A White Man's Veutver Choice
Jimmy Marion loves Cressy Oliphant and faces ruin as his cousin Charley schemes to seize the Marion estate. Jimmy vows to work and save the home, while Cressy offers support. After years of hard labor and a Klondike windfall by Gill Magee, the mortgage is cleared and the family finds relief, with a moral on honest toil.
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Jimmy Marion
Brush Creek
Jimmy
Cress
Cressy
Charley
Charles
Tve
Jimmy Brok
Martens
Squire Marion
Gal
Magee
Gill
Jim
Uncle Jim
Gill Magee
Marion
Pappy
Old Jim Marion
Poe
Klondike
Black and White Bankers Son Finds It In Black and White
A prominent Atlanta banker’s young son shows sharp business sense by asking for his $5 back after depositing it to earn interest. When denied, he proves ownership by confirming the payment with his grandmother and the family butler, declaring he has it in black and white and restoring the funds.
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Atlanta
John
Machiavelli
Atlanta Journal
Union Party row signals split and rise of Ballot Reform Party
The Philadelphia clash shows the Union Party torn by Democratic money and tactics and leading to a new Ballot Reform Party. The Pittsburgh Gazette argues reform efforts are mocked by machine politics, forecasting a larger Republican surge and court battles over party control.
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Union Party
Pennsylvania
Democrats
Philadelphia
Democracy
Ballot Reform Party
Pittsbury Commercial Gazette
Union
Out of Deaths Jaws
P Muse of Durham North Carolina credits Dr Kings New Life Fills with saving his life from years of stomach and liver trouble. The ad cites 25 cent drug stories and lists Indiana Pa Homer City Pa Marion Center Pa and drag stores as selling points.
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P. Muse
Durham
N. G
The Worm In the Chestnut Doctor Explains
A physician describes how a worm enters a green chestnut. An insect stings the nut to lay eggs, with eyes entering through the created opening. As the chestnut ripens the eggs hatch and the insect chooses chestnuts as a prime site. The floury swatter turns to sugar, and sugar contains carbon which creates heat.
Where He Missed It at Lovers Lane
A terse exchange between Lonest and a companion as they explore rocky terrain behind a hotel. They debate going down to a dark, steep hollow and acknowledge the risk of a kiss, then decide to stay above the rocky area.
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Chicago Record-Herald
One Boy's Worth
A quotation attributed to Horace Mann on dedication of a reform school building. Mann replies that money spent is worth it if it saves one boy, emphasizing the value of a single boy's reform over the expenditure. The remark is cited in Primary Education.
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Horace Mann
Mann
More Than He Could Stand
A physician orders a strict course after medicine, advising a hot water bath and immediate bed. The patient protests with a joking complaint about baths and mustard plasters, reflecting a comic miscommunication in a Chicago Tribune item.
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Chicago Tribune
Quote on sudden success from Ida Young Cliff
A compact remark compares success to a trolley car, noting it can strike suddenly. The speaker asserts that when success arrives there should be no tender or threat of a lawsuit against the company. The line reflects a wary view of obligation amid unexpected good fortune.
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Ida Young Cliff
Woodchuck and Squirrel Compare in Habitat and Habits
An Indiana citizen praises Dr A W Chase’s Nerve Pills, claiming they stabilize nerves and boost energy. The Woodchuck article explains how woodchucks dig hillside dens to avoid drowning, contrasts them with squirrels, and describes their diet and winter sleep, noting they awaken around March 1 in New York per Country Life In America.
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Mary Rolston
Church Street
Indians
A. W. Chase
Herrick Bros
New York
America
Early Names of Animals Across Languages and Cultures
A compact note traces cattle and sheep terminology across Akkadian Turkic Egyptian Semitic Greek and Finnic roots linking terms for bull cow cattle horned and inclose to ancient words like am enek tor kar and shor It notes related pasture terms and cites Scottish Review and Baltimore News on marriage and ink dating to 1798 with Dr Lewis’s chemistry work.
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Scottish Review
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Martha Metatoch- Williams
the Union Party
Indiana
Baltimore News
Lewis
J. C. Conner
Algo
Philadelphia Street
Sloan Bros
Court House
Indiana, Pa
SLOAN
Brothers
A ‘ Frantz Bros
Rossmoyne
Mae Pero Ay Rossmoyne
Deposit Bank
R.W. Wehrle
Bil Webbs
Watchmaker Jeweler & Optigian
Rowe College
Johnstcon, PA
Echool
D.J. Rowe
A. M
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