Drummers Defy Rain at New York Convention Finale
The United Commercial Travelers of New York completed a three day meeting at the Manhattan Beach Hotel despite rain. 100 new members were initiated including ex Mayor McGuire of Syracuse. The event featured prizes, a Coney Island trip, and remarks from Theodore Roosevelt’s letter.
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United Commercial Travelers’ Association of New York
Manhattan Beach
Manhattan
Coney Island
J. McKenzie
Eleanor Paget
Brooklyn
Warnke
Buffalo
Supreme
Mallory
Brother Doolittle
Mount Vernon
Commercial Travelers’ Order
McGuire
Syracuse
Barbour Asphalt Paving Company
Bagdad
Hoge
Grand Council
Theodore Roosevelt
Commercial Travelers’ Association
Col. Roosevelt
Spain
Porto Maurizio
United States
McKinley
Taft
Sherman
Supreme Council of Our
Columbus
Congress
Commerce and Labor Board
Assembly
Senate
Long Island
J. H. Clute
Clute
America
Europe
Charles W. Rice
London Chamber of Commerce
Rice
Americas
Cuba
Auction Set To Sell Rare 18th Century Louisiana Pamphlet
Sotheby's in London will offer a scarce 1713 pamphlet on Louisiana titled A letter to a member of the P t of G t B n printed for J. Baker 1713. The work covers vast colonial lands and rivers including Massacre Mississipy and St Louis bounds. Also up for sale: Watts Hymns first edition 1707 and Tusser 1604 Five Hundred Points of Goon Husbandrie with only one other copy in a century.
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London
Sotheby's
Crozat
J. Baker
Paternoster Row
Louisiana
New Mexico
Carolina
Isle Dauphine
Massacre
St. Louis
Mississipy
Illinois
St. Philip
Missourys
St. Jerome
Ovabache
Isaac Watts
J. Humfreys
John Lawrence
Angel In the Poultrey
British Museum
Thomas Tusser
Tusser
Shakespeare
Original holograph MS of Scott romance at Sothebys
The 1824 Scott manuscript titled Romance, complete with autographic interpolations, plus an extra illustrated Dryden edition with rare appended documents, will be auctioned in London. Notable items include a signed Napier flyleaf, a Dryden signature early document, and letters relating to Dryden and Milton.
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Walter Scott
Sotheby’s
London
Scott
Russia
Macvey Napier
Prof
Napier
Sir Walter Scott
John Dryden
J. Dryden
Treasury
Prynne’s Histrio Mastix to be sold at Merwin-Clayton’s
A copy of William Prynne’s Histrio Mastix, condemned to lose his ears in 1634, will be auctioned June 23. The Puritan pamphleteer attacked stage and manners in 1632, faced massive fines and ear removal, later restored his degree and remained active until his death in 1669.
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William Prynne
Merwin-Clayton’s
Prynne
Walter Montagu
Lincoln's Inn
University of Oxford
Bishop Wren
Norwich
Weather man forecasts bleak June days and air caution
Director Scarr criticizes June as the worst in records with cold wind and rain. He warns fliers about unsafe conditions and advises timing flights with favorable weather windows. He notes New York rainoffs, Hempstead planning, and expects possible improvements if calmer days return.
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Cloud County
Scarr
100 Broadway
Hamilton
New York
Curtiss
Hempstead
America
Mke
Niagara Rapids
Weather Bureau
Lincoln on Douglas letter sells for 280 in Philadelphia
A Lincoln letter to Dr. B C Lundy dated November 26 1858 in Springfield Isl is described as the only Lincoln missive naming Stephen A Douglas. The sale also included letters from Morrill and Stephens touching the Lincoln Douglas campaign and Confederate state views.
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Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
Philadelphia
Lincoln
Springfield
B. C. Lundy
Douglas
Lot M. Morrill
W. P. Fessenden
Augusta
Morrill
Alexander H. Stephens
Waddy Thompson
Crawfordsville
Confederacy
First edition notes on Don Quixote scarce 1654 work sold
Edmund Gayton’s Pleasant Notes Upon Don Quixote, a small 1654 London folio, fetched a sale at Merwin-Clayton's. Gayton, linked to London wits and Ben Jonson’s circle, served Oxford as Superior Beedle in Arts and Physic, wrote for Lord Mayor Jeethicke’s 1655 pageant, and died with little money. The volume discusses Elizabethan and Jacobean authors, mentioning Shakespeare thrice and Falstaff’s Shrewsbury exploits amid Festivous Notes in the pages.
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Edmund Gayton
Don Quixote
London
Merwin-Clayton’s
Wits of
Ben Jonson
Oxford University
Jeethicke
Shakespeare
Gayton
Ben
Jonson
John Falstaff
Shrewsbury
Sothebys to auction James Hogg manuscripts and other autographs
Two holograph James Hogg manuscripts including Wat Pringle o the Yair and Julia McKenzie go under the hammer in London this week with fourteen and seven folio pages respectively. The sale also features Thomas a Beale’s Pelham’s Widow and William Harrison Ainsworth’s The Good Old Times, a major 400 page manuscript.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Hogg
Ettrick Shepherd
Wat Pringle
Yair
Julia, McKenzie
Juliet
David Brewster
Westchester Rain Cancels County Events and Delays Trains
Heavy rain in Westchester led to the cancellation of many affairs including the Westchester Chamber of Commerce auto ride with 100 cars and the White Plains Hospital tag day. Rescheduled events include the county sight-seeing tour for June 25. Delays affected New Haven Railroad commuter service as electric wires overloaded and steam locomotives were used.
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New York Times
White Plains
N. Y
Westchester County
Westchester Chamber of Commerce
F. A. Stratton
White Plains Hospital
New York Athletic Club
Travers Island
Sound
Westchester Driving Club
White Plains Fair Grounds
Ew Haven
Lost valuable opal in Fulton Street near Nassau
W. T. Selleck of White Plains reported a valuable unset Mexican opal lost yesterday on Fulton Street near Nassau. He carried it in a pocketbook wrapped in black paper and after paying a dollar found the opal missing in the gutter. He advertised the return of the opal in the Lost column.
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Fulton Street
Nassau
W. T. Selleck
Cromwell Place
White Plains
Selleck
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Baymen of
New Jersey
Delaware
H. C. Compton
E. T. Banford
North Baptist Church
West Eleventh Street
Weather Man
Julia McKenzie
Hogg
JuliacKenzie
Brewster
Ossian Macpheod
Ossian Macpherson
James Macpherson
Lord & Taylor
Batiste
Messaline
Walohn
Wallace
Broadway
20Th St
Sth Ave
R6th St
Dresden
Neckwear
26Th St
16Th St
Westchester
Mr. Selleck
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