Trains Clock Timetable and Travel Notes From 1870
The notice lists departure and arrival times for Chicago Express mail and freight, Toledo, Pittsburg Cincinnati St Louis Railway routes, and a detailed schedule for Kokomo Logansport Richmond Cincinnati Harrisburg Philadelphia New York, plus through sleeping cars and service notes for mail and express trains. It also includes a short poem by Emma Hamilton about a fashionably dressed man and Terra as a millionairess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kokomo
Logansport
State Line
Chicago
Richmond
Cincinnat
Columbus
Pittsburg
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
New York
Baltimore
Washington
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Silver Palace
Scull
Gen’s Ticket Ag
T. D. S. Cray
Church Meeting Schedule and Worship Times
Directory of local churches with service times and programs. Presbyterian in Wilson's Hall holds services Sundays at 10 00 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. Congregational led by Rev D J Bap wis at 10 34 a.m. and 7 37 p.m. Meth Episcopal with Rev W Wil sox at 10 30 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. Christian E E Frazier conducts services at 10 00 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. plus Sunday School and prayer meetings on specified days. First-day meeting listed in Wildman's Block includes missionary school and Bible class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wildman’s Block
Wilson’s Hall
D. J. Bapwis
Methopist Episcopal
W. Wilsox
Cuaistran
E. L. Frazier
Pr. m
Freemason Meetings Listed by Lodges
Local lodge notices list meeting days relative to the full moon for Koxomo Loper No. 93 Hlowarp Loper No. 378 and GrEENTOWN Lopce with varying Saturdays and full moon references NarrHaLt Lopce Fairfield meets near the full moon Thursdays I O C F Koromo Lance No. 1383 meets Tuesdays Winpmax Lopoe meets Mondays and L G I T Witp Cat Lopes No. 843 meets Saturdays in the evenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Koxomo Loper
Hlowarp Loper
Greentown Lopce
NarrHaLt Lopce
Fairfield
Koromo Lance
Winpmax Lopoe
Revenue and Expense Totals From October Ledger
A historical financial excerpt lists receipts and expenditures by fund and purpose. It includes state revenue items, township and road taxes, special school tax, and various county charges. Totals show revenue of 199,637.93 and orders issued 108,556.57 with orders redeemed 107,672.50.
Modern Spiritualism and Morality Debate in 19th Century Letters
A critical defense of Christianity against modern Spiritualism argues that religion sustains civil order and morality. It lampoons reliance on reason alone, contrasts historic moralists with atheistic or pantheistic tendencies, and asserts phrenology's compatibility with faith while citing notable clergymen and scholars to support its claims. Tampico, Indiana.
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United States
India
Hindoostan
Lord Herbert
Mr. Hobbes
George Morton
John Elliotson
M. D
John Bell
J. W. 0. Smith
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Nathan Allen
John M. Carnachan
Europe
America
Archbishop Whateley
Thomas Chalmers
D. D
Orville Davey
John Pierrepont
RE. H. Chapin
Henry
Ward Beecher
F. Smira
Phrenology Critics and Believers in Early Debate
The article debates phrenology, noting confusion in names and printers errors. It lists believers like Horace Mann, Gall, Spurzheim, the Combes, Vimount, Broussais, and Caldwell as skilled anatomists, contrasting them with critics and stressing careful study of principles.
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Mar
Sewall
Rice
Cole
Brown Sequard
Sequard
Brown
Claud Bernard
Bernard
Flint and
Dalton
Hammond
Horace Mann
United States
Gall
Spurzheim
Messrs Combe
Edinburgh
Vimount and Broussais
Paris
Charles Caldwell
Cotton crop prospects and corn scarcity shift Southern farming notes
Receipts of cotton at various ports indicate the 1869 crop will total about 3,287,000 bales, surpassing earlier estimates. Meanwhile corn scarcity drives Alabama planters to pay high prices on credit, leading to a reevaluation of the old belief that cotton only is profitable. Farmers increasingly recognize the safety of growing food when land is available and market factors pressure reliance on cotton proceeds.
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United States
Alabama
Bashful Youths and Shaw Family Laughter Tale
A correspondent recalls a bashful incident with Mr Shaw and his many Miss Shaw daughters. The narrator asks to fill beds with Shaw and is met with a humorous reply from Shaw about how many will be needed as laughter erupts at dinner.
