Persons and Materials of Middling Importance in 1897

By Chris Deakin

Feb. 4, 2013

1. H.W. Peckwell: Journeyman wood engraver for Scribner’s Magazine, principally of trains.
2. The Curt Billy-Whale Lighthouse and Public House, on Shefhouzen Island
3. Joseph Misen: invented the Beard Ellusifier, a superior product in shape and consistency
4. Striped Lady’s Corsets, with frothy trim
5. A rubberized children’s safety knife, for use on coal ingots or parcels of potatoes
6. Rudolph Valentino: namesake for famed actor Rudolph Valentino
7. Sealant for barrels of salt, to prevent leakage
8. Jane Fin: reported on barley theft in Boulder, leading to jail time for forty barley rustlers.
9. The Rosebud Stopper Knot
10. Alice Connelly: cornered the market on top hat linings in the lower Sausage Packing District
11. The word “Posthaste”
12. Spindles, Spindle workers, Spindle Removers, Spindle cleaners
13. The Tallahassee Turnpike
14. Paul Masson: Velodromist, Frenchman
15. The Cotton Gin, still