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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1891
Page
4
Subscription rates and mailing options listed at Tar Girone Newsraren Co
Post at Boston mass indicates subscription pricing per month and year with postage prepaid. Names Teo Darcy Giose One copy monthly 60 ents per year 96.00 Tue Suxpar Giose by mail 3.00 per year Tre Weertz Grant by mail 1.00 per year Postage prepaid. Publication details show 949 Washington Street and second class matter entered at the Boston post office.
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Tee Darcy Giose
Tue
Suxpar Giose
Tre Weertz Grant
Tar Girone Newsraren Co
Washington Street
Cece
Boston
Mass
Names for Sample Copies Offer in The Weekly Globe
A call invites readers to send ten neighborhood names for sample copies of The Weekly Globe. Sub scribers and non subscribers alike are asked to mail a postal card to The Weekly Globe in Boston Massachusetts with address details. The aim statement accompanies the offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weekly Globe
Boston
Mass
Counterfeit Two Dollar Note Foiled by Minute Error
The piece explains counterfeiters of a two dollar silver certificate failed to place the word Two after photographing the bill. The backward letters owr appear atop the number 2 and are so small as to need a magnifying glass. It suggests government use of a dedicated paper mill to prevent imitation.
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United States
The Co operative Age and the Dawn of Unity
A meditation on the rise of cooperation across industrial, benevolent, and other associations. The piece argues that peaceful, united action by the industrial class will expand national prosperity, elevate welfare, and resist mercenary influences in business and politics. It champions nationalism as a force for progress and foresees cooperation advancing individualism.
Scarcity of Farm Labor Across New England
From New England farms come spring complaints of a labor shortage despite an unemployed urban workforce. The piece analyzes causes including government industrial bias away from agriculture, low seasonal wages around 25 dollars monthly with board, and the practice of hiring only during planting and harvest while offering little year round work.
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New England
Keeping Farm Hands Year Round Through Winter Work
The essay argues farmers should provide profitable winter tasks to retain workers all year. Examples include tobacco stripping in Connecticut valley, small shingle mills, woodlot clearing, and ice cutting. City laborers often shy from farming, while urban life misses country pleasures. farming remains hard work for laborers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lower
Connecticut Valley
Farming East and West and ensilage essays prominent
This issue highlights Farming East and West with Senator Pzrrzr and General Butter explaining why farming does not pay. The Connecticut Experiment Station contributes an ensilage paper with practical guidance, and Andrew H. Warp will add a paid essay on making farming pay next week. Prizes await the final story publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pzrrzr
Congress
Farmers’ Alliance of
Kansas
Connecticut Experiment Station
Andrew H. Warp
Rural depopulation drives decline of farming in older states
The rural population shrinks relative to cities across New England, Ohio, New York and beyond, with agriculture in decline in older states while western truck farmers face high transport costs and heavy debt. The piece links depopulation to policy failures, tariffs, and money lending, warning of broader social and economic costs.
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New England
Ohio
New York
Harlem River
Indiana
Michigan
Tennessee
West Virginia
Maryland
South Atlantic
West
Editorial Points on England's Surplus and Church Expenditures
England's revenues exceed expenditures by 9 million. Goschel would devote the surplus to free elementary education. The article contrasts this with domestic policy of high taxes and wasteful spending. It notes Dr Talmage's new tabernacle costing about half a million, and cites Mrs Besant on "churchianity." It mentions Old Hutch, the Chicago grain king, facing financial shipwreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Old Hutch
Chicago Grain King
Far flung notes on politics and public life
The piece surveys political theatre including Frank Leslie's denial of Harrison ties and Bearne speculation, the Bannany fortune and guardianship woes, New York's Washington memorial fund achievement, Emperor William’s religious retreat and alcohol worries, and Ohio’s adoption of the Australian ballot system as 24 states move toward secret ballot laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Surplus Doubts From Carlisle and McMillin on Treasury
Washington May 3 Senator Carlisle of Kentucky questions recent treasury statements on the surplus. He cites alleged errors in the cash balance including subsidiary coin and silver purchases under 1890 law. He argues expenditures exceed revenues and criticizes figures used by treasury officials to show a surplus. Representative Springer notes large appropriations and continuing outlays will affect next Congress.
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Washingtown
Senator Carlisle
Kentucky
Carlisle
Treasury
Leech
Mane
A Publicans
Cleveland
Con
McMillin
Tennessee
Treasury Oticias
Vineem Ag
Secretary of the Treasury
Springer
Illinois
Ciear
Magnitude of floriculture survey issued by census office
Washington May 3. A census bulletin reveals floriculture industry scale nationwide. Florists invest 40 million dollars, employ 16 847 men and 1958 women who earned 8 483 657 last year. Product sales exceed 26 000 000. New Hampshire has no woman owned establishments. Vermont two. Massachusetts 25. Connecticut five. Massachusetts propogated roses 884 411 and hardy plants 1 276 945 plus 932 000 other plants, with sales totaling 1 6380 462.35.
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Washington
Census Office
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Our Dollars Illegal
Philadelphia Record notes the Bland dollar design is considered illegal because opposing sides bear the wrong phrases. The law requires liberty symbols and United States of America on one side with E Pluribus Unum and the eagle on the other. Changes during perfection aimed to thwart counterfeiting.
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Philadelphia Record
United States of America
Cross Across a Cross Acrostic Question Nonsense
A puzzle like wording asks if inserting phrases across sticks forms an acrostic. The text repeats cross and stick imagery, exploring whether the arrangement yields an acrostic, without providing a clear answer or structure.
