Rhode Island Clam Diggers Tout Record Season Outlook
The Providence Journal notes Rhode Island clam diggers at Narragansett Bay harvest vast numbers, with Rocky Point crews moving up to fifty or sixty workers on busy days. Captain J H Northrup reports Green’s Island clams two to three years old, thinning now, and readiness to shift operations to Cole’s River and Kirkemuit River if needed. Wages rise to one dollar per bushel as season prospects look unusually strong for next year.
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Providence Journal
Narragansett Bay
Nayarit
Commicat
Green's Island
Pawtuxet
Sabin’s Point
J. H. Northrup
Rocky Point Clam Gang
Rhode Island
Rocky Point
Cole's River
Kirkemuit
Massachusetts
Glener A
Clam Bake Era at Rocky Point Described in Detail
A historical account details Rocky Point clamming and clam bake culture. It notes top diggers like Jarcellus Hall and William Kinnecum, the processing of clams, hot stone piles, and the open shed where quahaug shells are handled. Edgartown quahaugs supply two to three hundred bushels biweekly for chowder and related dishes.
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Jarcellus Hall
Nothrup
William Kinnecum
Rocky Point
Rhode Island
Edgartown
The American Girl and her Nudging Elbows
A reflection on American charm and restlessness describing vivacity and the infamous elbow nudge. The narrator admires a American friend yet prefers gentler gestures to the forceful elbow alert.
Handsome army couple named in Randow clippings
Randow clippings note Gen. Mines and his wife praised as the army’s handsomest couple. Other items mention a bright yellow house, a loop-sized dog needing heavy food, and various distant notes from England, Zaliski, and New Mexico.
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Gen. Mines
Fortune Claim For Montreasier Heir Reported
Tue Due de Montreasier is said to possess Europe’s largest royal fortune and may leave all to the Comtesse de Paris. His only living son is described as a hopeless invalid.
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Tue Due de Montreasier
Europe
Comtesse de Paris
Admitted life governor Mary Andher son and noted honorees
Mary Andherson is made life governor of the Shakespeare memorial association after a donation exceeding £100. Past honorees include Irving Barry Sullivan Creswick Booth and Sothern. Helen Eben of Philadelphia, a $1,000,000 heiress and skilled horsewoman, is also mentioned alongside Secretary Bayard’s daughter. Progressive euchre at summer hotels exposes cheating by fashionable players, risking the label of fashionable men or women.
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Mary Andherson
The
Shakespeare Memorial Association
Irving
Barry Sullivan
Creswick
Booth
Sothern
Philadelphia
Helen Eben
Bayard
True Blue Whigs and a Virginia Pioneer
The piece recalls the English Whigs adopting blue and dull in colonial times with George IV toasting true blue at Mrs Crewes garden party. It notes ex Governor William Sairn of Virginia nearing 96 and actively managing a Warrenton farm with two surviving sons Col Thomas Smith and Capt Frederick Smith. four brothers are dead, one James Caleb Smith once dueled Senator Broderick in California in 1850.
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United States
George LV
Prince of Wales
Wm. Sairn
Virginia
Warrenton
Col
Thomas Smith
Capt
Frederick Smith
New Mexico
James Caleb Smith
California
Broderick
Nast Beloved by The Springfield Globe as Columbia’s Original
The Springfield Globe identifies Mrs. Nast as the model for Columbia the tall beautiful woman in Nast's wartime allegorical pictures. It notes her as the source of Nast's national fame through these masterful images. Columbia is described as Nast’s personal art creation distinct from the Goddess of Liberty.
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Mr. Nast
Springfield Globe
Columbia
Nast
Liberty
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Wervert Holmes
England
Zaliski, O
Mr. Radcliffe
Interior Department
Commissioners of Pensions
Lower
Rocky Mountains
Sierra Blanca
Singerly
Fifteen- Mile Lake
Sacramento
San Luis Park
Connecticut
San Luis
Rio Grande de Norte
Mark
TUE
Charles A. Vogeler Company
Baltimore
Maryviand
T. 8
Wownwen
Euffer
JUIE
Ron Medi Vee Co
FarzaneTa
Farwell Ave
Oankee
Wis
Brown
Brown Chemical CO
Ral
Lapres
Coina
Lydia C. Pinkham
Lynn
Masx
Henderson
Wrancorre St
Kansas City
Chicago
Annals of Medicine
Orad
Wyondotte St
ROYAL
Holmas
Kausasily Say
Sterling
Nesidrees
Boxel
John Sternlngoyal
All Drug Cists
CO. N
Carriesrton
Fulton At
P.W Lirgler & Gc
Ada
Queen City
Cincinnati
Cincinosii, O
America
Camale Aguneoy
Fulton St
New
Ine
DBA
Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington, Vt
Grant
Merican Publishing CO
Hastie Ostone Chicace
Cincinnath
Louis
Isaac Thompson
John L. Thompson
Ullak
Glenn
C. Criptenton
OG. N. Crittinton
New York
R. U. Aware
Lorillard
C. Ih. Edwards
Chigkering
Remn
Tnital
C. N. Crittenton
Prietor
Multon Street
Otto
J. Stephens
Lebanon
Ohio
Brian & Simalion
Uead
Vis
B. M. Woolley
Atlan
W.N. U. Dallas
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