First Stock Exchange Notice and Early Wall Street History
In March 1792 brokers gathered under a buttonwood tree near Wall Street promising a quarter per cent commission on public stock and mutual preference. By 1793 trading moved indoors to Tontine Coffee House at Wall and William streets, forming a merchants exchange. The New York stock and exchange board began in 1817 with Nathaniel Prime as president and John Burson as secretary.
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Wall Street
A. L. Bleecker & Sons
J. Pintard
McEvers & Bar- Se. Sarna
New York
Tontine Coffee House
Wall and William Streets
Iers
Merchants’ Exchange
Stock Exchange
New York Stock and Exchange Board
Nathaniel Prime
Spay
John Burson
Open Air Show Manager Clashes Over Rope Walker Fraud
A Cleveland Plain Dealer report recounts a heated exchange at an open air show where a manager defends a rope walker amid accusations of fraud. Spokesperson notes a misplaced rope and crowd reaction reflects confusion and disbelief.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
It Was Wasted on Him A Callow Youth Meets Lucy
A flawed young man, described as callow, flirts with Lucy who responds that she found a flat, implying a hidden meaning. The exchange shows disconnect between him and the woman as reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Lucy
Cleveland Plain Deal
Father Responds With Sharp Letter Over Suitor
A father cites a suitor Henry who asks to marry his daughter in a letter. Henry replies claiming a wife is needed and signs as Henry. The father answers with a scathingly corrective reply urging him to study spelling for a year before writing again.
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Wood
Jessie
Henry
Causes of Eczema and Its Treatment Noted
Eczema is a generic term for various skin inflammations with intense itching and burning. Causes include external irritants like soaps, heat, cold, and scratching. internal factors such as inactive bowels or autotoxication. Treatment requires removing causes, soothing inflammation, antiseptics, internal remedies, and dietary changes. Self treatment is dangerous.
Last Man In the Stocks Recalled From 1872 Incident
A Manchester Guardian report from June 14 1872 describes a rag and bone dealer fixed in the stocks at a Newbury parish church for drunken disorder. The crowd gathered in amusement as he endured four hours of punishment, an event that drew hundreds and sparked ridicule.
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Manchester Guardian
Newbury
London Chronicle
Learnable Prodigy Hei necker the Boy Wonder of Lu beck
The piece chronicles Christian Henry Hei necker born in 1721 famed as the learned boy of Lu beck. It notes reading before age one and writing before age three, reciting Biblical events by year one, knowing ancient history geography anatomy and languages by four, and his death at four years four months.
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Christian Henry Heinecker
Lubeck
The Mole Has Eyes Revealed by Naturalists
Sir John Lubbock and Carl Hess show moles possess functional eyes, tiny at about one millimeter, yet capable of reflection and refraction like larger animal eyes. The discovery challenges the belief that moles are blind and details their optical properties.
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John Lubbock
Carl Hess
Stranger in a Coalhole Encounter in London
A pedestrian pauses to help a man stuck in a coalhole on the pavement. The stranded man, smiling, explains he fell in while London Answers notes the incident and the passerby’s concern.
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Estrian
London
Marvel of the Pampas Ombu Trees and Palo Borracho Facts
The ombu tree fascinates with colossal root structures and a hollow trunk that exudes powdery dust and evaporates wood in open air. It is useless for burnable fuel yet noted for its striking appearance and paradoxical nature beside the utilitarian palo borracho whose trunk hides a hollow core and yields fine thread from its fruit.
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Ombu
Squaw
Wesley on French Language and Poetry Critique
A historical remark recalls John Wesley expressing a harsh judgment of French as a language and its poetry. He likens French unfavorably to German and Spanish and mocks its rhyme and musicality.
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Wesley
John Wesley
Europe
Maude Refuses to Be Intimidated by Housewife
A strict mistress warns the new maid Maude that broken items will be deducted from wages. Maude laughs and says she will leave at week’s end if the deduction applies, noting she just broke a hundred dollar vase and can’t be penalized beyond her pay.
