Historic Hopkins mansion to become city landmark gift
A great grand son of Admiral Esek Hopkins plans to donate the Hopkins mansion and land to Providence for a park memorial. The house will be restored to its colonial interior with family relics, furniture, and kitchen features preserved to evoke the Revolutionary era for public benefit.
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Runs Gould
Eber Agsel West Gould
Sichusetts Avenue
Cambridge
Stud Gsranison
Gould
Axe House
John €. Bune
Am Dune
William JK. Reelds
Dar
Providence
Ufe
Bay State Limited
Charles Street
Hopkins
Tieokins
Betthy
Bays
George
Sophia Hawes West
Taunton
Frederick Gould
Boston
Harvard Facuttr
Pretty Suburban Residence Design and Odd Snippets
A 1903 design feature describes a low yet artistic suburban house with a prominent front porch and porte cochere, four second floor bedrooms, and a first floor finished in native hardwood. Estimated cost is £4000. Also includes assorted humor notes on cuisine and a card trick anecdote from London Answers, plus miscellaneous quotes on beggars unions and artificial beauty.
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T. Mac Lagan
Mes
Arene Nance Te
Ink Froze on the Pen and Great Frost of 1683
A historic fragment recalls a Europe-wide deep freeze with Thames ice towns, ink freezing in pots, and wine sold in blocks. It notes massive hardship and deaths, then shifts to brief cultural asides on a Chinese scholar in Amsterdam, Goldsmith, and the first American play The Prince of Parthia in 1767.
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Jennie
Ming
Miss Smith
New York Globe
Europe
Thames
Pearsons Weekly
Amsterdam
China
Oliver Goldsmith
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Thomas Godfrey
Southwark
Quaker City
Lewis Hallam
Philadelphia
Godfrew
Frederick market prices from Frederick County Farmers Exchange
Quotations list prices for various crops and farm goods in Frederick County. Entries include beans, yellow sneles, white fi5e, bale prices, stud bars, oats, cotton seed meal, potatoes, clover, and other commodities with per bushel or per ton figures, reflecting mid century market listings.
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Sita
Stud
Animals Are Not Proud Says Professor Schuster
Professor Schuster argues animals lack moral feeling and any sense of pride or shame. He says their courage is mere impulse of nature and they have no consciousness of the value of their kind or individuality.
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Professor Schuster
War on the Mistletoe in Texas Warns of Tree Toll
Texas officials and experts urge eradication of mistletoe parasite on hackberry trees, warning it endangers forests and ornamental trees. Post office workers lament public letter routing errors, while a German proverb roundup reflects cross cultural attitudes to motherhood and a Los Angeles cement wall anecdote showcases a sack-stone fusion.
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Texas
Vis
Payne
Davis
Los Angeles
Million Point Cribbage Contest In Des Moines
Long running cribbage match in Des Moines between Colonel John C Lopez and AIie Ward has reached 480234 to 435234 after seven years. The pair play biweekly from 7:30 to 11 pm, aiming to reach one million points by 1915, with Loper serving as Polk County sheriff and Ward as Commercial Exchange secretary.
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Iowa
Des Moines
John C. Lopez
Aiie Ward
Loper
Polk County
Mia Ward
Commercial Exchange
Claver Scherse Hyphnetic Report Fragment
A fragmented classroom exchange describes a plan where ten examples are split with a teacher and Eric Jones aiding five each, then they swap help. The text is garbled and includes names like Tom, Wer, and Harper’s.
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Tommy
Eric Jones
Harper's
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India
Mann
Strand Magazine
P. T. Dischigan
Broad Street
Newark, N. J
Mac
la Presse
Cincinnati Enquirer
London
Ch Lezgary
Wide World Magazine
Frederick
Frederick County Farmers’ Exchange
Marcy
Postofice
Fandle Mall
New York Sun
Mary
Jacques Loeb
Walter B. Wines
Parker
Lloyd Osbourne
Berneker
Ellsworth Kelly
Spain
Miles Forman
Pike’s Peak
Edwin Lefevre
Wall Street
Tom Lawson
Harvey J. O.higgins
Love
Myra Kelly
Curtis
East Side
New York
Stewart Edward White
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