Florentine gamble ends in marriage and fortune loss
Herbert Hathaway, a would be fortune seeker, falls for Kate Spencer in Florence. After risking almost his entire fortune at a card game with Count Guliemo Marini, he loses and renews his vow to marry Kate. They wed at the American embassy, then depart for Calais and New York, with Hathaway never touching a card again.
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Vie
Florence
Italy
Kate Spencer
Kate
America
Herbert
L Pautwee
Egypt
Inshail
Efert
Ware
Guliemo Marini
Spencers
Paul
S Ie
Hmi
Taco
Hlerbert
Pene
Lind Almady
Signorina
Mr. Hathaway
Torbert Hathaway
Calais
New York
Herbert Hathaway
Roger T
Howell
Filin Priel Ned
First California dental office in a forties Californiaite era
A San Francisco Chronicle summary recounts Dr. B. M. Harris known as Lit Ye Doe pioneering dentistry in Grass Valley Nevada County. The improvised office used a bowlder chair a campfire forge and crude tools. Extractions cost half an ounce of gold fillings double, via nuggets melted with mercury.
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California
8. M. Harris
Grass Valley
Nevada County
Warris
Thnt
Tarris
San Francisco Chronicle
Classified notices and sale ads from Indiana Pa area
Ex-Courty Commissioner C F Murray asks those planning cemetery monuments to contact him directly for quotes. Ads offer 60 acre farm for Shelocta, heavy surfacing machine, and a rest for eight horses near the railroad. Also promotion for Fjoreheim last shoes and wallpaper service plus Heath & Milligan pint colors at Smiths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Murray
F. Murray
Blakeville
J. C. Conner
Indiana
Farmer sells cows to man with ninety three children
A farmer near Fulton offered three cows for 300 dollars to a well dressed stranger who said he needed them to furnish milk for his ninety three children. Aboard by guards from the Fulton Insane asylum then escorted the man away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton
Roosevelt
Asylu
Kansas City Journal
Lord Lovat Collapse Highlights House of Lords Speech
The debate in the House of Lords featured Lord Lovat collapsing during his maiden speech after claiming the army corps system offered a definite scheme. This failure contrasted with his earlier South African War leadership, drawing good natured commentary from English papers about his interrupted moment.
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Lord Lovat
House of Lords
Lars Lovatetn
Duke of Devonshire
Bishop Ellicott Makes Forty Years as Bishop
The Right Rev Charles Ellicott D L archbishop hoped to be Canterbury’s archbishop is now bishop of Gloucester aged about eighty four. He recently marked the fortieth anniversary of his consecration and enjoys the privilege of traveling freely on any UK railway after an early life duel.
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Ellicott
England
Gloucester
Charles Ellicott
D. L
Earl of Beaconsfield
Canterbury
Lim
United Kingdom
Nerve Pills Sold At Local Drug Store Claim Cure
Mrs W Bridgens of 37 Eleventh Street Indiana Pa reports sleeplessness and nervous fatigue. After taking Dr A W Chase's Nerve Pills from Herrick Bros Drug Store she says strength and sleep returned and she will recommend them. Pills sold 50 cents a box. portrait and signature of A W Chase M D appear on all packages.
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Indiana
A. W. Chase
Nerve Pilla
Herrick Bros
Dr. A. W. Chase Medicine Company
Buffalo
N. Y
M. D
Cheap Excursion to Pittsburg This Spring
A first springtime excursion to Pittsburg is planned for Sunday April 19 over the Buffalo Rochester Pittsburg Railway. The special train departs Dayton at 8 07 am and round trip fare is 150. Passengers will have ample time to visit Carnegie Library Phipps Conservatory and Schenley Park. Full details are in excursion bills or from company agents.
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Pittsburg
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
Carnegie Library
Phipps’ Conservatory
Schenley Park
Dayton
Balzac and Dumas Clash Over Pay and Playwriting
Balzac scorned Dumas after a manuscript sale dispute at Siecle with Dumas earning 2 francs while Balzac demanded 2 percent of a fine. Balzac left in anger, while Dumas teased him about his feelings. In the Odeon foyer Balzac boasted of turning to playwriting, and Dumas urged him to begin immediately.
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Balzac
Dumas
M. Dumas
Odeon Theater
An Arabian Tale of Two Ears and Revenge
An Arab and his wife quarrel continually. She reports to her father who, after reflection, boxes his daughter's ears and declares the act a double revenge. The wise sheik notes the cycle of retaliation concluding with both spouses punished.
Dr. Thomas's Electric Oil Featured in Household Warnings
An old time ad copy touts Dr Thomas's Electric Oil as instant relief for burns cuts bruises sprains and other household mishaps. The tone reflects early 20th century patent medicine rhetoric urging quick cures from a familiar bottle.
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Dr. Thomas
Heath
Ink as Earache Cure Turns Face Black in Dark
A man mistook a bottle on the bed window sill for chloroform and anointed his face with ink in the dark. He slept, woke to a frightened wife, and found one side of his face stained black. The item promotes Dean's Ointment and advertises shoes at Sharretts in Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee Wisconsin
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Lelange
Sleeptesa
Eanil
New York Tribune Farmer
Tribune Farmer
The
Progress
D. Schrecengost
Gond
Progress Office
Morocco
Bar
J. T. Boucher’s
Heath & Milligan
Smith’s
W. Bridgens
Eleventh Street
Dean
Man’s Fine Elive
Blucher and Balsa
Sharretts
Smith
Secretary of Internal Affairs of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Pine Township
Indiana County
J. H. Weaver
Mary Schreckengost
Philip Rice
Andrew Hoover
Joseph Chapman
Maggie B. Harman
John T. Stuchus
H Milton Ashbareh
South Mahoning Township
Mary J. Ashbaugh
Cunningham & Fisher
Archibald M. Rodgers
West Wheatfield Township
Robert B. Rodgers
W.F. Elkin
Charles D. McCurdy
M. K. Lewis
Connie A. Prothero
H. NE. Prothero
Pal
Mar
Edward P. Grove
Philadelphia Street
Iss
Jack
Washington Observatory
American Watch
Irving, the Jeweler
Penn’a
Shaffer & Keller
S & Boys
Lyon
Shaffer » Keller
New American House
Philadelphia
Rossmayne
Rossmoyne Flouring Mills
Frantz Bros., Prop’rs
Rooossssmoyyne
PHNRN
Lockard
Indiana, Penn’a
Oak Street
Clymer Avenue
Sutton
Simpson Bros. & CO
Penn’ A
John F. Steving
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