Daley's Money Loans and Real Estate Services
John J Daley offers money loans on farm property at six percent with mortgage purchases and securities. He lists services from account books and binding to conveyancing, property sales, and farm listings from Guelph Ontario to European investors, inviting correspondence and emphasizing prompt attention.
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Tohn J. Daley
Thompson & Jackson
Dominion
Europe
Ontario
Guelph, Ont
No No No No Fashion Temptations in Rural Advice
Cartoonish verse from the Acton Free Press urges readers to resist fashionable temptations and wed for love, not status. It exhorts self restraint in dress and marriage, praising simple living over debt, with repeated refrain No No No.
Tall tale of a river watch and a bath of bass
An elderly churchman recounts a fishing trip near Philadelphia where a watch in a German professor's pocket is lost after a fishhooks into it. The party fails to recover the watch, a poor fisherman buys the strangest catch, and the professor discovers his watch is gone while a bass is brought to dinner.
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J. E
Jess
Philadelphia
Set
The Ragged Boy and the Flowers for Lily
A January encounter shows a ragged boy picking faded flowers for his sick sister Lily. A chambermaid questions the act, then learns Lily will die soon and the flowers no longer matter. The tale ends with the boy leaving, believing Lily’s memory will bloom beyond death.
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Lil
Lily
eLi
Hound Journal
The Watch and the Clever Cook's Charade
A curious tale centers on a professor who believes he hears his own watch inside a bustling kitchen scene. A frightened child calls for help as chaos erupts, the watch is swallowed by a trap, and is miraculously retrieved intact. The professor then rewards the cook with a five dollar piece.
The Girls at the Front Gate
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls a girl by the front gate with peach bloom on cheeks and love in her eyes. The memory lingers of voices, cherry lips, and old posts as years pass, celebrating a past scene near the gate.
Child refuses lunch to help the poor and temperance pledge
A wandering tale shows a five year old giving up his biscuit and lunch to share with a poor woman, while a fifteen year old asks a cab driver if he is temperance and urges kindness charity and prayer. The piece ends with a sentimental memory of a cottage romance and a pledge to help others.
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Temperance School
Jesus
A Young Apprentice’s Quiet Rise in London Faith Circles
A young London apprentice, once poor and isolated, formed a simple prayer group after moving to the city. He sought spiritual growth with a few roommates, inviting others to join. The initiative grew into a broader movement, expanding to colleges and schools with over two hundred associations formed.
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Allittle
London
Tay
Smith as a common thread in history and humor
A reading of a Somerville Journal piece recalls the name Smith as a common, resilient surname in American life. The speaker touts originality of Smith, contrasts with Smyth and Smythe, and cites famous bearers while musing on what makes a name endure.
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Smith
Dicky
Annals of Fame
Jones
Mbn
Smythe
Smthe
Horace
Ey Smith
John Smith
Victualing on Ocean Steamers Reveals Perils and Provisions
A historical note details the extensive victualing aboard ocean steamers, listing thousands of pounds of butter ham biscuits and other foods, plus live stock and fresh produce supplied at each port. It also mentions Holloway's Pills and Ointment as cures for gout and rheumatism.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Hudson 'S Bay
Iin
Early Morning Lessons Shape a Liverpool Tin Merchant
A young clerk in Liverpool rose from grain warehouse work to wealth through patient study. The grain dealer Old Peter trained him by examining samples from English Irish Scottish American and European stocks each dawn, building expertise and wealth through disciplined effort.
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Tuck
Liverpool
Joseph Walmsley
Peter
Reliable Dr Feter Extract Promises Quick Cures
An 19th century advertisement touts Dr Feter's Extract of Wild Strawberry as reliable and nearly infallible for curing cholera morbus dysentery canker of the stomach and related diseases. The claim presents medical efficacy in grandiose terms.
Beware of counterfeit druggist advice in old notices
Fragmentary notice warns readers to beware a druggist who may try to induce taking substitutes instead of McGregor Parke's Carholic Cerate at Garvin's drugstore. Cites Park 8 and dates unclear, urging caution against misrepresented remedies.
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McGregor & Parke
Park
Nave
Sabe
Garvin
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