Proper Names Pronunciation Guide From English Nomenclature
A reader laments American mispronunciations of English names and traces how many names derive their spoken forms from regional English usage. It cites examples like Cholmondeley Blythe Mainwaring Berkeleys and Pomfret to illustrate letters and sounds silently shaping pronunciation.
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Chumley
Cholmondeley
Marshbanks
Majoribanks
Bech'mp
Beauchamps
England
Blythe
Mainwaring
Mannering
Guy Mannering
Guy Main
Cowper
John Gilpin
Cooper
Valve
Walgrave
London
Barkley
Berkeley
Berkeley Square
Lord Magestry Square
Derby
Darby
Dillwyn
Dillon
Leveden
Pepys
Evelyn
Evevlyn
Monson
Ponsonby
Blount
Nigel
Conyngham
Bourne
Sim
Tobie Coutts
Ealed Koots
Dubner
Gor
Geoffrey
Defry
Hame
Hume
Knollys
Knowles
Lehigh
Lee
Menzies
Ars
Sands
St. Maur
Gt Bsc
Vile
Villers
Expressman
Cobeoa
Colquhoun
Feltere
Bethune
Beeston
Dalziel
Charteris
Bathven
Ivven
Fildes
Rathven
Piledes
Bicester
Bister
Gold and earth scars in California mining lore
Prentice Mulford reflects on California mining aftereffects with vivid images of scarred hills and rapid vegetation reclaiming diggings. He cites old miners saying gold is where you find it and the Mexican maxim that it takes a mine to work a mine, advising mining ventures readers.
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California
Prentice Mulford
New York
Digger Indians Funeral at Hut of Mourning
A dispersed Native American burial scene describes a sunset funeral at Big Meadows on Feather River. Women wail while men burn the deceased’s hut and belongings. a medicine man and a preacher lead rites, with strict customs, odd sounds, and crowd reactions amid a rugged canyon burial ground.
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Tirsta
Big Meadows
Feather River
Gravediggers Stand Guard as Earth Is Shoveled In
In twilight the crowd remained at the burial site with several black figures standing as sentinels after the earth was laid in and the ceremony concluded.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Useful Household Articles Promotion Recalled
A Chicago Herald note recalls an advertisement offering twenty-five useful household articles for twenty-five cents. Respondents receive by return mail a bundle of twenty-five needles in a pointed response.
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Chicago Herald
Tramp Receives Tiny Dinner Then Spars With Host
A generous suburban real estate owner, noted for shabby dress, shares a noon meal with a tramp who later meets the owner at the gate and jokes about working the same house. The anecdote, from the Boston Budget, contrasts kindness with social satire.
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Boston
London Shooting Etiquette and the Loader Role
The Philadelphia Times notes English hunting lore where a host supplies a loader or servant to carry a second gun. A country resident would accompany the loader to keep two guns ready, valuing silence to avoid alarming game. Loud talk or exclamations at a rise or miss is a serious offense among keen sportsmen.
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Custume
Kagilehngerta
London
England
Philadelphia Times
Incomplete OCR Leads to Confusing Printer Proof Scene
Fragmentary text shows a printer examining proofs and encountering garbled dialogue. A new figure questions the frame and a mention of Santa Christiana stone transcript appears amid unclear terms.
Cure for Consumption Offered by M C Slocum
M C Slocum of 15 Pearl Street New York claims a positive remedy cures consumption and offers to send free bottles to readers who mail their express address, urging timely use to help thousands of hopeless cases.
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Bprton
Slocum
M.C
New York
Notice of Mine Patent Application in Beaverhead County
United States land office advertises patent application for a gold and silver bearing lode claim in Beaverhead County Montana Territory. Claimants Withian Ub Beck ivorge E Lemon Paul Vandervoort Penns Corr rethiind Boo Bangs seek 2026 100 acres within unsurveyed township six south range four west. Adjoining claims none. Public notice requires adverse claims within sixty days.
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Afelena
Mont
Withian Ub
Beck
Ivorge E. Lemon
Paul Vandervoort
Penns Corr
Bangs
Argente
Montini
Griszis Bout Lode
Beaverhead County
Montana Territory
Range
Merhhan
Recorder's Office
W. Langhorne
Register
William H
ECK
Washington, D.C
Fed
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Mining Patent Application for Little Bell Lode in Beaverhead County
Notice filed in Helena Montana on September 7 1885 by William H Beck and partners for a patent on a 1500 foot claim of gold silver and copper bearing ore at the Little Bell lode in Malda Mountain Mining District Beaverhead County Territory Montana. The location shown in Beaverhead County recorder book 3 page 517 and adjacent claims listed as none. Adverse claimants must appear or be barred. W S Langhorne clerk and D C Beck listed as attorneys.
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U.S. i
Helena
Mont
William H. Beck
George EB
Canon
Henry Garrett
Argenta
Montana
Little Bell Lode
Malda Mountain
Beaverhead County
Montana Territory
Officii
Township
Mere Olin
Recorder's Office
S. W. Langhorne
Hewister
William
Beck
Washington, D.C
God
Mining Patent Application in Beaverhead County Montana
Mining claim for 1500 lien feet on the Mayflower Lady in Beaverhead County Montana Territory seeks a patent for gold silver lead and vanadium. Location details begin at corner 1 marked 1 227 with bearings and distances and adjacents. sixty day notice for adjoining claimants to file.
Montana Mining Claim Notice in Beaverhead County
U S Land Office Selena Montana announces that William Heck E Lemon Paul Vandervoort and Henry Garrett by Henry Garrett of Argenta Montana filed for a tent of 1500 linear feet on the Dement i bearing gold and silver in Bald Mountain Mining District Beaverhead County Montana Territory The claim describes a 20 66 acre area with specific corner stones and bearings The notice requires any adjoining claimants to present within sixty days or be barred by law Registered by S W Langhorne and Wm Beck with an attorney for claimants.
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U.S. Land Office
Helena
Mont
William 80. Meek
George E. Lamon
Henry Garrett
Argenti
Montana
Old Mountain
Beaverhead County
Montana Territory
Recorder's Office
W. Langhorne
Register
William SH. Beck
Washington, D. C
Chai
Selena
William
Heck
E. Lemon
Paul Vandervoort
Argenta
Bald Mountain
Dle
I. P
Mendian
Recorder’s Office
S.W. Langhorne
William 11
Beck
Washington, D.C
Fed
Clal
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Arker
Horse Prairie
Geo
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M. T
Poreu
Sys
T. M. Seaway
Thorpe Este
Lants
Newtons
Todge
Stroman Post
Sattend
Otuwo Klemm
T. M. O'Connou
Duzen Lovas
PL Layne
Bannace i Lodge
A L. Pickett
A. C. Mog
Castle Hall
Banas
Viaiti
T. M. O'Connor
Jno
A. Nick
Rand
Apollo Lodge
Montass Ast Bannack
Parke
NO Joun
Fontestik
Rez.scey
Occidental Encsanpment
Lolge Hall
Glendale
At. T. Noves.c
A.C. Mon, Scribe
Montgomery Ward
Lit
Michigan Avenue
Chicas
Etunetec
Swelier
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