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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1889
Page
4
Wednesday May 1 1889 advertisement shows subscription prices for Yee Parcy Growe Tee Soxpar Grops and Tee Weeerr Grone by mail with yearly and monthly rates. Tur Gions Newsrarer Co Boston Mass notes postage prepaid and second class mailing.
An advertisement announces multiple subscription offers for THE GLOBE with pricing for yearly, six months, and three months. It promotes a one year free to the subscriber if four neighbors subscribe at 81 each, with postage free. Includes address line for submission.
The weekly Globe presents The New Serial The Prairie Rose detailing frontier heiress life with vivid pioneer scenes and adventurous episodes. Readers will eagerly await subsequent installments as the tale unfolds in this issue.
The Weekly Globe will publish a full report of the Inauguration Centennial at New York. Special correspondents will provide preliminary features in the current issue, with the complete report to appear on the day of publication.
Since January first all Globe Premiums can be supplied at published rates until further notice. They may be obtained on application in a Globe Supplement, sent free to anyone requesting a copy. If you cannot form a club, request The Weekly Globe Supplement and choose a valuable gift you need.
The Central Labor Union asks Boston to send a delegation of workingmen to Paris for the exposition opening next July. A City Hall hearing supported the proposal, noting Paris sent workers to Boston in 1883. The centennial marks the Bastille destruction and the start of the French Revolution in 1789.
Senator Stantorp foresees rail circumnavigation within 25 years with routes toward Alaska and across Asia through the Himalayas. Bell Telephone executives promise easy long-distance calls, linking Boston and Chicago and China once obstacles fade, enabling Eastbound trips like Jerusalem special. The piece notes progress will outpace those who flee noise and smoke of progress.
The author argues that rapid transit and intercommunication inventions spur progress more than theory. He asserts individuals and nations hinder progress by not knowing each other well. A connected world leads to a happier, more satisfactory life when people understand one another.
The piece recounts the 1789 inauguration of George Washington in New York City on April 30 as part of the Centennial celebration. It notes the constitutional timeline from the 1787 Convention, early delays, congressional readiness, and Washington's grand journey from Mt. Vernon to a massive, teeming crowd for the oath of office and the first administration.
The piece contrasts the recent rush for unplowed Oklahoma land with past abundance of free land, noting how the scramble exposes shifts in labor markets. It also critiques Boston school discipline, arguing parents, crowded classes, and harsh methods complicate teacher authority and suggest reforms.
The text argues overpopulation is a misnomer, citing vast fertile land with few people and widespread land concentration by railroads and syndicates. It lists major landholders in the United States, including the Holland Land Company and British lords, highlighting calls to distribute land more to common people and questioning the Oklahoma land rush.
A booster of early education argues that robust kindergarten programs will dramatically reduce and eventually end corporal punishment in Boston schools. He contends punishment must be immediate and administered by the offender’s witness, warns against centralizing discipline in principals, and urges age-based limits while praising teachers and the superintendent’s intention.
A verse narrative from 1859 New York by Evelyn Kimpaun Jounsey tracing a modern girl’s attempt at antique Louis XV style. It follows wardrobe choices from hat to shoes and a wig dye to a Madame Primp makeover, pairing pale rose, green, and wine brocades with a gala and opera scene while critiquing cosmetic deception.
Question posed by Constant Reaper about whether English and American law allow a claim to property left in England for heirs in Boston to be secured after long delays. If heirs only recently learn of an advertisement in a Boston paper now extinct, does long elapsed time bar the claim under English law or the local statute of limitations.
Question from a person who moved to the United States at age seven, left after three years, returned at eighteen and is now twenty two. Father was a New York citizen but is no longer living in the United States. How can they become a citizen given the father’s death and current status.
A reader asks whether a man born to American parents, traveling abroad, can vote without first obtaining naturalization papers. The note reflects a legal question on suffrage and citizenship procedures.
The document asks if a justice of the peace or notary public can marry a couple and whether a captain of a weasel can legally wed at sea. It notes the minimum legal ages for males and females and questions the legality if an assumed age is found out after the ceremony. It also asks what species a coon cat is, with listed answers about ministers and the tiger family.
In New York April 27, a letter discusses Trinity Church ceremonies during the Prince of Wales visit, General Dix, and church vestments. It also threads through postmaster upheaval, bibliographic errors, and the influence of Frederick Hudson and Wendell Phillips on American journalism. It mentions Oliver Ames of Massachusetts and reflects on the era's political and civic figures.
Rev Dr De Witt Talmage preaches at the Tabernacle on a centennial theme. He frames a two plank platform of national faith through the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, urging moral reform, ballot integrity, and a Christian influence to sustain American institutions against demagoguery. He cites Washington, liberty, and revival, praising divine help in crises and calling for prayer, morals, and evangelism to guide public life.
Jesse Lamb, long thought dead after being carried off by Indians, returns to Wapasa Indiana after 15 years as a captive. He recounts adventures with Milton Crowl, who survived and later confirmed Lamb’s fate. The family expects a share of the estate once settled with bona fide buyers.
A Baltimore and Ohio collision near Howard Street injures four people and endangers Vice President Morton of a major insurance company. The Philadelphia express and a Philadelphia-bound local train crashed at a turnout, telescoping cars and throwing passengers from seats. Governor Foraker and Generals Schofield were aboard, with Morton among those present.
A young man speaks to Officer Button at the Third street depot confessing he was mistaken and boasting too much. He recalls boasting of facing danger and being a “spring chicken” before admitting defeat and asking forgiveness as he plans to quit boasting and return home to drink pumpkin tonic.
A reader recalls a theatre remark about fake, pondered as a sale or business term. The note cites a Gettysburg July incident involving a son offering a reproduction in paper of a Banner and Album with 700 photographs, connected to Dubey and Joe Kay, and references a San Francisco 1866 context.
In a single day McLaughlin Brothers using railroad crews and depot supplies rapidly erected a 16 dwelling town on the Savannah Americus Montgomery line ten miles from Abbeville. A wholesale store operated by Joe Hammond joins the new community alongside railroad construction notes and editor inquiries into local toponymy mentioning Fells in Muddle sex Fella.
Public letter from T. A. Slocum of New York claims a positive remedy cures consumption and offers two free bottles to readers who send their express and P. O. address. He signs as M C and lists 118 Pearl Street.
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