New York Bird Trade Largely Run by Germans
The New York singing bird market is described as dominated by Germans with a large share of imports from Germany. Canary sales, prices from 1.50 to 2.75, and ages up to 100 years are noted. Museums rely on private funds, with Central Park’s menagerie budget about 30,000 dollars annually.
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New York
New York City
Germany
United States
Europe
Central Park
New York Sun
Chicago
Thomas & CO
Rialto Building
Ikke
Tom Moores First Sweetheart and an Alphabetic Baby Name
The article recounts Mary Duff Mary Ann Dyke’s London birth in 1794 and her rise as an actress with the Duke sisters in Dublin. It notes Moore’s love, her rebuff, and his elegiac song Mary I believed thee true. It also mentions a Buckinghamshire farmer naming his son a long alphabet of Biblical names before settling on Abel.
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Wis
Mary
Mary Duff
Moore
Edward Bok
Ladies’ Home Journal
London
Mary Ann Dyke
Dublin
Duke
Maury
Kilkenny
Thomas Moore
Mary Dyke
Tom Moore
Robin Roughhead
Mary Dyke Nancy
Lavish Jenkins
Buckinghamshire
Jenkins
Abel Benjamin Caleb Daniel Ezra Felix
Gabriel Haggai
Isaac Jacob Kish Levi Manoah
Nehemiah Obdiah
Peter Quartus Rechab
Samuel Tobiah
Uzziel Vaniah
Xystus Zechariah
Mr. Jenkins
Abel —Chambers
Shakers and their peculiar designation in derision
During religious excitements encouraged by Shaker worship members often convulsed in tremblings and sometimes collapsed into unconsciousness, a phenomenon that gave the sect its name. The text urges honesty and firm resolve to resist temptation and do one's best to avoid it.
Rider Aubrey's 800 Mile Ride Sets Record and Ends in Tragedy
The Washington Star recounts Frank X. Aubrey of Independence Missouri racing 800 miles from Santa Fe to Independence in six days and a later 7 days 10 hours journey. He used 11 horses and earned 15000 dollars. Aubrey was stabbed to death years later in a Santa Fe dance hall.
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Santa Fe
Plains
Frank X. Aubrey
New York
Aubrey
Stage Station
New Yorker
Cimmaron
Arkansas
Pawnee Rock
Sublette
Kit Carson
Ben Holliday
Old Jim Bridger
Washington Star
His Own Figures at Dry Goods Price Query
A Boston Transcript quip as a dry goods store owner explains that the items priced $1.69 have no split prices. A customer with a baby asks which figures are the dollars and cents, and the proprietor clearly states there are no such separate prices. The exchange highlights playful wordplay over price tags.
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Trish
Phwat
Boston Transcript
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