Historic shopfront listings and bustling 19th century traders
A dense jumble of business signs and proprietor names lines a city street, noting American House hotel, barber shops, grocers, milliners, firearms and hardware dealers, lumber, leather and sewing machines, livery stables, and various trades. The collage captures a busy commercial district with scores of individuals and firms on Columbia and Calhoun streets.
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Warbers
Sugp
Columbia Street
T. Kansey
Penry Bonsu
Calhoun Street
Joan Beer
Broadway
Epward Fleischer
Court Street
Particwiar
Harness and Saddles Made in Town at Low Prices
Harnesses and saddles are manufactured locally with superior workmanship and a warranty. The firm claims to employ the best workmen and stock, offering prices as low as the cheapest and insisting all work is warranted.
Notes on the Bible author releases final work
Over one million copies sold of Notes on the Bible. At eighty years the author issues his last work with a steel engraved portrait and Night Scenes in the Bible style. The edition is valued for collectors and agents are urged to secure territory and send for circular from McCurdy & Co in Cincinnati and Chicago.
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Gler, McCurdy & CO
Race St
Cincinnati
O, Ord
Monroe St
Chicaag
Dik
Hugo as a Novelist and the Rhythm of Digressions
A critical essay from Lippincott's Magazine argues Victor Hugo's novels balance philosophy and moral aims with narrative flow. It praises range and emotion but notes digressions disrupt rhythm, and laments Hugo’s lack of humor contrasted with Shakespeare Milton Wordsworth and Taine, claiming it weakens universal appeal.
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Victor Hugo
Paris
Victor Skage
Quasimodo
Thenardier
Cosette
Deruchette
Victor Llugo
Lingo
Shakespeare
Hamlet
Hugo
Wordsworth
Milton
Pegasus
Lucy
Betty Foy
Rylstone
Peter Bell
Taine
Lippincott’s Magazine
Franklin’s life as a thread of philosophy and power
The New York World obituary-like reflection portrays Franklin as starting poor, becoming rich through disciplined work and learning. It argues his knowledge, temperance, and calculated, unexceptionable demeanor defined his life, implying he died a cold, exact, and impractical man driven by measured gains.
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Grand Duke
Alexis
Russia
New York
Strationg
Ife
Academy
Broadway
Piit Shridan
Mapa
American
Equatorial
Africa
Utah
Pacific
Castile
America
Switzerland
New England
Mont Blanc
Alps
Sahara
American Desert
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Delmouic
Triis Freres
Arapahoe
Fifth Avenue Club
Spotted Tail
Cassars
Plains
Russias
Franklin
Bacon
N.Y
Laughter Heals Body And Spirit In Strong Convulsions
A hearty laugh stirs the physical man from centre to circumference and improves health. It acts like tides to the sea and the gulf stream to warmth, awakening sluggish depths and keeping the system fresh and lively. The convulsion of hearty laughter penetrates to blood vessels, sparking renewed flow.
Public Service Letter Defends Press Personalities
Blurat Halstead comments on press vituperation and personal passages in journalism. He argues editors expose swindlers and hypocrites to protect the public, warning against unjust attacks while supporting sharp paragraphs to curb corrupt influence.
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Blurat Halstead
Napoleon (O
Northwest
Lam
New York
Oldest Mason Matthew Gresthead Dies in England
Richmond Yorkshire native Matthew Gresthead aged about 254 or 1024 years dies on December 31. Born April 23 1770 at High Cunniscliffe near Darlington he joined Lennox Lodge No 123 in 1797 and served Freemasons for seventy five years.
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Matthew Gresthead
Richmond
Yorkshire
England
High Cunniscliffe
Darlington
Lennox Lodge
Freemasons
The Thief’s Secret Fruit Tree Trick Backfires
A Hindu fable tells of a condemned thief claiming a method to make trees bear gold. The king and five officials each decline to touch the magical ground, confessing minor sins. They finally declare no honest man exists, but the thief is pardoned as the king laughs at the ruse.
Tail Trade Sparks Outcry in Greencastle
A Greencastle dealer sold a cow’s tail for one dollar an inch and the cow’s mother tail for fifty cents an inch. Citizens resisted as he showed the grandmother’s tail at twenty-five cents, and he fled town after being cow-hided. The Dem. Times reports the uproar and ensuing escape.
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Greencastle
Dem. Times
Free love and its paradox in moral debate
A reflection on free love arguing it disrupts social order and morality. The narrator critiques ideologies of complete sexual liberty, contrasting it with notions of virtue and sin, and claims historical examples reveal corruption and deceit in such freedoms. The piece frames the devil as the first so called free lover.
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Josh Billingseen
Brece
Lbelief
Edin
Adam Aml
Adam
Eve
Iba
Huntin
Enny Akeunt Ov
To Ond and the Congressional Message Misstep
Washington dispatch recounts a Senate House committee visit where a speaker, paused by silence, quips about sending his message to ond. Cox corrects the mishearing as teasing over the phrase to ond, prompting amused exchanges among lawmakers in a Washington moment.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Congressional
Cox
Ond
Water in the Fumian Wady and the body’s dry matter
The article explains that a 150 pound man loses all water in the body would leave about 40 pounds of dry matter. When burned to ashes in an open fire seven to eight pounds remain from bones and flesh. Of the 40 pounds dry matter, one fifth is flesh fat vessels nerves brain and similar tissues. The majority of inorganic material lies in bones, essential for their existence. Bones are complex mixtures of animal and mineral matter.
