Dusty facts about common items and misnomers
A crowded list debunks everyday names and materials misrepresenting origins and composition. It notes that acids include rocks and chalky substances, that cuttle bone is chalk, that porcelain terms mislead, and that many items like honey soap and salad oil are misnamed or misrepresented, ending with jokes about temperance and Vanderbilt’s Paris vases.
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Brazil
Cuba
Burgundy
Hamburg
China
British
Dutch China
Chelsea
Japan
Prussia
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the Register
Jackass
Norwich
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Paris
Ear Lord Ramsey
Liverpool
James G Blaine
Michigan
Berlin
Church! & Co
Church & Co
Golup
Thrall & Mumford's
John W. Miller
New Harmony
Indiana
True & Co
Augusta
Maine
Elebadquarters
Thrall & Mumforl’s
Parker, Remington, Cult
Bey"Tatham
Webb
Thrall & Mumford
Farmers’ Headquarters
E. F.owen
H.p.owen
EB. F. Owen & Co
Main and
Church Streets
Ind
McCormick
Hoover & Co
Nichols, Shepard & Co
Eagle Machine Works
C. Rumely
Re. Heilman
Avery
Owen & CO
Hood
J. B. Hood
Hood Orphan Memorial Fund
G. T. Beauregard
New Oreans
United States
New Orleans
Battle Fields
Morocco
Levant
Turkey
Gex
Hood Memorial Fund
D. Winliam
Ford
Beast Dental
West Main Street
Bet
Geo. W. Engler
AVING
Wm. A. Kight
Ford, Fitton & Co
Tavern Street
Mary Drinkwater
GEO
John Walz
Boots & Shoes
Man Street
Lnc
Posey County
Tilue
Wreekly
Congressional News
Courier Company
Evansville
Centennial
Peter Heckman
East Main Street
New Harmony,Ind
The
Scientific American
Munn & CO
Park Row
New York
Messrs. Munn & Co
F & 7Th Sts
Washington, D.C
Hautert & Co
Portland
Detroit Free Press
Free Press
Detroit
Eugenes
Taxaun
Horace P. Owen
New Harmony Banking Company
Eugene 8.Thrall
Thomas Numford, SR
Eugene F. Owen
Horace P.owen
Charles A.parke
William I. Owen
Alfred Dale Owen
Warner's
Craig
Bright
Bae
Gay
Warner
Druggists
Deflore
H. H. Warner & Co
Rochester
N. Y
Gilmoree & CO
Chipman, Hosmer & Co
F Street
Washington, D. C
Patent Office
Congress
Supreme Court of the United States
Court of Claims
Court of Commissioners of Alabama
Southern Claims Commission
Executive Departments
United States General Land Ofice
General Land Office
Department of the Interior
Gilmore & CO
P.O. Box
Washingtron
D.C
H.B. White
National Metropolitan Bank
Kimmerlin & Mann
Thos. Ferguson
Simon Gerlick
Stinson & Co
Portland, Maine
Footy
William Hartman
Main St
EAGLE
Tavern
New Harmony, Ind
J. T. Eagle
Proprietor
J.T. Eagle
Mrs. James
Viets Hotel
Clothier & Hatter
Root & Tinker
Duane St
N.Y
Main Street
the Times
Jacob Breith
Randolph House
Noah Frank
Mayby
Eph West
Louijf Prador
JOS. West & CO
Commission
Cor Poydras
Magazine
E. J. Goodwin
Shees
Lichtenbergers Store
Lea
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