Man Wins Bride by Honest Craft in Rural Tale
Luke Jordan, rich and untested, seeks Molly Blifkins in a village tale of work and worth. After a stern challenge from her father, Luke proves himself by making and selling his own cooperage, earning Molly’s hand and a lasting bond. Luke later studies medicine and remains devoted, honoring the bargain with yearly gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer Blifkins
Luke Jordan
Luke
Mary Blifkins
Luke Fordon
Mr. B
Mr. Blifkins
Monstrosity Twins Found in Country Burial
A man and wife reported to have father Henry Overall known as Diddle presented a case of conjoined twins born Sunday night. Both female, about fourteen inches long and six pounds, joined at the chest with cartilage and a placental cord. one forearm deformed and a missing thumb. The parents refused sale, and the twins were buried yesterday.
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Henry
Diddle
Grasses in Nebraska and the Sorghum Nutans value
A Nebraska State University study by Professor Sam Aughey catalogs over 150 grasses in the state. The Sorghum Nutans grass, four to five feet tall with a brown flowering spike, is a rich, persistent pasture and hay grass not fully valued by settlers, yet highly palatable to stock and sugar-rich in its juices. Its habitat is bottom lands and it spreads with pasture and upland cultivation, notably increasing near Lincoln. The piece urges preservation and cultivation as a premier feed grass despite its coarse appearance.
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Nebraska
Sam’ Aughey
Ne_braska State University
Lincoln
Restoring Faded Declaration Signatures by Expert Penman
A faded copy of the Declaration of Independence in the Patent Office will be restored. A resolution calls for a skilled penman aided by a microscope to retrace and rewrite signatures to make them legible.
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Patent Office
M E Conference Opens with Deliberations and Budget Talks
The M E Conference met Thursday morning April 15 1875 with Devotional led by Rev T A Saler and Bishop Bowman in the chair. Members discussed absentee roll calls budget requests totaling 46000 for ministerial lay and foreign departments with 900 to be raised locally and numerous reports on book concerns periodicals and the Goshen district.
Devotional Exercises Opened at Presbyterian Church
Saturday April 17 devotional exercises opened by Rev C Martindale Pres at the Presbyterian church with Bishop Bowman in the chair. Journal read and approved. Secretary read a paper referred to the Sunday School Committee. Bar of the Conference arranged west of the east aisle. Western Book Concern report deferred to evening session and referred to committee. Dr Walton spoke on the Book Concern. Tenth question resumed.
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Johnson
India
Preachers Aid Society
J. W.R. Muller
Dr Goode
Jengh
Bro Miller
W H Goode
O V Lemon
Holdstock
Preacher’s Aid Society
Board of Control
Walton
Cincinnati Book Concern
Geo . Boyd
Laporte
Northwest Indiana
J L Boyd
J H Cissel
Bowman
North Indiana
H J Meek
J Coldazer
J P Nase
W Lash
C Skinner
J W Welsh
N T Peddycord
W E McCary
L Roberts
J E Erwin
O D Watkins
E M Baker
S Bacon
RD Robison
Michigan
J. Colclazer
Jocelyn
O. V. Lemon
Goshen
Elkhart
Mishawaka
Lemon
Goode
Sale
A Brown
A-Mariné
Miller
Bro. Carlton
S. N. Campbell
E. Holdstock
A. Greenman
Presbyterian Church
Board of Stewards
Brenton
Stout
Wabash
Logansport
Muncie
R. A. Newton
M. H. Mendenhall
Mr. Newton
J. E. Ervin
M. Mahin
R.A. Newton
N. H. Phillips
Newton
Bell
Andrus
Asbury University
Benson
Darwood
N. W
D. Spelian
Society
J. E. Earp
R. H. Smith
T. J. Elkin
H. N. Lamport
H. J. Norris
J. A. Lewellen
C. Martindale Pres
Thebyterian Church
O.V. Lemon
Tales from a Moral Ledger of Truth and Deceit
A collection of maxims contrasts truth and falsehood. It warns that falsehood spreads widely before truth, while truth works day and night. It likens tattling to an unruly spirit harder to restrain than ten wild colts and warns against borrowed trouble and liars who steal more than money.
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Smith
Speech by Vasquez Warns Parents About Moral Training
Remarkable speech read the day before his exam by bandit Vasquez urges fathers and mothers to train the young to avoid immoral company. He argues society relies on parental duty to curb vice and notes a general revival in trade with New York Boston Philadelphia Baltimore and Chicago papers all reporting signs of improvement.
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Vasquez
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Chicago
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Olly
Mollie
Troy
M. E. Conference
T. A. Saler
Bishop Bowman
Geo. Havens
C. P. Wright
M Wayman
J. F. Pierce
T. Sells
N. Y. Peddycord
J. Lenard
W. H. Pierce
A Cone
John Baldwin
A. ©. Gerard
J. M. Wolverton
Foreign Department
Cincinnati
Fort Wayne College
West Ft. Wayne Dist
H. C. Jordan
ES. Prescott
LJ Templin
R Burns
E Mayard
J R Davis
J Maffit
J Whiteman
B. Smith
GC Beeks
J C Metzger
G W Bowers
J H Payton
S Y Stout
J S McCarty
W Willson
S Lamb
J B Bradshaw
Bro Bradshaw
M.H. Mendenhall
W. H. Goode
W.8
J. E. Walton
T. W. Lincoln
J. Hushaw
A. D. Parrett
C. Allemann
W. B. Kemp
R. T. Lang
M.S. Anderson
T. M. Hall
Stillwell
BR Miller
Bro Stout
Truth
Main Street
Liew
Peete
Indiana
Vartueli
Veeny
Bae
Operly
MAIN
Beck Bros
Fasashi
Si Y Smith
Ysar
Tery
P. O. Box
Panraita
Ernest Eed
Rooda
Shiitstrings
Imdo
A. Burdette Smith
Sorhig
Seaza
Pavel
Drora Ele
Pecdvens
Ery Railway
City
HAVE
EAD
Harrison and
6Th Sts
Ana
J. L. Wole & Steiner
Lace
Rein
Macarve
Coos
Addres
Tas
Mor
Regiketonen
Reminoron Sewing Machine
Lion ToNcomi
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