Slate Mincers and Loon’s Dodges Across the Ages
In a fragment from a New York Advertiser piece, slate quarry workers from Wales are celebrated for shaping vast blocks into roofing slate with precise cuts. The text shifts to a Boston Transcript note on loon dodging, then analyzes military orders on Sunday target practice per Nebraska law, and ends with Berlin’s Knopf winning a cigar match and challenging foes for 500 cigars a side.
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Wales
New York Advertiser
Sida Ta Vickakiens
Nebraska
Belleview Rifle Range
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Fraudulent insured cigar stock leads to prison
The Deutsche Tabak Zeitung reports a clever scam where a man insured 1,000 high quality cigars after buying them, then claimed 750 marks for a fire loss after smoking them all. The Solomonic court ruled for the insured, then the insurance company sued for conspiracy and the smoker was sentenced to three months in prison.
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Deutsche Tabak-Zeitung
Solomonic Court
Westminster Gazette
Netherlands Attache Over Noise Nuisance Wins Fight
An attaché of the Netherlands legation kept a crowing cock by a neighbor's window. English law failed to abate the nuisance until the owner invoked diplomatic privilege. In court he told how he finally prevailed after threatening to die if the noise continued. He wrote to the queen who ordered the fowl removed.
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Netherland
Netherlands
London
Gladstone Leads Singing At Inveraray Presbyerian Worship
Rev. James Dodds recalls Dr. Guthrie hosting family worship at Inveraray Castle with the Duke of Argyll. Guest list included Mr. Gladstone who offered to raise the tune when no precentor could be found and performed admirably.
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Mr. Gladstone
James Dodds
Guthrie
Duke of Argyll
Inverary Castle
Argyll
Gladstone
Europe Trip Via Steamship At Ten Dollars Aboard
The New York Sun notes competing lines offer Europe travel for ten dollars including board and lodging. First class travelers envy steerage rates as emigration surges in the past two months due to sanitary quarters and wholesome food aboard the record steamer. The piece mentions fierce competition among transatlantic lines and a surprising lack of concern for first class passengers amid price wars.
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Europe
New York Sun
Fire drill turns proposal into moment of betrothal
A man asks Miss McGallon to marry him in a school room during a fire drill as children evacuate. The teacher sends the class out and the couple exchange a betrothal kiss as they hear the students return, captured by a Buffalo Express note.
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Ts McGaton
Miss McGallon
Miss McGallen
Washingtons Salmon and Trade Outputs Highlight State Resources
Washington reports salmon fisheries valued at 1.5 million dollars annually and 10 000 fur seals caught. The state exports 8 000 009 dollars of lumber and coal and raises 15 000 000 bushels of wheat, reflecting diverse primary industries.
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Washington
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Knopf
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Gether
New Jersey
Polticians
Paterson
Shorty
Paterson Standard
Tatota
Matupia
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New Zealand
New Mecklenburg
Herr Georg Weisser
New Guinea Company
Herr Weisser
Kaiserlautern
Little Kingdom
Mother Hubbard
Ohio
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Maynard, Mass
A. H. Rose
U.S
Acton, Mass
F. D. Gilmore
Maynard Block
Tucker
Chas. P. Lowell
Prop
Maynard
Jeremiah Hayes
Eward PD. Conant
Middlesex South
Concord
County of
Middlesex
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Texas Street
Nathan W. Brooks
Lee Railroad Company
Michael Brennan
Brennan
Otis H. Penniman
Middlesex South District
Dward D. Conant
Post Office Square
Boston
Mass
Terns
Cole Bleehors
Lilieen
Hartford Cycle Co
Eagle Bicycle Mig Co
Stearns Cycle Co
League Chainless Safeties
Smith Finney
Tuttles, Jones & Wetherbee
South Acton, Mass
Marlboro Dye House
Liberty Street
R. W. Geddes
W. D. Cross & Co
Concord, L
N. Fowler
Jane
A. D Rustel
Augustus Pletcher
Marlboro Laundry
Horace Tuttle
Walden Street
Concord Mass
J. C. Friend
Arthur E Walker
Maynard Fire Insurance Agency
Best Companies
P. O. Box
Abel G. Haynes
Wood and Stone
Concord Junction
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H. P. N. Dahl, Naylor
Bi’k, Maynard
H. P. N. Dahl
Optician
Gent
Maynard’s Block
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