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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1883
Page
4
The Weekly Globe offers subscriptions at 50 cents from now until January 1884 to recruit subscribers and agents ahead of the Presidential Campaign. The notice urges friends to win twenty or thirty new subscribers per town who will likely become permanent readers.
The usual commission allows postmasters and agents to retain subscribers for six months under the offer, with retention allowed on one or more names sent as part of the program.
Five readers commit to clubs from December through January 1984 paying 92.50 total. The item notes a promotional sign up and reader engagement with club subscriptions.
The club of five subscribers will receive an extra copy free for fourteen months and the club papers will be entered for fourteen months. Papers can be mailed to one address or to each subscriber. Sending several copies in one package reduces mail loss risk.
Boston detective Donald Dyke contributes a thrilling tale titled The Beacon Street Puzzle or Unravelling a Tangled Skein, describing the closing case. See seventh page for full story details.
A seventh column announces a fourteen month offer to single subscribers or via postmasters or agents. The deal rewards many patrons who can recruit single or club subscribers, with four teen months for each subscriber and standard commissions to postmasters and agents. If fourteen months is not possible, the offer runs until January 1884 at fifty cents.
The Globe seeks the names of every US checker player to send sample copies. The checker department is edited by United States champion Charles F. Barker. Players are asked to mail postal cards with addresses of their friends.
Advertises one year free postage at 160 dollars for six copies at 500 dollars, and requires postal orders drafts or stamps. Specifies payment methods, stamp denominations, and address details for subscriptions and address changes. Notes duplicate copies for lost mail and unregistered stamps.
Editorial follows with remarks on ad rates and gossip about Virginians in a quarreling sheriff feud. It cites the Princess Alice disaster and merchant ship losses, debates Star route fraud probes, and criticizes pension pressure and lobbyists. It reports on industrial education gains from St. Louis manual training, noting Chicago funding for a similar program.
The author argues for expanding practical education to include manual training alongside the Institute of Technology. Advises establishing a school akin to St. Louis model to train machinists and workers in metal stone and wood, addressing urgent social and educational needs in Boston.
The Supreme Judicial Court sustains the veto on safety deposit vaults, delivering a clear and logical decision while rebuking attempts to use the court for political ends. The piece critiques state political maneuvering by the Republican Committee and lawmakers and warns against appointing judges for partisan aims.
The Continental Guards from New Orleans visit Boston next week to be hosted by the National Lancers and the city. The Home benefit entertainment will rally military sympathy and civic generosity, uniting Union and Confederate veterans in a season of peace and hospitality.
Governor Butler presented stark proof of barbarities at Tewksbury hospital with tanned human skin from a Swede born C. J. Eklund and died 1879, tattooed with Jesus and his name. The disclosure followed prior removals and claims of possible Harvard ties, shocking public sentiment.
The article lauds actions to reduce dangerous crowding in human bodies and hides, asserting the evidence presented yesterday clarifies public need for reform and will earn public support for the governor's measures. It calls the efforts noble and widely appreciated.
The Ohio Republican ticket, led by Governor hopeful Foraker, is viewed as a weak choice amid looming defeat. John Sherman avoids the nomination, fearing a statewide loss would ruin his presidential prospects, while managers expect defeat and approve a blunt, expedient ticket.
An engineer on a Northwestern passenger train, approaching a cut filled with cattle, slammed the throttle and forced the engine through the herd, killing ten cows but not derailing. The item also notes various short social and political curiosities and quips from the era.
The Globe reports a fall start to the presidential campaign coverage. It notes rising circulation and the purchase of another Hoe Perfecting Press plus new folding machines to speed delivery and print capacity nationwide.
A stream of brief items and quips references Perry Belmont and Congress, aging figures, a widow earning seven hundred thousand from grain, a Canadian divorce ruling, a coal fire near Crow Peak and an ox drawn engine, Davitt’s prison visits, a fasting cure for rheumatism, Mackay’s hotel plans, a Delmonico gathering, and scattered social notes.
A Market Drayton tale recounts a missing butler believed drowned, then found hat, with a diver attacked by river fish. Nearby forms a strange sheep incident, a horse scare, and a field visit as townsfolk chase a shirted sheep. In California Canton Canyon, three rock pillars attract Mexicans led by Joaquin Murrieta’s widow who claim the rocks hide temples granting affinity after a blessing Padre will open doors next month.
A violent May 20 wind swept Homer Nevada with snow and a spectacular ice shower near 11 PM. Witnesses say hail was actually ice pellets from spray fed by Sierra winds, drifting into Mono valley as Lake Jessie fell overnight.
A stranger enters a Laredo saloon on Main street, pays with an American dollar, receives change in Mexican dollars, and marvels at the system claiming he will stay and bring his family. The Nashville American notes it as a humorous incident from Smyrna, with local commentary.
The Maria arrived with a heavy cargo of fish and a remarkable tale. The captain reports a monster whale lifted the boat ten feet above the water after brushing the hull on the outward voyage. The vessel stayed upright and_navigation continued. The crew awoke to witness the whale spout, surface briefly, then sink. No injuries were reported.
An optical demonstration by Professor Holemay showed soap film colors reacting to sound via a phone slit device. A reflected film on canvas produced evolving shapes and colors tied to intonation, with certain tones altering figures while others varied color between appearances.
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