Celluloid Novelties and Accessories for sale
A 5c Each listing offers celluloid novelties priced 10 to 25 cents with pin trays cases handkerchief and glove cases. Most items show light scratches but are not very noticeable.
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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1899
Page
2
A 5c Each listing offers celluloid novelties priced 10 to 25 cents with pin trays cases handkerchief and glove cases. Most items show light scratches but are not very noticeable.
Auction or sale listing notes Celluloid novelties in many colors and accessories such as handkerchief cases glove cases suspender cases and necktie cases. Also other assorted goods priced around 49 cents.
For 25¢ Each 50c. Celluloid Novelties in every shape almost in sets and separate pieces Glove and Hand kerchief Sets Fan Cases Jewel Cases Work Boxes A host of other Novelties.
Advertising copy lists bargains on celluloid and leatherette novelties in various shapes and related sets and cases. Mentions toilet, manicure, shave and smoke sets, photo cases, gloves, handkerchiefs, collars, cuffs, fans, neckties, and suspender cases offered at low prices.
An advertisement offers high grade celluloid cases at 69 cents each. It claims some items have sold as high as $125 and suggests various sets including toilet cases brusna comb mirror and manicure sets.
For 19¢ Each 25c and 49c Celluloid and other novelty cases for gloves handkerchiefs fans neckties suspenders jewelry etc. These are bargains indeed for any price. To close all our expensive celluloid and plush combination novelty boxes along with new portrait cases full toilet and manicure combination cases smoking and shaving sets work and jewel boxes. No reasonable offer refused to close out.
Books. Special discounts to Sunday Schools at FRC IESS. Numerous lots to close out including juvenile books and popular classics. Prices range from 25c to 98c for many titles with extensive reductions on encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Montreal reports Imperial acceptance of Canada's offer to send a second contingent to South Africa. French and English Canadian presses unite in support, praising loyalty and national pride. Dissent among French-Canadians subsides as Canada facilities enlistment, arms, and transport to the Cape, while British opinion foresees the war’s long duration and the need for trained Canadian forces.
A New York conference with Appraisers Wakeman Torbert Hartranft Blanchard and merchants’ committee led by John Gibb and James McCrery debated a two cent per square yard duty on certain cotton fabrics. Importers claim Wakeman erred for two years under paragraph 310 and seek a fair uniform classification under current law.
The Yale Corporation awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws to President Arthur T. Hadley and honorary Master of Arts degrees to Professors William Beebe and James Pierpont of Yale's mathematics department. New Haven date December 21.
A large gathering of Irish societies in the city shows strong sympathy for the Boers. Mayor John Breen and representatives pledge decisive actions beyond resolutions, noting ready military units and many Irish volunteers abroad. They condemn English rule over Ireland and promise substantial relief and support for the Boer cause.
The passage notes that local Trish societies will reconvene and implies actions may be kept secret. It predicts that Boers will not require soldiers as long as Irishmen in this country can assist them. The remark reflects wartime sentiment and political tension.
The defunct Cocheco National Bank will pay depositors in full without a receiver's aid, per an order from Washington directing Receiver Carroll to issue a 23 percent dividend soon. The swift settlement, aided by bank examiner Carroll, comes after the bank's summer failure and signals minimal future depositor risk as the institution winds down.
In Chicago the Social Economics club expands a lunch program for working girls to men as well. The plan offers inexpensive meals plus a reading library and lectures. Men may smoke after meals, with a separate room for chat.
Despatch from Paris reports the death of Mrs Walden Pell aged 85 born Orleans Redwood Ellery in New Orleans. A Rhode Island Ellery by birth she led New York society for 25 years and after her husband’s 1863 death moved to Newport. She resided in Paris for 39 years where her home was a center of American society.
In New York on December 21 court sessions heard handwriting experts Wm J Kinsley and John F Tyrrell testifying in the murder trial of Roland B Molineux for the death of Mrs Katherine J Adams. Tyrrell gave technical opinions on pen habits and the lettered package address as key to识 the identity of the writer. Cross examination by Weeks focused on how exhibits were used to link the poisoned package to the defendant’s writing. The day concluded with further technical debates and an adjournment until tomorrow.
New York December 21 Justice Beekman hear argument and reserve lis pendens in bid to restrain Wagner Palace Car directors from selling their property and goodwill to Pullman Palace Car and dissolving the Wagner company. Plaintiff H N Franc the holder of 100 shares leads a minority stockholder suit alleging the sale would transfer Wagner assets to an Illinois company and a New York incorporated entity.
Miss Winnie Watson aged 24, a nurse at Cottage hospital, was found dead in the Winnepiscogee river near Hib bard bridge street in Laconia New Hampshire. She disappeared December 14 after leaving home in Gilford. Her hat and sack were found on the riverbank and the body was recovered nearby. Melancholia is suspected as the cause of the personal crisis act.
A Savannah telegraph reports Bishop Henry W. Turner of Georgia was refused a berth in a Central Railroad sleeping car. Ill and recently paralyzed, he sought to return to Atlanta but was told berths are not sold to colored persons. The Central Railroad enforces a rule barring colored passengers from sleeping cars between Atlanta and Savannah and on its branches.
Calvin McPherson and wife, longtime residents near Egli near Crawford County, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Indianapolis. In the afternoon they visited an undertaker, chose coffins, and had them placed in their wagon for home, Mr McPherson saying they expected to need them soon.
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania on December 21 Rev Fr McAndrew, pastor of St Marys Catholic church, ordered the young men's drill organization to cancel a Christmas day dance he viewed as inappropriate. He urged observing Christmas as a holy day and emphasized the religious significance over social amusement.
Three bandits robbed a Missouri Pacific train from St. Louis to Omaha between Wyandotte and Leavenworth. They seized seven sleeping-car passengers, with masked accomplices guarding them. The leader, unmasked, discussed with auditor W. R. Stewart and promised to return his watch as a Christmas gift. A haul of five watches, three diamond rings, and $500 was taken before the robbers fled toward a waiting team.
In Middletown Connecticut the Chadwick murder case sees a dramatic twist as prisoner Hough admits waiting for Chadwick and claims May Smith, Chadwick’s fiancé, urged him to scare Chadwick. He describes a staged meeting and a quarrel ending with Chadwick’s death as he claims he disposed of the body.
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