Boy Stuart confronts consequence after horse accident
In Westville, Stuart Willard reluctantly confesses to breaking old Simon Pfeffer’s horse during a squirrel hunt. He accepts danger and punishment as he vows to work off the six hundred dollar loss at Pfeffer’s factory, aided by his mother’s pride in his honesty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart Willard
Stuart
Mrs. Willard
Simon Pfeffer
Westville
Simon
Ben Hopper
Tom Halpine
Luke Wright
Ben
Luke
Tom
Theorse
Alsompanions
Pfeffer
Uke
Mr. Pfeffer
Mr. Pieffer
The Debt Paid and a Boy’s Honest Confession
Willard Wil liard overcomes a long debt by confessing the truth to Mr. Pfeffer. The employer rewards honesty with wage increases and eventual junior partnership after eight years, transforming a troubled youth into a trusted businessman. The tale highlights honesty, truth, and the mother’s enduring lessons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart
Pfeffer
Mr. Pfeffer
Willard
English Girl’s Mission Sparks Women Doctors in India
A timid Englishwoman Miss Beiley studied medicine to aid Lucknow’s sick in India. She traveled to Punna, cared for a prince’s wife, and was urged by the Ranee to petition Queen Victoria. The petition led to Queen Victoria’s intervention, Lady Dufferin founding an association to send female medical staff, and an estate hospital for Hindu women. Sow seeds of good deeds. only God knows the fruit.
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Miss Beiley
Lucknow
India
Punna
Miss Reiley
Ranee
Miss Reiby
England
Queen Victoria
The Miser's Reform
A ruined miser in 1867 New York, driven by loss and avarice, welcomes a hungry street child. She warms his heart, reforms his house and life, and he becomes a loving father, restoring happiness, books, music, and light to his den as the child revives his soul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marego
Anna Pomini
New York
Vin
Allie
Alice
Precocious five year old questions a theater dude
Master Stuart Robson Crane, the five year old son of comedian Robson Crane, watches a fashionably dressed man enter a St. Louis matinee. When asked what a dude is, his mother explains God made him, and the boy quips that his father enjoys fun sometimes.
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Chicago News
Stuart Robson Crane
St. Louis
Master Crane
Remarkable Kansas City Matriarch Claimed 125 Years Old
Report says Celia Monroe a Black woman died in Kansas City after living 125 years. She mothered sixteen children with four surviving ages 74 68 58 and 50. Her second husband died fifty years ago. A week before death she was seen sweeping the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celia Monroe
Kansas City
Rural Hygiene Urged as Typhoid Epidemic Spurs Action
The Springfield Republican urges health boards to curb rural ignorance of hygiene after a Waterford Wisconsin typhoid outbreak. It cites a contaminated well used by villagers and warns that dilapidated farm practices foster disease in schools and neighboring towns.
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Springfield
Mass
Boards of Health
Waterford
Wis
Huneing
Huneings
Milwaukee
Fox River
New England
Fashionable Washington church reflects society world
A Washington correspondent notes that a fashionable church becomes a social booth for millinery and status. Worshippers chase seats as they do society events, with earnest prayer seeming secondary to display and snobbish curiosity about the President and Mrs. Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Capital
Preacher Joke Delivers Laughter At New England Society
Mr Grady of the Atlanta Constitution tells a tale of a group of boys who glued Bible pages causing the preacher to read a misprinted verse about Noah marrying at 120. Laughter erupts as he wryly concludes the text proves humanity is fearfully and wonderfully made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England Society
Grady
Atlanta Constitution
Noah
Rivals Swap Whoppers in Hot Street Conversation
Bill Higgins Frank Rhoads and Arthur Miller banter on Second and J streets about monumental liars while Dr Blacher Morrison approaches. Miller recalls a southern heat tale at a poker game and a Missouri river camp anecdote about melted solder and tinware breaking loose.
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Bill Higgins
Frank Rhoads
Arthur Miller
Second
Rhoads
Blacher Morrison
Miller
Higgins
Missouri River
Sacramento Bee
Secretary Whitney Wealth Highlighted By Wealthy Marriage
The New York Herald reports Washington gossip that Secretary Whitney’s wealth comes from his own business success not his wife. It notes his income before cabinet service around 500000 yearly and his habit of keeping large sums, including a $40000 cash payment for his Tennallytown country seat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Washington
Whitney
New York
Tennarytown Road
Aged man seeks sixth marriage license in county
In Dallas County the very old resident visited the county clerk to obtain his sixth marriage license. Clerk Hill said the license costs $1.50, noting discounts only apply for multiple licenses bought at once. The man paid and received the license with a red seal and blue ribbon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas Newa
Billy
Clerk Hill
Mr. Hill
Missouri Caucus Names Cockrell for Senate Renomination
In Jefferson City Missouri the Democratic caucus nominated W Cockrell for re election to the United States Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City, Mo
W. Cockrell
United States Senate
Grain and livestock prices across U S markets charted
The report lists commodity quotes from New York Curacao Minneapolis St Paul Milwaukee and Duluth with wheat corn oats rye barley flax seed and seeds for dairy and eggs. Prices show No 2 spring wheat 78c in Curacao 78c in Minneapolis and 80c in Duluth. Corn ranges around 36–47c across markets. Eggs sit around 21–23c and butter 16–20c.
