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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1884
Page
4
The Hoston Weekly Globe notes that many campaign subscriptions expire November 15 and December 1. Club agents must see club members and forward renewals immediately to keep James on the mailing list. Papers will be discontinued as they expire. send orders now to prevent loss and avoid a rush.
The wrapper date and Gore indicate renewal deadlines for subscriptions. If expiry is November 15 or December 1, renew now to keep your name in type and avoid delays. Campaign subscriptions at 15 cents also expire November 15.
During 1885 McGlove will publish twelve original novels, each priced at twenty five cents in the Franklin Square or Seaside libraries. Subscribers will receive $3 worth of novels for only $1. Tell your friends.
Rev. Thomas E. Green estimates 50 000 idle men in Chicago threatening winter hardship for dependent families. He asks what if there should be a bread riot and notes the era’s fears despite reports from 1880.
The piece critiques the Republican ticket arguing that calls for prosperity are hollow with Blaine Dorsey Elkins leading the charge. It frames the slogans as political theater and questions the promised gains for common voters.
A critique of how Vanderbilt’s wealth transfers favor charities and distant or related beneficiaries, leaving poor aunts and cousins. The piece argues wealth often bypasses blood relatives who would value modest aid, while wealthier kin receive estates and homes and charities already rich benefit most.
A Vermont clergyman praised a new skating rink while a public school committee warned teachers that attending a rink would be treated as resignation. The discord between religious and educational views about skating rinks raises questions about their true status, awaiting local explanation.
Mrs. Julia Ward Hawk head of the woman’s department proposes a collection of literary work by American women and photographs of women journalists. The aim is to recognize writers earning livelihoods by the pen who are often unseen and undervalued in the exhibit.
The Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina narrowly rejected endorsing Darwin's theory, a 50 to 45 vote amid debate over modern interpretation. Dr Woodrow of Columbia Theological Seminary had voiced belief in evolution, prompting cautious votes and a wider trend toward liberal interpretation without full acceptance.
A China correspondent asserts that the present state portends total ruin for China. He argues China will not meet the indemnity France seeks and will fail against France’s better trained army. Defeat after defeat would follow, potentially drawing Europe into sympathy for the underdog.
The article notes a surprising mood among educated Chinese, many raised in English and American schools, favoring conquest to expose China’s weaknesses. It argues the mandarins’ corruption justifies this view and suggests broader dissemination would reduce sympathy for China.
The Portland Oregonian essay critiques the so called woman question, arguing women are inferior in literature and art yet achieve in science and mechanics. It notes the author blames limited sensibilities and calls for broad education, while contrasting female poets like Browning and Brontë with less famous female scholars. The piece ends by mocking the Omaha author’s safety in criticism.
In Mount Vernon New York physicians allegedly formed a protective union to refuse medical advice to indebted patients until bills are settled. The piece cites a fatal episode where an injured boy died after his mother owed $15, arguing medicine is a humanitarian profession and emergency aid should prevail.
The treaty between the United States and Spain, negotiated by Minister Foster and Senor Albacete, proposes major tariff cuts for commerce with Havana and Porto Rico. It favors lower duties on sugar, molasses, and raw tobacco, with corresponding reductions on American goods. Spaniards may oppose the plan in Cortes due to protectionist traditions, a sentiment echoed at times in the United States.
Notes from Oregon City praise a revivalist who allegedly converted eighteen convicts. A Pennsylvania wage case limits deductions from worker pay, with $20,000 involved and ruling heading to the Supreme Court. Odds and ends include a British crime cost estimate, a Saguenay voyage remark, and brief comic exchanges about college chums and office seekers.
A collage of brief items includes Oscar Wilde on the divided skirt, a Supreme Court note counting West Point service toward longevity pay, jokes from Boston and Scranton papers, a tale of a stalled engagement, etiquette quibbles at the theatre, a San Francisco dentist dispute, a boarding school quip about cemetery burial, Henry Watterson predicting civil strife, and a joke about mis-spelled wages.
In three years sixteen residents of Vermont aged over 100 died, with names and ages listed including Peter Trainor aged 105, Charles Stebbins 103, Isaac Barwell 100, Zeruiah Eaton 101, and others from Rutland to Brattleboro. The report notes 949 people aged over 80 died in this period and lauds Vermont as a healthful state with exceptional longevity.
