13 Jun 1878
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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1878
Page
1
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Bloomsburg Banking Company with John A. Funston as President and H M H Grotz as Cashier. First National Bank led by Charles R Paxton as President and J P Tustin as Cashier. Columbia County Mutual Saving Fund and Loan Association with J H Little as President and C W Miller as Secretary. Bloomsburg Building and Saving Fund Association headed by Wm Peacock as President and J B Robison as Secretary. Bloomsburg Mutual Saving Fund Association led by J J Brower as President and C G Burkley as Secretary.
A local directory lists Methodist Episcopal Church with Rev W W Evans as presiding elder and Rev M L Smyser as minister including Sunday services at 104 and 2 4 pm and Bible class on Wednesdays. Baptist Church and medical and legal notices for D J C Rutter physician and surgeon, with offices on North Market and Main streets, and an attorney at Catawissa.
Cleve Sullivan and John Seldon drift through a summer farce of feigned fortune and forged unions. A witty widow, Clementine, and her friend plot to test rich bachelors, leading to disguise, deception, and a costly moral awakening for Cleve as real money and true love collide.
A comprehensive account surveys Charles Lee as a treacherous Continental officer who aided Howe and Burgoyne in a broader plan to sever New England from the other states. It recounts Lee’s British career, capture, and disclosure of colonial weaknesses, reshaping the Philadelphia evacuation and Burgoyne’s fate, with Harper's Magazine commentary on related public matters.
A collection of adages on prudent conduct in business and life. Included is a joke about two Civil War volunteers and a Beaver County tortoise bearing the initials of four brothers from 1818, with three brothers still living recalling the event. The notes mix proverbs, a war anecdote, and a local curios fragment from the era.
A fragmented excerpt contrasts belief in immortality with rational critique, noting many eminent thinkers on both sides. It then offers practical moral guidance: tally debts, pay them, renew notes, pursue diligent work, economy, humility, prayer, church attendance, and charitable acts, closing with a signoff "Frank-".
Twenty nine ferries link New York City with Long Island and New Jersey in a busy regional transport network.
A collage of items notes a man mocking a girlfriend's nose, touts Sage's Catarrh Remedy, previews Dr. Giles’s iodine ammonia liniment, and recounts a San Francisco phonograph exhibit with imitator tricks. It shifts to moral cautions, a Billony anecdote about flowers, and a sharp critique by Alexander H. Stephens of the Potter movement, ending with a judge questioning a prisoner over a five dollar bill.
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