The Bankers Clerk Bride Dowry Heist and Rescue
Tom Lake returns with a paid cheque securing twelve thousand pounds for the Brand and Lake firm as a daring express ride ends with a thwarted kidnapping. Detective Vixen and an elderly hero stop the ruffians and safeguard the bridal dowry. Mary smiles through peril as love and duty unite.
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Mr. Brand
Tom Lake
Lake
Tom
London
Liverpool
Mary
Night Express
Express
Bean
St. Paul’s
Islington
Ife
Vixen
Brand & Lake
Harper's Magazine praised for enduring popularity and variety
The Poston Journal lauds Harper's Magazine for its long standing appeal. It notes continued access to travel discovery and fiction, praising publishers and editors for maintaining freshness and breadth comparable to twenty five years ago.
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Times
Harper’s Magazine
Poston Journal
Harper's Magazine and Harper's Periodicals Subscriptions
Subscriptions to Harper's Magazine Weekly and Bazar offered at one address for one year. Prices include U S postage with options for multiple copies and extra copies with bulk discounts. Complete sets and volumes available, with binding cases and an index. Address Harper & Brothers New York.
The Weekly Illustrated Paper Praised by Newspapers
Quotes from Louisville Courier Journal, Commercial Bulletin and Brooklyn Eagle extol Harper's Weekly as ablest, best illustrated, and nationally recognized. Described as scholarly, convincing editorials and fresh current event illustrations.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Harper’s Weekly
Commercial Bulletin
Boston
Brooklyn Eagle
Harper's Weekly and Harper’s Periodicals Subscriptions
Harper & Brothers offers yearly subscriptions for Harper's Weekly Magazine and Harper's Bazaar with postage prepaid at $400 for one address. Options include group rates, six copies for one year at $200, and free postage on annually bound volumes or a complete twenty one volume set with freight paid by purchaser.
Harper's Bazar Subscription Offers and Terms
Harper's Bazar offers one year subscriptions at 3400 or 400 with prepaid postage, and 1000 for Harper's Bazar or 700 for two Harper periodicals to one address for one year with postage included. Extra copies offered for clubs of five at 100 each, or six copies for 2200. Annual volumes available with free express shipping up to one dollar freight, complete ten-volume set at 52 per volume plus purchaser freight. Subscriptions for Harper's Periodicals only.
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United States
Harper’s Magazine
U.S
BAZAR
Harper's
Harper’s
Harper & Brothers
New York
Harper’s Weekly
Harper's Magazine
Express
Harper’s Bazar
Haircut Services Offered at Local Barber Shop
A note to Van Wert residents announces Henry Heymann’s Barber Shop at 3 South Washington Street offers haircuts shaves shampoos and styling with quick service for locals and nearby callers.
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Georgiana C. Glenn
van Wert
North Side
First Street
Washington and Jefferson
James M. Barr
West Main Street
Evans & Collins, Arber
Union Block
D. A. Newcomer’s Grocery Store
Ohio
Henry Heymann
No. 3
South Washington Street
Night of Blood romance ends in public contract
Lucie de Merinville, a reclusive heiress, is drawn into a dramatic tale of love, deception, and vengeance at Sambrecourt. Olgar, a mysterious stranger, invades her life after a deadly night, while rival suitors stage a cruel romantic ruse culminating in a public marriage contract and an unexpected ally.
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Inter- Ocean
Grace Greenwood
Lucie de Merinville
Lucie
Sambrecourt
M. Armand de Merinville
Tucie
M. d’ Elbine
Chevalier d’Elbine
France
Count Albert de Mortemere
D’ Anglas
Pompador
Marquis de Mor
M. de Merinville
Molle
de Merinville
Molle de Merinville
Mademoiselle de Merinville
Mademoiselle
Olgar
Angel of
Mdlle de Merinville
Mdlle de
Eugene d’Anglas
Jockey Club
Marquis de Mercy
Mdlle
d’Elbine
Eugene d’Anlas
Albert de Mortmere
Moille de Merinville
Marquis de Marcy
Madamoiselle
Monsieur
M.de Mercy
Count Albert
Albert de Mortmviere
Albert
Mortimore
Albert de Morimere
Philadelphia
Russia
America
Danube
Roumania
Bulgaria
Forgive and Forget But Do Not Forget
Verses from the Boston Advertiser urge a balance in friendship. The speaker pleads for forgiveness before parting, noting that keeping a place for absent friends matters, even as the saying forgive and forget is questioned. The lines contrast mercy with memory.
