A Christmas Cloth Gift and Other City Tales
A humorous selection from a city page features a man shopping for his wife’s gifts, buying cloth for eight shirts, and the humorous exchange about Christmas presents. Also recounted are odd Christmas eve encounters, a vaccination pawn shop scene during smallpox fears, and a string of satirical anecdotes about marriages, aging, flirtations, and everyday life in a late 19th or early 20th century urban setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avlavthadaked
Pir
Eniwn
Harper's Magasine
Eccentric English Will Bricked Up Homes Twenty Years
Vice Chancellor Bacon in the chancery division of the high court of justice quietly set aside a May 1868 will by Mrs Acne Dirdatte of Gilmorton. The document directed trustees to brick up every room in her dwelling after her funeral for twenty years, with only the kitchen to remain unsealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bacon
High Court of Justice
Acne Dirdatte
Gilmorton
Liesesterahire
Disputed will seals house amid brick barricade decree
A respectable married couple were to be installed at a peppercorn rent to guard a property. The will forced the trustees to keep the house hermetically bricked up with boarded windows nailed down, covered with sheet iron and tin, with no real devise for the sealed property. Probate was granted after dispute. Eight counsel appeared in chancery to challenge the will’s validity, citing Pope’s lives and the claim that Mrs Bordetée valued disposals of her kin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texatrix
Caas
Pope
Lyd ia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Claim
An old advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal remedy for female complaints. It promises relief from headaches, dizziness, nervous exhaustion, and digestive woes, claiming permanent cure and renewed vitality. The notice includes pricing, ordering by mail, and claims of expert advice by Miss Malton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avento
Lynn
Man Fries
Mall
Malton
Testamentary dispute directs unsealing of trust property
The London Telegraph reports a case where the teetotaler’s will injections were grotesque yet the judge Sir James Baker directed trustees to unseal and release all loan property. The residue of real and personal estate was to be distributed as undispussed wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Baker
Jisndon Telegraph
Reverend Landsell Arrested in Siberia Missionary Tour
The Rev. Mr Landsell, an English clergyman, was arrested in St Petersburg while on a Siberian missionary tour after police seized bibles he had distributed, deeming them Nihilist literature. He later freed himself amid difficulties and returned, with reports highlighting a major Northwest railroad line now known as the Pbcharg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landsell
St Petersburg
Siberia
Gentleman
Northwest
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rome
Dalton
Darky
Sal
Detroit Free Press
Austin
Austin Avenue
Wen
A. J. Sweex
Barror
Harper's Magazine
Jere Ua
Neno
Ticketa
Traveler’s Magazine
Detroit Free
Priza Eile
Florida
Tampa
Guardian
John Brigat
Hin
Mre. Fogg
Fogg
Elon
Goodman
Chicago
Weir
Was, Lydia E. Finkham
Lynn, Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
pRophie
Chemscat
Baltimore
Mercury Coventear
J, Monroe Taylor
Jay
Wat ST
New York
Jess
CLP & O
Thicago
St. Paul
Minneapolis
North Wisconsin Railways
1. Paul
Northwest Wisconsin
Elray
Chicago & Northwestern Baghway
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Madigan
Beloit
Tmeere H
Thalys
Pu Fian Palace Sleapmne
St. Toul
Madisom
Igngye
Sinkayee
St. Peter
Maykato
Worthington
Mars
Sioux City
Omala
Cornell
Woolstock
Mine
Boon Iowa
Slous Eis
Dakota
Union
Solorade
Pondous
Missouri Valley
Adunely Sidux City
Cornel Biuffs
Omaha
St Joseph
Atchigon
Leavenworth
Hansas City
Clore
Duluth
Primond
Fargo
Winnview
All Pointe
The
Sun
Wovii
St. Pant Ani
Rave Val
Northrote
Eso
Pbcharg
Irae Managers
Teeta
Centramend
Wisco & Mines
Noute TY Menasha-Neenah
Appleton
Creen Bay
Northery
Milwaukee
Betese
Menisha
Neenah
Pavengerm
M&s
Road St
Ashland
Buttween Abbottspord
Wis
Minnegota
Esther
Dirent
Vin Junction City
Wausay Andi Jenny
Sheboygan
Acbernakva
Sonden
Snd
Wdp Hd
Uraing
Ayn
Guntral
Wispurgia & Ays
Port AG
Ayasin
Sufevers
Unity, Wisconsin
Dhisel IN
Besaleu
Green
C. M. Upham & Bro’s
W. W. Kimball
Emerson
Kimball
Shoninger and
M. J. Platt
Marshfield
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