Notable 19th Century Notices and Anecdotes Collected
A collage of brief items mentions judge Tourgee’s alleged legal fee in a Newton sale, Mrs Lincoln’s death near 1842 spots, Norwich race contestant Rev L W Bacon, Bishop Scott’s death altering M E Church seniority, Garibaldi’s divided family, a Paris portrait of Benjamin Franklin, sailors Slater and Mann at Lake Erie, a Sepoy war note, Grundy engagement ring tale, empire height stats in China and Hohenzollerns, German tramp heir to $80,000 in Germany, and Mrs Margaret Sanderson who made the Star Spangled Banner flag at Fort McHenry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tourgee
Matthew Simpson
Methodist Episcopal Church
William L. Harris
Grace Greenwood
Garibaldi
Anita
Hergene
Benjamin Franklin
Paris
San Francisco
Bartlett
Dr. Ditson
Malden
Mass
Jack Slater
Philip Mann
Lake Erie
Erie
Tings
Poe
I — Pras Ae
Chicago Times
Miss Grundy
Eclor
Germany
China
William
Prince Imperial
Frederick Charles
Prince Charles
Saame
Prince Albert
N. Y
Christian Girardin
Mayor White
Baltimore
Chicago Journal
Margaret Sanderson
Henry 8. Sanderson
Francis Scott Key
New York
Fort McHenry
Key
Sanderson
WN. Y. Herald
Quips and Quirks From Various Papers Across Towns
A collage of brief jests and oddities from newspapers including jokes about mummies, train etiquette, hand organs, engagements, philosophy, and lightning myths. Notable items reference Texas, Missouri, New Haven, Detroit, and Chicago with light commentary on currency, railcars, and local curiosities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Norristown Herald
Tommy
Effie
Missouri
Texas
Atlantic
Detroit Free Press
New Haven Register
Long Branch
Ple
Concord School of Philosophy
Austin
Chicago
Religious and Educational News Mixed from Various Cities
The Catholic Review notes one in United tes Catholics while Vermont reports 476470 spent on public schools and 74500 children in 2527 common schools with 47772 daily attendance. Mentions Barrington first woman superintendent Addie E Smith and Yale pistol scare near Professor Barbour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Catholic Review
United Tes
Vermont
J. S. Clough
Ongoli
R. I
Addie E. Smith
Virtues of Housekeeping for Modern Women
A holistic essay urges women to master domestic duties with patience and charity. It promotes orderly routines, positive framing of chores like wash-day, and gentle correction of husbands. The piece argues a well ordered home brings blessing, while harshness worsens troubles and dust and dirt are inevitable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col
Cincinnati
Limes- Star
Wit and Wisdom Snippets Highlight Modesty and Urban Anecdotes
A collage of quotes and jokes from newspapers including jokes about breeding, a Nevada woman outrunning a bear, a belt loom size, and a New York diary mishap. It notes the authorship of Patience as likely Job and mentions a Palestine sea trip price joke. Also references segregational rhetoric and a newspaper editor change at Fostera Review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Concord School of Philosophy
Palestine
Sea of Galilee
Len She
Onion Creek
Austin
Texas
Norristown Herald
Vast economic and population figures from late 19th century data
A compilation notes rising yields in wheat oats and corn valued at 10 million dollars, pension totals for New England states at 3.81 million annually, Chicago population around 570 thousand with a 70 thousand uptick, and gender balance with a 14,928 male excess. It also records rail and sugar data, census costs, cotton spindles growth, Wyoming cattle wealth, and a 160 million mortgage tied to the Philadelphia Reading properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Massachusetts
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Chicago
Bostons
New Yorks
Chicagos
Philadelphias
United States
Tariff Commission
N. Y. Herald
Porter
Census Bureau
Chicago Times
South
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana
North Carolina
Wyoming
Fort McKinney
Recorder of Deeds
Philadelphia
Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Companies
Pennsylvania
Whiladelphia Press
Also Mentioned on This Page
New Haven
Thomass. Dana
Dallas Times
Henry C. Ellison
Canton
City Bank
Ohio National Bank
Religious and Educational
Yale College
Barbour
North College
London School Board
Scudder
Plymouth Congregational Church of
Central Congregational Church of
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Wang
Safe Blowers
New Libon
East Liverpool
Youngstown
WIT and Wisdom
Nevada
Hartford
Junius
Job
Courier-Journal
Cincinnatah
Baltimore American
Fostera Review
de Wolfe
A. B. Hays
Babylon
Big Eagle
M. Ginsburg & Son
Eagle Square Dealing Clothing House
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Trahem
C. Huntington
Jamuel R. James
Schenectady
Justin D. Fulton
D. D
Pond’s Extract Coq
West Forteenth Street
EK. A. Wilson
Penn. St
J.l.scott
Stone Front
Clinton and
Second Streets
John Tuttle
Cas
Maumee Haver
Lal
Switzer & Kehnast
Builders Hardware
Clinton
Cleveland
PEST
Ohio
Lgaper
Tesritis
Leader Printing Co., Publishers
OHIQ
Snyder & Gleason
South Clinton St
Defiance
Joseph Derheimer
Strong & Cheney
IORN
Pinel
H. Hallett & Co
Portland Maine
Catia
A. L. Schlientz
Deuber
Rogers Bro
B&f
Schlientz
U. S
Goop Samaritan Dispensary
Clipper M’f’c CO
Walnut St
America
Montgomery Wand & Ch
Wavash Avene
E.C. West
Wolby & Scott
T. L. Miller Co.,, Breeders and Importies OF
Berkshire
Wijt CO
Illinois
Cedar St.n. Y
Ayer
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Ste Magnetic Medicine Co
Etrolt1
Mich
True & Co
Augusta
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