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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1891
Page
4
The Rural New Yorker faces a $150,000 suit while exposing humbug practices in rural markets. It appeals to farmers to form a large club, offering a $2 yearly subscription and a combined rate with The Weekly Globe for $2.10, plus seeds gifts and other farmer focused privileges.
A promotion offers a two-for-one subscription: The Rural New Yorker at 2.00 per year plus a year of Boston Weekly Globe for 2.70 total. Subscribers gain an extra year of Globe regardless of current expiry, with the Rural New Yorker touted as the premier farm paper. Address THE WEEKLY GLOBE to subscribe.
Weekly issue of Poston Globe presents a compact slate of briefs with scattered items numbered 10 11 12 17 18 19. The readable lines hint at local notices and community updates typical of a small town paper.
Subscription rates listed including one copy per month at 50 cents and yearly prepaid options. By mail rates show two dollars annually and weekly at one dollar per year. The notice is from The Stark Newsraven Co., 242 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts. It notes second class matter status at the Boston post office.
A notice invites readers to mail a list of 10 or a dozen neighborhood names to The Weekly Globe Boston Mass for sending free sample copies.
A reflective meditation on divine placement guiding our daily actions. The speaker, citing Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, asks whether value lies in location or in the work assigned by God, urging dedication to one’s appointed duties.
An advertisement urges readers to subscribe to The Weekly Grong highlighting political coverage and general news. It promises regular chronicles for intelligent voters and features aimed at women and young people, offering a year free extension with early payments and inviting agents to recruit subscribers.
The piece argues the New York Republicans may nominate J Stohn Fassett of Elmira for collector of the port, a choice seen as foisted by Platt Harriman politics. It warns Fassett could repeat past defeats tied to boss influence, urging a Jeffersonian victory with a worthy standard bearer for the Democrats in November.
The National Provisioner reports no verified tin-plate manufacturing establishment in the United States. It explains that true tin-plate production requires a full rolling mill and related processes from tin bars to finished cold rolled sheets. After inspections, the journal asserts there is no Philadelphia tin-plate mill by its standards.
The Advertiser hides a Pennsylvania tin-plate producer’s address and refuses to name the firm, fearing an advantage to a rival promoter of a young industry. The Provisioner man seeks a genuine tin-plate mill, urging disclosure to aid the industry.
The piece notes rising dissent within the Republican party across states from Massachusetts to Ohio, with factional clashes over McKinley act and reciprocity. It discusses Bar Harbor politics, predictions of Canada severing ties, and Canada possibly merging into the United States as emigration and industrial shifts reshape North America.
The piece accuses Republicans of flip flopping on silver coinage, citing the 1891 era speeches by McKinley and Cleveland. It argues Republicans demonetized silver in practice yet advocate free coinage in policy, calling leaders hedging on currency and shifting with public mood.
The piece argues census reporting misleads Canadians about growth, noting significant emigration to the United States. It cites about 1.5 million native-born Canadians abroad and predicts by century’s end the U S population of Canadians could exceed Canada’s 5 million, risking annexation and tougher customs collection.
A critical portrait of Joan Sherman of Ohio tracing his 1867 greenback staunch stance on bonds paid in greenbacks to a 1879 confession as a gold plater, and his 1891 image as a flexible, self serving politician whose shifting positions amused and exposed by Republican organs.
A. F. Searns notes census findings on home and farm mortgages, estimating about 2.25 million families live on encumbered properties while roughly 10.26 million occupy farms or homes either rented or owned free. Western states show average debts around one third of property value, predicting total mortgage debt near 2.565 billion. The full report will reveal independence levels of American families.
The piece argues that national revival in seafaring will come from rail expansion and the Nicaragua canal, with a looming world freight boom as America exports wheat and corn to Europe. It predicts vast ocean tonnage redirected to food transport, prompting renewed attention to maritime interests and criticizing President Harrison's handling of forces beyond his control.
Awakened interest in our commercial marine grows from Europe and America's food supplies, plus the Nicaragua Canal nearing completion. These factors, beyond party manipulation, signal a potential revival of ocean navigation and a return to maritime prominence, aided by the rising yachting sport noted by Joan Burrows.
