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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1889
Page
4
Boston Weekly Globe listing rates for Dart Grone One copy monthly 50 cents yearly six dollars prepaid. Tux Sexpar Gross and Ten Werxtr Girons annual prices by mail. Newstarte Co. at 542 Washington Street. Entered at Boston Post Office as second class matter.
An advertisement offers two beautiful engravings by Ida Waugh for 1.00, alongside a 1.75 deal for 50 CJs. The Weekly Globe promotes a three month subscription for 0.25 with prepaid postage, highlighting a broad value pitch.
The Kansas woman suffrage experiment faced a crucial test in recent municipal elections. Women voters turned out in larger numbers, supporting candidates of their choice and showing stronger moral scrutiny. A notable incident saw a Republican mayoral candidate challenged by a teacher mother who refused to back him, underscoring women’s influence and learning curve in local government.
The paper urges families to subscribe for three months by sending fifty cents to Globe Building, Boston. Readers are asked to study the eighth-page advertisement and, if they endorse the message, commit to a subscription. The package includes Sunshine for Little Children Engravings and The Weexty Goose.
An editorial argues that women voters resist manipulation by politicians, vote with or against their husbands, and elevate city governance. It notes no domestic upheaval in Kansas, credits women with authority and dignity, and says municipal suffrage educates and improves government, with thoughtful Christian women leading at the polls.
A lighthearted column suggests there is no single perfect way to enjoy summer. It notes President Harrison and family at Cape May and Lenox resort coaching parties. The core idea is to keep cool and take life as it comes, with contentment guiding happiness, despite minor pains.
The article argues profit sharing as a business policy, tracing its roots from Fourier and the Familistere in France. It explains how workmen receive higher wages, shorter hours, and a share of profits through funds for education, pensions, a poor fund, and a sick fund, with distribution favoring operatives and shareholders. It contrasts charity with true business value and cites the Familistere as a near-ideal implementation that abolishes pauperism for its workers.
Analyzes why US farming shrinks despite advanced machinery and vast wheat capacity. contrasts world progress with rising farm mortgage and debt, noting dwindling farm population from 1870 to 1880s, tariff policy, and perceived protection failures shaping farmer hardship. Calls for study of national welfare and reform.
The piece extols June as the angler’s month, urging local, near home streams and meadows for fishing, herbarium finds, canoeing, and wildlife viewing. It celebrates June’s tranquil, contemplative charm and its lure for both novice and veteran anglers in New England landscapes.
Laurence Gronlund reports on the Goory venture claiming it proves profit sharing benefits workers without cost to employers. He notes 6 percent return on capital, $150,000 annual manager salary, and worker gains from increased energy and tool care, while criticising Goory and its supporters for misplacing focus on profit sharing over other flaws.
The piece reflects on the inner and outer health gained from mindful wandering by streams and pools. It praises birds, bees, flowers, and glistening water as everyday, free pleasures that sustain a thoughtful person through life, contrasting with sensational tales. It laments the fading of simple joys as age limits angling.
Henry Appleton surveys American higher education, praising rapid growth and generous endowments. He notes 361 liberal arts colleges with 70,024 students and 4,442 instructors, plus women’s institutions, theology and law schools, and secondary schools. He defends education as a force for national progress and equality despite lingering gender biases.
A nostalgic verse extols the girl in a calico dress as wholesome homely and virtuous surpassing fashionably dressed rivals. It praises practical skills modest mien and partnership fostering a home life likening her to Cinderella and asserting marriage success with such a woman.
The New York Tribune criticizes a Johns town flood poem for forcing a rhyme between corpse and forks while praising Whitman lines on the same donation, noting the juxtaposition of gathered with mu.
The remarks note the media’s focus on the groom rather than the brides. The piece playfully critiques public sympathy swinging toward anxious grooms in wedding coverage.
Alexander Sullivan ex-president of the Irish Land League in Chicago was released on a $20,000 bond after a habeas corpus petition. The judge found the coroner’s jury evidence failed to show direct involvement in Dr. Cronin’s murder. Sullivan’s release followed his three days in custody as the Cronin case and Clan-na-Gael intrigues continue to unfold involving Moroney McDonald and the Boston convention report.
Washington June 14 The inquiry centers on how Chicago disclosures reveal inner proceedings of a group allied with The Clan na Gael and the United States British Government. Officials weigh implications for policy and security amid surprise details and cross party concerns.
A June 11 storm battered New York and Brooklyn with fierce lightning. A building under construction at Evergreen and Cooper avenues collapsed, burying six workers and killing two. St James Cathedral and Star of the Sea Church suffered fires and damage. Falls across New Jersey and New Hampshire caused further destruction and injuries, including a boy struck by lightning at a mill and a spire damaged in Plainfield.
A Cape Town Argus note explains the Mexican cascarone custom where a smiling senorita hits a stranger with an egg shell filled with tinsel paper sachet powder and trinkets. The shell is resealed with paper. Historically shells held gold and diamond dust among Spanish aristocrats, a practice now rarer.
Eyewitness describes a brutal punishment in front of the pasha’s palace in Damascus. A chained prisoner lies on the ground while a Turkish soldier sits on his chest. Two men strike the soles of his feet with sticks as others lash him. The floggings end when two others flog the floggers, then a fat Turkish major administers a final ear-boxing.
A Harvard crewman speaks in verse about love and unity with Miss Crimson and Miss O. as two souls sharing a single thought. The lines hint at affection and joint feeling, presented in a literary exchange style from the Harvard rowing context.
A playful interchange in Indianapolis centers on a would be suitor who admits to writing jokes for newspapers while a parent questions his motives as a gas speculator. The exchange hints at social expectations and family negotiations surrounding marriage.
About 200 surviving Johnstown merchants met Adjutant-General Hastings on Thursday and were promised reestablishment on long credit after the flood. Pittsburg and Philadelphia wholesalers offered business courtesies. Rain paused wreck-site work at the stone bridge and hindered relief efforts while registration tallies rose toward 21,000 names.
In Bridgeport two men named William J. Clark, one an ex postmaster now with Thomson Houston, and another a varnish maker, debated a misaddressed letter. Each trusted his wife’s handwriting and both refused to claim it alone. They sealed the letter back until a joint decision or official order could resolve ownership.
A Sacramento Record Union column reports a city resident received a letter from a young woman in a northern mountain town. She asks if local music shops have certain songs and prices, mentioning titles like Chipy Get Your Hair Cut and she is my big Fat Consumpted liza jane, requesting availability and costs.
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