Rates and Rules of Advertising in The Register
The piece describes advertising rates for quarter column and half column spaces, including one square and three insertions, six months, twelve months, and notices, with pay-in-advance rules. It blends this with a serialized narrative of Ellis Tremayne and Effie Tremayne showing debt, extravagance, and a fateful confrontation, then shifts to editorial notes on Hell Gate explosions, fraud cases, and a legal summary from The Grocer.
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Elis Tremayne
Effie
Ellis Tremayne
Hifie
Mr. Tremayne
Hillis
Ellis
Ellig
Mae
Russia
Hastings
Tremayne
Fewo Faces and the Hidden Face Trick
A strange tale about a little girl with two faces in one place yet never seen together. By a deliberate act, one face remains hidden while the visible face appears, leaving the other unseen.
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Lissie
Laziest Man Among Western Paper Mentions
A brief, fragmented note identifies three worse men than a lazy reporter by initials and places. One lived in Kansas and dated letters as 11worth, another in Tennessee as 10aC, and another wrote Wyandotte as Y&.
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garThe Laziest
Kansas
Tennessee
Wyandotte
Slow, Steady Living Described In Quaker View
The piece warns against haste and danger of rapid movement by locomotives and running. It praises deliberate, measured action as the path to success and health, urging calm, steady labor and avoiding exhaustion. Quakers are cited as archetypes of calm thrift worldwide.
Before and After and a Humorous Carving Tale
A Danbury News style vignette contrasts anticipation and marriage with a later home scene where a wife demands cleanliness. Then a carved gravestone joke about a missing loved one invites a minister’s blunt assessment of human imperfection, followed by a joke about a humpbacked man.
Lawyer Held in Contempt for Inkstand Motion
A lawyer at the bar was found in contempt for a court motion. The record shows the motion was to throw an inkstand at the head of the Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Se's
Boston hotel ruse ends with court plaster surprise
A Boston hotel tale recounted in St Louis describes a late night fruit raid by a gentleman who, after discovering a masked owner of the room, is confounded to find a female grip. The morning reveals a clever plan by women patrons wearing identical plaster marks, foiling the man's hunt for a single culprit.
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Boston
St. Louis
Republican
Hager
Governor Seymour Letter on Republicanism Enduring Under Grant or Hayes
The letter argues that a president’s change will not alter ruling mind, organization, or policy, asserting that Republicanism remains the same under Grant or Hayes despite shifts in leadership and party dynamics.
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Oas
Grant
Hayes
Seymour
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the Register
Slater
Uffie Tremayne
Godfrey Coddington
Mrs. Tremayne
Tie
Coddingtona
Mr. Wingfield
Coddington
James Wingfield
Mrs.Tremayne
Bellburn
Nffie
Hillis Tremayne
Hffe
Hell Gate
New York
Praud
Supreme Court of Maine
Kellogg
Curtis
Missouri
F. A. Percy
Hugo
Helen &. Gonant
Richard Price
Baste and Health
Danbury News
Cat
William
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