Local notices from Versailles and Cincinnati advertise inns and lawyers
A jumble of historic ads lists SAO HELL attorney services in Arion Indiana and doctors in Versailles with rooms at Broadway Hotel Cincinnati and Harper House Versailles. It also mentions dry goods dealers, grocers, boots and shoes, and a joke puzzle about Julia and a breakfast table dream.
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Omar FP. Roberts
Versailles
Ripley County
Indiana
Circuit and Common Pleas
Ripley
Sao
Hell, Atorney
New
Arion
Ind
Thompson & Tibbetes
Orvrice
Dr. Tibbetts
Pulliem
Frank. Huckins
Poem Fragments and Political Notes Found in Manuscript
A manuscript contains an affective poem titled Poor Jonathan Snow and other lines reflecting affliction. The text also notes a woman finding her sphere and mentions a hooped garment of twenty seven feet, while a Republican ticket is described as an elwenden County Ohio victory for the GOP.
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New England
el Wenden County
Ohio
To Our Subscribers From The Dispatch
The Dispatch requests six months overdue payments with a fifty cent penalty after grace period. The text shifts to a poetic wartime ramble about coins, wind on prairies, rotting decks, and messages of friendship across cold graves, blending payment notice with sentimental imagery.
The Farmer's Wife as Provider and Home Centre
O H Smith argues farmer success rests on domestic virtue and a well managed home. He stresses a clean orderly house a proper milk house and quality dairy products as key to family happiness and self sufficiency for rural households.
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Finck
O. H. Smith
Politeness at Home and Family Manners
A short piece on cultivating politeness in the home. It argues habits of courtesy improve family love, prevent harsh reactions, and harmonize life. It urges siblings to thank each other, avoid monosyllabic replies, and use courteous terms in requests, with examples from daily behavior.
Edward Everett on the Cable Vision
A reader cites Edward Everett praising the undersea cable as a marvel that carries human thought across vast oceans. The excerpt contemplates how thoughts from Earth reach distant shores and touch markets, treaties, and distant vessels amid the sea’s dark abyss.
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Atlantic
Pape Cave
Bound to Elope and a Romance of Niagara Falls
Lola Grahame longs for romance while Atherton Lascelles hides a secret fortune and a plan to win her. Lola flees with him to Niagara Falls, returns after her parents intervene, and learns the value of love over fashionably reckless elopement.
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Lola Grahame
Lizzie
fWell
Anna Grant
George
Payneville
Lola
Thut
Atherton Lascelles
Lizafe
Mr. Lascelles
Staal Lizzie
Joe Teaks
International Hotel
Niagara Falls
Atherton
Artherton
O Pledge Me Not With Wine
A fragment expresses fear and cold horror as temptation is rejected. The speaker retreating from a glowing lure feels deathly chill and solemn resolve amid romantic strain.
Fragmented Ripley Chronicle Dramatic Plea for Justice
A fragmented ancient style piece shows Ripley towns selecting officials amid lament for lost leadership. The speaker denounces Danites and Benjaminites, invokes biblical imagery, and pleads for mercy, wine set aside, and a return to just governance.
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Greene
Rein
Uta
Law Law
Cravels
J. S
W.C. Ward
Mathew Mayhew & Ward
Lat
Henry S. Christian
Versaille
B. Corner
Broadway and
Second Street
Cincinnati
Cart
Jos. H. Caomwear
Henrie
Third Street
Sycamore
Ohto
Walnut Street
Walnut Steet
Betwen
Sweney
Harper House
Versilles
Geo
W- Johnson
Galt House
Winee Walsh
Proprieto
Maine
Cress
Obhen
Julia
Amator
John
Jonathan Snow
James H. Alley
Bourros
Edward Everett
Papps
Niagara
Mr. Grahame
Singapoor
Mowat
Secossin
Pappa
Darlin
Mamma
Bald Pate
Old
Pathe Tp
Temple of Justice
Mace
Tigh Nor Wiseman
Senate
Israel
Benjaminite
Bernard
Bie
Maca
Thia
Detroit
Eempares
Alice
Ves
Iing Brok
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