Strange village tale of an old man and a mysterious girl
An old man living in retirement with a sixteen year old girl named Bess becomes the subject of village gossip. A mysterious stranger arrives, exchanges money with the old man, and vanishes, leaving the village uncertain about Bess and the cabin.
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New England States
Bess
Bes
Lang
Tateor Gowalf
Pess al- Wats
Lam
Besswind
Jess
Penn
Renson
Connersville
Fayette County
Safe promotion of Dr. Pierce medicine for female illness
An appeal notes women suffer back pain and functional disorders from sexual health problems. It claims thousands cured by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and warns against false delicacy. The ad promises satisfaction or money back.
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Sion
Pierce
Swift's Specific Cures Various Ailments Sayesant Truths
Testimonies from Will's Point Texas Cleveland Tennessee and St Louis Missouri claim Swift's Specific cured scrofula eye ailments poison oak eczema and blood poisons. The letters praise rapid permanent results and urge readers to request free books from The Swift Specific Co Atlanta Drawer 3 Georgia.
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Swift
Will’s Point
Tex. E. V
Aliss Julia de Wirr
10Th
St. Louis
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Perilous voyage captains tale of dory crossing ocean
Captain Andrews recounts crossing the Atlantic in the Dark Secret a small dory starting June from Point of Pines beach near Boston. He describes boat size gear hardships the ailing voyage and recovery after being picked up about 1555 miles from the start by a Norwegian bark.
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Capt. Andrews
Andrews
Point of Pines Beach
Boston
Atlantic
Walter
George's Bank
Chicago Mail
Love Charm From France Catches Hearts With Bone Hook
A New York Telegram tale describes a French lovers charm where a frog is buried in an ant hill, leaving a thumb nail sized shield bone with a hook. The woman hides the bone on her beloved during mass benediction and claims the charm will never fail.
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France
New York Telegram
Wo oing of an Author Robert Louis Stevenson Romance in California
San Francisco Dispatch reports Stevenson married a divorced San Francisco woman after she secured a California divorce from Samuel Osborne. He traveled via steerage to the West, recovered after a sulfur bath, and wrote The Silverado Squatters during a Howell Mountain sojourn. Osborne disappeared after the second marriage, and the bride also left abruptly. both vanished from old friends.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
California
Stevenson
Golden State
Osborne
Psssace
Howell Mountain
Silverado
Samuel
San Francisco Dispatch
Death in a Lion's Den in Bohemia Tamer Bertha Baumgartner Killed
A 26 year old female tiger tamer Bertha Baumgartner died during a strolling menagerie performance in Hohenmuth Bohemia. An adjoining cage opened for a tiger and a lion entered the scene the tiger bit her in the shoulder and throat killing her. The tiger had previously killed two people.
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Hohenmuth
Bohemia
Bertha Baumgartner
Chicago Journal
Pleasant Pellets offer revival of health promise
An advertisement urges readers to try Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets to restore health and ease dyspepsia and disturbed sleep. It promises renewed energy and a return to “sunshine” health for tired, bilious individuals.
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Bute
Aspentian Marth
Nm Preette
Oty Pachelars
Siam
Phesiden Reyan
Hamilton
Oftlee. Cay
Rey Street
Chabeles Wyman
Physicean
AMDST
Neo
Pepe
Tnt
TRE Southdown
Satie Tine
Columbia Dyad
Pis Thesia Vos
Hartisers
Stern
Ate
Tata Telat
New York
New England
Teachers’ Institute
Jolie
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
Mwingis
DeWitt
McClean
DeWitt County
Crand
Indianapolis
Shakespeare
Mark
Bessy A. Campbell
Sion Eye
E. A. Bett. Anderson
Wells, Richardson & CO
Burlington, WT
Paine
Honestus Stearns
Feldhville
Pruggists, Walls, Richardson & Co
Burlington, Vt
Apris
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