The Calico Frock Affects Griggs and a Rural Encounter
Solomon Griggs of Griggs Makem & Co. visits the country where he meets Rachel Hart, a seamstress in shabby quarters. Their wary romance grows amid hush money and pride, culminating in hunger and work before a financial crisis closes the firm’s city house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomon Griggs
Batchelor
Griggs
Griggs, Makem & Co
Solomon
Sol
Rachel
Hester
Rachel Hart
Giggs, Makem & Co
Destiny
Brofidway
Soloman Griggs
Ugly
Robins
Bluebirds
Diogenes
Conn
House of Griggs Makem
Solomon and the Calico Frock
In a gloom filled office Solomon wrestles with a lost love. A woman appears, pleading for him as wealth fades, asking if he will marry now that he is poor. He accepts, choosing love over pride and remains with the calico frock symbolizing their bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomon
Snakes Escape From Log Hidden in Fireplace
On a cold day John Simons and his wife found a large oak log with a hole harboring rattlesnakes. The three snakes slithered into the room, warmed by the fire, before Simons killed them with tongs. The three snakes boasted twenty one rattles in total.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Simons
Simons
Traveling circus agent ghosts through a tongue-in-cheek collar
Sam Miller recalls a humorous confrontation with a traveling circus promoter who sought ad space and a local notice. The piece parries inflated circulation claims, self-deprecating satire, and a boisterous reminiscence of past pranks and rivalries across multiple Western towns and editors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blank & Co
The
Ladder
New York Sun
Sam Miller
Hot Springs News
Texas
Arkansas
New Mexico
Ringbone
Spavin
Wingfield Evening Bulletin
Experts Describe Safe Way to Jump From Fast Moving Trains
A Court Journal correspondent details a trick used by Americans to exit trains at speed. The method requires practice, jumping from the left side with the right foot on the step and the left foot landing first to enable a quick start. Many leap from the rear car to avoid rolling beneath cars, and Charles Phillips is praised for his ability to stop without running.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Phillips
Versatile Applicant Mistakenly Seeks Natural History Chair
A reader notes many applicants for professorships across disciplines. Five hundred seek tech school chairs, while the state university drew eighty for natural history and agriculture last year. One applicant misread the chair as history and rewrote to add natural before history and agriculture in a humorous correction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Technological School
State University
Ken
Agricultue
Appliatde Atonal
Atlanta Conalisution
Markets Report and assorted notices from the era
Market listings for wheat corn oats and rye across New York Chicago Minneapolis St Paul Milwaukee and Dotum with prices for No 1 hard Northern and No 2 white. Also items on flour mill explosions in Manitoba and London fire losses, medical ads for Stomach Bitters and Golden Medical Discovery, depictions of public notices and health cures, and notices of officials resignations and a Sherman family trip to Los Angeles. Names include U S A officials Col D J Williamson Captain F W Greene and Senator Sherman’s wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Senator Sherman
Los Angeles
Hewett
Mary Canae
Witkieuther
Red Court
DyMra
Heath Wood
East Lynne
Sir Walter Scott
Houtt
Cupid
Dora Thorne
John Howerbank
Mise Mulik
John Halifax
Gray Woman
Mrs. Gaskell
Mary Harten
Birteen
Jasper Dane
Beeret
Dy Mise
Braddon
Aurora Lloyd
Paney
Sid Lustroc
Huck
Hugh Conway
Florence Warden
Cic
Mildred Trevanion
the Duchess
Molly Mann
Tiente
Sim
Manne
Seed Annual of D. Merry & Co. promotes quality seeds
The Seed Annual from Detroit firm D. Merry & Co. touts its wide reputation and superior seed quality. It appeals to both profit and pleasure gardeners, offering the annual by request. Allen's Iron Tonic Bitters is recommended for indigestion, with J. P. Allen Druggists of St. Paul, Minnesota bearing the genuine label.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Merry & Co
Detroit
Mich
United States
Allen
J.P. Allen
St. Paul
Minn
Caswell Hazard & Co
New York
All Dragers
FERRY
D.m.ferry & CO
D. I. Ferry &Co
D. M, Ferry & CO
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First Party
Tie
Columbus Dispatch
U. S
Clark
D. J. Williamson
Callao
St. Jacobs
Wood Street
London
Dr. C. Fawcett
Union Protestant Infirmary
Baltimore
F. W. Greene
Corps of Engineers
Greene
Russia
Turkey
Carberry
Winnipeg
Ritchie
Dr. Pierce
South Carolina
Mary
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Man
Wolff
Brown
Brown Chemical Company
Mary Walker
Keen Cberts
E. B. Ball
Huntsville
Kan
Hood
A. D. Roppins
Hagar Street
Jamaica
Mass
OC. 1
Hood & CO
Apothecarica
Lowell
Huron
Germany
W. W. Corcoran
Washington
Warner
Lyon
BAIBY
DR. T. Felix Gouraud
L. A. Bayer
Fred
T, Hopkins
N.Y
Druegista and
Fancy Goals
Canada
Europe
Graham
Cerna
Wylison
Wilson Behol
Euston
Esterbrook Steel Pen CO
Orks
Camden
N. J
John St
Pioneer Press
Wilkie Collins
George Eliot
Miss Mulock
Dr. L., Pare Jean
Ren
Leoline
Mary Cecilay
Brenda ‘Orke
Gabriels Marriage
Win
Cecil Hay
Old Middleton
Dudley Carlton
M. K. Braddon
Lady Audley
Valerie
Alexander
Slater Hose
Woman In White
Anne
Henry Wood
Kat Lyooe
Laurel Buch
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel de For
Pacide Ucran
Poul
P. H. Dacets
Longfellow
Whittier
Byron
Shelley
Moore
Bryant
Bapp
St. Paul, Mins
Walters
Susta Rce
Coricuna Nevicatep
Moody
Jolmeu
Cinelanat
Marsh
Quinsy
Pensions & Eet Deer
Luims
M. Sites & Co
Washington, Po c
Opiur
Payne, Marshalltown, Lows
H. M. Ball
Lone Tree Lake
De.d
Codbury
ST N
Pearl St
Albany
Ali Ds. Hi
Ruf Lee
Procter & Gamble
Sony
Reece
Tatts Liver Pilla
Mie
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn
C. W. Eaton
Thurston
Tom
Edige Doane
Goodger & Naylor's
South St. Paul Street
Griffith Street
E. W. Howell
No. 2
College Street
Dr. Pardee
Pardee Medicine Co
Rochester
Mall
Mohitpaman
St. Pau
Watases
Gress K. Roth & Uko
New Oxford
Pens
Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano CO
Boston
Chicago
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Ill
N. W.N.Y
Brilliant Crystal Carnival
Paul
Frost King
Winter Carnival
Hotel Ryan
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