Bowne House at Flushing to be sold at real estate exchange
The Bowne house, oldest landmark on Long Island built in 1661, and its Quaker meetinghouse and graveyard, stand to be sold together at the New York Real-Estate Exchange. Bowne’s history includes banishment, imprisonment, and later return to Flushing, with descendants shaping the area.
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Long Island
New York
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Derbyshire
England
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Boston
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Society of Friends
William Ustick
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Mary
Samuel Parsons
Gowa
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Bownes
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Hopkinses
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Faringtons
Nathaniel Pearsall
Walter Bowne
Brooklyn Eagle
Frontier barter tale sparks red rage in old West tavern
A frontier scene features a boastful frontiersman claiming violence over a pound of buffer meat while bystanders compare East and West killings over small thefts. Buckskin asks about the price of laudanum as the exchange turns to warning and danger.
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Enforced Piety in 1770 Grand Jury Complaint
An 1770 Hartford Times report recounts a grand jury complaint accusing townsfolk at Wethersfield of neglecting worship and violating the Sabbath. The document, found by Leonard R. Welles, cites Solomon Welles, Jonathan Smith, and Josiah Francis Jr as jurors presenting cases against Benjamin Griswold and others for religious enforcement under colonial law.
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Solomon Welles
Hartford
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New England
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Josiah Francis, Jr
Woth
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Swith
Jostam
Wethersfield
Nes
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Joseph Smith
David Williams
John Crane
Gershom Smith
Conn
Vanishing Buffalo on the Great Plains and New Mountain Herds
The article notes the disappearance of vast buffalo herds across the plains once seen beyond the Missouri. Roosevelt cites fewer than 1,000 buffalos remaining in America. It mentions Harper's Bazaar claiming a new mountain buffalo species forming in woody ranges, living in small herds and thriving on survival of the fittest.
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Missouri
Theodore Roosevelt
America
Plains
Harper's Bazar
Indiana Lawyer and Judge Z joke column
An Indiana lawyer, famed for conviviality, is mocked by ministers, police, and doctors in anecdotes. A Chicago officer cites jurisdiction over an Indiana drunk. A bald comment sparks quips about brains and hair while a Detroit paper shares one-liners. Salvation Army clothes provoke a fashion crack in a streetcar episode.
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Washington
Ilinois
Dudge
Detroit Free Press
Minister and sinner clash over tobacco use in joke
A Lowell Citizen squib recalls a minister arguing the usefulness of tobacco and poses a tag line about meeting an angel with a cigar and a sinner with earmuffs in a street scene. The humorous exchange contrasts moral talk with playful imagery.
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