Sextant for Sale Leads to Maine Romance in Boston
A Boston Globe tale follows Captain Sprowl who advertises a sextant for sale and meets Etta Bourne, a Kennebunk milliner seeking a typewriter. A misread ad and a chance meeting spark a courtship ending in a May marriage in Kennebunk, uniting Maine Yankee Etta and Captain Sprowl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Smith
Sprowles
Maine
Edna Dunn
Constitution Wharf
Boston
Etta Bourne
Annie
Kennebunk
Etta
Jones
Globe Office
Maine Yankee
Captain Sprowl
Paptnio
Globe
H. B. Bourne
Winter Street
Roent
Tron Wharf
Brrown
Ian
Institution
Misa Bourne
Sprowl
Hourne
Edwin R. Sprowl
Henrietta 1. Bourne
Boston Globe
The Power of Lightning Across St George's Leicester
Report from 1846 details a thunderstorm that destroyed St George's Church in Leicester. The steeple collapsed all floors, bells, clockworks, and a brick arch beneath were broken. Calculations by Mr Highton gauge the force as requiring a 12220 horsepower engine to resist a single lightning strike. Additional notes describe Apricot paste production from Damascus with steps of crushing, fermenting, and drying to form leatherlike bands sold by quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. George's Church
Leicester
England
Damascus
Scientific American
Microscopic Portrait of President Harrison Presented
A New York artist M Diamond sent a microscopic pen picture of President Harrison to the Executive Mansion. The 24 by 18 inch likeness features the American flag motifs and coats buttons all filled with speech extracts totaling 11 000 words, portraying a life history of General Harrison.
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Harrison
M. Diamond
New York
Executive Mansion
Georgia News in Brief Ties of Interest Gathered at
Georgia news briefs report an extra steamship service to run Brunswick to New York to move cotton, a Lookout Mountain Roadmasters meeting on October 18 with a follow up at the Kimball House in Atlanta, and Dr. Young J. Allen visiting Newnan with Wesleyan ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
New York
Roadmasters’ National Association
Lookout Mountain
Kimball House
Atlanta
Young J. Allen
Shanghai
Ovina
Newnan
Wesleyan College
Macon
Georgia
South
Augusta Chronicle
Georgia Road
Augusta
Peeples
Ryan
Gober
Atlanta Constitution
The Matter of Bait in a Fisher of Men Tale
A Detroit Free Press tale recounts a pastor visiting Brother Billings home where a boy asks if he fishes and carries bait in a jug. The pastor quips I am a fisher of men, while Billings appears with a serene, innocent smile as the scene ends.
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Brother Billings
Apa
Detroit Free Press
Fragmentary subway vignette with garbled dialogue
A garbled OCR passage describes a conductor and passengers in a tense moment inside a monument or elevator. The text is incomplete and contains numerous misspellings and nonsensical phrases, with no clear names, places, or events to identify.
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North Georgia
Dahlonega
College
City Drug Store
Sutton & Pitchford
Cleveland, Ceorcia
Cleveland Real Estate
Agency
Piedmont
F. B. Sutton
Clark, Bell & CO
Gainesville, Ga
Bobolink
St. Lonia
Nch
Jovine
Annie Bourne
Wita
Berwick Academy
Old Brown
Htta Bourne
Miss Bourne
Captain Bourne
Ea Ty
Thor
Benna
Europe
Georgia News
St. Simon’s Sound
Washington County
William Callaway
Athens
Bob Long
Northen
Long
Floyd County
Savannah
O. M. Carter
United States
Savannahiver
Petersburg
Canal Rocks
William H. Walsh
Fernandina
Fla
Bradwell
Otter
Oie
M. K. Palmer
Towns County
White County
Hinwasee
Cleveland
White
Clarksville
Secretary of the State
Harper T. Gilmore
B. A
D. A. Pittman
Sandersville
Washington
Clarke County
School Fund of
County School Commission
Tia
Clowing County
General Assembly
D. Bradwell
State
Washington Monument
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