Local Retailers and Professionals Listed in City Guide
A fragmented list shows retailers and tradesmen including dry goods groceries hardware and liquor dealers near the court house and prominent offices such as J W Douglass attorney and Compion and Wav erstick liquor and dry goods merchants. Names like Oliver Spafford and Galen B Keen appear with addresses in Erie Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laud & Rust
Wroressne
Stare Silver
Purdoe Square
Court House
Watson Dalling
Galen B. Keene
Reed Huue
Brown
Flotel
Stortaonce
Oliver Sparford
Rook Qler
Stanober
Ated Manufieuirer
Bramond Aid Saath Geet
J. W. Douglass
Sinte Surect
Eeve
Compion & Waverstick
Lr. A
TL. Rosenzweig & Co. Waotrsarrash Rewai
Kandy
E State Street
Dours
Te Diamond
Erie
Smith Jackson
Deatrain Dry Goods
Queens Ware
Lites Iron
Ende
William Riblet
Cahier
Manin Uptulxter
State
Seventh Streets
Lew, Kelso & Loomis
Generat
Public Duck
Lae
Eingie J. Keven
Stanzas to Caro from the Erie Observer 1839
A dated poetic fragment from Honesdale 1839 titled Stanzas to Caro. The verse laments lost friends and distant lands as storms rise and hope persists in a bleak outlook. The speaker bows in sorrow while recalling past companions who have died or wandered afar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caro
Honesdale
Loss and Gain. Marvel’s struggle with honesty and wealth
Andrew Marvel, a wealthy merchant, pursues profit through sharp bargains and overlooks others’ losses. After a dubious stock deal with a widow, he is haunted by guilt in dreams and conscience. He eventually returns fifty dollars but cannot fully erase the moral cost, resolving to limit future gains to honesty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Marvel
Marvel
Hps
Mr. Marvel
Iing
Tata Marvel
Howard
Orghans
Heaven
Amon
Arthur
Remembering Russell and the debt of honor
In Jefferson era reminiscences, John Russell urged free publication of laws to aid a near bankrupt nation. Washington opposed unpaid publication, later noting the need to settle debts of honor. Russell then received seven thousand dollars as payment for his bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Washington
Russell
Inwa
Industrial Home Association forms in New York for land colonies
A New York society named Industrial Home Association plans to acquire three to four hundred acres divided into quarter acre lots for building. It aims to enroll 1000 members paying one dollar weekly for a year and a half, after which the land would be ready to occupy. The group reports rapid growth with 220 members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Flying Machine Demonstration by Mr Taggart at Dunlap's Hotel
Mr John Taggart of Charlestown Massachusetts showcases a flying machine at Dunlap's Hotel 135 Fulton Street. The craft uses winged arms and a balloon to ascend guided by a rudder. After a perilous start in Lowell it achieved a long cross country flight via Lawrence Andover Bradford Redding Salem covering nine miles from Lowell in an hour and twenty minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Taggart
Charlestown
Masa
Dunlap’s
Fulton-street
Lowell
Masu
Taggart
Redding
Massachusetts
Evening Post
Pioneer printer in Chattanooga builds town from open air start
The article recounts a printer who arrived in Chattanooga fourteen years ago, set up beneath a forest tree, then in a blacksmith shop, to publish his paper. The town grew into a bustling port with steamboats on the Tennessee and its tributaries. Parham prospered and his gazette, Hia Gazette, now appears regularly in Atlanta’s Intelligencer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Con Chattanoning
Chattanooga
Auilderness
Blackksmith
Tennessee
Parham
Hia’Gazette
Witlanta (Ga.) Intelligencer
Cheap Pleasures and the Power of a Smile
A reflective piece argues that small acts of kindness cost little and yield great happiness. It cites giving chestnuts to boys, helping a widow with many children, comforting a disappointed apprentice, and paying a generous wage. It urges widespread generosity to spread sunshine in hard times. The note ends comparing public adulation for Jenny Lind to Queen Elizabeth’s rebuke of folly.
The Lock of Hair From a Lost Love
A lyric about a beloved woman leaving and a single lock of hair as a token of enduring love. The speaker foresees change and separation, valuing the unaffected lock as a last, unaltered symbol of hope and memory amid fading happiness.
