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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1883
Page
4
The Weekly Globe offers subscriptions at 50 cents from now until January 1884 to build a foothold before the Presidential Campaign. Subscribers and agents are urged to introduce the paper, with a goal of twenty to thirty new subscribers per town who will likely become permanent readers.
The usual commission is allowed for postmasters and agents and may be retained on one or more names sent under the offer. The provision applies to subscribers for six months under the stated program.
A compact item previews ongoing club activities with a volatile schedule spanning December through January, noting extended participation and upcoming meetings as organizers push membership drives and event planning toward the new year.
A notice promises an extra copy free for fourteen months to every club of five subscribers. Papers of the club will be mailed for fourteen months to one address or to each subscriber. Form clubs to reduce mail loss, as bulk mailing lowers risk compared to singles.
The Weekly Globe announces a one year subscription option to England Ireland or Scotland for 2 04 dollars.
The Weekly Globe invites farmers who are not yet subscribers to send their names on a postal card for free sample copies. Under editor A H Ward the agricultural weekly aims to reach a wider audience and build listed subscribers.
A Civil War era tale of life in New England and adventures in the South linked to a march from a New England farm to Southern battlefields. It promises broad appeal, with samples for agents, and a fourteen month offer ending June 1.
Friends of Tux Glonxe may extend the best and cheapest family weekly. At a low price every family can subscribe. Its information and entertainment repay cost many times. Beginning with the next issue more space will be given to political matters as presidential interest grows.
The Weekly Globe is sent across the United States and Canada for one year free of postage for 100. Six copies cost 500. Subscriptions by postal order, registered letter, or draft on New York or Boston. stamps accepted. Include full name, post office, county, state. Change of address and discontinuations require full old and new details. Samples are free.
An advertisement column lists ordinary rates of 30 cents per line and editorial notices at 50 cents per nonpareil line. It also details discount schedules of five percent on $100 and ten percent on $200.
President Eliot of Harvard argues in the Princeton Review that ministerial education must widen intellectual candor and grant private judgment to keep the church influential. He links creed flexibility and individual growth to modern progress, urging creed stretching to match lay expectations and safeguard the ministry’s future. A separate note reports a Peterborough street explosion with Irish caustic reactions and a suspect credited to O Dynamite Rossa.
The text notes sewer gas at the bottom and claims more gas than Irish dynamite explosions have occurred in England for months. It emphasizes no lives have been destroyed in these provocations, yet the British lion is roused into a panic by the alleged attacks.
The London Saturday Review argues Corsica shows French governance yields loyalty and peace while Ireland under English rule endures rebellion and oppression. It cites Corsican self government, a 30,000 strong army presence in Ireland, and historical grievances, urging England to imitate France’s Corsican model.
General Crook moves with a three month campaign amid frontier bravado and tense ties with Washington. He crosses into Mexico with troops and an outfit, seeking a liberal interpretation of treaty terms while Mexican allies watch for action against hostile bands. Telegrams urge caution, but Crook pledges swift pursuit of the savages.
Mrs. M. E. Blake attacks spring cleaning as a modern fetish in a Rambling Talk. She argues the practice reflects a clash between abundant modern comforts and the old grit of thrift, noting wealth has eased old constraints yet the habit persists as a yearly ritual.
The piece argues against forced house and blood cleansing campaigns. It decries replacing stubborn myths with excessive seasonal frenzies. It urges Americans to spread cleaning efforts evenly through the year for better comfort and spared nerves.
The article argues that Irish courts and juries swiftly indict and convict, citing Walsh Sheridan and Tynan cases. It questions extradition to Dublin, citing political offenses and the 1842 treaty, and warns the American government against surrendering asylum seekers amid a perceived Irish legal bias.
An overlong satire contrasts modern fashion burdens with primitive comfort. It ridicules the tedious process of donning an overcoat, cites Native leaders resisting assimilation, and cites Massachusetts inmate labor statistics from Carroll D. Wright to underline social costs.
The speaker argues that state institutions operate without extravagance and asserts that public bodies maintain prudent conduct. This defense frames government spending as responsible and restrained, appealing to residents who favor steady governance.
The tariff bill raise from 10 to 30 percent on artworks triggers widespread comment and indignation. Dealers in Boston and New York oppose the increase for harming American art, while many artists protest the duty, with Paris-based American artists planning actions for Congress. There is strong pressure to repeal the art tariff and return to no duty on works of art.
