The Man Who Percolated in Court
Henry Longfellow Townsend arrives in ragged, muddy attire charged with vagrancy. He defends himself with a rambling speech, prompting the judge to suspend sentence and allow him to “percolate outdoors.” This Detroit Free Press item illustrates a humorous court scene.
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Henry Longfellow Townsend
Vagran
Henry
Gange
de Parleece
Napoleon
Julius Caesar Allus
Henry Clay
Dan’t Webster
Bijah
Therisoner
Detroit Free Press
Manure the Farm to Improve Land Richmond Planter Advice
Do not cultivate poor land limit the area to your manure capacity and gain from it. Exert to produce manure on the farm homemade manures cost little and avoid debt from commercial fertilizers. Use green fallow crops to clothe the earth, keep stock fed, diversify crops, and rely on the farm to sustain manure. No grass no stock no manure and no permanent land improvement.
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Mother Earth
Richmond
Chestnut Theft Foiled by Friendly Farmer in Montgomery County
Three city boys, seeking chestnuts, meet a kind elderly farmer who warns them about stealing. He feigns weakness to distract a dog, helps them gather a large pile of chestnuts while assuring safety until the railroad track, then shoves the loot into a two-bushel sack as the owner is away.
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Montgomery County
United States General Land Office
General Land Office
Department of the Interior
Gilmore & CO
Washington, D.C
Terms of Sale for Edward Stomer Estate
A one year credit will be granted to the purchaser who gives a note with approved freehold security and waives relief laws, bearing interest from date and providing for an attorney fee. Sale begins at 10 o'clock a.m. on the stated day. Edward Stomer, Administrator.
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Circuit Court
Posey County
Indiana
Benjamin Amon
John Amon
Richard Young
John G. Young
Mt. Vernon
Cynthiana
Alex. Crank
Martin R. Miller
Posey Circuit Court
Robb Township
Possy County
Wabash
Edward Stomer
The
Scientific American
All
Munn & CO
Park Row
New York
Messrs. Munn & Co
F & 7Th Sts
Washington, D.C
Seymour Times advertises bold freethinker vision and prices
The Seymour Times boasts 25 years upcoming in March 1881 and promotes itself as a fearless, principles-light publication defending ministers yet skeptical of superstition. It markets itself as a 6 column quarto with bold type, aimed at freethinkers, and lists subscription rates 215 a year 110 for six months and 60 cents for three months with red stamps for samples.
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Seymour Times
Mississippi Valley
Gabriel
the Times
Great West
Satan
J.R. Monroe
M. D
Seymour, Indiana
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Tourall
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William J.owen
Alfred Dale Owen
Bens. F. Grafton
Story B. Ladd
Walbert E. Paine
Patents
Paine, Grafton & Ladd
Fifth Street
Patent Office
Supreme
Circuit Courts
United States
Supreme Court of
Posey
Vanderburgh
Court House
Seps Y Mount Vernon
Ind
Peter Weber
New Harmony
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Peter
Weber
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St. George Hotel
Henry Brown
Henry Mann
Thos. Ferguson
H. Hanterr & Co
Portland
Maine
Farmers’ Headquarters
E.f.owen
H.P. Owen
E. F. Owen & Co
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Hoover & Co
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Eagle Machine Works
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Boots & Shoes
Main Street
William Hartman
Main St
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Mrs. James
Viets Hotel
Campaign Courier
the Courier Company
Julo
Evansville
EAGLE
Tavern
New Harmony, Ind
J. T. Eagle
J.T. Eagle
Stinson & Co
True & Co
Augusta
D. Wittiam P. Ford
the Seymour Times
Kendall
P. N. Granger
St. Albans
Ij.b. Kendall
Gents
Jetter
P.N. Granger
Stoughton
Mass
B. J. Kendall & Co
Kelley's Island
Erie Co
Ohio
B. J. Kendall
R. A. Gaines
Enosburg Falls
Joan G. Jenne
Concord N
Concord
Underhill & Kittredge
Apothecaries
L. T. Foster
Youngstown
B.J. Kendall
Bakersfield, Vt
Mrs. J. Boutell
Vermont
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Minneapolis
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Chipman, Hosmer , Co
F Street
Washington, D. C
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Supreme Court of the United States
Court of Claims
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P.O. Box
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Joseph West
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East Main Street
Ooeman Tap
Peter Hec
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