North Boome Items Highlight Farming and Local News
Corn planting nears completion with strong fruit prospects led by apples. Local social notes recount visits among Sand Rock residents and the Stiles family. Miss Lizzie Stiles, former teacher, died of lung disease and was buried at Sand Rock with Amesville pastor services. Meantime, meadow growth slowed by cold dry weather, oats acreage up. Weather and local happenings wrap the LEON May 19 1888 update.
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North Boome
Mark Brown
Geo. Brown
Joseph Allender
Sand Rock
Alexander McWhorter
H. H. Wharff
Grandma Rutherford
Lizzie Stiles
Sheed
Amesville
Willie
Charlie Cameron
Athens
H. C. Cameron
James Friend
Columbus
Stiles
Nancy Vandyke
Jefferson County
New England
Leon
Notable Methodist Bishops and Colonial Era Figures Described
The piece profiles numerous bishops including Bishop Hurst of Buffalo, Bishop Mallalieu of New Orleans, and Taylor of Africa, detailing their health, tenure, attire, and roles. It recalls their ordinations, ministries, and reputations, alongside a notice from the Ohio Agricultural Bulletin on apple orchard pest control and a Philadelphia News anecdote about vaccination fashion.
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Hurst
Buffalo
Methodist Episcopal
Mallalieu
New Orleans
Bowman
Bishop Merrill
Bishop Walden
Book Concern
Ninde
Kansas
Dr. Andrews
Bishop Foster
Bishop Foss
Minnesota
Fowler
Pacific Coast
Warren
Colorado
Taylor
Africa
Opera
Abraham
Free Trial Bottles Propel H. K. Dorr's Drug Store Trade
H. K. Dorr's Drug Store sees a surge in trade from free trial bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption. Ads claim the remedy cures coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and throat and lung diseases with trial bottles available and large bottles priced at 1. The article also mentions other medical claims and anecdotes about remedies and a jest about a rich heir painting the town red.
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France
New York
Ohio
D. Otho Fruth
Provident Medical Dispensary
France Medical Institute
West Gay Street
Imaine
Yeu
Visz
St. Vitus
H. K. Dorr
Dr. King
Fragmentary health note on liver disease and recovery
A garbled health fragment mentions disordered liver disease and weakness preventing a good day’s work. It references scrofula and poor will, with unclear remedies or attribution to a discovery or remedy.
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Guysett
E. R. Lash
I Forgot to Mail It The Letter To Venneering Co
In a sharp domestic exchange the wife scolds the husband for a hastily written letter meant for Venneering Company. He discovers the missive in his pocket and vows to mail future letters himself. The quarrel ends with the wife resolving to handle her own mail.
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John
Venneering & Co
Maria
John Smith
N. Y. Sun
Spring Health and Spelling Schemes Highlight Local Notes
An article notes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a spring purifier and booster for health. It also mentions a Kansas schoolma’am using a spelling game where the boy who spells a missed word earns a kiss, prompting humorous results as girls' spelling declines.
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Kansas
Norristown Herald
Dick Wootton, 72, Regains Sight After Blindness
Kit Carson’s old partner Dick Wootton, famed for driving 14,000 sheep 1,600 miles to California and earning 40000, has had his sight restored by a Chicago surgeon after eight years of blindness.
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Kit Carson
Dick Wootton
California
Chicago
Fruit trees stolen from farm near Abilene
A Tier stole the fruit trees planted by farmer John Cooper near Abilene during the previous night. The Kansas City Star notes the long standing practice of leaving railroads in Kansas out overnight.
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John Cooper
Abilene
Kansas
Kansas City Star
Enigmatic Exchange Over Envelopes
In a fragmented telegraph office scene Uncle Raster questions an envelope while Jacos and Nagge joke about thinking alike and debts. The dialogue hints at a private matter and a potential payment but remains cryptic and incomplete.
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Raster
Rasta
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