Packer Scott fortunes and rail map of PA politics
Philadelphia letter reviews Asa Packer and Thomas A. Scott fortunes, their rail careers, and vast wealth. It outlines Packer’s Lehigh Valley Railway rise, Scott’s Pennsylvania Railroad leadership, related legislative influence, and potential future litigation over estates. It notes Packer’s 1806 birth, Scott’s 1851 service, and 1860 to 1879 growth amid political maneuvering.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
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Register
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Col. Scott
Pennsylvania
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Lemig Road
Connecticut
New London
Mr. Packer
United States
Susquehanna County
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Joan W. Prazuer
Aliet Justice Chase
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Curious scientific miscellany from the Ledger
The piece surveys varied topics from fire byproducts in coal mines to a new electric cooking range at Paris exhibitions. It notes Daubree's phosphorus bearing mineral, Barisal guns linked to rainfall, oil nourished plant growth, ancient alchemical recipes, baldness skin grafts, eucalyptus growth in Jamaica, plant seed dispersal by bees and a panther carrying seeds, and electric shocks from certain bugs, ending with a claim on ocean wave heights.
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Himalayas
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India
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South America
The Silent Farmer's Wife and the Hidden Heart
Martha Phillips lived fifty years as a farmer's wife under a quiet roof. She never spoke of the betrayed heart that shaped her life, torn between a first love Paul Gardner and a practical husband John Phillips. A deceitful family mix up left her faithful to memories, bearing sorrow until old age without ever revealing the truth to her children.
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Paul Gardner
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Martha
Panil
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Phillips
Mattie Gray
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Nothing Short of Unmistakable Benefits From Ayer Sarsaparilla
Ayer s Sarsaparilla is praised as a potent vegetable tonic with potassium and iron, claimed to cure scrofula skin diseases and blood disorders. The ad asserts rapid cures for eruptions boils humors and liver or female health issues and urges sales by all dealers.
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Bort
Trease
Ayer
Close Call with Torpedo in Old Well
In a hazardous old well cleanup, Johnson and Co. prepares a twelve quart torpedo for cleaning. Gas pressure proves dangerous as the line snags and the torpedo nearly explodes, but John Kuhn and John Rubin survive the hair raising event with quick thinking and grim humor.
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John Kuhn
Session’s Frankness in Senate Testimony Reveals Voter Ties
The article portrays Sessions as candid about his past, yet evasive on recent exploits, noting his twenty years of trading votes. It argues Republican lawmakers and constituents tolerate him, valuing local opinion over moral judgments, while portraying him as a public disgrace accepted by his network.
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Richmond
Charleston
Savannah
Jacksonville
Minnda
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Col
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James Page
Parker
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Todd
Scott
Col. Scott
Columbia
Col Scott
Lartranft
Senator McClure
West Phiadelphia
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Philadelphia
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Bradley
Cavil
Wuncedurita
Cattaraugus
Don't Be Too Critical In Private Life
A domestic counsel from Exchanges urges restraint in private life. It warns constant faultfinding harms home happiness and that displeasing others ensures no one will please you. It stresses remembering your own manners and tolerating others rather than critiquing every detail.
Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption
Advertisement extols Dr King’s New Discovery as a superior health invention. It claims to cure throat and lung ailments including coughs colds hay fever and asthma and asserts endorsements and easy purchases through A W Murtk & Co Warren Pa.
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Mehdyt
What She Called Bim Reveals Absurd School Names
A child aged six or seven names her father as Mr Brown and reveals her mother calls him a darned old fool, prompting remarks on school record practices and parental nicknames. The anecdote, cited by a well known educationalist, warns against misregistering names.
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Matie
Mr. Brown
Brown
Dyspepsia Remedy Promotion at Local Store
An advertisement promises relief from dyspepsia and related complaints with Shilohts Vitalizer. It offers a bottle for 75 cents, a printed guarantee, and a money back if not effective, sold by A. J. Davis.
Shiloh’s Cough Remedy and Plaster Promoted
An old time ad hawks Shiloh’s Cough Remedy claiming rapid relief for cramps whooping cough and throat issues with messages urging mothers not to be without it. Also advertises Shiloh’s Porous Plaster and Shiloh’s Gratuity Remedy offering a free nasalline or tree with each bottle and noting the stage holdup with a mail pouch seizure for $17,000.
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San Antonio
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