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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1883
Page
4
During March April and May the offer runs for 14 months. Four months are granted to each subscriber when two or more orders are placed together through a postmaster or agent. Individual subscribers pay $1 for twelve months.
The notice states that Every Club receives The Globe for 14 months while a single subscriber earns 12 months. It outlines pricing and eligibility, emphasizing extended access for clubs and standard terms for individuals.
A concise notice states that anyone unable to form a club can invite a friend to place an order together, and each participant will receive The Globe as part of the arrangement.
No single subscription from a subscriber postmaster or agent will receive the paper more than 12 months. To secure 14 months at least two copies of The Globe for a year must be ordered at one time.
A promotional note urges clubs to distribute free sample copies of The Globe to town residents. It claims the paper speaks for itself and will win subscribers every time. Offered at $1 per year for a single copy, or six copies for 14 months at $5.
A liberal cash commission is offered to anyone who wants to act as an agent. A confidential circular and sample copies will be sent free upon application. Samples are free to agents at any time. The notice urges pushing The Globe and doubling its circulation.
The sender of a club of five subscribers will receive an extra copy free for fourteen months and the papers of the club will be entered for fourteen months. Form clubs and the papers will be mailed to one address or to each single subscriber. When extra copies are sent in one package there is less danger of jogs in the mails than when sent singly.
A promotional notice for Ernest A. Young’s 1883 novel Frurry-Brook Farm Life and Love in New England. It lists the author’s prior works Donald Dyke Hoyt Bronson Mystery An Alderman's Daughter and A Wife's Strategy. The item markets the new book with period literary tone.
United States and Canada readers may subscribe for one year free of postage at £100, six copies for £500. Send subscriptions by postal order, registered letter, or draft on New York or Boston. Stamps of one, two, or three conte accepted. do not register stamps. Address to The Weekly Globe Boston Mass. Include full writer name and address.
A Jersey City church opts for a special collection on Fair Sunday and raises $600 more than expected. The piece mocks public curiosity over a £250 night shirt once owned by a Massachusetts senator and touches on Dr Mudd and yellow fever. It cites European royal finances and Pitt family estates, noting Holwood and related properties and lineage.
The North American Review piece argues that the truly dangerous classes are the rich and powerful who oppress the people. Revolutions arise when injustice becomes unbearable, not from the lowest strata. Crosby warns that money power corrupts, bribery hides in law, and only honest governance can preserve the republic.
An English observer notes Henry Labouchere’s criticism of the current Parliament session and Parnell. The piece cites Forster Trevelyan and Chamberlain, and questions claims that Parnell and the Land League were involved in murders. It challenges links between Land League funds and alleged crimes.
The article argues Mr. Parnell is unfairly blamed for actions of cranks and cites London newspapers and American coverage as misrepresentations. It defends his record of lawful, peaceful politics and warns England seeks to use troops in Ireland to crush local leaders while Parnell persists and the National League remains capable of some good amid scandals.
London interview with Mr Parnell reveals his insistence on constitutional agitation for Ireland while denouncing British press bias and the charge that Irish extremists drive all violence. He argues England’s demonization of Ireland harms remedial legislation and defends the Irish party's innocence.
A prominent doctor argues that grief rarely causes heart death and that disease, not sorrow, is the real cause. He notes male heart death rates exceed female, and that fatty degeneration and liver or lung issues often mislead attributions of “heartbreak.” He cites cases of ruptured hearts tied to fatty changes and functional disorders. Germans in Cincinnati protest German classes funded by a school appropriation.
The speaker argues against pluralism in schools and immigration. He advocates a unified national identity as American, not segmented by German, English, Scotch, or Irish American groups, and says anything maintaining distinct races should be discouraged.
An anti-boss movement grows in Rhode Island as independents back ex Governor Sprague for governor. The piece credits public sentiment against Anthony's clique and calls for Democrats to unite with reformers to redeem the state from a restrictive GOP machine.
A collage of items from across the United States includes a preacher’s salary cut for a duel trip, a teacher facing moral questions, and broad social observations. The piece notes 9,000,000 U.S. children outside Sunday school, remarks on work ethics, and stranger anecdotes from Chicago, New York, and San Francisco, including a notorious marriage notice and a czar at a late poker game. It mentions pension agents' joke, a Tompkinsville inheritance claim, and a joke about a kangaroo owned by Artimus Ward, with a final anecdote about Zerelda Garrison’s mother entering an insane asylum for care.
A collage of brief vignettes and quips including advice on wedding rings, warnings against professional marriages, odd anecdotes about celebrities, a New Jersey inquiry into family records, English candy shipped to America, Georgia peanuts, a stiff jab at political speeches, and curious notices from hospitals, courts, and newspapers.
Rev J B Pery, Methodist in charge of Brown Station circuit, preached in a trance like state last Sabbath. He kneeling for prayers long, read hymns, kept motionless, answered few questions, and wandered semiconscious between readings and congregational singing before being taken to Dr J C Groves. He departed with Dr Groves for his mother’s home near Camden.
Fond du Lac Journal recounts a wedding prank in Milwaukee where a cake was sealed in a tin box and sent to a tin shop. The box was filled with water soaked ashes and delivered to the couple, whose son now aged 1 is expected to marry. guests await the moment the box is opened and the joke revealed.
A humorous Aurora tale recounts a jackass joining revelers from Hodkites, visiting a saloon after drinking wine and whiskey. The animal climbed the bar, kicked a county official, bit a lawyer, and, after more liquor, slept it off near a deserted building and woke ready for another outing.
A strange fatal事故 on Vandalia road reports a train crushing a covey of quails beyond an elevator. The incident left multiple birds killed and scattered along the track, with wings and bones visible for several feet.
At Dayton Kentucky just above Newport several submerged streets now show springs of muddy water that bubble up after flooding ends. The outbursts resemble boiling springs with hissing sounds, occurring in tough clay soil without any surface depression to explain them. James Peters, a prior resident of the area in 1847, recalls no such phenomena then or since.
W H Skinner fell while repairing a lightning rod at Miss Mary Dusenbury's house in Concord. He grabbed the rod beneath the eaves and held on for about fifteen to twenty minutes until ropes and ladders arrived for his rescue. The incident occurred yesterday and he survived by nerve and luck.
In Oconee county near High Shoals a child fed outdoors near an old clay root and a large highland moccasin joined the meal. The reptile allowed the child to handle it, was killed that evening, and the child soon fell ill and died. Parents blamed the pet snake for the tragedy.
A natural curiosity near Farwell reports a sugar maple cut about a mile south of town. The trunk measured 24 inches at the stump and 25 inches at 40 feet long. It was felled for stove wood with four top cuts larger than the butt cuts. The tree appeared to widen from the ground to the first large limbs at 40 feet.
A six inch diameter tree section found in front of Sneady's shoe store in Coweta County forms a natural handle where a small forked limb grew into the trunk over years. The Bodie Free Press notes a local schoolboy trapped snowbirds with a uniquely marked specimen showing a white right wing and a red tail with four feathers.
A Bradford county cow reportedly opens gates and operates an old fashioned pump on the farm by locking her horns on the handle, demonstrating an unusual dairyyard behavior.
A fragment from a 19th century newspaper item depicts a rude stereotype about a Black boy in Macon Georgia with exaggerated features and violent imagery. It then shifts to praise for Kidney-Wort as a popular medicine, quoting merchants claiming cures and strong effects on the bowels.
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