Dreadful Draymen and a Reformed Drunkard Tale
An aged reminiscence recalls a city home near a rum shop where a religious narrator confronts a degraded drinker. The narrator seeks reform, prays, and returns to minister there, finds cautious hope, then moves towns. The piece links drunkenness to health decline and social ruin, referencing churches and medical views on alcohol’s harms.
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Baptist Church
Earth
Hye
Tor Ealing
Severa
Tronkel
Staalger
Prohibition Debate Sparks Rural Voter Allegiances
A Maine Vermont focused piece argues States with liquor bans protect Republican votes, portraying rum shops as centers of vice and urging suppression to curb drink-driven ballots. It cites a vigorous rebuttal and warns about the social costs of tobacco and alcohol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Vermont
Party of Law, Order and Temperance
Desertion case in Circus Court ends in divorce decree
In Rock Island a wife sued John C. Clendening for desertion from 1872 to 1873. Judge granted divorce and awarded custody to the mother, citing lack of support and a dispute over religious affiliation as motive. The piece also prints domestic advice from the New York Evening Post and an ad for Hostetter's Almanac.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circus Court
Elsie AuClendening
John C. Clendening
Lefendant
Rock Island
Sheridan Township
Gue
Dempl
Gazette
Daloment
Liver Pills Promoted In Obscure Ad Copy Trial
An old scanned ad lists a medicinal claim for Liver Piets by Dr. C. M. Laxe and references general symptoms like general malaise and skin sensations. The copy imitates medical language and promotes the product through a drug store chain, typical of vintage patent medicine advertising.
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Musson Tarin
Leyte
Sen Yor
Mlaxe
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Eekly Qines
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Ulrist
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D. Bothia
Marion
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Grifith Speakman
Martha
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Lizzie Mr Jackson
Jianes Leghorn
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Binchley
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Elhos McNulty
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Sterling Medical Annual
Tostelter’s
United States
Western Hemisphere
Hostetter
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Hillingsworth Hay Rake
Taylor Hayslake
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Lininent
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Hig & Stork
State St
Room
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Chicaxo
Fon Cerdarantes
Rand
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Fand
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Lotax C and Band Co
Moin Oua Coal Company
Cte Joy Stoocts
Oawan
New York
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Uh Chow
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Netdeorta City National Bark
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Ar. S. Cooper
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Cedar Rapies
Ae Listcbarger & CO
Olds & Wetherby
Iowa
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Asgoriment
Plotoume
Ae Beet
Elieapent
Victorial Mustrabions
Ltaoyah
Elvenlazs
Louls Bible Publiabing CO
H Gilmore & CQ
Chapman, Flogmer & Co
Stimp
Gilmwave & Co
U.s.geneva
Gilmore & Co
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Howe
Dalted
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Washington
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LA Optima
Soule & Miller
Tisdale, Soule & Co
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Loule & Miller
U.C. Blake & CO
Linn County
City National Bank
E.R. Derby
Mongie
Chicago & Northwestern
Uthrohy
Railwass
Gompang
Randolph Stray
Iinton
Tupuane
Geday Stuplas
Ceres
Hollands
Derby
Suth Commercial Street
Simon Adelshiem
South Commercial Street
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Star Wagon Manufacturing Company
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A. Ohler
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