Fireworks prices and new styles amid Fourth of July displays
An extended feature reviews the cost and variety of fireworks, noting rockets priced at $105 per dozen and other elaborate items like bombahella at $4 each. It describes dazzling effects such as colored meteors, golden cloud rockets, and diamond chain rockets, urging buyers to prepare from cheap to extravagant displays. The piece highlights the dealer’s marketing language and the broad price range from a few cents to $2000 for premium sets.
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Bose
Greworks
Pew St
Winges
Lebag
The Willamburg Yew and Washington's Courtship Tale
In Willamburg Virginia a centuries old yew by a cottage on Tazewell avenue frames a tale of George Washington courting Miss Smith, her father's pride, a thwarted match, and Washington's rise after Yorktown. The narrative links a widow's heartbreak, a stratified colonial society, and a local tradition celebrated by descendants.
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John Stuart Bonner
America
Willamaburg
United States
Tezewell Avenue
Tazewell Avenue
George Washington
Ueoneseft
Wilamsburg
Gen. Washington
Cottege
Tan
Smith
Miss Smith
Virginia
Mai. Washington
Fhrther
Thas
Washington
Ile l
Sultor
Wil- Hamaburz
Cornwalls
Yorktown
Mal
Williamshiro
Rochambeau
Lafayette
Duke of Gloucester
Palace
Dub Ban Ture
Elzh
Missouri
Lian
Nathaniel Beverly Tucker
Williamsome
Lucy Ann
Thomas Smith
U.S. A
Believa
Mary George Washington
The Republic's Birth and July Fourth Debate
The article recounts the July 4 1776 event in Philadelphia. It contrasts printed declarations with a tradition of a late decision. The scene highlights Franklin Hancock and Gerry as the moment of signing approached and the crowd outside gathering amid excitement and suspense.
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Philadelphia
Sive
Scion
Frank Hn
Harrison
Elbridge Gerry
Gerry
Hancock
John Bull
Maj Belcher's patriotic oration ends with gun gesture
A Casisys Fourth of July event features Maj Benjamin Belcher selected as orator. He delivers a rambunctious speech amid fireworks and chaos, then disappears for a week. The tale portrays him as a spirited but troublesome veteran whose performance becomes local legend in Cadnaville.
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Fixea
Casisys
States
Maj. Belcher
California
Sib-Rosa
Nerch
Belcher
Cactiaville
Weghoon
Benjamin Belchar
Rip Bear
Sf Mart
Men of America
Johnny
Weems
Cadnaville
Johnoy
Real Life Romance and a German Money Plot
A sensational tale recounted from a New York Herald feature about a Berlin brewer and his wife, a physician, and a string of marriages and misfortunes. The physician pays 90,000 marks for the wife, triggering a dynasty of crime, drink, and ruin across generations ending with a moneylender ex-waitress in Potsdam facing enforcement actions.
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New York Herald
Germany
Berlin
Cale
Gomarriel
Warner
Tersuce
Wan
I T
Tim
Bradenburgh Street
Tami
Potadam
Pocedam
Mr Baker Visiting Scranton Familiars in Madison Area
Mr. O U Baker of Scranton visits his father J U Baker and greets old schoolmates and friends in Madison, where he knows everyone. Rev Starline Turner of Petersburg ML dies at 80.
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0. U. Baker
Scranton
J. U. Baker
Madison
Starline Turner
Petersburg
Fragment From An Old Indianaplis Journal Quotation
A garbled quotation from an Indianapolis Journal item features characters Caolliz Chollie and Miles Keen discussing women and a claim about pocket-bicks made from monkey skins. The text is incomplete and difficult to interpret.
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Caolliz
Chollie
Miles Keen
Indianapolis
Journal
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Phould
Rockets
Maj. Helcher
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