Mismatched C O D Offer Sparks Family Account Scheme
A Brooklyn family becomes the target of a department store ruse as a New York salesman pitches a C O D package to a father of many daughters. The plan, promising mutual trade, hinges on open a Brooklyn store account to serve the large family, but the father rejects the scheme after probing reason and distance effects.
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New York
C. O
Brooklyn
Miss Blank
Bridget
Blank
New York Sun
Turkish Mixture The Extraordinary Races Under the Sultan
An analysis from St James Gazette surveys the diverse ethnic groups under the Ottoman realm. It details Greeks Albanians Turks Armenians Kurds Jews Druses Maronites Arabs and Syrians, noting their numbers languages religions and roles in potential war. It paints Greeks and Albanians as traders, Armenians as bankers, Kurds as fierce and reform resistant, and discusses fear and speculation about loyalty in conflict.
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Europe
Constantinople
Asia
Turkey
Abdul
Xenophon
Armenia
Caspian Sea
Asia Minor
Poland
St. James Gazette
Rome Tales That Long Passed as Solemn Truth
In 323 B C Diogenes died at Corinth not in a tub as biographers claim. Hannibal’s rumored golden rings tale is dismissed and Archimedes’ fiery glasses are debunked. Cleopatra’s death by snake bite is questioned, while Nero’s tyranny is reassessed through Tacitus and Petronius.
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Alexander
Babylon
Diogenes
Corinth
B. C
Seneca
B.C
Hannibal
Cannie
Apulia
Italy
Carthage
Marcellus
Syracuse
Greece
Rome
Archimedes
Cleopatra
Octavius
Antony
Plutarch
Augustus
Nero
Agrippina
Troy
Tacitus
Petronius Arbiter
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Fixing negatives with grooved boxes and trays
The article describes better methods for fixing negatives than the common flat tray. It recommends hard rubber grooved boxes or wooden trays with pitched bottoms to keep films from dirt. It details solutions for fixing baths, adding alum, and extended fixing times to prevent fading and staining, plus a note on dock policing costs in Liverpool.
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New York Mail and Express
Washington
Misplaced Curiosity at a Paris Dinner with Denon
The tale centers on Mme Talleyrand’s famed ignorance during a dinner with M denon. Talleyrand warned her to be polite about his travels but she, a Robinson Crusoe reader, mistook Denon for the explorer Friday. Denon masked his embarrassment as Paris laughed at the hostess's blunder.
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Mme. Talleyrand
Talleyrand
Denon
M. Denon
Robinson Crusoe
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Denton Journal
Melvin
Steele & Johnson
Strand Magazine
Bess
M. Oppenheim
Elizabeth
St. Philip
Drake
Madre de Dios
Ev Wspa Pr
Liverpool Docks
Ridzely den
AA AG
Kousn
D. Dls
Speemliet
Daly
Julia Day
James Park
WM. H. Gole & Sons
Charles Street
Baltimore, MD
James T. Cooper
Undertaker
Haker
Denton, Maryland
Cooper
Denton
A. KE. Cooper & Bro
Denton, Md
Burrsyile Hardware Store
C. Tilghman Harvey
Burisville, Md
GEO. F. Sloan & Bro. Lumber Dealers
Light Street Wharf
Iie
Lai
Yar
Home, Sweet
Home
Baltimore
Ridgely
M. Klawansky
Ridgely, Maryland
Soreer Fhiem
Sfurmer
Easton. MD
King's Maryland
James King
Pro
High St
Baltimore St
Baltimore Street
Baltmore
Frank ¢. Bolton
Les B. Bolton
Bolton Bros
Elaine
Pratt ST
Badlitiimor
R. Harris & CO
S. Est
D Sts
Washington, D.C
Iit
John J. Barnes
Third St
A. W. Short
Mutual Isurance Co
Dover
Del
Mutual
WM. Denny
R. Plummer
Greensboro
J.B. Fletcher
Preston
W.W. Tunis & Brother Lumber 66
Tunis’ Mills
Talbot County
Manchetter
North Carolina
Denton Bridge
L. B. Towers
Fidelity and Deposit Company OF Maryland
Home Office
N. W. Cor
Charles & Lexington Ltr
South
United States
Herman E. Bosler
Deweese & Owers
Maryland
Edwin Warfield
THE
Farmers and Merchants National Building & Iso
Samuel W. Halt
Newell Ball
William D, Devnney
Samuel W. Ilall
Cambalist
Jonn Hunn
Bridgeville, del
Clayton, del
R RR
Wasthington
Farmers’ Bank
Wyoming
William N. Boggs
Teller First Navi Bank of Delaware
Richard R. Kenney
Franklin C. Maull
Leyes
Charles H. Atkins
Milton
State of
Delaware
Clarence D. Spherd
Burton & Sypherd
Hiram Reedy
Thie Association
Samuel W. Hall
Presigar
James 4 D. Denton
Richard Nichols, the Barber
Main Sé
H Hotel
A. Butler
Reed
W.5. Reed
Moses Gottlieb, Joweler
SMITE
Ridgely, Md
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