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America
Shaw
Mr. Shaw
Protest ant Episcopal Church Convention Denounces Fundraising Methods
The Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Indiana diocese declared disapproval of fundraising for church purposes by fairs festivals lotteries tableaux and private theatricals.
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Protestant Episcopal Church
Indiana
Fragmentary Humorous Snippets and Local Gossip
A collection of quips and oddities from 19th century columns includes remarks on fainting at home, fools and sages, dream grammar, soul saving, and faults to seek. It cites Miss Smead of Kalamazoo inheriting 50000 dollars, jokes about California jokes, gas experimenters with window sashes, and a Brooklyn saloon sign.
Gipsy Woman Promises Husband Visions in Water
A gipsy woman tells two young women that the faces seen in a water-filled pail will become their husbands when they marry. They look in and see only their own faces, prompting the promise that the vision will apply to their future spouses.
Wonderful Improvement in This Age
Two centuries ago few wore stockings. Fifty years ago almost no boys roamed at night. Half a century ago girls could not work as waiting maids. The passage praises social progress and changes in manners and dress across generations.
Quote by an elderly wife on men's homemaking faults
An elderly wife laments men cannot straighten up or begin tasks and quips that God made Adam and then created a woman to tell him what to do, reflecting a humorous gendered domestic wisdom.
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Adam
Wet Weather Spouse Exchange Leads to Water Recital
A peasant returning home drenched from a storm is teased by his wife who cannot fetch water. He fetches two buckets, only to discover her drying by the fire and pouring the water over him, replying that he is as wet as she is. The exchange ends with her suggestion she fetches water herself.
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Terra
Earth
Saturday Night Chapter Brings Redemption for Dissipating Father
A bereaved mother and dying child move a dissipation marked father to seek reform after a visit from a compassionate Saturday Night reader. The story follows their grief, the dying girl’s plea for forgiveness, and the father’s conversion as kinder words heal a broken life. Five of his old companions now pursue better lives, inspired by the child’s memory.
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Gobla
Jim
Tilcome
Tam
Soverer
Fourth Avenue
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Ae Pershing & 1Omtgomery, Editors & Publishers
East Side Public Square
Kraus & Rosenthal
K. Mavity
Darnell, Scotton & Co
Main Street
J. C.johnson
M.D
Union and Taylor Streets
Wn. Scott
Main
Taylor Streets
Johnson & Scott
Witt
Public Square
Pattison & Coffins Drug Store
Jas. F. Evviott
Teague
James W. Robinson
Ofice
Kokomo Marble Works
D. W. Moore
Pealer
South Side Public Square
Kokomo Indiana
S.t. Kirk
Armstrong, Nixon & Co
Fenalside Public Square
Hr. C. Cole
Ind
Dryden & Co
N. E
N.E
W.A. Newcomb
Walnut St
Patterson
Kay
Mere Street Hotel
Walnut Street
6Th
Ohio
Davis
Purduin’s Biock
North Washington Street
R. EF. Moon
Kohomo TV
Recorders Office
Montgomery & Co., Ook & Job Printers
East Side of the Public Square
S$. Richey
Howard County
Les
J. W. Canan
N. W. Corner Union Depot
J. W. Gray
J . W.s.canan
Viavens
EAL Estate
Washington and
Kokoro
Brouse & Grange
Winchester
Sapp
Union Depot
W.D. Bapp
Feague Brothers
Pattison & Coffin's
Department of Medicine
Murray
J. Nero
Murray & Kroh, Attorneys AT Law
Kokomo, Indiana
Peru & Indianapolis Railroad
Chicago Express
Toledo
Pittsburg, Cincinati& St. Louis Railway
T. W
Peru
Amfail
the Modern Beau
Emma Hamilton
C. F
Witp Cat Lopes
E. Stratton
H. L. Moreland
S. Jerome Brown
Gray
A. H.C
Capital Stock
Greentown
M. Garuiavs
Bangor
Maine
Modern Spiritualism
Number
Lord Bolinbroke
Hume
Voltaire
Helvetius
Rousseau
France
Reason
Rousenau
A. Walker
Tampico, Indiana
Syracuse
San Francisco
California
Brooklyn
Johm Doe
Jerrold
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