Help Wanted and Personal Ads in 1900s Newspaper
Classified notices seeking canvassers with house to house experience earning 35 to 50 dollars weekly and stenographers, companions and governesses for travel or summer positions. Listings include addresses in Broadway New York Montclair Poughkeepsie and other locales with reference requirements and age or qualification notes. Many entries request letters describing experience to various post offices and individuals.
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Edward Cox
Broadway
Kuloskap and Other Algonkin Poems in Translation
The volume presents the Algonkin hero Kuloskap in translated poems with two rhythms, four cantos, and an appendix of Passamaquoddy wampum records. It includes myths of creation, animal lore, witchcraft poetry, and life rites, illustrated in Indian style.
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Kap
Charles Godfrey Leland
Harvara
John Dyneley Prince
Johns Hins
Columbia University
Funk & Wagnalls Company
Dr. Prince
Passamaquoddy
Odysseus
PIONEERING. FEL CONQUEST: THE TRUE STORY OF LEWIS AND CLARK
Eva Emery Dye’s prefatory note frames the work as the Iliad of the West. The review damns it as neither history nor fiction, criticizing its melodramatic dialogue and misplaced motives while noting vivid but uneven narration and poor sense of proportion.
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Lewis and Clark
Eva
Emery Dye
Chicago
A. C. McClurg
Miss Dye
United States
Printers Marks and the Michelangelo Motto Tale
A review of a book by Walter Gilliss tracing how a printer’s mark and the motto traveled from 1889 origins to global echoes. The tale follows the search for the quotation Le minuzie fanno la perfezione, ma la perfezione non una minuzia and its uncertain Michelangelo source, with letters from scholars and publishers, and prints history.
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Walter Gilliss
Gilliss Press
Michelangelo
Rodolfo Lanciani
Rome
Giacomo Malvano
Aurelio Gotti
Edward Parsons Day
John Lubbock
Gilliss
Stop Fight to Save Spectators at Quaker Gap Mountain
A fight atop Quaker Gap Mountain in Stokes County left Cap King dead and several others hurt. John Rhodes was arrested after Deputy Sheriff Smith was struck with a hoe by Russell Jones. The feud between neighbors sparked the clash as shots rang out while a group of young people watched. An elder participant called for a halt as the onlookers passed.
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Kuloskap
Pistook
Raleigh
N. C
Winston-Salem
Quaker Gap Mountain
Stokes County
Cap” King
John Rhodes
Smith
Russell Jones
Rhodes
Wade Mecum Springs
Poor Superintendents Elect Officers at Island Park
Thousand Island Park N Y June 2 At todays session of the convention of the superintendents of the poor President and announced these officers for the ensuing year Patrick Redmond president John J Kirkpatrick first vice president William Van Dusen second vice president J W Ives secretary and treasurer The convention next year will be held at Patchogue.
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Thousand Island Park
N. Y
Atrick Redmond
John J. Kirkpatrick
William van Dusen
J. W. Ives
Patchogue
Notice of Summons in New York Life Insurance suit
The New York Life Insurance and Trust Company sues George Clarke John M Graham and others including Mary Graham and Roscoe R Frohock among many defendants. The summons requires defendants to answer within twenty days under court order dated June 6 1903 and service by publication. Attorneys Emmet and Robinson are listed at 52 Wall Street New York City June 11 1903.
