Toe Stubs and Hoofbeats in Tales of Life
A collage of vignettes recalls a stubbed toe beside roadside sorrow and quiet endurance. Amid sketches of Henry Nast caricatures and political figures, anecdotes recount a Irish passenger gifting a ticket, a pilot Amos Cummings storm tale, and a Queen Emma visit to a Cook monument as villagers recall a band’s humorous miscue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos Cumming
Amos Cummings
Ernest Jarrold
Cummings Sud Jarrold
Jarrold
Amos
Mickey
Cummings
Saturday Evening Post
Chalfont
St. Giles
England
Hugh Palliser
Cook
Emma
Lodwich Islands
Wilberforce
Sandwich Islands
Night bells show aid in cities and ships and trade
Night bells of various trades appear in cities to summon help at all hours from drug stores undertakers and plumbers to wrecking firms. Some bells are mounted visibly near offices while others lie hidden behind signs in waterfront districts. The era’s curiosity about industry and public service is evident in these practical signals and the Napoleon anecdote adds a note on power and retirement.
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Wrecking Company
New York Sun
Napoleon Bonaparte
Dr. O'Meara
St. Helena
England
Bourrean
France
Europe
Businssa
The First Umbrella Through the Ages
The article traces umbrella use from ancient Greece and Rome as sun and rain protection and royal marks to its spread in Queen Anne era when common, noting all were imported until about ISu2. England began local manufacture around that time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Anne
England
Oldest of a large brood returns to surprize kin
A young boy visiting grandparents learns a new sibling has arrived at home. His astonishment shines in a blunt worded remark about his father’s reaction, reflecting a family’s winter absence and unexpected addition.
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Kennebec Journal
Tombstone epitaph inspires smiles in old churchyard
A New England churchyard stone quips that James B. Rollins, a widower, erected it for his two wives, Ann Sophia and Julia Hattie, noting they "made home Pleasant" as recorded by Woman's Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Ann Sophia
Julia Hattie
James B. Rollins
Woman's Journal
Siegel Cooper Co implements profit sharing and stock plan
The Siegel Cooper Co operative Stores announce 2,000,000 in Common Stock placed in trust to pay annual dividends to employees and a 200,000 share issue of cumulative 6 percent Preferred Stock with dividends secured by trust deposits in New York and Chicago. Subscriptions begin May 7, 1900, with allotments by share count and delivery arranged through Illinois Trust and Savings Bank and Central Trust Company.
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Siegel-Cooper CO
New York
Chicago
Siegel, Cooper & Co
Central Trust Company of New York
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago
Siegel Cooper & Co
Central Trust Company of
Iaribe
Sieghl-Cooperoco. Co-operative
Wate
New York City
Siegel-Cooper C
Co-operative Stores
Icago
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
la Salle Street
Jackson Boulevard
Farser
Co-operative
Oder
Iiinois
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Bismarck
Great Northern Railway
Ireland
Dave
Pat
Begorra
London
Nast
William M. Tweed
Tweed
Roscoe Conkling
Conkling
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Pacific
Ecuador
Germany
United States
Philadelphia Press
Paris
Prospectus
Chicago, al
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