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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1882
Page
4
The Poston Weekly Globe announces a Boston based circulation offer dated September 12, 1882. It details annual rates, bulk discounts, payment methods, stamp denominations, and required sender information for subscriptions, changes of address, and discontinuations while promising duplicate copies for lost mail.
Editorial notices criticize Republican bosses led by Page of California and President Arthur over campaign finance and assessments. The piece cites Hubbell’s arbitration stance, the Grand Tyler Clark suspension, and the influence of money in politics, then shifts to a Maxwell Land Grant suit, peach crop notes, and a Dublin jury liquor bill report.
The fragment notes disposing of forty one and a half glasses of gin and whiskey a bottle of sherry and a bottle of champagne and asks whether Francis Hines should hang by the neck. Comment on the jury finding is deemed unnecessary.
The Social Science Association at Saratoga weighs the rise of preventive sanitary science over treatment. Boards of health unite physicians and public bodies to survey diseases, publish results, and educate communities. Michigan shows progress. reduced National Board of Health powers threaten national reach, urging state and local action.
The piece weighs William D. Howells as the best known yet most criticized American fiction writer. It argues his charm and refined humor mask a lack of universal sympathy, and that his realism, though vivid, remains too beholden to elite perception. It condemns his detached view of commoners as aristocratic and shallow, contrasting him with a more empathetic, elevated literary vision.
The critique argues Howells emphasizes repulsiveness in A Modern Instance, stripping romance and nobility from Marcia and Bartley. It contends the novel downgrades moral ascent, presents two vulgar protagonists, and uses base scenes as shadows that overwhelm the work's supposed artistic purpose.
The article reviews indoor bathing limits and effects on the body, citing Dr. Thery and French findings on bath duration and temperature. It then surveys New York and other cities, noting a surprising scarcity of elderly workers in common jobs and pondering whether the nation is becoming younger overall and why aged men vanish from active life.
The text notes that bath temperatures below 97 reduce body temperature and slow heart action, while heart pulsations grow stronger. Baths above body temperature raise central temperature. a 108 bath for nineteen minutes raises body temperature to 104. Safe prolonged exposure occurs only between 91 and 97, with caution advised for Turkish baths and other similar practices.
European scientists question if men's heads have grown smaller over decades and discuss hat sizes and fashion as a possible cause. The piece notes notable individuals with various hat measurements and concludes brain quality matters more than size, linking success to use of intellect rather than head size.
The piece argues that dysentery cripples romance and even martial zeal, asserting no man can woo successfully while afflicted. It cites personal memory and science to claim dysentery dulls life’s ambitions, from affection to battle fervor, ending with a reference to wartime hospital tents.
The piece contrasts Daniel F. Davis of Maine and Arabi Pasha who both faced dysentery. It argues such illness deserves praise and promotion, notes Arabi recovered better, and cites Wolseley as misjudging the foe. It invites medical study into battlefield illnesses and their impact on history.
A compendium of quick takes and quips on politics, religion, and social folly. Jabs at Republican officeholders, revival tales, an urban misadventure with a jealous husband, and wry observations on public figures, with sharp, satirical commentary typical of the period.
A mosaic of short items, jokes, and quotations from a Virginia village scene to national musings. Notes on a jail as asylum, student protests tied to stock quotes, pension debates, and trivia about politicians, clerks, and social mores. Includes reflections on Concordia stock, Keifer’s pensions defense, and travel in Washington society.
Elia Wheeler notes in a late article that a prominent Eastern publisher once said Wisconsin sends more poetry than any other state. The remark highlights Wisconsin’s notable poetic output and its reach among national publishers.
A skeptical note mocks unnecessary worry about liver kidney or urinary issues and Bright's disease with a claim that Hop Bitters always cures when possible, presenting a certainty that undermines medical caution.
An ad for E. G. Rideout & Co. sells a 32 calibre revolver for 350, claiming a top bargain and strong trust in the firm. A quoted medical promoter touts a coca beef tonic as vastly superior to typical remedies, promising restoration and health benefits for many ailments. Beware of imitation.
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