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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1879
Page
4
An appeal urges readers to form a five-subscriber club to renew the paper for a year. It suggests showing a sample copy to neighbors to raise a five-member club, earning an extra copy for one year, and even proposes involving a spouse or child to secure the required subscribers.
A club may include old or new subscribers who live in the same town or across different sections, and every name received will count one toward the five needed to secure an extra copy.
The notice urges readers to begin canvassing for the Weekly Globe immediately and to persuade others to do so. By diligent effort, participants may become entitled to receive the Weekly Globe for one year. The appeal emphasizes quick action and collective support.
A broad recruitment pitch seeks active agents in every U S town and village. It promises a one year subscription for every five subscribers or a cash commission and directs inquiries to learn the commission amount. The language reflects a midcentury sales appeal aimed at expanding distribution networks.
A subscription solicitation invites forming a Club of Five with members paying $1 each to receive the Weekly Globe for one year. It promises sample copies, forwarding duplicates if issues are late, and accepting denominations under 15 cents as payment. It urges neighbors to begin at once.
The piece mocks Senator Zach Chandler for claiming to rescue the country from rebel brigadiers and references a Washington Post table of past extra sessions. It notes seven extra sessions since the government’s organization and outlines related political changes, including senate shifts and a new corroded insurance scandal in New York.
San Francisco camps insist hostility to Chinese stems not from race but from a clash of civilizational levels and wage competition. They argue Chinese labor undercuts wages, harms American workers, and threatens social advancement, despite ideals of brotherhood and universal schooling.
The passage shows working class fears over Chinese competition, urging preservation of liberties and ballot stays. Voters, outraged by perceived defeat, demand relief from what they view as a looming threat to white labor. President Hayes is urged to heed public sentiment and protect labor interests.
For over ten days an unknown woman’s mutilated body lay in the Lynn City Hall janitor’s room as thousands viewed the casket. Detectives, journalists, and citizens labored to identify her, yet the ghastly mystery remains unsolved and a broader moral critique emerges about abortion and societal laxity in New England communities.
The piece outlines a pending test case to resolve whether Congress may, in peacetime, make treasury notes legal tender for private debts and whether reissued notes retain that status. It reviews Hepburn versus Griswold and Knox versus Lee, noting shifts in interpretation and the wartime rationale for legal tender. General Butler argues broad congressional power to designate money material, while opponents claim only gold and silver may be legal tender. The outcome is awaited in the fall.
The statement highlights strong concern about how the issue will influence political party splits and the country’s financial strategy. Leaders warn of lasting effects on legislation, budgeting, and international relations as debates intensify.
The forty fifth congress closed amid confusion with accusations of rushed laws and pocketed measures. Highlights include the river and harbor bill signed by Hayes and a slew of laws, while many bills failed, prompting calls for reform and a possible extra session. The piece laments legislative inefficiency, notes the upcoming Democratic majority, and ends with a vivid digression on grave robbing as a bizarre symbolic caution.
An Ohio inventor proposes a coffin device using a small machine and two wires to trigger an alarm bell if a coffin is disturbed. The system promises rapid notification to cemetery staff, prevents grave robbery, and could deter burial mishaps. Estimated cost about 250 dollars for sixty days, with proportional scaling.
A wide collection of brief notes cites Spurgeon preaching sermons Kellogg planning a European life after stage retirement William Astor planning an opera house in Jacksonville Fla Nilsson writing of an America visit Victoria Woodhull teaching in London Dr Edward Ledwich dead Colonel Audenried praised in Washington Bismarck statue unveiling Cologne April 1 NY cathedral altar cost 250000 Palma Olle Bull linked to Thackeray Tennyson and Liszt Kilkenny alderman Dan McCarthy death among other items
A collage of brief items includes death of Parisian church leader Paschal Grousset and critique of Custer’s legacy, Munich theatre prize results, fashion lace styles, a Naples tax tale, a London harlequin anecdote, and a sweeping roundup of global curiosities.
A string of brief witticisms and rumors touches on Vi vandieres, Washington society, Lordly brag and editorials. It notes a Nor witch lad smoking, a photographer’s life epitaph, and a General Ewing’s daughter praised as Washington’s prettiest girl. Other items include a Yuma coach gang, Queen Victoria as a Spiritualist, and humorous exchanges about elections, coffins, and trains.
The piece recounts British attempts to seize the US frigate Constitution, now off Dorset after a salvage incident. It notes Sir R Phillimore’s ruling that a warship carrying national cargo is outside civil jurisdiction, a view echoed by Lord Stowell and Chief Justice Marshall, to prevent wars between nations.
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