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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1883
Page
4
Boston Weekly Globe advertises a club offer running until January 1885. A group of five pays one dollar each to receive fifteen months of The Globe for a dollar per person, with all members getting the paper through January 1885. Potential subscribers are urged to recruit friends and join.
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A collection of editorials and comments critique black voters in Ohio, judge FOORAKER’s alleged prejudice, Nevada militia sharpshooters’ scores, New York divorce fraud worries, Beecher’s cheap-living remark, scams by ex-convicts preying on charities, animal intelligence in Ecuador’s avalanches, and Wendell Phillips’s political chatter. It also notes Tewksbury and MARSHES figures influencing a Republican convention and traces party dynamics.
A frontispiece portrait of a defeated George D. Robinson is offered as a promising winter text for Cambridge undergraduates. Major Wisson receives an eighteen month prison term after admitting to theft from the government and other vices. Four West Point trained soldiers tried at Whipple barracks face four years hard labor at Alcatraz, pay forfeiture, and dishonorable discharge for desertion. One man was absent forty eight hours. The piece urges Secretary Lincoln to reform army justice.
A Massachusetts political column attacks the Republican party over corruption probes led by Governor Butler. It contends the party’s convention shows fear and defection, denounces the party line as support for misrule, and warns of consequences if corruption is ignored. It recalls Tewksbury almshouse issues and Star Route graft while urging Republicans to confront truth and humanity.
A heated critique argues that a judge vacated an attachment over a minor legal phrasing issue, labeling it attorneyism and quibbling. The author laments how such grammatical quirks hurt debtor creditor relations and calls for reform, accusing lawyers of controlling legislation and stoking public contempt for courts.
Prohibitory party chairman Mr Roberts cites that President Lone claimed Republicans must buy the rum vote of Democrats. Burrrick denounces Butler as a moral crisis, decries the license system as Massachusetts infamy, and scorns party concealment of a great plague of licentiousness.
A renowned East Coast minister, famed for eloquence, courted a Rochester woman while grieving his wife. He learned, too late, that he had written to the elder sister and mistaken her for the younger, traveling on to California without his intended bride. The tale ends with a skipped wedding amid humor and sorrow.
A harsh critique targets Codman the Republican State Convention chair, accusing him of elitist arrogance and attacking Governor Butler by claiming his military service history is misrepresented. The piece also notes Irish tenant rights and reports the removal of Special Agent Vandervoort from Grand Army matters by Postmaster General Gresham, suggesting absenteeism as the issue.
The speaker condemns absenteeism by the President and cabinet, accusing they deserted posts without leave and stayed away as they pleased. He cites Judge GresHAM as having set a bad example and argues that public servants should be dismissed for absenteeism, warning the public will remember these offenses by top officials.
The piece denounces Republican papers for sacrificing core principles to defeat Butlerism, citing Boston Herald Journal and Advertiser praise for expediency over policy. It argues that Republicans once defined by principle now claim sole aim is beating Butler, a shift that the writer calls humiliating and destructive to party integrity.
A historic reflection on a U S Hawaii sugar reciprocity treaty showing benefits mainly to German and English planters and Claus Spreckels, with critique of free trade, then a Mississippi inventor’s big gun for war, a Pennsylvania truck pay ruling, and notes on President Arthur’s cabinet as the era nears upheaval in Spain and Washington.
Becoming a revolution, SAGASTA believes the government can crush it, yet fears a serious clash. The King grows weary of the Liberals while the people tire of monarchy. The article hints Spain could become the next European republic.
A collage of brief items includes commentary on politicians such as Butler and Pierce, humor about patents for everyday paraphernalia, odd anecdotes from Delmonico’s and Petaluma, and reflections on current events. It notes a Finnish peasant living on water and tobacco, fashion shifts for modesty at winter parties, and a string of light vignettes on culture, crime, agriculture, and shipping lore.
A collage of comments on marriage in Switzerland, political terms, humorous anecdotes about public life, wage and living standards, and race and temperance topics. It mentions Blaine, Kay’s offer for a baseball club, New York tenements, a partially colored railroad project in North Carolina, and a variety of humorous lines about drinking, yore, and the clergy.
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