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Various Odds and Ends from Phrases and Names
A collage of brief notes from a late 19th or early 20th century page listing odd facts, petty curiosities, local happenings, and ads. Topics include advertising psychology, medical trivia, travel opinions, crime notes, population literacy, agriculture, railroads, and notable people in cities like Boston New York St Louis Des Moines and San Diego with scattered statistics and humorous quips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake
Victoria
Boston
Juarez
New York
St. Louis
Nilsson
Florida
Des Moines
Iowa
Fisk
Nashville
Anti-Cruelty Society
Sontag
France
Vermont
Virginia Valley
Cal
Dubuque
Chicago
Mississippi
San Diego County
Peshtigo
James Gordon Bennett
Newburyport
The
Herald
Scranton
Pennsylvania
Nova Scotia
Russia
Richmond
Virginia
Quincy
Atlanta
Georgia
Henry Clay
Griswold College
Davenport
Boston Globe
Swift
Archer
Erie
Wall Street
Marshalltown
Connecticut
William McCann
Elmira
Huxley
George Sand
Henry Burgh
House of Delegates
England
Gilmore
Milwaukee
Sterling
Ilinois