Fort Pierce Professionals Ad Spotlight Local Listings
Local business cards list Tan and Surgeon at a Fort Pierce drug store, plus attorneys at law Parker and Broome, a dentist, a civil engineer and surveyor in St. Lucie county, and an insurance agent, all serving Fort Pierce Florida with varied services. The page notes office hours and contact points for multiple professionals active in the area.
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Iver News Office
Fort Pierce
J. M. Swain
St. Lucie County
McPerty Destroyed by Fire Insurance Filed
Fire destroyed McPerty property as insurers review the loss. Officials report visible damage and prioritize securing adjacent structures while awaiting assessment. Local response teams cordon the scene and coordinate with the insured for claims processing.
Gold Brick Town of Guanajuato Reveals Hidden Wealth
A Mexican town famed as Guanajuato shows houses built from adobe contain surprising gold. Upon tearing down 300 structures for railroad expansion, workers found gold and silver in the debris, with assays ranging from 8 to 24 gold per ton and an average near 8.00. The old buildings yielded about 30,000 Mexican pesos in gold, while newer homes lack such riches.
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Mexico
Guanajuato
Scientific American
How He Worked the Artist and Kyosai Sketch
An intimate friend of Kyosai recounts a quiet game to obtain a drawing. After a lavish dinner, the host feigns feeble art, provoking Kyosai to intervene. He tears the brush away and creates a priceless sketch, kept by the wily host.
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Kyosai
Hugh Frazer
Japan
Kyonai
Forbidden Fruit of Ceylon and a Waif's Lament
A fragment from a Bohemian Magazine piece describes the sacred forbidden fruit of Ceylon, its orange crust and crimson interior, and its deadly lore linked to Eden. The second excerpt presents a street waif’s bitter tirade about thefts, fires, and hunger, voiced by a child in a Chicago Tribune joke column.
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Ceylon
Paradise
Garden of
Eder
Eves
The Side Whiskered Gentleman Severs Souls for Two Bits
Reporter recounts a sensational tale from a St. Louis Post-Dispatch piece in which a man with side whiskers conducts a phony secession ritual, taking money from locals and leaving the crowd stunned as souls are supposedly separated. The story uses dialect and portrays a fraudulent “darvyant” claiming mysterious powers.
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Smathers
Buckaloo
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Visiting Cards and Scribbled Messages on Playing Cards
A historical note on visiting cards tracing their origins and use. In 17th and 18th century society a small, exclusive world relied on backs of playing cards for invitations and messages. Examples include Mary Wortley Montagu and the Comtesse de Boigne describing social customs in Bond Street during 1800.
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Mary Wortley Montagu
Comtesse de Boigne
Lady Harington
Bond Street
Telephone troubles tied to language spark barbed wire fix
A Chicago telephone company faced persistent outages among Polish Hungarian and Russian speaking subscribers. An expert blamed the multilingual wires and proposed a drastic cure barbed wire. The remedy was adopted and the trouble ceased. A second note discusses spade versus plow in gardening noting control over soil and initial appearance in Eben E. Rexford's Home Garden column.
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Chicago
Philadelphia Ledger
Eben E. Rexford
A Courteous Boy Reflects Family Compromise
In a paragraph from the Birmingham Age-Herald a boy named Clarence suggests his parents settle a dispute by flipping a coin. He seeks to avoid favoritism while acknowledging both mother and father. The playful exchange hints at domestic dynamics and childlike diplomacy within a family.
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Little Clarence
Birmingham Age-Herald
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Vanlandingham
Cian
Lucie ‘Drug Co
Tan
Pierce, Pla
Garg
Glidden
Jn Fee & Stewart Building
Sp? Pierce, Florida
Pierce
F. L. Hemmings
Porney
United States
iFort Pierce, Fla
Iren Poe, A. B
LL. B
Worey-At-Law
Pine Street
A. D. Penney
Hendry & Penglothing
Fla
A. ©. Dittmar
ANCE
Parker
Lacie County
Gar. Broome
Parker & Broome
Riek
Saar
Telephone
Port Pierce, Fla
R. E. Bray
M. Hudson
A. A. Boggs
Hudson , Boggs
Storneys-At-Law
Tivnley Building
Miami, Fla
Engineers & Surveyors
A. C. Dittmar
Port Pierce, Pla
McPerty
Tak
Eoke Fire Insurance
Asa & Lancashire
Hbistot
Hartford
Denix of
Brooklyn
Union
Argic
Schwartz's Grocery
Schmitt
Bohemian Magazine
Shorty McGinnis
Chicago Tribune
Lt Coats
Call J. G. Coats & CO
Edison
van Eat Edison Portland Cement Company
Portland
East Coast Lumber & Supply Company
East Coast
Tate City Fruit & Produce Co
M. Chapman
E. W. Whitaker
Jae Aear
Broad St
Atlanta, GA
Seaboard
AIR Line Railway
Savannah
Columbia
Camden
Southern Pines
Richmond
Raleigh
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York
Seaboard Express
Seaboard Railway
Jacksonville
New Orleans
A. O. Donneluj
Pass
Agt
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Boyiston, Tass Agt
Jacksonville, Fla
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