Odd Daybook Bits From Distant Shores and Local Tales
A miscellany of curiosities and anecdotes includes olives grown on Georgia sea islands and a Carnegie era estate on Cumberland Island, plus a drunken fowl tale and a rattlesnake in Mexico. Others recount Pittsburgh foremen forming a reading room plan, cheese adulteration penalties, a wolf-evading teacher with a tin horn, a rescues in Indiana wells, Edison phonograph origins, a Kansas rifle accident, and shark fin markets in New York.
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Sea
Georgia
Dungerness
Carnegies
Cumberland Island
Nathaniel Greene
Greene
San Luis Potosi
Mexico
Pittsburgh
Cairy
Howard
Illinois
Elgin
Ill
Minnesota
R. C. Jopr
Barron County
Wis
Rice Lake
Clear Lake
Domestic Recipes and Remedies from an Old Ledger
A collection of kitchen formulas for breads and cakes including German Pupptine and Frenca Boris, plus meat chops wrapped for serving. It also promotes Warner's Log Cabin Sarsaparilla as a spring tonic, with testimonials and endorsements from Philo M. Parsons and others.
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Bromeo Merron Coops
Europe
Garfield
Grant
Warner
Philo M. Parsons
City Hotel
Hartford
Conn
Coon Hunting Rush Thrills Atlantic Cape May Counties
In New Jersey hundreds of men and boys pursue coons nightly across Atlantic and Cape May counties. Hunters use beagle packs to trail, trees to tree tops, and axmen to reveal a nest before a skilled marksman claims the prey. Mail and Erpress.
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Atlantic
Cape May
Giant Gorilla Arrives in Boston From Africa
Boston receives the largest gorilla ever landed in the United States. Jack stands five feet tall when upright and seven feet across the outstretched arms, weighing 125 pounds with enormous strength. He arrived in a thick wooden crate and tore splinters from planks during removal. His coarse greenish gray hair, black facial features, scowling expression, and small sunken eyes accompany a massive, imposing frame.
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Boston
Africa
Jack
Gagley Tries Borrowing $500, Comment Sparks Banter
In a brief exchange, Gagley attempts to borrow $500 in the morning. Smythe jokes about the sum while Bjones corrects the remark, noting Gagley is broke rather than cracked. The quip appears in a constrained local or social page.
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Bjones
Gagley
Smythe
Call Me Dollie on Salary Warrant Change
A tall schoolteacher visits the Board of Education asking to be renamed on the monthly salary warrant. She reveals her nickname Dollie, explains Rosa is not used locally, and requests the change. Clerk Whitlock and Assistant Secretary Byrne address the request and promise to handle it.
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N. Y
Board of Education
Whitlock
Rosa
Dollie
How to Stamp a Letter
A stamp purveyor at the post office explains the correct method for sealing letters. He notes the envelope should be licked first to make the stamp stick reliably, while licking the stamp risks removing mucilage and causing the stamp to fall off, leading to misdelivered mail.
Juror’s remark hints at verdict influenced by counsel
A juror from a recent city trial says jurors punished the defense due to displeasure with counsel. He notes that discontent with remarks led to a verdict against the client despite law and facts. The piece also states the late Sultan of Zanzibar left twenty widows and 252 children.
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Zanzibar
Ivory Soap Promotes Civilized, Clean Living Ode
The verse extols Ivory Soap as a symbol of civility and cleanliness for all people. It describes wearing fine fabrics and traveling with pride while using Ivory Soap to stay “clean and fair to see.”
Also Mentioned on This Page
China
Kansas
A. V. Davis
Findlay, CO
Mr. Davis
Portland
Ind
Joseph Skinner
Bostos
Edison
Fierman
Edit Ol
Mary
J. Edison
Ors Epmunpsi I
Sterling
Kan
Ater
Edmundson
New York
Coons
New Jersey
Call
Procter & Gamble
Vette Curtis Ders
P. Addeese
Utes & Co
Augusta, Main
Wr Brewster Safety Rein Holder Co
H ‘Ily
Mich
Gents
New Church St. Col. Fulton St
Paysine Freicht
Piingmamton
Binghamton
Ely
ELY Bros
Greenwich St
Caleskins
C. S. Page
Hyde Park, Vermont
Bright
Dr. Kilmer
Dareoists
de. Riser & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Lind and Wate
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