Slippers and Wig in 1814 Cabinet Scene Recalled
A Chicago descendant recounts a Madison era incident in which Secretary of the Navy Jones, famed for dress but losing his wig amid a dash for his wife’s slippers during the British advance on Washington. The tale, tied to Mrs Jones’s admonition, reflects Cabinet wit and perilous times.
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Arborn Avenue
Madison
Jones
Bladensburg
Washington
President Madison
Dolly
White House
Secretary Jones
Adonis
Chicago Tribune
Quarantine Standards Declared for Neat Cattle in Massachusetts
The Board of Health and Board of Cattle Commissioners issue General Order No 3 designating Watertown Boston & Albany stock yards Somerville and New England Dressed Beef as quarantine stations. Cattle entering quarantine face tuberculin testing. infected animals will be condemned and slaughtered. Branded cattle may move free within the state. Notices must be published locally and the order takes effect November 20 1894.
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Board
Union
Watertown
Boston
Board of Cattle Commissioners
Commonwealth
Brighton Abattoir
Brighton
Somerville
Frederick H OsGoop
DuHarves P. Lyman
Maurice O’connell
Leander F. Herrick
Charles A. Dennen
Mint Dies Destroyed by Sledge Hammers
Powerful mint workers on Jan. 2 destroyed the dies used last year, totaling 512 pieces. They heated steel dies to nearly white heat then hammered them on the anvil, with two blacksmiths delivering blows to each die.
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Philadelphia Times
Denunciation of Living Pictures in Denver
The Denver Woman's Christian Temperance union adopts resolutions denouncing living pictures and forms a committee to urge the city council to suppress the spectacles. The Lancet notes a new poison bottle design with a tilted neck to keep the label visible and prevent confusion with ordinary bottles.
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of
Denver
Proof Is Positive Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ailments including irregularities, headaches, and backache. It touts quick relief from bearing down and other womb symptoms and promotes Liver Pills and Sanative Wash as complementary treatments. The ad invites correspondence and lists Lynn Mass as the company base with nationwide druggist availability.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Mass
Pinkham
The Queen Bee and Hive Society Decoded
The piece explains queen bee succession and the hive’s social democracy. It details the mating flight, the death of the drone, and the queen’s egg laying up to twenty thousand eggs. Swarming drives a large portion of the colony to found a new hive with the queen and workers in close pursuit.
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New York Dispatch
Brussels and Tapestry Compare Carriage of Color and Pattern
A detailed comparison notes that Brussels carpets are thicker softer and more durable than tapestry with sharper colors and visible back striping. It explains manufacturing differences including end counts colors and weaving methods and warns about misrepresentation by unscrupulous makers. It also includes unrelated anecdotes from newspapers.
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Brussels
Gazette
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Perak
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London
Mycena
The
Board of Health
Concord
Masc
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Board of Carite Commissioners
Lydia E. Pinkshaips
Lydia E. Pintham
Thos.f.parker
Parker & Morse
Maynard
W.l.douclas
Cor Dovan
W. L. Douglas
Creichton Maynard Tuttle, Jones
Middlesex
Probate Coourt
Julia Donovan
Sai
Charles H. Walcott
Etters
Cambridge
Concord Enterprise
Charles J. McIntire
Esquire
H. Folsom
the Queen Bee
Shakespeare and Bacon
Pernally
Boston Journal
William
Just
W. A. Haynes & CO
Keith & Barr
Warner
Concord Junction, Mass
Concord Junction
Jeremiah Sheehan
John J. Flannery
Bedford St
Quincy
Westerly
Barre
P. J. Sheehan
Bedford
M. E. Sheehan
Maynard, Mass
Clough
South Acton
J.W. Henderson
Acton
E. Henderson
H. S. Richardson
Ick, H. Maker
Concord Mass
Drs
DR. Stetson
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