Home and Women Echoes on the Sacredness of Family
A reprinted extract from the Christian Inquirer extols the home as the cornerstone of virtue and social order. It argues that private dwellings and maternal love sustain faith, church, and state, warning against socialist ideals and praising mothers, sisters, and lifelong domestic bonds as the highest ties of humanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Inquirer
Sana Smiley
Giving Him Beans and Haynau in London News
A late 19th century column reports a wild tale of a Indiana woman who shoots her married admirer with beans as bullets after he pretends to be single. It also covers Haynau’s reception in Paris and London mobs, plus a Sacramento Transcript claim of large gold yields at Segar's Bars on the Yuba River by Ohio workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Alia
Dayton
Haynau
London
Paris
Hungary
Haynda
England
Traynau
Hue Richelein
Germany
Colognes
Amnibus
Lis
Sacramento Transcript
Marysville
Segar
Ohio
Union and California Destiny In Dr Logan’s California Vision
An editorial excerpt from the Buffalo Daily Courier presents Rev. Dr. Logan’s lecture on unionism and westward settlement to California. It argues disunion is treason to humanity, extols liberty, and frames the westward push as divine providence linking English heritage and African renewal through Liberia, addressing race, migration, and the Pacific terminus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo Daily Courier
Logan
Besars. G. LH. Dranr & Co
Uzzah
Europe
Leck
Divine Providence
California
Golden Land
New World
North America
Aervanta
Africa
Pacific
Asia
Liberia
Aska
Galilee
Earth
Ham
Pacific Ocean
Rocky Mountains
Eayphrea
Also Mentioned on This Page
Erie Weekly Observer
B. F. Sloan
Corner State ST
Public Square
Carmen
Inad
Wwa
Busini Business
Lucian Rust
W.ch. Cutler
Atorney & Counsellor
Alice No. 2
Erie Hall
Ann & Lloyd Streets
Tunfalo
N.Y
Cossive
Reverenc Alp
Dinkis
Dessamin Grant
J.B. Nicklen
Rufus Reed
Dann bin Cngtieh
Callery
Nala Anvils
Run and Steel No.3
Reed Hourey
W.s.folidule & Co
Blacksuiths, Carnage and Wagon Builders
State Street
Tyven Seventh & Aghth
Eric. L. Sfrong
M. D. Oreith
C. B. Wright
Up States
Poct
J. L. Sfewar Oren
Duct
Rt J. Goulding
Atore
Reedsehlock
Coppussite
Bothell Bleek
Plate Street
JW. Wetmore
Wathor
Oukce
Seventh Street
RY Cadwell
Inranten
Aint
Lipire
Browh
Lie
Mervin Smite
Pautorney
Law and Justice of the
Hey Stove Mutual
Ublice Javore Wert
al Wrigits Dure
W. H. Knowlton & Son
Dpronnein
Keystone
Brown's Butel
Suite Street
George H. Cutler
Girard
Erie County
Wilso Arroasny
C. B. Wrights
Murray Whatlon
Epporic
Hotere
Collec Ge Anduiber
Barsuess
HOPEL
Forurney Fir Baore
Pate Street
Equare Testern
Souther Sci
B.A. Crain
Wuotrsane
É&C. D&e
Pr. W. Moore
Josiah Kellogg
Ue Publig
Stade Street
J. of Williams
Daebange Wroker
Qoiice
Petow
Howl
Iiie
Benjamin Fr. Dennison
Attonary At Law
Cleveland
Superior Street
Atwaters Block
Walker
Cambridge
Lawselvots
Brehant Fletcher
Stitest
Boston
Baumett, Terkins
AG Walsot Sf
Diamond
W . W. Loowis
Walker & Cook
Gever Porwarnting
Brie
Admis & Co
New
Opporite Ue
Hovely
G. Laas
T. My, Aestis
Carter & Brother
Wrotreave
Deaters
Reed House
Joel Johnson
Stiumary
Park Row
Linc
James Lytle
Fasiossone
Ntate Street
Erin
Clark
Dc. &C
Bonnell Block
Spafford
State St
Dro
L. Elliott
Leesh
Dickerson
Sppolite
Utter
Fullerton
Llllerton
The
Erie Observer
Vtlaaack
Cara
Artuure
Industrial Home Association
Jenny
Queen Ertzanbti
Jenny Lind
Elizabeth
Ringley
Watti
Home and Women
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