Maryland License Provisions for Traders and Brokers
A historic notice warns all persons and bodies in Caroline County to obtain or renew business licenses under Maryland law. It lists trader license fees based on stock value, exemptions for small sellers, salt sales without a license in spring, and renewal dates for peddlers. It also defines brokers by activity and provides fee schedules for stock, real estate, bill, insurance, exchange brokers, and circus ormenageries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline County
Maryland
Justice of the Peace
Acen&é
Seeencren Aa
General Assembly of
Circuit Court
Baltimore
Court of Common Pleas
Court of Common Pleas of
Thomas L. Chaffinch
Dean's Kidney Pills Prove Permanent Kidney Relief
Testimonials claim lasting relief from backache lumbago and kidney disorders after using Doan's Kidney Pills. W K Norris of Easton Maryland endorses permanent cure and normal kidney function following treatment. Doan's Pills sold by all dealers 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents Remember the name Dean's and take no other.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Denton
W. K. Norris
Norris Hotel
Easton
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Scrap Book Minister Appointment Sparks Dismissive Banter
A noted citizen is named to a foreign post, prompting talk among peers. An elder mocks the choice saying the appointee is unfit, lacking even the Lord’s Prayer. The text ends with a poem urging resilience and focus on work over worry.
Why Papa Believes In Corporal Punishment
A dialogue fragment explores misunderstanding of biblical phrasing as a child questions punishment and wickedness. The scene shifts to a light domestic moment with a fiancé selecting a tie and a humorous cab fare dispute involving Henry Herman and a dramatic eye-poke.
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Tommy
Papa
London
Ienry Herman
Herman
Johu
A Sad Experience with a First Trotting Mare
G Ik G Billings recalls a young man buying a fast trotting mare for 2000 dollars with 500 dollars of his own. His mother lends the balance and later his father concludes the deal after learning the cost. The governor says the mare isn’t worth the price but he admires her pace and buys it from his son.
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Ik. G. Billings
Charley
Apples and a cautionary bargain in hard times
Silas Long plans to pick apples from the orchard while Martha frets about cost. He jokes that there may be no bad fruit, prompting her to say he must wait for rotting apples as they cannot afford good fruit at 3 cents a bushel.
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Silas
A Great Sinner and the Deacon’s Reckoning
A religious revival led by Deacon Broadbent reaches Calhoun White, the town’s worst sinner. Calhoun confesses theft of six fat geese and other misdeeds, prompting the deacon to advise patience and caution in the path to forgiveness.
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Broadbent
Calhoun White
Calhoun
Bradder
Sinan
These Are the Movable Bath Houses at the Beach
The lecturer points to movable bath houses as thousands gather in summer. He notes a nearby hotel he stayed in is homelike, and jokes that he did not take baths at the beach, prompting laughter from the audience.
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Baltimore American
Mole of a Stranger Converts at Philadelphia Service
A Philadelphia church service featured a stranger who rose to confess conversion. He told the minister he would turn over a new leaf, and asked if he could walk the straight and narrow path. The stranger quipped he had been a tight rope walker for fifteen years.
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Philadelphia
Queen Victoria Era Applause Tale at Windsor Castle
In early Victorian days at Windsor Castle Charles Kean staged dramas for a select audience. The queen asked about refreshments and was told actors crave a bit of applause. A timid audience response drew a quip from James Wallack who mistook the clapping for the sound of someone shelling peas.
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Queen Victoria
Windsor Castle
Charles Kean
Kean
James Wallack
Wallack
Could He Help It A Passenger Scolds Child On Ride
A woman and a small boy ride in a car. The boy squirms on the seat, prompting another passenger to urge the mother to quiet him. The mother apologizes saying the boy needs to reach a hospital, having just swallowed two teaspoons of something yesterday and has been restless since.
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Jim
Irl
Kansas City Times
Why Hale Would Not Do
N C Nelson sought a country site to move his cooperative business from St Louis with Dr Edward Everett Winle. A site was chosen and Leclaire selected in honor of the pioneer French profit sharer, Yale being rejected for its short four letter name versus his six foot four stature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hale
N. C. Nelson
St. Louis
Edward Everett Winle
Yalé
Nelsor
Leclaire
Irench Praft Sharer
Names of Cities Across Europe in One Traveler’s Tale
A narrator recounts crossing Europe with an Italian traveler who knows local names for Milan and Florence, and highlights how English and German names differ from Italian. The piece notes mispronunciations and translations of many city names such as Roma, Firenze, Milano, and Venedig, with humorous observations of language barriers.
