Odd Anecdotes and Oddities From Bygone Days
A collection of curious vignettes including tramping sailors begging at a rectory, a San Francisco widow preserving her husband’s skull, a Worcester widow avoiding lightning wood, a giant Japanese cuttlefish described in Zoologist, and a Sunderland move sermon praising sobriety. Also notes on clergymen reusing sermons and a postmaster general joke about the Tombigbee river with a sharp reply.
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San Francisco
Worcester County
Sunderland
Somerville
Mass
Andover
Andover Theological Seminary
Bertra
Kendall
United States
Funde
Births Marriages and Beaths Notice Summary
Birth announcements for Stallybrass Hocart Irving. Marriages include Lloyd-Roper Paget-Prentice Nicholls Judson Scott-Harrison. Death notices for Stevens Turner Logan. Kinahan's Whiskey advert closes the item.
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Stallybrass
Truro
H. M. Stallybrass
Hocart
Codoznan
Gard
France
James Hocart
Pasteur
Irving
Alexandra Road
Bedford
W. Parker Irving
Lloyd—Roper
Congregational Church
Ross
W. M. Robinson
W. Spurgeon
Alfred Hoskins Lloyd
Clifton
Lavinia Susannah
Thomas Roper
Ross House
Herefordshire
Paget—Prentice
Stowmarket
Thomas Fison
J. Reeve
Franceys Bradley Paget
Henwick House
Newbury
Berkshire
F. B. Paget
Ackworth
Yorkshire
Harriet Elizabeth
Manning Prentice
Nicholls—Judson
Clifton Down
J.G. Rose
Thomas Nicholls
Sneyd Park
Gertrude Mary
J. E. Judson
Wm. Judson
Scott—Harrison
Friends’ Meeting House
Earl’s Comne
C. A
Bank of England Weekly Account July 9 1873
Bank of England Gazette reports Issue and Banking Department balances for the week ending July 9 1873. It lists notes issued gold and silver coin bullion government securities and deposits with figures for government debt other securities and various deposits in both departments signed by Frank May deputy chief cashier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank OF England
Victoria
Banking Department
Secua
Frank May
Markets Report July 14 Corn Exchange Cattle Prices
English and foreign wheat prices hold firm as arrivals vary. London Metropolis cattle market shows firmer tones but steady demand with mixed quality. English breeds and Irish imports noted. Meat market supplies adequate with slight price dips. provisions show steady butter and bacon values. Covent Garden reports well supplied markets with fair prices. hops market update ends the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corn Exchange
Marx Lang
Arley
Metropolitan
London
Gothenburg
Norfolk
Suffolk
Essex
Cambridgeshire
Lincolnshire
Leicestershire
Northamptonshire
England
Ireland
Deptford
Dutch
Jersey
Limerick
Hamburg
Waterford
Covent Garden
Market Report Shows Sparse Crop Prospects and Steady Goods
Reports from plantations indicate a fragile outlook with at best half a crop possible. Continental markets are quiet as Kent, Sussex, and Farnham regions show modest price ranges. Seed and wool sections note nominal activity, with steady English wool and firmer Cape qualities, while oils and tallow stay subdued and cash prices slip slightly.
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Mid
Farnham and Country
How to Dye Silk and Wool in Ten Minutes
An advertisement touts Judson's Simple Dyes in eighteen colours at sixpence each with full instructions. The ad claims ease of use for silk wool feathers and other fabrics and notes the Family Herald praises the dyes for quick understanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judson
Holtoway
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Kinanan
Kinahan
L Whisky
Great Titchfield-at
Oxford-at
Borovan
Kent
Norfolk &Suffolk
S. d
Northern Congregational School
Silcoates House
Wakefield
Estas Listiend
James Bewglass
John Crossley
H. Sanders
Robert Bruce
Huddersfield
Bryan Dale
Halifax
James Rae
Batley
J. Calvert
Attercliffe
Jas. Collier
Wailsheaton
Chas. Stingworth
York
I. Briggs
Eng
J.P
Taunton
W. H. Griffith
Edward Bayly
Woodford
G. F. H. Synes
B.A
Eee House School
Hagley. Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
Frederic Ewen
Heathfield House
Parkstone
Poole
Bournemouth
Walter Gill
Victoria Villa
Finchley, N
Washington Wilks
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