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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1883
Page
4
Boston detective Donald Dyke plans to publish his most thrilling story titled The Beacon Street Puzzle or Unraveling a Tangled Skein. The account, described as his closing case, will appear after Little Sister Annie concludes.
The seventh column advertises a fifty cent subscription offer for the Globe, claiming every family can afford the best and cheapest weekly. It promises valuable information and entertainment, invites friends to subscribe, and notes more space will be devoted to political matters as the presidential campaign grows.
The Weekly Globe offers US and Canada delivery for one year free of postage at £100, six copies for £500. Subscriptions by postal order, registered letter, or draft from New York or Boston. stamps accepted in denominations of one two or three. Address correspondence to The Weekly Globe Boston Mass with full writer name and address. Change of residence requires old and new addresses. discontinuations include town county state. Lost copies duplicated free. Samples are free.
The Massachusetts Legislature offers fi per ton for beets grown in state prompting farmer interest. Ward of The Globe argues sugar beet farming can be very profitable and answers reader questions on the agricultural page. The piece touches on other topics including trials, political reforms in France, Maine Central railroa d accident reflections, and notes on Dr. Hugh Glenn and his Colusa ranch.
The article reveals a book keeper exposed debts totaling about 1 000 000 on the main farm. One failed crop would have ruined the bonanza, yet the doctor’s fortune proves modest and heirs find a surplus to divide.
An editorial praising Governor Butler for bold reform, criticizing prior governors for inaction, and urging return of missing correspondence. It extols his vigor in exposing corruption, defending inmates, removing failed officials, and confronting a flawed board and lax state institutions. The piece frames Butler as uniquely courageous and principled in the face of a profligate legislature.
A critical editorial argues the executive department of the Commonwealth failed to preserve years of correspondence. It cites gaps from 1861 to 1865 and 1866 to 1875, criticizing the governor and secretary of state for mismanagement and insufficient record keeping, and dismisses the notion that such papers were personal property.
Governor Butler's push prompts nationwide questions on treatment and control of state institutions. Experts like Dr. G A Tucker flag lack of visitation, oversized asylums, overcrowding, and inadequate management, urging thorough investigations to curb abuses and modernize care for the insane.
The State Republican Committee faces internal strife as it tries to attack Governor Butler over the safety deposits veto. Officials debate whether to push illegality claims, seek a Supreme Court opinion, or accept public ridicule while noting counterfeit concerns in government coinage.
The piece critiques counterfeit currency and moral distinctions, notes Governor Butler’s trip to Washington on February 26, and references affidavits tied to the Tewksbury investigation. It mocks the Republican State Committee and describes witnesses called by the defense, while joking about a New York man who shot himself after a street incident with a wooden Indian regalia.
A collage of items including clergy salaries in New England, mausoleums in Greenwood, a Colorado judge on spousal slander, balloonists eyeing the North Pole, critiqued small bull terrier pets, a dramatic physician’s claim on freedom and murder, a Bellevue death of a miser, immigrant and prison statistics, Montana cattle profits, and a Minnesotan correspondent on Northwest ranching. Also notes on taxes for Brooklyn bridge pedestrians, Lubuku in Africa, and a political line on a potential presidential run.
A compendium of curious items and opinions from a late era newspaper. The column rails at northern politicians while recounting disparate notes on theatre miscasts, building plans, taxes, social mores, and public figures. It mixes satire with brief reports from America and Europe, including mentions of crime, politics, and industry.
A chaotic clipping recalls multiple suicides and odd deaths including Henan Hegley of Mil lersyville C who poisoned himself after a family dispute over a horse loan. R F Gibbs of Fort Worth killed himself with a morphine arsenic decoction. Other tales recount homesick farmer Peter R Selover, willful Tangipahoa resident Solon Engel, and John Anthes near Delavan. A Birmingham dog and a French poodle exhibit unusual wit in resourceful acts with money and food.
A San Francisco Chronicle report records a court dispute in Pescadero over a 750 pound jack owned by Ipse killed by a grizzly bear. Black, a cattle raiser, offered 50 dollars for bear killings after calves vanished. Ipse sued when Black refused the reward, arguing the jack is not a person. Separately a Vienna clinic described a girl Kleinmuller aged 18 months who stopped eating after an episode. doctors used gastroscopy and electricity to extract a mouse from her stomach, with recovery expected.
A Louisville Courier-Journal letter from May 1 reports a Clark County case of a man named J. W. Wise becoming a grandfather at 35, one year younger than another Kentuckian, B. F. Spaulding, who was 36. Wise's wife was 31 at the birth of their daughter, and their family includes eight children with alternating hair and eye colors.
A Chicago speculator's office shows a carved pottery plaque resembling tree bark with a heart and initials. The owner recalls a boyhood maple knife mark in Connecticut and a wife who imagined molding an impression into a plaque. Sparrows nest in an electric globe at a New York depot, persistently rebuilt after daily removal.
A French gentleman in India owns a tame elephant that enters the dining room after dinner to beg. At dessert the man refuses, the elephant claws the man with a fork. In retaliation the elephant shakes a branch with black ants over him, causing irritation and a bath to escape the torment. The Concord Paper notes reader inquiries about Dr Graves Heart Regulator, claiming it cures heart disease nervousness and sleeplessness and mentions a Lewis stand on the labor question.
The Weekly Globe is offered at 50 cents from now until January 1884 to enable subscribers and agents to introduce the paper in their towns ahead of the Presidential Campaign. A small effort by friends of the Globe can secure twenty or thirty subscribers per town, who will become permanent readers.
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