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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1889
Page
4
Tur Dat Grone One copy per month five vents? per year six dollars. Postage prepaid. Tur Sexpay Girone by mail two pounds per year. Postage prepaid. Tur Weekly Grose by mail twenty one dollars per year. Postage Tue Girone Newsfaren Co Boston Street 62 Washington. Entered at the Post Office Boston Mass as second class matter.
The Weekly Globe proclaims value for subscribers at one dollar annually, boasting seventeen complete novels or eight dollars fifty cents in novels plus countless stories sketches poems and news. It invites readers to form a club with a club offer advertised on the page.
Late wheat crop reports from India and Russia signal possible famine and huge demand for American wheat. The piece notes Dakota's expected 30 million bushel shortfall, but U S yields near 400 million bushels. It condemns tariffs for hindering imports and questions policy driven by selfish interests.
A essay argues marriage serves human development beyond personal happiness. It traces physical and psychical roots, noting reproduction, home formation, and child care as core outcomes. Marriage fosters virtue, charity, industry, and discipline, while shaping morals through Christian monogamy’s evolution.
The piece discusses the fascination with aerial navigation, referencing Prof Hogan’s ascent and a likely fatal ending. It notes air as a buoyant, low-resistance medium that could revolutionize travel, and highlights aluminium as a potential key. Though challenges persist, the article remains optimistic about a future breakthrough enabling vast progress.
Frank G. Carpenter describes the Suez Canal’s wealth and impact from Ismailia Egypt. He notes British ownership of most traffic profits. 1886 tolls and passenger numbers. plans for a second canal. navigation rules. harbor works at Port Said Suez. labor, water supply, and dredging. local life including markets camels and a desert mirage. tobacco chickens onions and Egyptian agriculture. and Egyptian hatcheries with modern methods versus US. He also remarks on Mark Twain’s popularity abroad and the tobacco trade.
Hi H Brown argues marriage lengthens life and fosters virtue amid evolution. He says future reforms will build on proven needs, strengthening homes and society. He warns against sensual excess and asserts marriage preserves the race, guiding better homes and government.
An article by Edward BeviAmy in Nationalist Magazine proposes raising compulsory schooling to at least 25 weeks yearly and extending the age to 17. He argues the state should aid indigent families and relocate under 17s from stores and factories to schools to curb child labor and foster development, though critics warn of hardship for poor parents.
A reflective verse from Harper's Magazine about a girl traveler student in South Africa and the daily lessons. She jokes about memory, geography and history, arithmetic, spelling, and writing, noting a sense of boredom and a charming French lesson with a gentleman teacher.
Mrs Harrison continually buys pretty forms in French china and English tiling for decoration. She stores items in her closet and uses them for future designs, aided by friends who donate vases platters and bowls. Her work includes butter attics read and milk sets for baby favors and ornate pot rests for breakfast and tea tables.
A tub overturned spraying water and a boy across the floor. Witnesses describe the incident as an accident and note no serious injuries. The event prompted clean up and minor police or caregiver attention.
American Analyst reports on celluloid made from gun cotton and acids, outlining safe handling while warning that bonfires of celluloid items are not advised. It explains production steps from pulpy mass to finished articles and notes no injuries yet, urging caution for daily use.
The veteran leader Susan B. Anthony, nearing 70, speaks of fatigue from public duties but says it is less than twenty years ago when she stood alone without supporters. The interview notes her keen intelligence, quiet gray hair, stylish yet modest dress, and her dislike of rain as she enjoys younger women’s praise for the suffrage cause. The piece discusses renewed gratitude among women for suffrage brought reforms in legal and social status, plus a remark from a young mother on maternal rights. It also references a New York case where a husband can will his child away from his wife, a source of protest in some minds.
A vivid Civil War era vignette shows Jerry, a cheerful young enslaved boy, awakening Master Jack for breakfast and sharing a sugar biscuit ritual. The tale follows their morning routine, Jack’s affection, and Jerry’s wistful longing when Jack leaves with the Yankees, ending with Massa’s promise to fetch the beloved treat again.
New York Heralds Senator Eustis of Louisiana shares a humorous episode about a political speech he authored. The typewriter manager mistakes the draft for a Democratic address, noting a copyist Republican proclaims it a lie and a nasty Democratic lie, revealing the copyist’s partisan stance.
A short remark by the paragraph man ponders balance in life. He jokes about hash as a gag and notes how the compositor returns the joke in kind. The snippet captures a newsroom banter tone on publishing inevitabilities.
A humorous note from Harper’s Bazar describes Charlie’s mustache mishap after his wife trimmed it with button-hole scissors. The gag highlights domestic mishap and wartime style humor through a playful exchange about grooming.
A jumble of curiosities notes, including a Cuban named Munoz at Saratoga, a Detroit man buying a raffle ticket, petrified trees in Farmington NS, and a Richmond Va writer of 36764 shorthand words. Reports cover birds, snakes, racehorses, prairie clams, and a vast watermelon patch in Georgia.
An early 20th century style description touts a family journal issued every three weeks offering a complete fifty cent novel by a popular author, weekly stories poems fairy tales women’s pages agricultural reading and home and foreign news in readable paragraph form.
A clippings style notice urges readers to subscribe at once with friends and neighbors and to send for free sample copies for distribution. It also seeks agents in every town and directs inquiries to THE WEEKLY GLOBE Boston Mass. The rest lists varied quirky facts and anecdotes from different places and dates.
A garbled roundup of curious events includes a Welsh mountain sold for £5750 a New York wedding with $1,000,000 in gifts a three foot apple limb exhibit and a pigs in clover puzzle inventor earning $100,000. It reports strange feats accidents and eccentric folk from Wales to Georgia with scattered local color and mild humor.
A dramatic snippet shows Angelina telling her mother that her engagement with George is over after a confrontation last night. She recalls finding a 25 cent piece left by George and fears he is not a gentleman.
A Chicago girl Tot and her mother travel toward Europe with a Boston stopover. Tot grumbles at a driver who chooses alley paths over main streets, insisting the route be changed. The Lawrence American notes a vivid scene as the young figure recalls an odd incident with a bee.
In a Burlington Free Press exchange Bascom jokes about a sickly summer and a wife’s bonnet mishap. Backlot responds with a quip about a woman eighty being out of style, reflecting lighthearted social banter of the era.
Merchant Traveller records a quip as a weary elder contemplates phrases used in bargaining with a hotel clerk. The old gentleman reads his paper and defines the reverse side as any side named during a coin toss with the clerk.
In a brief avowal, Softleigh asks if Miss Giggle is laughing at him and Miss Flyte notes she often laughs at almost nothing, offering no clear explanation. The dialogue centers on perceived mockery and the characters’ uncertainty about Giggle’s amusement.
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