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Lewis H. Genties
William Bradley
Lawrence W. Miller
Robert McLean
Josiah B. McCoy
Edward A. McCoy
George M. Wright
Albert B. Hilton
August T. Schroeder
Eleanor White
Frances A. Wilson
Georgiana White
Charles White
Beadleston & Woerz
George M. Boynton
George Finck
New York
Emmet & Robinson
Wall Street
John M. Graham
Mary) Graham
Mary
Roscoe R. Frohock
Lillias S. Frohock
John Proctor Clarke
Supreme Court of
State of New York
County of New York
County Court House
Borough of Manhattan
New York City
N. Y
Supreme Court
New York County
Alvan W. Perry
Oliver T. Sherwood
NEW York Supreme Court
County of New York, Chelsea Realty Company
Isabella M. Ripley
Charles C. Johnson
Heal Estate Exchange
Broadway
Borough of
Manhattan
City of New York
Herbert A. Sherman
Manattan
Lenox Avenue
Clarence Lexow
Abraham R. Lawrence
Charles S. Whillamson
Celeste Henry
City of New-York
Edward D. McGreal
Thirty-Fourth Street
West
154Th Street
135Th Street
Mark C. Thompson
John M. Suffrins
Lewis D. Suffrins
Della A Blanchard
Delia A. Blanchard
William O. Thompson
Leonard A. Glegerich
Charles H. Truax
Supreme Court of the
George J. Dickinson
City
County of
Gillis & Geoghegan
John H. Shipway
Charles M. Shipway
John H. Shipway & Brothers
Theodore Dieterlen
Emma R. Ashley
George B. Ashley
Charles FE. Brown
Mount Morris Bank
Twelfth Ward Bank
Alfred Beinhauer
Peter J. Kelly
Augustue Noll
Lewis H
Manhattan Plumbers’ Supply Company
Emma B. Donner
Lyman D. Jones
Isaac Billig
William J. James
Frank M. Dunham
Joseph Koch
Clarence Mase
Germania Life Insurance Company
State of
Supreme Court summons orders in Blanchard estate suit
Multiple suits in New York Supreme Court involve Clarence A. Blanchard Nellie B. Hoyt and others against executors and heirs of Delia A Blanchard with publication summonses dated 1903. Additional actions name George J Dickinson Oliver T Sherwood and various banks and individuals across New York County.
Butler seeks discreet private butler with strong references
Butler advertises for a private or boarding house butler capable of cleaning and pressing gentlemen's clothes with good appearance and top references. Several other position notices promise a reliable man for caretaking, coaching, gardening, and general service work with experience in city and Brooklyn areas.
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East 23d
6Th Ave
Adomat
Amsterdam
W. Pheiffer
Eagle-ave
J. L. Klaus
6Th-Ave
Brooklyn
Pulaskist
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East 91St-St
Butler
Collier
West
Pavis Sluby
Geo. Reeves
St. Butler
British West Indies
Jamaica
Robert M'Ghie
Westley
J. G
Park-ave
S. Kato
Hudson, N
Vermont University
Hay
R. Delaney
Burlington
Georg
Greenwich St
Citz
Continental
20Th St
Broadway
Park Ave
120Th
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East 31St ST
Morningside Heights
Gibson & Morgan
West 118Th-St
East 24Th-St
Madison Square Park
Madison-Ave
Henry-St
South Ferry
Gee Ra Rep Ote
Marx Bros
Union Square
W. Williams & Son
77Th-St. Riverside
East 48Th
St. Coe & Brandt
Minnie A. Hickey
West 22d St
J. Jones & Son
Dept. T
Cortland
Clifton Place
Bedford and
Nostrand Aves
East 46Th-St. E
Waverley Place
Britton
126Th-St
124Th-St
Mount Morris Park
Lexington-Ave
14Th—St
Bath
Schlig
East 49Th-St
Jitth-St
Parks, L Station
Harvey’s
East
107Th
East 47Th-St. Madison-Ave
44Th-St
Sol Smith & Engel
GEO. B. Eddy
Madison-st.ee Es
Pee As Sellew
Fulton St
United States Savings Bank
Union Dime Savings Institution
Bowery Savings Bank
Stolfen
New-York
4Th-Ave
14Th-St
Maria Sturm
Johan Sturm
Dry Dock Savings Bank
