A Happy Outcome A Soldier’s Love and Loss
A wartime tale shows Lieutenant Ashley losing an arm and a leg, facing oblivion, then receiving a letter from Miss Barnes granting release from engagement. She arrives with care, they marry after the war, and he adapts to disability with her help, starting a family and finding lasting happiness.
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Leutenants
Tom Ashley
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Ashley
Hier
Lfe
Miss Barnes
Miss Barnes H
Misa Barnes
Ashleys
A Doctor's Revenge and the Windpipe Coin Rescue
An elderly physician recalls his failed exam for a house surgeon post and a life changing case. When a child choked on a coin, the narrator’s drastic, unorthodox remedy by spanking the child freed the obstruction, proving the value of desperate remedies and reshaping his view of medical erudition and judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Gibbs
Riches versus poverty and an early marriage warning
A speaker debates the prayer to lack both poverty and riches, arguing work for a living builds character and wealth invites distrust, while condemning a twelve year old girl’s marriage as a societal crime. He urges delaying marriage until maturity and advocates punishment for the adults involved. The column ends with an unrelated ad fragment for Huey Moorhead sporting goods.
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Hagar
Indiana
India
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Andrew Co. Ewing
Huey & Moorhead
Bell Phone
American Union
Ellie Bidg
Nighta Calla
Mutual Fire Insurance Co
John Kinter
Home Rh. D
James Speedy
Eli Miller
Jefferson County
Olivesburg
S. M. Mulberger
Indiana County
Home
Pauch
Plotzer’s Meat Market
Crescent Bond
Liberty Linen
Indiana Progress
Home Journal
Loughry
Ariel
Ort
W. R. Loughey & Company
Shackamaxon
Vogel Bros
N. Sixth Street
Indiana, PA
Syracuse
West Water
CoErEt, Indiana, PA
Josephine Poultry Farm
Cook
Thompson
Fisher
Tecktonius
Rhode Isaland Rede
Columbian Wyandottes
Philadelphia St
W. S. Daugherty
H. T. Boarts & CO
Creekside, Penna
Frank H. Learn
Penna
Wesson
City Grocery
Ira
A. Myers
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