Somers shelters wounded rider in Civil War standoff
Colonel Richard Somers rests in a Mechanicsville cottage as two armies clash in a seven day fight. A young Confederate rider is brought in with a fatal wound and a dying woman in his arms, sparking rare concern among weary officers. The wounded girl, with elfin curls and blue eyes, clings to life as Somers recalls a cherished locket memento and a hidden love.
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Richard Somers
Cottave
Mechanicsville
Riethmond
Malvern Antll
Col. Somers
Dring
Durgeon
Somers
Alarie
Lost Papers and a Soldier's Desperate Mission
In a tense wartime drama, Louise pleads for help as she lies wounded and dying in a Confederate hospital. Richard Somers, torn between duty and love, plans a dangerous covert crossing into Richmond to retrieve crucial papers and reunite with Louise and her child, risking capture and death to save them.
Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil Advertisement
Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil is described as life giving and enjoyable for all ages. It claims to restore appetite, ease burdens of food, and recover flesh for health and energy. The copy invites readers to request a free trial taste and to contact Bowne Chemical or druggists.
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Scott
Eve
Fray
Pall
Calls er Chicky and the dying mother in a shadowed plea
A soldier urges a young man to hurry to a dying woman and deliver a secret child. He offers money and blessing if the boy returns to tell her of the child. The scene ends as the boy vanishes into the city shadows seeking the mother.
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Loniger
Louise
Richard
Richard St Gad
Emile Death
Diane
Lewisel Tewisel
Nanant Nanant
Boone
Lesoh
Sheme
Sas
Chicky
Nanon
Somers
Marster
Mystic Cure for Rheumatism and Neurilia
A claim promises a radical one day cure for rheumatism and neurilia with a mysterious system action. It alleges the disease instantly disappears after the first dose and the remedy is sold by A B Bates, druggist, Columbia.
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A. B. Bates
Druggiat
Columbia
Creditors Benefit Deed of Trust Filed in Register’s Office
D L Gregory filed a deed of trust naming E J Gregory as assignee. Assets include merchandise and fixtures with debts to Warren Neely & Co Nashville 252.90 Hollins Bons & Co Nashville 197575 Columbia Grocery Co Columbia 444. Proceeds will be distributed pro rata to creditors.
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D. L. Gregory
It Pleasant
Register
E. J. Gregory
Warren, Neely & Co
Nashville
Hollins, Bons & Co
Columbia Grocery Co
Columbia
Burglary at Beech Bowl County Stirs Community
A bold burglary on May 6 shocked Beech Bloil in this county. Mrs Lucy Alfisin, her daughter, were home when intruders wrecked carpets and disordered rooms. The daughter crawled to a neighbor for help and police with a bloodhound tracked to Sam Fisher, who was jailed. False rumors claimed money was hidden. nothing valuable was taken.
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Jaykeow
Tes
Beech Bloil
Lucy Alfisin
Sam Fisher
Allison
Qaive
Stop the Congh Axi Works Off the Cold
Advertisement claims Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day with no cure no pay price license. The text is an OCR fragment presenting a patent medicine pitch with dubious efficacy and billing notes. The reader should treat as historical ephemera rather than medical advice.
Many Cows Die From White Clover Fever in Lysville
LYSNVILLE Tenn May 2 A great many valuable cows have died in this community within the past weeks Milk death is attributed to eating white clover which has appeared in large quantities this spring The cows are strangely affected and only rarely can be saved after symptoms appear.
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Lysnville
Tenn
Painter Named the Terms for a Pope Portrait
The celebrated French painter Benjamin Constant painted a portrait of Pope Leo XIII and, when presenting it, asked the Pope to name his own present in exchange. Constant requested the Pope's holy week soutane, to be worn by Garwood's Sercaparilia for the blood guaranteed to cure, per A. B. Ratna.
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Benjamin Constant
Leo XIII
M. Constant
Two Louisiana lynchings reported in Times specials
May reports describe lynchings at Rhodesia and Maden Bridge in Bossier parish. Grants Johnson was hanged after warnings to leave. Lally in the Rhodesia area was accused of assault on a six year old girl. Emily Weeks, jailed in Albany, allegedly forged her mother’s bank home to fund a lover and attempted to blind her mother with carbolic acid.
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Shreveport
Times
Rhodesia
Priten Rigmen
Nerra
Lally
Brigmen
Maden Bridge
Renton
Bossier Parish
Grant Johnson
Johnson
Albany
Emily Weeks
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