Death of a Hermit in Boston West Roxbury hut
A New York Herald dispatch describes William Merriam a 25 year hermit of Boston who died in his West Roxbury hut near Boylston station. The lone resident kept hens stored old tools and a small cot and desk inside his timber dwelling. Neighbors recall a temperate life with rare social contact and a rumored forgotten fortune. A separate Hartford Herald report recounts the Mrs Eugenie Beste medium exposure with two Times office men catching her in a staged séance using luminous paint and gauze to simulate spirits.
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New York Hermald
Boston
Mass
William Merriam
West Roxbury
Boylston
Providence
Fridday
Merriam
Hartford
Hartford Times
Ava
McManus
Picking and Sorting Apples Method Shows Careful Harvest
Deacon L. W. Weeks of Marlborough shares a practical apple harvest method. Large barrels fill a spring wagon then pickers use small handle-basket picks to place fruit into the barrels without bruising. Two men unload the filled barrels at the barn for sorting and barreling for market, enabling rapid harvest with minimal waste.
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Deacon L. W. Weeks
Marlborough
The Decline of Handwriting and Winter Coal Trade
A brief meditation on the fading art of cursive writing compares the goose quill to modern pens and typewriters, noting reader and writer trends. The piece shifts to a report on dealers stocking winter coal, explaining supply, transport, and price concerns due to weather, and ends with a promotional note for temperance remedies.
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James EF. Brown
S. Market St
Frederick, MD
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H. Weinberg
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Eldridge
W. Patrick &T
Crick
Jersey
E. J. Eldridge
Fersons Wiehleg
Patrick Street
Frederic
Jers
Griffins
Ocradiw
A. S. Attia
Ron H. Johnson
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York
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Sweep Pavementa
Milton G. Amer
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N. RO
D. Mantz
Oetter
Philadelphia
Jas
F. Brown
Kred’k
Mid
Falcon
Nice
M. Falion
Frederick County
Lamar’s
West
J. Beckley
Mount Plessant
Mount Pleasant
Schrey & Delaplaine
Frederick Md
Holland
Florist
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E. Herman
Frederick County Agricultural Society
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W. R. Steiner
Green House
South Market Street
Geo. Brest & Oe
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First Streets
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Delat Axmos
Ferbws
India
Custis Lee
Chiehtain
Jubal Early
Virginia
General Longstreet
Georgia
Gulf Coast
Fitz Hugh Lee
Mahone
Stonewall Jackson
Tallent
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Robert E. Lee
Fairfax County
Joseph E. Johnston
United States Railroad
Shenandoah Valley
John Echols
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Lexington and Big Sandy Road
W. C. Wickham
Capitol Square
Confederacy
Lee
Appomattox
South
Fitzhugh Lee
Bradley T. Johnson
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
R. Lindsley Walker
Texas
State House
Austin
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John Brown
Gloucester Point
Chesapeake Bay
W. D. Groner
Norfolk
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The
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Beauregard
Cartie Lee
Cuartis
Ashington
Hooker
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Jefferson Davis
Walker
Stonewall
Jackson
Robert E. Withers
Virgini
Stout and Gray
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Parra Nessle
Agerstown
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TH. van Sentvoord
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