Mt Vernon Notes From July and August Dispatches
Mt Vernon reports include A A Truax of Alexandria buying an elevator chain totaling five owned, Reed Owen in town as a store clerk, and several locals seeking work. Birthdays, baptisms, harvest news, accidents, and visits populate a lively sequence of small-town life across several days.
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MT. Vernon
A. A. Truax
Alexandria
Reed Owen
Mitchell
Merchandise Co
Will Scriven
John Porter
C. L. Colby
Wm. Westphall
Will Westphall
Walt Baker
Walt
Dave Burright
Vernon
Bailey
John Pease
J. F. Reynolds
Carl Dittman
Robt. Roantree
Roy Butterfield
McEwen
H. L. Bras
G. G. Koehler
C. F. Raymond
Jacob Diehl
Minnesota
Casper Hanson
Lewis Larson
Thos
Grace Place
Dr. Smiley
Mis
Beesie Stair
Will Eleven
Minneapolis
R. E. Mytinger
Iowa
Geo. Schimmer
Aull
Lews
Frank Hatch
Sam King
Oil Paintings Sell For Two Dollars A Piece
A New Orleans Times-Democrat article surveys cheap oil paintings common on New York’s east side. Italian artists in living rooms create rapid works, often featuring a mountain lake and ruined temple. Dealers charge about $2 with frames. canvases cost roughly 90 cents while workers earn about 40 cents per painting.
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East Side
New York
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Carnegie's Lesson on Prices and a Stuttering Messenger
A memory from New York recounts Andrew Carnegie joking about a messenger boy who stuttered while delivering a note. The tale ends with Carnegie noting he would not offer service without being able to recite his price clearly, a childhood irritant shaping his business approach.
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New York
Carnegie
James
Mr. Carnegie
Eceel
Cincinnati Enquirer
Why She Was Black from Kingsley Visit at African Mission
Miss Kingsley recounts meeting a 13 year old African pupil at a mission school. When asked what she studies and what she knows the girl replies I am studying everything. The girl explains she is black because her ancestor Noah saw Noah without clothes, prompting Kingsley to identify the lesson about race and heritage.
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Ethan
Augusta Schlimg En
Parkston
Boulder
Miss Schlimgen
Evhan
Starr
Ryland
Lizzie Fergen
Mary Neary
Etta Ottman
Maggie Sexton
Lena Bares
Annie Summers
Betts Elevator Co
Mission Schools of
Africa
Noah
Newfoundlands Dialect Note On Antichrist Coal
Dr Patterson reports a Newfoundland dialect anecdote from Household Words about a church janitor offended by being made to use coal labeled antichrist. The remark illustrates regional language quirks and the era's humor about class and religion.
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Newfoundland
Patterson
Triple Coincidence Links Deputies Named Same in France
A San Francisco Call note recalls a French anomaly where in 1894 deputies Ferry Brisson and Hugo represented Ardennes Loir et Cher and Vosges, and 1798 records show the same names in those districts. Nearby Congleton England sits a deserted village of six houses on a Macclesfield road with no tenants.
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France
Ardennes
M. Ferry
Loir Et Cher
M. Brisson
Vosges
M. Hugo
San Francisco
Congleton
England
Macclesfield
Sound and metal facts from Lake Geneva experiments
A scientist named Cal ladon conducted underwater sound tests at Lake Geneva showing clocks struck underwater heard up to 12 miles and 27 miles away. The text notes tin as one of the oldest known metals used by the Chinese in brass and bronze work.
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Bethel
Glen Ketchum
al Hillman
Wakonda
Glen
Calladon
Lake Geneva
Switzerland
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O. A. Bates
F. L. Rowley
W. L Wallis
Della Wallis
Aslebout
West Perry
Alex Lockhart
Wisconsin
E. L. Barton
Greaves
Gilbert
Templeton
Lilly Brothers
RE. B. VanAlstine
Clarence
Lulu Cornell
Yankton
Sanborn County
Dan Lily
Cliff Wheeler
Riverside View
Blendon
Ainslie Bros
Jesse Stebler
S.C. Michener
Roy Michener
D. M. Powell
Nannie Stebler
Ole Lugland
South Badger
Fraser
Ira
Prescott Place
Kitchoo
Earry
Plano
Plaxo
Will Rowley
W.S. Logan
Priday
Will Blair
Forestburg
Sue
H. O. Anderson
Virgil Emerson
Frank Blair
Mason City
D. Grove
R. LaRue
Emma Hawks
J. J Wallis
Ethel Jewett
Wm. Pattison
Farwell Creamery
R. R. Lang
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Post
Scott
Uneeda
Joo Drors
Licht
Bears
Castoria
Champeny
Montgomery
L.J. Shaw
Mitchell, South Dakota
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