The Weekly Globe Promotes Club Subscriptions In Boston
The Globe announces an offer to form a club with four copies for one year each at three dollars. It emphasizes that The Weekly Globe is the leading and only weekly Democratic newspaper in Boston and urges soliciting Democrats to subscribe.
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Readers' Purience Library Ad Offers Handy Books
Advertisement for Readers' Purience Library inviting readers to obtain useful books and essays. Offers The Readers' Handbook or other titles with a year of Weekly Globe, prices shown, and free delivery. Mentions subscription thresholds and binding quality.
Everyday Books That Everybody Needs
A promotion listing Worcester's Pocket Dictionary and Handy Book of Synonyms offered with THE WEEKLY GLOBE at one year for 1.25 and 2.00 respectively. Free postage and double-subscription deals are noted, with offers to send two new or old subscribers and payment of 2.00.
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Are You a Subscriber Question in The Weekly Globe
If you are not a subscriber and receive a copy, please examine it and subscribe yourself and ask friends to subscribe with you. If you do not subscribe, you will not receive another copy.
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Weekly Globe Launches New Building and Million Weekly Circulation
Boston Weekly Globe announces its new building and plans to print one million copies weekly. Editors invite readers to inspect the production, note the labor and expense, and consider forming a club to boost subscriptions with sample copies mailed to nearby homes.
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New Werksty Guest Office Relocation Notice
The Werksty Guest office moves to Room 56 on the fourth floor of The Givor building at 244 Washington Street and 67 Devonshire Street. Use the elevators from either entrance. The Globe invites its patrons to note the change.
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Form a Democratic Club to Boost Subscriptions
A plea to renew a subscription urges forming a local Democratic club to recruit converts. Anyone can start a club, and posters samples copies and agents rates are offered free to help grow party support in the town.
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President Vindicates Humble Citizen in Land Grabs Case
The piece lauds President Cleve Land for opposing railroad land grabs involving the Northern Pacific. It denounces vast public-domain cessions under prior Republican administrations, claims 200,000,000 acres were wrested from settlers, and praises the president's letter as a stand for the people against corporate land grabbing. The piece urges continued Democratic control to undo past misdeeds and fulfill promises of public wealth and homes for workers.
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The Globe in Its New Home
The Globe announces its relocation to a larger, more comfortable building in May. Readers are invited to visit as work continues for a few days, with editors noting the new quarters as a “thing of beauty and a joy forever.”
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New Building Opening Delayed Visits Till Midweek
The text notes a large typographical force moving to new offices and desks. It asks friends to defer inspections to the middle of the week, promising the building will be in apple pie order with improved working equipment and ready for visits then.
CALHOUN as a Model of Temperance and Liberty in American History
A tribute to John C. Calhoun, praising his temperate life and legal influence. The piece credits his stand against majority tyranny, defense of minority rights, and enduring impact on constitutional government. It notes his Irish origins, wartime stance against Britain, and lasting scholarly regard despite his errors.
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Order in Louisville proves guardianship against mob action
The Louisville authorities and militia defend a jail core as colored prisoners await trial. Police and militia resolve to protect accused black defendants from lynching, challenging the notion that Southern order cannot be maintained. Senator Hoar is presented as facing an uncomfortable fact.
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Old-Fashioned Democrat Described as Upright and Loyal
An essay extols the virtues of the old-fashioned Democrat, praising Ed ward F. Bric ham as a new chief justice and honoring Senator TouRMAN and other respected figures. It stresses integrity, steadfast principles, fiscal responsibility, courage in justice, social honor, and devotion to family, across public and private roles. The portrayal ends with the note that such a Democrat is found everywhere and in every station.
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District of Columbia
Tourman
Man of Solid Worth Praised by Boston Citizens
A tribute lauds a dependable, principled Democrat whose candid views are respected. The speaker notes his daily integrity as a rebuke to fraudsters and highlights Boston's pride in having many such men within its old city limits.
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There Are Committees and Committees
A critic notes two memorial committees for Grant and Arthur. The Grant group fizzled despite grand plans, ending with others funding the grave marker. The Arthur committee succeeded by actively securing funds and a statue, highlighting how some committees effectively raise money while others fail.
Editorial Points Inks and Opinions Across Nations
A compilation of quirky remarks and opinions on politics, science, and culture. It notes boycotts in Athens, a Brooklyn bridge jump dramatized as “spirited away,” German royalty’s champagne choice, and debates over the interstate commerce act. Also touches on Arbor Day, grammar critiques, a Denver meeting, and references to Twain, Lancaster, and President Cleveland.
