Valentine Mischief Ends in Kindness at School
A group of children plan a valentine post office at the schoolhouse. Billy Townsend, nicknamed Snub-nosed Billy, receives a cruel prank that exposes his loneliness. Miss Sloan rebukes the tease, comforts Billy, and the class vows support, while revealing the broader lesson on kindness.
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Harry May
Allen Kirk
Valentine Post-Office
Tom Grant
Dolly
Fred Stine
Billy
Jance
Aria
Billy Townsend
Miss Sloan
Valentine
Bill
Dismal People and Their Cautious Worldview
A reflective piece on dismal individuals who cling to duty and sorrow as creed. It argues most dismals are well intentioned, see life as sin and suffering, and resist happiness, yet suggests they may still love in their own spare, duty-bound way despite the gloom.
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Blockley Almshouse
Philadelphia
Asylum For
Mammoth right whale captured off Southampton L I
An exciting chase ends with a nearly 40 foot long right whale to land after being towed by three boats. It may yield about 70 barrels of oil plus whalebone and is valued around 1200 dollars. This is the third such capture recently, suggesting a school drawn near shore by hunger.
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Southampton
L. I
The Prospective Lady of the White House Portrait
An article discusses Mrs. Hendricks wife of Vice President elect Hendricks as the probable future hostess of the White House. It portrays her age around fifty, childless, attentive to her husband, well informed, charitable, and active in society. It notes gossip about potential first lady candidates and praises her judgment, taste, and social grace.
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Stampshire
Bartholomew
Emma RB. Tracy
York
Artemus Emory
Independence
Wis
Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County
Pottsville
Cleveland
Buffalo
Albany
White House
Hendricks
Batchelor
Indiana
Mrs. Hendricks
Boy dies after smoking cigar in Missouri store
A fourteen year old son of Mr B Bunch of Economy Marion county Missouri smoked a cigar and died from tobacco poison within about thirty minutes. He began vomiting violently in the store and was carried home. The father fetched a physician about a hundred yards away but found the boy dead on return.
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B. Bunch
Marion County
Pennsylvania Railroad Announces Reduced Excursion Rates
The Pennsylvania Railroad invites large crowds along its lines to Washington for the inauguration of President-elect Cleveland. Excursion tickets to Washington will be sold at greatly reduced rates from all stations, and special trains will be added to handle the increased passenger flow.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Washington
Cleveland
Cleveland and Luck Jones Forecast Riches Before Inauguration
A dialogue imagines Cleveland profiting before his inauguration, with Luck Jones noting salaries start only at inauguration and speculative gains from interim opportunities. The exchange mentions letters from office seekers treated as waste paper, legally valuable only as two-cent paper stock, implying potential wealth ahead of March 4.
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Jones
Cleveland
Smith
Vanderbilt
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Franklin House
Penna. R.R
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Lititz
J. M. Keiper
N. Queen Street
Lancaster
NEW Post Office
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Lancaster City
Hrawn
OC. H. Brown
West Orange Steet
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Venume
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Prop’r
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COAL
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Queen St., Lancaster
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Pal
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Jersey
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Morris River
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Harry
Charley
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Chester County
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Edward III
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England
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Medicare
Don Cameron
Florida
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Drexel
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