How to Patent a Useful Invention and Its Road
A detailed explainer from the Patent Office on filing for a patent. It covers required forms oath specifications drawings and models the tests of novelty usefulness and the role of claims to define the patent. It notes examiner scrutiny and the value of precise language and skilled patent solicitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsasis
Patent Office
Commissioner of Patents
Glass
Acrow
Clark
Age Arts
Itia
Scientific American
Presidential Christmas Gifts From the Nation
Washington letter notes gifts to President Hayes from manufacturers and rural districts. Items include a patent nut cracker a boys bicycle a music rack a calumet and corked champagne bottle. White House cellar yields apples cheese grapes and pumpkins as final gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayes
White House
Dickens
Broadway
New York
Brookline
Conn
Washington
Indianapolis Journal
Lawsuit Over Coat Ride To Cincinnati Court
A Polish benevolent society Towarzstwo Polskie Z W Zayemnego W Sparcia Kosculszki faces a suit in Cincinnati court. Henry Pott alleges his overcoat vanished after a ball hosted by the society, seeking full value from the defendants. The case anecdotally notes the Polish government no longer being an entity and hints at a likely unfavorable outcome for the defendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Schwab
Towarzstwo,Polskie Z. . Zayemnego W. Sparcia Koscuiszk
Towarzstwo Polskie Z. W. Zayemnego W. Sparola Kosculszki
Henry Potth
Towarzatwo Polakie 'Z
W. Zayemnego
W. Sparcia Kosculsski
St. Louis
Gxorex Breas Emerges as Wealth Leader in Washington DC
A garbled note claims Gxorex Breas is the wealthiest figure in Washington DC. It references a family firm tied to Georgs Peabody and W Corcoran, but the text is corrupted and many names are unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gxorex Breas
Washington, D. C
Bann
Georgs Peabody
Ap Pessons
W. Corcoran
Gossipy European Court Talk and Royal Bets
A string of social notes from Nice, Paris, and Scotland covers European elites, royal betrothals, and a 70th birthday gift gesture by Emperor William. It notes the Baden prince and Hesse-Darmstadt princess match, a stewardess lineage, and a life-plotting American in Paris. Also recounted are Belgian rural decay, Florence Nightingale’s sister critique, Mochi’s failed ventures, Mechi’s street cred, and a census advertising ploy rejected by the British government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prenvor Goxronaxorr
4Rnim
Bismarck
Exemies
Nice
Grand Duke
Baden
Victoria
Hesse-Darmstadt
Alice
England
Wilhelm
William von Humboldt
Emperor William
Germany
Paris
Scotland
Cornwallis West
Belgium
Florence Ightingale
Lady Verney
Mochi
Tiptree Hall
London
Mechi
Queen Caroline
George II
Morning Calls in the French Quarter of New Orleans
An observer describes a stroll through the old French Quarter noting dilapidated houses creole and Italian residents selling fruit beer and decorated shop windows. Evening crowds of children fill the streets and a shop window displays a colorful fruit pyramid as church bells ring and mass begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Our City
St. Ce Gathesens
Athedral
Multilingual street vendors fill New Orleans day
The narrative trails through Bourbon Street and Orleans near Burgundy as vendors cry aloud selling cigars garlicked onions and oysters. An Italian shouts Teens-feoxy a Creole woman hawks latanters and brushes while others offer sausage garlock and scissors. The scene captures a busy immigrant marketplace filled with vivid slang and local color.
Poison Springs of Mendocino County Connecticut?
In Mendocino near Hopland on the Russian River banks lie poison springs on a sparse marsh. Gas from a seam poisons animals and people though water is not harmful. Reports describe foxes rabbits and birds dying and Indians using vapors for perceived healing. Bear hunter Scott witnessed a dog die and nearly suffered himself as fumes rise strongest in the morning. No chemical water analysis exists yet but the springs are bound to attract attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mendocino County
Hopland
Russian River
Antessis
Scott
San Francisco Chronicle
Science and Industry Notes on ingenious materials and discoveries
The column reports on cocoanut fiber used for shoe heels as leather substitute, a new battery with sheet iron element, a Geneva calculation on plant species totaling 2560, gas leaks through a barrel and a damaged gas pipe, and color blind business trends. It notes deep artesian wells in California, deep borings redeeming foothills, Joseph Albert's color prints, St Louis photography with electric light, and egg composition with carbon and nitrogen percentages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MuLuer
Geneva
Heidelberg
California
Stockton
Joseph Albert
Munich
St. Louis
Edward Smith
Jumbled Epigrams And Cartoon Snippets From A 19th Century Page
A collage of satirical quotes and jokes from varied papers including the Boston Advertiser and New Orleans Picayune. Snippets reference editors, photographers, and public figures with humorous twists on manners, brass hats, and everyday misadventures.
Hotel Encounter Ends With Broken Pitcher In Petersburg
In a Petersburg hotel two strangers aiming for an early express north clashed when one awoke the other with a pitcher. A mistaken intruder chase broke the pitcher, left both slightly injured, and ended with both men calming down and departing north on the same train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersburg
Washington
Warkingtn
New Yorker
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Unstead
President Hayes
Belle Calas
Terra Firma
Italy
Burgundy
Orleans Street
John
Canal Street
Arlock
Darkey
New Orleans Picayune
Science and Industry
Josh Billings
Boston Advertiser
Boston Transcript
Steubenville Herald
Burlington Hawkeye
Memphis
Detroit
Free Press
Garkasm
Angelina
Catskill Recorder
Julie
Lottie
Noscor
Jacom
Didine
A. Vogeler & Co
Baltimore
Hamlin
BABY
Mason & Hamlin
Mason & Mamlin
Mason & Hamlin CO
Mason & Hamlin Organ CO
Tremont St
Bobton
Eastith &, Sh
York
Wabesh Ave
Chicago
Areeer Bidlelee
Wien
Dr Bulls
Ambion
Coles
Kingston
Wyman
Tiffin
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