The Joneses Coat of Arms Delusion
A well to do couple, Melinda and De Courcey Jones, debate buying a family crest after a slick Italian promises authentic coats of arms. The tale unfolds with spoofed lineage claims, a costly lesson when The Swell Set reveals copyright drama and the cost of vanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Courcey Jones
Mr. Jones
de Courcey
John
Burkes
Smileys
Stonehams
Cottrers
Cutters
Charlemagne
Alfred the Great
Richard
Cutter
Melinda
Chenango Valley
Burke
Joneses
Jones
Jolm
John the Baptist
the Baptist
Giuseppe Macaroni
Macaroni
Sults
James
Chisago Record- Herald
Postal risks and rare losses amid vast mail volumes
The chief inspector notes 52,306 letters with enclosures and 47,049 packages complained about, yet overall mail risk remains tiny given billions of items handled annually. Other costs include robberies and fires at post offices, pouches stolen, and boxes lifted, yet overall loss is surprisingly low in Uncle Sam’s system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
United States
Uncle Sam
Chicago Herald
Airship dreams echo in Squire Silchester tale
In the 1873 story Squire Silchester's Whim Achille Gilet pilots a Guernsey based balloon to the English coast landing on the squire's estate. The squire protests trespass and notes airspace as private. Simonet warns balloons could spark lawsuits and airspace fencing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mortimer Collins
Squire Silchester
Achille Gilet
Guernsey
Squire
Simonet
Boston _ Journal
Pacific Coast Tour by Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvanian railroad offers a fully guided 30 day round trip to the Pacific coast leaving New York and other eastern points September 23, returning October 22. The travel plan includes a Grand Canyon visit, Sierra Nevada scenery, and the Grand Canon of Arizona with observation cars and Pullman equipment. Rates are 185 dollars round trip for one in a berth, 165 dollars for two sharing, Pittsburg reduction five dollars. limited berths, register now via George W. Boyd, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.
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California
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pacific Coast
Canadian Northwest
Grand Union of Arizona
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Pittsboro
San Francisco
Chicago
Colorado Rockies
Great Salt Lake
Sierra Nevada
Arizona Desert
Grand Canon
Arizona
Plains
St. Louis
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Protetent Episcopal Church
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pittsburg
George W. Boyd
Broad Street Station
Pleasing Large Houses at Academy for Pan American Visitors
Indiana visitors to the Pan American Exposition are urged to stay at the Academy where A Trip to Buffalo a three act comic opera by Harry B. Marshall is performed nightly. The piece attracts large houses and Indiana audiences, with President McKinley’s event noted for September 5. The Buffalo railroad offers low fares, and the day features a grand Park Lake fireworks display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Buffalo
Academy
Harry B. Marshall
Godfrey Marshall
Progress
Rainbow City
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway
McKinley
Supreme,court
Diplomatic Corps
United States Marine Band
Paine
Park Lake
Reduced Rates to Cleveland For G A R Encampment
Pennsylvania Railroad offers excursion tickets at reduced rates from its lines to Cleveland Ohio for the Thirty fifth Annual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic September 10 to 14. Tickets valid for outbound travel September until 12 and return until September 15, with possible extension to October 8 upon payment of fifty cents.
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Cleveland
Pennsylvania Railroad
Grand Army of the Republic
Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
The Novelty Manufacturing Company Charter Application
Notice of an application to the Governor of Pennsylvania on September 25 1901 by C W Tuck W A Guthrie M H Guthrie Lafayette Tuck and G Guthrie under the 1874 act for incorporation of The Novelty Manufacturing Company to manufacture and sell handles telegraph and telephone pins cross bars and related articles with corporate rights and privileges. Cunningham and Fisher Solicitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
C. W. Tuck
W. A. Guthrie
M. H. Guthrie
Lafayette Tuck
G. Guthrie
Act of Assembly
Thea Novelty Manufacturing Company
Cunningham & Fisher, Solicitors
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Edward 8. Clark
Ameer
Afghanistan
Nasrullah Khan
England
London
Monthly Review
Pockels
Dresden
United States Weather Bureau
E. W. Grove
Phia
Daugherty Bros
Moore
Homer City
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dave H Eatry
R.W. Wehrle
B. I. Welke
Watchmaker
Jeweler
Optigian
Philadelphia Street
Superior
Harbison ,& Rankin
Opp
Clymer M’fg Co
Indiana County
Penn Run
G. E. Frantz
Prop’r
Penn’a
Round House
Work & Son
Indiana, PA
McFarland & Turner
McFarland, Smith & MacCartney
A. L. Smith
Clymer Manufacturing CO
Philadelphia St
Michigan
Steving & Sutton
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