The Dead Letter Office in Washington Described
A vivid tour of the Dead Letter Office in the Washington Post Office building. Clerks sort and open vast piles of misaddressed letters using swift, precise methods. The scene likens the room to a banking hall with desks, tables, and a procession of bags and envelopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
General Post-Office
National Capital
F Street
Patent Office
Philadelphia
Queen Victoria
W. C. Camprety
Provincetown
Mags
Dead Letter Office Reveals Hidden Wealth Of Unclaimed Mail
The article details how domestic and foreign unsent letters end up at the Dead-Letter Office in Washington. It explains processes for unaddressed, franked, and foreign mail, money and valuables found in letters, and the fate of unclaimed items stored in a museum-like repository awaiting reclaim.
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Pecreter
Congress
United States
Washington
W. C.,campbell, Esq
Indianapolis
Ind
Warsaw
Post-office Department
Locust Hill
Sunnyside Farm
Myrtle Grove
Rose Villa
United States Treasury
Treasury
London
Her Majesty's Mae
Mr. Lewins
Corres
Louis Bagger
Appleton
Pearl Dissolution and the Mystery of Pearls Across Time
The piece traces legends of Cleopatra’s pearl dissolved in vinegar and Gresham’s spectacle of drinking a pearl to awe a Spanish envoy. It explains pearl iridescence from surface interference, notes on nucleus debates, and mentions Chinese pearl encrusted gods in a Louvre display, reflecting on pearl formation and polishing.
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Agrippa
Augustus
Pantheon
Rome
Cleopatra
Thomas Gresham
Elizabeth
Redi
Mme. de Barrera
Louvre
Howland
Charleston Teasers End at Tansy Bed Whisky Discovery
A young woman in Charleston observed several male guests leaving frequently and followed them to her tansy bed. She found eight quart bottles of whisky at the shrine, destroyed them, and the young men no longer visited the tansy bed.
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Charleston
S. G
Nitro glycerine in chicken-backed bayou tale
A Lovratana man hides a two-ounce nitro glycerine can inside a chicken then tosses it to an alligator. The bayou lore suggests the alligator no longer owes him anything.
Entertaining miscellany headlines mix science and satire
A collage of notes on fashion brassware and science curiosities features kerosene prices in Oil City Pennsylvania fashion notes on lapels and silks unborn inventions including a patent baby and a playful chorus of aphorisms and anecdotes. An elephant tale from Pondicherry and a Button War in a village close the column.
How He Got into Business
A Florence Alabama watchmaker, a stranger, moved to town after a new town clock was installed. He sabotaged the clock twice by altering its hands to create demand. When potential customers brought in their watches, they learned his work kept perfect time with the clock, boosting his reputation as a regulator and filling his shop with customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buttons
Mr. Greeney
Smithy
Greeney
Old Mother Smithy
Old Greeney
Florence
Ala
Court House
Idle Day at Home Ends in Household Chaos
A man with a day off empties the family drawer to read a paper. a broken chair collapses, he scolds his wife, and a child climbs the table as chaos erupts. He flees, leaving chores to his wife, repeating the scene on another idle day. Danbury News
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Peice
Kimael
Danbury News
Veteran Kellogg Swears Off Daily Tonic at 92
Ezekiel Kellogg of Robinson ton Maine, a robust 92 year old veteran, quits his 11 o clock “tonsil tickler” to avoid delaying his goal of reaching 100. He milks ten cows before breakfast and says he can best half the young men in the state.
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M. Robing
French Academy
R. Johnson
George B. Farrin
Herz
Davenport
Bluffs
New York Times
J. . Keane
Pembroke
N. Y
Ezekiel Kellogg
Robinston
Maine
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Broklin
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Post-Office
Mac Hannahsile
Mechanicsville
Squill
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Schenecktady
New York
Key West
Florida
Chicago
Mister Llany
Ohio
Oil City
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Avorp
Indianapolis Sentinel
Hoisroor
John Harris
Lake Superior
Nature
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England
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Germany
Pennsylvania
America
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San Francisco
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Oftieth 7 Regiment
Pondichery
East Indies
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