The New York bank forgery case ends with arrest
A Chicago area bank forgery investigation tracks William Livingston through stock farms and New York real estate, tying a broad theft to a forged City Bank of New York draft for seven thousand five hundred dollars. Officers lure him to a rural Illinois farm then seize him, finding ten thousand dollars in his pocket and the stolen notes used in the fraud. He is sent to New York for trial, convicted, and sentenced to four years and a half. The pursuit is hailed as a noted example of detective work.
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New York
City Bank of
Vanderbilt
Livingston
Puck
Buffalo
Mr. Peck
William Livingston
Cook County
Chicago
du Page County
Mr. Livingston
Iowa
Lawrence Leslie
N. Y
Farm Implement Praised by Local Designer
A progressive farmer uses a self designed combined marker and farrower praised for efficiency. The device features three and a half foot runners cut from three inch stock, cross pieces, and coach screws. A Y-shaped iron brace and gauge rod allow side to side motion in a perpendicular plane, reducing harness cord variation and uneven pulling.
Farm implement designs and poultry coop featured in Rural New Yorker
The article describes a gauge supported marker assembly for a cultivator style wheel, detailing seat shaping, strap protections, and runner modifications for stability. It also covers a furrower mortise system and low mounted beams for turning, plus a two inch dirt-escape hole, with notes on practicality for farmers. It then presents a chicken coop design praised by Burdett Hassett of Iowa, highlighting dry warmth ventilation and strong poultry protection with a wire window and hinged front door.
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P. Shull
New Yorker
Burdett Hassett
Iowa
Fireside Fragments on Home Remedies and Recipes
A compact collection of household tips from the World and Boston Budget offers mildewy soap-and-salt remedy, hand care with cologne and bella donna tincture, facial heat treatments, a Russian bath method, lemon sauce, chocolate pie custard, creamed oysters, colored tennis flannels care, herb eggs sauce, orange custard, and puff paste instructions, reflecting late 19th or early 20th century domestic guidance.
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Boston
Orange Judd
How He Worked It and Educated Baboons Tale
A Chicago Tribune anecdote on when to ask for a raise contrasts with a department head urging patience during good times. It also recounts tales of trained baboons as railway signalmen and dogs outperforming tricks, noting skeptical press and Mrs. Carey Hobson’s South African Stories. A Buffalo Express quip linked cold feet to cold weather with a one dollar charge.
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Chicago Tribune
Cape
Carey Hobson
Chambers’ Journal
Almanacs dated to year 100 A D and odd tidbits
A collection of assorted curios from historical trivia to local anecdotes. It notes almanacs dating back to year 100 A D, seals consuming ten pounds of fish daily, a Chester furniture store window display, marbles played by Washington residents, a pastor adding two girls to offertory, a two year old who died at Mascoutah weighing twelve pounds, a crocodile shot in Queensland with a medal in its stomach, a Maine village oyster supper for a hearse fund, and a quip about oysters and the human stomach.
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Chester
Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
Mascoutah
Diantree River
Queensland
Maine
Fragmented clippings of crimes and ads from a late 19th century paper
A patchwork of brief notices and sensational snippets. A Farrton man imprisons his wife over eggs, a 14 year old girl is punished for stealing a magazine, and a Bloomington man gives 30000 to his children who place him in a poor house. Rome New York residents walk on icy sidewalks to patronize a public benefactor. An ad for the Monon Route Grand Land Sale promotes Cumberland Park near Middlesborough Kentucky with spring resort claims. Miscellaneous items include dental cures, patent medicines, and small ads about values and merchandise.
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Farrton
N. J
New York
Reformatory
Bloomington
Til
Rome
N. Y
Berroesrs
Tennessee
Cumberland Park
Middlesborough
Quoted Verses and Local Wit From Historic Notices
A fragmentary item cites lines about veracity and theater from a Boston paper and a Pennsylvania town, with a brief remark on trout season. The passage attributes wry quotes to a verscrrive and Du Bois, Pa., reflecting periodical humor and regional voice.
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du Bois
Consens
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Bhosang
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Munsey
Ars Ne
Sion
Benk
Helath
Kez
Western Town
Stranger
Marker and Farrower
Buffalo Express
Sacceny
Lowell
Brown
Waex
Carter
Spearet Hale
Pike
Bington
Zam
Washington Post
N. G. Picayune
Trood
Hood
McVicker’s Theater
Blue Jeans
Indiana
Fourteenth Street Theater
Anyoxrz
Binghamton Republican
Boston Uurier
BE Jacobs Oil
W.W. Peabody, Prest
Gen'l
Charles A. Voge
Dolphin Street
Baltimore
St. Jacobs Oil
Wu. C. Hannzx
ERCO
Hell Toll
Virginia
Washington Street
Vane
Bex
Prats
U.S
JED En CO
Bota
NAS
Fournal
Them
Tre Lapis’ Howe Journal
Lenox
Hamas
Noutce
Artshorn's
Sae Hart Shore
Isthmak SA Toe
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