Obituary tribute and stray notices from Davis Mackley era
John Mackley pens a tribute to his father Davis Mackley of Jackson Ohio with elegiac lines on life and afterlife linking to Hood’s Sarsaparilla and a Lowell mass apothecary ad. The clippings include railroads critique by John Ruskin, American belles praise, Brackage glue mentions, and royal drawing room notes with Victoria and the Princess of Wales.
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John Mackley
Davis Mackley
Jackson
Ohio
Menu
God
Hood
TI. Hood & Co
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
John Ruskin
Jobn
Norr. Herald
Mark Twain Schoolroom Wordplay From April Century
A Century April feature presents humorous pupil misdefinitions and word plays. Quotes include Aborigines, Ammonia, Capillary, and Parasitic jokes, with riffs on Republican and Demagogue misreadings, plus silly ads and medical pitches like Rough on Piles and Dr. King’s New Discovery for lung ailments.
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Mark Twain
Ipecac
Extraordinary Find Hidden in Old Tree Near Chestnut Grove
An eight year old boy named Samuel Nushaom discovered fifty one silver dollars dated from 1721 to 1797 inside a decayed tree trunk while cutting a pole near Chestnut Grove school house. The coins, mostly uncirculated foreign pieces except one 1797, were found with a fragment of paper. provenance remains a mystery.
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Pike
Chestnut Grove School House
Frederick
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America
Spalding
Queen Victoria
Princess of Wales
Belle Wade
Richmond
G. W. Latimer
EB. T. Parker
Northampton St
Boston
Henry Kintz
C.n.nye
Canton
Isaac Phelps
Ravenna
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Atherton, Druggists
Albany
X.Y
Heston
Potter Drey
Ensglism
Now
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Massachusetts
New Jersey
Boston Transcript
Dr. King
Henderson & Minear
Alfred Sviniy
Corvallis, Or
Om Selken
Titan
C. H. Henderson
Acker
B Henderson
Samuel Nushaom
Wells’ Hair Hallam
Bucha-Paiba
Idaho
Henderson
Berlin
B, Henderson
Wilewn
Ball
Chicaco Corset CO
Franklin Street
Chicaco
Broadway
New York
Central Hotel
Cornell House
Athens, Ohio
Merrill Woodruff
Nein Ae Ie
Peruny
Woodreff
Jet
Railroads
Columbus
Hocking Valley
Toledo
TissuSe
S.uthe
Toledo Fostoria Carey
Uplandus Marion
Delaware
Lancaster
Pomeroy
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Athens
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Marion
Sandusky Carey
Fostoria
North Bounds
Mseper
Chicago
Washington
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Union Depot
Newark
Zanesville
Pittsburg
Wheeling
Philadelphia
Dayton
Cincinnati
Louisville
Detroit
Michigan
Canada
G. R. Carr
A.F. Palkenbach
Kanawha & Ohio Railway
USG
Charleston
Leston
Daily
Pleasant
Ipolis
Bedreport
Beardayvil
Ough Bourn
Columbus Corning Mealahin
Trimble
Dacksonville
Channcey Attsens
Hibbardsville
Carpenter
Callipolis
Pat Pleasant
Latter
A.M
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Cineinpati
Parkersburg
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Middleport
Th. L. Moore
W.va
Tilos
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Story
Hast
New York City
New England
Points East
Niagara Falls
N. Highst
Incinnati
Washington ,Baltimore
Indigrapolix
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Unity
Sts. Louis
W. Scopit
Nortock
Patton
Trav
Pass
Chillicothe
J. EL Syewart
W. HH
King
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Columbus & Hocking Valley R.2
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Indianapolis
Mansaea City
Manouri
Iowa
Kansas
Nebrska
California
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Territories
Pullman Palace Cars
Philadelphi
E. A. Ford
Pivisbenes
Jas. McRea
Prerseunka
Mferry & CG IP
Antil
M. Ferry & CQ
Thompson & CO
Athens County
Smith
Wolle
Qalesme
VT Ee Lis ES
Tin Shaw
Rochester
N.Y
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Randolph St
LORD
Walnut St
Walngt Steep
Bel
OFTO
W. M. Tucker
Addleman
Court Street
West Side
Ohu
PUR Best Gallery
Times
Aid
Hocking Coal
Athens Gas Light Company
Mrssenger
Wowail
Lydia
Pinkham
Dorn
Deng Gists
Ofsrevation
Poecsaw
Sey Ong
Chia Duper
Kipsny
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