Lady Lucy’s plea changes fate at the Tower of London
In a dramatic Regency scene, Lady Lucy Preston visits her condemned father Lord Preston in the Tower. She appeals to Queen Mary for mercy, pleading with childlike sincerity. The queen, moved by Lucy’s piety and defiance, grants a reprieve, sparing the father from the gallows.
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Pava
Earth
Toy
Lucy
Amy
Clarendon
Hampton Court
The
Countess of Clarendon
Iandy Clarendon
Earl of Clarendon
James
Lord Preston
Lady Clarendon
Lady Lucy
James I
Mary
Arteh
Avery
Lady Lacey
Largest Farm in the Southwest Louisiana Described
A syndicate owns a vast 1 500 000 acre ranch in southwest Louisiana running rice sugar corn and cotton with steam powered cultivation. J B Watkins the general manager describes tracking plows on both sides moves thirty acres daily with three workers. Sixteen thousand cattle and three steamboats operate on 300 miles of navigable waters.
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Louisiana
Northern Capitaliste
Shem
J. B. Watkins
Dalrymple
Dakota
Watkins
Louisana
U.S
Southern Pacific
Lime Juice Exports From Trinidad Detailed
The piece notes large lime juice exports from Trinidad with market in America for simple juice and England for condensed juice. A lime tree yields about ten gallons of juice. limes are crushed through primitive cutters and rollers then pressed to extract juice. A barrel yields seven gallons. production costs are under sixpence per gallon. The rind yields essential oil extracted by hand.
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Trinidad
America
England
Novel Marriage Permit From 1827 Illinois Tale
In Tazewell County Illinois 1827 a clerk forged a marriage permit on a fly leaf using a chicken feather and gunpowder ink after finding a worn book. Frank and Fanny Stout wed on June 27 1827 with Rev Brown presiding and happiness follows the makeshift ceremony.
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Tazewell County
Illinois
Commonwealth
Morilecai Mobley
Our
Stout
Frank
Panny
Father Stout
Mobley
Fanny
Fanny Stout]ivere
Mr. Brown
Heaviest Life Insurance Policies Listed by Name
A Philadelphia merchant John Wanamaker holds a policy of 600000, with J B Stetgen and Hamilton Disston owning 515000 and 500000 respectively. Chauncey Depew has a half million, Dr. Hostetter 300000, Pierre Lorillard 250000, Pullman 100000, and others include McPherson 110000, Cameron 100000, Sherman noted, Dana 120000, Childs 100000, and Barzetti 120000.
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John Wanamaker
Philadelphia
J. B. Stetgen
Hamilton
Disston
Bame City
Chauncey
M. ‘Depew
Dr. Hostetter
Pittsburg
Pierre Lorrillard
Pullman
Ce Car
Senator Imfrwell
Iinois
McPherson
Non Cameron
Benator
John’ ‘Sherman
Royal M. Pulzifer
Boston Herald
Ales Ae Dana
Gore W. Childs
Philadelpia Ledger
Lawrence
Barzetti
A Fortunate Brakeman Wins Lottery Prize
Frank Corcoran, a brakeman at the Tit Central Railroad stone depot, won ten thousand dollars in the Louisiana State Lottery drawing of May 10. He held ticket No 75,866, which earned the second prize of fifty thousand dollars. Corcoran, about 48, and of Irish parentage, remains modest and continues his duties. He plans to keep working as long as the road requires him, and has accumulated wealth through prudent spending and investments. He has no local relatives, but two brothers and two sisters in Scranton, Pa.
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Chicago
Henry K. Doty
Northwest
Paris
Ruc de
Nan’ Phelps
Vermont
Doty
Her
London
Mel
Frank Corcoran
Tit
R. R
Stone Depot
Argus
Stone
Cairo
Pennsylvania
Scranton
Corcoran
Ill
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Lucy Preston
Tower of London
Amy Gradwell
Preston
Edward V
Richard
Duke of York
Richard Duke of
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Henry VI
Bridget Holdworth
Towerhill
Temple Bar
London Bridge
Lugg
King James
Whitehall
T .O
Princess of Orange
Prince of Orange
Orange
Ominiona
Lady Auey
Mr. Doty
Texas
Phelps
St. Jacob's Oil
John Rolf
Sydney
Australia
Jacob
Washington
Mount Vernon
Quincy
Mass
Jefferson
Monticello
Madison
North Bend
Cincinnati
Park
Nashville
Taylor
Louisville
Fillmore
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Buffalo
Pierce
Concord
Buchman
Lancaster
Lincoln
Springfield
Johnson
Greenville
Garfield
Cleveland
Grant
Riveree
Kothur
Albany
Lieut
Moxie
Chicago i
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Acrobata
Pillell
Georgia
Atlanta
Canrer
Pott
Scott
Ricketa
Marasmaa
M. Maw, M. D
New, York
Milton
Pacific G Manufacturing CO
Louis, MO
Maha Type Foundry
Oumuhia
Chicaxe
Jere As
Omaha
Type ‘Foundry
Omaith and Howard
Stewart
Louis
Ieas Maina Tamaracs
Tansill
A. We Manan
Champaign, II
Tansile & CO
Conservatory OF Music
Boston
Malta
Franklin Sq
ORC
Reese
ETEC
Tive Burmau
d-Avosue
Cinelanalt
Gree Totp A
Golred Saeed Gt
Heer
Spurious Waren Redding & CO
Rosetta
Erga Beondran
Nee
Peakeafety
PALN
Wizard “Oil Company
Grane Bros, Mfg Co
Omaha, Neb
Dalian
Smith
San
Fe Es Sole & Constropeietors
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Bing
Castoria
Misa
Carter
Prisce
Sashit
Lar
Prickly Ash Bitters
Lovis
Crrz
Invali Hotel and Surgical Institute
Ian Dr. Pierce
Dr. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
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