New Year’s Calling Customs and Local News
The article outlines social practice for New Year’s calls with etiquette on visiting hours, dress, refreshments, and card etiquette. It also reports two marriage-race anecdotes from Lackawaxon and a note on Brick Pomeroy’s Great West newspaper success in Denver with subscription details.
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Pomeroy
Tur Great West
Denver
Pomeroy 5 Democrat
Tar Great West
Colorado
United States
M. M. Pomeroy
Denger
Sixty Yards of Rattlesnakes by Commodore Stephenson
Commodore Joseph de Stephenson, a Western figure now at Antelope Creek, claims extensive rattlesnake prospecting this summer. He describes capturing snakes with a crotched stick and thong, decapitating them, and preparing sliced meat fried in hot lard after brining, asserting it to be unmatched by any meat.
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Prescott
A. T
Joseph de Stephenson
Antelope Creek
Badly Frozen Teegraph Worker Loses Foot in Cold Spell
Crawfordsville Indiana reports a worker on the L N A line had both feet frozen and required amputation at Ladoga. The item mixes multiple anecdotes from Soloman Jones to Peoria Street fire patrol antics, noting misadventures and warnings about reckless behavior.
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Crawfordsville, Inc
N. A
Ladoga
Marriage Promises Turn Deadly in St Louis Tragedy
Michael Donley and Annie Grusser vow marriage in 1878 at St Louis after his army enlistment. He returns ready to wed but frowns on delays, threatens to shoot. He shoots after obtaining a second pistol, killing both himself and Annie. George Bates, a St Louis man, buys a gold watch from his bride who is jailed for two years as thief. Bates offers no help and the wife later murders him.
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Lackawaxon
Solomon Jones
Bloomsburg
Olollar
Michael Donley
Annie Grusser
St. Louisa
George Bates
St. Louis
Bates
Whettier
Charles Street
Sato
Jorigzn
Feeble Ladies and Potent Cures Promoted in Ads
Advertisement notes Hop Bitters to relieve languor and irritable fatigue in women, claiming quick relief from irregularities and obstructions and removal of periodical pain. Included is a fragment about Dr Bull's Cough Syrup boosting sales and a sermonized note from New Albany pastors on political campaigns.
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Cincinnati
Personal Influence Through Faith and Reform
In a century old tale a humble English mother prays for her son John Newton who becomes a famed minister and abolitionist. His life helps reform Thomas Scott and William Wilberforce, inspiring Leigh Richmond to write and many live toward the Christian faith.
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England
Africa
Jie
London
John Newton
Thoms Scott
Thomas Scott
Scott
William Owner
Immanuel
Wm. Wilberforce
Great Britain
Wilberforce
Leigh Richmond Lee
Dha Newton
Neighbors' care praised in bygone pioneer days
The piece reflects on the old spirit of neighborly duty during illness, contrasting it with modern reliance on paid nurses. It recalls women bearing washday loads and men guarding the sick, praising selfless acts as true mercy, and urging a return to simpler, communal care.
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Helen M. Gougar
Lafayette Courter
Paul
Jesus Christ
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