Bargain Fever Hits Shops as July Pulls Prices Down
Readable fragments describe July bargains with summer hats gowns and dresses heavily discounted. Notes on department stores versus smaller shops. trims and styles feature low prices from five dollars to twenty two dollars for a white wool gown. A foggy London scene follows with Oliver Roberts guiding a blind boy to the Cecil, paying him for help as dawn breaks.
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Ummer
Butcher's New
Mnnga
Sixth Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Madame
Panama
Gibson
Nina Fitch
High Mountain Love Tale set in Atlanta in Civil War era
An Atlanta author Miss Elizabeth Heming presents a short romance set in the early sixties around Atlanta and Stone Mountain. The plot follows Arthur Weston and a Georgia heroine amid Civil War era social and political tensions. Many characters and locales reflect The Metropolis and rural Southern life with vivid mountain imagery and a climactic battlefield ending.
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Atlanta
Elizabeth Heming
Hanna
South
Stone Mountain
Arthur Weston
Farmer Simpkins
Josh
Tock
Farmer Simpedius
Judge
Lfe
High Mountain Hotel
Teroine
David
Isaac
Dave
Pickett
Gettysburg
Cemetery Ridge
Dan
Arthur
Metropolia
David Dean
Seasscaa Nerves and Sleepless Restlessness Tale
A distressed narrator describes nerve racking sleepless nights and feverish unrest. Vague forebodings haunt the mind until morning headaches and irritability arise, then a remedy suggestion promises calm nerves and restful sleep. A patient recalls illness forcing business abandonment and reliance on Dr. Servine’s tincture.
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Dr. Servine
Longings at Uncle Dan's Country Lane
Charley longs for pure air and golden grain on Uncle Dan's farm where sky is blue and cream pans shine and work brings joy. Uncle Dan wishes to visit the city for modern comforts and quiet life, contrasting rural ease with urban bustle.
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Charley
Uncle Dan
Busan
New York City
The Great Value Of Georgia's Farm Lands
Excerpted figures show Georgia’s 1899 farm land use and yields across crops and regions. It reports quart yields for berries, acreage for vegetables and watermelons, labor and fertilizer expenditures, per farm averages, and irrigation data. Narrative fragments describe foggy urban scenes and a tense confrontation in a city, with a cabman and a navigator.
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Georgia
Bryan
Camden
Liberty
Glynn
Chatham
McIntosh
Afraid of the Fog in London Fog
The Honorable Oliver Roberta, an American in London, watches a thick fog roll over the Thames wharves and monuments as he contemplates a return to California. He notes the city’s gloom and the encroaching mist, preparing to seek escape from the gathering fog.
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Roberts
Robert Hobart Davis
Oliver Roberta l
Thames
Key West
England
River of Kings
Atlantic
Tower of London
Oliver Roberta
California
Valley
Napa
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Hoberts
New York
Oliver Roberts
Oliver
Whitechapel
Cecil
Strand
London
Tegetes
Corter
Roberta
Robert
Suuit’s
Puting
Wikix
Weevige
Graces
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart, Ind
Fond En Bnagers
Golden West
Savoy
Nelaén
Trafalgar Square
Jacobs’ Pharmacy
Druggisis Ganavary
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