Blunders at the Altar Timeless wedding missteps amuse cleric
A Chambers Journal tale recounts comic marriage service mishaps from a clumsy bridegroom to a deaf bridesmaid and misread vows. The piece lampoons ritual wrong turns from “to have and to hold” to “to love and be loved,” ending with a curious Christmas wedding mix up.
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Chambers’ Journal
Timothy Duggan
Timothy
Moe
Pear Nody
Honey
Sik
Ena Jones
Smith
Jones
The Deaf and Dumb Telegraph Operator Story
An older narrative recounts a deaf and mute telegraph operator who learned to read Morse by touch. His twin brother, scarred by a fatal illness in childhood, is robbed of $81,000 but later recovered by the brother and community justice. The tale blends personal resilience with crime, including a courthouse aftermath and a Paris Guillotine note.
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Tim
Col. Tracy
Ted
Ried
Bill
Pelos
Kennebec
Vlage
Lewiston
Paris
Tan
Thie
Kilife
Bax
Ivey
Anne Hac
Beals
Penorandon
Carey
Caleb Maley
New York
New England
Cape
Pauline Cushman Saved Union Officer From Rebels in 1861
Bald Captain Henry Bush recalls aiding Pauline Cushman after she toasted Jeff Davis amid a soldier crowd in Louisville. When pursued by guerrillas near Winchester, Cushman entered his room disguised, helped him secure money and escape in her carriage, enduring a long night ride to safety before he rejoined his unit.
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1St Ohio Cavalry
Pauline Cushman
Jeff Davis
Cushman
Stones River
Rose Trans
Winchester
Tenn
Mary Sharp College
Day
Acoss
Chicamauga
Ohio
Stone River
Gishman
Avery
St Louls Republica
Chlorodyne advertised as cure all by J Collis Browne
An 1880s brochure touts Chlorodyne as a universal remedy for coughs consumption bronchitis asthma and many ailments. It claims cure of diarrhoea dysentery neuralgia rheumatism and cholera with endorsements from Symes Co and warnings against substitutions and piracy. The note references Dr J Collis Browne and Davenport in London with government stamp assurances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Collis Browne
Army Medical Staff
Collis Browne
Symes & Co
Pharm, Society of Great Britain
Viceroy’s Chemists
W. Page Wood
Freeman
the Times
J. T. Davenport
Great Russell Street
Bloomsbury London
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Beideom
Gen. Boulanger
New York City
Fada
New York Press Club
Charles A. Dana
Prizon
the Sun
Dana
New York Tribune
Joseph Pulitzer
Louis
Whitelaw Reid
The
Tribune
John Cockerill
Cockerill
Amos Cummings
Chester A. Lord
George F. Spinney
New
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Archie Gunter
Mr. Barnes
Gunter
Reptiamus
Wimmer
Philadelphia
Alice Hawthorpe
Bisimothier
Dick Milburn
Sana
Turant
Tamang
Baltimore Dispatch
Blackmore
Britain
Kirkman & Sona
Curtiga & Harvey
W. Stuarta
Torre WA Wharf Street
Victoria
B.C
Courier Office
J. Lewis
Nanadio
Working Girls
Bhawmut Avenue
Erie
Woman’s Journal
Popes Geel Ree
Pennsylvania
G. W. Bigger
Victoria, B. C
Pacific Coast
New- York
Brices
Fairburn
Boot & Shoemaker, ‘Bastion
Hilbert
OTICE
Alberni Canal
T. W. Patterson
M. H. Cowan
Columbia - Carriage - Works
Astings Street
Carroll, Ve
Las
Pete
Everyg
Mia
A. ST. McNabb & Co
Garesche Green & Co., Bankrers
B. C
U.S
U. S
Prancisco
Acada
London
Europe
England
Ireland
United States
Wells, Farge & Co
Esbitt
Dick Joan Street
Oves Dog
G.eer
Nesbitt, Dickson & CO
Enry
Mason
Fagland
Allsop & Mason
Abors Company
Wymond Walkem
M.D
British Columbia
East Relicaten
T. Davis
Physi
Urgeon
Nanaimo
Horwden
Colmox
Stramer Amelia
Nanaiamo
Comox
Nuaiyno
Vigtoria
Vancouver
JAM
Te, M
Tam
Rainbow
Nanaime
Welling
F. M
Avtealm
Nanakmo
Lever
Postal Service
Wellingtons
Comex
Alberni
H. Blakeway
Predehori Ais
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