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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1883
Page
4
Boston detective Donald Dyke announces his upcoming story The Beacon Street Puzzle or Unravelling a Tangled Skein to appear in two or three weeks after Little Sister Annie. It is promised as his most thrilling closing case narrative.
A seventh column announces a fourteen month subscription offer to single subscribers and agents. Patrons expect to attract many single subscribers in summer with favorable terms. Each subscriber receives fourteen months of The Globe, postmasters and agents earn their usual commission, or subscribe up to January 1854 for fifty cents.
Under the fifty cents offer, friends of The Grong may easily extend the circulation of the best and cheapest family weekly in the world. At this low price there is not a single family that cannot afford to subscribe. Its information and entertainment will repay its cost many times. Ask all your friends to try THE GLOBE. More space will be given to political matters, which will continue to be enlarged as interest in the presidential campaign increases.
The note asks for every checker player in the United States to receive sample copies of THE Gline and mentions Tuk Giorn and Charles F. Barker. It requests checker players to send postal card addresses of their friends.
The Weekly Globe offers one year nationwide for 100 dollars and six copies for 50. Subscriptions should be sent by postal order, registered letter, or draft on New York or Boston, stamps 1 2 or 3 cents accepted. Include full name, post office, county, and state. changes of address require old and new addresses. cancellations include town county and state. Free duplicate copies if lost in the mail. exchange papers to Lock Drawer 5220, Boston.
A New York youth cut his name on a railway fence and an employee fired several shots at him. Elsewhere, talk of kings, diplomacy, and misused funds portrays a mixed landscape of crime, politics, and power, from shoots to discussions on Tewksbury almshouse and Irish landlord profits.
The letter describes Irish famine victims arriving at Castle Garden nearly ready for burial, with one ward nicknamed the Lansdowne ward due to the number of deaths. It predicts the Marquis and famine breeder will host grand entertainments in Canada, funded by starving Irish peasants coerced by civilization and the benevolent government.
Memorial Day will be observed with remembrances and memorial services by the Grand Army of the Republic and loyal citizens. May 30 was set for these services by General Logan in 1868 and has long been sacred to past memories. Posts plan flowers on graves, while some may use miniature flags to honor fallen heroes and the loyalty they showed.
An essay notes how Mrs. Roebling aided her ill husband on the Brooklyn Bridge project, guiding plans, supervising construction, and sharing in the effort that earned him credit. It argues many historic women quietly powered others’ success, while receiving scant recognition or praise.
A New York inventor named Sheridan has created an electrical chair to execute criminals and applied for a patent. The chair uses an armchair with brass knobs and wires to pass a powerful current from a dynamo through the seated offender. Sheridan offers its use to any government at no cost, arguing for a swift, quiet death free from the revolting aspects of scaffold executions.
The National Rifle Association board refused to place W M Farrow on the 1883 Wimbledon team despite his top four day Creedmoor score and second best three day total. Board members offered unclear reasons citing British acceptance and unfiled certificates, while noting Farrow is a leading marksman and Rhode Island militia member.
The article questions a board's decision to discard Farrow from a Rhode Island marksmen team while overlooking its own rules in other cases. Critics label the move arbitrary and unacceptably inconsistent with American ideas of justice, noting Farrow's status as a top shooter and veteran.
The piece contrasts two quick marriages and rising divorce worries with disillusionment. It argues haste harms relationships, cites court cases as proof, and warns society toward steadier unions. It also notes mine strikes, sober protesters, and potential state violence, urging serious reflection on labor and capital tensions.
A harsh critique of Irish disturbances against American citizens. The piece recounts arrests for intimidation involving an Earl and a correspondent of the Irish World, arguing for U.S. government protest and rights protection. It warns that a spring clothespin on the British lion’s tail could curb aggressive actions and protect citizens.
The veto inquiry panel urges sending the matter to the Supreme Judicial Court fearing a dangerous precedent for party questions. The piece contrasts Maine’s courts with Massachusetts for political independence, warns against politicized rulings, and closes noting Illinois coal miners striking.
Legislative trip promoted lavish spending at Tewksbury almshouse. The piece argues the governor should veto the appropriation, citing overcharges, wasted food, and mismanagement under Republican control, and urges Democrats to back the veto to curb extravagance.
