Notable Names in Finance and Brooklyn Affairs
The report mentions financiers and promoters with travel tied to projects, notes a sharp remark by Secretary Wilson about promotions, and references Baron Rothschild and Dipdeich in rivalries over evading purchases. It recounts Patrick Keenan, a Brooklyn florist, dying from a puncture wound that led to lockjaw, and Hugh McLaughlin, Brooklyn political boss, delaying church to respond to a fire call.
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Dave
Tintes
Maccashnent
Travele
Oldehay
Massachusnite
Eponch
Sserstary Wilson
Root
Baronees Rothschildh
Dipdeich
Evrias
Keenan
Hugh McLaughlin
Brooklyn
McLaughlin
Well Known Englishmen Profile of Noble Figures and Anecdotes
A column lists prominent English figures with brief notes on their titles achievements and quirks. It mentions Earl Dudley Viscount Kitchener the duke of Argyll Lord Coleridge Alfred Davis and other peers detailing honors writings and public roles along with assorted medical and home remedies later garbled.
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Ireland
Earl Dudley
Viscount Kitchener
Duke of Argyll
Marquis of
Lorne
Louise
Duke J
United States
Canada
Imperial Federation
Windsor Castle
Lord Palmerston
Queen Victoria
Diarmid
Scotland
Lord Coleridge
K. C
Attercliffe
Society of Peers
Coleridge
Alfred Davis
Parliahment
New York
Secon
Ersey's Purchase Deed Reveals Colonial Grant Details
A fragment recounts a seventeenth century deed from Westminster in King Charles II's reign granting all lands from the St Lawrence to Cape Cod to James, Duke of York. The parchment, Gothic in style with a large seal, shows red ruling under the script and includes a Charles III engraving, though no signatures appear.
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New York
Charles T
James
Duke of York
England
St. Lawrence
Cheonpeake
Charles III
Westminster
Charles
Century of Patent Issues and 100 Years of Invention
The census bureau report shows New York rising to first in both patents and manufactures over the century. It notes the first patent went to Samuel Hopkins in 1790 for a pot and pearl ash process and the last of 1889 to Wilhelm Drever for an electro magnetic typesetting machine. Total patents issued reached 428,621 with increasing foreign participation.
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Census Bureau
New York
New York Sun
Samuel Hopkins
Wilhelm Drever
Beasts and Birds in America Confusion of Names
A critique notes English readers may distrust the book Beasts and Birds in America due to using the same names for England and American birds. It cites robins and thrushes, the whooping thrush, partridge and pheasant confusions, and warns that readers may misread Wendell Holmes and misidentify birds across continents.
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America
London Spectator
England
United States
Wendell Holmes
North
Attellen
Gandia
Fragmented 1920s newspaper miscellany quotes and jokes
A garbled collage of jokes and quotes from various papers including Philadelphia Press, Washington Star, Chicago records, Atlanta Constitution, New York World, and others. Witty lines about wealth distribution, social mores, and everyday life appear through clipped phrases, misread spellings, and partial attributions, hinting at a humor column or feature page. The text includes fragments about a pastor planning a new church, social commentary on wealth, a wine doctor, and various punchlines, all interwoven with era slang and newspaper-style snips.
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J. E. Walsh
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Baltimore American
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Indianapolis News
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de Jones
Chicago Daily News
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Marian
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Harry
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Weil Meadwyet
Ieee
Dewadal
Century OF Patent Issues
Wagland
Amerion
Abe
Patric Bogue
Albtaun
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Pevetok Acadionhet
Sears
Edele
Germany
Ralliimoare News
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Mike
Washington Star
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Chicago Record-Herald
Atlanta Constitution
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Ethel
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Mme
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Aunt May
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Judkins
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Boston Globe
Mr. Henpeckt
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Puck
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H. H. Tosdal
Estherville
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Louisville & Nashville Railroad
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