Sunday Puritan Church Life in Early Manchester Village
In May on Saw Mill Brook, a small Puritan community gathers for Sabbath worship at a plain meeting-house. The article describes the wooden church, somber dress, and quiet greetings, with sermons from Judges and Paul, notes on authority, and rumors of Dippers and Anabaptists, all amid rural gossip and frontier concerns.
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Derehester Company
Jeffrey’s Creek
Naumkeng
Cape Ann
Saw Mill Brook
Image Hill
New England
Captain Hooper
Captain Leach
Samuel Morgan
Hiltons
Goodman Bennett
Hog Reeves
Samuel Allen
G Ossip
Goodman Babcock
Ipswich
Newbury
Arcadia
Mears
St. Martin's
Dundee
Old Hundred
Tate
Brady
Watts
Nathaniel Marsters
Constable
Boston
Rome
Israel
Sandy Bay
Captain Underhill
Samuel May
Louisburg
Salomon Driver
Gloucester Road
Wolf Trap Brook
Goodwifl Parson
Ketth Cove
Lord Bacon
Paul
Chebacco
John Cleaveland
Shamgar
Edward Lee
Parson Tappin
Parson Cleveland
Puritan Sabbath Reflections in Manchester Community Life
The text describes a peaceful Puritan Sunday ending with a hearty communal supper of Wahed beans brown bread and Indian pudding, cider mugs, and prayers. It notes catechism attendance cows in the barnyard musking and young people lingering in tree masonry of hearts under a full moon as suitors depart at nine. D. F. Lawson Manchester Massachusetts.
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D. F. Lawson
Manchester
Massachusetts
Visitors plan dinner amid beef and hog slaughterhouse tour
A party of about fifty to visit a packing house proprietor and inspect the beef killing and hog slaughtering departments this afternoon. The landlord directs the head cook to prepare roast lamb for about fifty for their meal.
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Jones
Griggs
Chicago Tribune
Illustrated Quote Warns of Wild West Hanging
A dialogue set in America depicts a wife told by a friend that her husband John has been hanged for horse stealing after ranchers caught him in the act, highlighting the brutal frontier justice and a tense personal consequence.
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Wild West
John
America
Extravagant Man and the Widow Discuss His Death
A fragment from a conversation contrasts an extravagant man whose ruinous habits led to his suicide with his widow and a friend. The widow recalls the husband’s extravagance as the family’s ruin, citing a costly silver mounted revolver. The exchange references the Yankee Blade and a Washington Post remark about the boy’s future.
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John
Hinself
Soap Claim Sparks Comparison to Ivory Misleads
Readers are warned that numerous white soaps tout themselves as equal to Ivory but fail to deliver the same quality, underscoring misleading marketing in domestic soap products.
Barber Talent Across Continents Cited in Job Interview
A barbershop boss questions an applicant who claims vast experience across many cities and even Australia. The exchange shows vivid, humorous dialogue about origins and skills, with newspaper quotes illustrating a brisk, fall day atmosphere and casual office chatter.
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Here
Australia
Africa
Chicago Tribune
Gentleman in Thief’s Disguise Stole 130 Bills Then Paid Watch
A anecdote in Harper’s Bazar describes a highwayman who stole 130 in bills from a man and, in a twist of generosity, paid the victim for his own watch. The robber is praised as the most gentlemanly thief encountered.
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Harper's Bazar
Quick Laughs From Dated Papers Collage
A compact, humor focused clump of late 19th and early 20th century quips. Cartoonish exchanges touch on miscommunication shaving ballrooms and love, with punchlines about kiss talk, the quick shave, and life insurance twists.
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Finnerty
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Warren
Siegfried & Co
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A.J. Hezeltine
O W. Beaty
G. B. Eosworth
O. W. Beaty
AL. B. Dunham
J. B. Woot
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H. Noye
James Clark
L. KR. Freeman
Kes WW. Stone
F. FH. Rockwell
A. J. Iluzeltine
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Reins North
POM. A. Fom
Jewelers
Ware
Wyman & Davis
Water Street
Carver House
Dunkirk
Oungsville
Pittsfield
Garland
Newton
Rand Valles
Titusville
Taew
Wes Warren
Arming
Tionesti
Phils South
Ehayer
Oosia Aan
Batae ‘Valley
R. R. Co
Elphia
Abe Ar
Hegheny
Sheffield
Tionesta Valley
Garfield
Fransworth
Tions
Markham
Garfeld
Philadelphia & Erie R
Erie
Ridgeway
Warrenee
Erie Mail
Kane
Pennsylvania Railroad—P
Sheffield Express
Ridgway Express
Ridgway
Oil Express
Sunbury
Harrisburg
Lancaster
Philadelphia
New York
Baltimore
Washington
Williamsport
Harrisbn
Cogcees
u—Erie Mail
Erie Express
Warrex
New Yorks
Arrivig
Pullman
Phil
Philvie
Warren Express
Sundar
Shefield
Warren Accor
Chase
Pugh, JR. Woon
Man
Jen’s Pass
Tarren and
Farnsworth Patlroad
Clarendon
Corwen
Underwood’s
feCalmont
Wood’s Mill
East
Vanderarift
Dunham's Mill
D. Wood
New York &Penna
P.R. B
Kinzua
Bradford Salamanca
Olean
Olean Expres Clean
Irvinton
Tidhgate
Tionesta
Oil City
Pittsburgh
OIL City Express
Leffard
R. Bell
Sup'’t
J. A. Fellows
Geo. S. Davis
W. A. Kinnear
Second and
Warren, Pa
D. Wetmore
Pres
M. Beecher
Cash
Warren County
Chartera
England
Ireland
Europe
Morck Brothers
Myron Waters
Francis Henry
D. L. Gerould
Cashie
H. A. Jamieson
V. Davis
P. Johnson
A. Hertzel
W.D. Brown
G.N. Parmlee
A. T. Scofield
United States
Igns
Jack
Philadelphia Press
Birdie
John L. Sullivan
Philadelphia Times
Washington Star
Island
G. Koebley
J. F. Reterer
Morck
August Morck, Jr
Irvine
KE. R. Bumpus
Railroad St
North
Clarendon, Pa
Keystone Hotel
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Larry
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Pitchers Castorila
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