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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1887
Page
4
An advertisement states the Weekly Globe offers a four dollar term with cash payment. It claims the weekly Democratic newspaper is now the leading and only Democratic weekly paper in Boston and asks agents to remind Democrats. It notes agents should collect cash with all orders.
Readers encounter unfamiliar words phrases and quotations while reading and drafting letters essays or speeches. The text promotes one or more of several Handy Books designed to aid understanding and improve cautious, creditable writing.
The Boston Weekly Globe announces two standout features for 1887 the Complete Congressional Record and the Complete Resume of Foreign News. Each issue will provide full histories of important congressional action and major events abroad. Readers are urged to file the weekly for reference and note new club rates.
The notice urges readers to form a club of four yearly subscribers at $4 to receive a free one year copy of Wreckly Grose. It claims every town can support such a club and suggests children can help in forming it.
In its closing hours Congress produced both beneficial and wasteful measures. The interstate commerce and retaliation bills may yield clear benefits soon, while tariff reform stalled. The session avoided major scandals seen in prior Congress and offered lessons for reformers on future strategy.
The House adopted the Senate retaliation bill as the right course under the circumstances. The Senate version is preferred to no bill, and it may deliver hard blows to Canadian fishermen. Congress did not adjourn without taking strong ground for retaliation, and the measure could prove sufficient.
The San Francisco Call touts a “stroke of lightning” candidacy from California as a favored son, highlighting W. T. Coteman as the party’s potential savior. Democrats in New York doubt Cleveland or Till, while Thurman seems the only certain electee, and public calls for Coteman grow amid party nerves.
The piece discusses potential nominees two years ahead and toward electing an Eastern candidate. It contemplates President Crumyrtano possibly seeking a second term or else presenting Dav Bint of New York to the San Francisco Call. It expresses willingness for cooperation with William T. Coteman and the San Francisco Call.
In the eye of the civilized world the British government’s stance on Ireland is a disgrace. The Irish seek self governance akin to Massachusetts and other U S states. The Tory response is coercion and mass emigration, sowing hatred and indignant calls for liberty. The piece condemns the government’s attitude as cowardly and bullying.
The piece questions Blaine and Sherman talks for the 1888 GOP nomination. It argues Cleveland's strength with business leaders and voters, doubts Blaine’s appeal, notes Hitt as a credible alternative, and suggests Democrats could win nationwide with strong leadership and organization.
A historical meditation on public opinion after a New York woman’s execution. The piece questions double standards in capital punishment, asks why society recoils at female death, and notes horror despite support for the law. It suggests the state hides executions and calls punishment an affront to humanity.
A critique argues against private hangings and urges making executions public to test justice and humanity. It cites Mrs Sunratti and Mary as examples to show capital punishment reflects human inhumanity, suggesting the death penalty is a relic of barbarism and that public moral sentiment should guide abolition.
A Chicago paper satirizes tipping culture for service workers while noting a planned Rupert Burns statue for Albany Park. The piece covers Fort Riley cavalry school, British Columbia defences, Rhine navigation schemes, English rheumatic fashion, a west man’s eighth marriage, seismograph progress, New York women inspectors, European earthquakes toll, counterfeit money in Canada, New Jersey politics, a March snow blockade, and westward women preemption jokes.
The fragment presents John Vance Cheney invoking nature and imagination in a winter scene. It contrasts a silent brook with enduring song and envisions blossoms and stars as spellbound by fairies, suggesting a lyrical meditation on season, perception, and beauty.
A women’s page describes party games for home entertainment including the Donkey Party with tails on a wall map, a detailed Domino Whist variation, a Crazy Tea Party at a Worcester church, and Fagot Parties with ideas like machine poetry and alphabet stories, plus reader correspondence on domestic service and servant ethics.
A Virginia family story portrays Cyrus and Cassius in a kitchen scene about language and class. Cassius, a former Washington winter socialite, educates Cyrus and his kin while the punchline centers on failed manners and a joke about cognac and lasses.
A Springfield Union note contrasts church giving, where one pew holder paying $100 brings more joy than ninety nine new converts each giving $6. The remark highlights the impact of a single large donation versus many smaller gifts within church communities.
An umbrella is reported missing for about three weeks with a plea for the finder to contact 80 N. M. Also noted is a San Francisco brief about Frank Collier’s hen that lays a double yolk daily and a paid advertisement for a second edition book on crochet and embroidery work from J R Leeson & Co.
The Globe prints only signed letters and answers brief inquiries by mail if a stamped return envelope is provided. Editor invites concise submissions under 260 words. The piece notes Southern states grant Confederate veterans pensions of 8 to 12 dollars monthly, framed as a debt owed, not charity, with Union support in Toaus.
A reader asks how to pronounce Richard Wagner in American usage and whether using the German forms for Chopin Mozart or Goethe is appropriate. The letter suggests name pronunciation depends on context and audience, noting Wagner is as American as German, while Goethe in German would seem odd to some.
A reader asks about the relative strength of the Baptist and Methodist Episcopal denominations in the United States in the context of the People’s Column. The column responds on which denomination is larger and how to polish buffalo horns using common rasp and sandpaper, finishing with flannel.
In Salem and Laconia New Hampshire letters discuss car length versus a nearby column. A geometry note calculates a car diagonal of 82 feet and, using a triangle, yields a 30,9858 foot diagonal, claiming car and column are effectively the same length. A separate tip suggests applying hot bolted freestone mixed with tar oil before shingles are laid.
The Herald recounts a past tale under the caption Man Overboard, where an old salt relayed a yarn aboard the good ship Surprise crossing the Western ocean. A dramatic call prompts the captain to weigh the breeze and help the bog, not a man, slipping away as a joke.
A Norriton township resident read an ad by soap makers promising 1000 washing machines free. He wrote of profiting from their liberality, and received only a soap cake, a circular, and a washcloth. He now rethinks what counts as a washing machine.
The world owes every man a living and many insist the world will keep on owing it. A concise commentary on entitlement and educational duty in this periodical excerpt.
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