Inventions for shoe fasteners and safer gear
New Jersey inventors unveil a hidden side fastener for shoes using dual springs and an internal rod kept by hooks to prevent tearing garments. Other notes describe safer catcher masks with pivoting front wire, an improved ladder scaffold, and a telephone receiver holder linked to a desk option.
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New Jersey
Wilking
Garrett. van Wagoner Amt
Charles A Indstrom
Rutherford
Noh
Battle Fields of the Late War Told By Veterans
A veteran doctor recalls the last year of the Civil War with stories of hundred days and veteran enlistees. He highlights loyalty, desertion, and remarkable cases including a bounty jumper and a healer who saved 400 wounded on a Ohio river boat. An elderly flag bearer recounts Petersburg colors’ capture and a vow against making shoes for the rebels.
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Garry
Lee
Washington
Atlanta
Marine Hospital
Chicago
Indianapolis
Wald
Olio
Sul
Ile
Qu Ton
Bim
Chickamauga
Tie
Entlat
Pitt
Pat
Chicago Inter Ocean
A. C. Rankin
Shiloh
Mound City
Rankin
Rebs
Doric Hall
State House
Massachusetts
Boston Globe
Petersburg
Commonwealth
Visior
Michiel Scannell
Lynn
Essex County
Scannell
New York
Mahone
Jack Robinson
Senowell
Andersonville
Bergennot Benunell
Haverhill
Living Pictures and Revolutionary Echoes in Brief
A nostalgic guide explains crafting living pictures with cardboard, a spool, and a wheel, paired with short vignettes on early revolutionary events. Notable scenes recount Christopher Gore’s wounding, a boy’s grave at the Liberty Tree, and collective city mourning, followed by humorous or moral tales about children, animals, and simple poems.
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Christopher Gore
Massachusetts
Christopher Snyder
Amborica
Highey
Washington and
Essex Streets
Don’t Marry Theman To Reftucu Till Who Is a Pesalimist
The fragment questions a man’s character and suitability for marriage, listing traits such as fickle affections unreliability smoking and gambling behavior and disrespect toward religion and women. It portrays a warning against marrying a flawed partner described as cowardly and bulldozing in home life.
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Prac
Flowers Make Air Healthier In Green Leaves Theory
A 1900s-style column argues that flowering plants and especially green leaves purify indoor air, aiding health and recovery. It cites geraniums and other plants, notes tropical inedible perfumes, and contrasts emerald foliage with strong scents while recommending a flower ward for illness and clearer air. It also covers cyclone versus hurricane terminology and a 1903 farm product value estimate.
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New York
Chéy
Lesiie’s
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Evers
Wade Co Goleeus
Pao
Hong
Weinrich Th. Schnutt
Brooklyn
George
Sachin
York
Uinereius
Eid
Mesxico
Winnereus
Ame
Gunter
Aone
Badle
Mawelos
Hharpers Magazine
Beast
Jérsey
Bins
Gray Review
Bualuces
Bobby
Sanda
Ana Leured
Billy
Christian Advocate
Mamma
Robby
Willie
Tommy
Wilie
Uttle Betty
Torqudy
Kila
Thas
Jernes
Galveston
Chivaxy Recuridl Herald
George K. Holmes
Ddvision of Foreign Markets
Department Por Agriculture
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