Love Letter Sparks a Victorian Matrimonial Plot
Miss Dora Dwight on her thirtieth birthday receives a candid marriage proposal from Dr. Emory. She navigates practical grounds of independence and income before accepting a future with Mr. Ellwood, while Emory pursues romance and a costly lesson in love. The tale ends with Emory’s failed match and Dora’s remarriage to Ellwood.
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Dora Dwight
Emory
Dora
B. Emory
Dr. Emory
Miss Dwight
Dwight
Pie
Paris
Nellie
Maria
Ellwood
Mr. Ellwood
Brown Hand
Sally
Billy
Some of the Causes of Leprosy
The article lists old Hindoo medical causes for leprosy including sleeping by day, overeating, gluttony, eating new rice or salt and other items, drinking cold water when fatigued, heavy exertion after meals, sun exposure after meals, drinking alcohol, and insulting a Brahmin. It notes curiosity about cases arising from Brahmin insult in India Colonies.
Chinese Cleanliness Compared to Japanese Standards Drawn In Critique
F G Carpenter in National Tribune contrasts Chinese hygiene with Japanese cleanliness. He describes Beijing lacking waterworks and dirty streets, while praising Japanese daily bathing and oral hygiene. He notes greasy gowns of Chinese mandarins and general filth among common people in contrast to Japan's pristine habits.
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Japan
Peking
Ifi Hung Chang
F. G. Carpenter
National Tribune
Gold Rings From Bars Show Complex Craft Process
A $1,000 15 inch gold bar yields 300 four penny weight rings after a 12 step, 20 minute process. Shears cut the bar, a guillotine blade slices into strips, a rolling machine flattens and grooves, annealing removes oxides, acids clean, stamping marks fineness, bending forms rings, ends soldered with lower fineness alloy, turning lathe rounds and polishes with steels and rouges.
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Tripoli
St. Louis Republic
Catarrhal Deafness Hay Fever New Home Treatment
Sufferers may permanently cure Catarrh Hay Fever and Catarrhal Deafness in one to three home applications every two weeks. Treatment is neither a snuff nor ointment and is backed by a pamphlet available for three cents postage from A H Dixon & Son Toronto Canada.
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Hay Keever
N. B
A. H. Dixon & Son, Cor
John and King Street
Toronto
Canada
Christian Advocate
New St Jacobs Oil Calendar 1889 Offerings
A new 1889 90 calendar book from The Charles A Vogeler Company Baltimore offers autograph collections receipts calendars and humor plus a Free Music offer upon purchase. The St Jacobs Oil Calendar is advertised with the Great remedy for Pain and growing demand noted by the Detroit Free Press.
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St. Jacobs Oil
Charles A. Vogeler Company
Baltimore
Positive remedy claims cure for consumption
An 19th century notice advertises a cure for consumption offered by T A Sioct mM M C of 181 Pearl Street New York. It promises two bottles of Flux to readers who send express and post office addresses.
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T. A. Sioct mM
M. C
Pearl Street
New York
California Fig Syrup CO
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville
N.Y
Express and Post Office
H. G. Root
Oregon Immigrant Board Seeks Information for Settlement
The description highlights Oregon as a fertile farming paradise with abundant crops and a mild climate. It urges readers to obtain full information from the Oregon Immigration Board in Portland and suggests engaging interior decorators and a specific cigar brand.
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Oregon
Oregon Immigration Board
Portland
Golden Medical Discovery Promoted for Lung Cure
An advertising claim urges that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures consumption and lung diseases when taken early. It praises its tonic and blood cleansing properties and guarantees benefit or money back. Worth's Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo, N Y distributes the remedy.
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Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Worth’s Dispensary Medical Association
Proprietors
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
DR. Sage
Dr Sage
Cleveland and Marietta Railway Through Line Expanded
The Cleveland and Marietta Railway connects a wide network from Marietta and Caldwell through Cambridge Newcomerstown and Canal Dover to Canton Akron and Cleveland and extends to Buffalo Toledo Pittsburgh New York Coshocton Newark Zanesville Columbus Chicago St Louis and Kansas City ensuring a broad through line.
