Doctor and gambler Kane story of fate and redemption
In midwinter a physician named Dr Potter aids John Kane on his dying night and later guides Kane's son Robert from vice to virtue. Kane's will entrusts property for his heir, and Potter helps recover the estate, ending with a Christmas reunion and the revelation of bonds used to buy the farm and secure Robert's future.
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John Kane
Ohio
Mr. Kane
Robert
Doctor
Rocket
Robert Kane
Kane
Faro-Bank
Shale
Kitty
Potter
Dr. Potter
Kane Mansion
Doctor Potter
Triple Wedding in Greene Church Stuns Society
The February 19 ceremony united three Grant sisters in one Congregational Church service in Greene New York. Miss Mary H Grant wed Rev Smith T Ford pastor of Greene Baptist Church Miss Flora R Grant married H H Scott a New York shoe merchant and Miss Jennie L Grant tied with Rev William N Ritchie of the Forty Fourth Street Presbyterian Church New York. A large crowd witnessed the event and guests traveled from nearby counties to see the rare union. After a grand reception the trio left together for an extended tour to the East.
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Greene
New York
Congregational Church
Mary H. Grant
Smith T. Ford
Baptist Church
Flora R. Grant
H. H. Scott
Jennie L. Grant
William N. Ritchie
Forty-fourth Street Presbyterian Church
East
Local Notes and Gossip From The Township
Sickness grips neighbors as RB Evans’s son recovers and Daniel Neese’s wife also improves. Reports on mill activity, visits from Taylor Myers of Iowa, and Kansas discontent prompt Abe Craft to question moving there. A local artist awaits clear days, John Rice fattens a goat, and township institute delegates seek $2 daily pay while in session. A New Orleans case follows a portrait fraud involving a photographer and a life sized view of feet sale.
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G. Evans
Township Institute
New Orleans
Petrait
Hopewell
Somebody's Child and a Mother's Hope for Cure
A moving appeal warns that consumption threatens a child and a mother. It cites cases of adults deemed incurable at twenty five and touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as an effective lung and blood purifier that has cured consumptives and restored strength.
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Pierce
Dr. King
Allens Drug Store
Dr Price's Flavoring Extracts Sold As Cheapest Quality
Advertisers claim Dr Price's Special Flavoring Extracts cost a few cents more but prove cheaper by needing less quantity. The public is urged to choose value over apparent low price to avoid costly outcomes.
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Dr Price
Notable Lively Anecdotes of Wealth and Woes from Varied Lives
A sweeping late 19th century column highlights philanthropy and oddities from Mrs. Astor funding homeless children to odd marriages and births. It catalogs tragic outcomes from drunkenness, suffrage debates, church lotteries, peculiar pets, miraculous healers, and strange deaths across cities like Lynn Boston Andover New Hartford Denver St. Charles Walton and Arkansas.
A Secret Worth Knowing by Housekeepers
A recipe for ridding furniture of moths uses benzine. Three gallons were used to saturate upholstery, killing moths larvae and eggs. the odor faded after days and no damage occurred to varnish or fabric. Carpets and woolen furs benefit from benzine treatments as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Mags
Republican
Boy Fights Enraged Tarantula Near Grapevine Prairie
A farm-hand reports a boy named Featherstorne found a large yellow and black tarantula guarding its nest after lifting a rock. The tarantula bit the boy on the hand as he tried to pin it down, the arm swelled to triple its size and doctors feared for the child’s life.
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T.S. Dodson
Jones
Grapevine
Featherstorne
Fort Worth
Democrat
A Lady's Wish in Hop Bitters Ad Claim
A humorous exchange features a lady praising clear skin and a friend claiming Hop Bitters can whiten and beautify. The dialogue underscores the tonic’s advertised effect on blood purity and health, with a modest jab about it not helping the speaker.
Genuine Dr Price Baking Powder for Steel & Price
Bulk baking powder claims are corrected to warn buyers to choose the genuine product. The note advises buying Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder only in cans labeled and produced by Steele & Price, stressing uniform quality and reliability.
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Dr. Price
Steele & Price
Queen City Skirt Suspenders Offer Limited Lady Agents
A local notice promotes Queen City Skirt Suspenders as a relief for heavy skirts and poor health. Physicians endorse them for women and young girls, sold only through female agents, with potential earnings of 100 to 200 dollars monthly in various localities. Writers invite reliable ladies to contact Elm and Longwort Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Queen City
Comany
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