Real Estate Sales in Preevort Land Office November 1 1878
Real estate transfers listed from Preevort Land Office include multiple parcels in Ridott Freeport Winslow and Florence with buyers sellers and prices ranging from 2000 to 4600. Notable dealings feature parcels in blocks 7 21 and 12 along with several 40 acre tracts and 80 in 28 28 7 dates referenced in deeds.
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Mynard
Abraham Schleich
Rene
Ridott
Irvin McClain
F. A. Cain
Waddams
McEathron
Polly Carter
Lena
A. W. Fisk
T. K. Best
Freeport
Taylor
Bauerle & Stark
Kent
Henry Pearson
August Kottman
H. N. Doty
John
Florence
Catherine Wilmot
Frederic Gund
Rice
Conrad Neusus
August Neusus
Winslow
John Bradford
J. W. Lancerman
J.J. Neusus
Cameron Tay
Gund
Aug. Volkers
Block
Waddell
Lippincott's Magazine November offerings diverse and varied
The November issue features a mix of light entertainment and informative pieces. It includes Seawanhaka, a descriptive historical paper on Long Island. The Harvesting Ants of Florida by Mrs. Mary Treat. prose on Unwritten Literature of Caucasian Mountaineers by George Kennan. music in America by Henry T. Finck. Paris Exposition critique by L. Lejeune. Rambling Talk about the Negro by Jennie Woodville. Docteur Alphege by Annie Porter. Deserted by Edward Bellamy. The After Dinner Speech of the Baroness Canzaletto. serials For Pereval and Through Winding Ways. Victor Tlugo at Nome. and items in the Monthly Gossip.
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Lippincott’s
Long Island
Seawanhaka
Island
Florida
Mary Treat
George Kennan
Liberia
Henry T. Finck
America
L. Lejeune
Jennie Woodville
Lippincott
Alphege
Annie Porter
Edward Bellamy
Baroness Canzaletto
Victor Tlugo
Nome
Ilectic for November features Rev Dr William Adams engraving
The issue lists papers by Ginciano Bruno and Galileo Galilei in Quarterly Review and other magazines. Notable pieces include Tolyoake on home industry, Cyprus by R Hamilton Long, Brockden Brown by George Barnet Smith, and editor sketches from Rev William Adams. Editorial departments are described as well filled and interesting.
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William Adams
Ginciano Bruno
Galileo Galilei
Brockden Brown
George Barnet Smith
Belgravia
William Black
Plantin Museum
Antwerss
William Blades
Cornhill
House of Commons
Chamber’s
Our Dream
Good Words
Ballow's Monthly Magazine November Issue Preview
The November number of this affordable magazine is issued and praised for its fresh engravings, stories, poetry, and adventures. It lists content such as Our North American Indian, Revery, Maxims for Married Ladies, Our Young People's story teller, puzzle pages, and humorous illustrations. Published by Thames & Talbot, Boston, $1.50 yearly, post-paid, samples available now.
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Ballows Monthly
Barlow’s
Molus
Jean Millard
Russia
Jessie
Lorenzo
Lucien
Johnny
Ruthven
Thames & Talbot
Littell's Living Age October issue contents list
The weekly Littell's Living Age for the week ending Oct 26 offers advance sheets and selections from Martin Joseph Routh Quarterly Review Macleod of Dare part XVII Among the Burmese part III Frazer's Magazine Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald The Marquis of Lassie A New Author's Grievance Spectator Poetry My Friend Rain To the Finest of Fruit subscription eight dollars a year free postage Wittell to subscribe.
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Littell
Martin Joseph Routh
Macleod of Dare
Frazer’s
Sir Gibbie
George MacDonald
Marquis of Lassie
Wittell
Demorest's Monthly November Issue Noted for Enlargements
The November Demorest's Monthly expands by eight pages and adds two oil pictures and two steel engravings along with art subjects and fifty eight illustrations. It features stories and poems, household hints, a children's corner, fashion notes, and full descriptions of prevailing styles for family reading.
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Demorest’s
Peterson's Magazine Embraces 1879 Price Reductions and Patterns
Peterson's Magazine offers a two dollar yearly price with great reductions for clubs in 1879. Every issue includes a supplement and a full sized pattern sheet for ladies and children's clothing, enabling subscribers to cut their own dresses and alterations.
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Peterson's
Peterson
Traits of Thiers and his court of women
A vivid portrait from Mireside Monthly of French statesman Louis Thiers. It details his susceptibility to female conversation, hospitable household rituals, fondness for gardens and animals, and his intimate routines with Lady Dosne and his sisters. It notes his passions for horses, gardens, and a surprising lack of interest in children, ending with notes on art bequests and family ties.
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M. Thiers
Madame Thiers
Thiers
Tours
Bordeaux
Versailles
M. Charles Blanc
Fontaine
Place St. Georges
Longchamps
Chantilly
Duc de Morny
Empire
Ibrahim
Paris
Mdlle
Dosne
Louvre
Madame Dosne
Packing Eggs For Safe Transport
Fine cut straw or hay and clean oats are good for packing eggs. Do not use chaff. Keep packing sweet and dry. Create alternating layers with eggs placed end toward the side, pressed gently, and covered with packing. Repeat until full, finishing with two inches of packing and an inch of hay under the cover. The result protects eggs over long distances.
