Bold Barber Prejudices An Impartial Court in His Favor
In Cottonville during court week Judge Blank entertains a barber shop confrontation with Jefferson Orton who threatens violence over a case stands ready to drop the indictment. The judge vows to keep justice, and after a tense exchange Orton claims the judge promised not to prosecute. The town recalls the tale as frontier drama.
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Bold Barber
Atlanta
Constitution
Cottonville
Jefferson Orton
Chiles
Orton
Jeff Orton
Jesso
Jedge
Willin
Judge Blank
Jedger
West
Elopement Attempt Ends With Bulldog Attack in Macon
Miss Mary L Hunter daughter of Dr Hunter of Macon and John S Ernest wealthy sporting figure planned to elope at night. Ernest leaped the fence. a bulldog attacked after a bear like struggle. Ernest injured with clothes torn and mustache bitten. Doctor Hunter may now consent to marriage.
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Mary L. Hunter
Hunter
Macon
Elm Street
Johns
Ernest
Mary
Man returns after journey ends in hardships and care
About thirty one years ago Leonard Poole left Brockton for the West to seek fortune. His wife and infant daughter remained. He sent remittances and spoke of not returning until comfortable fame. He was later robbed aboard a westbound train, fell, was cared for, and eventually brought to Boston in a dazed state. He spent time at Bridgewater State Workhouse before family arrangements for his final years.
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Leonard Poole
Brockton
West
Boston
Bridgewater
Oped
His Wifes Weapon Mrs Roberts Chastises Husband
A New York court scene at the Tombs features a husband seeking leniency from Justice Duffy while claiming his wife beats him. The wife jokes about a concealed weapon, revealing a wooden leg, and the judge scolds the husband for whining over a trifling matter as he orders him sent home.
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Justice Dally
A Peculiar Sensation Visited By McLeer At Washington
General McLeer, Brooklyn postmaster, visits Washington and the medical Museum where his amputated left arm rests. He recalls the first visit and the overwhelming emotional reaction as he turned to leave the cherished reminder of the war. The account contrasts the feeling with farewell to a sweetheart and mourning a friend.
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Washington
D. C
General McLeer
Brooklyn
Medical Museum
Michigan girl collects one hundred autograph letters
A Chicago Times item notes a Michigan girl who gathered about one hundred letters from as many men into a bound volume for display in her parlor. The letters reflect her extensive sentimental correspondence since arriving at the center of chi rography, making the collection of interest to callers.
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Chicago Times
Michigan
Mystery of Stonewall Jackson Sketch in Pension Claim
A pension exhibit for William Sykes, a former Battery F, Fourth Artillery teamster, includes a pen and ink drawing labeled Stone wall Jackson, Bath Virginia January 1st. The depiction shows a man knee deep in snow among soldiers with Confederate hats. A responding officer cannot verify the freezing incident, but a friend possesses Jackson’s original drawing confirming the event and identifying Stonewall Jackson.
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Washington
William Sykes
Fourth Artillery
Regular Army
Stonewall Jackson
Del
Bath
Virginia
Commissioner of Pensions
Colonel Best
Fort Adams
Sewnart
R. I
Sykes
Fourth
United States Artillery
Inbi
Janet Hest
Ara Conn
Cushing
Colon
Sion
William 48
Pope
Fitz John Port Porter
Bykes
Stone Mule
Smart Young Man Causes Train Row Ends by Aunt Power
A Wabash train near Omaha features a loud young man cursing at a locked seat. Two Council Bluffs women threaten to pull the bell rope and stop the train to eject him. Passengers support them as the man backs down and sits.
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Omaha
Council Bluffs
A Tough Tale of Survival Above Snow in May
Dick Sellers recalls a 1880s May trek over Marshall Pass from South Arkansas to Gunnison City. A thaw left them suspended forty feet above ground in a tree, with a damaged tent and stove overhead. They freed themselves using an axe, then resumed their journey.
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Ohio
Terra Ficina
Drummer Fends Off Dogs and Bull in Rockland County Run In
Paul Blummer, a Patterson, New Jersey drummer, reports a rough march through Rockland County. He was bitten by a dog between New City and Spring Valley, again pursued by a second dog, then chased by a bull. After a fall into a pool of stagnant water, he was aided briefly by passersby, declined clothes, and vowed never to return to the region. He then reached Spring Valley and boarded to Jersey City.
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Brookland County
Yanuet
N. J
Paul Blummer
Patterson
New Jersey & New York Railroad
New City
Spring Valley
Blummer
Brummer
Nanuet
Jersey City
Rockland County
POKER AND GRAIN. A CONGRESSMAN ADDS WEALTH BY INVESTING
Washington Cor Cincinnati Times reports a Kentucky member of the last House whose entire salary funded a big investment in poker, grain and stocks. The piece notes a well known Washington insider who thrives in cards and bluffing and sometimes shakes up fellow members.
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Washington Cor
Cincinnati Times
Washington
Ohio
F Street
Kentucky
Newspaper Writer's Work in a Million Pen Strokes
The Chicago Times explains rapid penmanship by calculating how many turns a pen makes to write words. At thirty words per minute the pen travels a rod length in space and a furlong in forty minutes, totaling tens of millions of pen strokes yearly. It notes newspaper writers often exceed four million strokes daily.
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Chicago Times
What is Dyspepsia and its prominent symptoms
Dyspepsia or indigestion shows varied appetite, gnawing stomach pain, heartburn, weight and wind, bad breath and taste, low spirits, prostration, headache, constipation. Alcohol and tobacco worsen it. Burdock Blood Bitters claimed to cure by regulating bowels and toning digestion. various claims about Gilmore's Aromatic Wine and other remedies appear throughout.
Warren Savings Bank WI Rest Charter Note
Warren Savings Bank Wisconsin Rest is the only chartered savings bank in Waste County or vicinity according to the limited OCR text.
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Warren Savings Bank
Savings
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