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St. Gotthard
Paris
Italy
London
Sondra
Europe
Milan
Milano
Florence
Firenze
Turin
Torino
Naples
Napoli
Basle
Basler
Lucerna
Lucerne
Luz
Bellinzona
Maitland
Chiasso
Como
Venleg
Venedig
Lagoons
London Mall
No pegs in Windsor for Falstaff stage gag
London Tit-Bits recounts Beerbohm Tree's first Falstaff debut in Windsor for est where pegs to support the oak tree failed to appear. The property man cheerfully quoted his line No pegs, provoking a clash of staged frustration and comic misfortune during rehearsals and a dressing room exchange.
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Beerbohm Tree
Falstaff
Talstaff
Windsor Forest
Irce
Mr. Tree
London
Water Experts Swedish Swimmers Perform Feats
The London Saturday Review describes Swedish divers famed for combination diving with two men linked at the waist and a head between legs. It notes handspring dives and graceful back dives, plus double somersaults from high platforms thirty to fifty feet, ending feet foremost.
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London Saturday Review
A Story of Charles Reade at the Queen's Theatre
Charles Mathews recalls Charles Reade after a London Queen's theatre closing night failure titled A White Lie. The author faced the crowd with a calm smile and mild accents as he jeered the unseen adversary and demanded respect for Charles Reade.
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Charles Reade
Charles Mathews
Queen's Theater
London
Aenil
McNabber Plans Holy Land Trip Lights Commandments
The London Mall worker McNabber tells his pastor of a trip to the Holy Land and plans to read the Ten Commandments aloud atop Mount Sinai. The minister advises him to stay home and keep them.
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McNabber
London Mall
Holy Land
Mount Sinai
Helping Him On The Girl Assures Fate Is Against Them
Dialoged scene shows a shy man deducing marriage is unlikely while the girl reassures him and the mood stays pensive. The illustration suggests themes of hesitation and fate in an intimate moment.
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Goldsboro Bank
Goldsboro, Maryland
URDEN
Golisbers Bank
Stin
Franklin P. Amfchford
Maradel
George Sylvester
Aee
Robert Jarret, Sr
Goldsboro
John F. Quillen
Henderson, Md
Franklin Plase Deord
Robcore Jarrell
Robert Jarrell, Jr
George P. Edwards
John Bo Medford
Henderson
William L. Cooper
Charles L. Jarrell
Greensboro
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Ibank
Jfonrv
Iinterest Paio
B. J. Zacharias, Sr
N. Horsey of
S. H
T. C. Horsey
Bank OF
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Ridgely, Maryland
Saragate
T. W. Smith Co
Chesapeake Steamship Company
Chesapeake Line
Castile Baltimore
Norfolk
Val
Comporl
Bught Street
Cor Leadium
Ob Point Comfort
Daidy
Old Poimt Comfort
Richmond
Cor
Lee
Tsapoi
Raitroit
Trou
Genseral
Tlight
Lee Streets
Badturtare
EJ. Cinsm
Harry N. Hackett
Iswill
Denton Journal
Journal
Newspaper
Albelre
San Jose
A. G. Gelletly
Denton, Maryland
A. L. Duffey
Duffey’s
Duffey
Chas. H. Redden
Chalmers
Detroit
Hudson
W. Frank Jarrell
Chestertown, Maryland
Zell Motor Car Co
Mt. Royal Ave
Union Station
Ireland
BM. O'Gonor
American News Co
Popular Publishing Company
Duane St
New York City
High St
Otto
High Street
Platt
A. W .Houchin
Main Street
D.H. Cook
Tox
Frick
Iby
Bullock’s
Carter Block
W. L. Douglas
World Union
Brockton
Masa
Gale
Sai
W.L. Douglas
Brochion, Mac
John L. Everngam
Plymouth
OF the
Fell Street
Edward Towers
Elias Kenton
Dusitan
Pauling
Immond Telephone
J. W. Wright & CO
Hobbs
Clover Ualler
Nichols & Shepard Co
Hattle Creek
Mich
A. E. Wheatley
Oak Grove
Del
HOTEL
Junker
E. Fayette ST
Near
Charles
Baltimore, MD
Eastern Shore
B.F. Howard
Chas. Howard
Hobbs, Md
Bryan & Benson, Limited
Arcade
J. N. Jordin
Alfred Clark
Nene Denton
A. Cooper
Denton, Md
Ratrigh & Son
C-S
The
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dora
Mary Morrison
Willie
Bos
Wille
Allan
Sis
Fes
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