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The
Boston Advertiser
Boy learns lesson from wasp in odd encounter
A boy tried to burn a wasp with a lit match and the insect, warming his hand, flew off and reportedly told him to never try to beat a man at his own game, a quirky tale reflecting street wisdom.
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Fleet Street
Temple
George Vixen
Vixen
Monument to Senator Morton Fund Drive Underway
Trustees donate Crown Hill Cemetery site in Indianapolis for a memorial to Senator Morton. The Monument Association conducts a statewide canvass and expects to raise enough funds by year end to build a noble tribute to the great Indianian.
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Crown Hill Cemetery
Indianapolis
Senator Morton
Monument Association
Boston street cleaning costs and operations details
Boston has spent 120000 dollars this year on sweeping and cleaning the streets. eighty six men, fifty horses, twenty six wagons, six water carts and ten sweeping machines are employed. principal thoroughfares are swept every morning in warm weather and other streets twice weekly.
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Boston
Regular army role in suppressing rebellion noted by Troy Times
The Troy Times editorial praises the regular army for suppressing the slaveholders' rebellion, calling it the nucleus around which untrained volunteers rallied and likening its impact to leaven working through the mass.
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Troy Times
Dog travels 800 miles to find owner in Missouri
A Texas dog was taken to Missouri but used remarkable sagacity to return home, covering about 800 miles to reach his master's residence.
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Texas
Missouri
Parson Quotes on Truth and Hypocrisy
The speaker cites Mr. Talmage remarking that some men sing like angels on Sunday yet lie like sin on Monday, highlighting a tension between public piety and private misdeeds in moral life.
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Mr. Talmage
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H. C. Glenn
Clenn & Foster
Proprietors
Opera House Block
BE. L. Wilkinson
M.D. Ag Ee
Newcomer’s Grocery Store
H. G. Davis
No. 10
Ixepler
J.K. Woods
M. D. Ee
Washington Street
Bridge
W. Depuy
van Wert, C
DePuy House
H. C. M’gaveen
W. M’gavren
HI. C. McGavren & Son
McGavren & Webster
William Smith
A. L. Teubner & Co
Main
Jackson Sts
Co. B. Steman
A.S. Burt’s Bank
Main St
J.m.stutsman
M.D. Packins
McKim’s
Washington Streets
East Main Street
Attorneys AT Law
Abrijah Jones
Ttorney
Convoy
G. BE. Wells
LAW
Notary Public
Heist’s
Courts of
A. J. Porter
Glenn & Porter
MccCurdy’s Block
John Darnell
A. AT Law
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Helist’s Block
I. N. Alexander
G. M. Saltzgaber
Alexander
J. L. Price
Ira P. Shissler
Price & Shissler
Tr AT Law
Iron Block
Boumback
W.J. Beers
Jas. Clark & Son
J. B. Brodnix
Edson & Brodnix
J. W. Penn Manufacturer
Deslerin
van Wert. O
S. Swineford & Sons
Arcdae
S. Swineford & Sonbr
Wert
C.n. Yokel
Hertz
American House
A.p.m’conahay
S. J. Burk
the Times
Union
Illustrated
Boston Traveler
William
Germany
New Orleans
Europe
Vanderbilt
Michael M. Landis
Warsaw
Indiana
Field & Leiter
Chicago
Exposition
Clermont County
Stanley
Worcester Press
W.H. Sims
Mississippi
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Alexander B. Sayres
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Jennie
Ben Brown
Tom Wood
Illinois
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Calcutta
Pleasant Hill
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