Lost love letter changes two lives in Jersey shore tale
A governess Miss Ellster endures heartbreak after a shipwreck tale unfolds from a letter she never delivered. Jessie hides the letter under an elm, delaying fate as Robert Hickman sails away. Martha Ellsler later learns the letter aided a reunion with Hickman, marrying him after ensuring true love.
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Tag
New York
Jessie
Miss Ellster
Birdie
Golden Canary
Robert Hickman
Miss Ellsler
Martha
Martha Ellsler
Robert
Expensive Shave: Astor Jr Pays For A Dollar
The barber in New York charged John Jacob Astor Jr nineteen dollars eighty cents for a shave. Astor believed he paid with a twenty and received two silver pieces as change, while the barber claimed the bill was only a one. Friends watched as the youth accepted the discrepancy and walked away.
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John Jacob Astor, Jr
United States
Mr. Astor
Cawn
Astor
New York
N. Y. Star
Would You Like to Live Your Life Over Again
Rev. Dr. Talmage sermons at Brooklyn Academy of Music argue life cannot be lived twice. He rebuts the idea that all we have is exchangeable for life, warns of repeated temptations, and urges focus on future holiness and service to God rather than reclamation of youth.
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Dr. Talmage
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Satan
Job
Job Victor
Yna
Bahamas
Juan Ponce de Leon
Columbus
America
Porto Rico
Italy
Pompeii
Westchester Turnpike
Luzerne
Cayuga Lake
Heaven
Golden Gate
San Francisco
Oakland
Hoboken
Harlem
England
Wales
Sandy Hook
God
Royal Banking House
Grandfather
Old New Yorker Earns Living Wak ing People Up
An elderly man in New York, once a mechanic, now wakes early risers for payment. He started by waking a bartender, then a milkman and a butcher, growing to more than a dozen clients. He carries a night stick and a large set of keys as he works through the night.
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Twelfth Precinct
Grand and
Pitt Streets
Grand Street
N. Y. Sun
Do Not Eat Too Quickly A Lesson On Digestion
A Louisville Courier Journal note warns against hurried eating. Poor mastication leaves large food masses as irritants in the stomach, hindering digestion and nourishment. Habitual fast meals impair digestive function and health.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Florida gallimule found near Great Barrington Berkshire hills
Charles Kellogg shot a peculiar bird near his grist mill outskirts of Great Barrington Massachusetts. A Boston naturalist notes the bird is a Florida gallimule hatched this year and likely the first recorded instance in the Berkshire hills. The species is native to the South, especially Florida, and the bird is gray and web-footed.
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Florida
Charles Kellogg
Great Barrington
Mass
Boston
Berkshire Hills
Ohio Senate and House debate statewide bills in March sessions
Columbus reports show Senate and House considering varied measures from education funding and tax reforms to water works bonds and street jurisdiction. Actions include bills on employment wages, canal adjustments, and county clerk elections with adjournments and memorials for Pendleton.
Notable Ohio Trusts and Local Incidents in Newark to Zanesville
Joan Swisher named trustee of the Children’s Orphans Home in Newark. The Lake Erie and Western railroad at Macy reported a robbery of about fifty dollars recently. Dennison brakeman C. E. Hurr injured seriously by railroad cars in Columbus. Edwin Cowes, editor of the Cleveland Leader, died after years of illness. Middletown and Cincinnati Railway Company certificate filed in Columbus. Van Wert circuit court ordered Allen County to collect Senator Brice’s taxes. Jessie Ansley and Clarence Roberts, Rushsylvania, ages eighteen, a revolver mishap. Jessie died. Zanesville voters approved a $40,000 bond for American Encaustic Tile Co. J. C. McGregor, Columbus House reading clerk and former Assembly member, died in Zanesville.
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Piqua
Lake Erie
Boards of Health
van Wert
Auditor of State
Adjutant General
Columbus
Cincinnati
Union Veterans’ Union
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
Pickaway County
Fairgrounds
H. Bs
Ashtabula
Jefferson
Harrison County
Weilston
Jackson County
Montville Township
Geauga County
Pendleton
Lake County
Cleveland Depository Act
Belle Center
Logan County
Dayton
Youngstown
Wellston
Pike County
H. R
Secretary of State
Supreme
Circuit
School Book Commission
S. B
H. B
House
Covington
Miami County
Loraine County
Sandusky
Sterret
Troy
Davis
Martin
Columbiana County
Shaw
Adams
Ryan
Cole
George H. Pendleton
Rawlings
Farmer's Alliance
Union County
General Assembly
McCoy
Abel Lodge
New Lisbon
Mallon
State House
Joan Swisher
Children’s Orphans’ Home
Newark
Lake Erie and Western Railroad
Macy
C. E. Hurr
Dennison
Panhandle
Edwin Cowes
Cleveland Leader
Middletown and Cincinnati Railway Company
Allen County
Brice
Jesse Ansley
Clarence Roberts
Rushsylvania
Clarence
Jessie
Zanesville
J. C. McGregor
Reading
Assembly
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J. M. Bushfield
Rainey
Court House
Wv. D. Craic
Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public
Washington
Guernsey County
Febutt
J. B. Taylor
R. T. Scott
Taylor & Scott
New Taylor Block
Physicians and Surgeons
WM. T. Ramsey
M. D
Providence Hosnits
National Medical Dispensary
Washington, D.C
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Main Street
Ohlo
Joseph Morton
Exchange Hotel
Caldwell
John W. Robinson
Binries Hooush
Corner Market
Fourth Streets
Mm. Kirk
Mar
Zanesville, Ohio
Thompson
Crow
Farmers Hotel
Mill Street
We Painey & Son
Washington, Ohio
William Smith
Prop
Hotel Berwick
Cambridge, Ohio
H. F. Hunt
G. D. Miller
G. W. Broom
Ohto
James G. Johnston
West Cambridge
E. McCollum
South End Mill Street
Cambride, Ohio
John Harris, JR
Wall's Drug Store
Me. McProreest
Boots and Shoes
West Main St
Oply
John Moss
City Hall
Steubenville Street
Fortland
Maine
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