Poverty alley parson offers Ned Young escape to California
In Whitechapel poverty alley a costermonger Ned Young and his wife endure hunger and drink. Parson Edward Belcher helps by feeding the family and offering a chance to move to California where work and sobriety can bring better life. The tale sketches reform, philanthropy, and migration as remedies.
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Whitechapel
San Francisco
Poverty Alley
Edward Belcher
Virago
Husulye
Ang T
Edward
Ned
Ned Young
California
Jack
Oddities and anecdotes from a busy day in town
A mixed bag of brief items and quips includes shop talk at a bookseller, a coroner's verdict on a self strangling, a Cherveus hairpin tragedy, and curious notes on a Utah mine and a Cincinnati hatmaker. Local humor, accidents, and oddities are touched with names and places.
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Cheshire
England
Cherveus
France
Enjamin Johnson
Fara
Rush Valley
Utah
Posseseaa
Camden
Voss
Inangural Ball Echoes and Odd Widow’s Legacy
A garbled note on descendants skipping an inangural ball festival, then mentions Miss Catharine Piercon of Richmond Massachusetts dying with a fortune of 450000 dollars. It cites a breach of promise case from Oxford where an opal replaced a ring talisman with 200 pounds awarded. An unrelated ad for hair restoration ends the item.
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Catharine Piercon
Richmond
Mase
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CROOK
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Vision
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Ndianapolis, Ind
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Carus
Japanese Furniture & M’f’g CO
Bamboo
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