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Maude
Tre
He Called the Turn to Make His Dinner Call
An intimate friend of the family says T came to make his dinner call, though he had not visited recently. He admits the lapse and promises to remedy it, and an invitation is issued.
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New York Press
Lemon Tart Lesson Sparks Harsh Kitchen Exchange
A cooking school scene features a sharp exchange as a student mocks another for not knowing how to make a lemon tart. The reply defends simplicity and notes many lemons are already tart, highlighting culinary impatience and wit.
Absentminded Gautier Somnambulist Writer on Buses
Theophile Gautier reportedly did much of his best work while riding buses or asleep at home. His brain worked in dreams as he dictated to himself and answered others without breaking his flow. He often disappeared upstairs in a somnambulistic trance, speaking again as if nothing had happened.
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Theophile Gautier
Gautier
Bosporus
St. James
No Virtue in Indifference Joy Is a Duty Says Van Dyke
A quotation from Henry Van Dyke extols gratitude for blessings received and frames thankfulness as a duty alongside beneficence. The speaker compares ungrateful recipients to the healed lame man at the temple gate, urging cheerful acknowledgment of mercy.
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St. Peter
Henry van Dyke
She Did Not Know About The Marriage Question
A local justice of the peace prepared to marry a colored couple when asked the groom’s parentage queries. The bride interjected that she did not know her father’s maiden name, implying she could not answer the question.
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Justice of the Peace
Different men stop at bottles in shop windows
A reader notes the oddity that some people, unlike others, cannot pass a shop with bottles in the window without entering. The remark contrasts behavior among men and reflects social observations from the period.
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Shotadow
Bita
History Makers Fifteen decisive battles from Cresy timeline
The list presents key battles from 5th century BC to 19th century AD per Creasy: Marathon 490 BC Athenian victory Miltiades Arbela 331 BC Alexander defeated Darius Metaurus 207 BC Hasdrubal defeated by Romes Arminius 9 AD Chalons 451 Attila defeated Tours 732 Hastings 1066 Orleans 1429 Armada 1588 Pultowa 1709 Saratoga 1777 Valmy 1792 Waterloo 1815.
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Creasy
Marathon
Miltiades
Syracuse
Arbela
Darius
Alexander the Great
Metaurus
Hasdrubal
Arminius
Varus
Lippe
Germany
Ems
Chalons
Attila the Terrible
Great Britain
Holland
Duke of Marlborough
Pultowa
Charles XII
Peter the Great
Ictory
General Gates
General Burgoyne
Sara
Valmy
Prussia
Austria
Solovetsk Monastery Fortress in Archangel Governate
At Solovetsk in Archangel, the monastery sits behind a granite wall nearly a mile around. Fortifications include round and square towers about thirty feet tall and walls twenty feet thick. Six churches house statues and precious stones, with massive guns on walls and towers once aimed at the British White Sea squadron during the Crimean War.
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Solovetsk
Archangel
White Sea
Etiquette Through History From Court Ceremonies to State Deals
A discussion traces etiquette from its French origin meaning price label and ticket to its military billet usage and later to formal court ceremonies. It notes the phrase that “that’s the ticket” and explains manners align with codes in sovereign transactions and diplomatic practice.
The Crescent Symbol in Byzantium and Turkish Rule
The text recounts how a crescent moon shone during a night siege of Byzantium revealing Philip of Macedon’s plan, leading to a Byzantine repulse. After Byzantium fell to the Turks the crescent was adopted as a public emblem, believed to hold magical power.
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Philip of
Macedon
Byzantium
Cream of the family faces neighbor’s whipping remark
A Chicago News quip shows a neighbor accusing a boy of stealing apples and stoning ears while a parent defends him calling him the cream of the family. The reply mocks the child’s fate with a demand to whip him.
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Chicago News
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Black
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