Madisonburg Physician and Surgeon Ad Offers Modern Care
A Madisonburg physician and surgeon advertises services with years of experience and modern accommodations. Office opposite the Public School House, shop near Millheim Banking House on Main Street. Also notes another practitioner, G E L Springer, with location details in the same era notice.
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Physician & Surgeon
Main Street
Madisonburg
Milheim Banking House
Milehei
E L. Springer
Deserter's Sister Thin Edge of Mercy in Civil War Tale
A Detroit Free Press recounts a Confederate camp tale of 17-year-old Joe Wilson facing execution for desertion and his bright sister Nellie who swaps places with him. The plan succeeds, Joe escapes to Union lines, and authorities suspend further action as Grant intervenes.
The Boy Buried Returns Alive in Spanish Cholera Tale
A Madrid letter from Ulea in Murcia describes a cholera tale where a middle aged man dies and his 11 year old son Jose Gomez dies soon after. The boy rises from the grave the next day and speaks to the gravedigger before wandering home to beg for food, then frolics about as villagers stagger in disbelief. The tale ends with a reflection on changing skies rather than dispositions.
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Madrid
Spain
Ulea
Murcia
Jose Gomez
Bueno
el Chico
Man Seals Shirt Button With Tin Box Hint
Private Pat McGinnis vented frustration with his laundress wife at home station. After repeated missing buttons, he drilled two holes in a tin backing box and sewed it to the shirt neck. The laundress later stitched a matching button-hole, taking the hint.
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Pat McGinnis
A Wife’s Late Night Sewing Earns Praises
A Detroit Free Press tale recalls a husband who awakens to find his wife sewing buttons on his pantaloons after he admits a habit of stealing from his pockets. He praises her, noting that a wife who sews at midnight is a priceless treasure and an ornament to her sex.
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Jones
Mrs. Jones
Mr. Jones
Detroit Free Press
The Thistle and the Cornstalk Moral Tale
A Canada thistle ridicules a garden corn stalk but grows into a boastful weed. The farmer disputes the thistle and roots it out, teaching that one honest grain outweighs many false pretenders. Moral: thieves who abuse law reveal themselves.
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Detoit Free Press
A Kind Voice and the Power of Gentle Speech
The author argues that true kindness rests in a gentle voice and touch. A sharp tone from youth can harden over time, bringing ill will, grief, and spoiled home joy. Develop a kind, sweet voice now, for it enriches the heart like light to the eye and lasts a lifetime.
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Elihu Buritt
How Greely Was Sold
Green Russell of Lumpkin County Georgia journeyed to California during the early gold rush, bought a Savannah plantation, and later explored Kansas and Colorado. He recalls meeting Horace Greeley at Pike's Peak, noting Greeley encouraged a Territorial Government and witnessed a salted gold hoax in Gregory diggings before gold flowed freely again.
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Green Russell
Lumpkin County
Georgia
California
Savannah
Etowah River
Dawson County
Kansas
Big Blue River
Rocky Mountains
Arkansas
Pike’s Peak
Horace Greely
Colorado
Greeley
Gregory
Conductor Frazer Fights Death as Wife Races Home
Conductor Frazer of the International and Great Northern Railroad was shot by a tramp in Tyler Texas. He battled death for hours urging his crew to tell stories and keep him alive until his wife could arrive on a special train. A telegram announced her imminent arrival but Frazer died before she reached him.
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Leetle Joe
Joey
Richmond
Little Joe
Joe
Nell
Joseph Wilson
Nellie Wilson
Jim
Grant
Detroit Free Press
Frazer
International and Great Northern Railroad
Tyler
Texas
Charlie
What Sort of Morality On Debts Is Justified
The text questions a debtor’s morality when avoiding payment by avoiding dunning. It asks what morality allows nonpayment of small overcharges or undercharges and excuses delaying payment until civil law compels. It argues that true morality should not deny a debt or steal through evasion.
Sail Car Romance on the Great Prairie Wind
A lighthearted reminiscence recalls a telegraph operator who used a sail attached to a tie-car to travel between stations on Saturdays to visit his girlfriend, aided by the western prairie wind. He notes winds varied, requiring a second “girl” fifteen miles east for direction changes.
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Nebraska
Peculiar odor near bank tested with a lighted match
A judge urges DeKaggs to prove a natural gas odor from a crevice by lighting a match, despite safety concerns about possible explosion. The exchange ends with the judge insisting on the proof.
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DeKaggs
Scott
Propriety Medicine Industry Totals Across United States
The census reports 563 proprietary medicine establishments employing 4 015 workers with 10 520 000 in capital and 14 682 000 in annual product. New York leads in investment and output, with Pennsylvania and Missouri following in capital and Massachusetts in output. About twenty five American proprietary medicines have large sales in England.
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United States
New York State
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Ohio
Massachusetts
New York
England
A Mighty Sentence From Genesis Explains Vast Creation
The opening Bible line In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth is praised as a weighty universal statement. It embraces God Heaven earth creation and beginning and seen as addressing major scientific and philosophical questions.
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Heaven
Earth
Creation
Witnesses Recount Barroom Fight and Poker Night Twist
In Castle Garden neighborhood a piano tale describes a Tin Cap camp scene ending with a poker game for lodging. A stranger wins four aces and a king, taking five dollars, sparking a funeral the next day and a police sighting. The narrator admits to being the stranger, prompting a late confession and a humorous reunion.
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Castle Garden
Aleman
Panta
Idaho
Trritor
Telees
Southern industrial surge boosts economy and jobs
The piece notes growing mills, factories, saw-mills, and shops across the South with capital investments from $1000 to $200,000. New flouring mills fruit evaporating concerns cotton seed oil mills ice factories and machine shops join a wave of enterprise, housing and store building rising as the region aims to offset depression.
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Southy
New Roller Flour Offered at Mainstreet Millheim Store
Notice announces a new product, Roller Flour, manufactured by J Budisher Penn Gall, for sale at D S Kauffman and Co's new store on Main Street in Millheim, Pennsylvania.
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J. Budisher
Penn Gall
D.S
Kauffman &Qoo’s
Mainstreet Millheim
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L. Lee
D. Geo. S. Frank
Rebersburg, PA
O. Deininger
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Jno.h. Orvidl
M Bower
Eilis L. Orvis
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Bellefonte, PA
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Yocum
Ipoane
S.gi
Hoy
Tmoc
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K-Beaver
J. W. Gephart
Gephart
Bellefonte
Alleghany Street
High Street
Roukerhoff
Allegheny St
C. G. McMillen
Umming House
Bishop Street
Emanuel Brown
Jefferson Davis
Virginia
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