A Virginia Circus Tale of Honor and Reunion
A peripatetic 1890s circus tours Staunton Virginia, where a runaway boy from a circuses ring earns shelter at the Dunlingham plantation. He grows to manage and own a thriving circus, later repaying a loan that saved his life and honoring his benefactors with enduring gratitude. The tale ends with the showman recognizing the son of his late ally and a generous payback.
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Peripatetic
Staunton
Virginia
Thies
Piich
Dunlingham Plantation
Biitingham
Smike
Lis
Tire
Lils
Sherman
A Curious Pair Marry After Bill of Divorce
A well dressed couple sought a justice of the peace to wed in a country town. After confirming previous marriage, the bride admitted a bill from her former husband. The ceremony proceeded and they were called man and wife. The wife then allowed the justice to view the bill. A Kentucky husband then ordered his wife to hammer his teeth out during drunkenness, but his later sobriety left his swearing unintelligible.
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Nimes
Hali
Hill
Kentucky
Dubuque
N. J. Alden
O'M. Orcutt
Duston
Boston
Elaway
Lovera
Egolu
Poor Californians wed due to shared boardinghouse costs
A California couple bound by engagement marry after facing poverty and inability to rent separate rooms in a boarding-house. The piece also recounts a string of curious vignettes from romance to industry, including a Memphis tale and anecdotes on Southern education and manufacturing, with a Dubuque marriage reconciliation as a closing note.
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California
Ambiguous Sardine ad and odd quotes cited
fragmented note cites The American Sardine Company's boneless sardines as better and cheaper than imported sardines. It includes stray lines about a Schoolman of the Evening Star, a remark on hair in the middle and money, mentions a forty year friendship, a reference to a young widow, and a claim that alligators can be bought in Perry Georgia for a dollar each.
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Nlays
Evening Star
Perry
Georgia
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Overie
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le Bellingham
Washington
Dullinghanm
Kansne
Ileaven
York
Maud Mallerizo
Hin
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Jie
Memphis
Anya
Chorgia
Connecticut
New Haven
Ffuven Palladian
Eltica
Philadelphia
Fond du Lac
Wis
For Wawr
John
Emmett Pew
Bherlif Pew
Emucntrit J. OM
English Honter & CO
Commercial Street
ST. Louis
Dmoo
Gauss, Hunicke & CO
N. Main St
Bet, Olive and
Washington Avenue
Missouri
Gendly
Samuel Virden & CO
Veniut
Thos. Rhodus & Co., Commission Merchants
N. Commercial &T
ST. Louis, MO
T. M. Rogers & CO
General Commission Produce Merchants
N. Commercial Street
Alkire & Co
Nave
Goddard
United, National Bank
Ted
Chas. Moritz
Main Street
N. BE
Cor. Olive
At. Louis
Veiniey
GRANT
Houston
Louis
Pei
HER
Troy, Herald
Monthly Statents
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