of a prominent Philadelphia family expected to wed Prince Vallerie of the Bourbon Legitimist line in Philadelphia. Plans collapsed as the prince failed to arrive from Paris and all efforts to contact him have failed, prompting a search by a relative in Paris and fears of an accident or other misfortune.
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Philadelphia Record
Alice Bouvier
Prince Vallerie
Philadelphia
Frank Drexel
Miss Bouvier
Legitimists
Paris
United States
New York
Strange Vegetable Growth Surfaces in Nevada Desert Mines
Visitors to old Mexican silver mines in Nevada report extraordinary white fungi spreading through damp timber galleries. Shapes include hooded masses, bearded goats, and owls. some lifts stones weighing up to 100 pounds. Higher, drier levels produce elegant twisted spirals and bulbous blossoms resembling flowers.
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Nevada
Ross
Tennyson's May Queen Refers To Favorite Prescription Tale
A fragment speaks of Tennyson's May Queen and suggests the beauty who died young might have reigned longer if blessed with Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The remark portrays the medicine as a universal cure for ailments of women.
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Tennyson
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