Complete line of carpets curtains and furnishings offered
The advertisement proclaims a wide selection of moquettes velvets Brussels rugs and tapestries plus lace curtains Irish points Swiss tambours and more. It touts Blabon linoleums and oil cloths mats and mattings and highlights the Bissell carpet sweeper 1890 improvements. The firm claims superior value and service in the local area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Wilton Daghestan
Smyrna
China
Japan
Bissell
Expressions of Gratitude for Patronage and Earnest Thanks
A business note thanks friends patrons and the public for liberal patronage during the past year and the opening of the new venture. It pledges continued courtesy and fair dealing for mutual advantage.
Fragmented Verse Passage From Harper's Weekly
A damaged OCR excerpt from Harper's Weekly presents a fragmentary poem or literary piece. The readable lines evoke imagery of winter desolation, echoes, and hope, with scattered phrases about love, glory, and mortality. The text is uneven and partly unintelligible, offering a glimpse rather than a complete narrative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dort
Goodsie
Harper’s Weekly
Man recounts dangerous battle with rival for love of Bessie Morton
A foreman at a Bergen Coal Company blast furnace recalls meeting Bessie Morton and facing Mark Gaillaird who threatened to ruin him unless he relinquished Bessie. In a furious struggle near the furnace, the narrator fights Gaillaird and escapes a fiery death, securing love and safety through sheer force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Morton
Clover Field
Great Bergen Coal Company
Bessie
Berat
Pepe
Mark Gaillaird
Gaillaird
Coal Company
Havana
Becks
Gilbert
Kuzz
Bergen
Gaillaid
Asal
Demoniac furnace horror and California doctor scam tale
The narrative recounts a fatal furnace accident, a survivor’s illness, and a marriage. It moves to Joe Meeks in 1843 Monterey, posing as a doctor, his failed medical ruse, a scene in a lute shop, and his eventual abandonment of practice after a blunt interrogation by a U.S. consul and ship surgeon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Oregon
Joe Meeks
Rocky Mountains
Tam
Dr. Meeks
Meeks
Micheltorena
Hle
Dr. Stokes
Stokes
Thomas O. Larkin
United States
Monterey
Larkin
General Bidwell
Death’s painless signs and the meaning of dying
A medical opinion outlines common premonitory signs of death including cool extremities and fading senses, notes old age death as a gradual process, and argues that death is not necessarily painful. It cites observed cases, resuscitation experiences, and reflects on dying and consciousness. University of Michigan awarded 10 449 degrees in 53 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shiare
Falstall
Medical Journal
University of Michigan
Elephants Gathered for Siam King Hunt at Ayathia
In April 1870 a small party travels from Bangkok to Ayathia for a royal elephant hunt. A stockade and funnel entrance guard two hundred eighty elephants driven by tamers and decoy elephants, with a majestic free elephant among the captured, observed by officials and foreign guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangkok
Kingdom of Siam
Ayathia
Menam
Agathia
Venables
Ney
Jes
St Nicholas
Fortune Made From Humble Sandwich Trade Told
A Cincinnati Inquirer correspondent recounts a Bowery waiter who became a wealthier man by starting a sandwich shop. A chance remark from a patron spurred the idea, and the business expanded to multiple city locations, with the man now described as wealthy and fashionably dressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cincinnati Inquirer
Bowery
Harlem
Ural
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Carrra
Fase Parronar Ban
Raverna
Ohio
N. D. Crank
Chas. Meris
T. R. B. Carnanan
Cashier
N. D. Clark
E. R. Crowell
H. L. Hine
Orrin Stevens
Xeon Parronar Bax
Ravenna
U.S
U.S. Couron
D. C
Gatetisyila’o
Blackstone Look
Bayonne
Webs & Porter
Laws
Blackstone Block
Avanne, C
J. H. Nighols
Atterosy
Notary Public
Second National
Raveona
Obi J. 8
Dusen
D. i
Roozaa
Dussel & Rogers Tiornexs
Hanselman
Tioreet
Biddall & Douthitt
Ravanna
J. W. Holcome
Office
Kiddle
Mney
E. ¥. Lacey
Ttorney
LAW
Sonicitor OF
Pexasoxs
Oflog
Democratic Press
Cleveland
Symes
Tim Canis
W. D. Armstrong
Ap’t Mariana
Yellow Creek
Pittsburg & Western Ry
Colraowe
Ome Sda. A
Wa Tise
Windham
BSO Ee
Piv
Aeteouagstown
Ayenn
I. Aml
Fens Barcanay
Turan
Jane
Garretteville
Kent
Ravenus
Beara
C. F. Haymaker
Clark
Earlville
Rombaugh
Chapman
Acmelia
Saye
Tee
NEW Fall Goods Wayansie
Stanford & Wright
Pitkin Block
Baums Castoria
EA Rimes
Jor Brock
Gge
New Stand
Waller Brothers
Hardware Men
Portage CO
Are
Carriend
D. Lindsay & CO
Stationery, &c
J. HF. Oakley
Ravenna, Ohio
A. T. Smith
Ravenma Roller Mills
Saxor
Siam
Walter
Chum
Buffalo News
Potte Town
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