The Dead Letter Office and Its Curious Fame
A look at Washingtons Dead Letter Office reveals 4,000,000 letters handled last year with many containing money, valuables and personal keepsakes. Misaddressed mail is corrected by expert clerks known as blind readers. The facility also houses a museum of curiosities from a gold miniatures to a skull and a box of raisins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mabel
Maud
John
Joan
James Smith
Urbanna
Middlesex County
Mass
Massachusetts
Virginia
Mis Febe
Makio Tyre
Ind
Bracil Co Clay
Phoebe McIntyre
Brazil
Clay County
United States
Mary
South Africa
Father Ryan
Jesse James
California
Arizona
Texas
Elopement Sparks Manalapan Scandal In Monmouth County
In Manalapan New Jersey Anna Hunt Vanderveer daughter of David A Vanderveer elopes with farm hand James McCormick. They travel to Trenton marry at St Michael's Episcopal Church after taking rooms, despite furious parental distress and a thwarted effort by cousin Archibald Vanderveer to stop the match. The couple wed then faced the ride back as neighbors learned of the event.
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Manalapan
Monmouth County
N. J
Anna Hunt Vanderveer
James McCormick
Trenton
Mr. Neilson
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church
David A. Vanderveer
Vanderveer
McCormick
Eee
Archibald Vanderveer
English Courtship Versus American Engagement Customs
The piece contrasts English and American courting practices noting that England emphasizes immediate engagement and has couples spend long pre wedding periods together while America treats marriage as the central life event. It also recounts a Sylvania Georgia lawyer who paid a yearling steer as part of a late fee totaling eight dollars, fodder, a silver watch, an old sow, and the steer.
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England
Europe
America
Sylvania
A Man as Strong as an Ox in Louisville
Louisville reports a new strength sensation, John Bernhardt from Alsace, 27, six feet four, 256 pounds, muscular champ of the foundry. He lifts 864 pounds, bends iron, and breaks oak, claiming no ring experience but readiness to fight. He boasts, with pride, never drinking alcohol.
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Louisville
John Bernhardt
Sara
Alsace
France
Bernhardt
Post
John U. Sullivan
Chicago
Louisville Evening Post
Red Star Cough Cure praised by expert in Philadelphia inquest
In a Philadelphia coroner's inquest the verdict blamed a patent cough syrup containing morphia for a child's death. Dr. Sam K. Cox endorses Red Star Cough Cure as purely vegetable and free from opiates, poisons, and narcotics.
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Philadelphia
Sam’s K. Cox
Washington
Eighteen Rats and Tiny Turtles Captivate Chicago Society
A Chicago social page reports Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger adopting a pet mud turtle named Nichette dressed in silk with pink hues and daily visits to the opera and Patriarchs ball. separate item notes 55 rats killed at DuBois' store after rats tied tails together. 18 rats killed at a chop house. several hundred escape. Also mentions Pompeii chamber mysteries with sealed doors and frescoes.
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Chicago
Marion Langdon
Lydick
DuBois
Dubois Express
Pompeii
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Walthr Et. Buch
Broad ST
A.R. Bomberger
Lititz
J. M. Khiper
N. Queen Street
Lancaster
NEW Post Office
W. H. Appel
Natches Locks
Baugh & Sons
Wwilliam J. Hamilton
Young, Keiper, & CO
Young & Keiper
NA Glass
Queensware
N. Third Street
Iladelphia
L. B. Herr
N.i
Queen St., Lancaster
COAL
HESS
Sturea
C. H. Brown
Ieye
West Grange Steet
Lancaster, Pa
McNeal
Une
McNeil
J. X. Quigley Co
Harrisburg
the Museum of Curiosities
Chestnut Street
Malacca
London
New York
Phila
Cleveland
Blaine
Congress
Senate
House
Mr. Cleveland
Tarif
Washington Star
Batavia
Genessee County
Spring
Alexander
Wadesboro
N. C
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Baltimore
Cincinnati
St. Louis
New York and Chicago Limited
Chicago and
Cincinnati Express
Western Express
Benjamin Ranek
Wayne County
Independence Hall
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