Poems of Double Meaning and Swift's Creed Amid Legal Anecdotes
Readable fragments present two poems with numbered lines, plus a long anecdote about a judge and a criminal named Dirty Murphy. The excerpt includes reflections on liberty, church, and politics, then shifts to shipboard gold storage and a Paris court joke, ending with miscellany about prayers and odd quips.
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Stamford
Hones
Thomas Pains
France
Dean Swift
England
Rome
Majestic
Scribner’s Magazine
Dream Party and New Autumn Fashion Trends on Broadway
Fashion notes from metropolitan society describe a Dream Party with astrologists and card readers, new fall gowns, the L'Allemarin shoe, ribbon trends for lingerie, Bo-Peep afternoon gowns, Poplin delisse outfits, and a shift toward practical fabrics. Socialite Miss Sylvia de Thomson prepares a Spanish-influenced Madison Avenue wedding with twelve bridesmaids in early fall.
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Sylvia de Thomson
Baroness de Thomson
Brasil
Madison Avenue
de Thomson
Aca
Madison Square Home
Wide range of 19th century industrial notes
The page surveys diverse topics from brown bread boosting bone and muscle to a factory producing 5 007 000 bundles of kindling monthly. It notes gun making costs, mescal rope claims, Malta clover honey, dyed cotton in Georgia, Pompeii excavations, Athens Georgia electricity, Malay tin sources, fake bitter almonds, beer consumption, and China's bamboo importance.
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Arizona
Island of
Malta
Georgia
Pompeii
Old Forum
Athen’s
Barnett Shoals
Ality
Malay Peninsula
England
Germany
Jokers Plum Pudding and Pithy Prose Snippets
A collage of witty quips from multiple papers. Observations on promises and pay, breakfast foods, mothers and haircuts, medical study, and advice provoking independence. A humorous note on a Genoa girl suitor and a road agent demanding surrender of lands with no return.
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Elmira Gazette
Lowell Courier
Somerville Journal
Yonkers Statesman
Binghampton Republican
Genoa
Richmond Recorder
Bostor Transcript
Passing Points And Oddities From Around The World
A collection of curious notes reports passing points in Idaho rent offers Shoshone Falls. Boston police day force rotation changes. Scientists say a wink lasts about a sixth of a second. Trafalgar Square fountains output zero water per minute. Faces have two unequal sides and features seldom align. Over $100000 in pearls found in Sugar River mussels. Well preserved bread unearthed in Pompeii in newly uncovered rooms.
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Shoshone Falls
Idaho
Boston
Trafalgar Square
Sugar River
Wisconsin
Pompeii
Exers
Self Deception and Vanity in Kate Field’s Washington
An excerpt reflects on ego and vanity noting that to despise weak people signals weakness in the speaker. It argues that constant self praise, bluntness, laziness misread as honesty, and hidden vices behind mild virtues mislead others about character.
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Kate Field
Washington
Modern Proverbs About Money and Manners
A collection of humorous proverbs on risk, finance, and social behavior. It quips that fortune favors those who brew, warns insolvency as policy, and mocks appearances and credit. It contrasts loyalties and ferries wit through domestic and social advice.
Wedding Dress Notes for Brides and Young Wives
A Harper's Bazar item advises brides to wear white satin or crepe for the wedding dress and to use the initial of their maiden name on household linen. It mentions a tulle veil and suggests guests handle a gentleman's hat, either leaving it in the hall or bringing it into the parlor.
Plainfield and Nearby Rail Schedule Fragments
Truncated timetable data shows Plainfield departures at 5.8 6.20 6. la and 7.10 8.07 with connections to Easton Bangor and Reading. Sunday service lists additional trains with a.m. and p.m. times toward Baston Easton and Allende, plus routes to Scranton and Harrisburg via Lehigh Valley lines.
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Placefield
Baston
Plainfield
Plainvisw
Lake Horatoowa
Easton
Igh Bridge
Brunel
D&w
Eas Easton
Bangor
Banx
Piemgtons High
Meecharr P
Bethlehem
Easton Bangor
Apes
Allende
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Dirty Murphy
Murphy
D. Murphy
Detroit Free Press
Paris
Brown
Harper’s Weekly
Prince of Wales
Pittsburg Press
Mr. Tupton
Tupton
Bazar
OUR Fashion Leiter
Crisp
Broadway
Andrew Carnegie
Iron King
Scotland
L’allemarin
Kid
Madison Avenue Society
Helen Drayton
Charlotte
Fifth Avenue
Santa Claus
Agricultural Bureau
China
Juse
Plainfield Water Supply CO
W. H. Rogers
Central Avenue
Ootheer
Plainfield, New Jersey
Water Supply
Plainfield Water Supply Company
I. L. McVoy
East Front Street
hotSim
Dimesavings Institution
Plainfield, N. J
Sterem
Joan W. Murray
William Wilite
Nathan Harper
Ellar R. Pope
Treaserer
Lehigh Coal
Auak
Bowt Wi Lumber and Mason's Material
L. A. Rheaume, Ag.t
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Laings Hotel
West Front Street
Wallace V. Miller
John E. Beerbower
Prop
City Hotel
Wiki
A. Coddington
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Comace
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W. Puowt Sr
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Coddington
Puluic
Corin Tatiomers
Deak Eelal
Corner Park
Dota
Elson Kunyon
Megatlaw
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Park Ave
N.J
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Meeie
Conenicion
Supreme Court
Om Laaloner
Pirst National Bank
Bullaine
Piret National Bank Building
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Dexnan
Park Avenue
N. J
A.M. Seguine
Laing
Pent St
Madison Ave
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H. P. Baldwin
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North Avenue Pharmacy
A. D. Mallenson
North Ave
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Bdeoweal Stables
1. G. Stelle
C., E. Clarke
William J. Stephenson
North Avenue
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