Mother of the Meat Market Joins London Lore at Ninety-Two
Mrs Jolley of Smithfield, famed as the Mother of the Meat Market, recalls a long inventive life in London. At 91 she claims to live as a vivacious inventor and philanthropist, touting patents from an ice safe to a Congo lamp while planning a second charity concert.
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Smithfield
Meet
London
Jolley
Thas
Brussels
Rue de Cour
ColLidaon
a+ pras
Brusses
China
India
Japan
Congo
Aorlune Lave
Janey
Union Bank
Emash
Lscuusas
Haiward
Edward ViI
Queen Alexandra
Jeter
Abrs
Burlington Arcade
America
Abe
Mehruw ii Algady
Mal
Workman Sues Swift Packing in Kansas City Court
A workman sues Swift Packing in a Kansas City court. A colored witness testifies to being asked about relations with the firm. He replies he and the company have no relations, highlighting racial tensions in the proceedings.
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Swift Packing Company
Kansas City
Air travel becomes common says Lippincott and echoes in newspapers
Fragmentary letters discuss airplanes staying power and future rise in air travel. A reader asks why a sister’s cake was renounced and laments high medical costs as doctors' fees soar.
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Johbnoni
Johnni
Philadelphia Telegraph
Gold for Jewelers from Government Gold Coin
Jewelers obtain raw gold mainly from government sources as coin and bar material. Banks and refineries process coins into granules and bars, with alloying steps to meet purity. the scheme reduced bookkeeping and holding stock while banks and manufacturers trade thousands of dollars in gold bars annually.
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Goa
Guteromeno
New York Press
A Study in Browns Pretty Picture Hat for a Girl
Pretty brown themed hat with leaves and fruit motifs described for a young girl. Straw pale russet and velvet facing darker brown. ribbons blend autumn leaf tints with oak leaves and wintergreen berry sprays circling the crown.
Farmer Giles and the Truth of a Bushel Measure
In a rural quarrel about a half bushel, Farmer Giles defends his measure as honest. The basket maker Bill Sullivan asserts the pattern is precisely sized to hold a bushel, recalling an old red bucket test to confirm. The exchange turns on standard measures and trust in a craftsman.
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Giles
Bill Sullivan
Bill
Prima Donna Gadski Delays Berlin Home Cleaning for Health
The renowned soprano Mme Jo Hannah Gadski halted her American concert tour due to severe sciatica. Doctors advised rest at Sommering Pass in Germany for mineral baths to ease the rheumatism. Her Berlin home will be cared for by trusted staff and her family, including husband Jerr Hana Tauscher and their seventeen year old daughter Lotta.
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Mme
Gadski
Johanna Gadski
Europe
Fradski
Berlin
Germany
Mme Gadski
Frau Hans ‘Tauscher
Sommering Pass
Mme. Gadski
Brunhilde
Tauschers
Jerr Hana Tauscher
America
Prima Duuua
Gungeter
Lotta
The Way to Bake Beans
A historic method for baked beans instructs soaking one and a half pints of small white beans overnight in soft water. In the pot, layer bacon, beans, salt, brown sugar or molasses, then more bacon and remaining beans. Cover with soft water and bake eight hours or longer, adding water as needed.
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New Orleans
Hatbox Shortcut Suggestion From Harper's
The note describes a hatbox stored on a high shelf with a tip to slit one side so the cover can drop down when raised. This permits removing or replacing the data without moving the box from the shelf.
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Harper’s
Perpetual Motion Insomnia Joke From The Record
A light cartoon caption portrays Bilobbs asking why Slobba should see a doctor for insomnia. Slobba quips that he avoids medical bills since he already owes the doctor, highlighting a humorous debt gag.
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Philadelphia Record
Descent of the J P a amusing colonial habit piece
A collection of colonial quirks about Justices of the Peace in Australia and New Zealand. Anecdotes show J P gaffes in court and social settings, including jokes about self murder references and a New Zealand chair announcement error. The piece also notes political influence in JP appointments and a letter from an aggrieved reader.
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J.P
Australia
New Zealand
J P
New South Wales
Ami
Wes & Wittess
Tarahaki
Hanarews
Miss Smith
Handrews
E. Solomons
Shaw
Sereet
King Lewanika's London Coronation Visit Reflected In Journey
King Lewanika of Barotseland traveled by ox wagon for five weeks to reach the Zambesi River before a stay in London. He was hosted at a West End hotel and toured the metropolis. Accompanied by Col. Colin Harding, he witnessed a lion attack incident and a tame hippopotamus gift to Lord Selborne amid a grand royal visit.
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Lewaniki
Barotseland
London
Zambesi
West End
Col
Colin Harding
Lord Selbourne
Livingstone
Lewanika
Metropolis
Ancient hounds ride and dunting rite at Newbiggin
Citizens recall the old riding of the hounds at Newbiggin Northumberland followed by the dunting of two new freeholders at the dunting stone on the moor. For the first time a lady was among the recruits. The two were carried face up to the stone and gently struck three times. The ordeal remained peculiar not dignified. Recruits then distributed their bounty to the cheering crowd of onlookers as per custom.
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Newbiggin
Northumberland
England
Pa's Experience on the Stock Exchange Laugh
A humorous note from the Chicago News jokes about pa asking Wiltie for the stock of change and the stock exchange as a hint to swap money for experience in a playful family exchange.
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Wiltie
Stock Exchange
Chicago News
Not 2 Bite Tyidn't De Roounz Bride At The Was Side Cottage
A garbled note from St. Louw Glebe retraces a rural scene where someone asks for food. The text mentions an uncle, fritters, and criddiecakes in a rustic setting, reflecting a dated dialect and incomplete phrases.
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St. Louw
Birthday Advice From Hampton's Ballad Parlor
A fragmentary verse from Hampton's catalog urges a young woman to resist bandits and vagabonds who entice with wealth and fame. It champions happiness as true treasure and warns against worldly desires, presenting a nostalgic moral on living joyfully.
Dessert Spoon Confusion Sends Patient Into Despair
A fashionable West Philadelphia household seeks help for indigestion. The doctor prescribes a dessert spoonful after each meal. A mispronounced prescription leads to a missed payment, a half dollar shortage, and the patient rocking in despair, begging for a cure.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Times
Side Lights on His Career Involving Boswell and Johnson
A literary guild deputation asks Samuel Johnson to speak but Boswell jokes his press agent will delay him. Johnson hints he may speak next Tuesday but Boswell says two weeks will pass before he has “glad fags” to spare. The scene ends as Boswell suppresses the lumeurial biograp hical note.
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Literary Guild
Samuel Johnson
Boswell Jim
Boswell
Johnson
Chicago
Telling the Whole Story
A Birmingham Age Herald item quotes a terse exchange about dependence on a weekly salary of 48 dollars and living with a father figure, illustrating a short excerpt likely from a larger interview or testimony. The dialogue hints at personal finances and family arrangements within a historical context.
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Birmingham Age Herald
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