Invitation to view East Assortment of Goods
Local merchants invite customers to inspect an extensive East assortment of goods. The note promises astonishing stock levels and mentions accepting orders for paper hangers and painters.
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Newspaper
Enterprise
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1893
Page
5
Oddities and curiosities from a crowded era
A jumble of short items notes oddities from hair dye policies to ancient flutes, Egyptian tomb finds, a Paris funeral feature, and a Memphis coroner’s case. It cites a boatswain tale, a Potsdam toy fort for royal education, fashion fads, and anecdotes on social manners, speech habits, and population facts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parte Bis
Dysuriade
Nile
Paris
Cemetary
Antoni
Tenn
Ila
Venica
Gazetta
Queen of
Corea
Dol
Memphis
Deccau
Doran
William
Sans Souci Park
Potsdam
Krupp
The Little Poet and Various News Tidbits
A fragmentary miscellany mixes a risqué theater anecdote about M. Lemarcier with stray notes on naval officers, obituaries, a Tenniel praise, a controversial brain weight claim, jokes, family vignettes, and chatter about letters and tea. The piece includes names such as Rowe Admiral Thomas C. Selfridge and Mrs. Lewis Rice, plus references to Lord Derby, Wranels Scott Kay, and John Tenniel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joli Bright
Roaledale
Thomas C. Selfridge
United States Navy
Massachusetts
Hoosle Walls
Nanny Wheeler Hoynton
Fitchburg
Mass
Agron Wheeler
Maesachusetts Company
Lewis Rice
Frederick
Wranels Scott Kay
John Tenniel
Tenniel
Punch
Biecher
University of St. Petersburg
Stones in Vegetables and Wooden Nutmegs In Warned Tales
The article catalogues natural curiosities such as stones in bamboo joints and coconuts, noting they are largely carbonate of lime and prized as charms in the Orient. It also recounts humorous Connecticut peddler lore about wooden nutmegs and a mischief tale about a Canadian bishop and his dress, ending with a quip about pants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
East India Islands
Kimmins
Connecticut
Homs
Natural Novelties and Oddities From Morgan County
A curious record notes Blue-eyed individuals rarely go legally blind while a georpign abstains entirely. A whisky drop on the back supposedly stings to death. The Hock in Loreb, Moses water rock, is preserved near Rephidim as a six yard square granite block. C and Eliott of Morgan County report a Livahova hen that lays double eggs, each containing two whites and two yolks, with two chicks expected per nest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses
Rephidim
C. &. Eliott
Morgan County
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