The Fall and Rise of John Gray in a Nation’s Eye
A noted tale traces the life of John Gray from wealth and marriage in Pennsylvania to dissipation and ruin after the Civil War. He wanders from Ohio to Mississippi and Nebraska, returns to success in commerce, then reappears in Columbus destitute. An old acquaintance recalls his costly battles with whiskey, the turning point, and the unlikely path to renewed fortune in New York.
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Biest
Derry County
Wig
Perry County
Coltysburg
Mthin
Washington
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Mississippi
Philadelphia
John Gray
Cny
Cleveland
Nebraska
Columbus
Tay Anuney
York
Gormieg
Daano
Atrasip
Unisha
New York
Inaugural Festivation Planned At Pension Building
Preparations for a grand Inaugural ball in March at the Pension Building promise a vast ballroom for up to 59 009 people. The roof is a double V tent with 14 4 pillars, crimson silk drapery, gold spangles, and silk flags. Decorations include palms and ferns from the White House and Botanical Gardens, and a dais under a canopy of flowers with gas lighting and an embroidered eagle. Hunting Hammond of Murray Hill Hotel holds the contract. cost estimates run high as details unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pension Inuhting
St. Peter's
Rome
New York
Botanical Gardens
Agricultural Department
White House
Cleveland
Washington and
Jefferson
Tabor
Capitol
Hunting Hammond
Murray Hill
Handsome U S Senator Captures Men and Women Alike
The piece lauds Senator M. C. Bauer of South Carolina as the season’s most handsome man, recounting his marriage to a much older beauty, his talented children, and his resemblance to his Commodore Perry relative. It also touches on Mexican society torching lottery theatres, church sanctioned lotteries, and cholera theories from Dr. Wettenhofer and Dr. Pettenkofer, noting soil moisture’s role in epidemics.
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Wastixintox
M. C. Bauer
South Carolina
Ise
Princeton College
Liverpool
England
Senator Hutter
Tother
Commodore Perry
Lake Erie
Capitol
Senate
Senator Butler
Mexico
Divine Providence
Guadaloupe
Philadelphia
Rio Janeiro
Pettenkofer
Wl. L. Varsas
California
Asman
Pfis
Pacific Coast
Armines
Calfornia
Barnes
Hawaiian
Honolulu
Islands
Life
Woman's Suffrage Association of
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Prohibition Debates and Rural Gossip Across Regions
The piece surveys legislative moves against tobacco and alcohol for youths, temperance efforts by clergy, royal marriages and consort speculation, and local anecdotes from towns like Troy and Woon county, interwoven with notes on hydrophobia, frost in Manitoba, and Cleveland’s colorful figures Popcorn Lewis and Barnes.
The Two Millonaires of Cleve land
A look at J. H. Wade a Western Union organizer and long time president who lives on Euclid Avenue near Cass. His grandsons' houses and a red granite mansion rise nearby. Wade, a self made man from carpenter’s apprentice to telegraph pioneer, also funds a medium who communicates with his deceased son through a telegraph instrument. He invented the Wade insulator and urged railroads to use separate wires.
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Western Union
Cleveland
Alovack
Orrespotauice
Philadelphias Press
Wade
Western Union ‘Telegraph Company
Nabole
Euclid Avenue
Cass
Mr. Wade
Charles Watkins
Woodlawn Avenue
Ohio
Michigan
Cage
Ares
Imore
Wren
Trampshire
Agriculture notes warn on shifts in farming and stock breeding
Fr. Agricultural Department urges farmers to weigh local conditions before changing breed or practice. Cautions that prosperity cycles affect wool, wheat, and swine sectors, and stresses sticking with proven stock. Includes advice on eggs, nest eggs, pest control, dressings, and feeding for horses and sheep.
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Urey
Pips Ang
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Yorry County
Tody
Cincinnari
Lshall
John Gry
Hamheye
McElroy
Arthur
Pennsylvagna Avenue
Pension
Niagara
Washington Monument
Ington
North Carolina
Gowp
Georgia
Don
Maxy Southern Railway Companies
Troy
Els
Woon County
Vince Henry of
Battenberg
Beauice
William
Minnesota
Dublin
Heatrice
Lyons
del Bleu
Laiy
Giordano Bruno
Campo de Fiori
Rone
Bruno
Laly
Alps
Venice
Inquisition
Corarsrypesr
Manitoba
Gordon
Khartoum
el Mahdi
Gihid- Stoke
Lewis
Lake Chiutangia
Wepcorn Lewis
Vulee
Millonaires of
Agriculture
Jun Wagoner
Txenvoine
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