Auction Catalog Prices for Silverware and Glassware
A historical listing shows varied prices for items such as Ivory Military Brushes, Silver Candelabra, Rogers Cold Meat Forks, Mesh Bags, Vanity Case, Sereevee watches, Silver Suga Creamer, Cut Glass Lamp, Quadruple Silver Casserole, Cut Glass Water Set, Howard Watch, Gold Elgin Watch, Opera Glasses, Gold Filled Lockets, Copper Chafing Dish, and Quadruple Silver Baking Dish with prices ranging from two to ninety dollars across multiple lots.
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Seth Thomas
MCI
ELAM
Almira Riversides Social Rise Draws Backlash In NY
The piece recounts Almira Riverside’s bid to breach social barriers in New York society. Her final reception uses P P C initials for pour prendre conge signaling pride in kinship to President Polk, provoking Mrs Morningside who warns Almira is flying too high and courting a fall.
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Riverside
Morningside
New York
Riviera
Almira
New York Times
Puzzlers Teach Third Graders Word Veil And Lonely
A Warren school third grade class learns veil through a teacher's prompt about ladies and a boy offers a comic definition. Another class tackles lonely with a pupil saying I loan some paper off a boy, reflecting humorous misinterpretations.
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Warren School
Eddie
Cleveland Plain Dealer
I Have Told Them How to Think
A quotation from an orator marked as a service to the people claiming to have given cause to think and further to tell them how to think, per the Buffalo Express.
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Buffalo Express
No Trick to Pull Comment Sparks Domestic Tension
A Detroit Free Press excerpt shows a husband and friend arguing after a late night incident. The wife called the other man at 1 a.m. to ask about the husband’s whereabouts. The caller defends his absence, noting his own late return and his wife’s worry.
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Detroit Free Press
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Helps Minneapolis Woman
Mrs Joseph Aselin of 628 Monroe St NE Minneapolis writes of two years of illness with monthly pains before using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After three bottles she regained strength and can do housework, praising the remedy and inviting inquiries. The firm's claim emphasizes plant roots and herbs with no narcotics and offers confidential advice from women.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Joseph Aselin
Monroe St
N.E
Minneapolis, Minn
Lydia E.pinkham
Discharged After Man Claims Woman Provoked Beating
A London case reports a prisoner seeking severe punishment for domestic violence but the magistrate dismisses the claim after the woman allegedly taunted him by daring him to hit her. The exchange ends with the magistrate declaring the matter discharged.
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London Mail
Courage for Right: A 1808 call to defend rights and prepare for duty
Josiah Quincy Jr. argues in Congress that citizens must actively prepare and defend their rights rather than yield to foreign dictates. He rejects fear of war, asserts perseverance, and urges protective measures at sea and on land to maintain peace through strength.
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Josiah Quincy, Jr
Congress
The Poor Men
A terse line from the Boston Herald remarks on measurements of aim and perception with a sly glance indicating a hit. The speaker notes a girl’s intent and accuracy in a witty, pithy mood.
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Boston Herald
Up to Us in Magazine Tone Quips
A brief list quotes a Louisville Courier Journal exchange about human extinction and ridicule of posterity. It presents a sharp, tongue in cheek debate over future generations and the fate of humanity with a curt retort.
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Posterity
Louisville Courier-Journal
Kidnapping Voters A Dread Feature Of English Elections
A Pearson's Weekly piece recalls historic English political warfare. It describes voters abducted to sway elections with force, confinement in mansions, and lavish treatment while stripped of liberty. Examples include Newcastle freemen shipped by sea to Ossend and Ipswich voters sent to Rotterdam.
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England
Newcastle
London
Ostend
Berwick
Norway
Ipswich
Rotterdam
Pearson's Weekly
Marriage games and food for thought on wedded life
A Mother Magazine excerpt contrasts romance with history in marriage, warning that passion must be balanced by friendship. A medieval tale recalls how a stolen bucket sparked a European war, and a later debt dispute helped shape Algeria as a French possession.
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Greece
Mother’s Magazine
Good That He Returned
A man entrusts a boy to watch his horse at the station before leaving on a departure. The horse bolts as the locomotive whistles, racing away with the boy and owner relieved that the owner arrived in time to help.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Talking Machines Births Across The Nation
A Cincinnati Enquirer reader dialogue notes that talking machines are not manufactured but seemingly born, as Willie asks where they are made and his mother replies they are born, reflecting a playful rural exchange.
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Willie
Cincinnati Enquirer
Life in the Long Ago Huts and Saxon Halls
An article recalling English history describes one room wooden huts with thatched roofs and central fires. It contrasts lean-to expansions and straw beds with more pretentious Saxon halls, where a large central fire, slate roof, clay floor, and long benches defined daily life and social gathering.
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England
Curious Mexican trees and fruits described by National Geographic
A National Geographic Magazine piece notes Mexico's diverse flora. It describes the par rot fruit resembling green parrakeets when perched, the dynamite tree whose fruit bursts with force in warm conditions, and the papaya or melon zapote whose pulp or leaves tenderize tough meat and aid digestion.
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Mexico
National Geographic Magazine
Mexico's National Pawnshop Monte de Piedad History
The Monte de Piedad in Mexico City, one of the capital's oldest buildings dating to 1520, was acquired in 1744 by Count de Regla Terreros who invested 300000 to aid the needy. It offers one third value on pawns at interest rarely above 3 percent annually. unpaid items are sold and any surplus goes to the depositor.
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Mexico
Monte de Piedad
Cortes
Count de Regla Terreros
Monstrous Newspaper Specimen in Aix la Chapelle Museum
A London Chronicle note describes a singular artifact at a Aix la Chapelle museum, the Illuminated Quatruple Constellation from 1859 New York. The oversized pages measure eight and a half by six feet, with thirteen columns each forty eight inches long, and only one copy exists.
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Aixla-Chapelle
New York
el Telegrama
London Chronicle
Stoats Hunt In Packs Reported By Observers
Observers report stoats forming packs similar to hound hunts in certain years. They move as a group following scent, with one leading and others trailing closely. The phenomenon has also been noted for weasels hunting in the same manner.
Washington Woman Praises Plant Juice Cure for Aches
Mrs. William Kettler of Government Wharf Seattle reports seven years of rheumatism kidney trouble and poor digestion improved after taking Plant Juice. She credits relief of pains better sleep and digestion with the remedy sold by Eaton Swaney drug store.
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William Kettler
Twenty-seventh Avenue
Government Wharf
Inter Bay
Seattle
Eaton & Swaney Drug Store
Particular Printers Aberdeen Printing Co Auction Notice
The Herald notes Aberdeen Printing Co located at 309 East Wishkah Street urging readers to check the paper for full details of the notice.
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Particular Printers
Aberdeen Printing Co
East Wishkah St
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Grays Harbor
Emil Pfund Jewelry Company
Iece
Rogers
Sereevee
Sheffield
Waltham
Aselin
American Press Association
Vera Cruz
United States
Mexico City
Modena
Bologna
Europe
Algiers
Algeria
Washington
New Jersey
Tucke
Wishkah
Grays Harbor Railway and Light Company
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