Census Enquiry Seeks Eligible Enumerators
The census office invites applications from intelligent, well behaved individuals to act as enumerators. Applicants must reside where they will work, be able to write clearly, and avoid intoxication or ties to liquor sales. Women may apply. work begins in May and lasts about 30 days. Enumerators earn $30 per day for nine hours. Local officers must submit nominees within 15 days.
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Commonwealth of
Sec
Anapasidae
Middlesex
Kinan
Julia Donovan
Concord
Corey
Feary
Seaton
Charles Jonan Esquire
Wars Sparked by Trifles Across Centuries
London Answers notes that small incidents have ignited major conflicts, citing the Spanish War of Succession begun by a spilled glass of water and other trifles such as a stolen bucket in Modena. It links long wars and vast casualties to minor disputes, including royal feuds and decrees on hair.
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France
Modena
Masham
Marquis de Torcy
Blenheim
Ra-ines
Andenarde
Malplaquet
Commonwealth of Modena
Bologna
Sardinia
Modenese
Cathedral of
Louis VII
Henry I
Thece
Rouen
Louis
Eleanor
Henry
Normandy
London
Infected Districts Declared and Cattle Quarantine Order
By Order of the Board of Health Concord Mass General Order No 3 declares all states and territories infected districts. The order imposes quarantine for neat cattle entering Massachusetts from these areas and sets designated quarantine stations, branding rules, inspection requirements and publication duties for towns and cities.
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The
Board of Health
Concord
Mass
Board of Catrim Commissioners
ValLace
Boston
Boards of Health
United States
District of Columbia
Canada
Great Britain
Commonwealth
Board of Cattle Commissioners
Union
Watertown
Boston & Albany
Brighton
New England Dressed Beef and Wool Company
Somerville
Board of Cattle
The Change of Life Endorsed for Mothers
An appeal to mothers about the change of life and its dangers urging use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It claims the remedy helps women safely pass through menopause and stresses that reputable druggists carry the product.
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Mother
Lydia EK
Pinkham
Lydia BE
Forest Path Writing Problems Return
A brief notices a struggling writer, Anna Bunt, in Boston seeks calm at the lake. The piece hints at soothing forest paths and a musical mood as readers follow the author’s reflective tone.
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Boston
Faithful Slave Tends Master’s Grave From Shiloh To Georgia
A Cincinnati Enquirer feature recalls a nearly hundred year old enslaved man who tended the grave of his late master, Mars Tom, from Shiloh battle days to central Georgia. He carried flowers, claimed to ferry Mars Tom’s body from Mississippi to Georgia and kept the grave vigil, awaiting a crossing over the river with his master.
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Greensboro
W. L. ‘Williams
Shiloh
Jordan
Tom‘ Winn
Tom
Dar
Corinth
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Mars
Mississippi
Georgia
Cincinnati Enquirer
The Minister’s Family Fashion Disaster
In a small town a poor minister supports a large family on a meager salary. The congregation donates cast off clothing, and the wife wears last year’s bonnet and cloak. On a Sunday she arrives late with nine suited children, provoking the pastor to quip that even Solomon was not arrayed like them, prompting tittering from the pews and the mother’s tears.
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Solomon
Indianapolis Sentinel
Discerning the Pronunciation of Llanthony
The writer laments editors mispronounce Llanthony and seeks readers’ help. He notes Latin and Greek schooling but admits ignorance of Welsh pronunciation and asks for light on the matter to aid public understanding.
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London
Curran Teases Friend Over Trial By Jury Delight
Curran jokes about a friend’s affection for trial by jury. The friend boasts of living by it and dying by it, claiming divine support. Curran retorts that the man has chosen a fate of hanging, prompting astonishment.
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Curran
First American Patent Issued for Water Wheel in 1646
The General Court of Boston granted the first American patent on March 6, 1646 to Joseph Jenks for a water wheel. A facsimile copy has recently been placed in the Patent Office.
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America
General Court of
Boston
Joseph Jenks
Patent Office
The Indians Call the French Broad Tookyeste the Little Roarer
The Picayune notes the Native name for the French Broad river as Tookyeste meaning the Little Roarer, reflecting local dialect. The mention emphasizes indigenous naming of the waterway and its sound.
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Herr Blamentoff
Miss Brown
Maine
Bangor
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Thos.f.parker
Parker & Morse
Ceneral Hardware
Maynard
W. L. Douglas
Papete Souire
Greichton Tuttle
ONES
Wetherbee
South Acton
H. Mead & Cco
Est
Acton
H. Rolsom
Practical Optician
Freestone
Thomas Fe. Parker
Picayune
W. A. Haynes& CO
Sloan
Warner
Concord Junction, Mass
Concord Junction
Jeremiah Sheehan
John J. Flannery
Bedford St
Quincy
Rutland
P. J. Sheehan
Movine
M. E. Sheehan
Clougi’s
Soh
Acton Grocer
J.W. Henderson
Richardson
KE. Hi
Concord Mass
Drs
Stetson
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