Grerce Francis Stone of Digby Nova Scotia will deliver lectures in New England on The Great Revolutionary War and The Life of George Washington. He is praised as an eloquent platform orator and urged to visit for multiple evenings. Calvin Brice advocates a uniform system of Democratic societies to unite clubs before the new year.
The Philadelphia Ledger joins a revolt against Quayism amid political maneuvering in Rochester and Washington. Debates touch tariffs, labor, rail consolidation, and regional crop woes as farmers in New Jersey and Delaware face market pressures. Patchwork commentary on candidates, bosses, and international affairs appears across the nation's press.
An exchange editor grapples with chaotic headlines after a midnight robbery report, snorting at the misprint and preparing to leave with the coat as confusion and hurt feelings rise from the flaming pages.
Readers learn that bar admission can be earned by exam without law school, and study Blackstone and Kent. The piece warns about crayon portrait firms, noting how framing profits inflate costs, suggests COD terms and returning goods, and advises legal action only against the company where located due to high costs.
A son asks if he may claim support rights from his late father’s farm for his mother who never signed the deed. The reply: the mother may file a dower claim if living. if she is dead, the son loses that claim.
A person composes and prints a hymn then sells copies and secures a copyright. Another person B buys it, reorganizes timing and accompaniment, and also seeks copyright or asserts rights. Does the hymn as revised have valid protection or can a publisher demand use rights? If B copyrighted, would full protection apply. likely the initial copyright suffices.
A homeowner asks if the town can be compelled to install steps to access his house after a private way was graded and a four foot street cut left him elevated above his premises. The reply: no compulsion to add steps. pursue damages against the town for the grade change.
B holds title by priority, but A’s second deed to C clouds title. B should file a suit to quiet title, establish B’s superior claim, and obtain a judgment declaring B’s ownership and removing competing interests. A’s act of deed to C may be wrongful but not necessarily a crime. possible remedies include damages or constructive relief. B may seek an action for damages, and an injunction or declaratory relief to quiet title against A and C.
JW B advises cutting the overhanging steps and coving that cross the land line. He says the fence can be placed correctly on the proper boundary and barbed wire may be used if kept on the owner’s property.
A reader asks about naturalization. The reply advises going to the United States District Court with two witnesses, mentioning that two sets of papers are not required and noting the five years since arrival. The guidance emphasizes lawful steps toward citizenship.
A Boston advertisement explains how hollow ware makers in a trust raise prices due to tariff protections and offer heavy home and foreign discounts. It promotes a 50 percent subscriber discount on standard quadruple plated sets and lists prices for various pieces including coffee pots trays and spoons.
A New York Sun piece recounts a guest in Port Arthur begging hotel staff for a clean towel and water for room 63. A desk clerk curses the lazy, timber-headed boy and his own Jimmy, who failed to deliver. After hours of frantic delays the guest finally gets the essentials.
A fragmentary exchange shows Mr Briggs scolding his wife for posing as a widow while away. She defends herself, praising the kindness shown by gentlemen to a named male figure, revealing a domestic and social tension within the piece.
In a humorous exchange a judge questions a character about his weather sense. He recalls always having a barometer, but explains that his father’s rheumatism cure last fall removed their weather certainty, leaving them with only the signal service bureau for forecasts.
A Chicago Tribune brief describes a customer insisting on a fresh bill after a teller refuses to replace a torn note. The exchange escalates as the customer threatens action if the bank accepts the damaged token.
Oberstein Germany hosts numerous agate quarries and mills that process refuse into small marble balls. Crushed blocks enter a grooved bedstone and runner mill, turning rapidly with water to polish the marbles in about 15 minutes per bushel, yielding up to 160000 marbles weekly for games.
A Sheffield Telegraph anecdote recounts a famed dramatic critic who resists medical advice to curb smoking. When his doctor warns the next pipe could be his last, the critic boldly replies that he would buy the largest pipe and smoke to prolong it.
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