Anecdotal Bureau Churns Out Political Jokes for Papers
A New York Foreign Anecdotal and Biographical Bureau, run by P. Marteau, supplies newspapers with tailored anecdotes and sketches about presidential candidates and notable figures. They craft multiple styles from a single idea, charging for biographical sketches and death obituaries, with contracts tying to elections and prominent names like Holman, Hill, Carlisle, and Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luna
Bill Holman
Holman
Sun
Indianapolis
Benjamin Hill
Georgia
Jerry Black
Carlisle
Mr. Smith
Andrew Jackson
Washington
Stonewall Jackson
Mr. Marteau
Eighteenth Street
Central Park
Paris
Cincinnati
Senator Hill
Smith
Vandewater Street
New York
Lincoln's Stocking Method Reveals Honest Postmaster Humility
In New Salem Abraham Lincoln kept three stockings for his creditors, each stocking holding the exact amount owed to a partner or firm. He paid the government and others when due, using the money stored in stockings to settle debts, insisting he would meet obligations without delay. The anecdote highlights Lincoln’s plain, purposeful financial honesty and his vow to pay as due.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Trade in Human Hair and Changing Fashion
The Pall Mall Gazette notes fashion's shift from massive hair towers to simpler buns and coils. Hairdressers evolved from mass stylists to artists. long, golden, and colored hair gained value while overall quantity declined. Attitudes toward hair varied across cultures and eras, with quality now prized over length.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pall Mall Gazette
Addison
Indies
Queen Anne's
Corman
Monastic Privacy in England From Carthusian Rule to Reform
In medieval England the monastic cell was rare as monks lived communally. Carthusian founder Henry II established Witham in 1178, but privacy remained limited due to strict discipline and climate. By the 13th century only two monasteries offered any private study or solitude to monks or nuns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry II
Witham
England
Arthusia Bon
Cap Miller of River Pilot Fame Talks Women in Steamboating
Mrs. Miller, wife of Capt. Miller, recounts a life on the river spanning seventeen years. She describes managing money, buying supplies, loading cotton seed, and piloting when needed. She argues a woman can captain a boat as well as a man and reflects on confidence, license pride, and the river community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orleans Picayune
Cairo
Cannon
Plantati
Thad
Miller
A Slight Misunderstanding in Town Sewing Machine Offer
A Texas scene unfolds as an agent tries to sell a sewing machine to Farmer Grimes. The farmer notes his spring sowings are done and clarifies the machine is for cloth, not grain. The exchange humorously includes talk of summer work and cautions about big promises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Siftings
Grimes
Stimson & Co
Portland
Maine
English Sailors Fight Bareknuckle in Naples
In a narrow Naples street, about ten English sailors drunk and shirtless engaged in a boxing fight. A fair-haired sailor knocked down three opponents, one losing balance against a wall and sustaining injuries. After fifteen minutes the victors carried the defeated to a fountain and then dispersed amid jeers and whistles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
What He'd Do A French cabman tale of honesty and wit
An applicant to a cab company is asked if he would return a found pocketbook with ten thousand dollars. He replies he would do nothing and live on his income, prompting the examiner to reflect on virtue honesty and practicality.
Window of restaurant fools hunting dogs in Charleston
In Charleston South Carolina a restaurant window traps about fifty five part ridges causing annoyance to local bird dogs. Dogs approach and point the birds but when flushing them they are fooled by the window pane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
S. C
Milk preferences of ancient peoples and Arabs
The Heebrows and Romans preferred goat milk over cow and sheep milk and also drank camel milk. They produced an intoxicating sour beverage from it. Arabs today similarly favor goat and camel milk, noting carnivore milk is acid while herbivore milk is alkaline.
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Firm
Orden
Courier-Journal
Awxoporan & Biographical Bureau
Aly
P. Marteau
Texas
Cyrus
Jack Billy the Sailor
Richmond Whig
Mary Miller
MLITE
Coricinya
Boston
Muss
Sanford
Anford
Conk
PoTter Drta and Chemical
Fern
Ely’s
Cne
Ely
Mall
ELY Brothers
Owego
Malden
Mass
H. D. Slack
Express
GEO
R. Pratt & CO
West Pawlet, Vt
True & Co
Carmean & Co
Third Avenue
Keater
Sander & Sons
Mosler
Univerity
Greifewald
Germany
Pitzer
American Medical College
St. Louis
Eucalyptus Extract
Hazard
Sander
Sandhurst
Victoria
Richards & Schrbeck’s
BLUFF
Kursheedt
Kursheedt M'f’g CO
New York City
Erbert OD
Blakemore
P.O
Rook Island, Ill
P. O. Olson
Merchant Tailor
Skinner Brook
S. Clark St
Court House
Chicago
United States
Bate
Bates
Iupreme
Thoas
Marston Remedy CO
16Th St
Bk. Gleason Ee
Bostin
The
Cincinnate Publishing CO
Fourth Street
Obie
Sarah A. Smith
County of
Rock Island
State of
Illinois
Rock Island County
William Jackson
John Matzen
B. Hzsolxe
Hokan J. Hokanson
Hokan J Hokanson
A. D
Ellen Hokanson
William Wilme
I. W.R. Moore
Township
North Range
Hill
Moline
William Willmerton
W.B. Moore
Moline, Ill
U.S
America
Halley Boox Co
Aine
Blue and Cray
Forshee & McMackin
Canal 5T
N.Y
F. Hidd & Co
Dubuque Lowa
17Th Street
J. M. Gould
Rover Peas
Ree
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