Vast 1877 miscellany spans crops and curios in one item
A wide set of notes and anecdotes cover wheat and corn yields, travel feats, temperance orders, public figures, and social scenes. From Gen Lee memorial guard endings to a Vermont couple marrying on a boat, the column mixes farm stats, political chatter, and urban vignettes amid a day’s wider news.
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Vermont
Lake Champlain
Westport
Westchester Junction
Lewistown
New York
Pittsburgh
Gavin Irwin Returns Home to Find Family and Love
Gavin Irwin's downward path through bad company and scandal ends when he returns to Campsaile. The minister and Lucy Anderson welcome him, and a strict midnight trial leads to forgiveness and a future with Lucy, as the old man reconciles with his son.
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One Wintz
New Orleans
Mr. Anderson
Gavin
Lucy
Anderson
Lucy Anderson
Mr. Irwin
The Tale of Gavin Irwin and the Ten Thousand Pounds
Excerpt features Gavin Irwin and his father discussing trust and a four month promise tied to a ten thousand pound legacy. It frames family judgment and motive as they address Lucy and Gavin's conduct. Also included is a skeptical notice about Lady Grant the supposed speed mare and a reflective poem on the cost of harsh words toward loved ones.
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Gavin
Lucy
Gavin Irwin
Satan
Lady Grant
Grant
Mr. Trask
Franklin
N. Y
Trask
The White Devil A startling Arizona frontier saga
A sentry at Fort Defiance in northeastern Arizona encounters a white wild horse, the feared White Devil. After chasing and a brutal clash, the horse leads a long pursuit across valleys and ranges, outlasting multiple pursuers. In the end, the legendary stallion is killed by Indian rifle fire, earning grudging respect from his adversaries.
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Fort Defiance
Arizona
Hull Sierra
O’meary
Meary
White Devil
Harper's Magazine Subscriptions and Offers
Harper and Brothers newsletter lists prices for Harper's Magazine and Bazar subscriptions including annual and multi‑subscription rates, extra copies, back numbers, and complete sets. Also notes publication start months, delivery terms, binding options, indexes, and address in New York.
And Cheaper than Ever at H W Olney’s Tailor Shop
Local tailor H W Olney announces first class merchant tailoring plus a newly added stock of trunks satchels and valises. Visit to see goods and prices.
Notices of the Press for Harper's Weekly
Praises Harper's Weekly as the ablest illustrated periodical in the country. The Louisville Courier-Journal calls its editorials scholarly and weighty. Commercial Bulletin lauds its purity and high tone and illustrations. Brooklyn Eagle deems it the only national illustrated paper in essence.
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Times
Harper's Magazine
Poston Journal
Louisville Courier-Journal
Harper's Weekly
Commercial Bulletin
Boston
Brooklyn Eagle
Harper's Weekly and Harper's Magazine Subscriptions Offered
Harper & Brothers advertises subscription options for Harper's Magazine Weekly and Bazaar with prices for one year prepaid postage. Offers include five subscriptions to receive Bazaar gratis, six copies for a year, and cloth bound annual volumes with express shipment. Complete twenty one volume set available at 525 per volume, cloth cases extra, indexes gratis. Freight and terms detailed. newspapers barred from copying without permission.
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United States
Harper’s Magazine
U.S
Harper's Magazine
Harper's
Harper & Brothers
Warper & Brothers
New York
Slarper
BAZAR
Harper’s
Harper’s Weekly
Express
Piarper
U. S
Harper's Bazar
Freigt
Harper's Bazar Illustrated Notices of the Press
A praise-filled notice from multiple papers extols Harper's Bazar as a fashionable authority on manners costume and social habits. It highlights its varied fashion plates child patterns embroidery slippers dressing gowns and solid fireside reading value for American ladies.
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The
Bazar
Boston
Paterfamlias
Harper's Bazar Subscriptions and Offers
Harper's Bazar and related Harper periodicals offer annual subscriptions from 400 to 1000 dollars with multiple options. One year to one address, single or combined titles, with prepaid U S postage. extra copies for clubs. annual volumes in cloth binding or complete Ten-Volume set. orders processed by Harper & Brothers.
Boy Missing Near Van Wert Barber Shop
A boy is reported lost after leaving Henry Heymann’s Barber Shop where he was getting a haircut. The notice urges residents of Van Wert and nearby areas to call at 3 South Washington Street for information or services such as hairdressing shaving or shampoo while searching for the child.
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Evans & Collins
Union Block
D. A. Newcomer’s Grocery Store
van Wert
Ohio
Henry Heymann
Citimens
South Washington Street
Fatal cellar gas tragedy at Paris area inn
In Little Courcelles near Paris three weeks ago an innkeeper, a housekeeper, a waiter and two travelers vanished after descending to a cellar to fetch a bottle of wine. Neighbors reopened the cellar and four bodies were found with the wine vat releasing carbonic acid gas that poisoned the air. the girl died, three others recovered.
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Little Courcelles
Paris
Lineal Descendant of John Welsh Noted as Minister Plenipotentiary
The Boston Advertiser recounts Mr. John Welsh a descendant of Rev. John Welsh of Scotland who married a Knox daughter. Welsh was condemned in 1605 for supporting the Scottish General Assembly and banished, later allowed to return to London. His wife challenged the King to permit his return to Scotland, offering to receive his head. the King refused. Welsh preached briefly before dying two hours after returning to his chamber. The Stuarts are banished, and a Welsh descendant is now appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St James.
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St. Louis
Chandler
Malton
England
Boston
Robert Laird Collier
Morton
Boston Advertiser
John Welsh
Scotland
John Knox
James
House of Stuart
Great Britain
Frenzied horse attacks and injures boy in Freestone County
Last Saturday in Freestone County across the river a strange enraged horse attacked seventeen year old Humphreys son as he approached a herd to catch his horse. The animal mauled his hand and arm until citizens intervened and killed the horse.
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Freestone
Texas
Humphreys
Man on Marmaton bridge saved express train by shouting
The Fort Scott Monitor reports M. V. Donley, superintendent of bridges for Fort Scott and L. L. G., fell from Marmaton bridge scaffolding sixty eight feet. Despite broken bones and severe injuries he ordered Flag No. 1 from the ground, saving an express train rushing around a curve half a mile away.
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Ft. Scott
Kansas
M. V. Donley
Fort Scott
Marmaton Bridge
Grant and MacMahon In Warm Presidential Confluence
The Marshal and General Grant stood beside each other in General Noyes’s parlors. The two soldiers, famed rivals in war, exchanged cordial remarks as diplomats and officials crowded the room. MacMahon’s rose in snow visage contrasted with Grant’s calm patience.
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New York Herald
General Grant
Diplomatic Corps
Marshal MacMahon
MacMahon
Grant
Noyes
Professor Cope’s Discovery of a Western Texas Hog
The article notes Prof. Cope’s find of a domestic hog with undivided hoofs like a horse in Western Texas. It claims Nature produced one freak specimen, leading to many such hogs, and suggests this supports evolution by presenting a new genus and possibly a new order of animals.
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Prof. Cope
Texas
Nature
Editor on Spiritualism Railing Against Medians Circulation
An editor jokes about belief in no medium except the circulating medium. notes it has become so scarce that faith in it is shaky. The remark casts satire on spiritualist belief and the reliability of mediating influences.
Miserly man dies as brain disease claims life
A local paper recalls a frugal man who died after brain softening but whose heart remained stubbornly stubborn. The obituary notes his head failed while his hand never did.
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