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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1887
Page
4
Balance of year free for all subscribers at 1.06 per year. Subscriptions received by Jan 1, 1888 expire Jan 1, 1889. The Presidential Campaign has begun. The Weekly Globe pledges vigilant labor to promote Democratic faith and build New England as a Democratic stronghold and aid in maintaining national government control.
The piece urges Democrats to start active support for the Grand Democratic Principles, stressing duty to sustain and establish those ideals through early campaign effort and collective involvement.
The Weekly Globe offers a one year subscription for $1.00 with a premium. Agents are urged to form large clubs using a generous allowance to attract subscribers and sample copies are free.
A brief notice offering six copies to clubs from now until January 1889 at a reduced price. The item emphasizes a limited-time deal for organization libraries and reading groups.
Promotes The Weekly Globe as a top paying canvass paper for agents and clubs. Highlights easy subscriber sales, broad information and family entertainment at a low price. Calls to action to request agents' circular and sample copies from The Weekly Globe in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Folio annual price is $1.60, making The Weekly Globe cost 15 cents more. The Folio is a leading illustrated musical monthly with music for piano organ and voice, offering enough content to justify both subscriptions. Address The Weekly Globe Boston Blass to subscribe.
The notice lists subscription options for Poston Weekly Globe with monthly, yearly, and reduced by mail rates. It indicates prepaid postage and provides the Boston address for Newsraren Co. at 242 Washington Street and confirms second class matter status.
The Globe announces a four by four foot six inch color map of the New England coast with cities towns villages post offices courts light houses railroads stations county populations and distances. A free map is offered with one year of the Weekly Globe for only 1.25 dollars and postage is free.
Propaganda urging Democrats to secure weekly Globe subscriptions to grow party support. It calls every Democrat to start immediately, distribute copies to households, and view the paper as sowing seeds for political fruit. Address THE WEEKLY GLOBE.
The Globe and the True Flag announces its Boston family paper now in its thirty seventh year with a large print, pure tone, and strong reader base. Subscriptions priced at $2.50 per year for the True Flag and $3.00 for the Globe and True Flag combined.
The author defends Sam Cox against critics who belittle his achievements as a public figure. He argues Congress members should engage beyond caucuses and majorities, praising Cox for brilliance in records and reminiscences. A foreign minister’s sparkling observations are recommended as instructive reading.
The article argues workers in America gain leverage as farmers and laboring men form a united front. It claims a shift from strikes to ballots as the decisive tool, noting past strikes weakened unions and led to member losses while urging prudence and unity against monopolies.
The article argues that while many Knights of Labor strikes failed and leadership caused rifts, dedicated members stayed loyal. It credits Powperty at Minneapolis for steering the order away from violence, gaining respect among prosperous workers, and pursuing peaceful reform to elevate the wage earner through lawful means and politics.
The piece argues business interests will shape the 1888 election, noting Republicans warn of risks from switching administrations. It cites New York’s 1884-1887 results, praising Cleveland's steady policies and the decisive influence of business opinions on votes and confidence in trade and investment.
The piece assesses Roscoe Conkling as a stronger personal and political figure than James G Blaine, noting his proven record and governance expertise. It argues Blaine cannot win and that Conkling lacks support from Maine power broker Bourne while acknowledging past party conflicts and machine politics.
The piece argues the coming presidential contest hinges on business leaders backing the status quo. It warns Republicans threaten national prosperity, debt, tariffs, and credit, predicting conservative business interests will veto a change and reject any party seen as unstable or untrustworthy.
A mixed editorial roundup notes Rubert B. Thomas remaining in public esteem and reports petroleum shipments at 146000000 gallons. It critiques New York election costs, praises Don M Dickiyson as postmaster general, and teases stock market schemes and political maneuvers in New York and beyond.
A reader asks if a second wife and her children inherit when a husband dies. The editor explains that wife No 2 has same rights as wife No 1. All children from both wives share equally in the estate, with the wife receiving one third of the personal estate and a life interest of one third in the real estate.
A reader asks if a man who manufactures an article can sell it in the state without a license. Another inquiry seeks the composition of dynamite bombs used in Chicago disturbances. A contributor explains dynamite as nitroglycerine saturated pulverized silica or infusorial earth and notes common ignition methods. Ed Will Carleton’s Life mentioned. a local reader offers help obtaining a copy from Lack’s Home Journal.
Local notice urges readers to celebrate Thanksgiving at home with friends and family. It encourages preparing a bountiful feast featuring fruits sauces preserves pies and cake to evoke happiness and youthful joy, avoiding life stresses.
The Globe presents "Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me" themes with a tender depiction of a mother watching a sleeping child. The illustration captures a sublime bond, echoed by the accompanying "Wide Awake" and "Fast Asleep" features and the Sunshine for Little Children magazine. The weekly Globe subscription is offered at $1.30 for a year or 80 cents for six months.
A motherly scene in which a babe’s recognition of its mother is highlighted. The Globe water colors “Brown Eyes” and “Blue Eyes” are offered with subscriptions to the magazine and weekly Globe for $1.30 per year or 80 cents for six months.
The article surveys current fabric trends with plush fabrics in stripes and large figures for skirts and gowns. It highlights black plush with red and black dots, plaids and stripes priced from $1 to $4 a yard, and discusses combinations of velvet, satin lines, and moire effects. It emphasizes rich underpinnings for plain gowns and varied color pairings.
The article details plush striped faille and gobelin designs in blues, grays, browns, and greens, with themes of corduroy city wear and surahs for house dresses. Watered silks and moire fabrics are praised for elegance, while new colorways and plaid patterns appear across broadcloth and rayon-like blends.
The report details strikes and labor moves from Buffalo shipbuilders to Boston central unions, Knights of Labor appeals for miners, carpenters organizing, and boycotts against granular products. It notes cooperative banks in Tennessee, a clergy labor group in New York, and expanding national trade assemblies with the Shoe and Leather Worker press.
A dramatic 19th century verse letter in which the speaker pleads with Isabel to choose between friendship and romantic love. He declares it must be all or nothing, insisting that she either fully claims him or rejects him, warning that mild friendship would wound him more than any betrayal.
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