The Norwich woollen mills cut wages by 10 percent while the Exeter shoe factory aims to open by November 15. Waltham's American Waters Company runs nine hours daily. A Brockton printing presses venture is planned with $150,000 capital. Rockville button factories shut due to weak orders. Taunton Locomotive Works to build six locomotives for Old Colony railroad. Westfield cigar making booms. whip trade slackens. Gardner sees incorporation of American Di Steve Company with $10,000. Southington Lima Matches works likely shut down soon. Manville mills ramping to full capacity with no downturn. Knowles Steam Pump shipped two engines to China. Acme Paper Box organized in Portland, Me., with $50,000 capital. Dexter, Me. packed 75,000 cans of corn this year. Bates and Lewiston mills add looms and output. Maine manufacturing at Fairfield turning out children’s rocking chairs. Home sewing machine works in Orange operate eight hours daily due to orders. Rockland eyes tack and shoe-nail plant. Stamford woolen mills cut wages from 40 to 25 percent. Bourne mill stockholders vote to reduce capital to $300,000 with $100,000 paid. Taunton tackmakers wary of a tack factory in Crewe. Peterborough, N H, to hire 800 to 1,000 at a new shoe factory with ten-year tax relief. Standish Mill at Plymouth to run on flannels with 75 workers. Norcross Brothers of Worcester holding Pittsburg court house contract will deploy hundreds for Milford granite quarry work.
A Denver and Rio Grande branch climbs from Heela to Calamut, a seven mile, half mile high mountain line with extreme grades and curves. A former employee recalls deadly mishaps, the need for heavy locomotives and vigilant brakemen, and the rail line’s perilous but spectacular descent aided by air and water brakes.
A Paris paper scene shows a woman guiding a visitor through a gallery. She points to an officer in uniform claiming he is her great great grandfather who was brave yet unlucky, never fighting a battle without paying a price and who took part in forty four engagements.
A Chicago Rambler report notes a schoolgirl answered a personal advertisement seeking the acquaintance of a young man with the postmaster’s permission. The item ends with the girl continuing the exchange, reflecting social mores of the era.
A young woman and her advertiser corresponded with copies kept by a friend. They used a typewriter for replies, preventing handwriting familiarity. After much talk a meeting was arranged, but the scene led to confusion when the brother appeared with a boutonniere, triggering identification concerns.
Samuel Skon known as the Herat of Fairmount died suddenly at nearly eighty. He lived alone in a tiny coal wharf shanty for fifteen years, allowed no visitors, and accepted help only in exchange for small tasks. He despised women and dogs, spoke little, and died while working on a shutter on Ralston street after stepping from a ladder. The coroner will conduct a post mortem to determine the cause of death.
A Westward letter writer arrives in New York seeking work, fails to secure a store job due to Latin prescriptions, starts with ¢52 weekly, attends College of Pharmacy lectures, proves skill at fluid extracts, earns salary increases, later opens his own lab and hires forty to fifty workers, despite arriving with no money or connections.
The New York Morning Journal reports a private Thauma exhibition at Eden Museo showing a young woman whose waist appears absent as she swings in darkness. A hidden pedestal and black back chamber hide the illusion while the audience notes the lack of realistic yielding. The piece is described as clever but fraudulent and worth seeing.
An 1883 New York Herald report tours the sub treasury vaults revealing about 140 million in cash and 71 million in gold and silver, with details on coin weights, security, and how doctored money is detected by staff using weight, composition, and expert eyes.
Major Higginson brings grave news to the Arkansaw trader about Sim Bottleford. Despite earlier letters, Sim is dead by suicide after whiskey drinking, shocking the colonel who laments the loss of a once respected partner. The scene unfolds with somber humor and frontier harshness.
Uncle Daniel Drew, at the peak of his power, is approached by a man claiming a Christian pledge and asking for compensation over a stock deal. Drew recounts selling Blank & Blank railroad stock at 88, later buying it back at 60, and he offers to share the loss rather than pay.
A traveller recalls a lady who misanswers iconic sights in Italy and the Dardanelles. A Philadelphia doctor's remark prompts a witty exchange. Trollope notes an Englishman in Florence asking for the Medical Venus and is guided to the Uffizi Gallery.
A fragmented dialogue from a New York Times page shows a busy clerk relaying telegrams about stock movements. The scene features mentions of Wabash Union Pacific and bank meeting plans as a character contemplates retirement from the noise business.
A Florida letter from the San Francisco Chronicle extols natural wells lined with stone, brackish water nuances, and healing springs from San Mateo to Sapford. The writer envisions ancient handiwork, notes diverse mineral waters, and praises lakes near Palmer, especially a moonlit lakeside scene among live oaks, moss, and sprawling boughs.
A Baltimore American note recalls a young man who announced plans for a lively local paper in Vicksburg Mississippi. He was warned by limp and missing limbs residents who had tried such papers and felt they did not suit the area. The anecdote ends with a quip on true humor.
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