The Berlin Shrew and the King’s Envious Bust
A New York Tribune account tells of a Berlin tale from two centuries past. Frederick William I ordered a bust crafted to glare at a rival goldsmith’s wife, placing it above the workroom window in her husband’s house to shame her. The bust stood as a warning for generations before its disappearance and later restoration by the king.
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Berlin
Heiligengeiststrasse
Frederick William
Prussia
Old Fritz
Frederick William TV
New York Tribune
The Senate Band and Other Briefs From The Press
A Washington Herald note recalls the Senate press gallery as a band stand where no band plays and a curious girl assumes it is the band. The London Musical Journal questions Bray’s famed Vicar story with parish records. Other items include a witty courtroom exchange about a recess, a sharp courtroom quip, and brief jokes from various papers.
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Senate
Washington Herald
Bray
Herkshire
Fuller
England
Simon Alleyn
London Musical Hone Journal
A Mountain of Alum and Travel Tales in One Fragment
A historic note describes an alum source twelve and a half miles from Wichek with a vast base and tall peak, where blocks are quarried, heated, and dissolved to crystallize alum. Also includes travel reflections on learning through travel and a few whimsical quotes, followed by Chicago market prices for hogs, cattle, and sheep from June 23.
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China
Wichek
Yorks
Timetable for Chicago Rock Island & Pacific trains
Train schedule shows Chicago operations with Nos 18 9 5 17 68 7 8 16 64 10 6 14 and 63 64 on daily runs except Sundays. Lists Audubon Griswold branches with mixed and Sunday trains and north south departures from 7:00 am to 11:36 pm including freight services and Sunday only services.
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R. M. Limited
Mail and Express
Chicago Express
Chicago Flyer
City Market Report Live Stock and Grain Prices
Market summary lists hogs at 5.00 to 5.15, bees and beef prices to 6.00, cows and heifers 3.25 to 5.00. Grain shows Wheat 87c, corn 60c, oats 42c, barley 50c, rye 60c. Produce notes butter 18 20c, eggs 17c, potatoes 60c, hay 7.00 to 10.00, straw 6.00.
Done Right Blacksmith Opens For Immediate Work
A skilled blacksmith announces a first close project ready to handle your ironwork. Customer priority is quality setup and timely completion with strong craftsmanship.
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the News Publishing Co
C. F
Atlantic
Iowa
Mrs. Vixenhead
Atlanta Constitution
Chicago News
Brentford
London Telegraph
Gobsa Golde
Mydass
New York Press
Aubrey de Vere
THE
Sherwin-Williams Paints
W. T. Joyce Co
F. M. Chapman
Moar
J H Yoxall
M. P
T. P's Weekly
Erastus Pinkley
Washington Star
Chicago
D. O. HerBert
East Fifth Street
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Omaha Flyer
Colo. & Calif
A. M. Limited
Audubon Branch
Griswold
NORTH
B. N. Reynolds
Walnut Street
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