Wanderer Tales of Aerial Voyage Across North American Wastes
A Richmond Dispatch excerpt recounts Prof. King and Luthar L. Holden's balloon flight from New Hampshire toward the Gulf of St. Lawrence. They describe stormy aloft conditions, bargaining with ballast, and a perilous drift that landed near Sayebec after a 550 mile trek in thirteen hours, ending within reach of Quebec.
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Maine
Canada
New Hampshire
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Plymouth
White Mountains
Mount Jefferson
Mount Adams
Lake Umbago
Luthar L. Holden
Boston Journal
Theear
Sayebec
Quebec
Labrador
Richmond (Va
Dispatch
Blind builder Pringle conquers odds to own six homes
From Perkins Institution, Mr. Pringle, long blind since youth, crafts mattresses with his wife. He recalls building six houses, renting and selling to accumulate wealth, while managing with skill and thrift. The Globe notes public admiration for a blind man’s enterprise and prudent success.
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South Neston
Pringle
Fifth Street
Perkins Institution For the Blind
Mr. Pringle
Globe
Free medical remedy recipe offered by Rochester physician
An elderly doctor, retired from practice, claims a vegetable cure for Copesimaption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and other throat and lung ailments, plus Nervous Complaints. He will mail the recipe and full preparation directions free in German, French, or English to any requester at 149 Power's Block, Rochester, NY, with a newspaper name.
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East India
W. A. Noggs
Power's
Rochester
N. Y
Promising Cures and Paint Odors Highlight Local Ads
A salve claims to heal cuts bruises sores ulcers and more with a 25 cent box price sold by Henderson and Minear. A coffee odor tip suggests ground coffee removes fresh paint scent. Henderson and Minear also tout Acker's Blood Elixir as a cure for blood disorders skin diseases and even Syphilis and Rheumatism with a guarantee. Ring your Job Work to the Mrs Senger office.
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Henderson & Minear
Acker
Henderson and Minear
Baltimore and Ohio Extends Lines to New York City
After two years of effort the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad gains an extension to New York City by an agreement with Reading and Jersey Central. Through trains will run from Jersey City via Jersey Central to the West promising faster time. Staten Island service continues, with work progressing but not yet ready for use in two years. From Philadelphia to Washington the B O will use its new line where no regular passenger trains have run yet.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
New York City
Reading
Jersey Central Railroad
Jersey City
Jersey Central
Staten Island
Philadelphia
Washington
Dow law awaits full Supreme Court ruling
A columnist laments that the Dow law has not yet been reviewed by a full bench of the Supreme Court, calling the delay embarrassing while predicting businessmen will assume its constitutionality. The note ends with a mention of Queen Victoria's interest in public print and a reference to Mrs Wrerrin.
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Dow
Supreme Court
Commercial Gazette
Queen Victory
Wrerrin
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Ilainay
W. A. Parker
Balfinch Street
Boston
Maia
Jfe
Address World Manufacturing CO
Nassau St
New York
P.O
Cleveland, Akron & Columbus Railway
MT. Vernon
Akron
Cleveland
Albany
Lake Chautauqua
Columbus
Pullman
South High Street
B. H. Akin
E. C. Janes
P. A
Ohio
Nature
Nature’s Aid
Nature’s Aid Pills
Raate
Chess & Run
ON & Minear
Joe Marietta
Senger
Bttveetare
Fay
Sartvers
Ali
Academy
Parnassus
Pompei
Academie de Belgivue
M. Willems
Independence Belge
Pompeii
Church of Venus
Powpeii
Whitney
William Armstrong
Amr
Prof. King
The
Aero
Tiffin
Upper
Sandusky
Supdusky
of Pettet
Pbnah
Henry Erving
Ir Ving
Charles I
God
Charles
Henry Irving
Irving
World’s Disees Medical Association
Buffalo, N
Heathman’'s Star Butter
Steortete
Rte
Serr
Yorktown
Gen
Longstreet
Ption
G. H. Hawkins
Holy Trinity
Stroud
England
Newport
Bnecklen’s
Mrssenger
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ligup
Kiraxam
Pinxnan
Lys. Mass
Lydia E. Pinkhams
Tim
LIFER
Pinknam
Medical CO
Baltimore
George R. Walker
Court House
Main Street
Athens, Ohio
D. C. Cornwell
Western Lands
Kansas
Texas
Minnesota
Iowa
Frederiksen & Co
Pioneer Block
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