A Facetious Gold Hunter Mark Twain's Pocket Miner Tale
Mark Twain nearly became a lifelong pocket miner in Calaveras County chasing gold pockets with Jim Gillis. A drizzly day yielded a small sample then rain drove them to shelter at Coon Drayton's hotel where Twain heard the Jumping Frog tale. Had Austrian prospectors seized their claim, Twain might have remained a miner and never written the famous frog story.
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Mark Twain
Jumping Frog
Mark
San Francisco
Calaverans County
Steve
Jim
Billy Gillis
Jim Gillis
California
Angels
Coon Drayton
Mississippi River
Coon
Coon’s
Gillis
Twain
Bret Harte
Pard
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Teething Children
Disturbance from a sick crying infant is eased with Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Teething. The ad claims immediate relief and multipleBenefits including curing dysentery and diarrhoea, regulating stomach and bowels, reducing inflammation, and toning the system. Sold by druggists worldwide for 25 cents a bottle.
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Winslow
United States
Expressage of a Newspaper
A frugal old man thanks citizens who helped save his house from fire. The city editor agrees to publish the gratitude but asks the man to pay about a dollar and a half for expressage in advance.
Pronunciation guides and light verse from Pall Mall Gazette
The note lists Afghan word accents with examples and stresses the second syllable in Afghanistan. It includes a comic dialogue about a wedding tour and a thirty year later variation. It also praises Millheim Marble Works and its proprietor A C Musser as an expert mechanic with low prices. A poet laments missing a wife to tend the fire.
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Cabul
Herat
Kurrachee
Peshawar
Afghanistan
Pall Mall Gazette
Millheim
A.C. Musser
Firearms and Prices Offered in Local Advertisements
The listing shows guns and breech loaders priced from 1.00 to 10.00, double barrell shotguns from 13.00 to 35.00, revolvers from 1.00 to 1.60, Winchester rifles Model in Central Fire Fire eight inch barrel at 18.00, muzzle loading shotguns from 2.50 for a single and 14.50 for a double, 17.00 for twenty.
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Winchester
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Spooney
Theodore Deshner
Great Central Gun Works
Bellefonte
Pennsylvania
Greveland Stearns
The
Goshen Sweeper and Wringer Co
Goshen, Ind
D. I. Brown
Tinware &c
Main St
Albright’s
N.H. Downs
Henry, Johnson & Lord
Props
Burlington
Downs’ Elixir
Spigh LM Lite
Millheim & Madisonbug
Watson
Td Blower
Waterz
West
Ofiica
Curtis
Mason’s Power Butter Warner
Cornish, Curtis & Greene
Port Atkinson
Wis
Westavenae Rice
Man
Henry, Johnson & Lord, Proprietors
Burlington, VI
Spigelmyer’s
Madisonburg
Buck Bros
ART Gallery
North St
Millheim, Pa
Little Giant Gang
Ket
Sunbury Pa
E. H. Zimmerman
Wilmot Castle & Co
Rochester, N.Y
Vick’s
Vick’s Illustrated Monthly
Ick’s
Unamed
St. Nicholas
Good Cheer
Illustraristian Weekly
Wide Awake
VICK
James Vick
Rochester
N. Y
Thomson & CO
Stats Street
New Haven
Conn
Penn Street
W. T. Mauck
Milleeim Journal
J Cies
Coop Presses
Bill Heads
Horton M’f’g CO
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Henry Baxter
Mandrake Bitters
A. Simon & Sons
Main Street
Lock Haven
Simon Brothers
Boss Clothiers
Benson
Lorillard
Climax
Stinson & Co
Portland
Maine
America
H. Hallert & Co
Address National CO
Dey St
N.Y
Acti
Dr.scot
Oase
Tau & Co
Augusta
Miltheim
Madisonburg, Pa
E& Ros
S.S. Stafford
New York
P. W. Zeigler & CO
Phila
Fdelphia Fa
W. Zeigler
W. H. Fay&co
Camden,n.j
John Bull
Ijiohn Bull
Smith
Bull
Louisville, EY
Bichay Lgs
Brookside Farm
Andy
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