Saved by a Mother and a Robbery Tale from Indiana
A fourteen year old boy on the road to Nashville is blamed for a village robbery after reporting a thief. Sheriff investigations fail, locals perjure themselves, and the boy is jailed before the truth emerges from careful pursuit by neighbors and officials. A separate tale recalls a shipwreck survivor journal and a sister’s dramatic rescue years later, ending with a dream that cost Miss Agnes seven thousand dollars but yielded a missing sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel
Watkins
Agnes
Costa Rica
England
Morton’s bear catching by caramel and clubbing tale
An anecdote recounts Paul Morton’s alleged method to trap a bear on a Canadian Pacific railway trip. A sugar craving bear climbs a pole for caramel, grips with all four paws, and is then dispatched with a club, as described by Chicago Inter Ocean and quoted by J C Osgood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Osgood
Paul Morton
Canadian Pacific Railway
Morton
Bear
Recovered Memory After Paralytic Shock Inspires 84-Year-Old
William McEntee, 84, of North Twenty-eighth Street, regained memories after a storm illness. He sang an old air from his boyhood in Ireland and recalled events from long ago and more recent dates, previously forgotten before a brief paralysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William McEntee
North Twenty-eighth Street
Emerald Isle
Philadelphia Record
Wrightsville and area events drift through town chatter
Wrightsville notes include a funeral in the M E church for Kingsley Wright formerly of Eureka City, a birth on June 16, and social gatherings in MoontrieHt and Mead district. Local visitors, school teachers named Belle Somers and Chloe Beyer appointed, a strawberry social to aid the M E church, and various residents traveling or sick, with June 25 to 27 entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrightsville
Hattie Higgins
Tidionte
J. I. Ford
Clarendon
M. ¥. Irvine
Kingsley Wright
Eureka City
M. E
Thomas Irvine
Warren
James Wilson
Ed Beale
Chautauqua
Mary Wynn
Sugar Grove
Rex
Thompson Hiill
H. C. Stanton
Miss Nelson
Hllen
Corry
Sylvester Clark
Gerry Centre
N. Y
McKitrick
David Smutz
Almon Babcock
Jackson Run
Chloe
Clara Beyer
Steamburg
Russ Bailey
P. W. Somers
Irene Samuelson
Mead
Chandler’s Valley
Daniel Ruhlman
Belle Somers
Keller
Chloe Beyer
Kitchen
Mice Blanche Rubiman
Mead Schoolhouse
Dr Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic
A vintage advertisement extols Dr Fenner's remedies for a wide range of ailments. It touts blood and liver cleansing tonics, a child laxative and soothing syrups, and a topical ointment, claiming rapid effects, broad cures, and testimonials from diverse settings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Adams
Fredonia
N.Y
Fenner
Local store closes as Ackley firm buys stock and wares
Notice records the sale of an entire wallpaper stock and goodwill to Ackley Chipps & Co at 232 Water Street. The former proprietor invites patrons to shop the new store at 220 Water Street for wallpaper, shades, frames, oil cloths, and painters supplies at reduced prices. Also included are public notices on incorporation for Conenango Building Loan Association and estate administration for Manette Rice with settlement claims and payments requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ackley, Chipps & Co
Water Street
Warren
New Rogers Block
State of
Pennsylvania
E. T. Hazeltive
M. B. Dunham
D. L. Gerould
Jno
M. Siegfried
J. W. Dunkle
Geo . Ensworth
A. Mintzer
Geo
Colvin
Frank M. Knapp
Act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Conenango Building Loan Association
Manette Rice
Eldred
Warren County
E. J. Rhisevart
Admir
Grand Valley
Morris & Mullen’s
Water St
Buffalo
Corry
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Charles B. Lewis GH
Charles B. Lewis
Greencastle
Martinsville
Nashville
Brown County
the Ledger
Wm. Johnson
Normanville, Pa
G.I. Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
Hood
Saparilia
Wiliam
Bert
Dr. Fenner
Sola
H. H. Cowles
Harrison A. Briggs
Geo. F. Yates
Warren Borough
Allegheny River
James W. Wiggins
Burgess
Joseph A. Schofield
Homes and Hearths
Homes ND Hearths Publishing CO
New York
Warren Co
Ai Asso
Bae “Ba Skoy
Bridgeport
Conn
Charing Cross
London
Rue DE LA Chaussee
Paris
New York City
STION
Baile
Cassis
Chiko Usitn
Johanna
Questia
Olympia Hippodrome Wickd’s
Farr of
Wondera
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