A Cloudy Dawn and a Corncrake’s Echo in Northover
Eunice Hartley recalls a summer of memory and tragedy at Mill Farm Northover woods with a corncrake’s croak stirring past heartbreak. Tom Marsden’s poaching ties and a fatal confrontation end a romance. Eunice eventual marriage to John Hartley offers solace as the corncrake’s sound fades, joining a line about an old saying and a domestic product advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartley
Mrs. Hartley
Sallie
Northover Woods
Tom Marsden
Northover
Tom
Gret
Father
Mother
Eunice
Tia
Lass
William Balshaw
Anne
William
Lawson
Furr
Yeatereve
Anse
Deborah
Nelly
John Hartley
Catarrh Cure Ad and Miscellaneous Notices
A vintage newspaper page includes advertisements for Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming cure for catarrh of the head and system toning benefits. Also mentions Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for consumption, Buc ha Paiba kidney cures, Rough on bile and dirt pills, and a local partridge bounty incident in Crawford county Pennsylvania. The page blends medical ads with a stray local tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
R. V. Pierce
Dr. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N.Y
Crawford County
Magnolia Balm promises skin beauty and easy glow
A compact ad style list notes Magnolia Balm as a simple path to skin beauty. Also mentions political and geographic curiosities such as Alabama Legislature representation, a new photography system mapping much of the globe, Hood's Sarsaparilla claims for catarrh, and Governor Proctor Knott’s optimistic city vision, plus Nile steamer impact and crocodile decline.
Old physician offers free remedy for lung and nervous issues
Retired East India mission physician claims a simple vegetable cure for consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and all throat and lung ailments plus nervous complaints. He will mail the remedy free in German French or English with directions to any applicant by sending name and address with stamp to W. A. Notes 1 Powers Block New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East India
W. A
N.Y
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mery Saggettra
Acker
Creative Cure
Snow, Agency and
Pation
C. B. Henderson
Ma. Jamfs O
J Bagley
Winkle
Obie
Ramses
Bettie
Athiophoros CO
Wall ST
New York
G. B. Gins
Eighth Street
N. W
Washington, D. C
M. E. Reap
A. Read & Son
Wauseon
Ohio
N.B
C. 1. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Maas
Mass
Georgetown
N. J
Heaven
Golden
Golden’s Female Elixir CO
Columbus, Ohio
Henderson & Minear
Athena
the Bank OF Athens
Athens
United States
John Brown
J.D. Brown
Cashier
Gamuel
Knowles
Lawter
Welch
Harles Townsend
Wen & Welch
Ees
Supreme
U. S
John Welch
J.M. Welch
Corallis
W. W. Watkins
John Ring
W. Towsley
Atkinson
Warren House
J.S. Basom, D. D. S
J. E. Edmundson
Phoenix Block
Athens, Ohio
Perkina Block
Alabama
C. J. Hood & Co
Duurh
Proctor Knott
Nile
F. W. Willias
J. Warren Kelfer
Congress
Willips College
Coalys
Hocking Coal
Athens Gas Light Company
Atlas! Paint Co
P.O
Pitteburst
Chicago
Nodl
HOM. T. P
India
Hin Real Deuce
Peveren Booth Bridge
Yom Athens
Apr
Brise
M1 exGer
Geo. P. Rowell & Co
Pyned Advertising Bureau
Spruce
U.S
Washington
U. S. Patent Office
A. Snow & CO
Ofice
Washington, D.C
Athens Gas Works
Athens Gas CO
James River
Virginia
Claremont County
Manucfa
Claremot
Hiscox & Co. N
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