First Rothschilds Rise From Hardship to Wealth
The piece chronicles Meyer Anselm Rothschild born in Frankfort where Jews faced severe restrictions. Orphaned at eleven, he gained limited schooling and later worked in Hanover before returning to Hanover at thirty to establish as broker and moneylender with a red shield sign. His honesty built a vast banking house with branches in London Paris Vienna and Frankfurt and agencies in New York and other cities. Harper's Young People.
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Cataverade
Meyer Anslem
Rothschild
Wilhelm
Landgrave of Hesse
Anselm
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Judengasse
Hanover
Rothschilds
Europe
London
Paris
Vienna
Frankfort
New York
Harper’s
Polite Conductors of German Horse Cars
A contrasted report notes German horse-car conductors bow to passengers and announce fares with courtesy while American travelers struggle with graded fare rules. Conductors remain patient, well-dressed, and attentive to mothers and babies, earning high regard among women. The piece cites orderly platforms and disciplined boarding practices.
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Germany
America
Amercan
N. F. Sun
A Summer Reverie of a Book-Keeper's Dream
A book-keeper drifts into a vivid vacation fantasy recalling Daisytown and a past love. He imagines emerald meadows, a rippling brook, and a rustic bridge while counting imaginary sums and mistaking the office for a green summer-house. The reverie ends with a comic unpaid laundry bill.
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Daisytown
Puck
Anecdotes of Bishop Wilberforce and Humorous Reading Blunders
A collection of humorous vignettes about Bishop Wilberforce including clumsy replies in a country church and a village school lesson on Jacob’s ladder. The Brooklyn Library anecdotes recount misread book requests such as The Sane Idiot and Agnes Sewerage, highlighting reader mispronunciations and parlor-room humor.
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Wilberforce
Tommy
Gn Urchin
Brooklyn Library
Agnes Sewerage
Agnes Surriage
Mr. MeOul
Mr. Incoul
Orange River
One Inquirer
Miss Cowbach
Science and Industry Notes From An Era Of Inventions
The article surveys Edison on gasoline against yellow fever and notes on goldcesters and goldcutters, a German wood fibre patent, France's quill toothpick factory, a Swedish glass for microscopes and telescopes, solar spectrum hints of platinum cadmium bismuth and silver, and comments on combustion efficiency and rapid American handicraft versus Chinese and French precision.
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New York
Edison
France
Paris
Sweden
China
Imported clocks and their fashion over timekeeping
A discussion notes that imported French and German clocks are popular for style rather than accuracy. It argues American clocks are better timekeepers and cheaper, while foreign-made pieces satisfy fashion, status, and curiosity about Paris or Berlin.
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Paris
Berlin
Town Supervisor Louis H Sprecher Ledger 1892 Finance
State of Illinois Rock Creek Town Supervisor Louis H Sprecher files the annual financial statement for the fiscal year ending March 29 1892 detailing receipts including beginning funds and city sources and expenditures by item such as clerks auditors and moderators with balance on hand 772.58 and total receipts 1224.59 sworn before Justice J T Jacobs March 29 1892.
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State OF Illinois
Cannona
Rock Creek
Louis H. Sprecher
Ira Deuel
Bil Fur Town
Joan E Laird
W Sherwood
John E Laird
John Lamoreux
Joseph A Services
Towl
C P Futer
H Sprecher
M Giotfelty
J P Blanks
Z Jacobs
JP Blanks
A Galplu
Joseph “Wiltsey
J Barkley
P. Puterbaugh
Ira Devel
JM Glotfelty
Jacobs
L. H. Spreener
J.T Jacobs
Rock Creek Highway Treasurer's Yearly Report 1891 1892
Statement by Ira Deuel Treasurer of Rock Creek town totals receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending March 22 1892. Includes initial funds on hand 10500 and items from delinquents taxes road and bridge taxes cattle passes and other sources. expenditures cover surveying repairs overseer wages and materials for bridges roads and related improvements.
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Thorp
John E Laird
John S Leath
John Sipe
E Laird
Charles ‘Y Burwell
William H Herrington
J F Brown
lHenry
Arnold
Lanark Lumber
Leman Willis
LA Chaffee
Sheller Brothers
Hess
CP Putervaugh
John Lamoureux
Fe Hirowo
Aris
Lanark Lumber Columber
Samuel
James Darr
Henry Diehl
George Peters
John C Raho
Josian Sehrock
John Brucka
Clarence Havens
Jobe
Puterbaugh
Halance
Davis Miss Martha Ward L I Wilson
Notices request letters for missing individuals with advertising tag and official postmaster citation. authority cited to call in letters by last known names and local postal guidelines.
Home cured meat for sale in assorted cuts
Choice hams shoulders and side meat offered for sale. Available in four and six gallon lots. Davin WoLr.
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Davin WoLr
Early Risers and St Patrick's Pills Advertisements
A historical collage of patent medicine pitches touting Early Risers pills for constipation headaches and nervousness, St Patrick's Pills described as cleansing the system and purifying blood, with claims of strengthening brightness and appetite. Also mentions Sarsaparilla and De Witt's tonics with pricing and free samples offered by druggists.
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Puterbaugh
Physicians and remedies touted in a health scare feature
The article warns of heart disease deaths and physician errors. It promotes Dr Miles New Heart Cure and De Witt’s Sarsaparilla, Electric Bitters, and Chamberlains Cough Remedy with testimonial notes and pharmacy sales in Des Moines. It mentions Mr. J P Blaize surviving pneumonia after blizzard exposure and crediting Chamberlains Cough Remedy.
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Miles
All Draggiata
J. P Blaize
Des Moines
Iowa
Blaize
Come to Lanark to Buy Furniture and More
Local sale notice urges immediate purchase of furniture including mattresses spring beds bed room sets lounges chairs sideboards wardrobes book cases center tables extension tables carpets rugs and related items all treated alike. Goods must be sold and will continue selling with no time like the present to buy.
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Lanark
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Jones
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Emeline
Hangitsh
Harper's Bazar
McComb
San Quentin
Cal
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Bishop Wilberforce
Science and Industry
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Delroit Gree Press
Galtent
Dow
Carrona
John Morris
Ira Deven
J. M. Glorrenry
Ill
George A. Roor, P.M
Paterbaugh
de Witt
Watrr
Acme
Wolff & Randolph
Philadelphia
Amer
Agnes
Vesuvius
McKenney Bros. & Lafferty
WM. Strickler
Panorama
Home Office
Carroll County
Abstract Office
Over
Kkk
Lewis Chrisman
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