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Christian Union
Townsend's Letter and the Anna Dickinson Fame Story
A historical sketch laments women’s servant problems and independence in Washington society. It recounts Anna Dickinson's rise at eighteen through a Kennett Square abolitionist event, noting press coverage and the era's gender expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Dickinson
Mrs. Lewes
Gwendolen
Deronda
Germany
Kennett Square
Lincoln
New York Herald
Prilope
Cheever
Washington
Union
Anna
Dorcas Society
McClellan
Philadelphia Press
York Herald
Lady Dickinson and the clash of egos in public life
The piece reviews Anna Dickinson and Theodore Tilton, analyzing fierce personalities in politics and letters. It weaves through Conkling, Blaine, and Edwards, noting Dickinson’s theater and novel work, and contrasts female public roles from Ann Hutchinson to revolutionary France, ending with Townsend.
Etiquette for Street Cars From Detroit Free Press
A satirical etiquette guide for street car passengers instructs on how a “true lady” should behave. It advises delaying fare payment, ignoring male offerings of seats, and how to act when crowds form. It mocks selfish behavior and prescribes conspicuous dignity and aloofness to others on the car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Free Press
Toledo
Queen Victoria
Crowns Replace Hats At Opera Fashion
In a New York Weekly fashion brief a wife notes crowns have become the opera accessory while her husband questions human folly. She says pretty opera wear crowns cost about 50 cents, and he quips about being out of fashion yet still in the trend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Weekly
Free
America
Costa Fortune
Entitled to Vote Question for Illiterate Voter
A voter who was registered before 1857 loses his name for failing to pay poll tax. Can he be restored to the voting list despite illiteracy. The case explores eligibility and restoring rights after delinquency under historical electoral rules.
Tenancy End After Decades With Land Passed Yet
A woman who rented from her brother faced eviction after his heirs sold the property though she had lived there for 20 years without rent. The brother is dead and his wife willed the house to relatives. The tenancy ended as title passed away and the current holders can require her to leave.
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Bowery
Edwin Forrest
Miss Dickinson
Anne Boleyn
Sece
Joan
Paris
France
Robespierre
Annie Downey
Harry Hill
Noone
Potter’s Field
Curley Tom
Mary Rogers
John Anderson
Edgar Allen Poe
Jon Joe Anderson
Ary
Anderson
Elysian Fields
New Jersey
Helen Jewett
Nathar
Dr. Burdell
A Marvellous Echo at a Pyrenees Watering Place
At a Pyrenees watering place locals discuss a wondrous echo heard far on the Franco Spanish frontier. An inhabitant from the Garonne notes the voice leaps rock to rock and cliff to cliff and, crossing the frontier, adopts a Spanish accent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courier du Midi
Pyrenees
Garonne
Dress for a Gambler Husband Sparks Wife’s Worry
A wife pleads after her husband boasts about winning at poker. She fears his gambling will ruin them, asking what dress she should buy while sobbing. The scene centers on marital strain over gambling and money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Free Lovell Safety Bicycle for 50 Subscribers
The Weekly Globe offers a Lovell Safety Bicycle to any boy or girl who secures 50 yearly subscribers at $1 each. Delivery is free within New England. outside, the sender pays express or freight charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe
Lovell
New England
Free Bicycle Offer for 50 Globe Subscribers
Boys can earn a free bicycle by securing 50 yearly subscriptions at $1 each for The Weekly Globe. Each boy may recruit in town or nearby areas and receive a top bike for their effort. Send for sample copies and details to participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe
Weekly
Boston
Mass
Almost A Tragedy In A Boarding House Standoff
A distressed confrontation unfolds in a West Madison Street boarding house as Eureka Plumduff confronts George Spoon with a pistol and threats. A chaotic escape erupts when a male resident bursts in, unlocking the door and rushing to alert others as the scene spirals toward danger.
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Chicago Tribune
Eureka
West Madison St
George Spoonamore
Eugeka
Railroad civility tested by bald headed director
A bald headed railway director travelling with strangers faced rude porters at three stations. At each stop the staff mocked him with reading and junction remarks. The director warned that he would report the incivility, but the next day three porter faces were missing from the platforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chambers’ Journal
Duffer
Why the Pickpockets Left Paris
In May Forum M Alphonse Bertillon discusses how the anthropometric system reduced international pickpockets in Paris. Arrests fell from about 100 yearly to 34 then under a dozen, as criminals shift operations abroad to avoid harsher punishments and expulsions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
M. Alphonse Bertillon
Aris
London
A Fars
M. Goron
Service de la Surete
Street-cleaning Duty Blamed on Shops and Households
General Emmons Clark argues in Popular Science Monthly that dirty streets result from both street-cleaning failures and store and household practices. He notes litter from dumpsters and carts, improper receptacles, and repeated dumping by building cleanups, urging thorough reform to relieve the streets of York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmons Clark
Popular Science Monthly
Observer
Peterhouse
York
Photographic vouchers for advertising contracts emerge
New York Sun describes practice by large mercantile firms to verify poster work through traveling bill posters and a dedicated verifier. A photographer is employed to document each sign and its surroundings, maintaining photos until contract terms expire. This system aims to deter fraud and prove proper placement across vast territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Freuently Gas Firm
Eae Ee
Brakeman Warns Public On Platform Safety
A brakeman on the Southern railroad cautions passengers that they must stay off the platform while trains are moving. He notes he did not realize the train was in motion, and urges strict adherence to safety rules.
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New York
Southern Railroad
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