The Devil's Own A Station Agent Tale
Tom Degu, a Union Pacific agent at Weilaville, is abducted during a night robbery plot. He fights restraint as a derailment plan hinges on timing and a delayed express. A telegraph message offers a chance to foil the hold up and save the train.
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Tom Degu
Union Pacific
Weilaville
Tom's
St. Helena
Wellsville
Tom
Mis
Jordan
Misa Jordan
Omaha
Jim
Townsend
Vinci Promises Refund If It Fails For Sickness Recovery
An advertisement touts Vinci as a medicine that restores appetite and builds strength after illness. It claims direct action on the stomach, improved digestion, and new flesh and blood, with a money back guarantee at MeeKee's Drug Store.
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Vinci
Henri F. Sturtevant
Huntington St
Brockton
Mass
MeeKee
Night Watcher and the Clock Bell Rescue
A weary man at a hotel fights sleep and a faulty alarm to save time. He rigs a bell from a clock’s pendulum weight, pulls himself along the wall, and finally frees the pendulum to regain lost minutes before collapsing in exhaustion.
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Land of Dreams
Tom
Nate
Ife
Farwand
Afternoon Tea Traditions Across England and America
A Boston Cooking School Magazine note contrasts tea habits. An English lady says tea in America is a fad likely to fade or become mere receptions with salads and ices. In England tea remains a daily ritual with bread and butter, cheese sandwiches, shrimp, watercress, periwinkles, and occasional cake as courses.
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England
America
Boston Cooking School Magazine
Shampsory Hair Treatment Instructions Reported
A faded instructional note describes breaking an egg into a saucer and rubbing it into the ball, followed by applying to the scalp, washing with soap and warm water, then a small amount of borax and a final rinse with clean water.
Incident of Slavery Days in Hockingport
A century ago in Hockingport a man named Moses Davis plotted to aid slave runaways for reward. He hid captives in a ravine now known as Nigger Tan', betraying enslaved people from Virginia to Ohio slave hunters. Irate slave owners and locals threatened vengeance, and Davis fled, condemned for treachery.
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Hockingport
Moses Davis
Ohio River
Canada
Davis
Kinchelo
Virginia
Smith Dunfee
Mustapha Island
Davie
Ohio
Pittsburg Dispatch Promotes Its Leading Position In 1900s Press
The Pittsburg Dispatch proclaims its high standing among western Pennsylvania newspapers with a bold pledge to comprehensive world news coverage. It touts a leading Sunday edition and introduces the Current Topic Club as a successor to the Home Study Circle. Grief can take care of itself.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
Pennsylvania
News of the World
Dispatch
Daily Dispatch
Ntiaay
Home Study Circle
Pen s ensioner of War of 1812 Lives Near Boonville
The last male pensioner of the War of 1812, Crone, resides in Aya nine miles from Boonville in Oneida County New York. Born April 29, 1800 in Frankfort Herkimer County, he enlisted in the mass militia in September. Also talks promote Chamberlain's Pain Balm as a top remedy for rheumatism with testimonial from Dr. Sinks of Troy Ohio.
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CRONE
Aya
Boonville
Oneida County
N. Y
Frankfort
Herkimer County
Mass
Chamberlain
Dr. Sinks
Troy
Ohio
Mesars. Geo. PF. Parsons & Co
W. H. McKee
Free Blood Balm Cure Promises for Many Diseases
An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as a universal cure for ulcers skin diseases rheumatism blood poison and many ailments. It claims quick permanent cures with trial bottles offered free and a 30 year test with thousands of testimonials. Also mentions a Taiwan railway and a homeseekers excursion.
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Address
Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
Low rate excursion tickets via Ohio Central Lines offered
February March and April travel options announced for West Southwest and South routes. Tickets valid for return within twenty one days from sale date. Contacts listed in Toledo Findlay Columbus and Charleston for full details. Holland denies President Kruger visit to the United States.
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Ohio Central
Tventy
John Moores
P A
Charleston
W. Va
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New York Observer
Charles Donald MacKay
Bil
Smuysville
Macysyville
Bill
Duke's Siding
Wen
Billi
Waverley Magazine
of Commons
Denixon
Denigon
Mr. Gladstone
F. Herschell
Conree
Chicago Times- Herald
Sdepierce’s
Dr. Miles
Dr. Wistles iNervice
Deaggists
Dr. Miles Medical Co
Eikhart
Indi
Foum Mosa
Taiwan
Takao
Ohio Central Lines
Holland
Kruger
United States
James
Atedeins
Oro
Basom, D. D
Athens
Phoenix Block
South Court Street
THE
3 Bank of Athens
United
D.bnown
Telephone Ae
W. Barris
Sheriffi’s
Guardian
Athens County Court Common Pleas
Court of Common Pleas
Athens County
Court House
Nelsonville
JS. Scotts
Fairylew
C.H. Porter
Sherif
E. Hences
Lewis
Sayre
Fn Attorneys
Iexas of
Its
Red River Division
Denison and
Sherman, Texas
St. Louis
Kansas City
Texas
Oklahoma
D. H. Moore
Frisco Line
Athens, Ohiu
Itama
Manufacturing Co
Prope
Cievetane
Henderson’s Drug Store
Villars
George W. Harmon
Clararmon
William F. Harmon
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