The Bristol News fragment headline and notices
The Virginia portion of the town and Bristol News column discuss correspondence from I C Fowler and notices about work and dispatches in New York. The readable text shows names and places but is fragmentary, offering glimpses of local and wider reporting.
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Bristol News
Po Olsen EN Goopron
I. Cc. Fowler
Evergretay
Perenyys
Die Forurenness
Bristol
Tenn
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J.D. Tad K
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Missouri Valley Life Insurance ad promotes branch office
A 1872 Knoxville notice promotes the Missouri Valley Life Insurance Company with a Knoxville branch and local officers. It claims strong cash benefits for policy holders and urges widespread adoption, praising McDowell and Meade cited for Civil War roles while warning against spending elsewhere.
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Missouri Valley Life Insurance Company
E-Tol
Knoxville
ALM
MeChag
Cowan
MeChing & Jo
Dodge
Gow
Lif
The Washington Stotawe and the Virginia Statue Debate
The piece blends a historical note on the Jefferson statue controversy in Virginia with society items. It recounts the statue’s history from Hamden’s work to Mount Vernon, notes public interest in a fireproof housing of the statue, and includes local wedding news for D. Kyle Gibbony and Fannie Crockett, followed by a medical curiosities column on luminous exposure and diagnostic imaging.
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Uend
Hamden
Mount Vernon
Nish
Charles Dinmock
Old State Armory
Capitol
Henson
Virginia
Ragland
America
Coumerdo
Grardetas
Tsuyt
D. Kyle Gibbony
Wa Gibbony & Song
Fannie Crocket
Virginia case upholds railpax order over Tyson stock
Judge Wingfield ruled yesterday for the Atlantic Mississippi and Ohio Railroad in a long Circuit Court dispute over the 1870 act to absorb stock in four lines. The court held the act constitutional and that market value served as fair compensation for Tyson and others in the condemnation. Tyson’s counsel signaled plans to seek supersedeas from the Court of Appeals.
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Wingfield
Virginia
Atkin Missippi and
Oho
Virginia and
Tennessee
Circuit Court of
Lynchburg
Tyson
A. M.and
Court of Appeals
Ow, & I. W. Daniel
B. G. I. Kean
Bocock & Davis
Atlantic , Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Company
L, Virginian
What They Wear Fashion Changes of 19th Century Ladies
A window into evolving dress and hair trends with short veils falling from favor. Belts feature vinai orettes and hunting horn motifs. chignons fade, hair piled atop head in coils, while skirts narrow at hem and waistlines rise toward the armpits. Bonnet styles echo past fashions. Also notes a shimmery liver Oil advertisement.
Flood Tide and Election Burden Across the Gulf Stream
A fragmented poem and political verse depict a fisher’s wife watching a perilous sea while political satire laments the 1872 election in America. The verse contrasts personal ruin at sea with national fatigue as Grant and Sherman figures loom, and a somber refrain on progress versus decay.
Judge Sam Rice Recounted Slugger Speech in Alabama
A postwar voter recalls Judge Sam Rice boasting that Southern soldiers could whip the Yankees with pop guns. Rice confirms the 1867 remark but notes the d d rascals would not consent to such fighting, revealing a sharp wartime bravado and later ironic retelling.
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Sam
Rice
Alabham
Sam Rice
Railroad advances and curious era notes in a Virginia paper
The chronicle forecasts the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad finishing by January with a double Richmond to the West passenger line and heavy freight, plus cheap coal and abundant iron. It details Mahone’s depot construction and a mammoth water tank, then shifts to medical patent chatter, a Quaker printer’s proverb, and notes on iron preservation and ship armor research, ending with world’s largest natural and geographic superlatives.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Richmond
Mahone
Lynchburg
Christiansburg Messenger
William al. Sterting
Haglund
Dr. I Sterling
N. J. Mechrnic
Scribner's Monthly Serial Study and New Conten t
A promotional notice for Scribner's Monthly detailing contributions by Holland Saxe Holm Bret Harte and others. It highlights a long story, furniture decoration, and an 509 page issue priced at 1.00, with editor notes about annual content and forthcoming articles from Halowk Bonsicastte and Arthur Bonsicastte.
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DR. Holland
Nein
Saxe Holm
Bret Harte
Brinaaast
Clarance Cook
Studdard Im Atthare
Ingre Chen
Ales Halowk
Arthur Bonsicastte
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Greenville, Tenn
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