Crow-Catching Child Tricks Crows With Feigned Wounded Bird
In Essex County New Jersey a barefoot boy performs a clever deception to trap crows. He uses a wounded crow imitation to lure a flock, then captures a decoy crow with a prepared split stick mechanism and a crotched restraint, earning payment before showing how he can catch more. The narrator witnesses the ploy and pays the boy ten cents per crow as promised.
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Cleveland
Essex County
New Jersey
Rascal
Crows Retired Again After Belief in Duty
Fragmentary note suggests crows deemed their task complete and departed. A New Jersey man is referenced in a stray line, with unclear context and numbers that do not form a coherent event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
Meph the Skunk and His Devotion to His Master
A measured reminiscence of a pet skunk named Meph kept as a companion by his master. The animal accompanied walks, followed ladies, hunted grasshoppers and beetles, attacked mice with ferocity, and learned to beg for ascent to stairs. The tale notes his antics, mischievous schemes, and bond with his owner during two summers.
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Staii
False Eye Accident in Bridgeport Walling
An English woman visiting a Bridgeport widow with two sons becomes the center of a comic accident involving a glass eye. During ether anesthesia for a foot operation, a doctor tries the eye and the suitor begs him to touch the other eye. The eye falls out, causing panic and the patient later returns to Britain unaware of the incident. A humorous aside follows about a minister and a Deacon in heaven.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Bella
Conscous
Great Britain
Wes
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Blood Purity Remedy
A promotional piece extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for hereditary scrofula and blood impurities. It features testimonials from Mars. N. Sanborn of Lowell Massachusetts and an editors’ note from the Lowell Weekly Journal praising the remedy and its vendors Hood & Co. of Lowell.
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Hood
Messrs. Hood & Co
Lowell
Lowell Weekly Journal
A Captains Fortunate Discovery and Patent Sarsaparilla Sale
Capt Coleman of Weymouth reported relief from severe cough and sleeplessness after using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption aboard his schooner. The remedy is now standard in the Coleman household and on board the vessel. free trial bottles offered at A Morck’s drug store.
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Coleman
Weymouth
Atlantic City
N. J
King
A. Morck
Remarkable Cure Claim With Hop Bitters
A testimonial extols Hop Bitters as a universal remedy to cure liver filings and nerve issues. J W Morey of Buffalo recounts breaking down with kidney and liver trouble and rheumatism, says physicians gave up, and after seven bottles his liver hardness and limb swelling disappeared.
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J. W. Morey
Buffalo
Poverty and Suffering and a Hop Bitters Testimony
A workingman describes years of debt and illness alleviated after using Hop Bitters under a pastor's advice. He credits improved health for his family within a month and promotes Hop Bitters as a cost saver versus a doctor's visit. References to railway schedules and routes appear in the surrounding text.
Attorneys at Law Jas Gable Wetmore Noyes and Hinckley
Attorneys at law Jas Gable Wetmore Noyes and Hinckley are listed as members of a law firm with no additional details provided.
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Attorneys At Law
Physicians and Surgeons Directory Entry List
Dr J M Davies comcepathic physician practices from Liberty Street opposite Baptist church. Residence phone listed. Dr Reverdy B Stewart office and residence on Third Street near Library Hall with telephone connections. Dr Richards and Dr Be Preston homeopathic physician also listed.
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Comcepathic
Liberty Street
Baptist Church
Reverdy B. Stewart
Third Street
Library Hall
Moe
Wiyyoh
Sebond
Liberty Streets
Cor. of Liberty
W. S. Pierce
A. W. Morce
Pilo
Beagle's Clothing Druggist
Water Street
Carver House
AP. M
Ren. A
T Bio Sr. M
TTI
Hotels and Restaurants in Warren Features
Hotels and restaurants in Warren highlight G H Leoshart Carver House and Mrs C W King establishments. Proprieties advertise low rates from 1.50 to 2.00 per day, meals offered around the clock, and proximity to the depot and Suspension Bridge. Adelphia Kitchen promises first class meals and event catering with weddings and parties as specialties.
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Allegheny College
Meadville
Penna
U.S Army
David A. Wheeler
B. Roter
Wear v. & Bk
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New York
C. J. Hoon & Co
Mars
N.C. Sanborn
Merrimack St
Mass
Hoood
Dr. Dood & CO
Lowell, Mase
Philadelphia & Erie Railroad
Erie
Warren
Sheffield
Erie Mail
Philadelphia Bark
Dunkirk
Allegheny Valley
Pittsburg
Pittsburgh
Levyson
Helen E. Pelletreau
Pillsbuargh
MFG. CO
Axcues
M.D
Oxford St
Brooklyn
N.Y
Cexraun Company
Fulton #reet
Business Directory
C. H. McCauley
M. Crocker
Jos
Clinton
T. J. Putnam
A. Cogswell
D. Brow
Paul W. Brown
Rufus P. King
A. Allen
Allen
H. Higgins
J. A. Weible
W. J. Alexander C. D. Arire
Jas
Gable
G. Trunky
Dinsmoor
Dinsmoor & Cable
Geo. C. Cornelius
Justice OF the Peace
Scofield
Hunter's Dry Poo
Fron
Ll.d Wetmore
C. H. Moyes
W.D. Hinckley
S. T. Neill
New Exchange
Leonhart Bros
H.R. Brown
R. Brown
G. W. Stone
Brown & Stone
Osmer & Freeman
Judge
Second Street
Johnson’s Exchange
Naa
First National Bank
Wm. Schmur
L. A. Freeman
W. Wilbur
D. I. Ball
Physicians and Surgeons
J. M. Davies
Idr. Richards, Stewart
BE. D. Preston
Homeopathic Physicia
Ee — EM
Pierce
V. D. Danforth
A. O. Mealpine
Merck
Onico
C. W. Sersall
Curver House
Exchange Hotel
G. H. Leoshart
Carver
C. W. King
Revere House
LaPierre
L. Walkerman, Prop
Adelphia Kitchen
B. Williams
First National Boal
Chas. Schwing
Warren Sos
Barbers and Hair Dre
Lou Aeyer
Stenen
Sion Bridge
Eben N. Ford
A. K
Fey Hall
Biodt
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