Patent Attornery Advice from The Press Claims Company
The article urges careful selection of a competent patent attorney amid rising invention demand. It promotes The Press Claims Company led by John Wedderburn, offering patent services from applications to designs, trademarks, copyrights, and foreign patent work, with fees described as reasonable.
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Press Claims Company
John Wedderburn
F Street
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Washington, D. C
Joan Wedderburn
Modern Humor From Ancient Jests and Irish Bulls
A column surveys English and Irish wit from Diogenes to Sheridan and Hood, noting how college humor flourishes in modern habitations. It quotes jokes about Miss Iles, Boswell, Johnson, and Hood, and recalls Irish wit from Le Fanu to Sir Boyle Roche with examples of clever retorts and bullisms.
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Greece
Diogenes
Aristophanes
Alexander
America
Plato
Horace
Charles Lamb
Homer
Thersites
M. Quad
James Payn
Miss Iles
Sydney Smith
Hood
Charley Lamb
Boswell
Johnson
Davy Garrick
Sheridan
Trish
le Fanu
Boyle Roche
Bramstone
Brimstone
E. P. Powell
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Queen of the Sioux Marries White Man in Old West Tale
The Sioux queen known as The Beautiful Woman marries Charles P. Jordan, a white man tied to U S Army officers and Custer kin. Red Cloud officiated at their wedding on the Sioux reservation. Jordan, once a Pine Ridge clerk, endured scalping, arrows, and death threats, yet built a farm near Rosebud with orchards and beaver dams.
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Charles P. Jordan
Jordan
United States Army
Custer
Missouri River
Old Smoke
Pine Ridge
Virginia
Rosebud Agency
Sioux City Journal
Old Fashioned Passenger and the Conductor Exchange
A dramatic street scene unfolds with a passenger waking abruptly and pleading forgiveness from a female conductor. He calls her madam and begs pardon for not recognizing her, while she jostles him, demanding an explanation for his delay and labeling his behavior as a sham.
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Chicago
Railway men haunted by trauma after fatal crashes
A Philadelphia Times tale cites two railroad workers driven to insanity or death by haunting memories. One New Jersey engineer, famed on the New York to Philadelphia run, survived decades without accident until a woman appeared in the glare of the dreadlight. He fled railroading after the fatal moment and now fears sleep and trains. A Camden and Amboy conductor, after an accident, killed himself at the crash site, unable to bear the memory.
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New Jersey
Philadelphia
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Camden and Amboy
Philadelphia Times
Post Card Incentive for Lazy Letter Writers
A London periodical notes a country publisher offering a ten-slot postcard with headings to spur lazy correspondents. The back lists Date Excuse for not writing sooner Health of self and family Recent experiences News Family gossip Questions to be answered in next letter Love to and Love from, with Signature, inviting brisk, structured updates.
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Loudon
Man Who Used To Call Here Now Married
Mrs Eastside asks what happened to the man who visited often. The servant woman reveals he married, and when asked whom he married she replies Me. The exchange comes from Texas Sittings.
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Mrs. Eastside
Texas
Cable Code Signals Safe Arrival for Philadelphians Abroad
Friends abroad receive the first message containing the word ablation meaning arrived safe and well with good voyage, a note from Philadelphia readers describing this cue as a common greeting in overseas travel.
Reading Fashion Sparks Interest in Novel First Pages
A brief note from the Boston Transcript observes women favoring the last word of novel first pages, suggesting a peculiar fashion in literary reading habits of the era. The remark ties interest in opening lines to a broader curiosity about endings.
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Boston Transcript
Families Join Arctic Whaling Crew For Extended Voyages
San Francisco reports that several captains in the steam whaling fleet at Cape Nayerin have invited wives and children to accompany them for months or years. Notable families include Captain Green's wife on the Alexander and Mrs Sophie Porter with daughter Dorothy on the Jessie H. Freeman. Captain Weeks brings wife and baby Bert aboard the Thrasher, with the girl Dorothy Porter amid plans for an arc tic curiosity filled with sealskin outfits and toboggan slides.
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Cape Nayerin
Dorothy Porter
San Francisco
Captain Green
Alexander
Jessie H. Freeman
Sophie Porter
Dorothy
Bert Weeksters
Captain Weeks
Bert
Arctic Ocean
San Francisco Chronicle
Young King Leads 700 Child Soldiers in Spain
The youngest European monarch Alfonso XIII initiates a battalion of 700 infant troops aged five to eight wearing blue uniforms and red caps. Weapons are child sized and classes range from sons of generals to workers. Drummers are the most amusing members as an officer from the San Sabastían garrison drills the recruits for a month.
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Alfonso XIII
Spain
Europe
Tolaviegs
Tule
San Sabastian
Westminster Gazette
Ruth Cleveland and the balloon at the White House grounds
A young Ruth Cleveland plays with a stringed balloon behind the White House as dusk falls. The balloon escapes upward despite the president’s effort to catch it, and Ruth consoles herself by giving the toy to Jesus with a quiet sigh.
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Ruth Cleveland
White House
Rath
Jesus
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