New Furniture Store Opens in New Iarmony with Low Prices
Willoomalsof announces a new furniture store on the West Side of Main Street next to the Post Office in New Iarmony, offering cheap good furniture and custom orders with low rates. Coffins of all descriptions are kept ready for use at all times.
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Guy
Apll Lichtenberger & Sons
New Harmony
Willoomalsof
Main Street
New Iarmony
Duliana
Evansville Road
Williams
East Main Sprait
Harmony
Ind
Lichtenberger & Sons
Postoffice
Od Wendel Schmitt
New Orleans
Editor of a Morning Paper Exposed in Domestic Debacle
In a London villa neighborhood a wife endures a husband’s late nachthours and alleged gambling while neighbors debate his character. A visiting friend insists the husband is a model of virtue, until a startling reveal shows he is a newspaper editor.
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Barton
Mary
Regent Street
Oxford Street
Merton Road
Wawthorn Villa
Mrs. Barton
Gambler
Mrs. Law
London
Mrs. Jian
Irish Crollery at Barringtons Bedside Duel
A tale from Clonmel to Dublin recounts Davies Barrington facing Foley in a comic duel of manners. Foley arrives in sleet after a long ride, threatens to break bones, and ends up sharing breakfast with Barrington after a bluff sleep, as both men display wit over fear during a tense encounter. The记 occurrence highlights Irish bravado and counselly cunning.
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Davies Barrington
Bristol
Clonmel
Barrington
Dublin
Foley
Harcourt Street
Mr. Foley
Davies
Tipperary
Man of Few Words Demands Lavish Postprandial Service
A Rockland Globe portrait notes a man of few words issuing a long list of demands for room service and staff to perform with exactness. The piece mentions Barnum offering money to walk against time, and cites the Boston Globe debating offers to Booth’s theater as rent figures rise with the season.
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Rockland Globe
Barnum
Weston
Boston Globe
Booth
New York
The Reflecting Palvanometer and Early Atlantic Telegraphy
An operator in a dark room uses Sir William Thompson's reflecting palvanometer to read signals from Valencia. A tiny magnet and mirror translate electric pulses into a moving spot of light that forms letters of the alphabet, revealing messages at high speed.
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Wayne
Valencia
Pain Free Tooth Drawing Quack Exposed
A sensational account contrasts a supposed pain free tooth drawing by a quack with the real methods of Cartwright, Damerge and Parkinson. The narration mocks claims of painless extraction while detailing boasted “superiority” of the quack’s technique and deflates misused language about language origins.
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Vooth-Paulling
Cartwright
Dumerge
Damerge
Parkinson
Never Wiring Salesman and a Grim Social Picture
A columnist likens newspaper advertising to a tireless salesman reaching all walks of life. The Columbus inquiry returns a stark scene of debt ridden districts, a shambling spike team hauling whisky, and hungry children, contrasted with women discussing dress patterns and a boy with a tin horn seeking rest.
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The
Columbus Maquirer
Dore
Spelling Jono 8 Stuns Andover Professor on Train
A Boston Tran piece recounts a humorous meeting at a depot in which a famed theologian from Andover Massachusetts cannot recall a friend’s name. The encounter ends with the friend revealing his spelling as J-o-n-o 8, prompting mutual amusement.
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Gus Raime
Boston Transcript
Andover
Mass
General Scotts Little Precaution
The late Gen Winfield Scott valued practical experience and rejected gossip. He vowed to never interview a woman without a third person present as a witness, a rule he kept despite pressure from a cultivated intriguer. The note asks if clergymen should adopt the same precaution to avoid trouble.
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Winfield Scott
Ilo
Gen. Scott
New York Sun
Tact and Its Subtle Reach in Everyday Motion
A compact meditation on tact as a deft servant shaping action through small, nimble acts. It describes tact as quick, versatile, and resourceful, capable of unlocking many doors with words and gestures, guiding the world while remaining unseen.
Beans Burning Prank Brings Churchwide Laughter
A suburban family left two children in charge as beans burned on a stove. The younger girl cried out to a cousin at church, alarming the congregation with the shouted warning Come home the beans are burning, provoking relieved smiles and church-wide amusement.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Sydney Smith Imprecations Grow From Odd Comic List
An anecdote portrays Sydney Smith silencing a noisy crowd with a volley of absurd mathematical and geometric insults. The crowd, hearing terms like isosceles rhomboid and hypotenuse, assumes a savage new invective and stands aghast at the bizarre lecture on chemistry and fish names.
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Sydney Smith
Billingsgate
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the Register
Slater
Reppall
Mrs. Kennedy
R Kennedy
Sam
Posgy County
Kronch
A. VY. Graphic
General Scotts
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