All You Need Is Our Fall Stock at The Lowest Prices
A Hillsboro store advertises a vast fall lineup from dry goods to furniture and hardware. It touts low prices on clothing, hats, shoes, and ladies fashions, plus wagons, buggies, grain drills, plows, stoves, and shingles. The note promises large buying power from North and mentions precise items like Dickeys wool, Wrights underwear, Vicerene fabrics, and J. I. Nissen wagons. It pledges quick sales, high value, and invites customers to compare with other markets.
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Chattanooga
Wright
Hillsboro
New York
Reynold’s
Leonard
Shaw & Dean
Reed
J. I. Nissen
Geo. E. Nissen & Co's
Chase City
Harrison and Virginia Wagon Co’s
Lion
Anchor
Hackney Bros
China
Light on the Hill Blazes for Return Home
Poem recalls a voyager’s memory of home light on the hill and the hope it fuels. A traveler envisions a star lit path and wonders if the welcome blaze will burn when they reach the hill again. The speaker, aging yet hopeful, seeks reunion with the family awaiting on the familiar slope.
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S. E. Kiser
Gamekeeper and the Wasps A Poaching Tale
A Scottish keeper camps a pair of bold poachers led by a man named Drummond. After a failed ambush with a sack of hares, the duo exploits a wasp nest rigged to sting the pursued keeper. The plan backfires on the keeper, who is stung and left to recover, while the poachers escape with their haul.
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Catterthun
Lethnot
Forfarshire
Drummond
Gamie
Bo’tany Ray
Alone in the House Burglar Tale From Detroit Free Press
A six foot two man recalls guarding a large house left empty on July first. He faced nightly noises, kept a miniature howitzer under his pillow, and fled when a strange sound rang out. He and a policeman found nothing but a snapped banjo string, not a burglar.
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Detroit Free Press
Real Golfer Dress and Kangaroo Jump Record
The piece notes golfers prefer neglige flannels over knickerbockers with flannel jackets and madras shirts or sweaters. It adds knickerbockers are worn less and ridiculed by purists. A London Fashion blurb adds style guidance alongside impressive animal jumping records, eleven feet for a kangaroo and nine feet six inches for a deer.
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London
Come to Christ the universal invitation in Talmage’s sermon
In this 1901 Star of Faith sermon Dr. Talmage urges all people to come to salvation through Christ. He extols the word come as divine invitation, laments its misuse, and pleads for immediate faith, repentance, and trust in Jesus to escape sin and find lasting peace.
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Wasumeron
D. C
Talmage
Seraglios
Sin
Heaven
Hell
Jim
Nor
God
Christ
Thames
Drury Lane
London
Christendom
Cod
Colgotha
Jesus Christ
Lord
Amsterdam
Ghent
Copenhagen
Russia
Earth
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James Webb JR
BRO
Fic
Wasps
THE
Star OF Faith
Dr. Talmage
Word of God
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