Odd Daily Patrons In City Library Reading Rooms
Readings rooms host persistent visitors from dawn to dusk with routines noted by staff. An elderly man seeks Anthon's Classical Dictionary daily since 1533, while others linger over American Encyclopedia volumes or longevity books, and a white haired man obsesses over biographies, at times tracing a familiar pattern across multiple city libraries.
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Toy Mercantile Library
Une
Astor Library
Goethe
Cooper Hiv Re Ig
Lily
Cass
Curtiss
Anthon
Topard
Ther
Mechanics’ Library
West Sixteenth Street
Inman
Collins
Mechanical Library
Mec
Parang
Coullar
Pemenicn
Lares
Stonewall Jackson and Beecher Pranks in 19th Century Lore
A collection of anecdotes depicts Stonewall Jackson as a former institute professor with mixed traits, and Henry Ward Beecher as a prankster student at Amherst. It recounts Lee era stories, a mule driving cussing episode, Beecher’s chair prank, and proverbs about wisdom and folly from the era, plus a quirky tale of a toad and a bee.
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Stonewall Jackson
Justin
Lexington
Virginia Military Institute
Fitzbegh Lee
Stonewall’ Jackson
Institute
J. R. Jones
West Point
Chancellorsville
Jackson
Jones
Lee
Potomac
Maryland
Col
Harmon
Washington
Henry Ward Beecher
Mr. Beecher
Amherst College
Beth
Brooklyn Union
Curious Finnish haymaking by drying on tree poles
Finns lacking meadows cut grain from forest glades and air dried it on ten foot poles with cross pegs. Grass piled on drying poles dries well even in wet weather, preserving inner portions while outer layers color little. The method, first tried as a convenience, has spread and bids to replace traditional sodden ground drying.
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Lie
Nebuchadnezzar
Jonah
Syracuse Journal
Finland
Mark Lane Express
Honorary titles and frontier culture in early American lore
A Western anecdote recalls Samuel C. Pomeroy’s travel from Massachusetts to Kansas and the custom of bestowing handles on frontier men. His companion suggests the title General after noting Pomeroy’s stint in the Massachusetts general court, a nickname that stuck for life.
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Samuel C. Pomeroy
Senator Pomeroy
Massachusetts
Kansas
Pomeroy
Boy loses violin finger in crowded Boston horse car
A boy standing in a jammed box car in Boston had the end of his finger severed when a door was slammed by a heedless passenger. The severed piece could not be reattached, and the boy, who aspires to be a professional violinist, loses a finger near his violin hand.
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Douliva
Boston
Boston Post
Chinese governor bans bright dress for youths in province
A Chinese provincial governor recently forbids young men under his jurisdiction from wearing gorgeously colored and embroidered garments, calling the practice foolish and unmanly. He warns fathers, elder brothers, and tutors they will be held responsible for lavish apparel among the youngsters.
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Boston
Unclaimed Letters Listed in Americus Post Office
State of Georgia Sumter County notice lists unclaimed letters, including Mrs O M Avery and Miss Nancy Avey in category A to W. names such as Eddie Clements, Jennie Carter, Rev Mr C H Johnson, Keys Bros, Mary Leon, Robert Tensey appear. Fourteen days remain before forwarding to the Dead Letter Office. dated Americus Ga September 25 1889.
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Stateof
Georgia
Sumter
Americas Post-Office
O M Avery
G A Adams
Nancy Avey
John R Flowers
Aesso Gilbert
Mariah Guerry
J D Graham
Bob Grant
Amderem Gary
W C Hagby
Harry Henderson
John Jordan
J Jones
T B Jones
C H Johnson
K—Keys Bros
R Louis
Mary Leon
B _ B McCuller
Rosa Meriwether
OP Miller
I Moody
Jas M Morgan
Oliver Mayo
Stella Dunn elected supernumerary teacher at court house
At yesterday's Board of Education meeting in the courthouse Miss Stella Dunn was elected to the year ahead as a supernumerary teacher with the regular salary. No other business beyond routine matters was transacted. The Macon Telegraph complains of cotton shipment delays from that city versus Americus deliveries to Savannah in under eighteen hours.
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Board of Education
Court House
Stella Dunn
Miss Dunn
Macon
Americus
Savannah
Jeas
Jo Merchants Offer Blank Books and Lithographing
Jo Merchants announces readiness to take orders for blank books of all kinds, usual forms or made to order, plus lithographing. Commercial work executed promptly and neatly at competitive prices in Georgia, Record Printing House.
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Georgia
Pusrisninc Hovsr
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Ques
New York
Anthet
Rehoboth
Sunday Herald
Coticura
Dante
Tom Rosa Relly
Pinckwell
Zalhoun Ca
Porren Dave fMtcan Convonation
Red
Frick
Ocmulgee
A. W. Fuller
Towna and Hinson & CO
Main Street
Richmond
N. B
Bee-Hive
A, Mack & CO
Ummer's
Oglethorpe, GA
York
General Merchand
Americas
S.m.cohe
S. M. Gohen
Water Moye Street
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