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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1884
Page
4
The Globe offers a campaign distribution plan urging town committees to spread the newspaper to all voters, both Republicans and Democrats. The ad proclaims a nominal price and claims the method is the easiest cheapest and most effective way to increase turnout.
A directive for the publication office to receive all club papers at a single address for quicker despatch and safety, replacing the prior practice of sending to each club member. The change aims to streamline distribution and reduce handling.
An advertisement promotes a Democratic campaign push from The Weekly Globe. It offers 15 cents for a single copy or 10 copies for 1 dollar and urges readers to form clubs and spread Democratic principles through sample copies.
The Agricultural Department of The Weekly Globe, edited by Ward a chemist and practical agriculturist, offers weekly papers that are scientific, seasonable, reliable and easy to follow. A year’s issue costs $1.00, described as giving more for less than any weekly paper.
Notice seeking subscribers and agents to promote The Weekly Globe. Encourages Democrats to subscribe as part of political effort. States agent rates and free sample copies on application.
A call to readers to submit names of Democrats not subscribers to The Weekly Globe. The paper promises free samples to the named individuals as they are received and urges that the Democratic cause prosper most through the circulation of a sound democratic weekly.
The Boston Globe Weekly announces new serials written for The Weekly Globe by popular authors. A thrilling serial will begin in a week or two, joining twelve original stories published annually for $1.00. The Globe touts its value as offering substantial content for little cost.
The Weekly Globe offers one year subscriptions nationwide free of postage for $100 or six copies for $500. Payments by postal order, registered letter, or draft from New York or Boston are accepted. stamps of one, two, or three cents may be used. Include writer’s full name, post office, county, and state. report changes of address with both old and new details. discontinue notices require town, county, and state. Duplicate copies are provided if mails are lost. do not register stamps. Exchange newspapers should be sent to Lock Drawer 5220, Boston, Mass. Sample copies are free.
The piece denounces James G Blaine as weak on Irish rights while praising Grover Cleveland and Thomas A Hendricks as steadfast leaders. It accuses Blaine of vacillation, promotes Cleveland’s administration as honest and principled, and urges voters to back the Democratic ticket for strong national defense and integrity.
A satirical note on widespread elopements led by Coachman Schelling and Victoria Morosini. The tongue in cheek column recalls an era when such affairs sparked debates on etiquette and social distinctions, noting even a laundress fled with a married man.
A quirky retro passage notes Costchman Schelling and his coachman birthright jokes. It cites visits to the mother after a honeymoon, limits of thirty eleven and ten minutes, and claims a coachman’s fate persists. It adds that the Sickles elopement shows a sister seamstress aids family settings and profits in a grocery venture.
A presidential canvass backdrop aside, the Piegan tribe on a government-designated reservation faces starvation due to lack of subsistence. The Interior Department and Secretary Teller are blamed for inaction despite reports from local authorities and the Indian agent. The writer urges national relief, comparing to aid sent to Ireland and polar rescue efforts, arguing the American people must respond to the hungry on their own soil.
A St. Petersburg report says the three emperors secured lasting peace for Europe but left Congo rights unsettled. Portugal presses historic claims to the river and coast, while the African Association governs domain. England, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium position on protectorate and treaties, with Bismarck urging repudiation of Portugal and U S recognition of the Association. The Congo dispute looms as a major European politics factor amid other border adjustments in the Americas.
Residents of nearby villages dislike the new territorial arrangement but officials expect no international dispute to arise. The measure aims to redistribute borders without provoking broader tensions among local communities or neighboring states.
The death of Rowen Hox, veteran printer and inventor, is noted as a great loss to the art. His insight transformed printing from Gutenberg to Franklin era concepts, foreseeing presses that can produce 26,000 papers an hour. His genius powered The Globe and similar journals, fueling modern newspaper expansion.
A reflective piece critiques the Republican Party after 24 years in power, arguing for change due to failed foreign policy, ballot protection neglect, naval weakness, polygamy, and uneven taxation. It then shifts to editorial notes on forestry, Arbor Day ideas, and the enduring memory of Mother Frances Xavier Ward e. The column closes with international notes on France and China, Rev. Joun N Mars, Limerick policing, and outbreaks of cholera in Naples and Marseilles alongside U.S. crop forecasts and Indiana grain estimates.
A fragment notes that insufficient grain for their purposes may be offset by the remaining grain balance in the West. It implies regional supply shifts could influence broader shortages and market dynamics.
Notes discuss camels as burden beasts in England after Australia success, nursing as essential to physicians with seventeen US training schools led by Boston and Pittsburgh. It mentions political questions to Belva Lockwood, early German Quaker settlers opposing slavery in 1688, farmmen dismissing critics, a Tennessee druggist incident, land growth by foreign capitalists, W. W. Corcoran’s diet, and rail development since 1861 along with pension statistics.
A dense collage of 19th century political jests and social observations. The notes critique Mr. Blaine and Cleveland with quips on caucuses, editorials, and public sentiment across papers like Picayune, Philadelphia Call, Rochester Union, and New York Times. References to Maine results, libel suits, and public figures frame the era’s partisan mood.
George Alfred Townsend tours the Great Brooklyn Bridge and nearby New York, describing racing venues and juvenile mischief, the bridge’s design and tolls, and Brooklyn’s unique status. He links Beecher and public sentiment to broader cultural shifts, then shifts to Morosini and Lewes in a blend of travelogue and essays on marriage, society, and literature.
A Chicago Herald excerpt shows a heated domestic scene where a husband orders his wife to stop learning cooking from her mother. In a brutal moment he claims to have banished the mother by throwing her from a window, then quips that the mother lies dead under the back yard window, revealing a shocking, unsafe encounter.
Fragmentary OCR yields a Brooklyn Eagle snippet with lines about changing times and a cremation reference. Names Ola Hyson and an old man appear in broken dialogue, alongside stray phrases about a counting room, cops, and an autopsy note amid chaotic, incomplete text.
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