Nantucket legends and odd quotes in a clipped era
A collage of coastal legends and curiosities. Nantucket lore links a giant of Vineyard Sound to rocks at Beac onnet and to a captain who tasted earth from Marm Hackett's garden. Interim anecdotes recall a teacher in Ellsworth, a bishop on a train, and a run of curious ads and notices.
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Nantucket
Vineyard Sound
Beaconnet
Marm Hackett
Ellsworth
Abigail Jane
Asperity
Toatt
Oceanis
San Francisco
Local notices and ads mix of medical cures and fires
A collage of notices and ads reports assorted items: claims for PPP tonic in Savannah, a fire company organized at Pearsall, cattle shipments to Kansas City, Waco trade display attendance, Ballard's Horsed P Syrup promotion, a burned cotton pile at Nacogdocha, Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Crockett oil shipment, Hall and Snow tonic promotion, and local fires near New Harmony and Abilene plus mineral waters found near Corsican.
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Crockett
New Orleans
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Ron
City Hospital of
Wilmington
Del
Johi Rady
Dinzinzo Dinatale
Woodale
Dinatolo
Italy
Baltimore American
Europe
America
JOS. Ekcart & Sons
Dia
L Jewelry
Penduet Ln
Manship
Brendan
JOS, Eckart & Sons
Main Street
Brenham, Texas
Blanco
Comicrov
Cuma
Baxanwan
DodiMé
Messrs
Lipman Tiros
Savannah
Deak
P.P.P
Mary Ingenta
Aba
P.P. P
Samuel Charry
Col. Geo. B. Boomer
Tor Aller
J. D. Johnston
Johnston & Douglas
Pearsall
Panhandle
Kansas City
Waco
Ballard
Bate
Wwe
R. E. Lub
J. Huegin
Nacogdochoa
Wistow'a Spormive
McHilree
Thadford
Washinngton
Beeville Waterworks Company
Wolfe City
Hallands
Allard
Hlarfold
Wilbarger
J. W. Barron
New Harmony
H. W. G. Sharp
J.M. Reid
Corsican
Leavening Powe
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