Shoplifters Trick At Counter Reveals Weak Protections
A store floor walker notes shoppers use a common ruse to lift two or three items without notice, as parcels are transferred amid busy hours. The tactic relies on counter to counter transfers, leaving saleswomen unable to reliably recognize purchasers from minutes before. Another passage discusses Archbishop Usher and his 1650 chronology in shaping biblical dates.
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New York Sun
Christendom
Archbishop Usher
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Fragmented OCR Item on Local Topics
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a Brown named figure and a council issue involving canes and a device. The text is unclear and lacks complete names, dates, or outcomes.
The Most Costly Bean In Commerce
A St Louis Republic extract notes vanilla beans as the costliest bean, growing in Papantla and Misantly, gathered by natives, sold fresh at 10 to 12 dollars per 100 pounds, then dried and cured to about 10 dollars per pound, used by druggists and confectioners as a key commerce item.
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Papantla
St. Louis Republic
Origin of Bankrupt and Travel Wit in 19th Century Texts
The article explains that in Italy money lenders displayed funds on a banco and a lender ruined, breaking his bench, was called bancorotto or bankrupt. It also notes travel etiquette on elevated train cars with patterns of passenger behavior observed across trips.
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Italy
Dry Goods Chronicle
Those Denied City Ways, Along Use of the Tongs
Fragmentary OCR yields a tangled local note citing civic disputes over access or methods, with stray phrases about tongs, cousins, and heat. The readable segments hint at a correspondence or commentary on city procedures and social tensions.
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