Lottery Winner George Ashe Takes $15000 Prize in Offic e Office
Report from Balveston Texas describes George Henry Ashe, a 28 year old Mallory Office porter, winning the $15000 capital prize in a monthly drawing. He plans to invest his winnings, keep working for Captain Sawyer, and support his family. He has bought tickets for about three years and also won $250 on another ticket. The piece notes his modest temperament and ongoing lottery patronage.
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George Stimpson and the Albany Affaire
In late Victorian tone a poor barrister George Stimpson, aged 25, plans marriage to Carrie March while his father John Stimpson, a wealthy but self-satisfied solicitor, schemes to arrange a match with Mrs Scholten. After a series of social plots and comic misunderstanding, George negotiates a settlement that preserves his inheritance and his romance.
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Albany
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Poe
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Scholton
the Beeches
Tony March
Beeches
Crasher
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Hairpin Inventions Highlight Everyday Improvisation
A New Fork Graphic piece surveys how a hairpin and common items transform into improvised tools for daily tasks. It notes women repurpose hairpins to fasten, lift, or poke, turning simple objects into makeshift devices powered by necessity.
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Fortune alters life for ex hod carrier in Albany
An Albany tale follows a former hod carrier who rose to wealth in recent years. His wife imitates fashionable tastes, borrows a Bible from a neighbor, and returns it with thanks after two weeks, admitting she expected to be told how it ends with marriage.
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Mittineague
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Notorious 1742 Boston Auction Ad For A Negro Woman
The Boston Budget notes Thomas Fleet a printer and leading auctioneer once offered at public sale a highly controversial item a negro woman described with demeaning language claiming she had smallpox and measles and was healthy and willing to work The item reflects era attitudes and the brutalization of enslaved people in colonial Boston
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