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New York
Cleveland
Minnesota
Ohio Dairy
Incinna Atl
Toledo
Pittsburgh
Philadelphias
Philadephia
Western
Stan
Epiveg Ates
Marietta
Caldwell
Cambridge
Newcomerstown
Canal Dover
Canton
Akron
Buffalo
Coshocton
Newark
Zanesville
Columbus
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Jino
Nols Toledove P.m
Oak Harbor
Fremont
Clyde
Bellevue
A.m
Monroeville
Ster Eee
LV Saige
Huron
Milan
Seweee
M. i Norwalk
Parkersburg Tees
Wellington
Creston
Marietta Tet
Warner
Massillon
Elba
Navarre
Macksburg
Dexter City
South Olive
Point Pleasant
Obville
Ovenserel
Bowerston
Veeed Miller’s
Kimbolton
T Eees
Cadiz
Esaens
Guernsey
Steubenville Ter Deese
Post Boy
BT Westward
Orate
Teere Oif
Phillipsburg
Steubenville Ee A.m.ipm A.m
Black
Oe Ves
A Es Ee
Turner's
Urichsville
Valley
Dennison
P.mp
Mm Bowerston
Wteee
Valle
Leesville
Cleveland Athene
W.&b
Ohio
Orrville
Emberge
Newcomeerstown
C. Creston
St. L
C&p
Valley Junction
Valley Norwalk
Acca
Dane P Lr
Wheeling & Lake Erie Timetable 1880 Through Service
Timetable shows daily train No 13 leaving Toledo at 7 45 p m carrying passengers west of Kingaway. Line open Toledo to Bowerston linking with Pennsylvania System for East. Through car service between Toledo Cambridge Marietta and Bowerston and other routes to Akron Youngstown Pittsburgh Chicago and Ittahuech svovurguU.
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Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Missouri River
Chicago
Joliet
Ottawa
Peoria
la Salle
Moline
Rock Island
Illinois
Davenport
Muscatine Ottumwa
Oskaloosa
Des Moines
Winterset
Audubon, Haran
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minnesota
Watertown
Sioux Falls
Dakota
Cameron
St. 7Osera
Kansas City
Missouri
Omaha
Fairbury
Nelson
Nebraska
Horton
Topek Hutchinson
Wichita
Belleville
Abilene
Caldwell
Kansas
Pan Creek
Kingfisher
Fort Reno
Indian Territory
Colorado Springs
Denver
Pueblo
Colorado
Hutchinson
Dodge City
Palace
Pacific
North Platte
Neb
St. Joseph
California
Salt Lake
Ogden
Portland
Los Angles
San Francisco
Pike’s Peak Aation
Garden of the Gods
Albert Sea
Spirit Lake
Pipestone
Seneca
Kankakee
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Lafayette
Atchison, Leavenworth
United States
Canada
Toledo
Kingaway
Bowerston
Pennsylvania
Cambridge
Marietta
Akron
Youngstown
Pittsburgh
Oungstown
Ittahuech
Columbus
Union
O. P. McCarty
Cha
Bellaire Zanesville Cincinnati Railway Time Table
Train schedule details taking effect December 15 1889 listed for the Bellaire Zanesville and Cincinnati Railway noting Central Standard Time.
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Central Time
Bellaire, Zanesville & Cincinnati Railway
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Benjamin Karr
America
the Doctor
Ruggists
NoTube
Samerville Journal
Toronto Globe
Carter
Binghamton Herald
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Napoleon
Burlington Free Press
Detroit Free Press
Colon
Boston Gazette
Tansill
Jacobhl
Wakarusa
Ind
St. Jacobs
Conrad Doering
Charles A. Vogeler CO
BO Peep
Jai
E. ST. John
Chicago, Ill
John Sebastian
Agene
Bradfeld Regulator CO
Ant Cavallor
Ely
Eures
Cressengham
USA
18Th Street
ELY Brothers
Warren St
Northern Pacific
North Darin
NFOR
Washington
SEN
Chas
B. Lamborn
Minn
W. C. Schultze
Columbia, S. C
MacKenzie
C.S. MacKenzie & CO
SCI Is
U.S
Burlington
P. Ss. Eustis
WM. Fitch & CO
Corcoran Building
Washington, D.C
Gralle & CO
W. T. Fitzgerald
Drs. Gratigny & Bush
Elm Street
Brewster Safety Re'n Holder CO
Holly, Mich
Bryant’s College
Cleveland & Marietta Railway
Wheeling
Lake Erie
R. R
T. Wikoff
K. Richards
Svovurguu, A. G. Blai
James M. Hall
Midland
Er Eee
Peabody
Valley Railway
Cleveland, Akron, Canton & Marietta
Cleveland, _ Independence
Everett
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Myersville
Greentown
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Lake Park
Sparta
Mineral Point
M.p
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New Berlin
Independence
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Peel Eeee Ieee
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Sarahsville
Belle Valley
Cumberland
Chandlersville
W. R. Crumpton
J. B. Rhodes
Supt. of Transportation
Zanesville, Ohio
Zanesvlle
Woodsfield
Captina
Coos
Ovens Se
Bellaire
Baltimore & Ohio
Philadelphia
VIA
Washington and Baltimore
Thetes
M.A
Mansfield
Shelby
Sandusky
Fostoria
P. M
Ip. M
Holgate Fostoria
Shelby Junctin
Barnesville
P.M
O. Chas
O.scull
Agen
W. W. Peabody
J.T. Odell
Louis
New Comerstown
Fast Line
Limited Express
Western Express
Eastern Express
Chicago & Wheeling
Djlam
WM. Cole
James McCrea
B. A. Ford
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