Howell Bros Service Promises Fast Mail Route to Local Towns
The Howell Bros. advertise the cheapest shortest and most direct route to Bayhorse Clayton Bonanza Custer Stanley Basin Seafoam and Sheep Mountain. They carry U S mail freight and express. P Spalding agent Challis.
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Oe Howell Bros
Bayhorse
Clayton
Bonanza
Custer
Stanley Basin
Seafoam
Sheep Mountain
U. S. Mail
Pee and Express
P. Spalding
Challis
Lovers Reunited By Chance At World’s Fair
In a September 1893 Chicago World’s Fair scene, Tommy sits with Aunt Isabel as a nosy Englishman, Dick Purquhar, sits beside them. Isabel and Dick, long engaged, confront a renewed clash of pride and fear. A spill of fate and a quick tug from a floor nail pull them into an unexpected, passionate reunion.
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Kalamazoo
Tommy
Isabel
Vienna
Bernard
Hagenbach
New York
San Francisco
Dick Purquhar
Butter Bisenten Biscuits from Cincinnati Boqquirer
A recipe fragment instructs mixing one half pound butter with one half pound moist sugar then folding in one half pound flour and one well beaten egg. Roll to one eighth inch, cut shapes with a wine glass, center almond, and bake on a greased tin at moderate heat for about 15 minutes.
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Cincinnati Boqquirer
Odd Tales of Ducks and Beards Stun Local Readers
In a curious batch of notes a Sacramento man finds gold nuggets in ducks bought for 40 cents and netting 2.60. A bearded man of 12 now measures 11 feet beard length, while a Vande native’s tall beard spills over his arm as he walks. Eggs, butter, and distant trade figures appear in passing, with various quirky claims and numbers.
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Sacramento
Rae
Denmark
England
Roseia
St. Petersburg
Angtish Parte
Marstek
Ruasts
Inez
Seeker
Rvicherath
Forteight
Lecket
Vandenever
M Mary
A Lesson in History of Early American Coins and New York
The text chronicles Madison as Father of the Constitution and notes early private Granby Higley Tokens. It recalls Point Comfort’s colonial place names, Boston’s first mint under John Trull, and coin values. It covers 1604 New Amsterdam ships and Peter Stuyvesant’s surrender, leading to New York’s renaming and a small Dutch-speaking population.
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United States
James Madison
Connecticut
John Higiy
Granby
Granby Ae Higley
Point Comfort
James River
Poynt Comfort
Massachusetts
Boston
John Trull
New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyverac
Stuyveamnt
New York
Duke of York
New York City
The Late Fashions Hit the Wardrobe Scene
A survey of late fashion shows minimal sleeve variance with continuous close fits and puffed details. Basque waistlines feature scalloped and battlement hem finishes. Velvet hats with Persian lamb trim and feathery plumes appear. Colors lean somber yet exquisitely blended. American fur finishing attracts European houses.
A Glance at the Past on Silk and Noble Lineages
A Philadelphia maker cites an old color book from 18M on spider silk trials that failed as spiders killed each other. It notes British aristocratic lineages dating to 1400, including the Campbells of Argyll and the Grosvenors, and mentions early clothiers named Tranket in Bristol who pioneered woolen textiles.
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Philadelphia
House of Lorits
Mar
Scotland
Campbells
Argyll
Grosvenor
Edward III
Bristol
England
Tranket
Pers
Pranant
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