Wardwell Lumber Company Adopts Up-To-Date Store Practices
The Iron Age highlights Wardwell Lumber Company of Bristol and its business epigraphs. It stresses keeping ample stock, offering odd items to attract customers, and maintaining a clean orderly store with appealing windows. Advertising methods like Phoenix ads, circulars, postcards, and a memorable sign slogan are praised as effective.
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Wardwell Lumber Company
Bristol
Shige
Phoenix
Colonial Bill of Sale for Dick the Negro Boy 1776
A Rhode Island Bristol sale document dated October 16 1776 transfers a enslaved boy named Dick, about eight years old, from Sarah Munro and James Munro to Timothy Ingraham for twenty eight pounds ten shillings. The instrument records administrators of the estate of Captain Bennet Munro and witnesses Mark Antho Droep Jr and Jonathan Diman.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Mary A. Luther
Timothy Ingraham Tanner
Bristol
Stoke
Sarah Munro
James ‘Munro-Booth
Rhodeisland
Bennet Munro
Timothy Ingraham
A. D
Sarah Monro
James Munro
Regular Living Must Match Nature’s Timetable
The piece argues against irregular routines and sleeping or eating in advance of need. It warns that forcing or overextending the body leads to disaster, debt to nature, and eventual breakdown, emphasizing the body’s delicate, perfectly balanced machinery.
Cause of the Deluge in Aboriginal Legend
A historical note recounts an Australian aboriginal flood myth where water only existed in a giant frog. Animals danced to make the frog laugh, but it was the wriggling eel that finally caused a flood to gush from the frog, drowning many and leaving a people saved by a large canoe built by a mythical bird.
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Australia
Landseer Finishes Cavalier's Pets For Royal British Exhibition
One of the era's finest twenty four hour records belongs to Sir Edwin Landseer. He stood before an untouched canvas a day before the 1845 Royal British Institution opening and declared he would finish it that night. He added no disturbance and sent the completed work to Pall Mall that evening. The Cavalier's Pets became a major success of the exhibition.
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Edwin Landseer
Royal British Institution
Landseer
Pall Mall
The Change of a Word Spanking Meaning Explained
The term spanking originally signified rapid motion. Johnson did not equate it with chastisement, instead linking spanker to one who runs with agility. Root idea is swift movement, as in a spanking pace or breeze, with spanker meaning an active sturdy person.
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Johnson
Hudson Bay Company Charter and North American Fur Trade
The 1670 charter by Charles II granted the Hudson Bay Company sole trade on waters at the Hudson Strait entrance and adjacent lands. After Canada joined Britain in 1763, the Northwest Fur Company of Montreal arose and competed, leading to a 1821 amalgamation with the HBC.
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Hudson Bay Company
Charles II
Hudson Strait
Canada
Great Britain
Northwest Fur Company of
Montreal
Insurance Solicitor Interrogates Durable Claimant
A courtroom scene features an insurance solicitor pressing a doctor about a claimant. The doctor reveals seven years of treatment, prompting the solicitor to remark on the claimant's apparent vitality as proof of resilience.
Peckham's Salary Debate Quips Draw Ledger Laughs
A Philadelphia Ledger quip contrasts Peckham's claimed weekly salary with his wife's weekly demands, noting the tension between commanded pay and domestic insistence in a witty exchange. The brief item captures a sly financial jab and local newspaper humor.
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Peckham
Philadelphia Ledger
The Way It Sounds Clarifies Reading Habits
Dialogue reveals Mrs Ascum questions if Miss Drumm owns or rents her piano. Mrs Knox responds that she usually reads it. Reported in a Philadelphia Press column reflecting neighborhood banter.
Primitive ruby mining in Burma described in detail
The article details Burmese ruby mining as highly primitive. Shafts two feet square reach fifty to sixty feet deep with crude timbering. Miners carry cone shaped tin pots on their heads and dig from a squatting position, sending earthen ore, or byon, to the surface in small buckets. A maungdine bamboo crane and a long arm method raise the buckets from the pit.
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Burma
A Zulu Legend of the Elephant and a New Nation
A Country Gentleman correspondent recounts a Zulu origin myth told by an elephant who feeds on children. A mother and her child plead for mercy, are eaten, then later escape when the mother cooks the elephant’s flesh. The tale ends with the pair forming a new nation in a distant land.
Spelling Reform and the Phonetic Controversy
A dialogue on English spelling features a critic arguing phonetic reform would mislead, noting phonetic uses of pho and etymology. A defender praises concise spelling like phonetic, contending changes reflect language evolution as phoenix becomes phenix and the egg-idea ties to myth.
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Phenix
Success Magazine
Old Time Flavor Fades as Modern Kitchens Embrace Formula
An excerpt from the New York Sun laments the loss of inspired cooking in modern kitchens. The speaker contrasts past cooks who relied on instinct with today’s machine influenced methods and measured ingredients, noting heavy biscuits and tasteless, uniform dishes. The passage mocks contemporary料理 for lacking individuality.
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New York Sun
The Eskimo: A Man of Peace and Independence
The Chicago Chronicle characterizes the Eskimo as wholly independent with no chiefs, sharing hunting spoils, aiding others including enemies, protecting widows, and living a peaceful life focused on happiness and skillful survival in harmony with nature.
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Chicago Chronicle
Katydid Song Explained By Rasping Wings
The piece describes how katydids produce their singing sound. It notes that only males can vocalize and explains the two flat membranes at the base of the wings act as sound organs. The rubbing of these membranes creates the familiar rasping chorus.
Social Dictionary Definition of Society
A Life magazine style critique notes that society residents, both men and women, overdress at the expense of tradesmen while overindulging and overfeeding themselves at the cost of friends. The piece observes social excess and the clash between appearance and livelihood.
First Dollar Wisdom in Business Says Ingt
A brief note urges saving the first dollar earned in business, then stresses wiser saving habits. It presents a proverb like guidance attributed to Ingt, highlighting prudent financial discipline for steady growth.
Missing bicycle from Bickford's restaurant heist
A youth who borrowed a bicycle from his father left it by the curb outside Bickford's restaurant while dining. After his meal he found the bicycle missing and, by early morning, had not recovered it. No motive or culprit identified.
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Dady
Bickford
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