Widow Keeps Two-Headed Calf, Marriage Plot in May Tale
A widow in Sycamore county becomes famous for a two headed calf born in May. Curiosity swells as visitors, peddlers, and camp meeting organizers flock to view the calf, hoping for a match with the widow. A man from Hickory Grove arrives, seeking a marriage alliance tied to the calf and widow, and they wed after a long, unlikely courtship.
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Jub
Codiar
Tee
Lea
CNCH
Wiegrad
Thorpson
Job
Hickory Grove
Sycamere
Wermadd
Bornea
Japan
Thompson
Aida
Home steam disaster during domestic fray
In a domestic mishap Mir Teniius and Gaius generis duifanted wrestle with a steam plugged boiler. A scalding spray forces a chaotic scene as a caller orders help and a teary, frightened household battles the rising water and broken plans.
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Mir Teniiius
Gaius Generis
Tan
Mr. Jenkins
Mary
Man's Future Emerson Quote Refers to World Ties
A fragmentary quotation attributes to Emerson a view of a man as a bundle of relations and roots whose faculties align with the world around him. It compares human potential to fish fins indicating water or eagle wings indicating air, arguing insulation destroys him and that he cannot die without a world.
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Emerson
Kidney Cure Ad Warns Against Foley Use
An old advertisement urges readers with kidney or bladder trouble to avoid Foley's and touts Kidney Cure as a positive remedy for all forms of kidney disease sold by Jobs Gifford.
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Herve
Oply
Jobs
Royal Medicine CO
Lrazeer
Busine
D. Kaubtie
Nevida. C
Dewitt & CO
Ghicago
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Sam & Harry Griffin
Ridgeway Block
Sheridan
Indiana
Charles W. Griffin
Votary
Chas. W. Griffin & Son
D.J. McMath
Masonic Block
Foote
Clarence R. Griffin
Ira Mperiian
Todtuus
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W. Fe
Cooper
News
Sheridan Indeana
Dis O. AL Mowais
Elliott's Drug Store
M. E. Little. D
First National State Bankh
the. Perrigony
Dr. Caldwell
C. Bk. Ebert
Niagara Falls
Psa Bos Treunty
Pveserd
H. Palmer
Sheridan, Indiana
Ind
John Gifford
Nervigor
C. H. Jennings
Lima
Peffer
J. Hetty
Santa Clara
Cal
Peffer Medical Ass'n
Chicago
C. E. Elliott
Mentis
Souto
Alabama
Florida
G. A. Parks
General Industrial and Immigration Agent
iLouisvillle
Nashville
R. R
Louisville
C. E Elliott
Madison Medicine Co
Madison
Wis
C.E. Elliott
Arvica
C. EL. el- Lott
Goughs
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