Maine Acts Hold Rail Firms Liable For Delays In Dispatch
Maine passes an act making telegraph and railroad firms liable for errors or delays in dispatch both inside and outside the state. Delays affecting value must be refunded. officers and clerks liable for fraud. Also notes wartime ordnance orders and Post Office Department uncovering dead letters worth over $11,000. Heavy rains and army worm damage cotton in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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Maine
Caebs
Washmeron
Post Office Department
Louisiana
Mississippi
Cholera ends in Rocagster and scattered notes across towns
The cholera epidemic has vanished from Rocagster with no new cases or deaths recently reported by the Board of Health. The article also notes the New Style calendar anniversary in Old and New Sruiz, a frost in Szvege Faost area, and various local incidents including a Cranston house fire, a legal will case, and a Cincinnati quarrel leading to arrest.
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Rocagster
Board of Health
Oto
New Sruiz
Qld
Jongside
Chester
Mass
Hartford Courant
A. Ss
Plerce
Mbecrlier
Boston
Chytain
V. G. Peck
William Wyattias
Valencia
State Street
Old Folks at Home and Swanee Ribber Chorus Dominate Public Taste
A vivid period portrait notes how the song Old Folks at Home and Swanee ribber themes saturate life from pianos to street cries. It lampoons social mores with playful ink about singers, bands, barrooms, and theater boards all echoing the melodies while a separate anecdote from Albany State Register ridicules old maids and bachelors in Frisian legend.
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Darkey
Ben Bolt
Albany State Register
Annual Bristol Female Charitable Society Meeting
The Bristol Female Charitable Society will hold its annual meeting at Mrs Jabez Holmes home on Thursday at 3 o clock. News items note Charles Lyell on his way to the Western States with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as stops. Other short items cover political, temperance, and local incidents including Amassa Copeland’s death at 94, Nantucket sharks, and U S assay totals to August.
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Bristol Female Charitable Society
Jabez Holmes
Charles Lyell
Oye T
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Sovereign Antidote Advertised by Scovill & Col
A faded ad promotes a patent remedy for all diseases of the larynx and throat. It markets bottles priced at 91.00 each or six for 5.00, with sales through A. L. Scovill & Co at Gothic Hall and Bristol distributor Dr. L. W. Briggs. The copy warns that only wrappers bearing the brand are genuine.
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Rogers
Driguton Cattle Market Sales Figures Highlight Prices
Market data from Transpay on September 30 shows 8100 beef cattle six hundred stores and oxen, cows and calves, swine and sheep traded. Prices for cattle ranged from 65 to 85 shillings per head with assorted values for stores yearlings, three year olds, working oxen, and retail fat stock.
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Driguton
Transpay
Sulee
Marriages listed in Warren and Fall River notices
In Warren on the lith alt Henry M How of Gar Niner to Annie E daughter of Robert J Warren of Barrington In Providence on the 28th alt De Frederiel N Reahury wth Cuithiariave Autiat daughter of the late Capt Nathaniel Wheaton all of that city Also Edward A Poll Votive samel Reberca daughter of Mer Gilbert Richins both of that city In Fall River on the 26th alt Peter Riley and Elizabeth Dopley both of that place
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Warren
Henry M. How
Gar. Niner, Mies
Annie E
Robert 3. Warren
Barrington
Prederiel N. Reahury
Mer
Gilbert Richins
Fall River
Peter Riley
Elizabeth Dopley
Obituary Notices From New England Towns
In Portsmouth on the 10th alt Mr Jonathan Talman aged OS years an exemplary member of the Methadiet E Claveh of that town In Pawtucket on the 221 alt Mise Adaline A daughter of the late Julia Campbell aged 31 years In Providence on the 26th alt Joseph Thee in the 87th year of his age Charles Wyer Jes in the 50th year of his age Mary Francia, only daughter of Freeman BM Rose in the 5th year of her age at Lircle Comopton 22d alt Mise Sally Taylor daughter of John Taylor agent 88 yeare In Fall River on the 20h alt Mr Thomas Brownell aged 58 years
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Portsmouth
Jonathan Talman
E. Claveh
Pawtucket
Mise
Adaline A
Julia Campbell
Providence
Joseph Thee
Charles Wyer
Jes
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Seth Padelford
Lee
Lanana
Cincinnati
U. S
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Amassa Copeland
Andre
Abington
Nantucket Mirror
Fail River Monitor
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Journal of the American Temperance Union
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Mills
Marin Lowen
Bennett
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Rigor
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Eli Towneem
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Egrobam
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J. DW. Perry
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Innwell
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W. Pierce, Jr
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Freeman Compton
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Charles B Chuke
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Ann A Cury
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Win P Rogers
Captain C Rogers Cayt Reyoolla
Elie Phinter
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Daniel Jade
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Ephraim Sprague
Merina
M. Ww, Pierce, Jr
Boots
Aleo
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Benj. Tilley, Jr
Mm. W. Pierce, Jr
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J.B. Munro
Dusen Bay
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Henry Wardwell
Ulietul Ain
Cigo
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Prine
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Henry P. Plerce
Alannell
Gotuic Hall
W. H. Spooner
Bova
J. WH. Allyn's
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Cyrus Haicouck
Howie
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J. B. Munro
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Allyn
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