Identifying Signatures Says It Is Not Easy
A Hartford Courant discussion by lawyers questions the ease of signature identification. Experts note variations in paper and sequence affect judgments. The tale includes cases with forged or traced signatures and a Washington trial about a will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tolland County
George P. Bissell
Bissell
Washington
John Sherman
Sherman
General Grant
Hartford Courant
The Kauri Tree of New Zealand Its Form and Resinous Gum
The article extols the kauri of New Zealand describing its colossal height up to 200 feet and a trunk diameter of 15 inches or more. It notes a limb free stem rising 50 to 70 feet, dense dark foliage, and a bark with red brown tones. Mounds of fibrous soil surround each tree, reflecting centuries of slow growth, and resinous gum sheds from all parts, hardening to a clear, transparent form. The piece is part of a longer botanical description.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Longman’s
Accident That Changed History at Sevastopol Docks
A writer recalls a near disaster where a single mishap at Sevastopol docks could have altered history. Sir Bevans Edwards survived as an engineer among a party that prepared powder in a shaft. Gordon stood with a lit candle when a barrel slipped, preventing a premature explosion and altering later events including Khartum and China/Khartum campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bevans Edwards
Sevastopol
Gordon
China
Khartum
Kitchener
Sunday School Teaches Curiosity About Benedictions
A humorous exchange features Arthur and a teacher, ending with a mother’s nightly question about securing doors and windows and letting out the cat, as quoted by the Chicago Times-Herald. The light dialogue reflects domestic routines and religious phrasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur
Chicago Times-Herald
Telltale Chairs
A New Orleans Times-Democrat recounts a hotel lobby discussion on how furniture reveals stories of past occupants. Observers note chairs’ positions mirror bore victims, poker night scenes, and a fatal room incident in Texas and Pacific town, forming a dramatic tableau of events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas and Pacific
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Some Bad Writing by David Swing Headlines Chicago Paper
An old editor recalls David Swing a meticulous copy man who wrote his own headlines. A prank by forcing his exact line led to three headlines Some Bad Writing and Some More Bad Writing and the town laughed at the bold copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Swing
Professor Swing
Chicago
Eugene Field
Dr. Bristol
Saints and Sinners
An Impromptu Farce on The Critic Night at Daly’s
Charles Matthews a veteran English comedian faced a laughing void when a deaf mute in the box offered no sign. Daly’s fury rose as a staged bet to make the audience laugh turned into a lesson in misreading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Matthews
Mr. Lewis
Lewis
Daly
Davidge
New York
Mr. Daly
Mr. Matthews
Matthews
Abusive boastful talk from an older doctor to a younger patient
A physician with long experience mockingly chides a young patient in a Boston Transcript style anecdote. He closes the mother's thermometer, paces the room, and jokes about a Rosa Bonheur painting, prompting a sharp retort from the daughter who calls the doctor the family physician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosa Bonheur
Boston Transcript
Monastic Stamp Art Transforms Ghent Hospital Walls
Monks at the hospital of St. Jean de Dieu in Ghent decorate walls with intricate landscapes made entirely from postage stamps from nations worldwide. The stamp mosaics depict palaces forests streams and mountains with animals and birds. the work, in Chinese landscape style, has used between 9 and 10 million stamps so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Jean de Dieu
Ghent
Light of Love Metaphor from The Chicago Record
A dark romantic maiden asks of the light of love and Omed answers that love’s light is like gas dimmed to a blue spark, a distant romantic metaphor from the Chicago Record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omed
Chicago
First Yellow Fever Report Tied to Columbus Soldiers
The history note states yellow fever first appeared among Columbus soldiers in 1495, marking an early outbreak in the Americas. The claim highlights a claimed origin timeline for the disease's spread in the colonial era.
Caprice: A Poem Fragment About a God of World Power
The excerpt portrays Caprice as a merciless god ruling the world from a stern breast with wings. It contrasts silent judgment with the demand that wrongdoers suffer while the innocent endure, invoking Grant Allen's Lower Slopes to frame the moral tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Grant Allen
Anthracite and Bituminous Coal Talk in a Joke
A Chicago reader recalls a classroom exchange where a boy explains anthracite as hard coal and bituminous as soft coal. The tale ends with the boy’s sentence using both terms in a humorous, if sharp edged, remark about his mother.
Seismic editors twist scientist tale in Ischia clash
Signor Grahlovitz director of Ischia seismic observatories relates a humorous misquotation of Professor Palmieri from a Neapolitan daily. Palmieri protested but the editor replied you must now stick to it, claiming you said it and it is your fault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Signor Grahlovitz
Ischia
Palmieri
Vesuvian
Quoted Snippets From Old Papers Stir Quick Wits
A compilation of scattered lines from Philadelphia Record and Atchison Globe quotes touches on racial slang, humor about smoking, love for penniless daughters, and a morbid note about New York selling human bones to medical students, reflecting fragmented era attitudes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison Globe
New York
Bank Officials Named in Record Listing
J. KR, ROTH, Prest. E. A, HOWARD, Vice President. J.8. McKENNEY, Second Vice President. JOHN DAVIES, Cashier. J, HAGUE, Asst. Cashier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. 8. McElhinny
John A. Spielman
Frank Licur
J. Kr, Roth
E. A, Howard
J.8. McKenney
John Davies
J, Hague
Asst
J. Ek, Roth
J. Ricksher
FE. A. Howard
Dillon Turney
Lee T. Gobble
J. 8. McKenney
KR. W. Lamson
D. Mo Parrott
J. E. Roth
James Louden
A. Howard
D. G. Higley
W. BK. Bradshaw
paCpemey
Hunt, Gee
W. Ball
R. F. Rateliit
W. A. Lamson
K. F P. Simmons
Ada Roth
Guardian
Wm. C. Hawk
J. H. Gucoter
Louden
A. F. Cassell
H. K. Booker
August Walgren
Chas
D. Leggett
A. C. D Bradshaw
Mrs. Hester Parrett
A. P. Anderson
C. A. Herring
Dr. W. Fordyce
W. Ross
P. I. Roth
John Roth
Mary Kyle
Annie Lamson
Also Mentioned on This Page
B. N. Gantz,m. D
Fairfield
Iowa
Postce
Calvin Snook
W. Fordyce, M.D
Risk & Hufstedler’s
Court Street
A. S. Hague, M. D
Higley’s Drug Store
East Side Park
E. G. Grove, M.p
Monfort Building
Savings Bank
Presbyterian Church
Frank Fourt
South Side Drug Store
T. L. James
Long & Kamp
J. B. Monfort
First National Bank
South Side Square
J. Hynds
Deii
Whitehill & Ockerman
McElhany Block
I. D. Jones
Kate M. Jones
E. R. Smith
North Side Park
Fairfield, Iowa
M. A. McCoid
Southeast Corner Park
Jefferson County
Postoffice
H. C. Raney
E. F. Simmons
Raney & Simmons
Bell’s
Rocery
Northwest Corner Square
Transacts
General Banking and Exchange Business
Park
Kaori
Caprice
Little Willie
Willie
Weary Walker
Dusty Rhodes
Philadelphia
Astoria
Beepe
Samuel Pitcher
Gorpreas Phaver
Bears
Castoria
the Centaur Company
New York City
NIN
the Great
Geo
D. Clarke
Business College
M. D. Rodabaugh’s
Black & Mohr
East Side Square
State Savings Bank
California
Colorado Springs
Salt Lake
Pacifc
Kansas City
Ft. Worth
el Paso
Los Angeles
San Francisco
JNO. Sebastian, G. P. A
Chicago, Il
Art
Yldedir
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!