Plant a Home Poem Encourages Saving and Home Ownership
A poem advises young readers to save money and build a home rather than waste resources. It urges saving dimes and dollars, choosing a beautiful place to settle, and creating memories for future children. It ends with a call to start saving now to own land and enter heaven through a settled home.
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Heaven’s Gate
Ward Arlington and Andra Benair's Ocean Adventure
Ward Arlington plans a world ramble to gather curios from seas and shores. A chance meeting with Andra Benair unlocks a romance as a storm forces their peril on a Gulf steamer Seguna and an English harbor rescue.
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Wad
Arlington
Margaret
Cumberland
Ward Arlington
Ocean
Yeddo
Japan
Ward
Yellow Sea
Ceylon
Sooloo Island
Cuba
England
Largo Point
Lancet
Tam
Andra Benair
Ir. Benair
Mr. Benair
Andra
Havana
Gulf
Andrey Benair
Andre Senet
Benair
Mr. Arlington
Tiger
Ee Seguna
Tropics
Asham
Ward Arlim
Andrew Benair
Dra
Andrey
Re Seey
Andra Arlington
Blaine at Home and the Chicago Nomination Cheer
Augusta telegram reports a jubilant Blaine reception in Water Street after the Chicago balloting. Crowds cheered, banners rose, and Blaine spoke from his home porch thanking friends after the news of his nomination spread.
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Augusta
Western Union Telegraph Office
Water Street
Blaine
Mr. Blaine
Chicago
William Walter Phelps
E Apple Tree
Union
Door Gone Shame and Firefly Wit in Yonkers Gazette
A garbled clipping notes a farmer's barn door missing and his quip Door-gone shame. It pairs a literary aside about a firefly and a social remark on wit versus profanity in a humor-filled Yonkers Gazette fragment.
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Addison. Jobbins
Yonkers Gazette
Snake Loosened in Sleeping Car Sparks Hysterics Aboard
An incident aboard a eastbound train from St. Louis near Effingham to Dayton ends with a green snake freed from a wicker cage. A ten year old boy carried the cage and later retrieved the reptile before the conductor dumped cage and snake from the window. The scene involved a frightened passenger near the ladies' dressing room and a shouting conductor.
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St. Louis
Effingham
Dayton
Weathered Proverb Fragments From a Quiet Corner
A reader notes a well windlass needing repairs and rotted rope while musing on self trust and resilience. The quote collection then offers maxims from merchants and authors on faith, misfortune, elegance, and kindness, reflecting common sense and humane advice.
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Goldsmith
Emerson
Fuller
Ranch Listings and Stock Brands in Nebraska and Chase County
Stock directory notes a ranch on Red Willow Thornburg Hayes County branding J M on left side with J on left jaw for calves and E on left shoulder for horses. Also offers 1000 acres deeded land near No 1 school privileges with Black and Byfield hay lands and two houses, J F Black contact at Indianola. Another ranch at Spring Canyon Frenchman River Chase County brands include 717 left side T on right hip L right shoulder X jaw with various ear notches and under crop details.
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Red Willow
Thornburg
Hayes County
Neb
J. M
Red Willow Creek
J. F. Black
Indianola
Postoffice
Max
Dundy County
Nebraska
Osborn, Neb
Frontier County
Spring Canyon
Frenchman River
Chase County
McCook
E. P. Brand
E. P
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M. A. Spalding
Stock Directory
Dennis M’killip
W. J. Wilson
Henry T. Church
Spring Creek Cattle CO
Republican Valley
Dry Creek
Spring Creek
J. D. Welborn
John Hatfield & Son
Republican River
C. D. Phelps
Culbertson
Republican
P. O
Culbertson, Neb
C.D. Brcanbrack
Stokes & Troth
Carrico
George J. Frederick
P.O
McCook, Neb
W. N. Proctor