The Ventriloquist at Strand Tavern and a Street Charade
In a London tale at the Strand’s Coal Hole the ventriloquist Toole regales a journalist with a cautionary anecdote. A beggar lures the narrator from Drury Lane to Seven Dials, where the disguised impostor confesses his ruse and draws the narrator into a tense confrontation over a watch and a pistol.
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Strand
Coal Hole
London
Toole
Drury Jane
Gaiety Theater
Lla
Drury Lane
Convent Garden Market
Long Acre
Fragmented comic scraps mixed with vivid vignettes
A collage of quirky lines and anecdotes from a late nineteenth or early twentieth century paper. It features a vivid robber scene, theatre lateness, rural bear encounters, a bicycle baby ride, a Memphis marriage note, and a humorous streetcar exchange with a witty six year old, all echoing period tone.
Mabel at Thirty Eight Dignity Turns to Brisk Gait
The verse contrasts Mabel’s youth with her thirty eight years, noting a shift to a giddy, brisk manner making her seem sixteen again. A collection of quotes from Boston Courier New York Herald Philadelphia Record and New York World features snatches about English marriage trends cockfighting Marquis of Lorne and Mark Twain.
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Mabel
Boston Courier
New York Herald
Philadelphia
England
Marquis of Lorne
New York
New York World
Mark Twain
Short Facts From a Historic Page About Life and Nature
A collection of curiosities notes that begging in Paris yields more money than work. It mentions a horse tied by its forelegs in the street in Japan, twelve Florida grown oranges filling a peck, and $25 000 floral decorations for a royal England event. It reports mothers in eastern cities carrying sick babies at night, then compares fowl health with geese and jokes about flowers aroma buttering, including rose petals and nasturtiums in a simple French technique.
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Paris
DeLand
Fla
William
England
Chapter 1 to 3 Diet and health cure ad
An early patent medicine style notice touts Hood's Sarsaparilla curing weakness and loss of appetite. It then markets a chiropodist and manicure parlors offering painless corns bunions and inverted nails removal, nail beautification, wart freckles tan removal and hair services. Dr J B Morgan runs the parlors on the second floor 1844 North Pennsylvania Street.
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North
Pennsylvania St
J. B. Morgan
Livery and Hacks Featured in Stables and Remedies Ad
An old line advert shows Woods' stables and livery services alongside a patent medicine claim for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. The ad touts soothing effects on the child, gums, wind colic, and diarrhoea with a 25 cent bottle price.
Roaches and Pests Urged Fumigation Advert by Seabury
An old advertisement urges readers to destroy roaches, water bugs, moths, beetles, ants, fleas and other pests at once using Seabury's Sulphur Candles for rooms, closets and cellars and Seabury's Lydronaphtrol for constant fumigation, endorsed by merchants.
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Seabury
Fires and floods News Across The Nation
A scattered set of brief items reports a big fire in Norfolk Virginia and hail two feet thick in St Cloud Minnesota. Wreck near Brighton Colorado leaves two dead. Peanuts burned in New York valued at eighty thousand dollars. A New Orleans death from leprosy Saturday. Various oddities and notices including a baby tobacco smoker in Chicago and a century birthday in Bennington Vermont.
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Jay Gould
Norfolk
New Orleans
New Jersey
Leonard Turner
Chicago
Bennington
German Catholic Knights of America
Louisville
St. Cloud
Minn
Union Pacific
Brighton
Col
New York
E. B. Preston
Ottawa
Kan
Chicago & Erie
Frane & Gaskell’s Bottling Works
Des Moines
Donn Pratt
Garfield
Simon Garcia
Brownsville
James Buckingham
Syracuse
Anna Harkness
Cronant
Cincinnati
Special reductions on
A brief public notice promises pleasing value and rewards for readers, urging interest in special reductions that promise full value. The fragment emphasizes customer satisfaction and potential reputation impact without detailing scope or dates.
Indianapolis Public Works bids for street improvements 1892
Notice from the Board of Public Works invites sealed proposals by August 10 1892 for grading and graveling Alvord street Massachusetts to Home avenues widening to sixteen feet gutter widths seven feet and stone curbing. Also bids for alley grading Maryland street Ohio street and Wilson street projects, plus a brick sewer on Pennsylvan ia street with plans on file, bids may be rejected.
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Department OF Public Works
Indianapolis
Ind
Board of Public Works
Alvord Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Home Avenue
City of
Illinois Street
Second Street
Seventh Street
Market Street
Cruse Street
Boxard
D. BR
McCarty Street
Ayeteller
Ilinois Street
Tennessee Street
Ohio Street
Highland Street
Hanna
Pennsylvania Street
Pratt Street
St. Joseph Street
Wilson Street
Pine Street
Cruse Stree
Scenic Marion county spot with guards and transit info
The article praises a picturesque Marion county location in Sherman with a restaurant and refreshment pavilions, guards on duty day and night for visitor protection, and electric trains running every 10 minutes in the afternoon.
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Marion County
Sherman
The Sun Real Estate and Classifieds Ad Offer
Open to readers: place ads in The Sun at a half cent per word for selling, trading, or wanting items. Promote houses, furniture, clothing, or unique trades like shotgun for banjo. Contact Sun at 79 EK Ohbiost or call 880 to arrange.
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Sun
Tar Sun
Butte merchant overwhelmed by shoe sale crowd
A Butte Montana shopkeeper who advertised a bankruptcy sale of shoes faced an enormous crowd. Twelve clerks were insufficient to serve shoppers, women fainted in the crush, and the doors had to be locked. The merchant now rethinks his advertising strategy.
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Butte
Mont
Areck
Rensees
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Edgar Allen
Ellen Burg
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