The Old Settler and Peleg Marbles Tale
An elderly Sugar Swamp tale recalls Peleg testing a cat with a marble and a lively exchange about marbles and snakes. The Old Settler narrates boyhood marble games, earlier pranks, and the ruin of marble schemes by rum, ending with a stern warning to Peleg as he heads to the tavern for news.
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Peleg
Bill Simmons
Grandpop
Ter Lightnin’ Rod
Bill ‘Simmors
Sonny
Yast
Agates
Sugar Swamp
Sugar ‘Swamp
Mater
Little Peleg
Sally
Crow Barren
Hooper
Meshellam
Si Flayton
Hoopers
Marble Culture Fm
Sun
Newport
Tiverton
R.I
New York
Providence Journal
Rodriguez
Indian Ocean
Great Britain
Mauritius
Gabriel Nan-wog-gyah
Pottowattomies
Sacred Heart Mission
Another P. W. Grimes in Washington Causes Mixups
In Columbus Georgia a congressman named P. W. Grimes learns there is another man of the same name in Washington a dressmaker also named P. W. Grimes. The senator’s friends tease him with rumors of anonymous letters and suggestive notes from unknown women. He swears the tales are pranks by his acquaintances and notes the confusion in social circles.
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P. W. Grimes
Columbus
Washington
Georgia
Grimes
Victoria
B. C
Gordon
Propres Militaire
Gen. Pando
Courier
Hickman
The New Walter and Hoge in Washington Dining Incident
A humorous tale recounts Congressman Hoge from West Virginia entering Washington with naiveté. He enjoys a free bath, then orders a lavish dinner, pays for it after a mix up about a check, and learns humility from Colonel Sam Donaldson's diplomacy.
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Congressman Hoge
West Virginia
Washington
Mr. Hoge
Tama
Opium Takers and Oddities Spark New York Echoes
A wide array of brief items from Ithaca to Paris to New York covers opium use, telephone profanity laws, Parisian fashion and art sales, Jersey City undertakers, Central Park goats, transit housing, and a string of curios from bass catches to a burnished bear trap tale. Diverse notes touch on crematories in San Francisco, Yale and Harvard team movements, blind typists, mixed-race skin changes in Albany, Ga, and a host of peculiar local anecdotes.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Connecticut
Paris
New York
Jersey City
Central Park
M. Albert Goupil
San Francisco
Hugh Mellen
Sing Sing
Croton
Maryland
Hallets
Yale Navy
New London
Harvard
Columbia
Yale
First Regiment Prize Winners Board Travel to Cincinnati
Lafayette Division No. 1 Indianapolis No. 2 Kokomo No. 6 and Many No. 18 are prize winners in the First regiment. They travel to Cincinnati on a special C. H. & D. train leaving Indianapolis June 15 at 8 a.m. Tickets cost 2.50 to 2.60 dollars, good June 12 to 16, with rates 82.50 for Knights and friends. Further details at C. H. & I. ticket office, WwW. H Fisher, Genl Ag't.
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Lafayette
Indianapolis
Kokomo
Cincinnati
H Fisheg, Gen'l
Ag't
Bargains in at Sullivan’s Corsets and Silk Bargains
Bargains in at Sullivan’s offer 150 dozen corsets priced at 45 cents each, advertised as worth one dollar, with a claim of the finest corsets in the state. Also 25 pieces of black Gros Grain Silk offered as a special bargain from 49 cents to one dollar, touted as worth double the money.
Bargains in Real Estate Prompt Sale Offers Nearby
Real estate bargains include a handsome nine room house in Woodruff Place at 7500, a North New Jersey street dwelling for 34500, North Pennsylvania near St. Clair at 5000, three West Vermont houses at 2400 each, a Pratt street residence near Meridian, 40 acres near Maywood priced at 100 per acre, and a brick cottage at 53 Brookside avenue for 1100. Properties must be sold and deserve attention.
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Woodruff Place
New Jersey
Pennsylvania Street
St. Clair
Vermont
Pratt Street
Meridian
May Wood
Brookside Avenue
Real Estate Auction and Insurance Services Ad
Parties who wish to invest connected with the Real Estate department offer sales of first class real estate stocks goods and furniture in residences or sales ordered by courts. Large list of houses and lots available and prime bargains. Insurance priced with top companies at low rates.
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L. N. Perry
Trains Schedule Notice for Jeffersonville and Madison
Sunday May 13 1898 trains run on schedule in Central Standard Time with service by the Jeffersonville Madison and Indianapolis railroad line.
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Jeffersonville
Madison & Indianapolis
KR. BK
Indianapolis
Rushville
Chicago & St. Louis
Mail
Harrison
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Old Settler
Sam
Edgerton
Civil Service
Judge Thurman
Ohio
Thurman
Judge Edgerson
Walter
Apter
Albany
Danbury
Conn
Marshalville
John E. Burton
Milwaukee
United States
Cleveland
George Washington
Alexandria
Gertrude Cunningham
Bangor
Montana
Northwestern Transportation Company
Sullivans
Pales Brossen
G&s
Washington St
Consumers
Market St
Prather and
Hanckel
East Market Street
Travelers’ Register
Wank
Michigan
Grand Benes Express
Michigan & Ind
Abe
Elkhart Express
Cin
Louisville
St. L
Chicago
Kh. BR
Cincinnati Division
F.L
Chicago Division
Louis
Chicago Fast Mall
Ralsat
Chicago Fast Line
S & Re
D’y
St. Lewis
Eastern
Indianapolis & Richmond
Day
Indianapolis & Richmon
Indianapolis Accommodi Mail Express
Western
Ll. Lou. & Chi
Chi
Fist ix Daily
Per
Ivenine Express
Mail and Express
Toledo Express
Indianapolis & Vince
Cairo Express
Ll. Vincennes Accom
Vincennes Accom
Dail
Cincinnati Express
St. L., Chic. & Ind. E
Ind
St. L. & Chi
Indianapolis Express
Indiana
Peoria
Express & Mail
Express
S & Night
E Mail
S &Re
Atlantic
Pacific
Ccc
Kan City
Gally
W. F
Indianapolis& St. Louis
Day Express
Limited
Jexpres
Chicago & Michigan
C. & Mich
Ronan
Maily
Chic & Indpis
Indianapolis Mail
Arriva
LOU KU. T
N. Orleans
L’dd
S. Lou
Mad
Lou
Southern F
Louisville & Mad
Ace
St. Louis Mail
Terre Haute
Aly Western Express
S. Tee
Brightwood
Bright
Grand Rapids
Tin & Louisville
Ind. & South
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