Frost Fairs on the Thames: London Ice Celebrations
The article recalls arctic Thames winters when frost fairs sprang up on the river. Booths, printing presses, trades, and games drew crowds from Westminster to the Temple, with Charles II and others visiting. Notable fairs occurred in 1608, 1683 84, 1716, 1740, 1788 89, and 1814, ending after four lively days.
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London
Thames
Evelyn
Westminster
Temple
Charles II
Scientific American
An Unexpected Retort At The College Of Surgeons
The Philadelphia Inquirer recalls a blunt exchange where Abernethy questions a robust diploma candidate about how to respond to an explosion. The student answers with wit about waiting for descent and flexors and extensors to defend himself, revealing a memorable sharp retort.
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Abernethy
College of Surgeons
Philadelphia Inquirer
Presence of Mind Exchange Delivers a Grasp on Charity
A ragged boy asks a philanthropist for two bits to visit his claimed mother. The boy retracts earlier claims, insisting he seeks two bits to enter a spiritualist séance. The exchange exposes a test of honesty and the moral tension between aid and truth.
No Danger, her pipe in heaven tale
The excerpt notes a worker debating heaven and tobacco with an employer. A humorous exchange ends with the claim that angels would not detect her breath because she has left it behind. The dialogue blends dialect and exclaims a resolve to abstain from smoking.
Stammering exchanges quoted in Harper's Weekly
A Good Cure features a stam merer asking about overcoming stuttering. The other replies with relief from keeping mouth shut, illustrating a humorous wartime era attitude toward speech impediments.
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Harper’s Weekly
Old Time Pompeiians Show Modern Touches
An Exchange item notes ancient Pompeiians used folding doors hot water urns and taps. Children played with clay toys cages and stone pigeons while doors bore tokens lamps glowed inside masks and grottoes used shellwork. Riveted cracked pottery endured long after.
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Pompei
Vesuvius
Pompeiians
Herculaneum
No Authority in a Dictionary Quip About Howells
William Dean Howells faces a tongue in cheek rebuke when his wife challenges a dictionary quotation. The anecdote highlights a playful moment where a quoted line from Howells itself is used to justify usage, only to be dismissed as if the author lacks authority.
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William Dean Howells
Howells
New York Post
Dickens Detects George Eliot’s Sex Through Sympathy
The passage notes Dickens, a keen critic of his craft, suspected George Eliot was a woman after reading Queues of Clerical Life. He remarked that the work shows great ability but, despite the name, he believed the author to be a woman.
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George Eliot
Charles Dickens
Color Blind Exchange Joke On Color Perception
A humorous exchange explains color blindness as the inability to tell colors apart. Archie notes his atlas map has the Black and White seas colored blue, implying the cartographer is color blind.
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Archievely
Papa
Black Sea
White Sea
Typewriters Given Away by Emerson Company in Woodstock
The Emerson Typewriter Company of Woodstock Illinois has distributed over 400 free top grade wholly visible Emerson typewriters across all states and territories. Adults may request free offers by mail or post card to Frank L Wilder president Woodstock Illinois. The machine features universal keyboard back spacer tabulator two color ribbon and low payment terms with one dollar down and ten cents per day.
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Emerson Typewriter Company
Woodstock
Ill
Emerson
Frank L. Wilder
Emerson Typewriter
Report of The United States Nat Bank At Newberg 1912
Report of condition for The United States National Bank at Newberg Oregon as of February 2 1912 shows resources including bonds cash items and notes from other banks and trust notes while liabilities list time certificates of deposit and other obligations Cashier J C Colcord attests the accuracy before Notary Churchill on February 27 1912 with directors E P Dillon Clarence Tout and others listed.
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Mbaicves
Rniture
Tate and Private
Pees
Or Remgon
Yambi
Bank stock and deposits notice from Oregon county records
The document records capital stock paid in and undivided profits for a bank in Yamhill County Oregon. It lists demand certificates of deposit and time certificates of deposit and includes an oath by D. Setsom, president, and a sworn statement dated February.
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Oregon
Yambill
D. Setsom
Abov Bank
D. NeLcom
Egg prices from E A Hall poultry listing
S C Brown Leghorn eggs priced at 1 for 15 cents. S C White Leghorn and B P Rock at 150 for 15. All choice birds. E A Hall address 1262 E First Street phone Blue 89. 21 pd.
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S.C
S. C
B. P. Rock
E. A. Hall
E. First Street
New Telephone Directory Notice for Newberg Co
Those planning telephone installations or location changes must notify by March 10. A new directory will be issued by March 15 for Newberg Telephone Co.
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Newberg Telephone Co
New glasses advertised at Imperial Hotel demo
A campaign ad offers free demonstrations of new glasses by Dr Lowe at the Imperial Hotel on Saturday March 9. The ad promises glasses that see all distances without lines or seams, no cement to cloud, and no eye strain, claiming the wearer will look younger.
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Imperial Hotel
For Sale Land near Newberg and nearby tracts
Several parcels offered by White & Company at 705 First Street. 40 acres with slashed stumps and good timber for 3000 dollars or 2500 cash. 160 acres two miles from one station and four from others at 20 dollars per acre. 100 acres clearable with grass and a 500 goat bedding area and a good spring. 40 acres near Newberg with 30 acres cultivated and 15 acres timber. 150 dollars per acre.
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Newberg
White & Company
First Street
Meeting Notice of Chehalem Mutual Telephone Co
There will be a meeting of the Chehalem Mutual Telephone Company Saturday March 2 1912 at 2 30 p m in the building secured for a central office back of Mr Bales shoe shop All boat side members and prospective members are urged to attend.
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Chehalem Mutual Telephone Company
Bales
Artichokes offered for winter hog feed and farm goods
One-acre artichokes touted as best winter hog feed on earth. four sack lots F. O. B. Dayton at $1.00 per sack. Also one horse with harness and top buggy for sale. Contact F., A. Crawford, P. O., Dundee.
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Dayton
A. Crawford
P. O
Dundee
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Attaroretcaibess Poorwar
E36 Resources
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T. Everest
Atty
B. A. Kirks
McMinnville, Oregon
Scotch Collies
F. Niederberger
Dr. Lowe
Bors
G. Schulz
Burbanks
J. W. Barcroft
Zamwalt’s
Black
Plymouth Rock
E. H. Woodward
White& Company
Spaulding Logging Co
Warren Jones
F. W. Morse
John S. Sanders
G. Everest
1St Street
Donald W. Wall
First St
Horse and Furry
N. B. Thomas
Pittsburg
Hart's Hardware
Pacific Street
City Transfer Co
White
Taylors’ Feed Store
O. M. Hanson
Route 3
Graphic
Saxze
E. R. Garner
Model Restaurant
North Main St
Munger
C. EB. Newhouse
Springbrook
Sace
Calif
Howard Walton
Christenson & Larkin's
A. N. Maynard
Route 2
Box
Laurel
A. H. Dean
Rex
W. N. Coffee
Portland
Free Methodist Church
North Main Street
E. I. Harrington
Ramsey Ft Cemetery
Ass'n
Wallace
Ramsey Hill
the Beautiful Cemetery
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