An Eastern Lady’s Western Station Coffee Misadventure
A Western rail station tale recalls a kind yet misguided ranchman who stirs a woman’s coffee with a dirty knife to help dissolve sugar. She endures the improvised aid, drinks the brew, and notes the odd blend of generosity and crude practicality in frontier life.
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United States
Boston Courier
Jan Child
Annie Geesling
Columbia
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Gold theft risk in New York jewelry shops contrasts with tobacco security
In the city’s largest jewelers 35 440 worth of gold is used daily and not weighed for workers, relying on employer honesty. Yet tobacco is locked up because practice shows a thief would steal neighbor’s tobacco if not the employer’s.
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Jeffersonville
Ferguson
Senvicel William Benson
Jacob Mottweiler
Fort Wayne
Albion
Agas
Marion
Indianapolis
James C. Morgan
Seaves
Vincennes
Sylvester Grubb
Terrilla
Scaffell
Gertrude Downey
Princeton
Francisco
Broad Hippie Natural Gas Company
UL Desuan
Laporte
J. Acra
Columbus
Mr. Acra
Washington
Winnie Borrerstat
Johnnie Beadle
Shelbyville
Lewis Calhoun
Taraporns C. Woooratry
William EL. Moulton
Evansville
Grerdua
Sameen
Cravery
Greentown
Charley
Bey
Cartes Street
Muncie
F. W
Eusins
Mars
H. Wiens
Shelby
Connersville
Ban Goodheart
Buckley Hall
Jacon Crank
Goshen
Pisprke
Goshan
Madison
J. W. Exit
LaMcer Straus
D.C Baldwin & Co
New Albany
Clark
Floyd County
David Bearer
Vandalia
Owens County
Louisville
Chicago
Neynolds
Tippecanoe Colliery
Wabash River
New York
Rheumatism and health elixirs advertised in 19th century ad
Readers are urged to use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for rheumatism and related ailments. Other notices promote Carter's Little Liver Pills, Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar, Pike's Toothache Drops, and a Mississippi firm ordering 40 million wooden butter dishes from a St Louis house.
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Hale
Pike
Editor's Back Stairs and Dr. Holland Views on Remedies
A column critiques proprietary medicines and medical codes, praising Warner's Safe Cure and the grandmother cure, contrasting editor ads with physician authority. It notes Dr. Carnot as a whist player, Carter's Little Liver Pills benefits, and mentions 23 foreign-language newspapers in the republic.
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W. G. Holland
Dr. Holland
Scribner’s Monthly
Warner
Mrre. G
Bre
Worbo
Dispensary Medical Association
Proprietors
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State Intelligence
Mr. Oilman
Iowa
Carter
Missiseipra
St Lous Bousa
Cincinnati
eCholes Dairy
Dhefer Creamery
Os & Wa
Western Steam
Baltimore
Louisvil
M. Carnot
French Republic
Republic
Hood
Miy
George F. Jackson
Roxbury Station
Conn
G.W. Sloan
Milton
Mass
Flood
C. Pammelee
Ridge Street
Brooklyn
N.Y
Hood & CO
Apattiecariexs
Lowell
Ely
Cloerd
R. J. Cresenghim
Ith Street
Brocstimn
USA
Weents
LLY Brothers
Morriss
Bradfield
Regulator
Ctr
Waynesvills
Jacobs Oll
Kilbon
Reenville
Jacobs
Weaver
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore, MD
Canada
J. A. Magee & CO
Lawrence
Ad. C. Nance
Hobbyville
Ind
Radway
Druccists
J. E. Case T. Fi. CO
Lance Hieshaone
Celine
Murray St
Missouri Pacific R
Edicent A
Arkansas Cly
Winteld
Anthony & Hiowa
Kansas
Ft. Smith
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Towns End
General Pacsencer
St. Lor
ALIVE
Mrs. D
Mrs. G
Pierce
Wr. L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
W. J. Douglas
Congress
Sted and
Ae i
Dougla
Brockton
Joseph H. Hunter
H H. Hunter
Soeyerzeesy
Slaim
Cincinna Nado
Sottpzy
Igagents SA
Bgldee CO
Valentine Bros
Janesville
Wls
Wells
Drs
Brees
Clactynatt
Hin
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