Historic 1876 wedding and tobacco scare in era papers
A jumbled 1876 feature highlights James Gordon Bennett Jr.’s historic wedding to Henrietta Crean, noting Herald origins and sensational style. It also lampoons the tobacco scare with humorous, hyperbolic anecdotes about cigars, memory loss, and appetite, ending with a mock offer to accept reader cigar donations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Times-Star
James Gordon Bennett, Jr
New York Herald
Herald
Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn
New York
The
James Gordon Bennett
Nett
Stonington
Manhattan
Europe
America
Power
St. Peter’s Catholic Lurch
James Gordoni
Henrietta’ Agnes
Crean
Bennett
Republic
North Carolina Forests Stand Vast and Rich
The Philadelphia Record highlights North Carolina’s forests as unmatched in variety and vigor. Despite turpentine industry damage the state preserves about 40,000 square miles of woodland with extensive tree species, including white pine, hemlock, magnolias, oaks, maples, and pines. Tulip trees rise over 100 feet, with some sections yielding six-foot diameter cherry and sassafras. The piece notes the untapped forest treasures and the potential for greater horticultural understanding. An unrelated medical advertisement begins mid-article, offering a home remedy for consumption and related ailments with a request for mail-order details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
North America
North Carolina
Rocky Mountains
Europe
Pacific Slope
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Ng Wil Jap
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York St
Jerrey City
N. J
Tyson & Jones
Actory
S.c
Carthage
N. C
Hannah’s Warehouse
J. P. Hannah
J. D. Paylor
Winston
Samuel M. Jessup
Westfield
Stokes County
C. S. Matlock
Cabell
Danville
J.P. Hannah
M. W. Norfleet
J. S. Scales
S. Pearce
Piedmont Warehouse
J. R. Pierce
H. J. Crute
T. B. Neal
Graves’ Warehouse
Het
M. W Norfleet & CO
J. Pierce
Alfred Webster
Rockingham Co
Ass’t
LE Big
Jong
George
Boozer
Crofts
G.ober & Sons, Company
Baltimore, MD
Virginia
Baltimore
Exchange Place
Bes
J. E. Gilmer
Winston, N. C
Stegpram
Brasyn
Springfield News
Brown
Greensboro
Fab. H. Busbee
Amos Whitely
Springfield
Ohio
Post Office Department
Lynn
Mass
Glenn
C. N. Crittenton
Hancy
Hill
California
Granny
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