Gambler Thorn Reveals Dark Past On Mississippi Journey
A spring voyage down the Mississippi to New Orleans introduces a tall Kentucky gambler, known as Thorn, who matches wits with a keen card player. After a deadly duel in a New Orleans gambling house and a court acquittal, Thorn explains a fateful family tragedy tied to the ring and his supposed foe.
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Mississippi
Crescent City
New Orleans
George Thorn
Kentucky
Thorn
LeIl
Havana
St. Charles
Faro Bank
Rouge Et Noir
Ganbler
Agerman
Fredrika Bremer
Poisoning case ends in conviction for wife and lover
The Hartford Press reports the death of Phelps Holcomb of Tariffville Conn from poison given by his wife. Exhumation found corrosive sublimate in his stomach. both Mrs Holcomb and Charles Robinson were jailed.
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Hartford Press
Phelps Holcomb
Tariffville
Conn
Poultry finishing and slaughter guidance with moral tale
Instructions for fattening poultry to double market price through liberal feeding and precise killing methods. Steps cover handling from catching to scalding, bleeding, and packaging, plus cautions on skin preservation and moisture. A stray humorous interlude about propriety in milk and a reflected patriotic sentiment round off the text.
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Philadelphia
How to Manuiny Trees in Grass Laxo
Mark a circle around the tree tracing the overhanging branches outer line. Dig inside the circle two feet wide and one foot deep. Mix rotted manure with soil and fill the trench. Replace turf and smooth. The tree will show good growth, large fair fruit, and no unsightly mound.
Sugar cane from China deemed unlikely sugar source
W. H. Belcher of a St. Louis sugar refinery tests Chinese cane and finds it likely to fail as a sugar producer. He doubts it will granulate and says the syrup lacks the proper cane sugar proportion.
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W. H. Belcher
St. Louis
The
Chicago Tribune
Mt. Zion
Janesville
Wis
The Plucky Thinker Faces Debt Fear
A quotation contrasts boldness with debt anxiety. It notes the same man who confronts an army will tremble at a creditor, and says the thinking man has wings while the acting man has only feet and hands.
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Edito
Meadville Academy
Teacher’s Normal School
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Meadville
Carver
EB. K. Eddy
Water Street
Warren
Warren County
General
Hackney House
Second and
Liberty Streets
Warren, Eoren Co
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P. S. Cole
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Wrar & Hecaines
P. BR. Bennett
L. T. Parmlee
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Wetmore and Spencer
Second Street
Johnson & Brown’s
Wetmore
T. C. Spencer
Scofield and Brown
Liberty Street
Glenni W. Scofield
WM. D. Brown
P. D. Fitch
Parthena Williams
Reformed School
Front Street
L. E. Guignon
Sugar Grove
Warren Co
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Third
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Nesmith and Keller
Exchange
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Orr & Henry’s
Pau
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Warren, Pa
George Sailor
Lanner
Warren, I's
G. N. Parmlee & Co
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Surrs
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W. W. Dayton
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I’a
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P. Johnson
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D. D
Wetmore & Spencer
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