J. C. Godwin Co. Dry Goods and Carpet Advert
Year by year we have steadily added to our sales and are the most talked about firm in the dry goods clothing notional and carpet business. We offer the largest assortment of dry goods carpets mats and notions with specials on skirts jackets silks and hosiery. Call and see us for prices and styles at 36 N. Washington St.
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tReauty
Cluett
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Easton
J.C. GODWIN CO
Washington St
Choptank Hotel Denton Welcomes Guests By Proprietor
J F Cohee owner of the Choptank Hotel in Denton Maryland invites old customers and the public to visit when in Denton. He promises full hospitality and attention to pleasing guests at 226 4m.
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Denton
J. F. COHEE
Her Candidate and a Political Duel in Michigan
A veteran recounts a vivid old time campaign in Michigan where two rival sunbursts for a small office split a town, testing loyalties, churches, and friendships. The tale follows proposals, romance, and a secret plan as Tom Harter prepares to depart for Washington, while the other candidate’s daughter watches.
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Michipan
uttermoat
Tom Harter
Thad
Washington
Senator Chandler and a Michigan post office appointment
A first time failed bid for a political post leads the narrator to seek help from Senator Chandler after a brusque Postmaster General. Chandler arranges a commission for the candidate and demands the postmaster general face a Michigan reproof, culminating in an apology. The narrator then returns home to news of an engagement and a village romance.
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Washington
congress
Inve
Zach Chandler
New Hampshire
old homme
Chandler
Michigan
Harter
Detroit Free Press
Stratford anecdotes on Shakespeare and a man named Cooper
In a rural inn near Stratford Haydon extols Shakespeare to locals who concede his hometown gained distinction but claim a new prodigy in John Cooper who has lived 90 years without toothache. A Nuneaton woman boasts of George Eliot, only to hear a neighbor praise a centenarian woman who quarrels with seven daughters and two daughters-in-law.
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Haydon
Stratford
Shakespeare
John Cooper
niver
Nuneaton
George Eliot
Visitor’s lesson on citizenship at public school
A Troy Times piece recalls a visitor addressing pupils about obeying teachers and becoming useful, loyal citizens, pointing to a large national flag for emphasis. A sharp student replies the flag is there to hide the dirt, revealing classroom humor in a civic lesson.
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Troy Times
Johnny’s Baptism and Vaccination Confidence Across Ocean
A brief dialogue shows Johnny prepared for a sea voyage. He reassures with steady faith and a claim of being vaccinated and baptized. The exchange contrasts fear with self-assurance and cultural identity in a single, compact moment.
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Johnny
Floating Islands of Wayne County Pennsylvania
A Wayne County man describes natural floating islands formed from logged timber and debris raised by canal dam construction. The moving rafts gather mold and weeds, sprouting seeds into self sustaining islets that drift with winds and water. One large island near Aldenville briefly hosted a plan for a summer house before weather and winds sent it spinning, as narrated by a Honesdale resident.
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Mississippi
Honesdale
old
Wayne
Pike county
Pennsylvania
Pike
old county
Delaware and Hudson Canal company
Rondont
Wayne county
White Oak pond
Aldenville
iceland
tome
Chicago
Cham and Gascon joke on dining hall height
Cham the French caricaturist and a Gascon trade boasts about their ancestral dining rooms. The Gascon claims a hall so high the roof was unseen, while Cham retorts his father had a dining room so low only cole could be served, a witty reversal.
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Cham
cole
Karnak Temple Described as World’s Grand Tomb
A description extols Karnak temple as the world’s most magnificent tomb occupying vast space twice that of St. Peter’s Rome. The temple promises colossal columns, splendid courts, and long avenues of sphinxes in a poet’s dream setting.
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Karnak
St. Peter's
Rome
Laughter and Misunderstandings From Scottish Dinners
A collection of anecdotes from Scottish tenants dinners reveals the humor in misheard foods and awkward moments. A guest reacts with shock to ice cream shouting about a rotten tooth, a farmer misjudges an omelet as dessert, and a tenant politely declines rhubarb when asked by the duchess.
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Duke of
Buccleuch
Pneumonia Cure Claim From Old Mining Camps
A traveler recalls a California mining camp claim of a man who supposedly cures pneumonia by a laxative purge and blasting heat. He insists digestion must be cleared and fluids kept warm. patients are wrapped, heated, and given hot water until sweating, then work resumes.
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California
New York
New York Times
Mysterious Washington Man Behind Boarder Tale
A Chicago couple seeks board in a West End boarding house. The wife cites a Washington man of prominence as a reference. The landlady, married to him 13 years, recalls a murky, hard to know figure and admits she cannot claim full acquaintance, yet the couple still takes the room.
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west end
Chicago
Washington
Washington Post
Butler Sees Hope in Youth During Bar Admission Test
General Benjamin I Butler chairs a commission testing young applicants for the bar. A failing youth is advised to try the statutes. Butler warns even a statute expert cannot prevent a fool legislature from repealing what is known.
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Benjamin I. Butler
Butler
World capitals ranked by public private contrasts and London burials
The passage compares Constantinople Berlin and Lisbon for public versus private building scale, noting grand mosques and seraglio in Constantinople, Berlin's Unter den Linden, and Lisbon's quake rebuilt public buildings. It adds a figure that London sees about 130000 deaths annually within city limits.
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Constantinople
seraglio
Europe
Berlin
Unter den Linden
Lisbon
Sugar from beeta datea effort traced to 1747
Historical notes recall attempts to extract sugar from beeta datea dating back to 1747. The text also cites England’s population around the Norman Conquest not exceeding twelve million in total.
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PEERLESS TRACTION ENGINES
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Dentox
Wilmington
Philadelphia
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LIGHT STREET
Baltimore, Maryland
Thomas Carmine
Ridgely, Maryland
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