City of
Fritz
Dora Stahlhut
Bank For Savings
4Th , New-York
The
Tribune
Sobel
Bowery
Nelle 19 & m
Henry Sobel
9Th-Ave
Kory Bros
Prager
B. Tigner
7Th-Ave
L. Steiner
R. Michael
Central Auction CO
M. Sheehan
Canals
Fillin
Jos. Levy
Warick St
Barney Loan Office
H. McAleenan
Way
L. L. Firuse
Sells
Goldstone Bros
J. Stich & Bro
A. Lawrence
E. Alter & Son, Inc
W. Alter
JOS. SHONGOOD & _ SONS
Harris & Hirsh
J. J. Aaron & Son
Albert Freund
Alex. Freund
J. Blumenthal
Anderson & Mintz
Eli Sobel
Benj. Prager
Gibson’s
Maiden Lane
Fagana RT SR
Castleton
New Brighton
Staten Island
Uptown
Ist-ave
89Th-St
125Th-St
Tremont-ave
2D-Ave
41St-St
Sd-ave
Bleecker-st
J. F. Reinhardt
West 28Thst
Hicks
Madison Square
Miller-Clark Nursery Company
Rochester
Broadway Hair Dressing School
C. Sutherland
Bell
Degraw St
Carrie Green
St Denis
Lithst
Montclair
Armal
Bennesit
Moran
Bedford—st
Spain
West 4Th-St
Advertiser
West 5Th-St
Berlin
Germany
Miss M
Pearl St
Buffalo
E. K
East 160Th-St
Summit-ave
Jersey City
P. R
Box T
125Th St
Jamesburg
N. J
Normal College
S. Emilia
Cottage Place
14Th
76Th
77Th Sts
79Th-St
Court-st
Smith—st
A. Rockmore
Henry St
France
Restante
L. GW
Colmar
Alsace
James Timmins
North Tar- Tytown
MacDonald
West 48Th-St
W. Connelley
West Nith-st. Eat
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S0th—st
Bleecker Pleecker-st. Brook
Smith~st
Uncle Remus
Brer Rabbit
New England
Vincennes
Wabash
Clark
Kentucky
Virginia
Washington
South
Louisiana
New Orleans
Atlantic States
Jay
Mississippi
William
M. Angelo
Tex
North Carolina
New
White & Wing
Plaintiff's Attorneys
Pine Street
Ma Bt
184Th Street
Benj. Oppenheimer
Aees
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Ave
West 125Th
Hazelton & Hazelton, Plaintiffs
P. O
No. Pine Street
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Thomas
Madison
Haanee Et Boy
Davis
Lee
Gottlieb
Graham-ave
Davina
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Liberty-ave
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J. K
Chas. H. Pine
Madison St
Columbus-ave
Little Falls
Gil Hudsonst
E. Howard
West 41St St
Newark
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Life
Pieper
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West 17Th-St
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SS Man
Handy
Herman Msnor
Jefferson St
Hoboken
Long Island
Thomas Edel
Powers St
Harris
Porter
Youngman
John Brady
Jackson St
Houck
Charles Stude
Electrician
Bond
Stableman
Martin
Greenwich-st
Knapp
Iistave
J. W. Lepper
Albany, Mo
Sandberg
Lacey
H. E. Spencer
Avenue D
Flatbush
Hing
Charles Gilligan
Frederick Rieger
Fred Lassen
Boerum St
Seher
W. A
West 25Th-St
Charles Clark
West 135Th-St
Frith
East 38Th
Stab Stet Ar
West Sath-St. Intiernaigainn
Slattery
East Did St
Clase Groom
St. Aa
Ee Achmann
King
West 19Th
Jacob Rubrich
East 48Th St
Darien
Conn
Gentleman's Place
Patrick
Tribune Uptown
F. Foerster
Fairfield
Ae Robert Russell
East Ist
East 29Th St
Cook
West 221St
Graham's Bell
M. A
Postoffice
Box Hilton
East 120Th-St
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7Th Ave
Sea— Shore
Cochran
Suth-st
North of Ireland
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Snes
9Th— Ave
Hes Ford
East Sith-st. A
Connelly
115Th—St
Call Or Advertiser
West 31St St
Snow— den
West St
A. Walker
Auburndale
Mass
Jeannette
Burlington, Vt
West 67Th-St
Avenue A
West 27Th
Lexington Ave
Finnigan's Bell
Aratf. Zeer
Avenue
Pringle
Nepera Park
Yonkers
Coun Trylor
West 124Th St
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comnEry
Downey
East Tath—St
Madisonm Ave
Estefty
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