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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1882
Page
4
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The Globe reveals Donald Dyke as a popular detective hero in the most read story yet, detailing his adventures among criminals. Dyke remains alive and actively pursuing the guilty, and readers are urged to expect another installment.
The Weekly Globe offers a one year domestic and Canada subscription free of postage for 100 dollars and six copies for 500 dollars. Subscriptions by postal order or draft on New York or Boston, stamps accepted in one two or three cent denominations. Address letters to THE WEEKLY GLOBE Boston Mass with full writer details.
Advertising rates listed: ordinary ads thirty cents per line averaging about eight words. Editorial notices priced at fifty cents per nonpareil line. Discounts offered: five percent on a hundred dollar increment, ten percent on two hundred dollars.
A反rag between press voices and politics critiques Irish governance, mentions the Dispatch mishap and pilot excesses, notes Chicago beef shipments and a large Democratic State Convention in Boston. It reviews Republican campaign costs, a Connecticut prayer case, and a New York potato crop decline with price implications.
A government employee earning 1200 dollars yearly faces a 2 percent levy for political contributions to Readjusters in Virginia Independents in North Carolina and Greenbackers in Alabama. With a family of five, he asks whether to pay or refuse. A leading Republican advises paying to test managers, warning refusal could cost his job and threaten poverty. The piece condemns the forced “voluntary” fund as a mockery and portrays the tax as a government pressure tactic.
Eastern butchers face competition from Chicago packers planning larger meat exports. They claim they can push New York Baltimore and Boston markets with brisker shipments and cheaper meat. They predict future eastward shipments will end with cattle slaughtered near Chicago and carcasses sent westward.
A Chicago firm plans to slaughter 1500 cattle daily for shipment east, arguing meat can be settled or seasoned before sale. Eastern butchers fear competition and higher rates, yet Chicago dealers hope lower transportation costs will cut living expenses for the poor.
The piece ridicules General Wolseley as he sails to Egypt to defeat Arabi Pasha by “dash.” It contrasts his past Africa campaigns with the tougher Egyptian defense, noting muddy logistics, heat, and entrenched Egyptian resistance. It warns a quick victory is unlikely and mocks a dinner-table triumph.
A discussion on the growing influence of women in society and governance. It cites French figures and the role of mothers in shaping leaders like Napoleon and Gambetta, arguing women’s rights advance civilization and political power through maternal guidance and education.
The piece argues women's influence begins in youth shaping men’s minds, then questions if women should enter public life and seek equal political rights. It warns political struggle could strain male-female relations, risk civilizational backward steps, and cites advocates like Stanton and Livermore.
The article reports on Dublin rioting under Earl Spencer and secretary Otto Trevelyan, detailing mass police dismissals, transfer to special constables, and military patrols leading to widespread anarchy. It notes Gladstone's coercion acts, the police’s demand for pay, and resultant resignations fueling disorder, plus a call for U.S. shipbuilding reform and a study of international shipping policies.
A jumble of quotations and vignettes covers real estate ads, Indian liquor laws, Civil War era politics, travel anecdotes, and social observations. It references Fargo, Mitchell's Exchange, old Duke of York laws, Sioux and Sturgis, Jay Gould, Scotland, Paris cabs, Kansas City billiard halls, and the Zulu, with digressions on newspapers, detectives, and society reflects across multiple unnamed sources.
The passage argues that excesses occurred as natural under the circumstances and that the offenses reported by cable are not political in nature but could occur in cities like New York or Boston under similar stress.
Merchants praise the fall trade outlook as crops succeed and money circulates. Growth is fueled by higher farming profits, more foreign-born workers, and railroad expansion. Some merchants blame an old tariff for dulling prosperity, urging tariff reform to sustain growth.
A letter from NortH Greece New York dated April 25 188v writes to thank Dr Pierce Buffalo for the Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription. The daughter improved over five weeks with better color and fewer headaches, noting greater overall health and vigor.
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