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New York
Minneapolis
St. Paul
MilwaukEeEe
du Uta
Cure for Rheumatism with St Jacobs Oil
For eight years Col. D. J. Williamson, Quarter Master, U.S. A. and ex U.S. Consul at Callao, suffered rheumatism. He found relief and was cured by St Jacobs Oil. No remedy on earth equals it for pain. Price fifty cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. D. J. Williamson
U.S. A
U. S
Callao
St. Jacobs
E. W. Howell
No. 2
College Street
Dr. Pardee
Pardee Medicine Co
Rochester, N. Y
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Promoted As Cure All
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a universal cure for consumption and blood ailments. It claims the medicine cleanses the blood, strengthens the body, and outperforms cod liver oil, urging readers to seek it from druggists.
Work and Women in Industry Urged to Use Brown's Iron Bitters
An article argues that many women toil in various industries and at home, suffering from ailments linked to weak blood. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Brown's Iron Bitters as cures, claiming pure blood strengthens nerves and digestion. The ad warns against inferior iron remedies and cites Brown Chemical Company of Baltimore as the producer.
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Piternal Ly
Ceticura
CrricuRs
Porter Crace and Chemical Co
Bostros
Wass
Pierce
Brown
Brown Chemical Company
Baltimore
Widow Bedlett
Tamas & Jay
Cecil Hav
Perlis
Wilkie Collies
Red Court Farm
Beary Woot
George Milot
Adam Bede
Pines
Lady Gwendoline
Theather
Dora Thorne
Dora Thorne I
Namor
Judes
John Howerbank
Misar
Malocs
Jobe Ilalitas
Mre. Gaskell
Mary Barton
Saeper Dane
Mise
M. E. Braddon
Aurora Floyd
E. Is
Ilome Adernasat
Lande
Hugh Conwar
Florence Warden
Mildred Trevanton
the Duchees
Uthor
Ak Dave
B. L. Pare Jeau
Oon Leoline
Mary Cecil Hay
Brenda Orae
Gabriel’s
Wilkie Collins
Mary Cecil Har
Old Middleton
Dudley Carlton
M. E. Brad Gon
Lady Audrey
Valerie's
Mrs. Alexander
Ister Rose
Anne
Henry Wood
Miss Mulock
John Halifax
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel de Foe
South Pacific Ocean
PH. Jacrobs
Philo
Ple Ag
Poeta
Tennyson
Longfellow
Whittier
Pyron
Shelley
Moore
Bryant
Pranklin
Webster
Clay
Tilden
Lincoln
Scott
Grant
Trarfield
Gladstone
Butler
Hancock
Lee
Heap
Pardee Medicine Co
Allen’s Lung Balsam for Lung Diseases Endorsed
A Haitsville Kansas druggist F B Ball lauds Allen’s Lung Balsam as the best selling throat and lung remedy. He reports general satisfaction and recommends the large one dollar bottle for lung diseases.
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F. B. Ball
Haitsville
Kan
Allen
Alliance Adjourns At Ten To Plan Next Year In Huron
The alliance adjourned at 10 PM after a day's session and set a meeting for the next year in Huron to continue planning.
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Huron
Seed Annual of D. M. Ferry & Co. free upon request
The Seed Annual from D. M. Ferry & Co. of Detroit, Mich is highlighted as a premier seed firm. It promises top quality seeds for profit and pleasure and notes the annual is available free on request to anyone seeking superior seeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. M. Ferry & Co
Detroit
Mich
United States
Ferry’s
D. Ferry & CO
D. i. Ferry&co
M. Ferry & CB
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Old-Time Society
Kentucky
Abraham Lincoln
Century Magazine
Marie
Dude
Clark
Wood Street
London
Dr. C. Fawcett
Union Protestant Infirmary
F. W. Greene
Corps of Engineers
Carberry
Winnipeg
Ritchie
South Carolina
Maryland
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Victoria
Marchioness of
Queensbury
Marquis of Queensbury
Sybil
Alfred Montgomery
Senator Sherman
Los Angeles
Carberry, Man
Baiby’s
A Wolff
Paris Figaro
Moody
Marc Sete
Furest Trees
H. M. Ball
Lone Tree Lake
Minn
Ak Attorneys Sions
C. M. Sites & Co
Washington, DC
A. P. Lacey
Wishington, D. Cc
J. C. Bryant
Buffalo
N. Y
Marshalltown
Standard Silver Wake CO
Mary Walker
T. Ae
Fred Xese
Ai Ptae
Sears
Dr.d. ii
Woodbury
N. Pearisdt
Albany
Russia
Germany
W. W. Corcoran
J.P. Allen
Warner
Caswell Hazard & Co
All Druggista
Lyon
Jonathan
Irivune
Oia
Wikie Collins
George Eliot
Hugh Conway
Miss Murock
Hood
Allens
DR. T. Felix Gouraud
L. A. Sayer
Haunton
Gourand
Fred. T. Hopkins
Bond St. N.Y
Canada
Europe
Pioneer Press
Iius
Tufts
Lydia FE. Pickham
W. Eaton
Thurston, N. Y
Grorse Doane
Goodger & Naylor's
South St. Paul Street
Griffith Street
Gringaye
Tre
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Epolicatica
Wik Son
Poulpel
KSS
Eaton, Pa
Sciend
Be Horne
Renever
Aistogivet
Reix
Altrial
Man
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Rites
E. Roth ‘& Beo
New
Oxford
Penn
Canal &J
Chicago
Esterbrook
Esterbrook Steel Pen. CO
Camden
N. J
John St
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Ill
N. W.N.U
Brilliant Crystal Carnival
Srt
PAUNZ
Frost King
Winter Carnival
Hotell
Ryan
Procter & Gamble
Mason & Hamlin Organ
Boston
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