Free Press specimen copy offered to Indiana readers
An advertisement extols free specimen copies of The Detroit Free Press. It promotes the paper as entertaining and high in literary standard, with war sketches and nationwide correspondence. It highlights readership among farmers and professionals and urges subscriptions through Indiana Sentinel promotions.
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Indiana
THE
Sentinel
Weekly Sentinel
Indiana State Sentinel
Indianapolis Sentinel CO
Indianapolis
John J. Cooper
Detroit Free Press
Bankruptcy notice appointing assignee for George W. Wilbey
District of Indiana notice states that George W. Wilbey of Posey County Indiana was adjudged bankrupt on his own petition and that T. J. Truscott is the designee assignee in this district.
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District of
Indiana
George W. Wilbey
Posey County
District Court
T. J. Truscott
Rates and Rules of Advertising in The Register
The Register lists subscription costs of 150 dollars yearly or 82 after six months, with strict payment enforcement and new engagement on discontinuance. Advertising rates are shown for squares, fractions treated as full, and column ads priced by size and duration, with prepayment for transient ads and payment on delivery for job work.
Silent Hands and Eyes Rest for the Dead
The verse laments toil and sorrow, urging lifeless hands to rest and asleep eyes to close. It contrasts dead endurance with living pain, soothing with images of final peace and release from suffering through a calm, final sleep. The speaker treats death as rest from forever toiling, a comforting closure for those who endured.
Bonny bird of love lifts heart in song
A poem sings of a bird nesting in the heart, whose sweet songs banish toil and sorrow. The speaker finds strength and happiness in the bird’s tune, asking it to stay and brighten life with tender music through day and night.
Circumstantial Evidence in a 1660 Murder Case
A 1660 case saw Perry and his mother hanged for a murder that never occurred as the supposed victim later reappeared alive. John Perry accused his mother and brother after years of alleged robberies. confessions faltered, but all were condemned until the missing man turned up as a slave in the Turks. The tale highlights flawed indictments and shifting beliefs in old trials.
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Perry
Mr. Harrison
John
Jobin
Harrison
Lisbon
Dover
England
Sad Romance of Six Young Ladies in Williamsport
Norristown Herald recounts five years of fate for ten local young women once close friends. Two married congressmen, one wed an editor, one joined a clergyman, another writes poetry for a magazine, and another paired with a witty parager. The rest joined a croquet club and lost temper and prospects. The item also notes the King of Burmat married his half sister as a pointed aside.
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Williamsport
Aociety
J ¥Averly
Norristown Herald
Wreck and Reckoning at the Caithness Rectory
May Westleigh clings to a holly branch as Thomas Mildmay aids her in a tense morning scene at the rectory. In Scotland, John Westmacott returns home to find May engaged to Mildmay, a crime of passion ensues, and a river tragedy unfolds. Two years later a storm rescue reveals Mildmay innocent and Westmacott alive, ending in reconciliation and May’s engagement to Mildmay.
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Tiptoe
May Westleigh
Thomas Mildmay
John Westmacott
Jack
Rily
Caithness
May
John Wearmacott
England
May Weatleigh
Tom
Papa
Jobo Westmacots
Cain
Tom Mildmay
Norway
Chance
Scotland
Sam
The Poplar as a Lightning Conductor
An Austrian report notes a poplar near Crans on Lake Geneva as a lightning conductor. Two large upper branches took the strike and fell without damage, while the trunk below was shattered, illustrating trees as conductors and the influence of nearby water sources on lightning paths.
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Chateau of
Crans
Lake Geneva
Young bootmaker rises from loafers to wife and shop
A shoe shop tale shows one industrious worker outshining five idle colleagues who flirt and fritter away work hours. He starts his own boot and shoe store, marries the good girl, and takes her out at night while his former companions drift into dissipation and a nearby saloon. Robert Inversell is referenced in passing.
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Scotiare
Robert
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Thia
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