The Banker's Clerk and the London Love Plot
A wealthy London banker, generous yet blunt, suspects his charming clerk of secretly courting the banker's daughter. The clerk is torn between propriety and love, urged by the banker to seize a chance with two hundred pounds and two months leave. The plan ends in a public pairing, with the banker revealing his awareness of the romance and accepting the union.
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London
Liave
Veteen
tiny eldrk
Tropill
ridiento
The Printer and Modern Labor Struggles in Printing
A reflective essay traces the printer’s social rise and decline from early masters to modern journeymen. It notes skilled printing houses, state of work, and the changing status of compositors, editors, and ink makers within evolving industrial and political climates. It contrasts respectful craft with social underpayment and the drift toward liberal patrons, while touching on railroad engineers and conductors.
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Europe
Wallteaies
grintore
hotore
lapac
United States
lund yavely
Sorrowful Californian Return Ends in Ruin in Ohio River Town
A returned Californian, once affluent in Louisville, visited an old friend and revealed ruinous change. Five months earlier he left Louisville for California, prospered briefly, received a gold watch and many dollars, planned to run a temperance paper, but after crossing the Ohio River spiraled into drunken ruin, losing watch and coat.
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Louisville
Atlanta
Jena
Loulevie
Californie
DMs
Louistile
Ohio river
Temperance, politics, and a tense New York election debate
A long article recounts a pastor’s fall into drink, his reforms, and repeated recoveries, then shifts to a fiery Democratic Party critique of election laws. It discusses the era’s political tension, party weaknesses, and proposed amendments, plus a note on advertising and a Washington visit relating to Grant.
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Goilisville
baramoe
templar
Pacific coast
Religious items and a Quaker appeal for Christian unity
An account of a church gathering where Reverend Holland of Kentucky and Cooper of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, spoke in favor of broad liberalism and Christian unity. A Quaker preacher urged unity, truth, love, and justice, followed by Cooper’s appeal for liberal, tolerant Christian denominations. A Spanish physician cites San Domingo fever as deadly to locals and foreigners, with notes on historical troop losses and medical records. An engineer’s anecdote about two green countrymen at a station ends with a humorous misidentification of a locomotive parts.
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A. Holland
Kentucky
Methodiat
Religious Society of Friends
Cooper
dentttive
UUnas
San botingo
New York
Spain
San Domingo
Cortes
Syfayt
France
Pacific Hallvond
tally
Grant
Colfax
Elsia
Stritts
faltly
San Jose
Califors nin
Washington
White House
Diitukard
elopi
losa
patttre
Tuanton
Maas
England
thacaya
Pha
Mount Et Bernant dog rpg
Srmveo
Germany
America
Syracuse
cnté nomi
Farmer trades chickens for newspaper in clever bargain
A rural tale from the Rural Neves Yorker recalls Tob Poin Moore recounting a farmer who could not pay cash for the paper. The farmer offered chickens in exchange and the columnist notes the year-end tally showed four prices paid, proving the paper affordable after all.
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Tob Poin, Moore
hig
Madre
friend Jones
Moore
Ile
Ilo
Serious Steamboat Casualty Near Fort Washington Avenue
A St Louis dispatch reports the steamer Rob Roy on a Keokuk run struck near Fort Washington avenue around five p m injuring a man named West Robinson who drowned after being knocked overboard and Frank Nash who was saved. Two camels from Van Amburg fell overboard with Nash sustaining a scalp wound. The vessel landed and a rescue saved infant in a rider’s arms as a crewman plunged into the river. Panic and flames were reported among passengers during the shore rush.
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St. Louis dispatch
Rob Roy
Keokuk
Fort Washington avenue
West Robinson
Frank Nash
Van Amburg menigeoriey
Nis Nash
vozelvad
Willim Moe
aso
Mike Giilen
Humorous Mixed Item From A Rural Paper
A grab-bag of eccentric notices and anecdotes from a country paper includes quips about a jailed man, a stern admonition on horse trade, a beefed up mock Parliament, odd health and schooling rumors, a London music hall gimmick, family quarrels, and a dog show champion. Names, places, and dates appear in scattered form.
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Johnson Amon
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Poppleton
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Myers
ASD
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SY Biyria
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W. Sohnston
ATS LAW
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ATO AR
Inturanes
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AD business
Mintio
M.D. TeidTANV
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Tunisian
Brown's Exchange
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Lawes
Jewelry Store
Itontiimade
Huranered
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Oeef SONS
J. E. Brooks & Co’s
SKATESL SREALES
BUICHER
MORSE BUAN
S.B. Wolcott & Son
ELYRIA
eile
B. WOLCOTT & SON
Thuskety &o
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Bath
Marvel 2
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J. J. MUNGAVEN
R. R. Saloon and Restaurant
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CVPALOGUE
Coleus
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Bijou
GUARDIAN MUTUAL. Life Insurance Co. of
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PUREGDY MUTUAL
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Distadli
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Republic
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Iint
Fenton
Charles Underwood O'Connall
O'Connell
Congress
O’Commell
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Maynard
Déwee
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haya
Woetov
cronte
te goidg
Terra Haute
Mr. Smith
Wilton
Aylie
Buanca Ayres
Minnesota
enya
fivention
jails digitorium
Chicago
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