Washington Irving Too Shy for After Dinner Speech
Washington Irving struggled with public speaking and often broke down at dinners. At Dickens's 1842 New York dinner he could only manage a few sentences before praising Dickens with the toast Charles Dickens, the guest of the nation. Later in Madrid and London he offered brief thanks, prompting a wry remark about his voice.
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Washington Irving
Dickens
New York
Irving
Little Nell
Diedrich Knickerbocker
Madrid
The
Literary Fund
London
Various Patent Remedies and Notices Featured in Advertisements
A convocation of Cure claims spans Cough remedies Hood s Sarsaparilla and Cholera tonics with warnings for spring illness. Also promotional notes for Ely s Cream Balm No To Bac and Cascarets Candy Cathartic plus Allen s Foot Ease and Karl s Clover Root Tea. A regional Argus Leader item discusses hospital superintendent changes and Warne s return from the Philippines.
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Argus-Leader
V. Sebiakin Ross
Yankton
Kingsbury
The Phonograph Puzzles and a Gigantic Cylinder
A veteran of talking machine work explains the phonograph puzzles why it talks and records, noting the mystery of duplicate vibration and the unknown reason large cylinders seem to amplify sound. A local electrician built a foot-diameter cylinder. testing yielded clear recording but barely audible transmission, with sound swelling then diminishing as cylinder size increased.
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New Orleans Times-Di Inocrat
Remarkable Electric Bitters救 Saved Life in Buffalo
John Oliver of Philadelphia recounts a dreadful illness with yellowing skin and pain. After three doctors gave up, electric bitters improved him in weeks, and he is now well, claiming the remedy saved his life. Advertisements tout Shiloh’s Cure for consumption and related tonics sold by S. H. Scallin.
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John Oliver
Philadelphia
S. H. Scallin
Buffalo
N.Y
Gents
S.H. Scallin
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Mitchnell ,S.D
L. E. Whitcher
Mitchell, S. D
J. L. Hannett
Mitchell
South Dakota
West Second St
H. Perry
Grand Opera House
Gale Lessee
Mitchell Iron Works
Geo. H. Summers
A. B. Hager
Insurance
Room
the Insurance
W. H. Webster
May &Suchy
Merchant Tailors, Mitchell, S. D
Egypt
America
Bradfield
Bradfield Regulator Co
Atlanta
Patten
Virginia
H. W. Hinds
Parker
S. D
M. Young
Henry St
Brooklyn
N. Y
Chichester
Bethane
Wnteal Co
Madison Price
Philada
Broadbent’s
J. W. Broadbent & CO
TrRave
F St
Washington, D.C
Chamberlain
John E. Clifford
Norwood House
Norwood
L. O. Gale
Hood
Hood’s
C. I. Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
Karl
Allen
Allan
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
Ely
H. W. Hathaway
Elizabeth
N. J
W. J. Hitchcock
U.S
A. A. Gen
Ely Brothers
Warren St. N. Y
Warne Mey
Draeciatea
Phonograph
Dr. A. E. Slater
Adler
Clara Curren
Robert Harper
Sam Huyck
Harry Shannon
J. E
Stevenson
O. C
Douthey
Geo. O
H. C. Clark, P. M
Europe
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
S. H Scallin
Shioloh
Court House
O. E. Browne
Uneeda
Supolio
Hkan
A. H. Pearson
C., M. & St. P. Railway
D.t.gilman
I. W. Seaman
O. L. Branson
H. P. Beckwit
Ass’t Cash
First National Bank
South Dako
D. T. Gilman
J. D. Newcomer
J.S. Daniels
A. A. Boynton
C.M Swan
J. W. Seaman
T. A. Duncan
J.O. Walrath
L. Branson
Carlord
Fuller & Johnson
EB. van Alstine
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