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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1892
Page
4
The Farm and Home magazine is advertised within The Weekly Globe with a special offer. After February 23 subscribers can add 12 cents to the $1.00 yearly Globe subscription to receive Farm and Home for one year. The publication is described as highly popular in U S agriculture.
A poem from Lucy Larcom reflecting on planting trees as a hopeful, nurturing act. It links growth with life, love, and blessings, asserting that gifts that grow sustain others and that nature aids the planter even if the planter does not live to see the rewards.
The Oliver Diteon Company announces beginner series across nursery rhymes piano solos and violin pieces. Notable items include Fr Mack Hey Diddle Diddle Rondo and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Polka at 0 cents, B Hamma Snap Shot Galop 85 cents, F Thomas A Faint Old Story 26 cents, C Reed Lee Graceful Thoughts Mazurka 30 cents, Song Without Words 40 cents, and various vocal works ranging 25 to 60 cents with authors including Weatherly Nevin Ballou Malone and MacFarren.
Booth says a Zulu chief with four wives and several tribesmen converted by the army is to be treated with kindness. He notes guidance to the chief to care for his wives, and urges restraint regardless of the number of wives.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy recalls Carlyle’s harsh remark on United States border justice calling lynch law an invention of loud boastful people. The quote critiques mob violence and public self display as a commentary on justice.
Vermont readers Wesley L. Myers of Pownal will receive subscriptions for The Weekly Globe in Pownal and nearby towns.
The executive committee thanks Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts for its vote of thanks to The Boston Weekly Globe for aiding dissemination of Democratic doctrines in agricultural districts. The party plans weekly newspaper copies to clubs at a satisfactory rate during the campaign.
The piece argues that large imports of tin plate continue despite assertions of domestic production. It notes nearly a million pounds imported recently and contends demand exists beyond what protectionists admit, criticizing Republican leaders for resisting tariff relief and blaming duties for burdens on households.
The piece recounts Abraham Lincoln defending a theft case where a five dollar Indiana bank bill was argued worth only 96 cents. Lincoln argued the note is valued at par in commerce, winning the case, and the text asks if the court ruled rightly and muses on a political parallel with silver dollars.
The Northwest advocates free mail delivery for farmers miners and scattered producers arguing rural residents need access as much as urban citizens. Proponents note letters papers and magazines aid during sickness death and misfortune and time away from daily labor makes travel to post offices burdensome.
The text argues that universal postage for all printed matter would bind distant communities into a tighter national fabric and raise the intelligence and self-respect of farmers to align with the nation's professional classes. It emphasizes transforming social insignificance into strength by widespread information access.
The Weekly Globe seeks readers to mail names of Democrats and Republicans for free sample copies. Readers are urged to collect names and send a postal card from Boston with contact details to build a party constituency. Reduced club-raiser subscription rates offered for the rest of the year.
The piece argues President Harrison faces no effective rivals for the Republican presidential nomination with Custom conceding a slim lead and Harrison dominating the field. It mocks rivals Bram Alger and others while invoking Lincoln and Grant as cautionary shadows over a party complacent about its candidate.
Subscriptions available at one year for 1.10 with The Weekly Grower as part of the package. Reading matter and makeup praised as excellent for family reading. Large nationwide circulation. Include 10 cents extra with a dollar for new or renewing subscriptions. existing subscribers may add 30 cents annually.
In the South and West support for free coinage grows while the East opposes. Western Republicans push free silver. New England Democrats slow the campaign against McKinleyism. The piece urges immediate tariff reform and national retrenchment, uniting Democrats for the presidential year and keeping reform on the agenda in Washington.
Reports say Jay Gould has embraced religion and will join Dr Paxton's Presbyterian church. He has given 10000 for religious work and 25000 to the University of New York, with other penance kept private. Two New York clergy challenge the church for accepting his money, implying moral guilt in receiving stolen goods amid Gould's Black Friday ties.
A reflective piece questions the moral balance of wealth in the church. It recalls Henry Warp Bercurr on wealth's value in charity, condemns the social shadow of business practices, and notes a prominent financier named Goop fading under dyspepsia and insomnia. The talk favors generous opportunities for atonement through acts of charity.
The census bureau bulletin shows US woollen goods manufacture has fewer establishments: 901 fewer from 1870 to 1880 and 678 fewer from 1880 to 1890. Yet capital invested and production rose, hampered by tariff schedules that restrict ordinary consumer goods and mix foreign wools with American wool.
A political sketch argues Lord Salisbury plans to fix his house before dissolution while Behring Sea tensions loom. It notes Unionist laxity in Parliament, Sainsbury and Gladstone as pivotal players, and hints at US reluctance to rush settlement on sealing and indemnity issues.
The piece recalls the old American invitation to immigrants and argues for maintaining liberal immigration while acknowledging future challenges. It warns against exclusive barriers and defends free asylum as aligned with human brotherhood and republican ideals.
The passage argues against head money taxes and dual policy, urging consistency with liberty and equality. It contends immigration that contributes to productive forces should be welcomed, while warning against discrimination and hostility toward honest, industrious newcomers regardless of language or clothing. It recalls earlier American nativist sentiments as a cautionary reminder.
Readers are invited to join clubs as the issue promotes wide coverage from Grover Cleveland and David Begget Hitt to Maine politics, Congress, foreign affairs, and domestic topics. The issue includes speeches, portraits, the Behring Sea controversy, agricultural pages, and fiction by Mark Twain.
A Washington focused column rails at tariff reform battles and MacKinleyism while lampooning rival leaders and the telegraph war. It notes illness among public figures, proposes a hospital for invalid statesmen, and comments on international and domestic politics including Behring Sea issues and congressional spending.
A newspaper ad lists various magazine and newspaper pairings with WEEKLY GLOBE offering one year subscriptions at reduced rates. It mentions Old Homestead, Weekly Sun, Mirror and Farmer, Atlanta Constitution, Farm Journal, Home Magazine, Housewife, Household, and more. A note offers WEEKLY GLOBE free after sending four subscribers and $4.
A mat of names listed for M. N. s baby includes Blanche Cecil Elsie Rae Rena Inez Helen Lois Phyllis Ruth Sibyl Gladys Ellice Arlie Natalie Viva Ada Eva Ethel 2 W.
A reader asks whether native born Germans or Irish formed more of the Union army. The editor presents muster roll figures from 1861 to 1865 showing nativity by birthplace with totals and notes many foreigners and unknowns.
A reader shares a step by step receipt for making molasses corn balls using fresh corn, molasses, and a heated kettle, with notes on alternative white balls and coloring. The column also includes a question about why the right whale is named so, asking for explanation.
A letter to the editor details a home remedy using boiled potato water to bathe sore eyes. The writer claims rapid relief within 48 hours for two extreme cases, noting prior failures with physicians. The method involves boiling potatoes with skins on and using the water for eye baths.
A reader offers a controversial home remedy set for dyspepsia stressing no cure, urging strict diet shifts the reader claims include rare steak as chief remedy, avoidance of medicines, and specific drink choices. Other letters ask about Congress terms, a coin mystery, Gibraltar Malta, and estate planning while living.
A selection of classic law texts for new readers. Parsons on Contracts Kent's Commentaries Bouvier's Institutes offered at low prices, including second hand stores in Boston for affordable copies. Includes basic questions and notes on mortgages judgments and debt collection with practical legal guidance.
A fragmented OCR shows counts of religious groups including Hindoos 207,653,407 Parsees 99,887 Mussulmans 57,365,204 Jews 17,180 Christians 2,254,101 and others such as animal workers 9,302,085 and agn tics totaling 7,101,0657 with further garbled data 2389.
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