Odds and Ends of a Nation in Brief Snippets
A miscellany of observations and anecdotes from public life and society. Topics include political figures, notable appointments, New York and Chicago affairs, social customs, travel notes, and trivia. Notable items mention Frederick Douglass, Longstreet, Vanderbilt, and Rebecca Harding Davis, with commentary on arms sales, tonics, theater refreshments, and legal quirks in New Hampshire.
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Fred Douglass
New York City
Scott
Moore
New York
Tex
Chicago Palmer House
Beauregard
Barry
New Orleans
Great Eastern
America
England
Rebecca Harding Davis
Lippincott’s
General Longstreet
W. H. Vanderbilt
Octave Feuillet
United States
Europe
Japan
New England
George Dawson
Albany Evening Journal
Hayes
M. Tilton
Beech
Yexas
Keokuk
Iowa
Galveston
Texas
Louisiana
London
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
British India
Globe
Boston
New Hampshire
Private Panel and a Smoking Joke Debate in Rural Garrison
A sergeant and private panel debate tobacco’s harm with joking retorts about longevity. A bright four year old, moved by Joan of Arc, sobs during the stake scene asking “where were the police.” The fragment hints at public morality and parental influence in a domestic vignette.
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Joan of Arc
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Register
Evansville Business College
Telegraph Department
Evansville Commercial College
Third
Main Streets
Court House
Wright & Spencer
John J. Kleiner
Dees Y
Register
Mr. John
Painteleroy
Julian Dale Owen
New Harmony
Ind
Main Street
Peter Heckman
Jacob Breith
Peter Wheber
West Main Street
Thrall & Mumford’s
Westings
Peter Weber
Tur Sun
Tug Suy
Washington
Wavexay Sun
Sun
the Sun
N. Y
Saturday Evening Post
Bennett & Fitch
Sansom Street
Philadelphia
Post
Eugene F. Owen
Horace FP. Owen
Alfred Dale Owen
William H. Owen
Charles A. Parke
Castier
C. J. Carpenter
ASST
Mt. Vernon Banking Co
Mount Verion, Jed. Indiana
Hovey & Menaius
Attorneys-At-Law
IIL
Supreme Court of the State
Posey and
Vanderburgh
Thouse
Sepd
Mount Vernon
SASET
Thrall & Mumford's
J. W. Fiber
Deaver
New Harmony, Indiana
Rvi Wate PO Greer
William M. Hennett
niOv--Bueso
Union Haseit
William M
Mildice Media
Old Government
Java
Mar U Kaiho
Lagunyra
Golden Rio
Gree Coffees
Torall & Mumford
Carlton
Washington Street
Chisago, i
Atal
Mall
A. G. Olln
Washington St
Chicago
Romannan
Evrry
Moi
Nealeg
Dr. C
Bi Louis
Gilmore & CO
Chipman, Hosmer & Co
F Street
Washington, D. C
Patent Office
Congress
United States Courts of Departments
Supreme Court of the United States
Court of Claims
Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims
Southern Claims Commission
Executive Departments
United States General Land Office
General Land Office
Department of the Interior
P.O. Box
Wasainatos
D. C
Gintone & Co
GEO
H.B. White
National Metropolitan
Tosepu West
Loujeprados
Duckworth
Damron
J. K. Duckw
Main
Third Streets
Indiana
Wal
Boot & Shol
Ersons
U.S. Patent Office
A. Lerimann
Washington, D.C
Ayer
Ayers
Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Practical Chemists
Lowell, Mass
Dr. J.C. Ayer &Co
Lowell, Masse
J. Bryan
Clinton Medical and Surgical Institute
East Fifteenth St
Eivery
Bright
Maior Express
Bryan
N.Y
Eliuer Nos
Mney M
Atte Giely Epere Piansenta O Ellihe Tine
Thanasamrtilagalas
Particulara Tres
Addyaau, Tinder & Co
Portland
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