Women Counterfeiters Through History Highlighted
The article notes female counterfeiters such as Barbara Spencer executed in 1721 for false shillings and Nancy Kidd who operated in Chicago for decades. It discusses methods like washing notes with chemicals and drilling coins, plus family links and partnerships with husbands. It touts the prevalence of women in secret service case files.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Spencer
Nancy Kidd
Chicago
Uncle San
Philadelphia
Secret Service
Treasury
Ben Boyd
Mary Ackerman
Indiana
United States Treasury
Washington
Washington Post
Spring Time Advantage for Tree Treatments
A guide notes spring is best for setting trees as they begin growth and respond to treatment, while fall delays recovery. It advises preserving roots and avoiding disturbance until after ripening and leaf shed, warning that cut roots tend to sway or fail.
Grant at West Point Becomes Brevet Second Lieutenant
Grant graduates twenty first in a class of eighty nine at West Point and receives a brevet to second lieutenant in the Fourth Infantry. He serves as private in early years, rises to sergeant, then returns to private, with improving scores in mathematics and engineering. He exits with a solid academic record and high personal conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson Barracks
St. Louis
United States
Grant
Academy
Hamlin Gapland
McChire’s
York
Douglas Horton
Mieatbal
Sentimoriala
Vincenses I
Coventry Watchmaking Holds Leading Edge in Kew Tests
The Coventry center dominates English watchmaking alongside Birmingham with 75 percent of watches earning Kew certificates. The tests check rate across positions, hours, and days, bake in oven and ice in pails, and even a one millionth inch screw tweak can shift 20 seconds daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coventry
England
Liverpool
London
Birmingham
Kew
Jewelers
Snake Dreams and Love Fate in Dreambook Advice
A dream authority states that dreaming of snakes signals imprisonment and danger, with love betrayed. Killing a snake suggests overcoming difficulties and success in love, trade, or farming, but failure at sea.
London Club Eligibility Exchange In Honest Banter
A flirtatious exchange centers on club eligibility with a London fan noting only married women qualify. A playful line follows about making someone eligible to join. The fragment concludes with a maxim praising honesty charity love wisdom virtue and faith and a rough plasterers hair value claim of 15 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
The Decline In Incomes and Investment Yields
The article notes falling returns on safe investments as old railroad and canal bonds are refinanced at much lower rates. It cites Northern Pennsylvania Railroad 7 percent bonds extended at 4 percent and Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Railroad 7 percent bonds replaced at 4.5 percent. Worldwide trends show British consols and other bonds reducing yields as wealth and demand for sound investments rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Northern Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ood
Philadelphia Inquirer
Local Kentucky Engraver Loses Tiny Scissors to Fly Heist
Irwin Cobb recounts a Paducah News tale of Carl G von Schoeler the engraver in Kuttawa whose minute cherry stone scissors vanished after a house fly entangled with them. The tiny blades cut hair and cobwebs and the fly reportedly escaped with the prize. Both fly and scissors remain missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Carl G. von Schoeler
Kuttawa
Irwin Cobb
Paducah
GC. G. von Schooler
Unusual Earthquake Phenomena Reported in Britain
The London Letter notes earthquakes affect more people after the event, inspires rising fear with repeated shocks, and reports wonders like the river Clwyd turning red and Bridgenorth streets appearing to burn. The piece warns against scoffing and compares earthquakes to prophetic unpredictability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clwyd
Bridgenorth
Habakkuk
London
Dresden Daily Owned by City for Public Parks
The Dresden paper Der Dresdener Anzeiger passed to the city after the last proprietor’s death with profits to fund public parks. This year a nearly eight acre playground was bought from Prince George and will be ready next spring, reflecting trusted stewardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dresden
der Dresdener Anzeiger
Prince George
Disappearing Guns and Early Inventors Mentioned
The article notes disappearing guns as a newer invention with advantages in security. It cites General De Romy as an early inventor with models prepared as early as 1840.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de. Romy
Notable elder figures and long-lived professionals listed
Postmaster J W Durham in Kentucky has a 9-year-old son weighing 220 pounds. Charles W Palfray of the Salem Register is 83 and possibly the oldest active editor in the east. Governor Andrew E Lee owns vast land in South Dakota. Leo XII’s Latin verse standing is challenged by Cardinal Jacobini. Horatio Nelson is the surviving Trafalgar-era peer at 74. General Francis A Walker earned multiple LL D degrees and a Yale PhD. Commodore Richard Peck in New Haven turns 68 in steamboating, age 81, longest in one company. Rev J N Buchanan retires after 46 years at Hebron. Sir John Brown, armor advocate and former Sheffield mayor, dies. Mrs Mary Ragland, 88, elopes with 70-year-old L H Lyman after family objections.
