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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1882
Page
4
The article notes strategizing to gain subscribers by urging trial readers to subscribe for three months. It argues this converts them into lite subscribers and strengthens weekly circulation. An offer is presented to encourage trials and renewals.
Three months for 25 cents promotes Globe sample copies to neighbors and friends. The year’s stories cost over six thousand dollars in manuscript form. Continuation of the feature depends on subscriber support to expand circulation. Readers are urged to recruit one yearly subscriber or four three month subscribers.
A free copy is offered to any new subscriber who recruits four new three months subscribers at 25 cents each, providing a cost effective way to expand readership and reward referrals.
A timed subscription drive offers four new three month subscribers with the deadline set for August 31. Readers are urged to send as many subscriptions as possible, with options for 4, 3, 2, or 1 recipients.
A promotional offer states that sending $1 secures the newspaper for fourteen months. The brief advert emphasizes the long-term subscription at a single low payment.
A description of two forthcoming stories set in Salem village. Donald Dyke will follow The Star of the Circus. Hester Hepworth explores witchcraft days with sad scenes and strong tragedy, presented as both instructive and entertaining.
The Weekly Globe is mailed nationwide and to Canada with annual and multi copy rates. Subscriptions should be sent by postal order or draft, stamps accepted. Include full writer details, current and former addresses for changes. Discontinued notices require town, county and state. Lost copies duplicated. stamps not registered. Sample copies free.
The piece discusses rising coercion crime in Ireland amid the iron workers strike and costly idle days, questions popularity of anti Mormon sentiment, warns of a brewing financial panic, critiques Congress for petty jobs and high taxes, notes Tariff Commission questions, and reports New York anti monopoly organizing with potential governor candidates and Tammany concerns.
The New York Herald declares that Arabi Bey must be deposed to avoid wrecking English and French military prestige. It criticizes Gladstone’s weak stance and France’s hesitant retreat as the Sultan of Turkey already sets a cautious example amid the crisis.
The text notes firmness in deferring the conference and sending two Turkish commissioners to assert sovereignty. It names Dervish Pasha, noted for an unsavory reputation from Duicigne talks, said to have accepted many presents from Egypt and likely to receive many rewards in return. It suggests he will depart Alexandria convinced Arabi is generous and fit for Saladin's throne.
The attack on Land Leaguers by Bishop Gilmour has stirred debate in Catholic circles. The Western Watchman criticizes his stance as misinterpreting church teaching, arguing about divine right and the role of the state. The piece notes disputes among Catholic leaders while listing global religious demographics.
The article presents a detailed tally of church memberships in the United States up to January 1, 1881, comparing Catholics and various Protestant groups. It notes Catholics at 6,174,202 members, Methodists and Baptists totaling about 2.7 and 2.3 million respectively, then lists numerous other denominations with exact member counts. It also surveys world religion totals and distribution, highlighting the Catholic majority in France and Austria and the global share of Christians and Buddhists.
A gathering of war veterans from North and South recalled the 1863 struggle on Round Top and Cemetery Ridge. Names like Sickles and Crawford were noted for prior actions, while Lee and Mead lay at rest. The scene contrasted peaceful birds with trees marked by past artillery.
On the Gettysburg field nineteen years after the war, veterans from Union and Confederate sides met in friendship. They rode the ground where battles raged, marking spots of famous actions, trading memories, and designating monuments to commemorate their commands and days of combat.
A vigilante mob hanged John Tribbetts in Otter Tail county after a trio of men that included Kung Tribbetts went missing. Edward Washington and George Fehrmbacher were found murdered and mutilated, with Washington shot in the head and Fehribacker butchered. Tribbetts, captured in Bismarck, faced outraged claims of boyhood corruption and instigation.
A mob hanged a confessed crime suspect from a tele graph pole near the depot, decried as brutal and cowardly. The piece then shifts to a New Yorker butcher’s explanation of high meat prices, citing European beef demand, cattle losses in winter, drought, and farmers selling cattle for better prices.
A miscellany of brief excerpts and remarks from a 19th century era, touching Washington's death lore, voter empowerment for Black voters in Pennsylvania and New York, public debates on naval funding, New World wealth flows, Russian liquor regulation, and humorous anecdotes. The column also notes immigrants, public figures, and social habits with a satirical tone.
An unsigned tribute extols Mrs Lydia E Pinkham of Lyon Massachusetts as the Dear Friend of Woman. It praises her Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills as cures for uterine disorders menstrual pains and general female ills noting physician endorsements and urging readers to write for advice. Includes price and ordering details from Lynn Massachusetts and mentions testimonials from Philadelphia.
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