Clerk’s bold ascent into Italian bank partnership and marriage
Thomas Mathers, a lowly ledger clerk at Hodgson Dunford Parr in London, rises by wit persistence and daring. He wins a Turin branch partnership with Hodgson Dunford Mathers Co and secures marriage to Count Marsoni’s daughter Maria.
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Thomas Mathers
Hodgson, Dunford & Parr
St. Swintin’s Lane
Lombard Street
Tommy
London
Darling
Appleton
Frederick Appleton
Mudford and County Chemcal Company
Mathers
Chemical Company
Mr. Parr
Tory
Mr. Hodgson
Mudford Chemical Company
Messrs. Hodgson
Turin
Hodgson
Parkinson
Torrington Square
Bloomsbury
Hodgson, Dunford and Parr
Count Marsoni
Villa Morsoni
England
Maria Marsoni
Maria
Signorina
Hodgson's
Messrs.Todgson, Dunford & Parr’s
Victoria
St. Swithin’s Lane
Mr. Hogdson
Hudson, Dunford, Mathers & Co
Italy
Whitehall Review
Changes in the Eternal City and Rome’s Modern Progress
A Rome correspondent argues that while modernizing works remove landmarks and widen streets, Rome is being transformed like Paris and not ruined. The piece cites historic plunder of monuments by past popes, contrasts pagan and modern Rome, and ends with a traveler from America observing Rome’s changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Louisville Courier-Journal
Paris
America
Mr. Cooper
New York
Boston
Urban VIII
Pantheon
St. Peter's
Benedict XIV
Paul II
Marcellus
Farnese
Alexander VII
Marcus Aurelius
St. Agnese
Cancelleria
Pompey
Palazzo Venezia
Constantine
Clement Vitil
Paul V
Barberini
Urban
Rorkines Ceoments
Inquest Quote Sparks Murder Charge Verdict
The coroner questions a cowboy about sitting in on an inquest. A stranger answers with bravado. The judge reveals a verdict of murder against the doctor, sparking a charged courtroom moment.
The Greatest Gift He Kier Made
An editorial praises H H Warner of Rochester for funding an observatory and prizes, then argues Warner's Safe Cure for kidney and uric acid is the truly practical public benefit. It cites experts and public sentiment, urging belief in the remedy's merit and the manufacturers' confidence as evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Warner
Rochester
N. Y
Warner
Candor
Chief Justice Morrison Dies Amid Health Board Endorsements
The report notes the death of Chief Justice Morrison of the California supreme court. It mentions endorsements by Boards of Health for Red Star Cough Cure as a speedy remedy for coughs and colds, claiming it is entirely vegetable and free from opiates, priced at twenty five cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrison
California Supreme Court
Boards of Health
Marriage Formula At Fayette Clergyman Rev Berry Robinson
A Fayette Missouri clergyman is reported to use a jocular marriage rite that blends biblical phrases with a mock litany. He asks for objections in a tongue in cheek cadence before pronouncing couples as man and wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berry Robinson
Fayette
Jacop
Isaac
Minnesota legislature adjourns after finishing work
Markets report shows wide wheat and feed price fluctuations across regions. The Minnesota state legislature finishes its work and adjourns. Pork and butter prices appear steady as agricultural commodities close the session notes.
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Minnesota
Consumption cured by Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
A man with liver related consumption recovered completely using Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. The text notes his dreadful cough, massive blood and matter, extreme weakness, and claims thousands of similar recoveries.
Congressmen McMillan heiress tied to seven million fortune
A fragment notes Congressman McMillan of Tennessee as an heiress to about 7 000 000. It mentions biliousness liver symptoms and impurity of blood and ads a line touting Hall's Hair Renewer and Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for colds and throat irritation.
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Congressman McMillan
Tenn
Kitney
Hall
Ayer
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Sonia
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Kier
St. Jacobs
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Cambridge University
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Milwaukee
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