Odd Misrecognitions And Historic Autograph Tales
A Sheffield merchant mistook a stranger for a coal dealer in public, then repeated the joke on a tram. The notes recount a Rare Autograph story about Thomas Lynch Jr selling a Declaration signer’s letter and tracing the origin of Dickens’s pen name Boz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheffield
Mr. Johnson
Johnson
Thomas Lynch, Jr
Lynch
George Washington
Jared Sparks
Harvard College
Thomas Addis Emmet
Augustin Daly
Emmet
Daly
Lenox Lbrary
New York
Philadelphia Ledger
Thanked His Stars And The Jest Of Soldiers
A collection of antiquated quips and anecdotes. Lalande the astronomer praises fortune after escaping the mob during the French Revolution. Allison recalls Neppene Egyptian campaign humor as mamelukes are warned to form square and set demisavans to the center. Diogenes asks for a cure and proclaims finding an honest man with a dropped lantern. A Wayside Philosopher and wandering gibes on senatorial ambitions and a farmer’s family tree gag conclude the row of wry bits.
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Lalande
Allison
Neppenge
A Woman's Enchantment 2 Chapter XIX The Analyst to the Home Office
The inquest resumes with the Home Office poison analyst testifying that the deceased was poisoned by an unknown substance, possibly medieval in origin, with symptoms like a Cherokee snake poison. The narrative follows Morton and Cunliffe in court and the uncertainty over Granny Gough, Elfrida Maynard, and the missing maid Lebas as surveillance tightens and rumors swirl about Garshore.
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Home Office
Cunliffe
Granny Gough
Elfrida Maynard
Elfrida
Myra
Granny
Lebas
Morton
Charing Cross
Victoria
Redcliffe Gardens
Colsterworth
England
Bolton Street
Piccadilly
Garshore
Ralph Garshore
Lord Southchurch
Liverpool
Franklin
OALG Tor Face Ties in Kind Yu Ta A G Bought Jaature
The fragmentary OCR reads unclear as a sports or event note with names and numbers uncertain. No coherent entities or definite outcome can be established from the legible text.
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Oalgtor
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BAY State Boilers
L. M. Hopkins & Son
Main St
BriDgeport
Noyes R. Bailey
Milford
Eagle National Detective Agency
Jeraes Conn
Nat’s Bank
State St
Eport Distributing CO
State Street
Fornia
Muscatel
Sherwood
Naugatuck Valley Ice Coo
Onic Avenue
Fairfield Avenue
Sprague
Lehigh
Spraguelce&CoalCo
Washington Ave
A Gregory & CO
COAL
Stratford Avenue
Berkshire
Coal Guaranteep
Wheeler & Howell
ST. Yard
East End
Congress Street Bridge
Boz
Dickens
Moses
Boses
Bo “Boz
Hood
London Globe
Diogenes
Kansas City Journal
Baron Fucash
Mr. Cumrox
William le Queux
Tilly Brome Holland Medicine Company
Scranton
Jennie Hamilton
Bagjve
Elle
Bears
Castoria
Wooster-Atkinson Co
Broad Street
the Farmer Publishing Co
Fairfield Ave
Bridgeport, Com
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