Epitaphs and odd notices from a bygone era
A collage of quirky snippets includes an epitaph of a Yankee smuggler shot by excisemen, a mock fire description with a fireman’s rescue, and odd notices about education ads, Bible verses in lieu of payment, a duchess quip about rising after a fall, sick visit flowers, marriage statistics, and a Missouri editor’s grim yet humorous epitaph.
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Oswego
Sam Jones
Newark
Advertiser
Versailles
M. le Duc
Armitage
New York Cty
Wales
Missouri
Eli Muehch
Skinner
Tabitha
Moses Skinner
The
Trombone
Coleman’s
Job Printing
Job
Rachel
Providence
Kinanan’s LL Whisky and Holloway Remedies Adverts
An advertisement touts Kinahan’s LL Whisky with claim of superiority and red seal branding at Great Titchfield Street Oxford Street W. It also promotes Holloway’s Ointment and Pills as remedies for rheumatism nervous pains cramps and muscular discomfort with testimonials and at home use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kinanan
Kinahan
Great Titchfield-Street
Oxford St
W. Hollloway
Olloway
Holloway
Thorne and Sudbury Families Mark Births and Deaths
Births announce the stillborn son of J C Thorne in Antananarivo and a daughter for Sir Wilfrid Lawson at Grosvenor Crescent. Obituaries note John Sudbury of Bois Hall and young Charles Drake of the Palestine Survey Ex expedition. Beery Hargreaves and several Smith Yeates Oates and Gibberd Farrow marriages recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
D. Horne
Hanley
W. Mardon Beeby
Mary
William Hargreaves
Newcastle
Smith
Above Bar
Southampton
H. H. Carlisle
Edward A. Smith
G. H. Smith
Worthing
Mary Brendon
R. H. Smith
Yeates—Oates
Belgrave
Leeds
James Gregory
William
George Yeates
Pateley Bridge
Rachael Ann
William Oates
Snape
Stockbridge
Congregational
Foulmire
R. Murray
Joseph Stockbridge
Gerald Birch Snape
W. Snape
Lynwood
Darwen
Amelia
Do. Stockbridge
Whitehall
Cambs
Gibberd—Farrow
Goddard
Ellen Ford Goddard
E. Goddard
Oak Hill
Ipswich
Ynes
Wimborne Minster
Fanny Harriet
John
Sarah Cater Keynes
Whibley
George Washington
Fiaised
Elizabeth Whibley
Sittingbourne
Breakfast benefits and house用品 in London ads
An assortment of Victorian advertisements notes Epps cocoa as a flavoured breakfast beverage, with sale via Grocers and a look at the Cocoa process from Epps works in London. Also promotes Jupson dyes for home use and warns against opium-based infant remedies in favor of Stedman’s Teething Powders and Materfamilias Pills from Hoxton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epps
Civil Service Gazette
James Epps
Stedman
Children’s Hospital
Depét—East-road
Hoxton
London
Nineteenth Annual Ereport Highlights Policy Totals
The report shows 2307 new policies for the year amounting to 406,630 pounds and annual premium revenue of 12,236 pounds. In force at year end 10,111 policies valued at 3,306,338 pounds with annual premium revenue of 104,996 pounds. Total terminated policy payments reach 255,924 pounds on 1584 claims. Accumulated Fund rises to 355,202 pounds from 311,115 pounds with 44,087 pounds added in the year. Government funds, ground rents noted.
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City of London
Also Mentioned on This Page
London Necropolis Company
Prospectua Free
Lancaster-place
Strand
W.C
Hassaryt
Horniman
Hlorniman
Cambridge
W. K
Kennedy
Stepney Green
Staffordshire
Thos
Cocker
Stoke-uponrent
British Equitable
Queen Street Place
E.C
John Kemp Welch
Joseph Soul
Cheapside
E.C. Bankera
London Joint Stock Bank
Rphan Working School
W. E. Forster
B.C
Birkbeck Building Society
Avery
Southampton Buildings
Chancery Lane
Birkbeck Freehold Land Society
Southampton-buildings
Chancery-lane
Irkbeck Bank
Chancery -Lane
Francis Ravenscroft
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