Wasp tale and curiosities from John Lubbock's letter
Curiosities include a Gloucester photographer's candid question on photo timing, a tale of coal workers and output, a Boston Mount Washington rescue anecdote, and a letter from Sir John Lubbock describing a tame wasp's last moments.
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Gloucester
Massachusetts
Alexandre Dumas
San Carlo
Naples
Boston Transcript
Boston
Tip Top House
Mount Washington
Fatra
Edinburgh Daily Review
Free Church Assembly
Dr. A
Lasavet
B of C
Chicago
Toronto Globe
Alta M. Hulett
South Side
Hulett
Miss Hulett
Rockford
Messrs. Sleeper and
Whitson
Supreme Court
Clight
Myra Bradwell
Judge Bradwell
Joan Lonspock
John Lubbock
British Association
Brighton
High Elms
Beckenham
Kent
Pyrenees
Marriages Recorded Across Town and Country
Births marriages and deaths notices list multiple weddings from July including Swaine Berry man in Penzance and Farmer Ricketts in Reading. Other unions include Brown Savage in Newbury Whitley in Halifax and Pearson Miller in Edinburgh with details of families and locations.
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Swaine—Berryman
Clarence-street Baptist Chapel
Penzance
Joseph Wilshire
Isaiah Birt
Albert Swaine
Wantage
Mary Jane
Alexander Berryman
Farmer
Broad-street Chapel
Reading
W. G. Dawes
Savage Island
Edwin Farmer
Avebury
Wilts
Sarah Ricketts
Brown — Savage
Congregational Chapel
Newbury
E. W. Shalders
Joseph Philip
Joseph Brown
Fanny Deane
James Savage
West-street
Spicer
Whitley
Square Congregational Church
Halifax
Evan
James Spicer
Bank of England weekly account July 30 1873 issued notes
Weekly account shows in the Issue Department notes issued totaling £37,610,845 and gold and silver coin £701,162. Banking Department lists proprietors capital £14,553,000 and total deposits and securities around £42,868,584. Signed by Frank May, Deputy Chief Cashier, July 31, 1873.
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Victoria
Tor
Government Secu
Inc
Frank May
How To Dys Sin Woon Features Rippons in ten minutes
Advertisement style promises quick cosmetic methods with Judson's Simple Dyes and other products. It cites the Family Herald and Cassell's Household Guide, promoting infant and nursery preparations and Holloway's Ointment for skin diseases with claims of safe, soothing, and curative effects.
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Judson
Ridge
Holloway
London Corn Exchange and Metropolitan Market Report
Market notes from Friday and Monday show thin attendance and limited business at the corn exchange. English wheat sold at Monday’s prices, foreign wheat at last week’s rates, oats down 6d per cwt, and barley steady with other grains fluctuating amid steady meat and provisions markets and steady lamb and beef prices in London’s markets.
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Corn Exchange
Mark Lang
Metropolitan
London
Lincolnshire
Leicestershire
Northamptonshire
England
Ireland
Normandy
Borovuen
New York
Pen advertisement touts Macniven and Cameron pens
The Shrewsbury Journal highlights Macniven and Cameron pens as the best inventions. It notes 1,200 newspapers endorse the Pens with Pickwick Owl and Waverley models. A sample box costs 1s 1d, with mail orders from 23 to 33 Blair Street Edinburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shrewsbury
Pickwick
Owl
Macniven and Cameron
Post
Blair-street
Edinburgh
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Bank OF England
Aarkets
Covent Garden
Colonial
Peter Peter Wurat
Essex
Kent Pras
Town
Icks Ap
Harrow
Norfolk & Suffolk
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