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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1882
Page
4
The Wyllie Barker match for the Checker Championship of the World will be reported in full. For the week ending October 28 the score stands Barker one game, Wyllie one game, and fifteen draws.
Important notice to agents announcing that regular commissions may be deducted and that Ti Globe will be sent to each subscriber until January 1884. A private circular has been issued. agents are urged to use their best efforts to secure subscriptions upon receipt.
A powerful tale launches next week in The Weekly Globe inviting readers to form clubs now. Another story is planned for December 26, signaling ongoing serialized fiction and reader engagement.
The Weekly Globe offers one year nationwide delivery in the United States and Canada free of postage for 100 or six copies for 500 with payments by postal order, registered letter, or draft on New York or Boston. Stamps of one two or three cents are accepted and should not be registered. Include full writer name post office county and state in letters. Provide both former and present addresses for address changes and include town county and state for discontinuations. Losses in the mail are duplicated free of charge. Sample copies are free.
An argument favors abbreviated forms like Engineer Tompkins or Coalheaver Johnson over full names. The writer cites practicality, elegance, and rapid speech as reasons these forms suit modern discourse and may become standard.
The Eureka Leader editor James E. Anderson, once dubbed Lying Jim of Louisiana for exposing frauds tied to the Sherman-Hayes conspiracy, was fatally shot by a Republican candidate in Nevada. He had recently clashed with George F. Reek, a GOP candidate for superintendent, and then pursued him up the street after being wounded. The piece frames the incident as political retribution amid postwar partisan violence.
A sharp critique portrays the Republican party as demoralized and doomed in Massachusetts. It cites state committee appeals, past scandals, and a failed machine strategy, predicting a sweeping defeat as public opinion turns against the party leadership and its gaffes.
The piece satirizes Hoar and Moar as relics of party virtue while exposing the GOP’s desperate tactics to prop up General Stoneman’s California gubernatorial bid. It riffs on editorials by the San Francisco Post and lists sharp quips from notable figures, framing a broader commentary on political hypocrisy and factional strife.
A lengthy miscellany of humorous and pointed anecdotes follows, from a George Washington impersonation punishment to jokes about China and political figures. Each vignette weaves social satire with references to public figures, events, and places, including New York, Boston, and London, plus notes on crime, coinage, and Paris at season’s start.
A Wadesboro physician visits a sick man who chews and swallows nothing. The doctor pulls a four dollar thermometer from his bag and inserts it in the patient’s mouth. The man reveals he has chewed the thermometer and cannot swallow it. The glass mercury instrument shatters, causing a comic medical mishap.
Alexander Greenwood was killed in a yard accident at Great Falls Manufacturing Company Dover New Hampshire last week when a 100 pound iron lump fell from a third story. The death was instantaneous. The Vatican ex cathedra phrase is noted but unrelated. Dr Graves Heart Regulator is advertised as a cure for heart disease across druggists for $1.
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