Life Story of Noah Raby the 123-Year-Old Sailor
Noah Raby of Pascataway New Jersey claims a 123 year lifespan. Blind and small in frame, he recounts service on the Constitution and Brandywine, a youth spent on plantations, and a long habit of drinking whisky and smoking. He describes a rough maritime career, early love misfires, and a life shaped by slavery era memories and native American notions.
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Noah Raby
Piscataway
Brandywine
United States
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Naval Service
New Jersey
Pascataway
New Brunswick
Noth Cahlinoh
Suh
Eatontown
Gates County
Jessovah
Sarah Raby
Andrew Bass
Mills Field
Virginia
Mr. Mills
Big Tom
Morris County
Jersey
Navy
Sonny
Raby
Noah
Penelope Parker
Penelope
Sarah Parker
Sal
Mingo
Noah Baby
Portsmouth
Norfolk
Constitution
Farragut
Poe
Noah Vv
Thyptist
Mabeth
N. J
Haimer
Dexter Manshall
Early European Pootal Eventa and Taxis Posts
A compact note tracing the Taxis family postal service history from 1400 appointing captaine de nes postes to run mail routes via Ghent and Brussels to Paris and Naples, with pay scales and travel times. It mentions England’s meister postoruum under Henry V and a 1916 contract for maintaining posts linking Brussels to major capitals, plus a brief Mexico jury note on substitute jurors in trials.
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O. S
Francia de Taxis
Philip
Netherlands
Ghent
Taxis
Calais
Vienna
Rome
Vraneis de Taxis
Brassels
Germany
France
Spain
England
Henry V
Hrian Tuke
Charles V
Francis and
Baptist de Taxis
Brussels
Naples
Hood's Sarsaparilia Story of Manerit and Success
The fragment touts Hood's Sarsaparilia as the key to triumph and cure, urging readers to remember Hood's cures and implying a personal tale of ascendancy through the remedy.
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Hood
Gossip From Abroad Highlights Economic Tax and Palace Restorations
French economist M AnaTote Leroy Beautiry proposes taxing rentes as a socialist concession. In commons a visiting card may reserve a seat after prayers. Avignon’s papal palace to be restored as museum or archbishop residence. In Reni coins from Philip of Macedon found, five hundred twelve seized. In Naumburg four teens convicted of strangling fellow inmates to win transfer to jail.
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M. AnaTote Leroy Beautiry
France
House of Commons
Avignon
Reni
Pruth
Danube
Philip of Macedon
Alexander the Great
St. Petersburg
Naumburg
Prussian
Saxony
Zeitz Reformatory
Free entertainment at Angell Ridge school house Friday
The young folks at Angell Ridge aided by Miss Mary Wood presented a three hour program of dialogues recitations and speeches with good music by Robi Patterson and James Sheridan of Long Run. The crowd filled the house and laughter showed the audience enjoyed the show.
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Angell Ridge
Mary Wood
Angell Ridge School House
Robi. Patterson
James Sheridan
Long Run
Buckeye mileage ticket for Buckeye Route travel
Advertisement notes a Buckeye mileage ticket offering first class travel on sixty four transportation lines. Priced at 20, valid one year, with details available from W A Wisher, G P A Buckeye Route Columbus Ohio. The blurb hints at humorous regional dialect and emancipation day commentary.
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W. A. Wisher
Buckeye
Columbus
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Jacks
Jack
G. M
Pierce
Tur Nursery
London
Hardin County
Texas
Our of the New Rich
Chicago
Missouri
Wheeling
Wheeling- Cleveland Ship Canal
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Misa
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Celluloid Company
Broadway
Mohair Sicilennes
Paris
Boggs & Buhl
Alleghany, PA
C.a.snow &Co
Washington, D. C
Notce
U.S
Coultrap
Momes and Hearths
Romes Heartus Publishing CO
Hook Free
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Gocinanth Clie
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