Veiled beauty lottery swindle exposed in Boston scheme
State police seized stock from a nationwide confidence game promising a wealthy heiress’s fortune through cabinet portraits of a veiled beauty. The plan projected $100,000 in prizes, with $25,000 to the lady and $20,000 to the top bidder, while branches operated across the city and letters poured in from buyers and curious observers.
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Colin
Germania
Grand Central
David B. Keith
Hind
New York
Bostom
Samuel Santiera
Keith
Boston
Sox
Herald
Journal
Ae Rent Ok
Swallow
Rotary Public
Washington’ Street
Parker “House
Rand
Young's
Adams House
Raymond’s
Tremont Street
Court Street
Lymn
Wyoming
The Pint of Ale and the Wifely Penny Save
A poor printer named John hours for ale clashes with his wife's thrift. On their wedding anniversary she yields a holiday by offering her daily pint saved as three-pence pieces. John accepts, straightening their finances. The saved pinto ale becomes Mary’s capital that funds their future success.
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John
Jon
Mary
Power of Music and Letters Across Centuries
The piece recounts how contralto Miss Antoinette Ferling performed Kingsley’s The Three Fishers at Eversley Vicarage, prompting emotional responses, and parallels it with 1838 remarks on Dempster’s The May Queen. It notes a July trade figure for Canada: imports valued at 8,574,000 with 991,453 duty. exports at 11,554,000.
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Antoinette Ferling
Charles Kingsley
Eversley Vicarage
Tie
Dempeter
Fi ‘Ord
Times
Dempmer
Sale
Wight
Dominion of Canada
British Columbia
Fragments of modern folly and moral musings
A collage of light verses, social quips, and anecdotes from a late 19th century paper. Topics range from taxation of governors to pets, theft in fashion, and public manners. The tone blends satire with idle curiosity, citing travelers, traders, and smokers in quick bursts. The piece touches on education funding, colonial Africa, and a Vermont funeral scene, interspersed with gossipy vignettes and oddities.
Youths' Department Motto Poem Fragment
A fragmentary verse mocks swearing and deceit, asserting restraint and dignity. The speaker vows to avoid theft and dishonor, referencing parents and guardians to reinforce moral stance.
How Lidie's Picture Was Taken by a Farmer Brother
A farm summer scene centers on Jacky Cummings who dislikes country life but uses a makeshift stove pipe camera to photograph his sister Lidie. The improvised portrait, shrouded in dust and mischief, comes out oddly black and shadowy, leaving Lidie puzzled and grown-ups amused at the practical joke.
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Cleopatra
Cydnus
Baltimore
Gasette
Vette Bras
New York
Taper
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Boston
East
United States
Stanley
Africa
Mick
Cubare
Vermont
Potter
Yne
New Orleans Bulletin
Liverpool
Baron Bramwell
Tax Providence Presa
Turkey
Gurguscvatz
Haryatovich
Alexinats
Yearsovitch
Crackyerjawigatz
Massachusetts
Mr. Chapman
Ignests
Jacky Comsinas
Lidle
Little Lidie
Sone
Winiters
Big Horse
Jacky
Lidie
Cur
Sam
Little Lidle
Sack
Little Little
Mrs. Laidlaw
Mrs. Cummings
Jacky. Si Fod. Just Turn’around Your Face To the Wall, and Atay
Lidley
Eliza
Honor Bright
Ife
Tfe
Leint
Stin
Weather Warnings System Inaugurated In France
M Le Ventuen director of the Paria Observatory launches a May 1 to Oct 1 weather warning experiment for agriculturists in Vienne Haute Vienne and Puy de Dome. Warnings aim to predict rains hail and thunder storms with focus on rainfall progress bearing and inundations.
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M. le Ventuen
Paria Observatory
Vienne
Haute- Vienne
Puy-de-Dame
Paris Observatory
France
Boston Public Library
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Bense and
Pee Pon
Weather-Warners
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