Wealth in One Song The Most Successful Ballad of the Century
Milwaukee composer Charles K Harris, self taught and unable to read music, wrote After the Ball in hours after a ball. The song has sold over 800,000 copies, earning Harris about 1,200 a day at peak, and made him a fortune from a Milwaukee start. Harris, born in Poughkeepsie in 1804, moved to Milwaukee as a boy, published his own work, and saw the tune become a world wide sensation across bands, theaters, and even wind up in music boxes and organs.
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Milwaukee
Charles K. Harris
Harris
Mibwankes
Himeel
Halen & Hart
Charles E
London
Paris
Poughkeepsia
N. Y
New York
Young Harris
Tallyhos
Coupes
Sam Doctor
Chicago
Sam
Joseph Clander
Doctor
Ditson
Boston
EL Yerowiixe
No more bears in mine hunter recounts NM bear attack
Special correspondence from Santa Fe reports William Hall of St. Louis trekking in the Magdalena mountains south of Socorro when a cinnamon bear charged. He fired and felt a thud, then was knocked down by the bear’s paw, sustaining severe injuries to his head throat and right side. He was rescued by locals and began recovery in Santa Fe. The final note to loved ones read No more bears in mine.
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Magdalena Mountains
Santa Fe
William Hall
St. Louis
New Mexico
Socorro
Mr. Hall
Pein
Beck
Shost
Mr. Hart
Kelly
Sante Fe
Sisters of St. Vincent
Floprince Fixca Kelley
Horse Head Coppers and Jersey Coinage of 1786
Special correspondence recounts New Jersey’s 1786 act allowing copper coinage of £10,900 by private contractors Walter Mould Thomas Geardsley and Allen Cox. Coins bore an American shield and the motto E Pluribus Unum with a horse head plow design, weighed variably from pennyweights to 173 grains, produced over three years chiefly at Morristown, and later withdrawn from circulation.
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Jersey
Trenton
New Jersey
Walter Mould
Thomas Geardsley
Allen Cox
Supreme Court
Walter Bould
Morristown
H. G. Axperson
Cholera Forty Years Ago in New York Memory
In a reminiscence from Aug. 21, an older resident recalls New York cholera fears of 1852. A doctor warned to boil water and avoid uncooked fruit. a melon incident led to his death. A revived corpse story and a drunk woman mistaken for dead highlight old city beliefs and anecdotes. Charles Hendel.
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New York
Fanerala
Charles Hendel
Rubber Velvet Distinct Fabric Emerges From Felt Dust
A new material called rubber velvet is created by sprinkling powdered felt of any color on hot soft rubber cloth. The result resembles felt cloth yet remains elastic waterproof and exceedingly light.
Lake Route to World's Fair via Mackinac travel
Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Co unveils two new steel steamers for upper lakes at 300000 each. They promise grandest and fastest service with 20 mph speeds, under 50 hour trips between Cleveland Toledo and Chicago and four weekly itineraries to Mackinac Alpena Petoskey and more. July August daily Detroit Cleveland daylight ride. Put-in-Bay and other ports served. deluxe staterooms and low round trip rates. Send for pamphlet from A A Schantz G P A Detroit Mich.
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Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company
Lakes
Cleveland
Toledo
Chicago
Detroit
Alpena
Mackinac
Petos Key
Lake Erie
Put-in-Bay
A. A. Schantz
G.P.A
Cleveland Steam Nav. Co
Detroit, Mich
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Jewett Gas Ranges
Pittsburg Exposition
Jewett
the Pigkett Hardware!co., Limited
Warren
Penna
Éddres Mvvve Redd OG
Lasonie Temsle, Caleage
Warren Pa
Noyes Wrug
Siedried Ak Co
Wer Tseng
Sapolio
Brown & Friend
Henry Friend
A. Weiss
Water Street, Warren
Horse Head Coppers
Horse Head Cois
Johrsows Anddywe
Johnson & CO
Mass
Lses
America
Pem
Kprue & CO
Augusta
U.S
Washington
DR. Hoxsie
Croup
Hoxsie C. C. C. Co
Buffalo, NM
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