Distinguished New England poet Ruth Crockeer Celebrates 80th
Boston marks the eightieth birthday of Ruth M. Crockeer the noted New England poet and writer. Her mother is descended from John and Priscilla Alden of Mayflower fame. Before Mrs Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin Crocker authored a novel on a similar theme that remained unpublished due to Browne’s book release.
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Ruth M. Crockeer
New England
Boston
Slimes
John and
Priscilla Allen
Topeka Man Chooses Old Opal Over New Ring Stone
A Topeka man misplaced a small opal from his ring then asked a jeweler to replace it. On returning home he found the old stone, swallowed it for safe keeping, and urged the jeweler to use the new opal. He gulped, admitted the switch, and asked the old stone be used. He then sought Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for constipation and digestive troubles.
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Topeka
Dr. Caldwell
Defiance Starch Ad and Public Notices Feature
A jumble of old advertisements and notices offers a one hundred dollar reward claim, medical quackery, starch product pitches, and rail service promotions. It cites Toledo Ohio and Kansas City routes with pricing hints, while urging prompt bill payment and praising Defiance Starch and Red Cross Ball Blue.
Defiance starch praised for home makers
A fragment touts Defiance starch as a blessing to the home. It claims the product lightens household burdens while preserving work quality, praising affordability and effectiveness in a brisk household context.
Monkeys as Cotton Pickers Proposed by Chicago Man
A Chicago man named Paul Kuntz touring Arkansas with northern capitalists plans to replace enslaved labor with trained monkeys on cotton plantations. He claims monkeys can pick as well as freed workers, require no wages, and form no unions, and he expects to import them from Africa to work fields he owns. He warns monkeys cannot handle heavy labor but can perform skilled tasks.
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Iss Gog
Paul Kuntz
Chicago
Arkansas
Mr. Kuntz
Kuntz
Africa
The Farce of Executive Sessions by Senator Mason
Senator Mason recounts his awe at executive sessions and recalls his first closed meeting after becoming a senator. A New England senator moves to go into executive session as bells ring and pages depart. The session ends with a confirmation vote and the narrator laments his dream being broken.
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Mason
New England
Senate
John Smith
Podunk
United States
Webster Wanted His Frink at Half-Way House Tale
Benjamin Prowty recalls meeting Daniel Webster at the Half-Way House tavern in Queen Anne's Corner Plymouth County Massachusetts. A fifte en year old waiter refused Webster a drink during a circus day, Webster urged and threatened, was refused, the boy stood firm and was beaten by the landlord upon return. Webster later returned and gave the boy a quarter.
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Webster
Benjamin Prowty
Boston
Park Avenue
Queen Anne's Corner
Plymouth County
Mass
Daniel Webster
Dantel Webster
Mansfield
Fim
Statesman
Train Discharge System Uses Saddle Cars
Among recently granted US patents is one issued to John W. Jenkins of New York for an innovative system allowing passengers to board or alight without stopping. The invention centers on a series of saddle cars that are successively picked up and dropped from the moving train to facilitate boarding and alighting without interrupting travel.
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United States
John W. Jenkins
New York City
Staions
Patents in France Conditions for Patent Grant
In France a patent requires three conditions: the invention must be new, have industrial character, and not contravene public order morals or laws. An invention is not considered new if, before the filing date, it has received sufficient publicity in France or abroad to enable easy imitation.
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France
Emir of Bokhara to Visit St Petersburg with Heir
Under permission of the cuar the emir of Bokhara and his heir Seld-Mir-Alemin will visit St Petersburg soon in a formal diplomatic display.
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Cane
Cuar
Bokhara
Seld-Mir-Alemin
St Petersburg
St Jacobs Oil praised for curing rheumatism and skin ailments
In Portsmouth England a wife testifies that St Jacobs Oil cured her husband’s ankle and leg injury allowing him to walk and return to work within weeks. She also reports Vogelers Curative Compound clearing her daughter’s skin disease after costly trials. The letters praise the remedies’ proven results and a Baltimore order form appears.
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Brom
Deckyas
Portamouth
Fegland
Portsmouth Times
Naval Gazette
Frederick Payne
Portsmouth
England
St. Jacobs OI
His Majesty’s
St. Jacob's Oil
Arthur Creswell
Commercial Road
Elizabeth 5
Rabbets
Grafton Street
Mile End
Landport
Bishop Derrick to Deliver Sermon at Huguenot Anniversary
American Bishop William B. Derrick of New York, leader of over 300 African Methodist churches across Pennsylvania New York New Jersey and the New England states, will deliver the sermon for the 353rd anniversary of the Huguenot settlement in Canterbury England.
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William B. Derrick
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New England
Canterbury
England
Briquettes of petroleum free of duty to aid coal substitute
Mrs Sarah A Shrode of Stenda, Indiana, testifies she suffered kidney and bladder troubles until using Dodd's Kidney Pills. She says nine boxes cured her and urges other women to try the remedy, calling it a sick woman's best friend. The report notes government interest in briquettes of petroleum as coal substitute and duty exemptions.
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Bubat
Stenda
Ind
Sarah A. Shrode
Dodd
Francis Podmore
Saranac Lake
New York
Lydia E. Pinkham
Francis Popmoore
Metona
Patched Ad Snippets Hinting at Household Remedies and Oddisms
A jumbled OCR fragment lists various household products and quack cures. Mentions Gray's Sweet Powders for teething and fever, Putnam Fadeli Dyes, Piso's Cure, Hamlin's Wizard, Defiance starch, and assorted nameless items. Includes stray phrases about children, home, and odd social quips.
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G & Purse
Dress Alen & S. Olmsted
le Roy
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