Peckham v Children’s Home ends in emotional court twist
In a dramatic equity suit, Mrs. Peckham seeks the fate of her long lost son, raised in the Children’s Industrial Home. The boy’s supposed guardianship lands in court when the home’s president reveals the boy is alive with a former guardian, and the trial ends with a surprising, humane resolution.
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Potter & Patterson
Patterson
Wilson H. Peckham
Isaak Walton
William Blackstone
Potter
Este
Milan
New York
Ture
Genoa
Sall
Fanny
Littl Henry
Lynac
Smiling Bay
Havre
Fanny Bartlett
United States
San Francisco
Bartletts
Lved
Barken
California
Sandwich Islands
Indus
Field & Fanning
Peckham
Carter
Young Carter
Mrs. Peckham
Mrs. Bartlett
Car
Mr. Carter, Sr
Children’s Home
Radway's Ready Relief widely marketed and recommended
The advertisement touts Radway's Ready Relief as a quick remedy for fever and ague bilious fevers and other maladies. It urges travelers and lumbermen to carry a bottle with them and notes it can prevent sickness from water changes and suggests using French brandy or bitters as a stimulant. Price is cents a bottle and is sold by all druggists.
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Samuel Pircuer
Tragic Fever Ordeal Describes A Mother's Despair
Excerpt shows Mrs Peckham recounting fever’s brutal grip as she cried out for her baby boy with feverish pain. The fragment captures a family’s distress and a poignant moment of yearning amid illness.
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Fanny
Henry
Milan
Fanny Bartlett
Mrs.Peckham
Household Hints on Cleaning and Storage
A series of practical tips covers washing worsted mats with salt to prevent fading, camphor in dress-waist drawers to stop steel tarnish, and Wedgwood pottery colors shifting to cool sage greens. Additional guidance includes baking potatoes dry and mealy, cleaning oilcloth floors with tannin water and skim milk, and marble stain removal using a pumice soda paste left to act.
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Field and Fanning
Joan Paul Bocock
The
Bacheller Syndicate
Part I
Ter
Mr. Patterson
Radway
Biate
Lew York
Frye
Trond St
MT. Pleasant
Commonwealth Building
WM. T. Smith
Onvich
Vince
Erie Medical CO
Buffalo
N.Y
Acker
Hotel Imperial
Acker Medicine Co
Chambers
Dupont
Sowder
Wapwallens Luserne County
Pamamington
Delaware
Henry Belin, Jr
Wyoming
Wyoming Avenue
Scranton, Pa
Third National Bank Building
Thos, Oe Ford
Pittston
Johnith & Son
Plymouth
Mulligan
Wilkes-Barre
Repaune Chemical Company
E High Explosives
Mtantic Refining CO
Aylesworth
Yee Min
Bateman
Godfrey
Patent Office Department
Pitcher’s Castoria
Czntaur Company
TT Mura
Qabashe
E. Cc. Ricker
General Dealer
Pennsylvania
New Telephone Exchange
Adams Ave
Scranton
Pillsbury’s
Pillsbury
Pillsbury Washburn Flour Mills Co., Limited
Sbi
C. P. Matthews Sons & Co
Bittner & CO
Toledo
Matthews Bros
John Ii. Phelps
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