Ribbon Girl Finds Hope in a Chicago Ribbon Trade
Millie Duncan, a widow with two younger children, leaves Two Rivers for Chicago to support her family. She excels at a ribbon counter, gains self respect, and receives a hopeful note from Allen Darrow inviting a reunion, as her life brightens amid work and modest luxuries.
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Two- Rivers
Millie Benson
Millie
Joe Limsett
Chicago
Allen
Darrow
Two River 3
Allen Darrow
Miss Ferguson
Mr. Darrow
Telegraph
Miss Duncan
Two Rivers
Ferguson
Chicago Tribune
Lincoln Inventor of an Unsinkable Steamship
The Baltimore Patent Record notes Abraham Lincoln as an inventor with a 1849 patent for an unsinkable steamship. The design used rubber airbags attached to the sides that would be lowered into water to keep the ship afloat if it leaked or faced sinking. The concept aimed to aid navigation in shallow waters and would have allowed a normal vessel to stay buoyant in danger.
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Lincoln
Baltimore
Abraham Lincoln
Rock Acte as a Photographic Plate at Bradley Flat
A rock ledge on Paul Miller’s ranch at Bradley Flat near Hot Springs South Dakota acts as a photographic plate. When moist after storms the rock shows a clear image of surrounding trees and bushes but the pictures fade and renew with each thunderstorm. The rock, a mix of flint and sandstone, is dirty red in color.
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Paul Miller
Bradley Flat
Hot Springs
S. D
Piano Push Promises Wholesale Price in New Markets
A sales pitch proclaims an aggressive plan to place pianos in every town in the state. The firm pledges a temporary wholesale price on the first piano to a locality not yet served, promising a significant saving to buyers.
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Monarch
Dickinson & Huston
Douglas St
Omana
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Ribbon Girl
5. Ferguson
Gether
Miss” Ferguson
Millis
Ayet
Ayer
E. Hartman
Gibbstown, N. Y
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