A Merciless FELLOW and the Convict Balloon Fiasco
A narrative recounts Silas Goodman inviting a disguise as a convict for a character ball. Hayfoot plots to trap him, leading to Goodman being mistaken for an escaped convict and sent to a penitentiary, then released. He learns Hayfoot and a beloved ally have left on a bridal tour, while a Washington buyer pockets a large sum from a toy invention tale.
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Arkansas
Silas Goodman
Hayfoot
Goodman
Silas
Sodgiker
Gaddlefly
Goodmaan
Jackson
Brick Yard
Friendly Ladies of Louisville Cause Streetcar Delays
A Louisville paper derides local ladies for blocking streetcars with long farewells and kisses. The tale recounts two women on the sidewalk flagging a car, calling a friend to the door, greeting with kisses and chatter, then returning to the curb as the driver hastens away.
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Louisville
A Lucky Bootblack and a City Secret Pump Plan
Jimmy Costello, a fourteen year old bootblack at the Monongahela House lobby in Pittsburgh, has invented a pump and secured twenty eight thousand dollars in a Boston Globe report. The piece notes Costello’s light hair and blue eyes as descriptive details in this venture story.
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Jimmy Costello
Pittsburgh
Boston Globe
Monongahela House
Plucky peccaries fight a locomotive to the last
Frank Reid recalls a herd of peccaries blocking a Southern Pacific track in Colorado. The animals form battle lines as the train advances, and after repeated charges three plucky survivors are killed, with the herd finally wiped out.
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Mail and Express
Frank Reid
Southern Pacific
Colorado
Leann
Thieves' Culture at Shyster Lecture on Robbery Dangers
In a lower Manhattan tenement at 13 Mott Street police broke up a sneak thieves club of about a dozen youths. A rented shyster from the Tombs lectured them on robbery ethics and penalties, urging restraint and outlining distinctions between burglary highway robbery and petty theft to minimize risk.
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Shyster
Boston Ferala
Mott Street
Gilmore's Aromatic Wine Endorsed by Doctors and Readers
Advertisements claim Gilmore's Aromatic Wine cures female weakness debility and nervous exhaustion. Testimonials from Rev. H. Emell Pavilion NS and others praise its restorative effects for women and children, with notes on improved complexion and sleep. Sold by A. W. Morek & Co.
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H. &. Emell
Javillion
NS. 2
Gilmore
W. Fisk Requa
Aurora
Ill
Harris Peck
Pavillion
N. Y
Nislaria
M. Derby
Linden
Dre. Freelasd
Fowlerville
Pomeny
E. J. Whitney
Clarkson
S. H. McIntire
Waggetts Mills
A.W. Morek & Co
Ayer
Ater
J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mass
All Druggista
Tinson
Fruit and Flowers Nursery Stock and Plants Ad
Fruit and Flowers. A full line of choice Nursery stock small fruits ornamental trees towering shrubs etc Strawberry Plants a specialty Address all orders to H MW ROUNDS West Spring Creek Warren Co Pa.
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H. MW. Rounds
West Spring Creek
Warren Co
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Frewsburg
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Lake Shore and Erie Railways
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L. P. Bishop
Warren
Il Tole
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Irvinetor
OP Plaster Company
Boston
Prof
Lohse’s
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Mozart Club
Arnold Lohse
Dresden
Germany
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Flh. Wyman
Wyman & Davis
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio R. R
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Cleveland
Chicago
Cincinnati
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Minnesota
Dakota
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Kansas
Texas
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J.M. Ferris
A. E. Clane
Ohio
Warren Savings Bank
Warren, PA
Warten
Nterast
Nnadec
L. FL. Watson, B.nesmith,a.j. Hazeltine
L.r. Watson, O. H. Hunter, M.B. Duman
R. Fneeway
A. Nesmith
A.J
Otal
Chamberlain Ineatitue
Randolph
Comercial College and Musical Institute
Islan Warren
G. Koeble
N. K. Wendledee
M. K
Dlehboe
Liberty Street
Warrer
Beecher & Copeland
Warren, Penn
Walter A. Wood
W. Anson Wood
Gowrie
Paris
NEW Hartford
Hickory Street
Penn’a. Undertaking
T.W. McNett
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