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Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1882
Page
4
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New Serials Announced for Next Year at Local Paper
A week’s issue previews several new installments including A Hasty Promise A Rejected Lover and Donald Dyke the Boston Detective. The new story about Dyke will start around January 1, 1883 with ten or twelve additional stories planned for the coming year.
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Donald Dyke
Boston
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GLOBE
United States
Canadas
New York
Boston
Mass
Water-drinkers pamphlet satire and politics in Dakota debates
The piece satirizes a pamphlet titled Handbook for Water-drinkers and ridicules soda signals and gin fizz recipes. It attacks Dakota statehood rumors, discusses bond repudiation in Yankton county, and critiques Republican rhetoric. It notes New York Herald comments on steel industry suspensions and Thanksgiving aid to Soldiers Home in Chelsea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Beecher Criticizes Fame While Blaine Targets Belmont
The piece notes clergy vanity and recounts political maneuvering around James G. Blaine and Perry Belmont. Dwight Townsend ran against Belmont for Congress as a Democrat ally of Blaine. Official returns show Belmont 18,689 votes to Townsend 4,956, a 13,733 majority, up from 2,652 in 1880.
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James G. Blaine
Guano Shipherd
Perry Belmont
New York
Belmont
Blaine
Dwight Townsend
Congress
Townsend
James Mulligan
Boston
Thurlow Weed’s Storied Political Career
A compact portrait of Thurlow Weed, journalist and power broker, who shaped early American politics across Whig, anti-Masonic, and Republican eras. The piece traces his ascent from cabin boy to master of party strategy, his lack of personal ambition, and his skill in aligning party action with public readiness. Weed’s influence spanned presidents, cabinets, and governors, yet he stayed focused on the party’s greater good rather than office or wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thurlow Weed
Republic
Cabin Boy
Whig Party
Young Republican
Anglomania and French Influence in American Speech
A critique of Anglomania and French influence in American English. The writer laments widespread adoption of French phrases and Frenchified pronunciations, arguing for preserving pure English and rejecting terms like raison d etat and en passant. The piece notes how even humorists echo French phrases and questions the need for foreign fixings in common speech.
Westward draw for Eastern youths to farm or stock raise
An Iowa correspondent echoes Century ideas urging East Coast graduates to seek opportunity in farming and stock-raising in the West. It argues Western land prices, early wealth from settlement, and a stimulating moral climate offer better chances than crowded eastern professions, while stressing personal pluck and self reliance. It cautions readers to act on their own responsibility and not heed outside advice.
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Iowa
New England
England
West
East
Hdfmestead
Atlantic
Language Drift in American English Turns Toward Hybrid Speech
A historical note observes the American branch of English growing as a blend of words phrases and pronunciation from various origins. The writer warns the language risks losing a cohesive thread linking it to its roots as a single living tongue.
SCARE IN STEEL AND IRON
Interviews with steel rail industry leaders show no concerted plan to sway Congress. Overproduction and high tariffs have pushed supply beyond demand, forcing price drops. Prominent executives blame Scranton mills for triggering the price slide while noting Western mills face idle capacity without demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Mills
Congress
Hatfield
Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company
Carnegie
Pittsburg
Bessemer
Scranton
Clark
Europe
Chicago
Gladstones Irish policy in House of Commons debate
In a Commons session Mr. Parnell urged adjournment to spotlight Irish rent arrears relief and warned of West Irish distress as crop failures in Galway Mayo and Sligo echoed 1879. He faulted land legislation as shallow, urged abolition of landlordism, and criticized Gladstone for temporary relief and external cures while the arrears act nears expiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parnell
House of Commons
Ireland
Galway
Mayo
Sligo
Messrs. Parnell
Davitt
America
Gladstone
Trish
Treasury
Gladstone’s Irish Policy Criticized as Ineffective Coercion
The piece lashes out at Mr. Gladstone for pushing coercive laws and closure in Parliament instead of pursuing home rule. It warns famine, discontent, and outrages as inevitable results, arguing he failed to address the core evil and risks ending his career without solving Ireland’s national question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone
England
America
Ireland
Industrial growth in the United States 1880 census shows surge then slowdown
A census bulletin on 1880 factory data shows 253840 establishments with 2 738950 workers and wages of 947919674 while materials used reach 3394340029 and products 5369667706. Growth jumped 1860–1870 but slowed 1870–1880, with 1873 panic cited. hope rests on constructive Congress action.
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United States
Congress
Cured of intemperance at New York Christian Home
A New York institution the Christian Home for Intemperate Men treats drunkenness as sin and requires a desire to become Christian for admission. Residents stay four weeks to three months, with no tapering liquor, limited medical aids, and strict abstinence from tobacco and opium. Reading, prayer, and self reform are emphasized. 925 inmates in five years with about sixty percent reclaimed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Christian Home
The Virginia election and Mahone’s political bargains
The piece argues General Mahone and allies secured Virginia patronage to back his bid for power, with Hubbell funding and post office, customs, and internal revenue offices at stake. It claims fraud and miscounts by Mahone’s operatives, predicts forthcoming congressional challenges, and critiques Massachusetts senators for aiding the Readjuster effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mahone
Hoar
Dawes
Riddleberger
Virginia
Arthur
Guiteau
Internal Revenue Offices
Hubbell
Congressional Committee
Theodore Lyman
Congress
Massachusetts
Henry B. Lovering
Sixth
Political expose and calls for Republican leadership in Ohio
The piece accuses party leaders of complicity and theft, arguing the Democratic gains force prosecutions and the exposure of graft. It laments the November defeat, credits Hubbell and plunderers, and urges a capable, independent leader to unite factions, with Robeson of New Jersey as a possible figure.
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Spencer
Marshal Henry
Ainger
Parker
Congressional Record
United States
Grand Old
Washington
Republican Party
Hubbell
Department of Justice
Brady
Dorsey
Deacon Richard Smith
Cincinnati Gazette
Ohio
Democratic Party
Robeson
New Jersey
Notes and extracts from a bustling old world column
A collage of quotations and anecdotes spans world population figures, quirky dialogues, political satire, social quirks, travel musings, and humorous vignettes. It surveys fashion, ministers, stock market chatter, railway feats, and small city curiosities with a wink at readers.
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