Constant Reader's note leads to editor's floor joked
A back-and-forth at the Springfield Union reveals a reader who signs as Constant Reader and refuses to reveal his name. The editor jokes about waste baskets and directs him to the janitor as he considers printing the letter. The page also includes notes on cooperative banking, a 1777 Antrim town meeting, and a Youth's Companion item on American identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jisitor's
Aga Fla
Antrim
N. H
Maurice Lynch
Bald Antrim
Wensday
Water Color Bed Quilt Tour Of Connecticut Counties
Lyme ladies craft a Florida church fair bed quilt depicting Connecticut by counties. Each panel shows a county scene such as Litchfield with a clockmaker toolkit, Hartford with coat of arms, and New Haven with old blue laws and steeples. The piece highlights regional history through vivid watercolors on silk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyme
Conn
Florida
Connecticut
Litchfield County
Hartford County
Tolland County
Nathan Hale
Windham County
Middlesex County
Long Island Sound
Lady Fenwick
New Haven
Fairfield County
New London County
Groton Monument
Fort Griswold
Boston Herald
Waterproof trousers lead minister to slippery fish tale
A Harrisburg Telegraph humor piece recalls a minister fond of trout who received rubber waterproof pants as a gift. While wading he falls, sinking into deep water with boots full of water, making an undignified scene as companions watch and laugh, then all help him out and wait for water to drain. The item blends light satire with other anecdotes about actresses, circus tricks, Browning and brain weight studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Gus
Pennsylvania
Prince of Thieves Who Would Not Reform in Denver Bank Raid
In Denver two well dressed men entered the People's Savings and Deposit Bank at noon and forced the cashier to confront the hidden vault. A revolver halted the robbery and James Metz surrendered. detectives later identified him as Horace Hovan, a famed bank sneak nicknamed Little Horace. Hovan recounted a long career, blamed health and poverty for crime, and expressed willingness to reform if honest work existed. He described himself as courteous yet elusive, with a history of high profile heists and evasions from multiple jurisdictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Herald
Diana of
Poitiers
Pyramids
Florida
People’s Savings and Deposit Bank
Denver
Colo,t
Ormorcy
James Metz
Horace
Robert
William Pinkerton
Mr. Metz
Bob Pinkerton
Metz
Horace Hovan
Pinkerton
Middletown
Conn
Little Horace
Hovan
Pdaee
Ed Rice
Halifax
N. 8
Rice
Pittsburg
Western
Allegheny City
Robert Pinkerton
Iin
Philadelphia
Frank Buck
Eastern Penitentiary
Washington
Hoe
Charleston
D. C
Buck Taylor
Boston
Canada
Chicago
Tremont House
Kansas City
Lance
Gong
Cincinnati
Chlorodyne advertised as cure-all in Anglo-Indian notice
An 1880 advertisement from Symes & Co praises Dr J Collis Browne's Chlorodyne as a universal remedy for coughs consumption bronchitis asthma and many ailments. It claims cholera and dysentery relief and urges beware of piracy and imitation while noting government stamp authenticity and wide East/ Hindostan use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Collis Browne
Army Medical Staf
Professon
Symes & Co
Pharmaceutical Chemists Medical Hall
Simla
J. T. Davenport
Great Russell Street
Bloomsbury
London
Hindostan
Collis Browne
Pharm. Society of Great Britain
Viceroy’s Chemists
We Page Wood
Freeman
Chi Tolyne
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Yonnson
Springfield Union
America
Wendell Phillips
Our
New York
Tennie
Belgium
Chicago Times
Ella Higginson
The
Chicago Journal
J. Harris Rogers
Washington, D. C
Rogers
Frank Leelie
Great Britain
United
Germany
Holland
France
United States
New York Telegram
Max O'Rell
William H. Pickering
Nebula of
Orion
Aky
Medico-Legal Society
Ecto World
Fannie
Washington Post
Norristown Herald
Ita
Mamie Davis
Jacksonville
G. W. Bigger
Victoria
B. C
Tiker
Pacific Coast
York
Wm. Blackmore
Htc
Cordova Street
Roy Vancouver
Courier
FFICK
BLO
J. Lewis
Kirkman & Sons
Curtiss & Harvey
Robert Ward
Wharf Street
Kathryn Kidder
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Broadway Theatre
Miss Kidder
Mayo
Gillette
Kidder
New York Mail and Express
Sam
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Browning
Athens
Geraldine
Elizabeth Barrett
Mrs. Browning
Miss Barrett
Mr. Browning
M. Guatavelo Bon
M. Manouvier
M Budin
M. Lo Bon
Toulon
Revue Scientifique
Krebs
Jas. G. Fairburn
Boot & Shoemaker
TAS
Bastion Street
Hilbert
Prince OF Thieves
Hovan and
Hib
New Tetons
Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works
Alberni Canal
T. W. Patterso
M, H, Cowan
Vite
Columbia - Carriage
Kings Street
Carroll
Vancouver
E Vent
Aarge
Parn'tang
BEDE
Bae
McNahh
A. T, McNabb & Co
Garesche Green & Co., Bankers
Government Street Victoria
San Francisco
Avida
Europe
England
Ireland
Canata
Wells, Fargo & Co
British, Columbia
Fort Street
Nesbitt
Dickson & Gco
Thomas Allsop
Henry & Mason
Cuyler A. Holland
Eres
Condon
Allsop & Mason
Abott Company
Sale Manufactures
Great
Russell Street
Wymond Walkem
M.D
British Columbia
East peSumneren
T, Davis
D. M
Bai and
Sur
Smith
Nausinn
Nanaimo
Comox
Amelia
Nanaiamo
Voning
ACM
Tam
Welling
Wellington
Postal Service
Cémox
Alberni
H. Blakeway & CO
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