Robbery of Grace Sheridan and the Thornwood Tale
A long fiction fragment follows Grace Sheridan a village squire’s daughter in Thornwood who loves poor tutor Robert Lee. Despite rival suitor Percival Grace eventually marries Lee after trials of poverty illness and a fortune shift restoring their prospects.
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Thornwood
London
Percival
Grace
Robert Lee
Ant
Australia
Squire Sheridan
Quondam
Scandinavian Remedies Credit for Cures in Dyspepsia and Rheumatism
Letters describe dramatic relief from dyspepsia and rheumatism after using Scandinavian Blood Pills and Purifier. Patients report restored appetite, reduced rheumatic pain, improved vitality, and newfound mobility after long illness. Signed testimonials from James R. Terry and Desoran Roperts praising Dr C W Roback and local agents.
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Cyesaning
Sacinaw Co
Mich
C. W. Roback
James R. Terry
Matherton
Marcus Smith
Desoran Roperts
Ring for the bell of a sold and sorrowful marriage
A lyric meditation on a wedding seen as a sale of joy to ill-gotten gold. The speaker contrasts glittering robes and gems with a bride whose heart is weighed by duty and fear, foretelling a slow, hopeful dawn beyond oppressive pageantry.
Chinese Protection Society Report on Chinese in California
The San Francisco Chinese Protection Society reports on the Chinese in California politics and affirms Chinese as free agents. It cites 137000 arrivals with 10000 dead and 37000 returned, leaving 90000 in California or elsewhere, noting fewer than half remain in California and that the society has kept a record of every arrival. Two telegrams mention a currency loan and a note about keeping or returning it. A Chicago bound train incident ends with a brakeman and a young woman exchanged terse words after a door slam.
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San Francisco
Cin. Chronicle
Pfanna
Chicago
Hannah
Vermont Town Populations Shrink Across The Years
Depopulation in Vermont towns is shown by census figures. Sandgate drops from 1187 in 1810 to 805 in 1860 while Rupert declines from 1848 in 1800 to 1103 in 1860. Arlington settlement dates to 1762 with 1569 inhabitants in 1800, dropping to 1146 by 1860.
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Vermont
Sandgate
Rupert
Arlington
Children’s Sabbath lesson sparks parental pledge joke
In Brunswick a Sabbath school scene shows a professor asking who we work for if not Christ. A child answers for father and mother, explaining he avoided saying Devil. A separate note mentions rapid women carrying bouquets with chloroform and using moneyed men as scent for a lesson in indulgence.
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Brunswick
Christ
Albany man seeks return of hat with threat over note
In Albany a man claims his new hat was exchanged for an old one in a barber shop and threatens to forward a concealed letter to the owner’s wife if not returned. A Canadian postmaster tested damaged powder by throwing it into a fire. His widow spent $250 on a new roof.
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Miss Sheridan
Lee
Crace
Robert Lee
Woodford
Squire Sheridan
Lees
Robert
Hugh Lee
Bessie
Bessie Lee
Percival
Grace
Grace Sheridan
Ralph Percival
Fasmine
Thornwood
Alfred
James
Dickinson
Judge Dickinson
New York
Fort Laramie
W. T
Washington Star
William R. Haight
Cattaragus County
Auburn
New York City
Gen. Sheridan
Cincinnati
Republic
V.V
Tridune
UST
Ee Culverwell
Julverwell
Bowery
Albany
Eclipses of 1870 Foretell Six Eclipses Next Year
The article notes six eclipses in 1870 to 1871 including a total lunar eclipse on January 16 17 visible in the United States and partly at Greenwich, a partial solar eclipse on January 31 invisible here, and a partial lunar eclipse on January 6 1871. It mentions a death in Meriden and offers moral reflections on small vices.
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Gazette
United States
Gazette Annual Register
Ohio
Indiana
Ken
Congress of
United State
A Bbe
Cincinnati Observatory
Register
Cincinnati Gazette CG
Cincinnati
Greenwich
England
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J. H. Foster
van Wert
B.f.cessna
Hertz
A.n.krout
M.D
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N. W. Davenport
Jacobs’ Block
Cowan & Ledson
WM. Smith
Siclan
Ovvice
Arcade Blocker’s Grocery
DHY
van Wert Hotel
Ear Rail Road
C. Neff
C. E. Mivner
Wiltshire
I. D. Clark
Melodeon Hall
N. Alexander
G. M. Saltzgabber
Alexander & Saltzgaber
AT Law
Z&x McCurdy’s Block
James M. Barr
Noble & Baker’s
W. J. Beers
Boebus
DePuy
Joan Darnell
J. L. Price
Price & Darnell
Ctorneys AT Law
McCurdy’s Block
First National Bank
Hartsoch
Heist& Emerson
Singer’s
A. Clark
van Werr
W. A. Clark
Clark & Purmort
Proce Eeds
R.p.moon& CO
Walters
Purmort & Springer
J. Alonzo Gleason
Andrew J. Gleason
J. A. Gleason & Bro
Spoke and Bending Factory
Vicks
Iatchet
Trammer Hanoves
F. Feigart
Hiolders
Iffain St. van West
General Banking Bbusiness
Reland
Scotand
France
Germany
C. Emerson, S. Swineford, A. Conant
E. Wells Horace E. Wells
C. Emerson
T. Horace E. Wells
S. Swineford
Confectioneries, An, &c
Arcade Bloch
Main
Washington Sts
F.C. Donald
Kfamily
Wilson
Wheeler & Wilson
Singer
C. A
A Neanne van Wert, O
the Cincinnati Gazette
the Weekly Gazette
Agricultural Department
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Cincinnati Horticultural Society
American Institute Farmers’ Club
Weekly Gazette
Lerms
Ness
Daily Gazette
Ates
United Staield
Gazzette
Eerserecece
Creereerttet
Peto
the Gazette Annual Register
Palestine
Rufus Sheridan
Oxford
Fair Grace Sheridan
Iti
Shadow and Sunshine
Burt
Wilder
Harper's Magazine
Matism
North Snave, Gratiot Co
Easeet
A. Melsheimer
van Wert, O
Gepheart & Miller
Louise Chandler Moulton
Elizabeth Prescott
Chrisie Deane
Amanda M. Douglas
Henry Wood
Florence Percy
Margaret Hosmer
August Sell
Strel
Deacon & Peterson
Walnut Street
Philadelphia
Yee
the Saturday Evening Post
George Canterbury
Fast Lynne
C. New Nove
Ets
Leonie
Frank Lee Benedict
H. Peterson & Cis
New York Observer
E. D. G. Prime
California
Japan
China
India
Egypt
Sidney E. Morse, Jr. & CO
Park Row
Harrison Township
McGavren
Seth Shirtleff
Melodeon Hall Drug Store
Uly
George H. Snyder
Spooney
Pis
John Smith
Jane Smith
Meriden
Mr. Smith
Ife
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