Variety of oddities and notes from American papers
A collage of brief items cites Scandinavian ebenska population estimates, New York saloonkeepers, a moving building with a Stationary Store sign, the Boston yacht Fairy, rising New York florists sales, police and streetcar quirks in New Orleans, and curious scientific and civic anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ebenska
New York City
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Oakland
Cal
British Columbia
British Columbian
Johnny Lattimore
Glen's Fails
N. Y
Boston
American
Edmund J. Baker
Dorchester Lower Mills
Boston Journal
New York
N. Y. Herald
Policeman Heaney
Nanticoke
Labrador
New York Times
Tom Kelly the Skipper and the Rio Turtle Prank
A Baltimore Mariner captain, Tom Kelly, famed for Irish wit and pioneering in the Rio trade, recounted antics from his brig Lapwing. He outsmarted Brazilian customs with live snapping turtles kept in pockets, leading to a colorful incident at Rio’s Palais and a change in pocket searches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore Mariner
Elo
Tom Kelly
Rio
Lapwing
Kelly
Brazil
Captain Kelly
Tom
Baltimore
Kio
Palais Steps
Bono Capitons
Bono Americano
Custom-house
Crushing a Woman by Claiming Law Backing
A Detroit man questions a patrolman on a Sunday about window screens and screen color. He argues the law supports his blue skeeter-bar outside screens over his wife’s pale green wire cloth, then plans to confront her at the gate to crush her hopes like a pile-driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
du Bois
Philadelphia
Gallagher
New Orleans
O. Picayune
Saratoga
Springfield
Mass
Troy Times
Henry Donnelly
New Haven
Mill River
Donnelly
Hartford
Missouri
United States
Providence
Detroit
Obio Street
Skeeter-Bar
Detroit Free Press
Landseer Lion Studies and Swift Portraits
Landseer long pursued lions and their bodies, even collecting deceased London lions. Dickens recalled a dinner when a servant asked if a lion was ordered, revealing the artist’s obsession. He drew two heads at once, painted rabbits in 45 minutes, and completed a life size fallow deer in three hours after a delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landseer
London
Dickens
Nero
Zoological Gardens
Edwin
Mr. Wells
Clement
St. Vi
Too Poor to Marry Crusty St Paul Bachelor Rages at Costs
A St Paul Globe item recounts a crusty bachelor venting that marrying on a modest salary is impossible. He lists furnishing costs for a four room home then calculates rent, groceries, and car fare leaving little left. He argues a man mustn’t marry to avoid hardship and debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
St. Paul Globe
Practical Household Hints From Good Housekeeping
Practical tested tips cover cleaning bottles with hot soap, door hinge lubrication, anti mold for mucilage with oil of lavender or cloves, adding newspaper under carpets to warm floors, salt and water for willow furniture, storing honey in darkness, re crisping softened crackers in oven, placing newspapers to shield house plants and weekly ammonia, sewing ribbons to mittens, vinegar in cabbage and onion steam to curb odors, reviving damp feathers by warm stove heat, caution to avoid burning feathers.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sly Skipper
Landseer’s
LIONS
Leistees Eddasae
Evesne
Duffy
P. R Nurphy
Way Street
Geen
Dali
Z Harrison
Laray Courthous
Chicago
Dufy
Els
Edward Ht
Howe
Main Strest
E. Byrne
DI. Duganne
Virginia Ave
Washington, IL
George RK
Duly
Duffy Malt Whiskey CO
Bat Tiwong, Ma
Baltimore, MD. Ct
United
Armey
Cvce Uch
Ressver Manoractuaiie
Aichd
Pittsburg
America
Trask
Shi Chestort
Earth
Comoervatory OF Music
Minneapolys
Minn
MORSE
J.S. Crew & CO
Swift
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Merrelu
Jeorrell
Rover
A. Weber
Mass. Street
Massachusetts Street
National Bank
Hill & Mendenhall
Eldridge
Lawrence, Kansas
Canfield
Rotor
Merrells
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