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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1887
Page
4
The Weekly Globe offers a balance of year free to all subscribers with a penny subscription rate set at £1 per year. Subscriptions received before January 1, 1988 will expire January 1, 1889. The paper pledges vigorous Democratic advocacy to expand New England as a Democratic stronghold and to aid the party nationwide.
The Presidential Campaign has begun and Democrats are urged to help sustain and establish the Grand Democratic Principles they believe in. The message stresses active participation and commitment to party ideals.
The Weekly Globe offers from now until January 1889 for one dollar with a premium. Only dollar subscribers receive the balance of the year allowance. Subscriptions for the year include a premium and an extra balance. sample copies are free to attract agents to form large clubs.
An early advertising note offers six copies of a periodical or pamphlet to be delivered from now through January 1889 at a promotional price. The item targets clubs and reading circles seeking inexpensive access.
Important notice to agents and clubs about The Weekly Globe offering good pay and easy subscription gains. It promises much information and entertainment for the family at a low price. Encourages sending for agents Circular and samples from The Weekly Globe, Boston.
The Boston Folio offers a rare chance to receive the Weekly Globe at a reduced extra cost. The Folio, a popular illustrated music monthly, promises monthly music for piano organ and voice, potentially paying for both subscriptions and delivering musical and literary instruction to families.
The Hoston Weekly Globe lists subscription prices with options for local and mail delivery. Rates include 50 cents per month or $6 per year for one copy under prepaid postage, 69 dollars yearly by mail, and one dollar yearly for weekly service.
The Globe offers a four by four foot six inch color map of the New England coast with cities towns post offices rails stations wagon roads county and town populations and distances between stations. The map comes with a free postage offer for one year of the Weekly Globe at 1.25 dollars.
A call for Democratic workers to start voter outreach now by distributing the Weekly Globe to every home in their neighborhood. The missive urges sending for sample copies to sow political seeds and aid the party's presidential victory.
The New York Sun series portrays desperate wages for New York sewing women, earning $3 to $3.60 weekly while rents drain income. It argues wage declines amid persistent demand, landlord and employer exploitation, and calls for counteracting natural laws of trade. The piece also notes shifting third-party politics after Tuesday's state elections, signaling a near two-party presidential contest.
The piece argues that across states like Maryland Massachusetts and New York voters favored the regular Democratic ticket and resisted third party moves. It contends that Grover Cleveland’s administration has broad support among business interests and the solid majority remains loyal, making his succession likely and the 1888 race already settled. It also notes mugwumps and independents had limited impact.
The article weighs the timing of Indian summer, praising the mild days while noting frosts to come. It then lampoons Anthony Comstock for seizing photos of famous paintings in New York, sparking questions about censorship and possible actions in Boston, with satirical proposals to thwart his campaigns.
The Globe exposed errors in a cipher claim tied to Shakespeare’s epitaph, challenging Donnelly’s Baconian theory. The piece mocks Warps tomb anecdote, cites Ward’s observations, and notes scholars doubt the Baconian case as further investigations proceed.
A compilation of editorial jabs and social notes from a 19th century paper. It mocks government telegraph cheap rates, coal prices harming miners, and tariff ideas. It cites New York papers on water and eggs, plus reflections on politics, notable figures, and a young German prince.
A nostalgic description praises a mother viewing a sleeping child in a painting titled Wide Awake and Fast Asleep. The Weekly Globe offers a one year subscription for 1.80 or six months 0.80, tying art to maternal sentiment and heavenly imagery.
The piece praises Brown Eyes and Blue Eyes water colors by Globe magazine, describing a mother’s bond with her infant and the infant’s recognition of its mother. It notes pricing and offers bundles including Wide Awake and Fast Asleep, with annual and half yearly rates.
Rabbi Solomon Schindler delivers the sixth dissolving-views lecture at Temple Adath Israel on The Talmud. He frames the Talmud as a vast, incomparable literature born from 600 to 1000 years of Jewish scholarship, detailing its origins, structure, age, and influence on Judaism, while hinting at future discussion of the Karaite split and Anan Ben David.
Letter to the editor discusses a trio A B C playing auction pitch to 10 points. A 8 B 7 C 2 with C dealing. B offers C 2 points. C refuses and plays. A hopes to block B while playing honestly and transfers the hand to C. B accuses A and C of collusion. request for decision and next deal.
A reader asks if a burial plot can be transferred by will to a family member or outsider. The Globe prints guidance: a wife can pursue divorce after three years absence with no support. after seven years presumed dead, remarriage is possible though if the former husband returns the new marriage would be void. For fraud in contracts, if the husband’s signature was forged by his wife to a book lease, he can recover. if he authorized his wife to handle it, he is bound.
A Jackson father gives his son a target rifle to shoot sparrows. The boy has owned the gun about a year, fired the weapon once, damaged clothes, fought with a neighbor over a cat, and killed one sparrow, earning a one cent bounty.
A religious item from the Oil City Blizzard notes that it is good to belong to a church but harmful to think the church belongs to an individual. The remark emphasizes humility and shared faith over ownership.
Acents wanted to make money for themselves and The Weekly Globe by selling new water colors that can gain subscribers in almost every house. Address The Weekly Globe Boston.
The Boston Cooking School held its third demonstration lecture featuring roast chicken, fillets of flounder au gratin, curried lamb with rice and salsify a la poulette, and a celestial hash. Detailed steps cover fillet prep, roasting, curry lamb simmering, salsify stock sauce, and a fruit hash served iced in orange cups.
Chaotic fragments mix a Mount Morris man and a playful line about an old telephone. The piece blends a humorous note with dreamlike verses about amber light, mist, and tranquil dell scenes.
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