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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1883
Page
4
During March April and May a four month period, 14 months are promised to each subscriber when two or more orders are placed together via postmaster or agent. Single subscriptions cost $1 for 12 months.
A newspaper promotion states that every club gets a 14 month Globe subscription while a single subscriber receives a 12 month Globe subscription. The ad emphasizes value and ongoing access to Globe content.
A notice states that anyone unable to form a club can invite a friend to order together and each will receive The Globe for 14 months. The item presents a promotional arrangement likely tied to a subscription drive or club enrollment.
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 club seeks to spread free sample copies across town and urges readers to subscribe. It lauds the Globe as the best and cheapest weekly in the United States, compares it to competitors, and lists pricing of one year for a dollar and six copies for fourteen months at five dollars.
A confidential circular and sample copies are offered free to anyone acting as an agent. The program allows a liberal cash commission and free samples to agents at any time. The newspaper encourages pushing The Globe to double its circulation.
A club of five subscribers earns an extra copy at no charge for fourteen months and the club’s papers are entered for fourteen months. Form clubs to mail to one address or to each subscriber. mailing multiple copies in one package lowers loss risk compared to mailing singly.
Donald Dyke will tell in THE WEEKLY GLOBE on April 8 about the adventure that forced his retirement from the detective service. The piece promises the most interesting part of his record protecting Boston lives and property. Only two months remain of the fourteen months’ offer. form clubs before it is too late.
A prominent Boston detective, once rival and later friend to Donald Dyke, writes a fresh feature as two new stories enter active preparation. Page seven hints and back numbers supplied while the fourteen month offer nears its end with two months remaining. Form clubs before it is too late.
The Weekly Globe offers one year subscriptions nationwide for 100 and six copies for 8500, with postage stamps accepted in 1 2 or 3 cent denominations. Remittances should be sent by postal order registered letter or draft on New York or Boston. letters must include full writer details and change of address notices must show former and present addresses.
A mix of editorial notices and brief items discusses Maine capital punishment’s first effect the murder by a friend, skepticism on tariff moves, a Washington rumour about Simon Cameron as treasury secretary, Irish press satire, Mt Etna’s eruption fears, and Rhode Island politics praising Governor Sprague to defeat boss rule.
A New York book keeper and confidential interest clerk at Equitable Trust Company disappeared with perhaps eighty thousand dollars. He led a respectable life in Plainfield New Jersey with a wife admired by many, a church pillar, and a lavish lifestyle, yet he stole from the cash drawer.
The New York Herald attacks free trade in a column of 1882 steel figures, contrasting American and English output in ingots and rails to argue for continuing U S production. It questions English wage competition and calls for policy to sustain domestic industry amid global demand and price pressures.
A speaker contends that if frescoes on church walls were erased, he would repaint them though they lack truth. He argues unbelief equals a desolate tenement abandoned to rats, labeling faith as essential to manliness and purpose.
The London Daily News debates Mr Gladstone’s retirement from public life and the effect on the Liberal Party. It argues his stay is essential to steer the party and handle Irish policy while noting dangers of a Hartington led cabinet and potential internal schisms. It also cites U S lobbying scandals and calls for exposing reporter gallery corruption.
The essayist, Hon. Benjamin W. Harris of Bridgewater, now retired from Congress, accuses lobbyists of corrupting leading newspapers. The piece defends press integrity, cites lobbying scandals, and urges specifics to test the claim, arguing responsible journals would not tolerate bribery.
The Dominion debates renewing the reciprocity treaty with the United States, with Liberals pressing for immediate renewal and Conservatives urging restraint. They argue U S terms would be hard on Canada, and see its growing debt and provincial strains as fueling annexation sentiment. Canada’s exports are mainly breadstuffs and lumber, offering limited gains from reciprocity for the United States. Dr. Bender notes a mounting Canadian appetite for annexation driven by Canada’s rapid growth versus slower domestic progress.
The London World predicts possible low prices in 1883 for many railway stocks but warns a complete smash is not certain. It argues the United States remains wealthier and more recuperative than Europe, suggesting if prices dip, it could be a time to buy with judgment, highlighting high mortgage securities of American railroads even those bankrupt before.
A Boston attorney receives a $100 fee to advise a railroad speculator who learns Massachusetts law cannot achieve his aim. The piece contrasts French and American detective methods in the Carlton murder case and forecasts postal reform with new money orders and postal notes set for summer changes and early September issuance.
Officials note that intervening before the postage reduction takes effect will lessen the intake of three cent stamps by businesses. The forecast suggests a slower flow of low denomination stamps as the change approaches and distribution stabilizes.
A jumble of 19th century keen observations covers social, political and industrial topics. The piece recalls two young enslaved women seeking work in the village and learning to cook wash and clean in comical fashion, while political figures, strikes and misgovernance, crime, and social issues are lampooned with sharp, varied anecdotes. Economic data from the Clyde shipbuilding trade is cited, along with social tales of Belfast mill girl, Rhode Island politics, and a spoof on postmaster scheming. The tone is wry, observational, and caustic.
Readable snippets compare Anglo American manners and tastes, highlighting openness to Americans, the value of national songs over tariffs, and playful remarks on soap bubbles and family duties. It cites peculiar claims about physique and chest measurements contrasting English and American figures, plus a humorous suburban exchange and a grim coffin fact.
