Detectives Solve Jargon Will Mystery In New York
Ted O Niel and Joe Barber help lawyer Fryer locate the will of John Jargon who left money to Ted. A puzzling card reads Emor E Fourts and hints at 128 Mott Street. Ted deciphers by rearranging letters to reveal the address and uncover a $15,000 fortune from the junk dealer.
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Ted O'Niel
Reddy
Ted
Mr. Fryer
Joe Barber
John Jargon
Old Jargon
Joe
Bowery
Mr. Jargon
Emor E. Fourts
Mr. Fourts
Mott Street
John Jurgon
New York
George Paine
Robinson
Strong Armed Red
Abraham Robinson
Joliet Prison
Iils
Broadway
Florence Mission
New York Tribune
Washington Jokes and 1889 Washington Birthday Cartoon Parody
A reflective piece explores Washington jokes from early humor to professional joke writers, noting the 1889 centennial celebration and a Gibson Life cartoon. It mentions verse satires about Washington and a tale of a living doll scene, followed by advice to young authors urging originality and concise expression.
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Washington
C. D. Gibson
George
E. W. Bok
Ladies’ Home Journal
Ravensworth Estate Strongly Preserved Near Fairfax Court House
The Ravensworth mansion near Fairfax Court House remains in excellent condition. Once a Lee family home, it was built in the early eighteenth century by the Fitzhughs and later inherited by the Lees through intermarriage, ranking among Virginia’s most interesting historic houses after Mount Vernon.
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Lees
Virginia
Fairfax Court House
Ravensworth
Mount Vernon
Old Dominion
Fitzhughs
Lee
Derroit Free Press
Imperial decree orders triple copies of publications to palace and Sublime Porte
The sultan of Turkey issues a decree requiring three copies of every printed work to be sent to the imperial palace and one to the new library at the Sublime Porte. He cites three aims: economic library expansion, encouraging native authors, and enabling censors to better control publications.
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Turkey
Imperial
Sublime Porte
Widows Fortune Sparks Huge Brussels Inheritance Suit
A Brussels court resolved a complex intestate estate dispute over a widow Moeus who died leaving a vast fortune. Evidence showed 8 500 relatives claimed kinship, with judgment awarded to the relatives up to twelve degrees removed.
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Brussels
Moeus
Paris Herald
Three bachelors among treasury aides noted in Journal
The Indianapolis Journal remarks that all three assistant secretaries of the treasury are bachelors, stating a man with access to the treasury can have no legitimate excuse for not marrying.
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the Treasury
United States Treasury
Indianapolis Journal
Paris
Ta ra ra tunes split Grand Avenue church
The Grand Avenue Methodist church divided after Ta ra ra Boom de ay played during services. Former pastor Rev Mr Wheat denounced the act as profane while current pastor Rev Mr Wilkinson declared he ran the church, splitting older and younger members.
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Grand Avenue Methodist Church
Wheat
Wilkingon
A Young Woman's Reasoning
A dialogue from Harper's Bazar presents a young woman justifying lenient encouragement of a younger man. She argues that Jack Battlepate is effectively six years her junior, being two years from college and six more years until earnings, thus portraying him as too young for concern.
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Tom
Jack Battlepate
Jack
Harper's Bazar
Verses on Chinese Naming and Early Marriage Views
A collage of quotations and anecdotes on child naming in China, gender bias in naming, and parental expectations. Includes remarks on girl babies called by numbers, different naming customs for boys, a proverb about marriage offers, a joke about wills, and a note on the first secession flag in South Carolina with its flag staff at Skull Shoals.
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China
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
South
South Carolina
Skull Shoals
Gold Gents Watches at Bargain Prices
Bay State Watch Case Co releases stock through the St. Watch Co offering heavy elegant 14K solid gold gents watches with Waltham Elgin Hampden or Columbia movements from 24 dollars upward. Limited stock. Call and inspect at the store now.
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Bay State Watch Case Co
St. Watch Co
Waltham
Elgin
Hampden
Columbia
Blues and Womanly Health From a Painful Age
A 19th century style feature explains the blues as a sign of female weakness and details symptoms like melancholy nervousness dizziness and insomnia. It cites Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure after a reader from Duhring Pennsylvania reports relief from abdominal pain loss of appetite and irritability.
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Anna Miller
Duhring
Lydia FE. Pinkham
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Mr. Eckenrode
Cosmos Eckenrode
Tulpehocken
Eckenrode
Reading
Reading Herald
Old Bushrod
G. W
Yellowstone
Joseph Farnsworth
Lee Mansion
Colonies
San Francisco
Manchester
Tranby Croft
Star and Garter
Baccarat
London Truth
H.p.n.dahl
Holmes
Maynard, Mass
Tttles
Jones and Wetherbee
South Acton, Mass
James Devane
West Acton, Mass
M. E. Sheehan
Maynard
Lewis L. Hawes
Tuttle
Concord
Mass
Hubbard Street
Quincy
Barre
Scotch
P. J. Sheehan
Bedford St
Middlesex Oil Can CO
Hatch & Poland
Neil Currie & CO
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