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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1883
Page
4
Boston detective Donald Dyke launches what he calls his most thrilling story The Beacon Street Puzzle or Unravelling a Tangled Skein The Story of Donald Dyke's Closing Case advertised to appear on the seventh page Another new tale is nearly ready for publication
In the seventh column a new offer of fourteen months to each single subscriber is announced. The Globe will be issued fourteen months to every subscriber whether named singly or in a club, with postmasters and agents receiving the usual commission. If possible subscribe for fourteen months, or until January 1884 for fifty cents.
A publication requests the names and addresses of all checker players in the United States to send sample copies of The Globe. It notes that The Globe’s checker department is edited by Charles F. Barker, United States champion, and asks players to postal card their friends’ addresses.
The Weekly Globe subscription options are listed for U S and Canada at one year for $100 or six issues for $500. Subscriptions may be sent by postal order, registered letter, or draft on New York or Boston, with stamps accepted. Include full name, post office, county, and state on letters. Change of address must include previous and current details. Discontinued notices require town county and state. Lost copies duplicated free. Do not register stamps. Mail to The Weekly Globe Boston Mass. Sample copies free.
Advertising rates are listed for ordinary ads and editorial notices with discounts. The piece then attacks Worth and Train, cites Secretary Chandler on the Alaska steamer, and condemns government handling of Apaches and Indian policy. It criticizes a Pennsylvania woman law student, questions a Philadelphia paper’s logic, and recounts a brutal assault at the Long Island Home, urging reform of private asylums.
A reader notes that the Irish question is handled by England through emigration and removal of paupers to the United States. The writer claims the British policy robs land and labor, uses starvation to quell unrest, and calls for thorough investigations of private asylums in every state. The piece accuses the English government of persecuting the Irish poor and exporting discontent.
Dr Lathrop testifies that infants in the institution were deliberately starved to death to force system changes. Trustees refused wet nurses, aiming to transfer infants and raise death rates to compel action. The Governor Butler is praised for exposing the crimes despite Harvard College and newspapers defending the institution.
Popular Science Monthly summaries argue that outdoor exercise and pure air fuel lung health. The piece urges shedding night air superstitions, keeping fresh air at safe temperatures, and exercising outdoors year round to prevent pulmonary disease and ensure restful sleep.
The article reviews Dr. Waterhouse Niles’s Ethical Therapeutics argument criticizing drug-centered care and endorsing moral management. It discusses how health and morality interrelate, the need for a rational medical basis, and the role of moral factors in treating disease, crime, and mental state, with reference to Dr Andrew Clark and the Massachusetts Medical Society prize.
The author argues medicine cannot yet be called a science since centuries of experience have not yielded a satisfactory explanation of any one medicinal agent. He hopes his principles, once understood, will form a rational basis for a philosophical science of therapeutics.
The Star route conspirators Brady Dorsey and co are freed by a six month trial verdict of not guilty. The piece argues the government was defrauded by millions, condemns the jury as incompetent and drunk, and predicts political reform will come only with the Republican party leaving office. It also notes a separate case involving Rerdell and forecasts further political impasse. It ends with musings on trotting horse genetics and future speed.
A dynamite factory owner and three associates were found with nitro glycerine while traveling between London and Birmingham. A jury found they planned to depose the queen and levy war on Parliament to force changes. Sentences: penal servitude for life. The piece argues against Irish traitor extradition and cites Dr Gallagher, Wilson, Whitehead and Curtin.
The article chronicles record trotting times led by Maud and Aldine at Gentleman's Driving Park, noting a 2.1544 mile in 2.1544 with half in 1.0542. It traces historic progress from 1818 to 1907, citing Yale professor Brewer and Science forecasts predicting a two minute mile by 1907.
The dispute at Andover Theological Seminary over the associate creed and literal interpretation ends with a liberal win. Professors Hincks and Harris advocate the new departure, urging liberty of thought and inquiry, while critics warn against eroding doctrinal rigidity. The piece argues openness strengthens religious teaching and influence nationwide.
A collage of brief items notes a New York statue joke, an Indianapolis inventor with a cheap electric light stock venture, a Paris bibliotheque character "The Persian" and his Turkish dictionary mystery, and varied odds about oil, cotton, land sales, and public figures. It cites Henry Watterson on Tilden, Gould’s yacht speed, Beecher on revivalism, the Prince of Wales age, and Spanish interest in Columbus.
A collection of small items from various papers covers social manners in Germany and America, odd quotes about courtship and discipline, jokes on public life and politics, curious facts on eggs and hair, a diplomat’s wife calling on Ouida, and shipbuilding activity on the Clyde with dozens of vessels launched and under construction.
A Toledo Blade account describes three waterspouts near Turtle Island on Lake Erie, rising like steam from a steam stack, twisting to cornicopial shapes, and vanishing after striking clouds. Observers on the tug Farragut call them awe inspiring and destructive, part of a year noted for cyclones and spray clouds on the lake. A separate tale recounts a Fordham man’s New York Sun interview of a large black spider and a beetle in its web, culminating in the beetle’s defeat and the spider’s final kill by the smaller spider.
A strange procession of hacks with bright silk veils and burning tapers delivered an 80 veiled daughter of Sonora from Stockton to the California Steam Navigation Company shed. She boarded the Mary Garratt for Bedouin Island where she was to be married, accompanied by Chinese women and boys with lighted tapers.
In Swampoodle a young Irish boy recalls how the widow Maroney lost five ducks after a storm. An old mother duck sheltered her seven ducklings under a porch, mistaking hail for corn, and several young ducks froze to death from hail on their stomachs.
In Port Jervis New York a long black snake wedged between stones in Seinglekill bed. As rescuers tried to free it the water splashed high creating a rainbow. Two local men nearby killed the reptile. The tale is part of a season of snake lies. the paper notes the rainbow detail with wry amusement.
In Iron county last week three boys Harry Hart Rufus Whitnah and Marshall Whitnah aged 16 15 and 13 hunted squirrels. They found a den of catamounts near Proughs hollow one mile east of Iron ton. Their dogs bayed the den and the boys slew five full grown cats their mother catamount and four kittens. Their bold hunt ends with the successful scalping of the spotted varmints.
The Weekly Globe is offered at 50 cents from now until January 1884 to establish a foothold before the coming presidential campaign. Subscriptions and agents are urged to recruit twenty or thirty new subscribers per town, with many becoming permanent readers.
The usual commission rates for Postmasters and agents may be retained on subscriptions for six months sent under the current offer. The policy applies to one or more names submitted with the offer, ensuring agents earn earnings on eligible renewals or new signups.
Five subscribers may receive a free copy through January 1984 or the sender may deduct the usual commission. The notice invites forming clubs and expanding readership.
The sender of a club of five subscribers will receive an extra copy free for fourteen months, and the papers of the club will be entered for fourteen months. Form clubs, and the papers will be mailed to one address or to each single subscriber. When several copies are sent in one package there is less danger of loss in the mails than when sent singly.
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