Assam Tea Company Ad Opens Rare Tea Sale and Prize Draw
An 1850 advertisement from The Assam Tea Company promotes imported teas from Assam and offers a prize distribution plan. Purchasers receive a certificate entitling them to a chance in a prize draw, with 425 prizes totaling 2000 dollars. Lower priced teas allow cash purchase with a 10 percent reduction. country agents are sought.
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Assam Tea Company
Greenford Street
New York
Propeiatora
Nvillon
New Store Opening in Sunbury on Market Street
John Buyers & Co announce a new store at the former dokin power building in Sunbury on Market Street. They offer a handsome assortment of cloths, clothing, linens, groceries, hardware, queensware, shoes, lamps, and country produce for exchange at favorable terms. Opened April 13, 1860.
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Gmop
Ty Dokin Power
Market Street
Sunbury
HITE
Wredow
Lee Country
John Buyers & CO
Failing offers low prices on dry goods and groceries
John W. Failing on Market Street Sunbury announces new stock of Falcy and staple dry goods for the season at lower prices. The assortment includes cloths, hosiery, linens, shawls, prints, and medicines with a general line of groceries hardware and liquor. Trade in county produce noted. Ref: Sunbury April 27 1850 and June 29 1850. The ad also promotes M rs Mary Water of Oak Orchard Springs tonic and Henry Mauser.
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John W. Failing
Market Street
Sunbury
Privey
Uce
Bunbury
Oak Orchard
Henry Maaser
Toil and Mind Unite in Nature's Fire
Poem urging man to embrace work and persistence. It extols labor as the driver of destiny and earthly achievement. The verse calls to press on, shaping fate through effort, capitalizing on inner fire, courage, and disciplined action to rise above hardship.
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Pottee
Charles River
Pettee
Parkman
Henchman
Kingley
Fayal
Fruit Street
Mechanica
Cragles’ Bridge
The Talismanic Coin and the Widow’s Revenge
After midnight Frederic marries a widow Lady Melville who is revealed as a former beggar turned rich wife. The tale traces a fortune built on a chance coin given by Frederic years earlier when the two first met in Paris. The “talisman” is the five franc piece that linked their fates, proving the husband unintendedly aided his own destiny.
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Anne
Lord Melville
Madame de la Tour
Frederic de la Tour
St. Honore
Frederic
Lady Melville
Melville
Non
Ace
Fredetie
Leistite
Burgundy
Paris
Wales
Devonshire
Lyons
Abd Alowat
Melgil
Lord Melgil
Melvil
England
Lord Melvil
Madam de la Tour
Crocodile and Birds Battle on Nile Banks
An ancient account describes bdella insects inside a crocodile’s mouth and a guardian bird named belle or goat that removes the pests. The tale notes the crocodile’s mouth cleaning, the bird’s aid, and the insects’ bites, with later claims reestablishing the anecdote’s authenticity.
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Nile
Heroditus
Avistate
Pliny
Baptism Customs in Russia and a Forgery Conviction
A description of Russian baptism rites shows priests using holy images and a large silver basin with water and wax tapers. The text notes winter baptisms, immersion risks, and the church allowing warm water. it also mentions concurrent baptisms and rare infant fatalities. Separately, the Prime Minister of Hesse Cassel has been tried and convicted of forgery.
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Russia
Plomgiera
Fiymersiot
Hesse
Cassel
Confession of Professor Webster in Dr Parkman murder
The document details Webster's confession to Reverend Dr Potter as he killed Dr Parkman in a Cambridge laboratory. It describes the confrontation over payment, the fatal blow, the disposal of the body, burning of evidence, and Webster's attempts to conceal the crime. He.
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Professor Webster
DR. Parkman
Pottin
Parkman
Gentleman
Heelad
Webster
Het
Regan
Uts
Lovelock
Hosack
Bin
Viet L
Labora
Tory
Beily
Cambridge
Boston
Liulotiwli
Terest
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Ani
Woo
Masser
Northumberland
Union
Lycoming
Columbia
P. & A. Ravouni
Jowne & Bannon
Oxbie & Ssonohaas
Bernouts
Melanie & de Sreatse
Goon & Co
Phila
Aveny Perry Cess
Peixen
Sanbury
Market Square
Ann ©. Morris
Charles Swain
Ministry of Wind
Earth
Finn
Alfred Gaudalet
THE
Rowrox
Tuesaday
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