The Bicycle Patent Battle and Lost Fortune
A sprawling tale recounts a heated race to patent a wheel improvement, with money invested and a founder’s fortune at stake. It details rival inventors, legal challenges, and the ultimate claim that patent rights were unprotected in America, followed by anecdotes of medical cures and public notices from Indiana Pennsylvania in 1895.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tad
Belfast
Dunlop— Bk
Tristan Neriec
Bares Duras
Bares Duras, Who Absudemed the ‘Om In and Riea the Formation of A Eany. Sferdise
Manderel
Alern Woos
Whetnisoekest
Pia Muutie
Pater
America
Philadelphia
Mill St
South Gardner
Moss
Dr. King
WE. Hildeband’s
Indiana
Moore's
Homer City
MG. Miller’s
Blausville
Dar- Win
Milne
Erunne
Paradise Lost
Columbus
Ferdinand de Lesseps
London
India
Suez Canal
Norwegian Farmhouse in Honest Wood and Quiet Life
A Chambers Journal描 describes a bare Norwegian farmhouse with simple wooden furniture, windows without glass, and family pegs for clothes, highlighting stark rural life and durable construction. The scene contrasts with a later anecdote in a Fourth Avenue candy store where a girl uses a savings bank to buy candy, and a beer check slips out. The piece ends with notes about The Muminated Queeraule Constellation, a 1859 New York edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Sivert
Chambers’ Journal
Fourth Avenue
American Foreign Missionary Society
Africa
Louisville
Pensions For English Ministers Under the 1869 Act
Chambers' Journal reports on pensions for former ministers under the Political Office Pensions Act of 1869. Ex chancellors in England and Ireland receive annual sums, with four £2,000 and four £1,200 pensions available to qualifying ex-ministers. Applicants must declare need for support, and pension eligibility ceases if reappointed to office with salary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exford
England
Ireland
Admiralty
Chambers’ Journal
The Beginning of the End in a Humorous Dialogue
An Indianapolis Journal item imagines a scene with William the Conqueror and a court jester. a line about an arrow fizzles into a critique of the jester’s influence, framed as a witty moment in a historical tableau. The piece also includes an old advertisement for Dr. Thomas selectrics oil and Fowler’s Ext of Wild Strawberry with medical claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William the Conqueror
Indianapolis Journal
Thomas
Amelia Swords
Saundersville
Doctor cures eye growths in Westmoreland County patients
In Westmoreland County Mr. Moses M Taylor and Mr. Geo Meyers suffered fleshy growths at the inner eye corners that threatened sight. After consultation with Dry Sadler of Penn Avenue and Mr Samuel Harris, the doctor performed his special operation and all are reported cured. The physician notes his method has never failed after hundreds of trials and claims success in similar eye affections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackbrim
Westmoreland County
Sadler
Penn Avenue
Samuel Harris
Taylor
Geo. Meyers
Springdale
Bucknell University Catalogue and Address Details
Bucknell University information lists John Howard Harris as a president and outlines courses leading to degrees, academies for boys and men, a Ladies Institute and School of Music, a thirty acre campus with ten buildings, gymnasium, laboratory, and observatory, with registrar Wm C Gretzinger in Lewisburg Pa. Also an 18aug06 ad for Rheumatism Cure Mystic Cure claiming rapid relief in 1 to 3 days sold by Hetrick Bros and Tom E Hilde.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucknell University
John Howard Harris
L. L
Feu
Ladies’ Institute
School of Music
Wm. C. Gretzinger
Lewisburg
Hetrick Bros
Tom E. Hilde
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Fane
Hetrick Bro S
Dadiwna
Joey Tye
Piany
Thas Bee Ag
Pete
Lev Ness
Eugenie
Yoo
Byrne Days
Tan Jis Iussher
Hortense
Joe Liz
Je Sy
Anna L Picknell
Dea
Jain
S. G. Hartman
Ascot
Daugherty Bros
James Anderson
W. S. Daugherty
New York City
Buchanan
Edward Everett
Henry Ward Beecher
N. P. Banks
E. H. Chapin
Horsace Greeley
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Alexander von Humboldt
James G. Bennett
New York Sun
Fowler
C. I. Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
Dy Samuel
New York
Castoria
Penn
Columbia
A.g.glenn
Grisemore PA
QUEGY
Surrie
Frank Douglass
PENNA
J. T. Boucher
Philadelphia ST
Indiana, Pa
Mackinag
Mackinac Detroit
Petoskey
Chicago
Detroit
Cleveland
Put-in-Bay
Toledo
A. A. Schantz
Betolt
The
Atlantic Refining Company
Pictssure Drvart
Pittsburg, Pa
Maxes
Bernat
J. F. Barnes
A.P.T.L
American Protective Tariff League
Walcome
Cae
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