Ambitious Doctor scheme ends in debtor’s maze and blackmail
A young physician Clarence Jones runs a lucrative consulting practice while incurring debts. He allies with a small doctor to certify alleged insanity, encounters a criminal Anstruther Meadows, and schemes to extort a reward. Jones navigates Balmyre’s asylum, bargains with Meadows, pays creditors, and muses on future wealth and status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Clar@iGe Jones
Clarence Jones
Dr. Jones
Mr. Graves
Highbury
Highbury Station
Russia
Balmyre
Cocara
Anstruther Meadows
Quondam City
Mr. Jones
Dr. Balmyre
Roberts
William Roberts
Mr. Roberts
Meadows
Graves
Crecesus
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Health Boost
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a reliable tonic and blood purifier that can counter the depressive effects of warm weather and weak bodies, offering improved health, strength, and energy. It urges readers to take the remedy now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Seeds of Character and Hardy Labor Echoes Across Tales
A collage of reflections on character and effort from quotes on education wealth adversity and virtue. Anecdotes contrast temperance promise and a tale of Steptoe’s honesty with playful ribbing about card games. The piece blends prose and dialogue for a period newspaper feel.
Uncle B and the missing wife tale from Lewiston
A Lewiston farmer Uncle B arrives with his wife to town. He shops at Lisbon street stores and the bank, then forgets his wife at Oswald Armstrongs. She waits in the barn while he returns home to eat, touching off a humorous lesson about memory and domestic life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lewiston
Uncle B
Sumer
Lisbon Street
Main Street
Jane
Oswald & Armstrong’s
Lewiston Journal
The Colored Sexton and the Heaven Sermon
A church sexton in a large western city, described as a good colored brother, inspires awe during a prayer meeting on Christian Humility. Wealthy member Bascom proclaims his imagined heaven would place him in the far corner, while the colored speaker envisions joy and unity, picturing white robes and palm branches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bascom
Bradders
Angel Gabri
Gabri
Ebermore
Bradderd
Brudder Bascom
Harper’s Hagaeine
Sulphur Bitters Praised by Wide Range of Citizens
Testimonials from Banxeurs, Doctors, Lawyers, carpenters, druggists, engineers, mechanics and others testify to the cures effected by Sulphur Bitters. Send for testimonials and see another column for more.
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Dbe
Bristol Phenix
C. A. Greene
Phoenix Building
Hope St
Pebeuriva
Royal Baking Powder Co
Wallest
Alome
Lovell Glove Co
Wloves
Lovell
Simpson & Co
Gifford & Simpson
RKN Stearns & Co
Boston
Lovell Glove Company
Westminster Street
Providence
Bon Marche
Arcade
Notigi
B. R. Wilson
Runco
Rpc
John G. Sparks
Ikea
Bodavin' & CO
Boutom
D. Langell
Oliver V. R. Holmes
San Jose
Cal
MM. Carson
A. M
Warren
Kan
Germany
T. &. Gates
Philadelphia
Miss
L. B. Phelps
P. M
Griggs
Ohio
Plumpton
Joliet
Ill
Geo. W. Brady
Nelson Co
Martin Fox
Little Falls
N. Y
J. Zimmerman & CO
Wooster, Wayne Co
Texas
Paris
J. B. Corley
Dr. King
J. H. Young & Co’s
Ge Eliot
Carl
Aunt Abby
Abby
Temple of Light
Chamber
Steptoe
Judge
Bill Steptoo
Old Jim Brass
Old Jim
Bill
Jack
Chicago Ledger
Ayer
James French
Atchison
A. B. Allen
Winterpock
J.C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mass
U.S. A
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