A Towered New York Produce Exchange Building
The New York Produce Exchange unveils a twelve story fireproof tower rising forty feet square. Elevators and eleven stair flights grant rooftop access with sweeping harbor and city views. The article compares the tower to a landmark, notes the clock machinery on the eleventh floor, and details the vertiginous ascent and scenic panorama.
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New York Dial
New York Produce Exchange
Cerhteen
Bass
Navesink
Hudson
Jersey
Brooklyn
Long Island
Steamahips
Mexican courtesies and curious street compliment habit
A Mexico City note describes a habit of complimenting unknown ladies in the streets with phrases like How pretty she is and What fine eyes, while the lady responds Mille gracias senor. The piece mentions accompanying relatives and a speaker admitting nervousness in performing the gesture. It also notes cotton seed oil as a superior lamp oil for students.
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Mexico
New York
Bowery
Mino
Tarling
Luson
Dot
Alrotty
Rome
Turing
Arkhue
Dalk
Marrtch
Revised Old Testament to be completed in July
A notice states the revised Old Testament will be completed in July and published next year. Details are scarce but imply a planned release timeline and official publication plan.
Demand for Governesses in New York Reflects Wealth Trends
An educational bureau proprietor notes quiet demand for governesses with foreign language skills and pleasant temperaments. Salaries quoted as high as a month, with many families newly wealthy seeking refined caregivers and sometimes household chores beyond teaching.
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New York Waal
Vail and Xpress
Amin le
Bor Dery
Shinewaynp
Fifth Avenie
Vrs Paghtone
Vida
Mere Bononp
Central Park
Carling
Prentice Malford Letter on Not Meddling in Others Woes
A reader quotes Prentice Malford advising to refrain from moralizing and meddling in others lives. The author admits struggle to apply the guidance, fearing implied sermons and self revelation as he tries to help friends without causing harm. The piece ends with a note about Texas bluegrass gaining fame among stockmen.
The Barber Marryin and a Circus Lemonade Machine
A Bowery barber jokes about marriage amid a comic courtship tale. A Philadelphia Record piece describes a circus lemonade machine demonstration where a lemon is pressed under high pressure to produce amber liquid, claimed as unique and capable of vast daily production.
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Hin
Tenron
Bull
Longevity Report from Velkeotti Village
A correspondent in Velkeotti, St. Petersburg government, reports a woman who has just reached her uth birthday. She remains healthy though deaf, with long abundant hair. She outlived three husbands and a nineteen child family, all now dead, the last a daughter aged 93, and she lives with a great-grandchild aged 50.
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Chicago Herald
Russia
Velkeotti
St. Petersburg
The Death of Protits in a Boston Paper
An old economic idea that competition fuels trade is challenged as ruinous for profits. A satirical tale traces a baby named Marguerita called various nicknames by family, illustrating the quirky chain of naming from several relatives.
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Boston Commercial Bulletin
Protita
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Henderson
Prive
Potter Drug and Caermicaal
Bustun
Mass
Sanford
SaNrognis
Am. Pine, Co
Potter Drug and Cheme AL Co
Boston
Collings
Tutt’s
Tutt
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Express
Reese
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Garretson & Coy
Bork
Haines
Lew Golden Sfrcific Co
Produce Exchange
Mendett
Leipsie Cor San Franciscs Chronicle
Germany
Aliea
Prentice Malford
Lye
Mie
Gundries
Vich Vosa
der Santviteh Islands
Honulu
Wow Circus
Protits
Marguerita
Margaret
Jack
Aggie
Grandpa
Guerita
Mosler
University of Greifewald
Pitzer
American Medical College
St. Louis
States
Sander & Sons
Hazard
Sander
Nottles
Sandhurst
Victoria
Richards & Suhrbeck’s
the Bluff
Ferris
General Nderwritero
Agency
Browning's Law Building
Amstreft
George W. Draper
General
Welle & Stone-yard
Moline, Il
Moline Savings Bank
Moline, Illinois
Legislature of
Illinois
W. Wherlocke
Porter Skinner
C ., Hemenway
Cashier
C. ¥. Hemenway
W. Wheelock
J. M. Christy
Hiram Daunting
Casper Vitctham
Moliné National Bank
W. Wheeluck
C. F. Hemenway
H A. Bhatuara
Wright
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Hiram Darling
Casper Vitzthum
Harrotors
O. M. Christy J
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C.F. Hemenway
L. E. Hemenway
N. Chester
Keyster
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Main Street
Hudmap Avenue
United States
Europe
First National Bank
Moline, Ill
Capital Surplus
M. Gould Samuel Bowles
D.C Dimock
Jonathan Hutoo
Chas Atkinson
Morris Rosenhield
Ar Aane Ware
John Deere
C.H Deere Porter Skinner
J. T. Browning
H A Barnard James Shaw
Limara
London
Guttenberg
Copenhagen
Hamburg
Siemen
Kean
South Clank ST
Mall
Eee
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Oxford St
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Centaur
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