The Hidden Letter That Reveals a Forbidden Love
A husband finds a rain soaked letter from his wife Lucie confessing she does not love him and secretly receives comfort from another man Percy. The note reveals her misery and longing, suggesting a clandestine past and an unsettled marriage in Daphne Dell after their first year of marriage.
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Daphne Dell
Lucie
Thad
Will
Granger
PrRcy
Percy
Bolan
The Letter and the Hidden Love
A man uncovering his wife Lucie’s secret romance confronts betrayal and a newborn child. Her confession reveals she writes stories for money and loves him still as they reconcile. In another tale, South Carolina officials exploit a trip to New York to sign bonds and seal a large state deal, paying $12,000 a day in hotel costs.
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New York
South Carolina
Kalakaua
Visit to the execution ground in Canton China
A correspondent tours Canton’s execution ground, describing a narrow open area where thousands have been beheaded. He notes mass executions during war and ritual practices, with heads kept by the government and bodies given to kin, while witnessing jars of heads and cross-staked criminals surrounding the site.
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Canton
China
Hale
Pike
Beattie
W. D. Wright
Cincinnati
WM. Teal
Reconstruction Echoes Of A South Carolina Clerk’s Rise
A Philadelphia observer recalls a South Carolina official during the carpet bag era who rose from a modest divinity student to a department clerk earning 1200 a year while recalling a 12000 hotel bill for a 45 day boarding stint in New York. He notes political schemes around refunding bonds into new consols, reflecting postwar corruption and advancement.
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Weabington Cor
Philadelphia
South Carolina
Henry
New York
Scott
Darky
Ygatt
Gta
York
New Kamfurt
Consor
Seo
Interior Dixie Homesteads Through New Orleans Writer
The writer describes days spent in southern counties tracing simple farms and barefoot children. He recalls a rich yet ignorant landowner whose hospitality is rough but sincere. He notes the lack of schooling and media access and advocates compulsory education for the children.
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New Orleans
Nashville
Spring Fever And Malaria Cure Promoted By Warner
A period piece discusses spring fever dangers from malarial air and the need to purify blood. It promotes Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure as a proven remedy, citing doctors' support, large sales, and warnings about malaria’s effects on liver and kidneys.
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Younge
Bright
Warner
Anderson
Cincinnati
Buchu
Lafayette's 10 000 Possums and Postal Tales
The narrator recalls his service under Postmaster Skinner in Baltimore starting in 1819 and Lafayette’s hobby of bringing back two of every North American species. Skinner prints a notice offering credit to a donor who provides possums, leading farmers to deliver dozens of pairs, stored in the post office cellar.
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Lafayette
Baltimore
Judge Lawrenson
Hoston
Skinner
France
Marquis
Isaac's Birthday Prank Party Plans Recalled
In a humorous town tale, Mrs. Schaumburg tries to organize a birthday party for her youngest child Isaac but her husband Mose objects saying it costs too much. He devises a cheaper joke by substituting a dose of vermifuge for the cake, claiming Isaac would be happier with the prank.
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Isaac
Mose Schaumburg
Mose
Mrs. Schaumburg
Rebecca
Roy Isaac
E. H. Perkins
Creek Center
N. Y
Stevedore Bet Prompts Uncle’s Witty Concern
Fulkin’s nephew boasts of entering the stevedore business unloading schooners of beer, earning a cheerful twenty from his rich uncle. The uncle jokes about future exposure and a possible cut if the beer schooners are revealed.
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Fulkin
Scott
Falkins
Markets and notices from Omaha and Chicago
Omaha market prices list grains meats and dairy products with figures for corn oats barley and wheat, plus cattle hogs and calves. Chicago and St Louis prices for wheat corn oats pork cattle hogs and sheep shown. ads promote health tonics and remedies amid miscellaneous verses and endorsements.
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Omaha
Queen Bee
ButrtTer
Perth
Chicago
Nebraskas
ST. Louis
Grand Union Hotel and Steamship Era Ads in Harlem Times
A scrambled mix of hotel rates and travel notes cites the Grand Union Hotel in New York and the Metropolitan Hotel in Omaha with daily rates. It includes health ads for Dr Benson and the Voltaic Belt Co offering trials. Humorous quips and miscellaneous product promos accompany the listings.
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York Ciy É
GBA Vnion
Posite Grand
Grand Union Hotel
Omaha
Metropolitan Hotel
Cor
Douglas
United States
Englund
Dr. Benson
Voltaic Belt Co
Marshall, Mich
Jersey
Fair Ladies of America
Brown Mercine Co
Leavenworth
Kan
12Th
Lyon
Byron
Horne
J. F. Donahay
Farnam St
Neb
New York News
Caswell, Hazard & Co
New York
All Druggista
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Mahomed
Mahamed el Mahdi
Sayed Abdallah
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Abd el Hakim
God
Sheikh Mansum
Sheikh Adriss
Son of the
Light
Pyle
St. Jacobs Oil
Keyser
John Boyle
St. Jacobs
Henry Ward Beecher
Indianapolis
Jules Verne
Godfrey Morgan
California
Davis
Hindustance
Moore
B. Turner
Rochester
America
Soni Design
Minrene Japanese Novelty Co
Buffalo
William Pitt
Michael Angls
Bryant
New Orleans Picayune
E. O Wells
Summit Ave
Jersey City
N. J
Harlem Times
Allen
Mino
Jandor
Battle Creek
Mico
G. Knox
Charles A. Vogeler Co
A. Vogel
Stomaac
NASA
Martaria
DOW
Goal USA
W.zika Ler
Adama
Stata Marsh
Quincy Mich
Murray & Haker
Canal St
Shicego
Taawei
J.C. Power
Trenton
Ill
C.E. Kemble
Mohawk
Lyman
Abell
Georgia, Vt
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Jody
Deveg Dry
WW & Co
Burlington Vt
J. Scott
Burlington
Prairie
Northwest
Hiram Sibley & CO
Illinois
Isaac Thompson
Tamerits
John L. Trhompson
Bonee
Troy
N.Y
The
Sun
Sunpday
I. W
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England
N.Y. Singer
Ask G.payne & Co
Wwe
Bteal
Brose
SONEN
Jones
Binghamton
Dinqhamton
Chicago GO Scale Co
Odd Jools
Blowern, Cuisile
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Oursalk
Joseph Gillotts
Sree
Tynese
Jons Asaiy
Pat
Gray
Jude
Gray Medicine CO
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Sudin Mans
Wright
E. Ferrett
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F. Foster, Milburn & CO
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Vrs
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N. W. Hfg
Asi Areshers
Ms Weir
Austria & TA
Omahr Abe
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