Curious Divorce Tale of Love and Law in Chicago
A seasoned lawyer recalls a pair who divorce to become best friends. Archibald Fleightleigh courts again, then reenters his ex wife Edith into a staged At Home. She claims divorce is certain though marriage may follow. the club crowd notes the irony as the pair remarry after a public, theatrical court romance.
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Josephine Pollard
Ledger
Simpy
Archibald Fleightleigh
Dliverceil
Fileigh
Deere
Lim
Freightleigh
Edith
Mrs. Fleightleigh
Archie
Fleightleigh
Irea
Ile
Mr. Freightleigh
Iady
Michigan Avenue
Lincoln’s 1846 patent for riverboat sandbar relief device
A Kansas City patent solicitor says he found Abraham Lincoln listed as the inventor of a 1846 patent. The device describes a leather and iron bellows system attached to a river boat’s underguards to inflate and lift the vessel off a sandbar, enabling move to deeper water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Lincoln
Kansas City
Washington, D. C
Lincoln
Abe
Tsu Pose Abe
Ilinois
Uncle Jerry Rusk Proves He Is A Practical Farmer In Squash Tale
The secretary of agriculture, nicknamed Uncle Jerry, mingles with cabinet members and amused crowds in the blue room. Two young women challenge his farming knowledge while he recalls growing a squash so large he could fit inside. He demonstrates he can identify a squash by name, joking about his rural roots and farming skill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Agriculture
Jerry” Rusk
Amo
Ourina
Jerry
Rusk
New York
Agricultural Department
The Era of Pills Its Rise and British Uptown Trade
A Glenham hotel conversation with a prominent uptown druggist describes a shifting era toward pills. He notes Britain’s twenty year craze for medicines in pill form, with apothecaries selling for every ill and specialists producing pills for animals and large beasts, claiming unique capabilities and profitable retail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenham
Florida
Star
Mark Twain Confesses Quick Steel-Spell Lecture Fix
In Washington Twain recounts being unexpectedly booked to lecture on the Sandwich Islands. With a drunken friend arranging Lincoln Hall and ads, Twain locked himself in a room and wrote the talk in time, then delivered it without reading from notes.
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Mark Twain
Washington
Mark
Leame
Cosas
Lincoln Hall
Suohke
Sandwich Islands
Mr. Clemens
Sandwich Island
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Ohio
Tination
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Robinson CO
Bostys, Mass
Pari
Louisville & Nashville & Central
R. A
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Cincinnati
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