Wished-for Saw-mill and the Whortle River Visit
In Whortle on the Toft, an angler lodges with Peter and Mrs Williams, discovers their missing son John has returned home after winning a sawmill deal. John’s success finances the mill, reunion, and renewed family ties while Walter Kite narrates the farmer carpentry trade and a debt-free life.
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Nibbs
Peter
Sean
Williams
Cauire
Drunteen
Tomy
Willats & Son
John
England
Harper's
Oddities and curiosities from a bygone era
A mixed roundup of quirky facts and observations crosses topics from geography and temperatures to literature and travel. It mentions Texas migration, extreme heat records, hunger science, a shadowy figure, quail in Santa Cruz, worm damage to Cape Cod cranberries, Verdi in Ferrara, British Museum shelves, Pittsburgh industry, Chicago decency, typhoid in Dublin, a long lived pastor, Yosemite travel, iron pricing, journalism schools, San Francisco Japan trade, Bacon Shakspeare theories, Donarlos heroism, Nebuchadnezzar bricks, and British female beauty comparisons.
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New Jersey
Lignor Verdi
Ferrara
British Museum
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Chicago Post
Moulton
Chicago
Arkansas
San Francisco
Japan
Bacon
Cleveland Jieader
Nebuchadnezzar
Col. Forney
Western Union's New Dey Street Building Rising in New York
The Western Union Telegraph Company plans a nine story New York building at Dey Street and Broadway costing 1 700 000 and due for occupancy early January. It will be mostly company occupied with two rental floors and a battery room, president’s room, and officers’ rooms filling the rest. The firm owns 154 471 miles of wire, 5 780 offices and 9 190 employees, and last year transmitted 14 456 832 messages at an average of 54 cents each. The company has been laying 20 000 miles of new wire annually for three years. Ceorze B Prescott, electrician, and Thomas A Addison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Western Union Telegraph Company
Dey Street
Broadway
Battery Room
Ceorze B. Prescott
Wid Thomas A. Adison
Inventions Cut Costs as Telegraph Reform Spreads
New York Letter notes the inventor of the automatic telegraph enabling four messages on one wire, likening it to Morse. Yuis company saved $50,000 on $150,000 of lightning, and Mr Prescott imports steam batteries promising another $50,000. About 260 messenger boys work at the New York main office, with tailors constantly mending their uniforms. the move to uniforms has been widely adopted by large corporations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse’s. Yuis Company
Prescott
England
New York
New York Letter
Great South view on Alabama Negroes by Edward King
In the September Scribner's essay, Edward King describes Alabama Negroes as dependent on white charity in Montgomery and nearby towns. He portrays widespread immorality and ignorance, idle laziness, and a shift to town life, with many awaiting some unclear turn of fortune. He criticizes work for others as dishonest and improvident when self-employed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward King
Scribner's
Montgomery
Barty Virginians Got Wives History Of Early Virginia Auction
The Richmond Whig recalls Virginia’s first wives sale under Jamestown trees in 1621. A widow and eleven maids were auctioned for tobacco with no licenses or fees, and many of today’s Virginia families trace origins to those unions. An note on sea moss trade and the Duke of Brunswick’s forthcoming marriage also appears.
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Commonwealth of Virginia
Richmond Whig
Jamestown
Tondon
Virginia
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Williams & Donaldson
Thrall & Mumbford’s
Vue
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Wendel Schmitt
Ind
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Mie
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Ene Ore
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Thrall & Mumford's
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Toft
Whortle
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Slackle
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Elysium
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Texas
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Santa Cruz
Cal
Aluge Corporation
Alabama
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Jay
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