Easton Store Promises Bargains Across Woolen Goods
In Easton Maryland a local store urges shoppers to visit for two weeks of special bargains across Woolen Dress Goods Wash and White Goods with 50c 65c 75c and 1.00 yard pricing. It touts 200 styles and dramatic discounts in clothing and millinery plus a comfortable store atmosphere and ample space for families inviting customers to make it their headquarters on the Shore.
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Dimities
Batistes
Easton
Let Us Smile From The Baltimore American Poem
A Baltimore American verse extols the value of a simple smile as the lightest, cheapest force to lift moods. It notes smiles ease sadness, brighten faces, and spread warmth, suggesting their worth is a million dollars without cost.
The Smalley Monument and the Cemetery Spirit
In Hydeville a widow, Mrs. Cornelian Smalley, reshapes a neglected village cemetery into a thriving community project. A traveling monument dealer spurs her to invest in a grand memorial, inspiring a cemetery association and local improvements. She funds a generous act for a young amputee, and a lasting monument is funded by townsfolk, with the church, minister, and residents honoring her generosity.
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C’neil
Cornelian Smalley
Ellen Jones
C'neil
Walcott
Slardridge Granite works
Smalley
Mrs. Smalley
Waldridge Granite works
Slardridge
Cemetery association
association
Hardridge
Hydeville
Waldridge
Burlington
Fracture repair in dogs relies on immobilization
The article notes long bones are prone to breakage from direct violence, with rapid healing when the limb is kept still. It cites John Woodroffe Hill who describes treatment as reducing fragments and maintaining position with splints or bandages. Splints may be wood, pasteboard, leather, or gutta-percha. bandages can be gum, starch, or plaster soaked.
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John Woodroffe Hill
Waiters Earning Power Stated By NYC Eatery Observers
An old diner notes waiters at Delmonico Sherry's Waldorf Astoria and Rector's earn 87 cents daily, about $150 monthly from tips. Swiss waiters from Geneva schools form the best, many bilingual, moving to Europe in June. The ideal waiter serves unobtrusively, with skilled training and demeanor.
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Delmonico’s
Sherry’s
Waldorf-Astoria
Rector’s
Switzerland
Geneva
Sixth avenue
Europe
Broadway
Fifth avenue
New York Mail and Express
The But in Speech and Thought From a Century Past
An observant note on how the word but disrupts sentences and mood, highlighting its ubiquity in everyday speech. The piece laments the conjunction's nuisance while suggesting imagination might redeem its effect by revealing new light amid clouded happiness.
A Remarkable Case of Youthful Regeneration in 16th Century Tarentum
A 1531 medical record from Tarentum near Naples describes a nearly 90 year old man who shed old skin, regained firm muscles, lost wrinkles and white hair, and grew black curly hair with a fresh complexion. Sixty years later he aged again and died at around 160.
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Tarentum
Naples
Flis
Half Rock Post Office Name Origin
The Kansas City Journal notes that the Half Rock Missouri post office name stems from a store once selling poor sugar. Customers called it half rock, and the term spread to the store and then the post office established there.
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The
Kansas City Journal
Half Rock
Missouri
Tomb of Ri con de Vallemot Unearthed In Rouen 1509 Discovery
In Rouen during 1509 workmen digging near a Dominican monastery uncovered a stone tomb with a skeleton and a skull bearing a bushel of wheat. A copper-lettered slab above the tomb named the noble lord Ri con de Vallemot and his boner.
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Rouen
Ricon de Vallemot
Winter scene at charity institute shows a girl’s attire
In a winter scene at a charitable institution the head asks a poor girl about clothing, learning she has no clothes at home and wears a thin shawl and a dress in progress. The moral lesson focuses on the girl’s modesty and implied resilience.
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Sheaid
Fragmentary Query on Dialect and Migration Quip
A reader notes a garbled exchange about regional meanings of the word fast and comments on a new arrival from Massachusetts. A inserted dialogue line shows misheard phrases and a New Englander asking about the origin and price, with a puzzled reply that the person came from Iowa.
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Washingtonian
W. D. Laman
Missouri
Massachusetts
east
Iowa
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Jarrell & Hollingsworth
THE LADIES’, GENTS’ AND CHILDREN'S OUTFITTERS
M. B. NICHOLS
MARYLAND
New York
Baltimore
Chicago Board of Trade
CLINTON P. PAINE & CO
Bankers and Brokers
E. GERMAN ST
BALTIMORE, MD
T. H. Evans & Company, Fruit and Produce Commission
Light Street
ee Resnee pou ALTIMORE BARGAIN STORE
DELINE
ee Ridgely
whitewass
Stranrbeorry Baskets
CG. L. BOBHM
MON
JOAN W. CAUSEY
Pais
WM. DENNEY, $Fu
TREAS
Kent
JOHN T. CARTER, Jr
Newton
R. PLUMMER
Greensboro, Md
ALEX. NOBLE
Preston, Md
Undertaker
T. MARYA
Cooper
Pesidene
Main street
T. L. DAY
SWING & COMPANY
W. W. GOLDSBOROUGH
Greensboro
T.L. DAY
RIDGELY, MARYLAND
Baltimore American
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