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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1884
Page
4
The sample notice urges readers to form a large club to support the Democratic party during the campaign. It promotes pushing The Globe and Democratic principles and offers campaigns copies at 25 cents, with free copies for every five at $1.25.
The Globe announces twelve original entertaining stories published yearly for one dollar. A thrilling serial will begin in a week or two. The Globe stories are popular and provide more value for a small price than any weekly newspaper.
The Agricultural Department edited by Ward, a chemist and practical farmer, offers weekly scientific, accessible articles. Subscriptions run one year for $1.00, with the claim that no weekly paper provides more value for the price.
An old notice calls for agents to boost The Weekly Globe circulation. It urges Democrats to subscribe to aid a Democratic president and offers agent rates and free sample copies on request.
The notice asks readers to send names of Democrats who are not subscribers to THE WEEBLY GLOBE. It promises free samples to non subscribers and urges broad circulation to promote democracy via the weekly.
The item lists subscription options for the Weekly Globe, including one year for $2.10 and six copies for $8.00, with payment by postal order, draft, or stamps. It also quips about a clerk fleeing with funds, Leadville rumors, a rag import ban, a procession ruling, and upcoming science events in Philadelphia.
A plan proposes various electric light companies and an electrically lighted fountain as a novel and interesting feature for the city, promising a striking nighttime centerpiece.
A letter to The Globe argues New York Democrats show growing confidence for Cleveland, citing voter chatter, local booths, and a 60,000 to 650,000 plurality expectation. The piece notes Republican doubts, German support against Bourne, and mentions Greeley and Melville in national speculation.
The piece celebrates Oliver Wendell Holmes on his seventy fifth birthday with praise for his impact on American letters. It notes Boston’s literary culture and honors Holmes alongside Hawthorne Longfellow and Emerson while hoping for his continued health as he approaches a century.
An English engineer predicts the next major advance in power will be a gas engine using finely powdered coal mixed with chemicals. A generator would feed gas to a motor, with a lighter overall weight and simpler design than steam engines, reducing accidents.
Despite prior failures to reach the open Polar sea, Engineer Melville has offered to lead a new Arctic expedition funded by New York Yacht Club members. He brings Arctic experience and a record of studying ice challenges and leveraging others’ knowledge.
A fragment of the steamer Stamford lies at the channel bottom near Nix's mate buoy causing navigation hazards. Officials cite War Department orders, harbor laws, and wrecks commissions as requiring formal notices before action, leaving the obstruction in place for now. The piece calls for emergency powers or rapid action to clear the snag.
The pension office issues commissions to sixty five new special examiners who will begin duties immediately. The delay in pensions for disabled soldiers has long stemmed from staff shortages and heavy backlogs, and these appointments may hasten relief for veterans awaiting benefits.
The article notes the Tallapoosa sinking and Lulu Hurst claiming growing magnetic power, promising a stronger show next season. It reports wheat in the West will exceed last year by 130 00 000 bushels and 80 000 000 above five-year average, preventing famine fears. It criticizes the Tallapoosa removal plan as vain, mentions Texas free grass talk, Bartholdi pedestal fundraising needing over 126000 more, and cholera abating in Italy and France with refugees returning home.
A collage of quips and observations on life, manners, and society. Notes on prisons, monuments, Arctic bragging, domestic life, politicians, beehives in windows, and literary snubs pepper a page of humorous dispatches from various cities and papers.
A collage of satirical notes and anecdotes from various papers recounts social quirks. Jokes about dancing wives, highwaymen and purses, Bismarck, stock debts, counterfeit coins, a missing traveler, and a jaundiced view of sunstroke paste together a snapshot of opinion and humor.
Special to the Globe-Democrat reports near Mexico Mo in the Ghost District a fated hill on the county road sees numerous runaway wagons and injuries. Residents recall many accidents, with a mysterious roaming creature in the woods and a cave cited as a possible lair.
Rear Admiral Andrew Allen Harwood U S N noted as Benjamin Franklin’s great grandson died yesterday at Acew of 83 in Marion. Born 1801 in Pennsylvania he rose from midshipman to chief of ordnance and later commanded the Cumberland and Washington Navy Yard. He served in the Mediterranean and West Indies and contributed to Confederate suppression efforts before his later lighthouse board role.
George Alfred Townsend recounts Ed Stokes and the Hoffman House as a hub for power, money, and luxury amid New Yorks gambling boom. He recalls Billy Hutchinson, Garrison's railroad scheme, Tweed, Fisk, and political maneuvering as factions contend in a city of opulent hotels and rising vice. He notes international gambling cultures, the Chinese War aura, and a widening moral tension in postwar society.
A Chicago couple Edward H. Spratten and Carrie Hugill met via a misdirected telephone call at M. E. Page & Co. The bill clerk courted Carrie, introduced by night, and four months later they married at 2950 State Street. They plan to move to Pueblo, New Mexico, then return to Chicago after a three week trip.
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