New York Nation argues Butler’s appointment as governor triggers a reform wave in Massachusetts. He pushes an appropriations bill for charitable and reformatory institutions, linking high costs and mixed objects to justify a full audit of spending and officials. The piece notes reform fervor, criticizes the anti-Butler opposition, and portrays Butler reshaping state governance with a blunt, practical approach.
J H Haynie reports in the Chicago News that German barbers and hairdressers remain separate, provoking daily trips to two men for shave and hairdressing. Berlin congress debates let hairdressers join barber unions, failing by a wide margin. Anecdotes contrast German barber customs with American practices, including a hostile lather ritual for strangers and a brusque routine for locals.
A Cecil county pair traveling toward Texas Lancaster county separated at a fork in the road after a tense exchange. They had planned to move together, but after disagreements they ended their journey and headed their separate ways. The scene drew amused spectators as three wagons carried their belongings and two vehicles carried the couple.
Oswego Times reports a selfish husband who married a widow, aimed to control her wealth from her dead husband's child. He became guardian, then claimed 37 dollars for a wet nurse for the infant. Investigation showed the nurse was his own wife.
In Syracuse a boy told his mother his stomach ached before school. She let him stay home but an hour later he was singing anyway. He explained the ache was not in his mouth, leaving the mother puzzled.
A wealthy New Orleans cotton broker's daughter charters a steamboat for her bridal tour. She plans to marry a poor but honest fiancé aboard, foot the costs herself, and sail on a two week Mississippi and bayous cruise with the entire wedding party.
The royal mail steamship Parisian arriving from Liverpool reports a birth and a death among steerage passengers. An infant named Andrew Allan Wyley Webster was baptized aboard by Archdeacon Lander and sponsored by Mrs. R. Dobell of Quebec who acts as godmother and will handle the funds from cabin passenger subscriptions.
A Idaho town’s jail on the Oregon Short Line is a cheap, secure pit dug in the ground. Inmates are dropped inside with a stark warning that guards will shoot any head that rises above the edge.
A Chicago Times note records a playful line from the Czar to Lady Florence Dixie after her escape, then markets Dr Prence’s Favorite Prescription as a premier remedy for women’s weaknesses and backache with claimed strength benefits sold by druggists.
Fletcher M. Noe, a young taxidermist in Indianapolis, mounted a lamb born in Grant county that lived briefly. The creature features seven legs two tails a double mouth two spines and two backbones with two lungs and two intestines but only one heart.
A large sperm whale lies ashore at Smiths Point near the Potomac entrance. The schooner William Hi Knight from San Domingo reports seeing the whale Friday afternoon as it thrashed water with its tail and surged toward deep water, driven ashore by stormy easterlies. Oyster pungies steered clear, fearing a whale blow.
In Madison a merchant S B Cohen faces a mysterious morning condition as his horse sweats heavily and bears leg prints, yet remains in the stable at dawn. Locals debate witch visits while the locked stable shows no signs of entry, spreading fear among the less informed.
J Harry Smith reports a unusually large flock of tame wild geese at Clubfoot Creek, about twenty birds observed in a pond. Noting two peculiarities, geese mate only at age three and do not remate if they lose a partner, implying no second marriage among the birds.
Last Friday a summer like day saw William T. Fleming and companions pursue Reynard across country east of town. A Princess Anne resident maiden rider joined with her father for her first hunt and bore the brush as a cap trophy. The party declared the chase excellent and all enjoyed the sport. Scorpion experiments show it does not commit death by its own action despite severe tests and torture.
In Virginia a recent wind event caused severe damage with fences blown down and houses racked. Mrs Sally Rexrode near town lost her house furniture while Mr Polly Jordan's stable in Steam Valley was wrecked. A two year old calf was found in Squire Trimble's cattle-house haymow, likely blown there overnight.
Aaron Lowe of Hawkinsville showcases educated chickens famed for catching jack worms. The fowls bait with pine straws, insert them into worm holes, stay still until the jacks move the straws, then reel out the straws and seize the worms with dexterity. Tom Jordan calls watching them fishing for jacks a real treat.
In California ranching regions wild geese and ducks trouble ranchmen who tried many traps. A Comstocker devised a trap that creates a vacuum under a bird’s foot, pinning it to the ground by atmospheric pressure. Escape requires tearing off the foot.
A range wedding occurred at Morley between John Jolson, 27, and Mrs Lucy Tubbs, 64, married by Esquire Halley at the bride’s son in law’s home. Three days later the groom left and has not been heard from nearly two weeks afterward.
A beech tree near the old factory spring at Joes mill pond shows a natural knot that resembles a clear female face. The curious gnarl outlines ears eyes and facial features, visible from a short distance, described as a strange natural freak.
A Fargo man and Bee Heights residents visited a trap last Tuesday and found Mr Shipman who had his thumb caught in a double spring trap. He sat in the snow awaiting release while awaiting assistance to free him from the painful position.
A mule in Stockton California suffered fractures to the fourth fifth and sixth neck vertebrae and faced being killed. A veterinary surgeon performed an experiment placing the animal in slings with a rope attached to the head. After several strong pulls the dislocated vertebrae slipped back into place.
F S Becton of Clubfoot Creek is described as a two and a quarter year old prodigy who sings in perfect time and repeats every word in songs he hears. His family lacks musical talent. Also advertised is MOTHER SWAN'S Worm syrup for feverishness restlessness worms constipation. Tasteless 25¢.
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