Old Time Ministers Salaries and Early Church Stipends
The piece recounts historic minister salaries paid in tobacco, grain, and flour across Maryland Virginia and Vermont, with taxes and duties for clergy, examples of church provisions like Wheat and 400 bushels per year, and notes on family size shaping pay. It cites promissory pledges of support and lingering debts paid decades later, reflecting strong congregational obligation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Virginia
Justice of the Peace
Vermont
Brainard
James Martin
Piney Creek Church
Pennsylvania
William Marshall
Mayo
Powell
Higginson
Carey
Robert H. Hilliaans
New York Observer
Maiden Editorial From a Western Drugstore Writer
A Western druggist turns editor with a tall taleabout a horse pulling a furniture car containing a rented piano that frightens a crowd on State Street and Indiana. A three year old boy named Patsy, son of Michael Boliver, is struck and dies after the horse scene. The piece ends with sympathy for the family and a warning to keep children in safer streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hogan
Prairie Avenue
State Street
Indiana
Michael Boliver
Patsy
Patrick
On a Printer's Mistake
A Philadelphia Call reporter recalls printer errors causing misstatements in news. The tale centers on a grand ball report that misprinted a Belle as lookin g like she had feet and the humorous fallout from the unintended wording.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Call
Picket Instructions at Harper's Ferry War Duty
Sothern Bivowac recalls early Civil War picket duty near Harper's Ferry. He describes absurd orders to delay trains by shooting the engineer and throwing a track obstacle. Confederate commander Jackson questioned his plan, then accepted his riverward answer, leaving the impression of a crank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Potomac
Harper’s Ferry
Baltimore and Ohio
Stovewall
Harper’s Terry
Virginia
Jackson
Sothern
The Language of Christ and Aramaic Influence
The Aramaic language dominated the courts of Judea and Assyria during Hezekiah's era. After Samaria fell, Aramaic speakers replaced many northern Israelites, hastening Hebrew's decline as a spoken tongue. By the time the later Old Testament was written Hebrew survived mainly in letters and scholarship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Syria
Hezekiah
Judea
Assyria
Samaria
Israel
Davy Jones Locker Origin Story
Sailors describe Davy Jones Locker as the sea where the dead are kept. The name blends Davy from duffy ghosts among West Indian communities and Jones from the Prophet Jonah, with locker meaning a private stores receptacle in seaman’s slang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davy Jones Locker
Davy
Duffy
Jones
Jonah
Locker
Davy Jones’ Locker
Duffy Jonah
Why is it the sophs and freshmen never meet on the college green
A humorous Pittsburgh Chronicle quotation notes the rivalry between sophomores and freshmen on campus. The speaker jokes that there is always a stern before the campus, and a woman quickly realizes he uses rose pomade on his seventeen hairs moustache.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh Chronicle
A Disabling Disease and the Stomach Bitters Claim
A broad promotional passage extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal remedy for indigestion and related ailments, claiming it clears the mind, tones the stomach, and regulates the liver. It also mentions weather muse, a type setting machine, lecture plans, cholera anxieties, and a World’s Dispensary notice from Buffalo, N Y.
Eye Color Inheritance and Varied Shades Report
The Indianapolis Journal notes a Health Monthly piece stating that when both parents share eye color, 88 percent of children resemble them. It adds that, with differing parental eye colors, 55 percent follow fathers and 60 percent follow mothers in dark eyes, and highlights many shades beyond black blue brown and gray to justify many options for artificial eyes.
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Indianapolis Journal
Quackery and Heal All Claims Referenced in Proof Slip
An excerpt reproduces sensational medical cures and patent remedies, urging readers to send stamps for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets. It promotes Brown's Bronchial Cough Remedies, Cod Liver Oil from Caswell, Hazinay & Co., and Purveyors of skin treatments, touting superiority and wide availability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Casweut, Haxaby & Co
New York
Smail
St. Vitus
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chicago
Bint Nye
World's Dispensury Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Grand Union
Benephecy
Gratz
Caswell, Hazarnn & Co
Kansea Unt
C. Kyare
Beatrice
Neb
TH. Brown
Emerald Avenue
Chicace
T. Doxoten
Brewster St
Detroit
Mic
Valentine Bros
Jatesville, Wis
Jstreiotens
Lebanon
Trea
Ardtdress I. L.pond
Aurora, Kane Co
Patent Attys
Washington, D.C
J.C. Holman
Jefferson, Wisconsin
Wigland & Claybourne
R. U. Aware
Lorillard
Auear
Mark
Hops & Malt Bitters CO
Mich
DE Foote
B. B. Foote
Isaac ‘Thompson
John L. Thompson, Sons & Co
Troy
Athen
Invalids’ Hotel
Surgical Institute
Main Street
Buffalo
Sta
Partiadar
Washington
Floriida
People’s Common Sense
RV. Piercon
M.D
Tone Ao
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Invalids' Hotel
Aburidiatt
Surgiea! Institute
New Oxford Street
London
England
Iuto
Bartholow
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