Dr Wilbur F Sanford Laid to Rest in Heroic Diphtheria Sacrifice
Funeral services were held for Dr. Wilbur F Sanford of Greenpoint Long Island who died of diphtheria after performing a life risking tracheotomy to save a child. The 36 year old physician collapsed from infection following the operation amid a community mourning his selfless act.
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Wilbur F Sanford
Greenpoint
L. I
Iddletown
Conn
Sanford
Rying
Dr. Sanford
Atchirson
Brooklyn
A Woman Soldier’s Tale of Enlisting for a Pension
A female narrator recalls posing as a German boy to enlist with her husband in 1861 in Indiana for the bounty and pay. She details training, battles with the 22d Indiana, injuries to her hand, and a difficult discharge from campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi.
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Chicago Times
America
Indiana
August
Jeff. C. Davis
Gen
Nelson
Louisville
Rosecranz
Mississippi
Tennessee
Cumberland
Corinth
Rienzi
Jacinto
Kentucky
New Swindling Device Highlighted in Court Verdict
In the Woodbury versus Kistler case the jury found for the defendant after hearing that a note was obtained via a variant of the old patent-right swindle. An envelope trick allowed the swindlers to possess a promise to pay, later sold to innocent parties who sued. The item warns farmers to beware of such schemes.
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United States
William W. Woodbury
Elias Kistler
Windmill Pump Company
Chicago
Kistler
Kisstler
Woodbury
Mr Spoondyke and the fruitless vigil of illness
A satirical domestic scene unfolds as Mrs Spoondyke tends an ailing husband who rejects medicine and pleads for fruit. He clings to illness, derides care, and complains of medical and market shortages while longing for comfort and a final relief. The exchange lampoons hospital, doctors, and dying anxieties with sharp humor.
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Mrs. Spoondyke
Mr. Spoondyke
Fragmented 19th Century Clippings Highlight Desperation and Crime
The excerpt recalls emigrants wandering in an Oregon desert seeking gold amid famine, a Boston woman starving at 50 and her washer daughter refusing relief, Charles Bonsell’s deadly shootout in La Joya, and Prof. Sterry Hunt’s iron production forecast. A Boston talk on the Cadet Whittaker case remarks on race.
Obituary of Hercules Ellis 1831 1880 Bainbridge
Hercules Ellis aged 49 years 10 months and 29 days died in Bainbridge December 4 1880 after a career in mercantile work and Christian ministry He married Elizabeth Bridges in 1853 and widowhood followed by a second marriage to Mrs S A Kendall on February 25 1880 His death came after a period of quiet faith in Christ with religious devotion He left a church vacancy at his passing and a large funeral was held December 5 at his home conducted by Elder W R Davison The notice ends with local ads for Landes' Drug Store and other goods including Lake Salt and shoes from Burnett
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Bainbridge
Hercules Ellis
Elizabeth Bridges
Moses T. Bridges
A. Kendall
Christ
W. R. Davison
Christian Union Church
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Dolmans Ulsters
FURS
L.S. Ayres & C.C
Indianapolis
Butterick
New York Sun
Masachusetts
Springfield Publican
W.W. Kelley
Newark
N.J
St. Peter's
St. Louis
Great Bridge
Indianapolis Journal
Connecticut
New Haven Palladium
New Orleans
Tie
Memphis
Heuck
Opera House
Cincinnati Theatre
Sleuck
P. T. Barnum
New York City
Bridgeport Conn
Bridgeport
Brooklyn Eagle
Oregon
Boston
Charles Bonsell
New England
la Joya
New Mexico
Ile
T. Sterry Hunt
the Hocking
Ohio
Whittacker
Landes’ Drug Store
Goodbar's
Ueis City
G Jacobs Ll
A. Vogeler & CO
Baltimore
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