Christmas Books Promising New Juvenile Adventures
A survey of recent juvenile titles showcases King Mombo and Jeb Hutton by Scribner's, Bangs Jimmieboy tales, Rob and His Gun, Andy Grants Pluck and The Haunted Mine, The Burges Letters, and many more. Notable authors include Horatio Alger Jr, Katharine N. Birdsall, Molesworth, and Wells, with series from Crowell and Dutton offering value. The collection highlights practical boyhood adventures, moral themes, and nature tales for young readers amid wartime and colonial contexts.
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Mombo
Charles Scribner's Sons
Paul du Chailly
Paul
Jimmieboy
J. K. Bangs
Bikey
Riggs Publishing Company
Bangs
W. A. Linn
Rob
Horatio Alger, Jr
Andy Grant
Henry T. Coates & Co
Harry Castleman
Saalfield Publishing Company
Wwoo. Stoddard
Dana Estes & Co
Edward S. Ellis
Dickens
Jean Ingelow
Little Nell
Little Eva
Jacks of All Trades
D. Appleton & Co
Katharine N. Birdsall
L. A. Harker
Fiametta
Mabel Osgood Wright
the Macmillan Company
Redclyffe
Burgeses
Noli and the
Herbert
Stone & Co
T. Y Crowell & Co
Evelyn Raymond
Molly
Barbara Yechton
Harriet Tcomstock
George Washington McKinley Jones
Caxton Club
Amos R. Wells
Etheldred Barry
Miss de Peyster
Bessie K. Ulrich
Eva A. Madden
Greene
Clarence W. Hawes
James Otis
Sophie Swett
New England
R. H. Russell
Mr. Habberton
Helen
Budge
Toddie
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Florence Holbrook
P. V. Ramaewami Raju
E. P. Dutton & Co
Reynard
Evelyn Sharp
Macmillan Company
Outlook
Little People
The
Outlook Company
Carolyn Wells
Little Folly
Fairyland
Folly
Henry Artemus Company
Rome
Sphinx
Centaur
Pegasus
Birch
L. C. Page & Co
W. J. Hopkins
Abbie Farwell Brown
Bread and wages stir French labor and price control
The Paris strike wave grows as bakers may join the longshoremen and sailors, with a referendum set for the Mth and 15th. French agriculture ministers propose price limits on bread, linking municipal intervention to a national policy. Also noted are a Buenos Aires bank overloan, Abyssinia rail progress to Harrar, and San Domingo policy shifts.
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Marseilles
Federation of the Baker Workmen of
France
Dominican tariffs set four rates with staged increases
New customs levels create minimum moderate additional and maximum duties. The second, third and fourth are 30 70 and 100 percent higher than the first. Rates apply by country based on existing Dominican duties from under 20 percent to over 40 percent. Increases ramp in over a year.
Monuments Mark Historic Spots In Canandaigua NY
Two granite bowlders mark historic Canandaigua sites the last Iroquois general council with the U S government and General Sullivan's punitive march route. Funded by Dr Dwight R Burrell, one sits by the courthouse Government Building and the other at Bristol and Thad Chapin streets near the Chapin manor. The inscription on the first bowlder will be bronze raised letters.
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Canandaigua
N. Y
United States
Sullivan
Dwight R. Burrell
Albany
Lewiston
Paris
Frontenac
Coureurs Des Bois
Courthouse Square
Government Building
Bristol and
Thad Chapin Sts
Chapin Manor
Thirteen Years in the Courts A New York Title Suit
A New York County case highlights a thirteen year struggle to obtain a clear title. Mrs. Sarah Lynch sold to Michael H. Haffey in 1889, with $7,980 price and $95.10 paid upfront. unresolved encumbrances delayed deed delivery. The suit progressed through Supreme Court, Appellate Division, and Court of Appeals, culminating in a 1894 decision. Haffey must pay the remaining $7,020 plus interest, taxes, and assessments since the contract, but may receive rentals and potential adjustments after a referee determines facts and accounting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York County
Odell
Eighth-ave
Sarah Lynch
Michael H. Haffey
Health Board
Ridgewood water worries Brooklyn residents over hardness and tint
Brooklyn residents fed up with Ridgewood reservoir water report a persistently hard and brown tinted flow. Health officials say the conditions are not dangerous and not extreme, though seasonal shifts and source mix from ponds and wells explain the variability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Ridgewood Reservoir
Health Department
Manhattan
J. H. Deghuée
Board of Health
Ridgewood
Croton
A Roundabout Romance of a Lost Schooner Tale
General Hemphill recalls a long forgotten Abbeville County tale begun when the schooner Annie Freeman sailed from Charleston to the Bermudas. The voyage ended in mystery, with James Erwin believed drowned, later revealed to have survived in Cuba, built a fortune, married, and had a daughter who later faced upheaval as events drew her family into Spain and England amid European conflicts.
