Warning on Mail Order Fakes and Fraudulent Ads
A reader alert warns against fake mail order magazines and scams. It notes how low subscription rates lure buyers, with examples including $200 monthly “bona fide” schemes, free bicycles for selling products, and toy furniture offers. The piece cites song poem publishers and handwriting readers as other common cons.
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New York Herald
Bunko
Gar
Mon Fooinss Bluing Company
Syndl Music
Village Improvement Plan Offers Block Prize
In an eastern town the Village Improvement Association offers a cash prize to residents of the best kept block from July to August for clearing weeds and maintaining neat premises. The plan suggests a helpful incentive for neighborhood upkeep.
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Village Improvent Association
Mungo Park and the origin of the name mungo
An aunt recalls Mungo Park and a fabric born of shoddy dust and grease. The tale explains why Park’s invented material was called mungo, a name that stuck after a Yorkshire dialect mispronunciation.
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Mungo Park
Park
Mungo
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Fourth of July Echoes From Wabash Days
Uncle Joe Cannon recalls a rustic Fourth of July from his boyhood on the Wabash with chores and fishing. He contrasts it with the modern era, where a few pennies buy fireworks and noise makers, a marvel not imagined on early Illinois farms.
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Wabash
Joe Cannon
Milwaukee Sentinel
Illinois
Nails and the rise of cut nails in industry
The passage notes that America pioneered first cut nails toward the late eighteenth century, replacing hand made nails as a household industry. Cut nails are produced by machinery from rolled plates, in steel or malleable iron, while wire nails originated in France but were perfected in the United States.
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America
United States
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Townsend
Aberdeen Soda and Bottling Works
West Heron St
Col. M St
Aberdeen
Hoquiam
Olympia Brewing Co
Pacific Brewing & Malting Co
Anheuser-Busch Bottie Beer
Patters and Locke Co., Incorporated
General Insurance Agents
A. F. Coats, Pres
Butchers
J. H. Hewitt
J.P. Morgan, Treas
Packers
Ninemire Packing Co
Montesano
Transcontinental Machine Company
Park and Oak Streets
Portland, Oregon
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper
Kentucky
Fred Hewett
Humboldt
South F Street
Wash
the National Photo Company
J. Antonius
W. Heron St
Grays Harbor
MacKenzie's Photo Co
Herald Printery
East Wishkah ST
East Wisheah ST
R. W. Bryan
E. Wishkah St
ME Palm Theatre
Billy McDonald
Pacific Coast
Shelly Brothers, Grocers
E. Market Street
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