A Little Girl Asks Minister About Heaven
A child queries a minister about her father's fate in heaven. The minister affirms belief, and the girl quips that he must have his own way or he won't stay long, reflecting a humorous take on stubbornness and assurance.
The Best Time to Plant Trees for Farmers
The article argues fall or spring planting both have merits for forest and fruit trees. It urges careful preparation, soil depth of at least twelve to eighteen inches, and staking to prevent wind damage. It notes dry fall ground, proper manuring with a root crop, and avoiding wet soil to ensure healthy root growth and fruit-bearing trees.
Extinct Liliputians Near Milksick Mountain Site
A letter from Lickory Valley Tennessee describes tiny graves about twenty inches long found in a yard. The graves contain full-grown remains with teeth and mature features, along with shells and ornaments, including a carved seashell of unknown meaning. The site sits at Milksick mountain foot, offering rugged ascent and a broad view from the summit.
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Lickory Valley
Tenn
Milksick Mountain
Last Romances of the Summer
A man who fled San Francisco to escape threats returns to prove his wife is not a widow and block her life insurance. An Illinois farmer defeats a would be suitor to his daughter. A Danbury man, divorced years earlier, remarries or has an heir and arranges his first wife as nurse.
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San Francisco
Danbury
All honest men will bear watching it rascals who can stand it
A terse proverb warns that honesty invites scrutiny while unscrupulous figures thrive on lax oversight. The line frames vigilance as a civic duty, contrasting virtuous behavior with potential misconduct.
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Rascals
Hydrogen Explains Combustion and Gas Reactions
A lecture on hydrogen properties describes its nonpoisonous nature and how it extinguishes flaws by reacting with oxygen. It covers combustion, gas mixtures, and experiments showing that hydrogen burns with oxygen to form water, with explanations of ventilation, explosive potential, and methods to generate and test hydrogen gas.
Vindicated tramp repays kindness with landmark farm deed
Four years after a hungry tramp stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Safford in Dakota and was forgiven, he later returned in disguise. He sent a deed to a prized farm to the couple and neighbors who had fed and sheltered him, claiming to be the same grateful tramp.
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Joseph Poorgrass
Kellogg
General Custer
Little Big Horn
California
Wire magnetism alters balance weight in earth field
Mallet notes that a wire placed east west carrying current appears to change weight due to earth magnetism. An experimental setup uses ten horizontal wires on a dry poplar strip with mercury cups at ends. When ten Grove cells drive current east to west one side rises. west to east the other side sinks, observable with a one metre wire.
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Faraday
Ten Grove
Scotch cyclist spans Kilmarnock to London on bicycle
The London press reports a young Scotch gentleman undertaking an eight hundred mile round trip from Kilmarnock to London and back. His longest single day's ride reached one hundred twelve miles in the journey.
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London
Kilmarnock
Recipe of Prosperity Rules for Youth and Business
Advises youths and young men to learn a craft, save a portion of earnings, start small in business, keep books, avoid debt, and marry only on solid income. Encourages farming, fair dealing, and prudent wages over partnerships or political office, noting prosperity hinges on customer trust and frugality.
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Poeanu
Millions for Defense but Not a Cent for Tribute
The New York Journal of Commerce attributes the famous line to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a distinguished officer of the American Revolution, spoken during his 1790 French mission. As the French Directory pressed for a monetary present, Pinckney and colleagues faced a choice between war and payment, allegedly replying with defiant resolve.
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New York Journal of Commerce
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
France
Washington
Marshall
Gerry
Talleyrand
Pinckney
Of What is Salt a Symbol in History and Lore
The article explains salt as a symbol of hospitality binding bargains by bread and salt, and as a marker of desolation when cities are sown with salt. It notes Scottish and Irish beliefs that salt signifies incorruptible spirit, placed above the heart in corpses, and describes the big salt cellar as a social boundary between noble households and servants.
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Scotland
Ireland
Anvil from Valley Forge Found at Phoenix Iron Works
The 1778 Valley Forge anvil used to shoe Continental army horses was found in the old mill of Phoenix Iron Works. Recovered from cavalry stable clearings by Snyder, it passed to J. J. Over's gun works, then Eph Vanderslice, later to Phenix Iron Works and Alexander Russell. A committee aims to return it to the Forge for the Centennial.
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Valley Forge
Phoenix Iron Works
Snyder
J. J.over
United States
Eph. Vanderslice
Phenix Iron Works
Alexander Russell
Inventor John Corbin of New Harmony patents steam dryer
John Corbin of New Harmony Indiana patents a steam driven grain drying machine. The device centers on a revolving hollow shaft with steam supply and exhaust, a fixed hollow ring and hollow radial arms, plus a loose adjustable hollow ring linked by flexible pipes and sliding hub.
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John Corbin
Newharmony
Ind
Antiseasickness Cures From Ancient Greek Knowledge
Sailors in historic accounts used iron rust dissolved in water as a remedy for sea sickness. They also employed a small pouch tied to the navel containing roasted salt and thyme flowers to slow stomach motion during rolling seas. The practice traces back to ancient Greek knowledge.
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Mediterranean
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Bailey & Neft
Stephenson St
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