The Darkest Hour Before the Dawn on the Atlantic
Ferris James, a penniless 17 year old seaman, falls overboard and drifts at sea. Adrift in a misty North Atlantic, he signals a wrecked bark and is rescued by a mutinous crew. He proves navigator and rises from ordinary seaman to second mate and shipowner over five years, recalling his near death as dawn.
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Africa
Ferris James
Ferris
Bombay
North Atlantic
Dun Pray
Ward
Verris
Lnck
Jonah
Tom Hulkins
Hulkins
Huskins
Ferrin
Fayal
Azores
Fayal Roads
Liverpool
Boston Pilot
Educate Your Bowels With Cascareta Candy Cathartie
An advertisement styled note promotes Cascareta Candy Cathartie as a cure for constipation, claiming longlasting relief and promising refunds. The fragment references op numbers and drug lists in a sales pitch format.
Inmates at Michigan Soldiers Home Play High Stakes Poker
A Grand Rapids letter to the New York Sun notes that within two large rooms at the Michigan Soldiers' Home inmates pass long hours amid winter confinement by playing poker and other card games. Antes are matches, with a one-match ante and a five-match limit. jackpots pool 10 to 15 matches. The kitty funds lighting pipes and all players chase wins as boxes of matches shift hands from one player to another. The game began in September and runs until spring.
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Michigan
Pedro
Grand Rapids
New York Sun
The Wonders of Science Free Cure Offer
Emphatic promotion by T A Slocum M D of New York offering three free bottles of a cure for consumption and lung diseases to readers of The Indiana Progress, with testimonials and instructions to write for the free medicine, plus a brief school report from Rayne township, 1898.
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New York
T. A. Slocum
Science Daily
M. D
Pine Street
Indiana
The Late Count Kalnoky
The Late Count Kalnoky was a renowned European dispatch writer and statesman with fluency in major languages and a scholarly breadth. He never married, lived as a recluse in society, and earned high regard from subordinates while his public writings were praised for clarity and historical value.
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Count Kalnoky
Europe
Rome
St. Petersburg
Westminster Gazette
The Kidneys and Blood Health Signs
The article urges monitoring kidney health by simple urine tests. It notes a daytime sample left to settle shows sediment indicating kidney disease, and cites back pains frequent urination especially at night and burning during urination as further signs.
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Innistallen
Fairy Isle
Srat
Azd
Svider
Reyes
Innisfiallen
Killarney
Spectat
Castoria
Science
Elmer W. Alison & Co
Bookamyre
Rayne Township
Mabel
Mary Fyock
Jennie Bence
Nervie Deemer
Edith
Bertha
Lena
Albert Botsford
Pearl Clawson
James Glasser
Charlie
Beulah
Della Boucher
Irvin
Clyde
Hazel Coalmer
James Gilhousen
Ira Feitshans
Logan
Willis
Nervie
Nora Deemer
Lena Botsford
Pearl Russell
Bertha Botsford
H. C. Burereauex
David Kennedys
J. N. Langham
Indiana, Pa
Attiorney-At-Law
Farmera Bank
M.C. Watson
Frank Keener
Watson
W L. Stewart
Stewart & Clerk
Philadelphia Street
Transitome
Farmers’ Bank
G J. Feit
Jon Pres
Ehz
Ohn EH
Pierce
J. M. Cunningham Building
J Wood Clark
Farmers’ Bank Building
Jom L. Getty
Attorney-Atlaw
Eorge W. Hood
Hetrick
Banks
Samuel Cunningham
John
Fisher
Cunningham
J. Telford
W. M. Mahan
Telford & Mahan
Jack Buiding
J. R. Stumpf& Son
Hotels
Kinter
R. D. Scott
Iana
M. Wortman
Fifth Streets
First Gass
Clawson House
W. &. Clawson, Proprietor
Glen Campbell
Charx, Propriet
Indiana County
Ndiana House
J. W. Clemants &Ipad
Iba Myers
Otel Cain
CAIN
H. B. , Buterbaugh
Diana
Nixon Building
Sr L
Erhard
Grant, Pa
Clark House
Cherrytree, Pa
C.C. C
David Kennedy
P. H. Kirp
Union
Rondout
N. Y
Homer City
H. V. Rowan
Frantz Bros
The
Busy Millers
Rossmoyne, Pa
G. U. Hamilton
Penna
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