The Register and the Amery Family Tale
A serialized piece from The Register recounts a Mississippi plantation visit where a painter narrator learns of a courtly man’s prison past. The tale weaves a New York counterfeiting case, a fatal fall of two families, and a reunion on a Mississippi veranda with a late-life marriage blessing.
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Hale Amery
City of
New York
Loonge
Yonkers
Horace Wilson
May Walters
Robert Waltera
Wilson
Horace
Amery
Mr. Allen
Mr. Phelps
Phelps
Allen
New Orleans
Thrall and Mumford Offe r Premium Gold Draw
Gold dollar premiums announced by Thrall and Mumford include 300 dollar value in gold prizes. Gifts range from ten to one dollars and 16 tickets grant five dollar gifts plus 25 one dollar gifts. Largest non-winning ticket holder earns an elegant premium.
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Sensence Sensda Oe
Lawgee
Thrall & Mumford
Grand Gratuitous Allotment at Owen & Co’s Store
A vintage advertisement lists prizes worth 300 dollars including a buggy and watches to be given away to customers. It promotes Low Prices at Owens East Main Street store with items like tea spoons, cigars, flour, brandy, coffee, sugar, pineapple, ham, wine, and beer, inviting shoppers to call and compare prices.
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East Main Street
Owen
Grand July Free Gift Drawing Advertises $500 in Prizes
On the first day of July 1880 a promotion offers tickets with each dollar purchased. Prizes include a top baggy, scales, sulky, cultivators, plows, gun, carriage, churn, silverware, bells, saws, and fishing gear among numerous items totaling $500 in value.
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Garden City
Hat's VEGETABLE Hair Renewer claims to restore color
The advertisement touts Hat's VEGETABLE Hair Renewer as a powerful restorative for gray hair. It promises scalp whitening, dandruff cure, prevention of hair loss, and nourishment for moist, glossy hair with long lasting effects and occasional use. Endorsed by medical men and Massachusetts State Assayer, marketed by A. H. Fretageot & Co.
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Massachusetts
Hall
A. H. Fretageot & Co
Untold Misfortunes and Circus Crowds Questioned
A quip compares despair in men to women pulling hair as a sign of hardship. It jokes that no circus this winter faced disasters, raising doubt about crowds this summer and the amolothness of a husband's crown as a measure of a wife’s woes.
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the Register
An. Slater
Christendom
May Waltere
Littleton
Grand Street
May
Walters
Mra Amery
Mr. Walters
Sabali
Waltersa
May Wilson
Efe
Margaret
Jacobs Breith’s
USA
Jacob Bre
E. F. Owen & Co’s
Janao E.F. Owen & CO
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