Greeley Marriage From Letters To A Country Lad Turned City Newsman
A tale recounts Horace Greeley, a country youth who started a newspaper, marrying Miss Cheney after a lengthy courtship shaped by letters. The wedding occurs in haste in New York, with Greeley displaying practical resolve while Miss Cheney’s romantic ideals clash with his plain manner. The union's impact ripples through social circles and later connects to Judge White and Mrs. Greeley.
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Mr. White
Horace Greeley
Miss Cheney
Mr. Greeley
Miss C
Fancy
Miss
New York
Greenwich Street
Wealth and worth beyond riches in a moral lens
A Detroit Free Press editorial rejects the idea that wealth is measured by land or cash, praising true wealth as mind, health, and character. It discusses Chilean longevity claims from 1885, noting absurd ages and census officials accepting unlikely figures, with a Washington Letter critique.
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Chili
Thomas Parr
Washington
Trout That Remembered in Adirondack Hatcheries
Reported by a New York Star observer, Seth Green and a visitor recalled five thousand brook trout in a Caledonia pond. The fish, captured with flies from unfrequented Adirondack brooks, allegedly remembered prior encounter with fishermen and avoided a fly while approaching a rod but fled from a cane.
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Seth Green
Caledonia
Adirondack
Green
Mr. Green
New York Star
Mental shock can cause lifelong mental illness in youth
A Longman’s Magazine excerpt by Dr. B W Richardson explains how a single traumatic event in infancy or school life can permanently damage mental health. A trusted tutor’s impulsive act shatters a boy’s trust in water and, with it, his entire sense of security, illustrating lifelong consequences of early psychological injury.
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B. W. Richardson
Longman’s Magazine
Legal Banter at the Year Round Courtroom
Excerpts recount witty cross-examinations as witnesses spar with lawyers. Dunning probes a witness about residence near the court, a copper nose retorts, and a tall man comparison stirs humor. The judge’s stance on impact remains unclear.
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Dunning
Unification milestones and inventions of the era
A concise catalog notes major historic events from Italian unification to telegraph and photography breakthroughs, the Franco German war, abolition of slavery, and Napoleonic era shifts, ending with the Lenticular Bi-focal Spectacle Lens patent by August Merck Jr. in 1887 and Edinboro State Normal School’s term opening with 241 certificates.
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Italy
Texas
Central Asia
Germany
United States
Nile
Niger
Africa
August Merck, Jr
Warren, Pa
State Normal School
Edinboro
American Fishes by G. Brown Goode description
A popular treatise on North American game and food fishes by G Brown Goode U S Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries with many illustrations and a colored brook trout plate. One volume Royal Octavo over 500 pages on handsome paper bound. Sent free on receipt of $3 50. Faulkner Allan 1713 Chestnut Street Philadelphia Pa
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North America
G. Brown Goode
U.S
Faulkner & Allan Subscriptions Draw Agents
Philadelphia publisher Faulkner and Allan issues notice of new subscription books that attract many applicants from agents seeking territory and opportunities to earn large profits. The announcement, cited by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, notes strong demand and broad interest from sales agents.
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Faulkner & Allan
Philadelphia
Frankeslie
Illustrated Newspaper
Dress goods flood sale closes season with deep cuts
A local store promotes a rapid clearance of dress fabrics claiming top quality values. 15c serges, 42 inch all wool plaids and stripes at 35c, Persian sidemixtures, lace flouncings down to 1.25 and 1.50 per yard, hand run chantilly at 3.75, previously 5 to 37.50. Saturday June 29 marks a final silk warp and all wool Henrietta sale with drastic price drops as the stock is closed out. Curtain pieces also offered at discounted prices.
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Greeley
Detroit Free Press
Blis
American Fishes
Byron Clark
New York City
West 98Th Street
Te, PA
National Hotel
Corydon, PA
Kinzur, PA
Revere House
Clarendon, PA
Sheffield
Lee House
Howes
N. K. Wendelboe
Geo. S., Davis
Chen
Nuts
Poe
W. A. Kinnear, Ph. G
Corner Second
Liberty Treets
Warren, Fa
Morge Brothers
Opera
P. J. Bayer
THE
Grocer
Liberty Street
J. F. Reterer
Carver House
Morck
August Morck, Jr
Morck Brothers
Warten
F. R.scott’s
Warren
F. R. Scott
Coopricu
Fehlman
Hickory St
Carver
N.lund
P. Lund
Cutter
W. A. Bairstow
Geo. Ball’s
Humphrey & Nemoyer
Water Street
Episcopal Church
T.B. Clawson
THEN
Hersee & CO
Mammoth Retail Manufacturers
Ellicott St
Buffalo
N. Y
CUEST
N. B
wayTo
Graat
Dresser
Sade
Directoire
Paris
Erly
Chantilly
Henrietta
We Will
Hoffman
Block, Warren
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