Questions and Answers From a 1900s Newspaper Column
A dense list of reader inquiries covering topics from onomastics to postal salaries, marriage law in Delaware, and early locomotive wheel dynamics. Includes personalities like James S. Sherman and general Q and A on flags, tobacco, wine, blueprints, and cucumber preservation with concise, factual responses.
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James S. Sherman
Utica
N. Y
Hamilton College
Sunny Jim
Will Live With Apes in Monkey House for 90 Days Study
Professor Melvin E. Haggerty of Harvard begins a simulated year at the Bronx Zoo Monkey House with Director Hornaday. He plans ninety days living with orangs to learn their language and life, aiming to publish the first orangutan dictionary with Harvard colleagues Yerkes and Haggerty.
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New York
Melvin E. Haggerty
Harvard University
Monkey House
Bronx
al Park
Haggerty
Hornaday
Robert M. Yerkes
Harvard
Yerkes
Zoo
Sumer
Jocko
New Steamer Commonwealth to Enter Fail River Route
The Commonwealth will begin service July 1 on the Fail River line between New York and Boston. The vessel, 454 feet long and 96 feet wide, will carry 2,000 passengers at speeds up to 32 mph. Designed by Howland Gardner, with construction by Questerre Iron Works and William Cramp Sons, and decor by Poitier & New York, the ship features luxurious accommodations and a stately high bow.
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Commonwealth
New York
Boston
Long Island Sound
Priscilla
Ash Remover and Builder Services Listed
G. W. Brown at 58 Dover Street offers ash and rubbish removal with personal attention and telephone 942-4. J Hodomes at West Main Street advertises contracting and building, jobbing work, and estimates.
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G. W. Brown
Dover Street
Cris H. Payne
Piedmont St
Julius Hanson
North Main St
Bailder Jobber
Genest & Michard
William St
J. Hodomes
UAT
West Main St
Ernl
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Teheran
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Burlington
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John Mason
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New England Navigation Company
J. W. Miller
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J. Stevenson Taylor
Gewelhereofore
Waterbury Business Directory
Fred Phoenix
Watertown
Majestic Moving Picture Studio
East Main St
A. F. Taylor Co
Center St
Avery's
Main St
H. Avery
Prop
Waterbury Towel Supply Co
B. I. Russell
E. Main
Waterbury
Shore
Kingsbury
Mercantile and Commercial Collections
B. Main
P.O
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Carriage and Wagon Works
Gauthier Bros
Lounsbury St
G. Panneton
Brussels
Andrews
Harrison
Louis the
E. Johnson
Mary Tynan
Bank St
Jno O'Brien
N. Main
Adams St
New England Bread
J. H. Jenck
North End Bakery & Confectionery
P. Hock
Bouffard
George E. Lambert
Business College
Waterbury Business College
A. P. Blanchette
South Main St
Kaplan's Coffee Roasting Company
M. B. Rood
Apothecaries’ Hall
Custom Tailors
Lyons & Grimes
Sterns Co
Rochester
Wanamaker
Platt Bldg
Bank
G. Riggs
Waterbury, Ct
Albert Delay
Waterville, Conn
General Contracting and Teaming
North Main E
East End Carriage CO
P. R. Larocque, Prop
Madras
Florist
John Evans
W. L. Sanders
River St
I. A. Spencer
Joseph Pepe
Canal St
Galipeau
J. Galipeau
Citizens’ Bank
Geo Barton
Oakville
Dixon's Grocery
Bley's Market
Loiselle
Mill St. Pall
H. Hapenny
Bishop St
L. A. T. Petersen
W. Maim St
Desler
Hore Gowts
J. Hotel
Coal and Woon, Preskag Co
Leonard
Rand Laundry
Hofman Hand Laundry
Peart St
Beid
James L. White
Elm St
Cummings & Thompson
Cherry
Joseph 1. Kilbride
Washington Hill Pharmacy
Cor Baldwin and Luke Sts
William Reynolds
Grand St. Land
Kelly & McSorley
Soleagt
Kent
John T. Allman
Grove St
Frank Shepard
Scovill St
Vincent E. Pannunzio
S. Pruselaitis
James St
Waterbury Trucking Co
No Main St
W. L. Whitney, Agt
R. F. Worden & Sons
Cherry St
Creamery Co
L. A
J. E. Brant
Meadow St
Willow Market
A. Kennedy
West Willow St
Joseph Robillard
Walnut St
J. J. Derwin
Metropolitan
So Main St
George Angrave
Shrown St
General Blacksmithing
Jackson
Baldwin School
Mall
Dan G. Seltivan
L. T. Burns
W. T. Corcoran & Son
Farnlabed ‘Tel
J. H. Lincaster
Bienvenue & Demers
Polley & Thomas
P. O
Redmond
B. H. Mattoon
P. Williams
W. Main
J. Littlejohn
Waterbury Rubber Stamp Co
Red Stag
N. Cooney
Salvation Army Department
Meadow Street
John Eccles
Bank Street
N. Salotrap
Louis Levy
Buckingham, Bank & Grand
Cretella
East Main
Robinson Tool Works
F. D. Robinson
Pearl Lake
Joe Tann
North Main
Larkin
South Willow St
Willow St
Adolph Race
New Haven
Dublin Street
Meriden
W. Main ST
W. G. Rierd, Co
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Stango
South Main Street
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