Ways People Carry Money In Pocketbooks And Purses
The article surveys various methods of carrying cash. It describes folding bills by denomination in wallet compartments, rolling stacks with rubber bands, carrying a money roll in a water pocket, using envelopes or multiple pockets, and hiding funds in coats or trousers. It notes the efficiency and risks of each method and mentions purses and kid bags as alternatives. It also recounts quirks about new coins and different habits in England and Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bereen
Euch
Bone
England
Connect- A
Rene
Soho
Boston
Exeurable Dialogue Refers To Water Fear And Household Chores
An excerpt resembles a humorous dialogue about fear of water and heavy washing duties, mentioning Wickwire and Higgins and a teacher in Chicago. The fragment hints at domestic tensions and a possible setting in a newspaper clipping.
Saved by a Laugh Nurse in England Saves Patient
A nurse in England renowned for curing smallpox diphtheria and pneumonia once faced a dying pneumonia case. The doctor believed the patient would not survive the night. In desperation the nurse urged him to take his medicine saying you have to take it and if you die I will kill you. The patient laughed, took the medicine and recovered.
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Leeda
England
Lincoln Wit and War Time Humor in Presidential Letters
A survey of Abraham Lincoln's humorous and grim sayings, letters, and political judgments. It recalls his digs at Thurlow Weed and Horace Greeley, views on Seward and Chase, and sharp critiques of Douglas and slavery policy with vivid metaphors and a stark sense of duty.
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Lincoln
Thurlow Weed
Horace Greeley
Chase
Mir Adams
Mirlow Weed
Greeley
Senate
Seward
Douglas
John T. Stuart
United States Senate
Harris
Thurlow Weed Faust
Samuel Galloway
Africa
Hahnfie
Monument to Lincoln Erected in Old Calton Edinburgh
The first Abraham Lincoln monument in the Old World stands at Old Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh. Unveiled August 21, 1805, the 15 foot bronze Lincoln shows him with a freed slave and battle flags, on a red Aberdeen granite base. Subscribed by Americans and Scottish Americans including Levi Morton, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John Sloane, and others from New York.
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Lincoln
Scotland
Abraham T Lincoln
Calton
Edinburgh
David Tue
Wallace Bruce
United States
George J. Bissell
America
Levi Morton
Cornelius
Vanderbilt
Wilkes Walter Thelps
Andrew
Carnegie
Wiliam
Rockefeller
William Waldo
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