A Mighty Seoiabolic Price
A humorous, fragmentary pastiche from Mark Twain’s Roughing It notes two unlikely travelers, Colonel Jim and Colonel Jack, in a San Francisco to New York journey, highlighting extravagance and satire of wealth and fashion in mock dialogue and adventures.
Purdue Agricultural University to Acquire 200 More Acres
The Board of Trustees at Lafayette on January 30 approved purchasing 200 additional acres for experimental farming, joining existing land to total 300 acres. Treasurer Pierce reported healthy finances and confidence in the state agricultural venture. I D G Nelson and John Purdue were named to attend the national meeting of delegates from agricultural and mechanical interests to be held in Washington on the 26th. Indiana appoints multiple delegates from state horticulture society and agriculture board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Agricultural College
Purdue Agricultural University
Lafayette
Purdue
Pierce
I. D. G. Nelson
Allen County
John Purdue
Tippecanoe
Agricultural Bureau
Washington City
Indiana
Nelson
State Horticultural Society
State Board of Agriculture
State Agricultural University
Davenport Divorce Case Over Mismatched Pantaloons
A Davenport judge hears a quirky divorce case sparked by a misplaced pair of pants from a billiards night. A husband discovers the pants at a store, returns home wearing them, and later learns they are not his. His wife files for divorce after the mysterious trousers vanish and the couple argues over custody and identity.
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Margaret I. Buchanan
Chicago Post
The
Post
Athens
London
Paris
Ovid
Kappa
Kolomalo
Naalehu
Kau
Hawawhi
San Francisco
Marregy
Bret
Sally
Davenport
Chineeo
Great Cusar
Pat
Jane
Wren
June
Tae
Corneas
Lars
Uinois
Old Seventy six House visit yields wartime relics and memories
Narrator recalls entering Washington's former Seventy six House with a guest and two elderly women born in the mansion. They discuss Revolutionary era items, a painter relative, and encounters with General Washington and Major events. The account blends personal reminiscence with reflections on humanity and atonement.
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Washington
General Washington
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Pye
J ‘Scheppe &Clo
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Cueion
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Columina
L'Emon & Bro
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Puomas Mannix
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Ana Cigars
Sordier
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Proore
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Wiyen Bro. & CO
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Berry Etreets
Pry Foods
Redt S& Company
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Pears A. Weber
Bovers & BR
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Gunemith
Teroruen
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OL Resy & Son
Narper
Aveline Aguse
Janesuarper & CO
Phenix Block
Agre Shet
Columbis
Bi Bonverey
Atthias Glyn
Paki
Watioring and Clothing
Ul EB. Woodward
Mlusical Instrumenty
P. Bestel
Musica Superamneatia
Etna
Millinery
Eas. Ls. R. Neuberger
Mayer House
Hy City
Wholecale
Npssraleigu
Neltigus
Je. N. Kane & Bro
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Keystone Black
W. S. Wood
Calhuun
Jeeta Elena
Sok
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Putdiogiene Thed Feper
Sige
Mouse
Gary Wholesale and Retail
Truk ‘Manufactory
Haesgen Vets. .& Bro
Trubke, Valluetty Tit
Yale Tinware,plistier &Brog
Tawate
Wobecce
Lisnmas LN & Rubin
Rank
A J. Pickens
O L. Starkey
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Byron
Christ
Peter
Ike
Saint John
Galilee
Woodhull
Victoria C
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von Pratt
Woodhall
Theodore Litton
Plorseuten
Germain
Little Vic
Anlayl
Grod
Utica Terald
Etreet Jie
Daily Bryle Blast
Bentleyville
Lidia
John Smith
Pasper
Joly Smith
John
Wis
Shagi
Sha Lee
Buntleyville Singers
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Tad
Bat the Ehrel
Lb Thome
Bhavi
Jim
Michigan
Brazil
Katanazoo
Norway
Kingdom of
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Harald Haarfiger
Tetursfjord
Harald
Hougesund
Harald Ls
Valfdan
Snorro Sturleson
Tarald
Naan Gyda
Gorm
Denmark
Erik
Upsel
Eurly
Dovre
Shroudhjim
Drontheim
Hatursfjord
Iceland
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Shetland
Europe
Shetlands
Harold
Rolf
Ragnvall
Landmnore
France
Normandy
William the Conqueror
Scotand
Ireland
Owas
Dublin
Iukon
Hakon
Athelstane
Harald Harfager
Karmoen
Bergen
Colonel Jack
Colonel Jim
Sinok
Jack
Jeebergs
Tsan
Col. Jack
St. Nicholas
Jimmy
Theo Chinaman
George
Suenes
Richardville
Saint Mary's Rives
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Mark Twain
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Jean Leech
Sir Isaac Newton
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