Flowery Prose vs Plain Weather Reports in Old Papers
A humorous excerpt contrasts florid weather prose with a plain weather note in a country paper. It recalls a clerk misreading a customer’s request and recalls a sanitary officer advising diet for long journeys, with snippets of market quotations and trades in turpentine and cotton amid busy verbatim-era prose.
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Aurora
Wyner Blyth
Marylebone
London
The
Sanitary Record
Weekly Statement From 1882 Ledger
A Weekly Statement dated 16, 1882 shows a summary of shares and totals including 4,000 afloat and 731 total with a voyage or account notation. Names or entities are unclear but suggest financial or ledger entries from a company or cooperative.
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Shea
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