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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1879
Page
4
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A catalog style notice lists various magazines and publications available via The Weekly Globe Club List. It notes subscriptions include postage and one full year, and advises writers to confirm renewal status and address any delivery issues with publishers.
The Butler Independents held a large Worcester convention at Mechanics Hall with fourteen hundred delegates, many former Republicans, nominating General Butler and the Democratic ticket on a state reform platform. The event signals a united front against Republican leadership and a shift toward state issues and reform.
A humorous critique traces the rise of tattooing on women from arms to legs as a fashion craze sparked by Dame Fashion. It explores the male gaze, the artist’s boudoir, and the shift from concealment to monogram branding, noting cross Atlantic uptake and social curiosity.
A humorous meditation on labeling personal goods and the impractical idea of inside the box labels. The passage teases wit about marking wives fiancés and partners, back to Cicero’s Cui bono, then abandons the notion for a playful bow to fashion’s trial.
An apparent romance ends in tragedy as Provost kills himself after expressing affection for the deceased woman. Shortly after, Bernard is found dead with a bullet wound, and authorities suspect Provosts brother was the shooter in the incident.
The Massachusetts Democratic state convention in Worcester, September 17, nominated General Butler enthusiastically for governor. The gathering showcased unity and vigor, rejecting past delegitimized tactics and presenting a strong ticket including Benjamin J. Butler as Governor and A Woodworth as Lieutenant Governor, with Donahoe, Skillings, King, and Northend also named for top posts.
The Independent Party of Massachusetts pledges equal rights for all and denounces Bourbonism. It calls for reform in state government, abolition of useless offices, firmer labor protections, and opposition to convict labor. It condemns intimidation of voters and supports honest dollars. Petition:
The passage condemns commissars as dangerous, opposes double taxation, urges honoring veterans, and defends pure suffrage with direct ballot access. It praises General Butler as governor candidate, lauds his service, and calls for state reform nominees aligned with the convention's ideals.
John Ross of South Brooklyn kept a clothing store and learned his daughter Sadrian, aged fifteen, had secretly married Charles Dodd of Massachusetts. Dodd was arrested for drawing a knife after a confrontation. The daughter escaped from the roof of a hotel to reach Dodd's room and now he seeks $2000 damages from Ross for assault.
The St Petersburg Medical Wochensobrift reports Professor Monassein’s autumn 1878 study of 222 singers aged nine to fifty three. It finds singers have larger chest circumference relative to height and better pneumatometric and spirymetric measures, suggesting singing grows with age and benefits health, contrasting it with alcohol.
Mr. E C Larrabee of Topsfield Massachusetts submits two long cucumber specimens. The larger measures three and a half feet in length and fifteen inches in circumference while the smaller is three and a quarter feet long with fourteen inches around. He dubs them Butter cucumbers Fan praising them as wholesome alternatives to beer ale or porter.
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