A recap of 1883 wheat harvest forecasts contrasts with past years, noting a projected drop from 1881's record crop. The column riffs on court dismissals of gamblers, pious quips, Chesterfield maxims, oyster shells aiding young stocks, a Boston merchant and art, Emancipation politics, a volatile Carolina wedding tale, stock gambling by women, Roscoe Conkling’s fading allies, near sighted hearing, and West coast fake housing.
A mosaic of 19th century quips and vignettes spans race, labor, finance, and politics. Scenes include Conkling’s remark on marriage, Black Wench question, Pinkerton notes, a Georgia widow funeral escape, European education vs war outlays, a stray criminal tale in Lehigh Valley, and humorous quotes from Boston to Chicago. The column blends irony and social commentary with light scandal and human-interest bits.
A well dressed woman, likely a stranger, sits on a bootblack’s street throne on Sixteenth Street and Third Avenue. The bootblack polishes her muddy button boots as a growing crowd gathers. After the last brush tap, she blushes, drops a dime into his hand, and hurries away.
A large shoe once worn by Miss Fannie Mills of Sandusky Ohio is shown at P Hermann’s store in this city. The exhibit measures 17 inches long 7 inches wide 18 inches around the ankle and 22 inches around the heel. The ad promotes Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for scrofulous and virulent blood poisons sold by druggists.
A collection of curiosities from various locales recounts remarkable livestock feats and mishaps. Highlights include a six month old calf weighing 404 pounds, a 100 year old cow producing milk, and a Georgia farmer selling eight cows’ butter worth 8360 in six months. Also recounted are a sheriff tossed by a cow, a young man kissed then struck by a cow, and a tragic incident when a boy near Belleville, Kansas, was killed after a cow head-wrench broke his neck. Additional items describe grass that seemed to move and a dramatic sparrow hanging behind a Troy business sign, killed by other birds.
A stretch of Muskrats has been sighted along the seashore with reports from Life Saving Station crews. D Etheridge and E Owens were attacked while patrolling and Owens was wounded, Etheridge killed several muskrats, and others were killed by patrolmen. The creatures’ behavior and sudden appearances perplex observers as more incidents occur near the coast. Nearby, a Denver lake shows a tidal phenomenon near Sloan's Lake prompting scientific curiosity about its cause.
A heavy storm in Independence last night hurled thousands of birds across the city. Birds were found dead or alive everywhere, attracted by open doors. Observers speculate a cyclone vortex carried them, leaving residents puzzled by the unseasonal flock.
A column blends curios from Owensboro and beyond including a bank official preserving a 40 year intact set of Bohemian glass tumblers bought in 1844, a Nevada murder trial mouse becoming a sheriff’s mascot, a letter praising Canyon Diablo in Arizona and its bridge cost, and a dry Arizona chasm described with dramatic limestone walls and flat plateaus.
A Nashville World report recalls a log from Colonel John McGavock near Franklin being struck by grapeshot embedded there after the 1864 clash. It also notes a new mud geyser at Pelican creek headwaters two miles east of Yellowstone Falls in Montana, with hot springs and powerful eruptions flinging mud up to broad distances.
C R Crowder delivered an extraordinary hen egg to the office on Thursday. It measured about five inches long and resembled a lizard in shape with a tail like a small rattlesnake and a button at the end. The shell was entirely soft.
A Wrightsville Recorder item recounts a Georgia county tale of a two headed chicken with four eyes and four feet whose heads fought to pass a fence, then shifts to a New Hampshire letter praising Kidney-Wort as a swift, thorough aid for kidney ailments and a New Hampshire woman describing her mother’s long illness cured by Kidney-Wort.
The Weekly Globe offers subscriptions at 50 cents from now through January 1884 to gain a firm foothold before the Presidential Campaign. Subscribers and agents can introduce the paper in their towns, with the aim of securing twenty or thirty new readers who will become permanent subscribers.
The Weekly Globe will be sent one year to England Ireland or Scotland for payment to cover the postage and subscription cost.
A reader request asks advertisers to mention seeing the item in THE BOSTON WEEKLY GLOBE. The brief notes gratitude and urges acknowledgement in future notices.
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