Marooned island residents report safety amid Susquehanna flood
York Pa March 7 inhabitants of Shelly's Island saved by megaphone message as flood and ice gorge cut Duffy's Island residents off. J B Hostetter York Haven tobacco crop worth $10000 destroyed and York Haven power plant damage about $16000. Conditions at York Haven and downstream unchanged with light rain.
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Shelly's Island
York
Duffy's Island
Susquehanna River
J. B. Hostetter
York Haven
Convicted murderer escapes from St Joseph jail
Mark Dunn convicted of murdering a wealthy farmer named Fenton and sentenced to hang on March 11 escaped from the St Joseph jail after seizing two revolvers hidden in a coal oil can and binding the death watch with wire. He forced the jailer to release him at daybreak threatening to kill the watchman.
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St. Joseph
Mark Dunn
Fenton
Dunn
Death Watch
Daan
Short notes of interest and local ads mix
Lost keys with chain Finder please leave at Banner office or Wootten's Book Store. Several ads offer jobs, mercantile opportunities, and products: Philadelphia Cooperative Box 370 seeks a manager. H P Hinton's ad promotes cigars sherbets and lemons. Mores features latest photographs. W E Arnold and Burch Cash Grocery advertise fresh goods. Hood's Sarsaparilla recommended for various ailments.
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Banner Office
Wootten
Glen Lodge Meeting and Hyomei Catarrh Cure Ad
The regular meeting of Glen Lodge No 75 will be held Tuesday at 7 45 p m with work in the second degree all in good standing are invited. Hyomei a record breaker is praised as a cure for catarrh sold by H R Palmer & Sons with a money back guarantee if it fails to cure.
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X. Glen Lodge No 75
Odd Fellows
J. E. Humphrey
N. G. G.E Stone
Sec
Hyomei
Athens
H. R. Palmer & Sons
HL. R. Palmer & Sons
Bilm Oy
Atlanta
John Blount
Brett
Roynd Astronomical Society
H R. Palmerd& Sons
W J. Smith & Bro
Green
United States
H. Palmer & Sons
Eschol Sellers and the Gilded Age Hero
An account details Eschol Sellers real life as The Gilded Age hero, inventor and promoter near Shawneetown and Missionary Ridge, his clash with Mark Twain’s publishers, and his later death. Also notes a cure advertisement for blood poison and a legend about Chesterfield spire.
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Mintk Twain
Eschol Sellers
New West
United States
Philadelphia
Eschel Sellers
Charles Dudley Warner
Sellers
Shawneetown
Sellers’ Landing
Ile
Mark Twain
Hartford
Eschol
Mulberry
Lia Pleasant Home
Missionary Ridge
Chattanooga
Washington Star
Remarkable Cough Cure Patient and Local Health Notes
An Indiana woman credits One Minute Cough Cure with curing a severe lung infection and restoring weight. Other items mention the Southern Brewers meeting in New Orleans and local remedies from Chamberlain products aiding a child’s sleep and a rheumatism recovery in Monon Indiana.
Doing One's Best in Habit Forming Character
An essay extols doing one's best as core to character and calm bearing. It argues consistent effort cultivates mastery, resilience, and inner happiness, linking sustained striving to moral growth and personal nobility.
Tragedy Averted and Health Remedies Featured
A Pleasant City mother credits Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption with saving her sick child from pneumonia. The ad section touts electric bitters as a cure for nervous disorders and general health, plus Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and job ads for sales and clerical positions from Hapgoods Inc.
Opposition fritters the enthusiast but never converts him
A quotable remark from Sebiller in the Cincinnati Enquirer noting the stance of Way of St Green and Short about a possible financial dispute. The exchange suggests Brown denies owed money but indicates a desire to settle.
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St. Green
Short
Brown
Cincinnati Enquirer
Sebiller
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THE
Grover
Graham
Grover Graham
Miles Gilbert
Akron
Ohio
Lending Druggista
Graham Co., Inc
Newburgh
N.Y
Georgia
P.so
Athens Savings Bank
TM Lo
le Pestis Suboe
Clarker
G. A. Mell
Gaid Bank
B. Y. Harris
N. P
Clarke Oo
Reliance Life Insurance
Pres
M. G. Michael
M. Stern
J. A. Hunniocutt
L. F. Edwards
O. H. Phinizy
Mercantile House
Mores
O. W. Mores
Willy
H P. Hinton's
Dzestrick Skule
Eale
Palmer & Sones
J. P Fears & Sons
Cash Grocery Co
Wiley
H. P Hinton
J. D. Carrison
W. A. Carlton
Havana
H. P. Hinton's
Sherbets
H. P. Hinton
Crawford
M. M. Arnold
H. P Hinton's
Burch Cash Grove
M M. Arnold's
H. P. Hipton
Hood
H.R. Palmer & Sons
England
Chesterfield
Pisa
Epire
Rowsley
Peacock Inn
Gertrude E. Fenner
Marion
Ind
Southern Brewers
New Orleans
Southern Brewers’ Association
Anthony Fabacher
L. McPherson
N. Tenth St
Harrisburg
Chamberlain
W. J. Smith & Bro
W. Watkins
Pleasant City
W. J Smith & Bro
Westphalia
Eececut
B. C. DeWitt & Co
Chicago
Anna Barinet
Vsborn Mill
Fall River
Mass
Sterling Remedy Co
N.Y. Gor
Rosa A. Vonderlieth
Athens Mutual Insurance Company
AS Investment
Brooks & Dozier
Clayton St
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