Marriage Licenses Issued in Edwardsville Past Week
Marriage licenses issued the past week at Edwardsville include R Ewing of Granite City and Mabel Pierce. Norbury Jarvis. Ida Schroder of Scrantonfield. Wm H Mumford of Collinsville. Mary A Montgomery. Lenn Kimlen of Newport. Luludackson and others. The list shows multiple applicants and residences among local towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwardsville
Apne R Ewing
Granite City
Ibi
Mabel Pierce
Norbury
Jarvis
Ida Schroder
Scramerfield
Ens Kimlen
Newport
Luludackson
An Another Fish Story in House Dinner Tale
A humorous digestion of a domestic scene features a husband George and his wife hosting a minister for dinner. Confusion over fish types from river and dam leads to a string of comedic misstatements and blushes, with witty banter and a moral about careful wording. The aside includes a Boston newspaper ad seeking cats for vivisection and a Laxative Bromo Quinine selling point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Carmen Register
We Want Orders From Pinsky and Co
An 1895 mock letter from Louie Blanke and partners demanding orders with exaggerated Germanic spellings. The surviving text requests billiards expenses, a horse and buggy, neckties, and low pricing in a demand to keep profits flowing. It mocks tariff changes while urging shipment of goods and avoiding new bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigheretel Rennet
Pinsky
New York City
Joseph Ernetein
Columbus
Mr. Ernetein
Louie
Mambuldon
Hamburdon
Mr. Einstein
Excenzes Pinsky & Co
A Sucker Says What a Sucker Is in Various Guises
A quoted passage defines a sucker as different types of naive buyers and critics, including shoppers who buy soap with $10 bills, sign costly notes, gamble on cards, purchase from traveling sellers, and insult others. It contrasts blind trust with sly merchants and overconfident youths, ending with a harsh jab at a young man claiming superior knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leas
Alexander
Reduced Rates to Hot Springs on Vandalia Line
The Vandalia Line offers ex cursion tickets to Hot Springs Arkansas at low rates valid ninety days. Hot Springs is the only government endorsed health resort, praised for its climate similar to Italy. Over three hundred hotels and boarding houses service visitors. The waters are touted for rheumatism skin diseases female complaints stomach liver and kidney troubles insomnia and nervous prostration. Call nearest Vandalia office for illustrated info.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vandalia
Hot Springs
Arkansas
United States
Italy
Uncalled Letters List at Troy Post Office Illinois
The Troy Illinois post office records uncalled letters dated February 1 1896. Names include W Brown care W Green Metluhi Lizsie Reed Mrs Laura North Stifford and others. Postmaster Samuel S Avis signs the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Madison, County
Illinois
Brown
W. Care W. Green
Metluhi
Lizsie
Kieamar Reed
Laura D. North Stifford
S.C
Samuel S. Avis
Crosseyed headlights illuminate curves on Air Line Flier
The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway introduces a two headlight system for the Air Line Flier. Invented by Col. N. H. Heft, the pair lights illuminate curves by alternating coverage so no matter how the locomotive turns, the track is lit. The design prevents a momentary darkness ahead, improving night visibility. The feature, praised by Scientific American, will be added to all through jet night trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York, New Haven
Scientific American
Poultry Keeper and Illustrator Offer For 1896 Subscriptions
Over one hundred poultry pictures in Poultry Keeper Illustrator quarterly No 1. Price 25 cents postpaid or 75 cents for four numbers of 1896. The Poultry Keeper one year 50 cents. Subscriptions to both The Poultry Keeper and the Illustrator one year eighty cents. Address Poultry Keeper Co Parkesburg Chester County Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Askdress, Poultry, Keeper Co
Parkesburg
Chester County
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Ee Jont
JH. Stienhans
WM. Vetter
Palace Cash
the Palace
Collinsville Mercantile Co
Wm Shields
Banda
Collinsville
Alton Lime and Cement Co
Wim Monaghan
Hunter’ S Add
Alton Jacob Miller
Brazitian Dailey
Sain
Upper Alton
T B Rhodes
H H Gardner
Kik N
Madison
Mary Ellen Dickey
Julius F Scehneider
Sarah On ‘Taylor
Wda
Monier
John Schmidt
Gustav Suter
Ptnwg
Wiley G Previtt
Wm H Cotter
Joseph Wick
Highland Brewery Co
Highland
John G McNair
Emma
T Knowlea
Minnie
Emmett D
Arthur J Squire
McNair
Ernst Bierbaum
Henry. Lagemann
Louis
Samuel Penile
Margeret Anderson
Theodore Finke
Mary Finke
Reed
Boston
Hood
C. I. Hood
Pe Ills & Co
Lowell, Mass
Jood’s
C.F. Blanke Tea and Coffee Cos Spicey
Ark
Troy-Market Report
Cowmerg
Wilbur
Lexington
America
D. L. Musselman
Gem City Business College
Quincy, Ill
W. H. Goalby
o-Ando
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