Dunnock’s Store offers dry goods and groceries in Denton
N B Dunnock announces a new store featuring dry goods notions white goods boots and shoes groceries and tobacco with a full line of dress goods cashmeres and silks samples available Denton orders ship by steam boat and goods sold at lowest prices with delivery of country produce at highest trade value to patrons in town and surrounding area
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Dunnock
Denton
Vicinity
N. B
WM. E. Dunnock
Portrait of Mortimer and the fair Vittheauniden tale
A fragment from a narrative describes Mortimer's courtship of a fair woman Vittheauniden. He travels to Lewut with Kle and lands, lacking companions, and presents virtuous charms and noble attire. The tale notes the woman’s heart being stirred by Mortimer as he speaks of giving and shared longing, with the prize he sought seeming already lost.
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Mortimer
The Caroline farmer of 1785 and his simple life
The article portrays a Caroline farmer a century ago who plowed with a bull, sowed by broadcast, and threshed with a flail. He lived in a plain house with cavernous fireplaces, wore homespun clothes, and fed on basic foods. Despite modest means, he was educated, sociable, and politically devoted, loving news from local papers and clinging to patriotic ideals.
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Caroline
Preston
Jie
Ife
Parkhurst argues Christianity thrives amid critics' claims
The North American Review July issue features Rev Dr Parkhurst of New York rebutting attacks on Christianity. He cites past prophecies of Christianity's decline and presents church growth data, Sunday schools, missionary finances, and religious associations to show Christianity’s vigor and expansion in the modern era.
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North American Review
Parkhurst
New York
Jesus Christ
Pervion
Christ
Mary Magdalene
Mary
James
Salome
Jesus
Froude
Atlantic Monthly
Goldwin Smith
Drewer
Voltaire
Leonard Woods
Boston
Massachusetts
Griffin
Park Street
Nehemajiah Adams
Spring
United States
Meade
Virginia
Dwight
Yale College
Appleton
Bowdoin
The
Young Men’s Christian Association
Jordan
Paine
America
Europe
Asia
Sandwich Islands
Australia
Madagascar
Tible Society
Tract Society
Review of a defunct faith and its enduring cause
The excerpt urges a cautious, candid examination of a failing creed, arguing its vitality and relevance persist and warrant serious attention. It frames the matter as a significant cause that engages humanity, likening its future to a mortality handled by an undertaker.
Tragic Jersey Gloves Tale Ends In Comedy of Errors
A Loansville Argus item tells of a compliant youth who buys a pair of elbow-length white Jersey gloves as a gift after a misinterpreted note. A mistaken delivery of stockings leads to embarrassment, a scalding-water revenge, and a broken romance, with the suitor avoiding the ward and city streets until reconciliation might occur.
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Ife
Reader
Philopena
Second Ward
Eighth Street
Main
the Argus
Loansville Argus
Quick Tongue Twists and Curious Sayings Across Borders
A collection of witty lines and odd phrases about royalty, poets, and politics contrasts Westminster Abbey’s gambling stance with global expressions. It remarks on marriages, culinary leadership, blood ancestry boasts, and a claim that one in a thousand can whistle while noting different parliamentary terms between England and the United States.
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Westminster Abbey
Tie
England
Congress
Grandmothers Dreaming in the Corner Silently
In a quiet room a grandmother sits knitting with silver hair and faraway eyes. Children chatter fade as a strange sweetness brightens her gaze. She smiles imagining a garden of souls where the river of youth will roll again.
Speculation on Peach Crop from The Delaware Peninsula
In American Farmer John Kerr surveys New York and Pennsylvania papers predicting a colossal peach crop on the Delaware Peninsula. He notes uncertainty about prices, explains orchard declines since 1881, and criticizes nurseries for pandering opinions while focusing on stock sales.
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Johnathan W. Kerr
American Farmer
New York
Pennsylvania
Delaware Peninsula
Fim
Rat-Killing Hawk Claims Pier Rats at Maryland Wharf
A large hawk adopted from a box on a Maryland steamboat pier has become a steady rat killer at the Druid Hill Park Zoo area. The bird, fed a beef diet, roams the pier and swoops on any rodent that appears, while also tolerating human handling and even aiding in pest control. A correlative note mentions a correspondent boiling tomato plant parts to create a repellent liquid effective against caterpillars and other pests without harming plants.
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Wicomico County
Druid Hot Park
Cassell
Maryland
Ir. I. A. Lyninard
Baltimore Times
Sponges Caught by Sponges and a London Bride’s Cake
An illustrated paper notes how sponges are captured. Americans seek tips to rid themselves of sponges. In Kansas a prolific couple has twelve children, six unnamed, who answer to numbers until they choose names. A London bride’s cake for Sir Watkins-Williams-Wyman’s daughter weighs fifty pounds, prompting a quip about heavy cakes.
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London
Sir Watkins-Williams-Wyman
Kansas
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