Fruit and Ornamental Trees for Sale at Peters and Co
George Peters and Company announce autumn sale of fruit and ornamental trees including apple, pear, cherry, apricot, plum, grapevines, and evergreen stock. Traveling agent Jous Buxeneuver will take orders. catalogues available and Gettysburg area shown during court weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Peters & Co
Adams County
Jous Buxeneuver
GEO. Peters & CO
Focal
Bendersrile
Gettysburg
Make Your Home Beautiful With Flowers and Light
Poem urges transforming the home into beauty with flowers and sunshine. It laments gloom and extols vines, mignonette, verbena, and roses to brighten daily life, inviting nature to converse with the heart and inspire hopeful days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Vante
Dee
Mike Hurt
Fur
Rte
Not Worth the Trouble to Teach a Child
A reading from the Oice Branch warns against the phrase its not worth the trouble. It decries parental indifference and shows how mothers and housekeepers neglect teaching skills and courtesy. The piece links careless excuses to strained families and lost opportunities for children and relationships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiber
Dead yet Living in a Margate Library Passage
A compact fragment notes famed writers and reformers as dead yet their legacies endure in faith, philanthropy, and sacred works. It closes with a Margate library bookmark quote praising a conscientious young man as emblematic.
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Fim
Waumoriel
Luther
Calvin
Knox
Melville
Tonderaon
Scotland
Banyan
Pucatin
Baxter
Cowper
Elliot
Henry Martyn
Howard
Raikes
Wilberface
James Ami
Margate
Miss Josephine Hoops
Dusting the Furniture Fails in Humour of Bridget
A comic tale from a dusty parlor shows Bridget hired to tidy a house for visiting guests. She uses a kitchen calendar as a dust sieve, coats furniture with coal ashes, and ruins the piano. The mistress discovers the mishap, Bridget offers her character, and the company mocks the scene as the dusting is deemed a failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridget
Pridget
Dridget
Funya
Moses
PhTa News
I Don't Care if I Do in Olden Time Tavern Tale
An old tale recalls Wing a deaf landlord at a Mid dle Granville hotel who serves travelers and beasts alike. A Southbound traveler asks distance to Brandon. Wing mishears and offers brandy with sugar while the thirsty Fish watches, humor ending with a flustered exit. Nearby notes recount a bear fight tale and assorted humorous vignettes from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wing
Middle Granville
Tish
Fish
Brandon
Appans
Shranger
The Course of True Love and Mormon Controversy
A disconsolate wife recounts a drunken husband’s abuse and threats, while a Cohasset Hull tale shows a 86 year old pauper and an elderly woman seeking marriage blocked by town subsidies. The piece also covers anti Brigham Young Mormon sentiment, a controversial Illinois conference, and reports on Catherine Brannon’s 104 year life and other local notices.
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Rowson
Cattaraugus Freeman
Ellicottville
Buffalo
Wini Jarrison
Maria P. Smith
Genesee House
Fane
Harrison
Ohio
Arrison
Cohasset
Maassachusetts
Poorlouse
Hull
Cahasset
Illinois
Amber
Lilmoié
Joe Smith, Jr
Brigham
Young Smith
Cincinnati Gazette
Young
Joe
Brigham Young
Young Smith J
Utah
High Council
Edders
Novel Case in Rabeas Corpus At Covington KY
The Cincinnati Press reports a curious Rabeas corpus case before Judge Moore involving William Ross and his stepdaughter Margaret Coleman. They wed in Ohio to evade Kentucky law, but Kentucky guardianship and nullification rulings led to the marriage being dissolved and the wife returned to guardian Coleman. The account includes remarks on women’s influence and a fragmentary doggerel about beauty and nature.
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Cincinnati Press
MM. Moore
Covington
Kentucky
William Ross
Margaret Coleman
Ohio
Cincinnati
Elisha Coleman
Habena Corps
Ross
Moar
Gomt
Guardian
Coleman
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Joon Burkuolder
Messrs
Zurbaugeh, Sioat & Co
Watvens
Borgan
David Sterner
Subequbar
Asia
Arthur Beanchitis
Vise
Addrescing JR
Broadway
New York
Peper Culp
Asaenuy J. Reaver
Mountjoy Township
Redding
Norige
Marla Reever
Amix
Lalimore
Aownship
Adame Co
Saac Gardner
Avan
LL. Astin
GC. B. Seymour & Co
Nasva Stanur
Schuyler
Bay
Pes Maa
Ike
Lasave Lim
Solomon
Particulias
Salomon
Chicago
Waterstreet
Ned Osbornve
Tiemens Mouse
Wentworth
Osborne
Water Street
Tremont Howe
Springer Street
Oshene
Tremont
Ife
Ned
Buffalo Republic
Daniel Webster Pennes
God
Aminidad
Aminadad
A. Kastucny Avacise Maren
Grneh
Lillian County
Cumberland Mountains
Brain Cineh
Mr. Cruck
Mr Crugh
Crach
Mr. Cruch
Mr. Orach
Bea
Trev
D.D
D. D
Cleveland Aleraid
Cleveland
Peil
Poruman
Govsplainant
Tsuppose
Grand Jury
Hin
Gem
Wili
Touape
United States
Chiets
Dinites
Ansels
Salt Lake
Catharine Brannon
Tesseuge
Pittsburg
Donegal
Ireland
Bystan
Cape Cou
Eny Italiate
Waar
Harbor Police
Boston
Johnson
Calcutta
Dohugon
Aree
Mgurder
Apott
New
Work
Bostons & Moggi
Westerg
Tabrar
oneSheridan
Wisconsin
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