Merry little maiden and a teasing question
A fragment from a Journal of Education poem dialogue. The merry maiden laughs through life while a speaker asks why, the maiden hints at an unseen magic, saying she cannot explain the charm until prompted to break the spell.
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Wealthy Women and Their Fortunes Across the United States
Washington Letter details rich widows and heiresses from Hetty Green to Mrs Hopkins and Drexel sisters. It notes their vast estates, charitable giving, and control of businesses, cattle queens, and art patrons, detailing regional examples from Colorado to Philadelphia and beyond.
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United States
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Lelane Stanford
Tom
Hetty Green
Marriage Obstacles Delay French Army Weddings
A French military marriage procedure unfolds through a chain of officials from colonel to War minister. An officer must prove the bride's irreproachable character and a dowry of 2000 annually. if either condition fails, marriage is blocked or funded privately by the officers, with no inquiry into officers' morals.
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The Ministerial Candidate
A page from Harper’s for April recounts a cold Ohio River voyage on the Fairy where a stoic young stammering man, Lemmel, engaged in a sermonizing career and faced a wary, seasoned critic. The exchange probes his call to ministry, ending with the hopeful youth retreating to his state-room after candid remarks.
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Belgian War Minister Reviews Novel Electric Cannon
A new electric cannon has been invented in Belgium and is under consideration by the war minister in Brussels. The inventor claims it is easy to operate, fires nine balls, and can destroy armor plate and torpedo boats, with strong use for coast and general defense.
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Lost Diary of a Rebel Records from a Confederate Soldier
A diary kept by a Confederate soldier spans January 1, 1864, to June 30, 1864, with 111 penciled pages and a 6 by 8 inch cover. Captured in the South in 1865 during a train convoy, it was sold to Lt. Eugene Hayes of the 120th Regiment for a canteen of whiskey valued at ten dollars. The fly leaf bears an inscription.
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One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment
Diary Excerpts Reveal Confederate Soldier's War Years
A diary of Eavery B. Pierce, about 21, records daily events from January 1864 to June 1864 near Petersburg. Entries describe battles, movements, captures, landscapes, and personal notes about Miss Bettie Taliaferro, plus reflections on Lincoln, Grant, and the war’s toll. The diary ends with vows of love and a final couplet.
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Alexander Stephens
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Confederace
Vampire Baron and Family Curse At Danzig Cemetery
A Saboucz landowner Baron de Gostovsky asked that his head be cut off at death, claiming the family were vampires. His eldest son carried out the wish, later opened the grave, turned the body, and threw the head away. He received a fortnight in prison.
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Liszt and the Emperor in a Winter Palace Soiree
Liszt entertained Emperor Nicholas I with a Hungarian rhapsody as the czar conversed with generals. Growing unhearing, the emperor finally noticed the missing music. Liszt declared that while he spoke every other voice must be mute and left the room.
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Winter Palace
Rustic Kitchen Notes on Rice and Stock Making
A fragmented cooking guide describes washing and parboiling half a cup of rice, then cooking it in white stock until soft. It mentions using milk and cream, parboiled asparagus tops, and a rich stock made from a knuo of yea on with meat to enhance flavor.
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Cayenne
Chewing gum season opens in Down East Maine
In Bancor Maine the spruce gum season has started. Physicians praise natural spruce gum for teeth cleaning and as a sneeze and flu preventive. Most gum comes from Canada and northern Maine. picking is winter work on snowshoes. Adulteration and processing lift the price, with crude gum boiled and mixed with resin grease and sugar before sale.
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Maine
Ecclesiastical Strike Parishes on Scio Island
A remarkable church dispute on Scio sees orthodox parishes withholding tithes and other dues. The bishop has placed recalcitrant communities under interdict, barring priests from baptisms, masses, or funerals, leaving laity to conduct rites and funerals as authorities seek a peaceful settlement.
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Fortune Told Twice Of The German Emperor In Court
The Kaiser’s destinies were read by gypsies in two instances. In 1863 while walking near Baden with Bismarck and companions, a gypsy predicted bloodshed and laurels lasting ninety years. In 1884 another palm reader at court foretold a life span of ninety six years.
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Tribute to Royalty and Taxed Subjects
A harsh critique of royal Jubilee propaganda mocks lavish tributes to Queen Victoria. It recalls a poor woman begging a charwoman for a shilling then lowering to a penny, and contrasts it with George III’s era gifts. Sailors’ families accuse the Queen of taxing them while seeking gifts for herself.
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