Great Improvement Sale Sparks City Expansion
An advert proclaims a Great Improvement Sale as a Baltimore business expands into the old Hennegan-Bates corner, promising lower prices while growing into the largest store south of New York. The piece blends marketing copy with lingering romantic verses by Prancis Thompon, noting neighborhood changes and a grand new footprint.
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Hennegan-Bates
Oehm
Acme Hall
New York
Baltimore
Big Values Offer Broad Suit Sale Across Departments
A large sale advertisement highlights substantial savings on men suits in various materials with prices from 6.50 to 12 and a $3 to $10 per suit saving. Boys department showcases economy with suits at 2.50 to 5, plus men straw flats 98 cents, a yacht hat at 1.50 regular value, and furnishing dept offers new dress shirts at 50 cents.
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Phayve
South Bend
Mirothers
The Enigmatic Mariquita and a South Seas Scheme
In a Parisian milieu, Mariquita, a wealthy independent woman of mixed heritage, schemes to win back a jilted English suitor by coercive means. Her plan unfolds aboard a South Pacific–bound yacht, involving a dramatic kidnapping of the fiancé. The tale ends with her marriage to the narrator and a note of mutual gratitude for Mariquita’s bold machinations.
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St. Marie
Paris
Mariquita
Shanghai
England
Ler
Aristocratic Guest Demands Luxuries at 8 Cent Lodging
A stern guest enters a West Madison street lodging house and offers a nickel and stamps, insisting on windows transoms and electric bells. The clerk retorts with price, decor, and service lines, noting the man’s blood is too aristocratic for an eight cent house as he departs.
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West Madison Street
Ana
Chicago Tribune
Dogs and Pictures and Old English Dishes Entertain Readers
A Sagacious terrier and a clever collie react to portraits by eye and bark at a Raeburn painting while ignoring another of a gentleman. The notes recall Renaissance dishes Buckitude Moumony Mortrews with vivid ingredients and a candle in bowls. Nerano’s Termini village tops the tale with a legend of the world’s end.
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Henry Raeburn
Royal Academy
Ae Thompson
London Spectator
The
Quarterly Review
Chaucer
New York Advertiser
Nerano
Santo Constanzo
Termini
Christ
Marion Crawford
Eccentric will orders cremation by lime in 1889 estate
Henry Smith, a southern recluse, left a quirky will directing his body be cremated with quicklime. The process, including a barrel of lime, water poured at sunset, and a grave guarded all night, was carried out at Elmwood Cemetery. The estate yielded only $562 in cash, with real estate fully encumbered. Henderson oversees the remaining assets.
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Ani
Louis
St. Petersburg
Paris
Mariqguita
Mariqnita
Atom Epris
Burt
Mariquita
Barkis
Avenue de F Opera
England
Monsieur Vattiche
Fianece
Tero
Tskiall
Voila
Calais
Telegraph Department
Piatron
South Coast
Dia
Mariqitta
Southampton
Henry Smith
All Saints’ Hospital
Hagerstown
Elmwood
Smith
Henderson
Kansas City Star
Arc Lights Offer Sunlike Illumination Benefits
A Cosmog Cosiss Cosmis. A visitor to Mount Carmel coal mines saw a payroll showing a diverse workforce including Americans, Canadians, French, English, Dutch, Welsh, Irish, and many others. The article notes arc lights mimic sun rays, potentially improving health in dark spaces and reducing sunless disease incidence.
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Cosimopolitan
Mount Carmel
Philadelphia Press
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Oliver
Gale
Syracuse
Richard T. Carter
W. W. Tunis & Bro. Lumber. Company
Tunis Mills
RS. Fountain
W. W. Tunis & Bro, Lumber CO
J. M. Beavien
Bizzsboro, MD
Dhave
Je Vie
Vaisin
Hillsborough
Maryland
Great Improvement Sale
Lyra
Dawn
Mnine
Luchie
Thera
Hope
Charles Sts
Baltimore and
J. Howard Griffin
Commission
D. A. Valentine
Thompson Avenues
J. O. Tayler
T. H. Evans & Company
Fruit and Produce Commission
Lient St
gar-Fruits
Rae Ona Ae
John C. Cook
Lawyers & Co
Southern Fruits and Vegetables
Ameone
Callowhill Street
Piladelphia
Pennsylvania
Maryland Steamboat CO
Third Haven
Great Ghoptane River
Enoch Pratt
Chowan
Denton
Lyford’s
Williston
Two Johns
Turkey Creek
Kingston
Dover Bridge
Hogsland
Medford’s
Wright's
Oyster Shell Point
Cambridge
Oxford
Double Mills
Easton
Carner’s
Tillman's
Waltimore
Light Street Wharf
Delaware and Chesapeake
Cambridge and
James E. Byrd
Sec. & Treas
Light St
Z. T. Witchmson
Ire
London
Rio
Brazil
Ife
Chile
New Orleans
Europe
Boulevarde Haussman
Galon
Marseilles
Lord R
South Pacific
South America
Amigo
St. Heliers
Englis Cookery
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