One Tenth of Prize Won by Cheboygan Lady
Mrs. M R Newberry of Cheboygan owned a tenth part of the Louisiana State Lottery prize ticket No 67060 that netted 150000 dollars. She received 15000 dollars through the First National Bank of Cheboygan, plans to return to Grand Rapids after securing a home and placing the remainder in safe investment. The lottery company paid promptly. other ads and notices follow about medicines and public figures.
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First National Bank
Cheboygan
Lottery Company
Mich
Democrat
Garfield
Casper Rogers
Chicamauga
Perth Amboy
New York World
G. F. Sprague
Crystal, Mich
rSusband
The Dream Balm for Nasal Catarrh
Ely's Dream Balm touted as a non irritant easy to apply remedy. It claims to reach remote sores and ulcerated surfaces and provide fast relief from catarrh with soothing action and no side effects as physicians and patients praise its radical, permanent results.
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Ely
ELYS CREA BALI Patent Remedy Ad
An advertisement claims ELYS CREA BALI is not a liquid powder or snu g and is applied into the nostrils for quick absorption. It is said to cleanse the head allay inflammation heal sores and restore taste and smell for 60 cents plus mail order options.
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Nta
Vigilantes of Montana and the Brent tragedy
Civil war era vigilantes in Montana purge outlaws amid raids on coaches and traders. After a brutal day ending in three hangings, Henry Brent pleads innocence as Indians ambush the group. Brent dies after a last act to spare the others, a lone cross marks his grave.
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Guildo Ilges
Cincinnati
Montana
C. Sanford
United States
Helena
Vigilantes
Phimamer
Bannack County
Bil
Ives
John
X. Beidler
Tam
Ditch
Pard
Hell
Henry Brent
Sigilantes
Tiereayas
Brent
John Stuart
James Arneaux
John Healy
Healy
Stuart
Beidler
H. Brent
Engineer with skirts stars in railroad yarn from Bridgeport
Mattie Morgans, a 24 year old English woman, disguising as a man, rose from stoker to engineer on the Naugatuck line in Connecticut. She recounts two fatal incidents, insomnia from guilt, and her plan to wed a stationary engineer and visit England to show the Flying Scotchman.
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New York
Bridgeport
Conn
Naugatuck Railway Company
Mattie Morgans
Great Northern
London
Edinburgh
Naugatuck
Fom Witman
Scotchman
England
OalhHl
Tom
Stoker
Connecticut ‘Railroad
Nothing Small About Him Boston Man Taxes Village
The Boston Transcript recounts a wealthy Boston man who moves to a primitive village with low costs. Assessor fearfully asks him to share taxes. He asks for the amount to raise and replies Twelve thousand dollars this year. The bill is sent and paid, surprising the rustic community.
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Boston :Transcript
Boston
Taime
Rusticim
Yankee Girls Strategy Ends in Marital Turnabout
A Massachusetts town tale from years ago describes two young women forming a secret society that denounced marriage. The scheme failed as time passed and most members ended up married with or without children. several are engaged to wed when spring arrives.
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Massachusetts
Trouble in the Trousers Father Searle Breeches Tale
A Boston Budget anecdote recalls Father Searle, a boyhood minister, who found wasps nesting in his buckskin breeches. While reading scripture, he danced and slapped his thighs as the wasps stung him, shouting that the word of God was in his mouth and the devil in his breeches.
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Webster
Father Searle
Boston
Sin and Peace in Revival Urgency
A Cincinnati note quotes Samuel Jones on sin and varied 'peace' states from knowledge to apathy. He argues revival zeal contrasts with indifference and a ballroom apathy, warning of damnation but urging spiritual action in daily life.
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Saim Jones
Cincinnati
Irrepressible Student Trashes Recitation With Prairie Joke
A rapidly recalling student in the same class boasted he could repeat all year’s texts but prefers prairie play. When asked to recite the day’s lesson about Joseph, he interrupted with a bold quip invoking Moses and a playful expletive.
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Joseph
Moses
Tennyson at Home and Other Notes
Readable items describe Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Isle of Wight home daily rituals and social conduct, with visitors left undisturbed as he walks in a frenzy cap and slouch hat. The piece also notes Garfield tomb panels progress, yacht club cures, and assorted short notices from newspapers.
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Tennyson
Lord Tennyson
Isle of Wight
London
Favorite Prescription lauded for female ailments at Buffalo institute
Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription is described as the result of extensive treatment of female weaknesses at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo New York. The ad claims it strengthens the system relieves nervous symptoms and aids digestion while citing testimonials and asserting it targets uterine disorders and related female ailments.
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Pierce
Mra
E. F. Morgan
Lexington Sty
Boston
Mass
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Br. Pierce
Isary Medical Association
Ridiculous Medical Ads Spur Odd Remedies in 19th Century Paper
Fragmented reader text highlights patent tonics Scott's Emulsion for rickets and wasting, claims of rapid flesh and strength gains, and scattershot references to eye waters, back plaster, and Castoria. The snippet also notes a Boston woman quip and a note on Omaha Type foundry services for new outfits.
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Omaha Type Foundry
Chicago
Omaha
Boston
Adrth
Cdn
Prolapy and Ulteration Recovery Reported by Philadelphia Lady
Mrs M A Dauphin of Philadelphia credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing a severe case of prolapse and ulceration in a young married woman. After use the patient recovered, became pregnant and delivered a healthy boy. The narrator says timely treatment saved her life.
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M.A. Dauphin
Philadelphia
Lydia
E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Sis
Andale
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Ashburnham, Mass
Andersonville
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Oriole Yacht Club
Baltimore
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Grand River Avenue
Sonny
Detroit
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Millenbeck
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Westfield
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White Cottage
May Gikason
Nunica
Ottawa
Co. Mich
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M. D
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Louis
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Missouri
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Saint Joseph
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Rem Hatiestowny
Mary Mass
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Gastonia
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Wizard “Oil Company
Great Nursery
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Beltzer
Procter & Gamble
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