Wait For the Wagon tale recalled at school exhibit
Two elderly men recall Sam Stone the songwriter of Wait For the Wagon. They discuss the song's funeral connection with the St. Joe band, a Masonic lodge funeral, and the 1920s public memory as printed in the Chicago Chronicle. The reminiscence centers on Topeka’s Sam Stone and a long forgotten local performance.
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Michigan Avenue
Sam Stone
Topeka
Kan
Jim
St. Joe
Mount Moriah Cemetery
Ben Ullman
Ben
Frederick Avenue
Zeredathah
Ned
Neely’s Academy
Chicago Chronicle
They Never Sleep Among Fish Flies and Serpents
The article notes pike salmon and goldfish never sleep and other fish sleep only minutes per month. It mentions many flies never slumber and three to five serpent species naturalists have not caught napping.
Proverb Sparksquip From Mrs Gumimey Dialogue
A witty exchange from Harper's Bazar features Mrs Gumimey and Mrs Glanders debating proverb logic. Their banter centers on hat birds and bushy outcomes, illustrating colorful social humor.
Simple method for gold and silver plating
A Jewelers' Circular description outlines a basic plating process using nitrate of silver and hyposulfite of soda. It details preparing silver nitrate, dissolving in rainwater, adding hyposulphite to form a workable solution, and applying with a sponge or camel hair brush. It notes heating, careful heating control, and using fine metals for best results.
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Florence
Frenchy intruder tests manners in Chicago hotel
A tale from Chicago describes a visitor from an inland town who stays in an aristocratic hotel. He orders a demitasse in French, then lounges in a smoking room, while a small colored bellboy and amused diners observe his pretensions and the room erupts with mockery.
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Chicago
Garcon
William
Chicago Tribune
Cautious Fruit Stand Cash Handling Across Small Coins
The fruit stands test larger coins on pavement or bite them, while swiftly pocketing penny changes. They reason why: counterfeits are rare, smaller coins seldom enter, and customers may hand larger coins by mistake, missing chances to reclaim change. Occasionally such windfalls occur for the seller.
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New York Mail and Express
Middlesex
William Jones
Lincoln
Charles B. Giles
Cambridge
Concord Enterprise
Concord
Charles J. McIntire
Esquire
H. Folsom
Register
Retort Sparks Between Omnibus Man and Cabman in Piccadilly
In a London street a westward omnibus narrowly avoids a collision with a heavy van near Piccadilly. The cabman taunts the driver about family ties, prompting a sharp reply defending his mother and scolding the cabman for his harsh words.
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London
Piccadilly
Jehu
Tarred netting as fire starter among fishermen houses
In fishing communities tarred netting is used to start kitchen fires, cut into foot long chunks and dried for a quick, steady burn with a bluish flame and pleasant odor. Fishermen pull a strand through grate bars each night to ready the fire for morning use. Some netting is sold to start locomotives, but today it is rare.
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New York Sun
Berlin prank over Moselle wine test ends costly
A Berlin correspondent reports a joke gone wrong when a guest at a hotel pretends to value a hidden wine. The host lies about price to test the connoisseur but the guest reveals the truth, ordering 1000 bottles and the host pays the difference of over 4000 marks.
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Berlin
Legal Titles by Bar in United States and Great Britain
The text explains differences between American and British legal titles. In the US lawyers are called attorneys and counselors at law. Britain uses barristers and solicitors with distinct roles, sergeants at law as senior figures, and Queen's Counsel as eminent lawyers from which judges are chosen.
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United States
Great Britain
Muffin Wake Up Recipe and Fractured Anecdotes
A mix of household recipe steps for English muffins using milk butter salt yeast and flour with two hours rising and griddle baking. The page also presents quoted snippets about deception in marriage from Ladies' Home Journal and Indianapolis Journal, plus a note on animal relations and global telegraph line distances.
No Time Like the Present for Spruce Frames and Cedar Shingles
The yard now stocked with square-edged Spruce Frames and boards. Also all grades and qualities of Spruce and Cedar Shingles available for inspection.
Also Mentioned on This Page
ST. Jos
Indianapolis Journal
America
Bowker’s Stockbridge
Swift & Co.’s
Essex
Canada
Michigan
Watertown
W. A. Haynes & Co
Maynard
Niass
Hub Victor
W. Henderson
South ‘Acton, Mass
T.F. Sheehan
Barrett’ S Mill Road
Concord Junction
Mass
Teremiah Sheehan
Josef Kulcosar
J. Kulesar
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Elbadge Wheeler
Charles Thompson
al- Bayweed
S.H. Fotsom
Glenwood Ranges
Clauss
Boynton
Concord Junction, Mass
Fauntleroy
Chantilly
French
Normandy
Valenciennes
Tuttles
Jones & Wetherbee
South Acton, Mass
William F.litchfield Maynard
N.raymond Pratt
P.O
Sudbury, Mass
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