Various Oddities and Data from the Era Highlighted
The item catalog covers imports, city prizes, fines, a sold bullet relic, and financial strains. It notes Texas corn exports rising to fifty million bushels, Paris buying 200 Washington portraits for schools, a Deadwood mayor fined for defying fire brigade orders, Gulteau bullet sale for a circus, Bob Ingersoll’s near ruin from mines, and a Deeton Post jab about hell. Population tallies for Russia’s divisions total 100,058,348 over a dozen years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hussia
Russia
Europe
Poland
Finland
Siberia
Central Asia
Century plants surge in California bloom searches
California gardeners report many century plants sending up flowering stalks with rapid growth. In Sonoma valley one plant reached six feet in eight days while a Gabriel valley specimen may exceed forty feet. The plant covers a circle forty five feet across. Philadelphia adds a striking note with twelve and a half million false teeth produced yearly along with five tons of powder to reduce denture need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Sonoma Valley
Gabriel Valley
Heigth
Philadelphia
Summit Women Form Association To Beautify Village
Women of Summit New Jersey organize an association to improve village appearance. They note male apathy but report progress on several projects and plans for more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summit
New Jersey
Riculara
R.E. Menaell
Sean
PIPER
Boston
Mass
General Assembly of Kentucky
United Sates
Counor Wealth
Dees Company
West News Notes On Street Life And Birth Trends
The Black Hills Times reports odd street scenes with two life sized figures on Main Street and opium topics rising in daily talk. It also notes a high birth rate of girls in the west and a belief in regulating supply by demand, praising the region’s blooming, healthy young women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Black Hills Times
Main Street
Great West
Inter Ocean
Twelve Philadelphia postal workers receive government letters
Twelve names of overlooked Philadelphia post office employees were sent in Washington letters. It took time to locate the recipients and revealed the twelve cases supported by the government for the benefit of the office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay Hubbell
Philadelphia
Washington
English sovereigns found by Tennessee border garden
A woman near Chattanooga Tennessee across the Georgia line found a sparkling object in her garden. She uncovered an English sovereign and soon collected forty more. All coins date from 1820 to 1827. The reason for their presence remains a deep mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Georgia Line
Chicago's Leading Gold and Silver Ware Factory
The major western manufactory in Chicago employs about eighty workers. Two are Native American, eight are children of German parents born in America, and all the rest were born in Europe. The establishment has welcomed apprentices and courted no opposition from trade unions. In twenty six years of operation, none of the apprentices completed their time who were sons of native-born Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Chicago
America
Europe
Mixed extracts reflect a lively 19th century humor page
A collage of quips and jokes from American papers. Snippets include a Milwaukee soda fountain mishap, a toast to Philo Carpenter, heat curbs in Cincinnati, odd ads in Cayuga Chief, urban curses, and dialect wisdom from Arkansas Traveler. Notable names appear: Philo Carpenter, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Rome NY, Cayuga Chief, New Orleans Picayune.
Odd Hen Egg Produces Two Inner Eggs
The Hawkinsville News notes a curious finding from Mrs. Overbey and Captain Overbey. Inside a kitchen egg shell were two smaller perfect eggs beside yolk and white. Dr. T Walker showed a fat egg from the same hen. The writer reports all eggs from this hen share the same unusual form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Overbey
Hawkinsville
Judge Praises St Jacobs Remedy in Opulent Opinion
Judge J. T. Dossier of St Tammany parish and the state legislature lauds St Jacobs in strong terms saying it is very efficacious for opiums and brulee with no oil or liniment equal to it in his opinion quoted by the Times-Democrat New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. Dossier
St. Tammany Parish
St. Jacobs
New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Fogg
New Old Colony
Scott
Beaton Transcript
Salt Lake Tribune
Boston Postman
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Troy Times
Midere Mille
Goodbave Co
Clark Johnson
Clark
Johneo
Meadow Utah Co
Clara Ohnoson
Mino
Ncsaees
Ted M.ies
Atlerton
Vilage
Old Point Comfort Summers Runways and Social Quips
A collage of social stereotypes from Old Point Comfort and various cities notes how New England, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Louisville girls are described in terms of dress, behavior, and domestic roles. The excerpts include witty asides about steamers, marriage, and family quirks reflecting early 20th century attitudes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Point Comfort
New England
Philadelphia
Chary
Baltimore
United States
Jumbled Tales and Oddities from Old Newspapers
A collage of humorous snippets from era papers, including a quip about a melon and a book, a New Bern woodware factory claim of one hundred thousand plates daily, and jokes on purses and domestic mischief. Notable lines reference Sir Grabland, Lady Stiletto, and a Buffalo Express quip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Grabland
Stiletto
Boston Transcript
Newbern
N.C
Also Mentioned on This Page
Texas
Paris
Deadwood
Gulteau
Garfield
August Plockstress
Bob Ingersoll
Deeton Post
EURCK
Milwaukee
Metternich
Doston Post
Philo Carpenter
Troy
St. Louis
Phila. News
Cincinnati
Weedsport
New York
Walnut Street
Emerson
Rome
King & Bros.’ Grocery
Oman
Arkansas Traveler
Odds and
Kengal
Boston Globe
Buffalo Express
Mies Angelina
Seraphina
Angelina
Abe
Irmape Wun
Laboratory
West 3Rd
M. Y. City
Alidaw
Ultze
Nature
Draton Mon Tee
L.S.L
Louisiana State Lottery
Falaturentor Educational and
Cha Charitaine Lee Pur
Regard
Louisiana
Jubal A. Early
Gaines Capital
Newena
M. A
Dauphin
M A. Dauphin
Seventh St
Washingtom
D.C. N
Anna Wsnat
City of
Lounville
M. Hoar
Courter-Journal
Bulla
Ing Bout Panlesiite
KM. Boardman
Broadway
Nork TuTpAat
Cheyenne
Postoffice
Bouder
Geo. L. Holt
News Depot
Ayer
Ite
Jis
Uss Ie Eudden Etscka
Gaivancees
Weickert
Wyoming
Arkers
Balsa SS
Louis Shaw’s
U.P. A.A. Boule
A Jones Proia
el Eran
eSovise Tl
Sig Eh
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