The American Beauty rose and the gardener Brady
In 1889 John Brady, an English gardener, created a red rose for George Bancroft that became the American Beauty. After Bancroft’s death Brady’s rose rose to fame but his fortunes sank. he endured poverty while the rose’s fame and sales flourished, totaling millions annually. Brady remained homeless in Washington, cared for by charity, and died in modest obscurity, his pride in the famed bloom unshaken.
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Washington
Theodore Kremer
Jules Verne
George Bancroft
John Brady
Brady
Mancroft
Germany
England
America
Mr. Bancroft
Abraham Lincoln
Herr Blamarck
Berlin
Blamarck
Pomerania
Lafayette Square
Herman
Seventeenth Street
Bancroft
France
Hancroft
Madame Ferdinand Jemain
Hrady
William Francis Bennett
New York
George Vancroft
Mme. Ferdinand
Judge Hagner
Bis
Bancroft Gardens
Field Brothers
Wholegate Floriets
Seventh Street Road
Mrs. Brady
Join Brady
Hoe
Wiliam R. Smith
National Botanical Gardens
United States
Earth
Why the Fifth Man Left in the Smoking Room
On a two day voyage from England a group of firemen play poker in the smoking room of an ocean liner. After a casual baldness discussion, the youngest member accuses Mr Blank of wearing a wig and being the one who made the getaway, causing him to vanish from the smoking room for the rest of the trip.
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Fanny
Clergyman Credits Dodds Kidney Pills After Dropsy Recovery
The Rev. Edmund Heslop of Wigton Pennsylvania suffered a year with dropsy. His limbs were swollen, heart fluttered, dizzy, and exhausted. After using six boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills his symptoms improved, and he reported lasting benefit and renewed faith in the remedy.
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Edmund Heslop
Wigton
E. Heslop
Rev. B. Heslop
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
N.Y
End of a Famous Vessel Fox wrecks on Greenland coast
The Fox, the vessel in which Sir Leopold McClintock aided discovery of Franklin's fate, has been wrecked on the Greenland coast. Recently she served the Danish Greenland authorities on coastal trips.
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Fox
Sir Leopold McClintock
Sir John Franklin
Greenland
One Problem Settled by a Voter Protest
Mrs Stronghead threw a paving stone through a drug store window to prove she was entitled to a vote and was jailed. The judge quotes the remark and Stronghead savors solving the summer spending question.
Stockholm traveler recalls American athletes' yells echoed across Sweden
A returning traveler notes that the cheers from American athletes in Stockholm could be heard throughout Sweden. Juxtaposed with odd phrases, the entry includes a mock exchange on petty theft and a colonial era medicine advert. The text blends skeptical commentary with stray quotations and product pitches.
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Bane Gude Yelie
Stockholm
Sweden
Cured Catarrh Sale Ad Fragments From 1900s Page
Fragmented advertisement notes for a cure titled catarrh cure and salve across drugstore items. Mentions Red Crossall Blue value and a moral quip about jealousy. Contains miscellaneous ad snippets and guidance lines.
Canvassed Echoes of Rural Speech and Romance
In a fragmentary dialogue a speaker jokes about counting money from hypothetical gifts and asks if a marriage proposal in a canoe was accepted. The muddled text references beauty claims by doctors and a wife's stance on gambling, hinting at social quirks and domestic humor.
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PRS
Clorce Buna
Herrick
Cole
Fecome Peas
Bekotee
N. Y
FT. Wayne
Episas
Dragan Vb
Weil
Tor Ly Spohn Medical Co
W.l.douglas Shoes
Bweer
L.douglas
Ameer
Renk
Kopp
Baby
Archer
the Kopp’ Y Bays
Rample
Raekopp
Reainol Chem, Co
Baltimore
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