Old papers unearthed from antebellum West Virginia home
A High Point resident loans vintage clippings found in an attic near a race-track. Readable issues include the New York Mercury of March 5 1859 and other prewar papers from Washington Wheeling Wellsburg and Wellsburg. The Mercury carried light fiction and poetry such as To My Sister in Heaven and a quip about an angelic bride.
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West Virginia
High Point
New York Mercury
New York City
the National Era
Washington, D. C
Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling
Dail
Wellsburg Herald
Wellsburg
W. Va
John
Cassawatomie) Brown
Kansas
Abraham Lincoln
Welcome Relief From Stomach Gas and Sour Food Taste
Nervous distress after meals caused by sour food and gas is claimed to ease with SSS Tonic. The ad asserts increased gastric juice flow, improved digestion, and better sleep, claiming benefits for nutritional anemia and general vitality, urging readers to buy at drug stores.
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SSS Tonic
Uncle Tom's Cabin in the National Era December 5 1851
The National Era issue from Thursday December 5 1851 resembles Mercury with many filler items. It highlights the era's difficulty in obtaining news beyond local updates.
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The
Mercury
Tide of Battle and Slavery Reflections in Era Excerpts
A fragment from an Era issue recalls Uncle Tom's Cabin 25th chapter and Northern anti slavery sentiment, plus a 1863 Tide Turns editorial praising Union victories. It notes Lincoln habeas corpus suspension and a Notre Dame discovery of synthetic rubber, ending with a sun plants contrast and growth in darkness.
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Wheeling Intelligencer
Richmond
Montreal Transcript
Pennsylvania
Vicksburg
Stocks and bonds bid and asked quotations from Feb 13 1947
Prices show bid and ask figures for numerous companies and securities as of noon Thursday February 13 1947. Listings include Acme Alum Alloys Col, Am Bak Com, National Securities dealers names, and various mills, ins co, utilities, banks, and manufacturers with bid and ask ranges.
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National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc
Acme
Enke Corp
la Fran Moa Corp
Trst Co
Char
Car
P & L Coc
Care
P & L Co
Chad Hos Mills Inc
Clever Cliff
Cable Dairy
Colonial Stores Inc
Col Stores Inc
Dan River Mill
Dan River Mills
Dixie Home Stores S
Dwight Mig Co
Edison
Thomas A
Empire Dist Elec Co
Erwin Cotton Mills
Foremost Dairies, Inc
Funsten
Gamble Bros
Garf Jul & C Inc
Garft Jul & Co
Garlock Pack
Gleaner Harv Corp
Corp
Hanes, P. H. Knit Co
Internat Texb Co
Jefferson Ltd
Life Ins Co
Kendall Co
Kingsport Press
Life & Cas Ins Co of
Tenn
McBee Company
May McEwen
Kaiser Co
Morg Furn Co
Nat‘ Cont Corp
New Britain Mach Co
Ncrr Co
N'western
Nat'l Life Ins Co
Occidental Life Ins Co
Ohio Water Service Co
Saco-Lowell
Scott & Williams
Seaboard Finance P
Sec
Life & Test Co
Nat'l Bank of Solar Aircraft
Seneco Prod Co
South Atlantic Gas
Southern Webbing Mills
C Stevens
Stromblg Carlson
Cow Talon, Inc Textiles, Inc . Textiles Inc
Thiokol Corp
Tidewater Power Co
Wachovia Bank & Tri Warner & Swasey
Wilm Saw & Trst Co
Sparse Australia and Galveston Geography Note
Sparsely settled Australia spans nearly 3,000,000 square miles with 7,300,000 people. Galveston Texas lies on an island in the Gulf of Mexico and is described in this regional note.
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Australia
United States
Galveston, Tex
Gulf of Mexico
Hate Advocate Sentenced to Camp in Georgia Incident
Homer L. Loomis Jr., secretary of the Anti Negro Anti Jewish Columbians Inc, convicted of incitement after a beating of a Black man in a white area. He receives 12 months in a public works camp. bond set at 2000 dollars, appeal filed by his father Homer Loomis Sr. The judge read the verdict in about 29 minutes.
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Atlanta
Homer L. Loomis, Jr
Homer L. Loomis
New York
Loomis
Loomis, Sr
Carteret Youth Arrested For Beaufort Slaying
An 18 year old white youth from Carteret County was held without bond in the November 9 slaying of J Leavy Johnson a 40 year old Beaufort merchant. Sheriff C G Holland identified the suspect as Robert Bob by Williams of North River.
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Morehead City
Carteret County
J. Leavy Johnson
North River
Beaufort
C.G. Holland
Robert Bobby Williams
Holland
Grocery store owner shot dead after hours
Johnson was found at the door of his grocery store and service station shot in the back and head. He was apparently preparing to close for the night. Officers said a sum of bills between 300 and 500 dollars carried by him was missing when his body was discovered.
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Sion
SBI
J. F. Bradshaw, Jr
Johnson
Destructive Water Shapes Three Rocky Mountain Ranges
An eminent geologist notes water erosion over 30 million years reshaped three Rocky Mountain ranges. He compares Tibet’s height to the United States’ tallest peak, while a culinary aside mentions Finnan haddie.
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Rocky Mountain Ranges
Tibet
Thas
United States
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Gey
Man IN White
Jayson
W. Main ST
Thomasville
White Tower
MT. Mckinley
America
Bradford Washington
Inset
Boston
Mass
International
Harriet Beecher Stowe
North
Canojoharie
N. Y
J. M. Hodges
Hodges
United Country
Mrs. Stowe
Julius A. Nieuwland
University of Notre Dame
Raed
North Carolina
By Investments Financing
Raleigh
Squtheast
Kerchofer & Arnold Securities
Raleigh, N. C
Charlotte, N. C
Wall St
Georgia
Carteret
Greensboro
Mary Noe
Tara
Arin Lola
Carolina
Progressive Farmer
Piedmont Carolinas
Piedmont
the Progressive Farmer
Raleigh, North Carolina
Duke Power Company
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