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J. W. Durham
Middleburg
East
Charles W. Palfray
Salem (Mass
Andrew E. Lee
South Dakota
Leo XII
Italy
Cardinal Jacobini
Horatio
Earl Nelson
Trafalgar
Francis A. Walker
Amherst
Columbia College
Yale
Harvard
St. Andrew’s
Edinburgh
Commodore Richard Peck
New Haven
J. N. Buchanan
Hebron
Ind
Port Gibson
Miss
L. H. Lyman
First Pawnshop Opens in Lebanon Indiana
Curio snippets report Lebanon Indiana has welcomed its first pawnshop. Other curious items note Shelbyville bachelors bound to marry within a year after Christmas, and a poetry of small libraries in Paris claiming 700 pocket editions per portmanteau.
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Lebanon
Ind
Shelbyville
Amin
Paris
Yokohama
Kalevala
Sutherland
Stage Glints and Theatre Moves Across Europe and America
Nita Allen joins My Friend From India while John Hare signs an 80 week American tour for next season. Charles Frohman contemplates a London production of A Contented Woman. Fritz Williams cast in Sardou Spiritisme. Maud Harrison may star in Crawford adaptation Value Received. Lillian Blauvelt declines Metropolitan Opera management for a concert tour. Josephine Plows-Day engaged in missionary work in London and retires from stage. Revival of Le Boasa planned at Paris Porte Saint Martin with Cocardasse and Passepril. Yvette Violette to perform at Folies Bergere in Paris. Les Deux Gosses reaches its four hundredth performance at Ambiga.
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Nita Allen
India
John Hare
Charles Frohman
London
Charles H. Hoyt
Fritz Williams
Sardou
Maud Harrison
F. Milion Crawford
Lillian Blauvelt
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Josephine Plows-Day
Paris Porte Saint Martin
Paul Feral
le Boasa
M. Coquelin
Cocardasse
Jean Coquelin
Passepril
Yvette Violette
Yvette Guilbert
Paris
Pariate Beermanager
Thonenath
Not a Candidate Says Chicago Record
A Chicago Record piece presents a satirical defense claiming not a candidate while depicting a boastful false persona. The speaker denies pursuing office yet contemplates sacrifice and political leverage, noting friends insistence and a crowd with sham support.
Bride’s First Quarrel Sparks Weeping Vows
A New Orleans Times-Democrat fragment recalls a bride who sobs at her wedding, confessing the first quarrel is not with her husband but with the o k. The exchange reveals social sentiment and wedding tension in a concise gossip-like anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wimonth
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Old Gent Wins Steak Night In Quiet Restaurant
In a brief humorous exchange a Detroit News note recalls two diners with roses and a waiter in a restaurant skit. The old gent asks for steak and potatoes, remembering a previous visit and hoping for the same offer if the table is free.
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New York World
No lam follows Mary as she rides the air shod wheel
The Cincinnati Inquirer recalls a quirky scene where Mary sets a swift pace in an era of skirts and balance on an air shod wheel. A vendor Wallace jokes about a boxing tally turning into a joke about adding a nineteenth opponent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Patettie
Wallace
Cincinnati Inquirer
Answered no yet her face belied it
Comic quips open with a New York Sunday World line about a girl's defiant reply and a puzzled response to authority. A second joke from Chicago Tribune features a teacher and a boy debating fractions while cutting an apple, ending in a humorous miscount.
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New York Sunday World
Johnny
Chicago Tribune
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West Point
Santa Clara
Thave
Tarpon
Sportsman's Magazine
Snake Dreams
Fly
Tm T
Jeffersonville
Watson
Parker
Mom
Tom
Chicago Record
Rose
Detroit News
Mary
The
Kias
Wari
Ikenstein
New York Sunday Journal
George Code
Benjamin Bradford
Melrose
Silver Bow County
Montana
Burnt Pine
Beaverhead County
United States of America
Bexjamin Bradford
W. P. Nelson
D. Jane
Gibbonsville
Idaho
Pioneer Diggings
Big Hole
Marans Risin
Seger
Sticutine
Tripune
Express and Post Office
T. A. Slocum
M. D
Pine Street
J. P. Winter
Merelhamt
Dillon
Montana Street
Mont
Post
Burlington Road
Billings
Arrivine
Burlington
Wyoming
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Ben
Livingston Post
W. W. Johnston
California
San Francisco
Cal
Central Pharmacy
Dillon, Mont
Cushman
Cuuts
Rheum
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