Singular Character of A. T. Stewart
A. T. Stewart was noted for superstition and luck beliefs with stories about his care for a beggar apple seller near his stores and his habit of seeking lucky visitors. He also claimed to identify unlucky customers and sometimes took risk on goods to them, reflecting his fascination with fate.
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Stewart
Broadway
Murry
Warren Streets
Chambers Street
St. Nicholas Hotel
Edo
Maxims For Farmers and Lessons On Temper
A historical column urges farmers to favor thorough cultivation over debt, notes the cost of weed control, and advocates better fences, summer hay, balanced feeding, and frugal newspaper reading. It emphasizes a sweet temper as valuable as gold and recalls a Madison Journal remark about rails and race terms in polite society.
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Madison Journal
Local Humorous Courtship Tale From Brownsville
A Brownsville youth engages his fiance and her brother in a playful but crude exchange about intelligence and stamps. The scene ends with the brother tying kittens’ tails together while singing about Sabbath school as the room empties.
Saloon Fight Leads to Assault Warrants
A young man used slang to describe being fired out and lifted in a saloon brawl. He asked the Prosecuting Attorney for a warrant for assault and battery after the saloon-keeper allegedly stood him on his head and nudged him aside.
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Kinder
How to Become a Lawyer and the Power of Small Causes
A Detroit lawyer tells a hopeful young man to be polite to elders, work with reporters, attend church for example, and not waste time on poetry or girls if he wants to become a successful lawyer. The piece then muses that trifles drive great revolutions, from Newton to photography, and even a spoonful of Venetian red can cure cholera.
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Detroit
Leavn
Detroit Free Press
Newton
Union Point
Aeorgia
Rasputin
H. J. Geeslin
N. H. Geeslin
M. Gormley
Borgia
Raxpotes
Rebecca Tison
Moses E. Tison
Witnes
M.gormley
Jas. W. Bass
D. C. Smith
H. C. Smith
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A. T. Stewart
Black Hills
Brownsville
Simmons’ Liver Regulator
Simmons
Dever
E. T. Taylor
Grangere
Forsale
Powell
Bockelier
A. W. Gillespie
Empire Nursery
Georgetown
A.J. Surles & Co., Proprietors
United States
J. E. Brown
Fort Gaines
Georgia
Patey
T. 8
Powell Druggist
UST
Cullvervrell
Brugman & Son
Ann St
New York
P.O
T. S. Powell
Eee Ror & CO
Augusta
Maine
Philadelphia
Claus Mer
Gee Se
Dex
P.O. Vickery & Co
Pabs. Phils
T. William & CO
Pab’s
Philadelp
Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell & Co
New York City
John Hooper
America
NEW York Times
GEO. P. Rowell& CO
Park, Row
Ee RP. P. Toale
National Mixed Paint Co
Great Amer
Page Machine Belting Co
Hayne
Pinkney Ste
Ashley River
West End
Broad St
Charleston
S. C
U. Ss. Sacot
Elein
Ofsie
Cuthbert
Crampton
Lori
Rampton BR
Ratgers Place
Jefferson Street
New Yo York
In On
Bia
S. Isaacs
E. Isaacs
Thaman
Universal
AVERY
Watt and Call
A. B
A. B. Jr
Allison & Simpson
Scovil
Bryce
C. R
Liverpool
Virginia
New Orleans
Weda
Euodis
Frank Coe
Watson & Clarke’s. Phosphates
National Soluble Bone
Wham
Eureka
Zell
Cumberland
Martin
E. Cor
Public Square
Randolph
Randol Superior Court
Gux, Hill
Jesse A- Glevn
Edwards
Harden
Plaintif
Atetorney
Said County
Richard V. Carter
Fife
Ixiutifs
Momrestead
Martha H. Goneke
Superior Court
Quitman County
Gouske
Adelphi Superior Court
John McK. Guanm
Lewis A. Goneke
Elias Aycock
Randolph Suppe
Thomas J. Dannonlias Aycock
Mary Gilbert
Randolph County
Jasvis
Said
Mary Grier
Rebecca Wall
Poapeny & H. M Kaigler
Wth
E. Pittman
Wote
C. W. Jones
Thos. R. I
Proverts
Marshal & Pollard
William B. Cox
L. A. Smith
James Ene
Anna Pannel
Bert Appen
Kiddoo
O. PLC
Randolph Superior Court
W. Irvine
Tatnor
Les
Doi
Irvine
Tanite CO
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