Queer Happenings and Peculiar News Snippets
A collection of oddities and local curiosities: Francis Murphy gains a $40,000 Philadelphia house through reform. Miss Goodell becomes Wisconsin’s first female bar member before dying at 41. A 15-year-old in North Carolina dies from a spider bite. An Atlanta rock yields a perfect iron wedge found 40 feet underground. Granville floods send wild geese into town for shooting from porches. Ansel Randell of Missouri arranges no mourning at his funeral. A horse shoe from an old tree stump puzzles Council Bluffs. Rail fare dispute at Rochester drops from $30.61 to $5 with many tickets sold. A bulldog attacks girls in a Harrisburg classroom. fourteen bitten. A young wife in Jameston is sold by her husband for $50 and awaits her son’s earnings. Mrs Graves of South Killingly, deaf for 30 years, dreams hearing returns. Florence Seymark’s father in Elizabeth City shoots her lover, then she elopes and marries.
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Atlanta Gap
Granville
N. C
Ansel Randell
Montville
Kansas
Rochester
Harrisburg
Jameston
Martha P. Graves
South Killingly
Conn
Health Tonic Claims Cure All Ailments
An advertisement touts Dr. Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as the best vegetable blood purifier and health renewer. It claims to cure scrofula nervous debility kidney weakness urinary and digestive troubles and silver complaints. Also notes another remedy Dr Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry as a universal tonic and cough remedy.
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Bictaruson
Palit
Guysett
I Hang Upon the Memory of a Lost Love
An elderly doctor recalls a past affair with a married woman in London. The woman loved him but stayed true to her late child and repentant husband, ending with a vow that she can never be his wife. The tale closes as she arrives to break the engagement.
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Tam
London
Ndt
Pay as You Go Impels Cash Commerce and Decent Debt Levels
The piece argues for a cash based economy to curtail debt and uplift individuals and merchants. It cites vanity and hardship from credit, praises self reliance, and claims merchants with cash practices endure and prosper while carrying debt harms the community. It urges readers to avoid credit and merchants to minimize it.
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Sacramento Bee
Randolph
The Summing of Noble Hearts and Simple Faith
A compact moral reflection extols kindness over rank and noble birth. The speaker favors good virtue and straightforward faith, deeming these truer measures than aristocratic standing or birthright.
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Teanysom
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Toledo
Ohio
Jones’ Long
Jutt’s
Tutt
UTT
Torr
Murray Street
New York
Conte
Boris
Luna
Foury
Davis B. Foutz
Baltimore
Carters River
Carter
Bewserr Jones
St. Eric
E Ser Vedicine Co
Erie
Ephraim Brown
Lowen, Mase
Queer Happenings
Francis Murphy
Philadelphia
Council Biuds
Iowa
Florence Seymark
Elizabeth City
Telford
Geo W. Hays
Marion County
George W. Hays
Harvey Telford
The
Cincinnati
Brypee Foundyry Co
C. Wells
Breas
St the
Harris Remedy Co
ST. Louis
San Francisco Bulletin
Eleanor
James 'Taylor
West Side Square
Rh. E. Sellers &Co
Pittsburgh
Phillip Albaugh
Hathaway Block
John Bull
Louisville
JO H Bull
Smith
BULL
Signain Ct
Lovisville, K. Y
Greencastle
J. L. Claspill
Ee Builders
Comtractoes
Henty
Stefg
Ind
Froase
Kuckeye Novelty CO
Nets
Laer
Cornhill
Boston
Mass
Berolf &Co
Ann Bt
N.Y
B.A. Wilson
Penn
Williamschurch
Jim
John B. Ogden
Cedar St
van Delft
Ann St. NY
Ann St
Coopers Havines
Rotling Mule Gower
Jomn Riley
Swat
G. A. Mariner
Chicago
Lawerence & Martin
Madison Street
Sehr Low
Jost
Culverwells
Ander
Culverwell Medical
Post Office
Hox
Phoenix
Alleu Yran
E.G
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