Fall sale opens with wide stock from dry goods to wagons
A Hillsboro store invites customers to a fall sale featuring a vast array of goods from dry goods and dress fabrics to clothing hats boots and hardware. It touts low prices popular lines from rugs to wagons buggies and farm tools plus furniture stoves and fertilizers with emphasis on quantity discounts and customer welcome.
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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
Osborne
Buffalo Pitts
China
John a Dreams and Violets in an Orchard Mystery
A nurse recalls Master John and Miss Kitty as two young lovers reunite at a violets patch. A vanished heir returns, revealing a missing bank note clue that clears past family rifts. The tale ends with reconciliation and a hopeful birthday reunion in a mossy garden.
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John
Nurse Cotter
Miss Kitty
Lamb
Master John
Kitty
Sarah Cotter
Sebastian Stuart
Jack
How American Lemons Became Sour Through Sweating Cure
The piece explains that American lemons previously failed to market due to excess sugar and low acidity. After clubs sent experts to Europe, lemons are cured in stages at about fifty degrees for twenty days to sweat out sugar, then kept longer to maximize acid and juice. The process also thins the skin as acid erodes it.
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Jack
Havana
Kitty
Sebastian Stuart
John
Master John
Italy
Spain
Changing the Subject at Dinner Party
A London Globe note describes a host ending a tense exchange at a dinner by proposing a change of topic with the phrase For what we have received. The young man avoided the discussion and the room fell quiet as the host steered conversation away.
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London Globe
Composite Maxims from The Century
A collection of aphorisms attributed to The Century includes warnings about prudence and virtue. It features lines such as A penny saved spoils the broth and A word to the wise is a dangerous thing, reflecting early 20th century moralizing wit.
Way of Destruction A Plea For Higher Living
Dr Talmage in a Sunday sermon warns of nightly perils in big cities showing scenes from a third watch vigil. He urges vigilance against crime poverty and dissipation and shares a tale of a friend's descent and death to illustrate the need for reform and Christian help.
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Washington, D. C
Talmage
Babylon
Nineveh
Jerusalem
Nochor
Puigat
Charleston
Ristori
Edwin Booth
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Jack-a
John-a
Gyang
Alice Brown
St. Nicholas
DR. Talmage
Picion
West
Mr. Talmage
Roswell
Oakwood
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