Animals and oddities in a scattered 19th century column
A mosaic of animal anecdotes and human-interest notes including bears in Maine orchards two quail on Dr Porter’s Harrisburg farm a clever Napa Street dog in San Francisco a Monterey fish that morphs from trout to eel water moccasins catching minnows in Texas a Fourteenth Street car driver’s math about horses a Rapid City dog returns a dropped badge a Chinese animated shotgun fish a Philadelphia steamship kitten tale a Liverpool to Philadelphia homecoming cat and brief ads for Day’s Kidney Pad Bull’s Cough Syrup and university students fined for whipping a woman with a notice about a shoe polish and a Nevada revival sermon about Jonah
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Maine
Kingfield
Porter
Harrisburg
Penn
Napa Street
San Francisco
Monterey
Cal
Texas
Fourteenth Street
Washington
Rapid City
Dakota
Bulldog Ranch
Joe Piper
Illinois
Philadelphia
Liverpool
Spain
Nil
Mane Erec
Hlinois
Preacher's secretary sues over sermon royalties
A secretary sues Rev Henry Morgan alleging she wrote all sermons for the "Boston Inside and Out" series and that Morgan received royalties. The sermons were later published as a book. The case centers on authorship and entitlement to payments.
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Henry Morgan
Roston
Boston
Morgan
Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry Shown Superior
Advertisers claim Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry delivers eight times the potency of common 25 cent cough balsams. It requires less quantity and is touted as the best and quickest cure for deep seated colds and consumption, with a single dose often sufficient.
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Wistar
Toward congenial companionship in Hugo’s final preface
The piece reflects on how a writer embodies a book, naming figures from Achilles to Homer and stressing the shadow of the author in every work. It extols conscience, esteem, and congenial companions as essential, while criticizing unfair trading and urging moral accountability in bargains.
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Lancaster
Mishler Herb Bitters CO
Tiree
Lilus
Victor Hugo
Troy
Achilles
Hector
Ulysses
Ajax
Agamemnon
Zoilus
Homer
Adschylus
Aristobanes
Herodotus
Pindar
Theocritus
Plauta
Virgil
Horace
Juvenal
Tacitus
Dante
Mes
Tam
Robinson Crusoe
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Yaabsto
Excelsior Man F60
SY. Louis
Yd. W. Buffingson
LLYDIA E. E. _ PINKHAM
Flynn, MA
Oweler
Lydia E. Pinkham
Western Avenue
John Th Park & Ma
Croen
Ohio
Mleery
Life
Animal World
Day
Kankakee
Kentucky Military Institute
AS. T. Co
Shokey
Carson
Nev
Wilkoit & Pose
Ares
Bes
Conrad Cook
West Side Public Square
Ragerias
Phillip Albaugh
Birfers Vere
Hostetter
W. Bence
Green Castle
Ind
V. S. Mvulheln
EVANS
Donnahue & Lewis
Leeds
Landes Drug Store
Gureencastle
Tews & Newent
Istrance
Landes
Eust Washington Street
J. RB. Miller
T. Z. Moore
Mitter & Moore
Greenestle
Hayne
Jaursid
Smiter
Willisth
Axp Farm
Pine Street
Alfred Avery & Co
South & West
Ping Street
St. J. Louisy Mo
Pryss
Rigs
Hiousten
Tex
Model Press
Itelf
Woolard
Fairheld
Irs
N. Kirst
Paris
Sydney
J. W. Danghaduy & Ge
Chestnut St
Leaty
Lewis Rockwell
Honesdale
William He Benson
Virginia
Dow
Guysett
Gordonville
Utah
Aila A
Heeneman
Hegeman
Heeman
Hegeman’s
Hegeman & Co
New York
Pow. m
Metropolitan Med. Co
New Haven
Conc
Uge Wan
Wafferson
Dyer
Mr. Patterson
Lyman Borman
Huntington
Conn
Charter Oak Life Ins. Co
Guilford
Melhout
Coe
UG. HH
Richardson
Paducah
Libby
Coln
T. Gillaland
U.S. A
Detroit
Mich
Col
Speers
Reed
South America
Joseph T. Inman
Staton D
New York City
Darnall
Bros & Co
Congemmanty
Josse C. Malott
Argo
Sparta
Ayer
J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mass
United States
Alice BD
Roth & Bero
SPEER
Passaic, Nu
Oporto
Mey
P. J
Alfred Spe
Parisie
N. J
Alln
Aia
Tamapolis
India
Eufheier
Cco
Lowe
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