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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1888
Page
8
New York March 10. The writer urges readers to choose optimism over despair, arguing that a cheerful disposition radiates into social life and personal dealings. He recalls Beecher, Finney, and Ingersoll to contrast gloom with resolute humor, urging self-improvement and the cultivation of happiness for personal and communal benefit.
Labor notes report boycotts against Higgins Fuller and Warren stores and a push by unions for nine hour days. The Trades Assembly of Denver debates a labor hall while Pullman woodcarvers struggle for workers. AFL appeals to Pennsylvania miners and a Typographical Union boycott in Philadelphia are noted. The Cincinnati Exposition is boycotted by Building Trades. Australian secret ballots spread among unions and Lowell Bricklayers demand nine hours from April. Wall River workers seek a 10 percent raise. CB&Q rails again face engineer pay disputes. Yale Professor Trowbridge cites fatigue among workers. Athol shoe shop woes persist amid labor strife. A Norse myth analogy frames the labor problem. Amsterdam unions pursue state and national federation talks. Chelsea Carpenters plan nine hours. Chicago building trades fear contractor concessions to unions. Great Britain and Ireland plan a September national trades gathering. Farrell proposes anti-union withdrawal bans and longer terms for labor agitators. 1888 political notes urge unionist backing in New York and Tribune reform to avoid GOP opposition. The Chicago labor press records a stale Knights of Labor vs. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers debate.
A witty Washington dispatch recounts Alaska Governor Swineford’s refusal to address a Boston audience. He jokes his grammar may amuse more than facts, then muses on Alaska’s vast minerals, rivers, fisheries, and potential mastodon hunting. He notes Sitka children’ slang and games illustrate civilization’s spread.
Louisa May Alcott died at Roxbury Massachusetts on the sixth inst at four oclock after a long decline in health. The famed author of Little Women Little Men and Jo s Boys banked a career from obscurity to fame while serving as a hospital nurse during the war. Her literary life spanned eighteen volumes with sales in America totaling about 500000.
Townsend surveys New York hotel ventures and foresees a booming season for passengers over cargo. He ties hotel fortunes to Park Avenue blocks, Central Park environs, and the Fifth Avenue landmark developments while noting the Tilden and Hilton estate cases and the rise of public philanthropylinked legacies.
A draft tariff act sets ad valorem and specific duties on steel, timber, sugar, tobacco, cereals, fish, alcohol, textiles, wool, silk goods, books, and paper. It introduces new classifications for wool, woollen cloths, and ready made clothing, raises or reorganizes duties on carpets, silks, and silk fabrics, and includes many items on a free list. The document outlines per pound, per bushel, per gallon, or per yard charges, plus percentage ad valorem, with adjustments for quality and type.
A brief dialogue notes Mr. McAhinn as entertaining and versatile in debate. The speaker praises his ability to discuss any wager and argues he can argue for either side of it.
A clergyman long afflicted with catarrh finally achieves a complete cure using a prescription, escaping death. The notice promises the recipe free to any reader who sends a stamped envelope with a return address to a New York address.
Listing a range of goods and materials including fish, hides, silk, tea, timber, rubber, and paper stock that may be used for shipbuilding and outfitting for foreign trade. It specifies limits on coastwise trade for vessels built in the United States for foreign account, including a two month per year restriction and duties rebate conditions.
Farmers from across the state gathered in Plough man Hall to hear Philander Williams of the American Poultry Association urge greater farm focus on poultry. A. Hawkins of Lancaster, famed for prizes at exhibitions, defended New England Plymouth Rock fowl amid applause.
Gone are the silvered father and the gifted daughter who guided minds. Ere and CaRnoLinE were deeply admired for laying bare life and truth to elevate humanity. Their passing, mourned in Rockwoop Saratoga. their legacy remains a sacred trust to those who wait.
New Boston Music surveys a week of piano and vocal selections from Oliver Ditson & Co and others. It highlights Emilie Gavotte by Muncey Lajos, Meductie Waltz by Gracee J. Jordan, Sailor's Toast March by George Legault, and Elks Quadrille by Theodore Bendix, among many new pieces priced from 30 to 85 cents.
A letter to the editor offers a "positive remedy" for consumption with bold claims of permanently curing thousands. The author, Besly T. A. Blackue MG, promises two bottles of his remedy FRE to readers who mail their express and P O address to 181 Pearl St., N. The note reflects historic era ad style promoting unverified cures.
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