Grant and cabinet prisoners on Maine island in 1873
A 1873 tale recalls President Grant and family party stranded for a night on a remote Maine island during a storm. The contingent including Blaine, Cameron, Morrill, Reed and more stayed at a small inn on North Haven then breakfasted simply, Grant smoking in the kitchen and talking with host Mullin’s party.
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Republic
Grant
Hannibal Hemiin
Gen. Babcock
Simon Cameron
Lot M. Morrill
James G. Blaine
Thomas B. Reed
Maine
Lewis B. Smith
Portland
Smith
United States Revenue Cutter
McCulloch
Bar Harbor
Rall
Rockland
North Haven
White House
Mullin
Ulysses S. Grant
United States
Augusta
Congress
Eugene Hale
Ellsworth
O. EB. Babcock
Portland Press
Lewis
Custom House
Appomattox
Richmond
Nelson Mullin
Lannlord
Mr. Mullin
Prospectus for Branch State Normal School at Hays City
The Prospectus for the Branch State Normal School at Hays City announces a nine week summer term starting June 23 at the old Fort Bays buildings. Faculty includes J N Wilkinson president W S Picken history and Latin, Miss Anna Keller, and J E Crawford. Tuition free to prospective teachers. two year course yields state teaching certificate. Housing options near town, with boards and rooms, and Ellis County Normal to run July 28. Contact Editor of Free Press Hays Kansas or Principal J N Witxissox Emroria Kansas for details.
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Branch State Normal School
Hays City
Ft Bays
Kansas
J. N. Wilkinson
W. 5. Picken
Emporia Normal Aa
Anna Kellar
Independence, Kas
J. E. Crawford
Hays
Western Kansas
Emporia
Ellis County
U. S
Puestoesr J. N. Witxissox
Emroria
Amorous women and moral musings in a fragmented piece
A disjointed column notes various maxims and curiosities. It cites mothers as goddesses, women’s intuition over instruction, and men’s disconnect between words and beliefs, alongside a tale of Hugo’s rights sale and a grand private pipe organ. It ends with Armenian village customs for unbetrothed girls.
Rotation of Waterspout Estimated at 346 Miles Per Hour
A historical note reports Prof Bigalery estimating a waterspout rotation speed at 346 miles an hour, about six miles per minute, observed near the warface of the sem.
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Bigalery
Paul Revere's Boston House Faces Decline and Change
The historic Paul Revere house in Boston is collapsing into disrepair after years of unwanted tenants and modern alterations. Once a premier frontier home, it now houses an Italian grocery store on the ground floor with pink wallpaper and blue paint, while upper rooms crumble and the kitchen fireplace is bricked up.
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Paul Revere
Boston
Tme
Revere
Hs Palmy
Shakespeare
Rebb
Cape Cod
Hevere
Milk for Pigs Joke Distills During Guard Camp Visit
A Pennsylvania National Guard party visiting Mount Gretna stop at a farmhouse. The farmer's daughter serves butter milk and tumblers, joking that it is all the milk they have. After the officers finish, one asks for more and she quips that they feed it to the pigs anyway.
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National Guard of Pennsylvania
Mount Gretna
George
The Caunitz Genealogy Tied to Austrian Royal Dentition
Louis Caunitz of 75 Chambers Street traces to Prince Kanits lineage in Austria, immortalized in Louise Muhlbach’s Joseph Tr. and His Court. Born in Sweden about 35 years ago, he emigrated to the United States as a boy. His ancestor was the sole Austrian allowed to brush teeth at a royal dinner, his velvet gold case and dental instruments presented to him at meal end.
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Kaustte
Austria
Prince Kanits
Louise Muhlbach
Joseph Tr
United States
Sweden
Francis II
Louis Caunitz
Chambers Street
Europe
Remarkable Pedestrian Feats From Two English Walkers
The article recalls Jobe Alcock walking twelve miles backward from Macclesfield to Buxton in under three hours. It also tells of 102 year old Macleod who on Oct 8 1790 walked from Hyde Park Corner to Turnham Green and back in two hours and twenty three minutes, after bets questioned his jumping as not walking.
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Jobe Alcock
Macclesfield
Buxton
Old Macleod
Hyde Park Corner
London
Turnham Green Road
Dallas Judge Fines Court For Being Late
A late Dallas County judge in the eighties fined the court ten dollars for tardiness after remonstrating with lawyers, then fined the clerk ten dollars from the bench, declaring the fine non remittable as he led by example.
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Bower
Dallas
Texas
Dallas County
Fragrant tastes and ancient kitchen practices
The passage recalls Fertemes era cooking with perfumes, spices, and fragrant herbs. It notes cherry tarts made with cinnamon ginger and sawndera syrup, rosewater for the king, and how cooks prepared diverse dishes. It mentions draughts needing cleaning and rushes replacing carpets, hinting at living habits of the time.
Exposus De Gardwills Syrup PesiA and Defiance Starch Ad
An OCR heavy ad fragment touts Exposus De Gardwills Syrup PesiA as a digestive aid claiming to relax friction and aid stomach and bowels, plus a satirical jab about women’s roles. It also promotes Red Cross Ball Blue and Defiance Cold Water Starch as household staples with price hints and marketing lines.
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Gardweil
Miss Bonnie Delano Memoir Snippet Reflects Gratitude
A fragmented reminiscence quotes Miss Bonnie Delano praising her mother for health and life. The brief line hints at a grateful daughter’s sentiment about home and happiness in her life.
Miss Bonnie Delano Shares Health Cure Experience
A testimonial claims Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured years of irregular, painful, scanty menstruation. The author describes reliance on a family physician and eventual improvement after trying the remedy, asserting lasting relief from ovarian or womb troubles and irregularities. The statement endorses the product as trustworthy proof.
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Pinkham
E. Pinkham
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