The article condemns Brooklyn’s planned enforcement of the amended penal code as a sporadic, orthodoxy driven effort that ignores broader public opinion. It argues that the moral crusade mirrors past failures in New York and could fail if leading reformers depart, leaving Brooklyn to bury the code like New York did.
A collage of brief items and wry anecdotes from politics and society. Read about reform efforts in New York, a Rochester tale of deception, a Providence clergyman railing at intemperance, shipbuilding bids from New South Wales, absurd rivalries in Virginia, and a Wall Street legal quip. Also included are musings on grief healing, fat-fatigue from Turkish baths, a bootblack’s remark on hats, an English burglar’s key trick, an Orthodox admonition about prayers and oysters, a Tampico duel stoppage, phrenology gossip, and a Arkansas temperance joke. Additional vignettes cover whiskey’s dubious benefits and a Utah tale of a man seeking a spare rib from a Mormon wife.
A collage of society vignettes, jokes, and sensational snippets recounts oddities from Cincinnati to New Jersey. Tales include a deaf and dumb lawyer, a New Jersey murderer’s quip on the rope, pension tales from Portland, and the first clergyman wedding by Lydia G. Romick in Columbus. Other items note Minnie Moore and Tilden’s charity, alongside humorous quips about politicians, palmist trends, and a Virginia goose farm.
The ad argues durability of health surpasses wealth and promotes Kidney-Wort as a co laborer in maintaining health. It claims liver bowels and kidneys keep people in good health and offers Kidney-Wort as a remedy for torpid bowels piles and back pain with no further suffering.
Horace Gerdell and George Smith, rivals for Miss Nattle Tack, faced a high stakes water head test in a Philadelphia ballroom. After three rounds of submersion, Smith edged Gerdell 42 to 40 seconds in the final round, then led the bride to the groom and the ceremony was performed on the spot.
A Hubbard City shoemaker plans a patent garden protector. Two ten inch wooden stakes with sharpened tips and holes will be tied to chicken legs. When a chicken scratches, the points drag in the ground and push the bird from the garden.
A Cincinnati resident named Koch owns a cat that appears to kill its newborn kittens to control the feline population. After giving birth to four or five kittens, the mother allegedly dragged them from the ground floor to a second story porch and dropped them to the pavement below. All but one perished, and the surviving kitten suffered a second fall before dying. The cat is said to have come from Massachusetts.
A Los Angeles Herald report tells how William Leverich, driver of Thirty-eight's engine, learned he had lived three years in the same town as his sister without knowing it. His sister, Mrs. Hunt, spotted his name in the paper, revealing their long-lost kinship after years apart.
Two English sailors visited a Japanese port to watch a juggle r. Each trick prompted one sailor to remark on the cleverness of the act. After many tricks the juggler erred and dropped a burning firework on fireworks. The blast tore the roof area, scattered the crowd, scorched the parrots tail feathers, and the parrot itself echoed the same line.
A New York World item notes Chinese skill in dwarfing plants and even human extremities. It cites a work claiming upper ten ladies in China wear in their bosoms miniature fir trees kept green by careful starving, symbols of lasting love used by the highest ranks.
Leadville washerwoman Mrs. Sarah Ray built a fortune of 1 million dollars through mining work, scouting, and miners’ washing. Now about 60, she weighs 140 pounds, remains rugged and spry, and supports an 18-year-old daughter educated in the East.
A Wakefield Bulletin note tells how a man on Pleasant Street found English sparrows digging at a fellow bird trapped in thin ice. He freed the prisoner and the flock appeared to help release him before flying away.
A freight train descending the Auburn grade encountered a loose door torn loose by a whirlwind. The door flew several feet, lodged on the deck of a car, and was replaced by workers at Aurelius station. The conductor insists the account is true despite skepticism.
Sheriff Weir, visiting friends near McNutt, heard an owl at night. He grabbed a gun to shoot but was chased by dogs. He climbed a tree, spent the night in a single garment, afraid to disturb the ladies nearby.
A humorous miscellany lists odd names and odd facts across states. Clergyman Toof in Illinois, Take Notice Nevada, Henry Clay a Kentucky legislator candidate, and Zachariah Taylor jailed in Syracuse New York for theft.
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