London Memoir of a Foolish Bachelor and a Hidden Woman
A respectable London bachelor recounts a Kent visit during Sir James Barfield’s murder. He shelters a youth who is later revealed as a woman in disguise. the chase ends with his arrest and ultimate exoneration amid a nationwide search for the killer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tharan
London
George
Kent
James Barfield
S Lr
James
Beechenbrook
Barfield House
Sir James
Bascomb Street
Tommy West
Tommy
England
Nothing Funny About It Beene A DrugGists Shop In Scotland
A fragment describes a Beene druggists shop in a small Scotch village serving travelers. A cycling tourist enters and buys a cigar then tries to engage the proprietor but is met with reticence. The exchange hints at weather talk and the village atmosphere.
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Beene
Pasalig
Spelling difficulties and medical tonics in a mixed era notice
A fragmentary set of anecdotes and ads from an old newspaper page. It references an Irish worker named Patrick Oshill and a dialect anecdote about spelling. The excerpt includes medical advertisements for Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment and Ballard's Horehound Syrup, along with Herbine and Burdock Blood Bitters promoting digestion, vigor, and general health benefits.
The Grasshopper's Habit Rouses Childlike Talk
The Philadelphia Press reports a playful exchange where a grasshopper explains a mother's warning about playing with a tobacco juice spewing potato bug. The tale captures a childlike miscommunication and local humor from a newspaper page.
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Philadelphia Press
Free $10 X Ray Exam and Electric Therapy Claim
Advertisement asserts a free ten dollar X ray examination and a new treatment using a gentle electric oscillator that sends perceptible impulses through medicated air to restore health. It promises cures for varicocele and stubborn conditions without operation and claims immediate, lasting improvement and renewed bodily energy.
New Scientific Treatment Promises Quick Nervous Debility Relief
Abbreviated ad-style notice touts a new medical treatment for nervous debility insomnia and low vitality. It claims to rejuvenate mind and body by a lighted examination and a specific remedy, advertising Dr Horne as a renowned specialist with free consultations.
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Horne
Western Union Office Hours Listed in Moline
Western Union Telegraph Company at 312 16th Street Moline Illinois lists business hours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Superintendent W F Stockmann announced the telephone contact as Western Union.
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Western Union Telegraph Company
16Th St
Moline, Til
W. F. Stockmann
Telephone “Western Union
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Fico
Horace Grant
Ore Baes
Patrick Oshill
Pat
F. J. Clendenin
Ballard
J. Clendenin
Price Bio
Mark Twain
G. C. Clemens
Topeka
Kan
Ted
Samuel B. Clemens
Mark
Dr. Miles Medical Co
Clemens
Miles
Norman Waltrip
Bankers’ Fraternal Society
Chicago
Mr. Pain Pills
Dr. Miles
Drusgiste
Elkhart, Ind
Lightning Medicine CO
Rock Island
Ill
Oli’ve M
Hoex Island County
J. Alvin Horne
Mitchell & Lynda Bidg
Holine
Third Avenue
Moline
ETS Printing
E. J. Bronson
the Journal
Depot
THE
Emery
Illinois District Telegraph Co
Tri-Cities
Molind, Hul
Jim Gould
I T Browning
J. Gillmore
J. M. Gould
C. H. Deere
Wm. Butterworth
J. T. Browning
H Sleight
H. A. Barnard
T. M. Sechler
F. W. Gould
Gillmore
Morris Geismar
C. P. Skinner
First National Bank
Guttenburg
Copenhagen
Hamburg
Bremen
Stats Ensies
Qianse
Jens Lorenzen
Chas
N. Voss
R. Andresen
Kaufmann
H. H. Andress
G. Clausen
H. Griggs
H. Lischer
STORS
T. A. Murphy
Paulo Roddewig
H. O. Selffert
Moline, TN
EF. G. Allen
H. A. Ainsworth
Bol Hirsch
F. G Allen
L. C. Blamding
Geo. W. Johnson
Geo. D. Duns
A. Ainsworth
J. Silas Leas
Ar Ainsworth
M. W. Battles, Jr
Mel Hirsch
J. B. Oakleaf
United States
Europe
Banking House
16Th Street
Keller
Earth
Éef
Seventh Avenue
Wheelock Attedan
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