Fire drill as marriage proposal and other old stories
Miss Isabel McGallon a public school teacher arranges a fire drill to grant time for a marriage proposal. The scene ends with a betrothal kiss as the children return. Also noted are a railroad president’s poker anecdote with coffee bean chips and a piece on the Duse turban style. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy praised by a North Carolina family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabel McGallon
Miss McGallen
Miss McGallon
Buffalo Express
Kenneth Bazemore
Chamberlain
Geo. W. Baker
Lewiston
N. C
Daugherty Bros
Indiana
M. G. Miller
Blairsville
W. J. Moore
Homer City
R. N. Parks
Marion Center
Various 19th Century Oddities From Odds and Ends
A collage of curiosities notes old vessels built in 1892 totalling 1,395 with 199 million tons, quirky facts about shoes and clocks, a Fall River murder site remodeled as a tenement, a Philadelphia breakfast aid, and the smallest republic Franceville. It also cites the Newark guide’s unwanted label, preservation efforts for Rufus Patman house, willow ware trials near St Louis, a Stanford census on child lies, and Verdi’s humorous tale of hand organs piling up outside his Montecaliere retreat as he sought rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Webster
Hartford
Borden
Fall River
Mass
Franceville
New Hebrides
Newark
N. J
Baedeker
Society of Antiquity of
Worcester
Rufus Patman
Rutland
St. Louis
Earl Burrs
Stanford University
California
France
England
Paris
London
Napoleon III
Napoleon II
Mr. Astor
Duke of Westminster
Thames
Champs Elysees
Cliveden
New York
William Butler Duncan
Samuel R. Barlow
Staten Island
Long Island
Britain
London World
Verdi
Montecaliere
The Polar Star Yacht and Other 19th Century Oddities
A parade of curiosities and factoids from a bygone era includes the Polar Star, the czar’s luxury yacht valued at $5,000,000 built by a Russian empire, a Georgia couple reuniting after 28 years, and St Jerome dating Halleluiah and Amen to around A.D. 390. Also noted are a bicycle feat from San Francisco to San Diego, a Welsh well with healing fame, Ulm Minster’s tallest tower finally visible, and a Harlem aquarium boarding house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
William
Czar
Russia
Georgia
St. Jerome
Also Mentioned on This Page
Warren Elliott
Wilmington and Weldon
Elliott
New York Press
Odds and
Italy
Pitcher’s Castoria
Harlem
New York City
Missouri
Oscar Osen
San Francisco
San Diego
St. Winefrede’s
North Wales
Ulm Minster
Castoria
Miles
the People’s
Pittsburg
Campbell & Smith
Campbell & Dick
Fifth Ave
Mississippi River
Frank M. Chapman
Our Animal Friends
Ayers Carsaparilla
Ayer
Tam
C. S. Apple, Jeweler & Optician
Hall Building
Wheeler & Wilson
Wheeler & Wilson M’s’g Co
Work & Young
Jas. A. White
Oxford St
Brooklyn
Enwis F. Paine
13Th Street
7Th Ave
Tee Cerracr Company
Mcxeay
W. L. Douglass
Sharretts’ Shoe Store
American House
Indiana, PA
Edna Piano & Organ Co
Manorville
Ohio
USA
RAND
F. J. Johnson
J. H. Brilhart & Son’s
H. Brilhart & Son
Oo O Work & Young
HES
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