Readymade Suits and Tailored Wear at J C Godwin Co
The Shore's sole shop offers readymade suits from $6 to $15 and a fine line of spring jackets. Custom made clothing, tailor-made pants, and a new ready-made department plus a children’s department showcase diverse fabrics, mats, carpets, and other goods. Visit No 36 N Washington St to compare prices and styles.
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J.C. GODWIN CO
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Parson's Box and the War Talk in Maine Woods
Moot Rivers recalls a Quaker-like parson who shunned bloodshed, preferring a wooden box shelter in the woods. When wolves press, the man hides inside a stout oak box with ventilation holes, guarded by chains and steel, surviving harsh winters as varmints scratch the shell while Rivers narrates an accident that tested his creed.
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Moot Rivers
Maine
mie
printer
Jennings
Alleguash
New Management Announces Choptanix Hotel Denton Md
J B Cowher announces taking charge of the Choptanix Hotel in Denton Maryland and invites old customers and the public to visit. He pledges to spare no pains to please guests and welcomes all to stop by. The address given is 226 4m. Proprietor.
Denton craftsman seeks contracts for skilled work
Harry B. Mason of Denton Missouri boasts ten years in Wilmington Philadelphia and New York and offers contracts guaranteeing skillful work fair prices and entire satisfaction.
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DENTON
Wilmington
Philadelphia
New York
Parson in a Wolf Pack Rescue in the Snow
James Buckham recounts a Wild Winter night ordeal with a parson and a pack of about twenty wolves pursuing a toboggan ride. The box breaks as the wolves close in and the parson escapes by tree while the narrator dispatches most wolves with his dog Spitfire. The parson survives, shaken, and recalls the frightful scene. The tale closes with their supper at Jennings' and the parson's reflective apology for his panic.
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old Spitfire
curius
Mr. Rivere
Spitfire
Mr. Rivera
Jennings
James Buckham
Washington and Paine shaped independence in 1776
Moncure D. Conway notes in The Arena that end of the American Revolution drew from Washington’s loyalty protests in January 1776 and Paine’s Common Sense. He cites Washington’s Cambridge letter to Joseph Reed praising the pamphlet’s sound doctrine and unanswerable reasoning, marking a pivotal moment in independence.
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Paine
Moncure D. Conway
Cambridge
Joseph Reed
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Egypts Dragoman Tales And Falcon Island’s Vanishing Act
Charles Dana Gibson recalls Egypt forays with a dodgy dragoman and his dirty cards while recalling a morning routine in Cairo. The piece also notes Falcon Island’s growth from a smoking shoal in 1877 to a volcanic island about 800 feet high and 144 miles long, now disappearing.
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Charles Dana Gibson
Egypt
Faris
London
Falcon island
Diversity of tongues in the British Isles
The article notes Welsh speakers numbered 508,036 in Wales who speak only Welsh, Gaelic is spoken by 438,738 in the Scottish Highlands, and 32,121 in Ireland speak only Irish. It traces historic shifts from Irish dominance to English predominance, mentions Manx on the Isle of Man and French in the Channel Islands, and concludes six languages are used in the British Isles.
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British isles
Wales
highlands of
Scotland
Ireland
Erin
Joseph Bosworth
Isle of Man
Norway
Channel islands
Tricks of Writers and Kipling Reader Curiosity
A New Orleans admirer recalls Kipling using tantalizing scraps of verse as headings in early tales to spark curiosity. He notes similar tricks by Scott and Poe and defends authorial illusion as a legitimate fiction craft.
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Kipling
New Orleans
sharch
Scott
Edgar Allan Poe
Poe
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Pathological Society’s Grim Post Mortem Tale
A humorous Indiana Medical Journal snippet describes the Pathological society convening for post mortems. They discuss a 113 pound tumor removed from a patient, a long tapeworm measuring three quarters of a mile, and quips that the society values the tumor over the patient. The tone mocks laboratory excesses and smells of specimens.
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Pathological society
Indiana Medical Journal
Why a tradesman failed in a 19th century anecdote
The Michigan Tradesman recounts an old fashioned merchant who cannot see why he should fail. A creditor visits the shop and learns the man had not kept an inventory. The trader lists dusting shelves, mopping floors, cleaning windows, and painting the front, admitting he never did inventory in 15 years due to a wrestling match in town.
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Michigan
Stale Bread Trade and Sale Practices
The New York Sun notes bakers and retailers limit daily output to meet demand. Surplus stale bread is not wasted but sold to farmers and market peddlers who buy in bulk to feed stock. Final disposal occurs by barrel sales at very low prices, varying with surplus on sale day.
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New York Sun
Notable Medical Fees Across Empires in 19th Century
A historical survey notes enormous sums paid to physicians and surgeons for single operations or brief attendances. Catherine the Empress received vaccination from Dr Dimsdale in 1872, while Dr Butler earned lakhs from six rajahs for lithotomy. Other figures include $75,000 to Professor Zacherine for two days in Moscow and £250,000 to Dr Gale for electric treatment. Royal attendances at Sandringham and Tehran yielded further vast fees, with Sir William Jenner and Sir Morell Mackenzie cited for high payments. The Nawab of Rampar paid £50,000 for an ordinary rheumatism case.
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Thomas Dimsdale
St. Petersburg
Catherine
Butler
lite czar of
Russi
Zacherine
Moscow
Gale
Bristol
Luce
Gale Yowski
Persia
fces
Teheron
William Jenner
Sandringham
Prince of Wales
Morell Mackenzie
Frederick
Rampar
India
Notable Good Friday Customs Across English Localities
The piece surveys varied observances from Brighton to London. It notes Long Rope day in Brighton with groups skipping a long rope, marbles played in Sussex villages, and a St Bartholomew’s church event where 31 sixpences are collected by aged widows. It mentions All Hallows School boys sharing pennies and raisins, hot cross buns as a national feature, and Diana of the Crossways origins linked to Roman roads in Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.
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England
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Diana of the
The Fascination of Gold Hunting and Tolstoi Method
A collage of literary reflections on gold chasing and Tolstoi writing process. Palmer compares gold pan color to treasure, while Talmage praises humorists and concedes wit bonds people. Tolstoi is likened to a painter planning then drafting with rapid, morning work habits.
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Broadway
Frederick Palmer
Scribner's
Tolstois
Count Tolstoi
Sophia Andreevnn
Leo Nicolaievitch
Literary Executors Named In Will
In a Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph item the deceased’s will appoints a literary executor. The fragment notes the late Mr Hiland Poor Skribbles as maintaining he was a man of letters, with Halket-Dowe and Hiland-D in the discussion of the appointment.
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Hiland
Halket
Pittsburg
Perfumes harm senses warns of fragrance dangers
A historic note claims odors injure the sense of smell, hearing, and throat. It references a general warning from 1841 about fragrances. The text also notes the cultivated area of Ireland shrinking from about 4,000,000 acres to 2,400,000.
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