ACTUAL BARGAINS FROM LEHMAN NEW ORLEANS STORE
A lengthy advertisement from Lehman’s in New Orleans offers vast discounts on black Cashmere and lace goods plus broad varieties of silks cottons linens and dress fabrics. It promotes Lehman’s Peerless Shirt line and a wide range of furnishing goods including underwear hosiery embroideries and household textiles with prices and varieties across 400 and 457 Chrydes Street.
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Ike Ours
Lehman
Wade
Collate
Hutton
Corveta
Spectacles of Us Offerings and Prices in Old Advertisement
An advertisement touts a wide selection of eyeglasses claiming low prices compared to competitors. It mentions discount tests and price lists, highlights A B Griswold & Co as dealers, and lists Knapp dental surgeons with practice details at an established New Orleans location.
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Kwapp
Fred. J. Knapp
Odd Antipathies of a Farm Horse Jenny in Journal Tale
A long reminiscence from Chambers' Journal describes a doctor’s horse Jenny with peculiar dislikes. The mare shies at singing, resists gates, dislikes bulky baggage, and avoids men of the working class, yet shows affection to children and well-dressed figures.
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Pawaenseal
Jack
Erla
Jenny
Apaonar
Indy
Denny
Jennie Tam
Pearce Plues
Newmarket
Rotten Row
Thia
Chambers’ Journal
Lotta Began Lifted Fame From a Saloon Stage Tale
In San Francisco Chinatown a dilapidated cottage marks Lotta Began’s former home. The tale recalls her early night stage triumphs at her father Old Crab’s music hall, where she sang after a hard night of drinking and family strain. Her performance revived the hall and drew crowds despite hardship and abuse.
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San Francisco
Chinatown
Lotta
London
Indy
Crabtrees
California
Little Lotta
Crab
Fnally
Abusi Lotta
The Housewife's Favorite and Kenneth Rayner’s Later Years
A biographical sketch traces Kenneth Rayner a long-time Treasury Solicitor and North Carolina figure who clashed with officials, boasted of vigor in old age, and died nearly penniless after a career full of political shifts from Congress to unionist loyalties and later government service. The piece notes his temperament, family ties, and the turbulent path through Whig and Republican eras, ending with reflections on his final years.
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Kenneth Rayner
Treseury
Washington
Rayner
North Carolina I Nature
North Carolina
Congress
Raleigh
Andrew Johnson
Johnson
Grant
Court of Alabama Claims
Hayes
Treasury
Court of Claims
Sherman
Windom
Folger
Hanverson
Welden
Jude
Treasury Department
Washington Cor
Boston Advertiser
Otis Philips Lord
Gambling and portrait quarrel mingle in colonial reports
The piece describes widespread gambling in Colon with a state lottery in Panama, highlighting prizes and bank gains, and notes licenses for roulette rooms along major streets. It then recounts Mrs. Mackey’s dispute with painter Meissonier over a portrait, arbitration by Cabanel, and the decision to settle without a lawsuit.
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Colon
Columbia
Panama
United States
Colun
Jamaica
Coton Cor
Boston
Vera
Mackey
Indy
Meissonier
Palais de Industrie
Champs Elysees
Meissioner
The Little Blue Boy’s Last Request in Coroner’s Office
A Philadelphia coroner recalls Peter Mohr, the blue child who died after years with a blue skin condition from heart issues. Dr Stritmatter sought to post mortem him, but the boy begged his mother to keep his body sealed from dissection. The tale centers on fear of being opened after death.
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K. P. Stritmatter
Philadelphia
Bythe Peter Mohr
Mohr
Cure Tobacco Use by Youths Sparks Public Debate
A reader urges restricting tobacco and cigarette sales to minors across schools and tenement areas. A physician notes nicotine harms youths mentally and physically and questions enforcement of New Jersey rules. The letter cites a study linking parental tobacco exposure to reduced birth outcomes and child health, calling for strong restrictions.
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Hood
New Jersey
Jta
Sytem
New England Sermons and the Trouble with Plain Talk
A tale notes New England pastors vary in style from direct speech to circumlocution and periphrasis. A deacon suggests changing the pastor due to dull sermons and the ladies in the back row catching all the best lines, leaving the speaker with weaker material.
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New England
St. Paul's
Tere
Sina
Tingie Toe
New England States
Judy Vicker
Molly Warren
Experience Pettybone
Stull
Starving a Juryman and the Jury Duty Duty
A telling tale on jury evasion from Maine to Boston reveals how bias and vanity can disrupt deliberations. A vain colonel led a Maine jury as foreman, provoking deadlock until a single juror’s defiance drew court demands and a confrontation with authority.
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Maine
Omi Ious
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Brookhaven, Miss
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Somerville Journal
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