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Columbia
S. C
Robert R. Hemphill
Abbeville
Abbeville County
Hemphill
Spain
Weyler
South Carolina
Malcolm Erwin
James Erwin
America
Annie Freeman
Charleston
Bermudas
James T. Erwin
Erwin
Mr. Erwin
Presbyterian Church
Longost
Cuba
Havana
England
Trere
Record iron ore and wheat boom on Soo Canals traffic
Sault Ste. Marie reports canal freight through Ste. Mary's Falls up to December 1 totaling 35,064,251 net tons, with iron ore shipments rising to 23,966,724 tons and wheat rising to 70,744,058 bushels. The gains exceed prior years and rival global canal traffic, aided by milder weather and high Canadian canal activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich
Joseph Ripley
Ste. Mary's Falls
Kaiser Wilhelm
Ripley
Lake Superior
Poe
Thade
Sint
Ong. dl
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Books and Publecatons
Christmas Books
Stevenson
Jane Andrews
Ginn & Co
Trade and Finance Abroad
Buenos Ayres
el Diario
National Mortgage Bank
of London
Senevedra
Diario
Abyssinia
Africa
Harrar
Addis Ababa
Mémorial Diplomatique’ of
Republic of San Domingo
Canandagua
Timothy Pickerine
Red Jacket
Half Town
ITN
D Warriors
Corn Planter
Little Beard
Little Billy
Handsome Lake
James Smedley
Israel Chapin
Augustus Porter
William Erwin
Horatio Jones
Joseph Smith
Jasper
Arrish
John Sullivan
Scientific American Transportation
Great Lakes
Chicago
Scientific American Notes
Berlin-Zossen
Valtellina
Scientific American
MUNN @ CO
Broadway
New York
Nathalie
Anna Chapin Ray
Teddy
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Hartford Courant
Catharine
Myra Sawyer Hamlin
Camp Chicopee
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
Louisville Courier-Journal
Tale of
Harriet A. Nash
Maine
Stuart Schuyler
John Preston True
Morgan
Cincinnati Times-Star
New York Tribune
Jack
Lucy Meacham Thurston
Virginia
Chesapeake Bay
Providence Journal
Torqua
Charles F. Holder
Pacific
Little, Brown & Go., Publishers
Washington Street
Boston
Lederie
Denslow
W. W. Denslow
St. Nicholas
G.W. Dillingham Company, Publishers
New
Yor
S.S. Moltke
Auguste Victoria
N. West Indies
Black Sea
Caucasus
Patricia
Hamburg-Americar E Lime
Plymouth
S. S. Deutschland
Bamburg
S. S. Moltke
Cherbourg
Ham.burg
Bluecher
Mediterranesan Service
Ee Palatia
North German Lloyd
Bremen
Algiers
Gibraltar
Naples
Genoa
Oelrichs & CO
Louis H. Meyer
South Third St. Phila
OLD Dominion Line
Pier M Beach St. Ewith
Japanchina
Hawaiian and
Philippine Islands
Pacific Mail
S. S. CO
Occidental and Oriental
Toyo Kisen Baisha
San Francisco
Honolulu
Yokohama
Cabaseian
Bates Ee
Japa
China
Dalfait Po
Japan
EMP
India
Asia
Australia
West
Indies
Loyd Express S. & Katserin
Nassau
Miami
Porto Rico
RED
Juan
S. S&s
Caracas
Or & S. Philad
Boulton
Sran Dabbert
American Line
Southampton
London
Bt. Pont
Philadelphia
St. Louis
St Paul
REP Star Line
Antwerp
Finland
Wam International Navigation Company
N. R
N. T
White Star Line
Teutonic
Cymric
North River
REP “D” Line
la Guayra
Puerto Cabello
Curacoa
Maracaibo
San Juan
P. R
Wall St. Ferry
S&s
Noos S. S. Philadelphia
Boulton, Bliss & D
Ee General Managers
Front St
Cunard Line
Queenstown
Georgia
Florida
al Ints
Texas
Colorado
Arizona
California
Mexicn c
Geo Florida
He.ry & CO
Gn. Agts
Pier D. ER
Metalian Royal Mail S. S. CO
Navigazione Generale Italiana
Alexandria
Hirzel, Feltmann & CO
Taveloce
Tureday
Bolognesi
Hartfield
Wall St
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