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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1882
Page
4
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Boston Weekly Globe announces readers can boost circulation by placing sample copies and acting as agents. Features include a new six week story cycle, a ladies department, an agricultural section, and stories by Oliver Optic with a March 21 and an April release. Address THE WEEKLY GLOBE.
Congress debates arbitrary imprisonments of American citizens by Britain, urging State Department action. It contrasts McSweeney in Dundalk jail with Lowell’s stance on naturalized citizens, recalling the Trent affair and John Bull’s authority. The piece criticizes Lowell for supporting distinctions between native and naturalized Americans and condemns British coercion in Ireland.
February 7 vote 257 to 242 rejects delaying oath reform. Majoribanks of Berwickshire backs postponement to permit affirming instead of the prescribed oath. Gladstone supports, but not a cabinet decision. Premier fears whip backlash and costly general election. Bradley case looms as unsettled political pressure persists.
The Journal argues that while the majority must lead, the minority has rights to respect. It critiques Republican rules to curb debate, warns against public plunder, and urges safeguards to restrain raids on the treasury. It advocates empowering the minority with proper facilities to check aggressive committees and avoid opportunistic legislation.
The unsettled stock market prompts forecasts of scarce money this year as 55 million dollars in called bonds loom, with banks and capitalists able to ease strain. Wheat and cotton crops, immigration, and tariff policy influence exports, production, and prices amid potential factory slowdowns and urban contraction. A Wall Street mystery note in Truth describes margin pressure and forced sales as an example of deceptive quotations versus actual trades.
A Revenue Office veteran in a contested stock deal pulls a navy fix revolver when a broker balks at handing over stock. The investor demands payment and receives a check for the full deposit, securing the stock transfer.
The United States envoy to La Paz complains that Chilean and Bolivian officials intercept his letters and mock his position. The piece urges swift action, proposing a show of force and recall, arguing no ambassador should endure public ridicule. It frames Chile as capable due to ironclads and calls for a stern government response.
The Senate approved a sweeping bill prohibiting Chinese laborers from landing in the United States for twenty years starting ninety days after passage. It defines laborers to include skilled, unskilled workers and miners and bars naturalization. Support comes mainly from Pacific States with New England largely opposed. The bill may pass the House before Easter and aims to protect American workers.
The article notes North American interest in South American nations amid decades of war and weakness from devastation. It cites Mr. T. W. Osborn in International Review, detailing ten independent governments plus three Guianas, with Brazil as an empire and nine republics by area and population.
A writer urges nine South American republics to form a central national government to create a single powerful nation. The proposed union would boast vast area and population, stable governance, and expanded trade, aiming to rank among the world’s great powers and end regional instability.
A column argues about damaged people seen daily, blaming temperance issues and material greed, urges self reliance and industry to avoid poverty, laments misdirected labor and parental influence, cites Hop Sing naturalization case, and ends with a patent medicine plug for Dr. Pierce’s pills.
A collage of brief items from correspondence and columns including satirical quips about authors readers and critics, political asides on Chicago gamblers and Ellis Island like ironies. It reports quotes from newspapers on politics, theater notices, and social anecdotes with a panoply of names, places, and opinions.
February meeting notes incubation benefits for home hatching. incubators hatch 70 80 percent of eggs. city dwellers can raise 200 chicks in a 15 foot room. chicks eight to twelve weeks sell in the East in spring at 40 75 cents per pound. secretary to publish home incubator directions under $6 holding 250 eggs. next meeting to discuss best poultry marketing methods. J M Baty secretary New Concord Ohio.
The Dingee and Coward Co of West Grove Pa offer Lovely Roses guaranteed to bloom and mailed nationwide. They claim reliability and liberal premiums with more roses than many firms, and invite readers to request their free 70 page New Guide on roses.
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