Dick Bolts On Dickon Farm to Philadelphia Ride
Young Ethel Dalton persuades Fred to swap horses and ride Dick into Philadelphia. A runaway bolt leads to danger in the city streets, a mounted guard halts the scene, and Ethel survives unharmed. Father Fred confront the aftereffects and a family reckoning follows at home.
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Ethel
Philadelphia
Lewises
Joan
Fred
Dalton
Papa
Mr. Datton
Dick Cantera
Alence
Shell
Juan
Ming
Dirk
Stourly
Ethyl
Brother
Diek
Fuse
Eshel
Abel
Ethsi
Mrs. Lewis
Sis
Cranberries and Love and a Village School Dream
In a torn tale, Beth Gardiner teaches at a village school for 459 a year to help the family after their parents’ deaths. Bessie, her cousin, clashes with Beth’s plans while Gerard Dayton reacts to Beth’s new social rise. Beth’s pride and toil contrast with family strain as the harvest and wage earn a fragile future.
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Bessie
Beth
Edea Barton
Thomas
Bessie Gardiner
Seth
Guntie
Ganey
Eliza
Beth Gardiner
Gerard Dayton
Red
Vilage
Gerard Darton
Rustie Malden
Dayton
Geth
Ceylon Moves Against Plague as Rats Fall in Colombo
In Colombo over the last year the municipality reports 60,000 rats killed, part of measures to curb the plague. A veteran editor recalls Mexican diarrhoea from war days and praises Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, sold by W. H. McKee in Glen Flora Wisconsin. Foreclosure in Glen Flora for 2300 dollars. A North Carolinian writer endorses Foley's Kidney Care. Medieval knights took oaths to spare no enemy.
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Pennsylvania
Fred Dalton
Fred
Ethel
Jean
Ceylon
Colombo
Chamberlaine
Tam
Mexico
W. H. McKee
Wanted A Whot Must Be Strong and Never Have a Lame Back
An early advertisement touts Dr Rankin Kidney Tablets as instantly stopping pain and curing permanently. Sold by Lash druggist in Athens Ohio. A separate French hailstorm note estimates annual losses around 3,000,000 francs, with historical figures from 46,000,000 to 134,000,000 francs between 1873 and 1845.
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France
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Derton
Vaen
Paris
Berry
Athens
Ohio
Bright
Scen Cruynerars
Hiame
Marzetti Block
N. W. Cor
Gay and High Sts
THE
France CO
Columbus
Glen Flora
Wis
A. Lambert
Rachel
N. C
Foley
C. B. Henderson
the People’s National Family Newspaper
York
Tribune
Daily Tribune
United States
Famil Old
Messenger and Herald
Illiams
Willems Mfg. CO
Props
Cleveland
Henderson's
Gies
Washington
C.A. Snows& Co
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