Immigrants Arrive and Are Processed at Castle Garden
Several hundred passengers from two Liverpool steamers enter Castle Garden mainly from Ireland and other nationalities. The facility offers lodging, warmth, and basic services with no charge for short stays, while the Labor Bureau matches newcomers with employers and helps letters and guidance for those seeking work or reunion with relatives.
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Commissioners of Emigration
Ward's Island
Castle Garden
Castle
Labor Bureau
First Day as Clerk in My Father's Country Store
A reminiscence of starting behind the counter in a family store in Massachusetts in 1846. The narrator recalls learning cloths, laces, tea, hardware, drugs, and more, trading goods for supplies, oiling the shop, and the discipline of clerical life. He recalls early bills, cash discounts, and the “due bill” system, along with colorful product names and the move toward Boston from Rochester on the journey to the Hub.
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Boston
O ' Eroes Roads
Rochester
Tender Denver lawyer balks at divorce scheme
A Denver lawyer famed for romance is approached by a mature couple seeking a quick divorce and wedding to escape unhappy marriages. The attorney flatly refuses, citing lawful duties, and the pair depart, remarking that the old fellow seemed a bit off his feet this morning.
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Russian
Pole
Denver
Rouna Girl Susan Johnson Inky Novel Drama On Oniontown
A fragment describes Susan Johnson of Oniontown Kentucky obsessed with reading novels. She dressed unusually and armed with a tool boarded a boat with deck hands aboard a tobacco bale scene. A large rat scurried as she leaped onto a bale of tobacco.
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Susan Johnson
Oniontown
Miss Jo
Boston Lady Recovers From Headache With Famous Tea Cure
A Boston woman refused certain remedies but, after decades of misery, finally benefited from a medicine and tea her husband brought home. The first treatment yielded relief from her long sick headache, ending fourteen years of misery.
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