Old home echoes loss as children depart
The verse recalls a family with five boys and three girls growing into adults. As time passes, the big brown house grows empty with only two elderly owners left. They speak of the past at eventide and note their remaining children are the boy and girl who died in childhood.
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Yellowstone Park
San Francisco
Dublin
Old Country
Pegin Mit
S. Shea
Shim
Shake
Sherry
St. Louis
Wade
Kansas
Benjamin
George Dear
George
Hideous fancy at the foot of the stair
A speaker mocks a newlywed scene, noting Lillian’s robe and rose, questioning the groom about his wife’s age and the two cribbed children upstairs. The poem frames a cynical view of marriage as the carriage departs, with the bride radiant yet the speaker’s doubt lingering about time and legitimacy.
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Lillian
Scout system fuels Sheffield tract wildcat boom
In Forest county twenty one men operate as scouts near the Merck and Schultz well. They use sharp judgment to assess drilling conditions and depth. A tent camp with a warm cozy interior serves venison and other fare. One man bought a $21 shooting iron, later sold it for $15 as bids from hunters come in while the law allows game killing.
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Cooper Tract
Sheffield
Lee House
Forest County
Merck & Shhultz
Commissary Department
Derrick
New York Observer Offers Prayer and its Answer Promotion
The New York Observer, a long established religious weekly, advertises a 1883 subscription offer giving all subscribers a copy of Rev S Irenzens Prime D D Prayer and its Answer, a nearly 200 page cloth bound book worth one dollar. Also notes Oliver Doud Byron completed a log cabin at North Long Branch using railroad ties tied to Garfield. An agricultural note recommends stock use of wood ashes with salt. Yes Tooth Powder sold by Johnson and Siegfrid.
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New York Observer
United States
Oliver Doud Byron
Elberon
N. J
Garfield
North Long Branch
Jounson & Siegfreid
Panic Oil Scare Ridiculed and Ruin Felt Across Social Ranks
The Philadelphia Times recounts how a recent oil panic destroyed fortunes across all classes from day laborers to bankers. Victims ranged from a Warren county farmer who lost life savings to a Pittsfield businessman who fled to avoid prosecution. Many more cases of defalcation and ruin are expected to surface in the coming weeks.
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Philadelphia Times
Gilbert
Buffalo
Richardson
Bolivar
N. Y
Potter and Manners
Olean
Crawford County
Venango County
Dayton
Ohio
Clarion County
Edenburg
The Brakeman A Comic Look At Railroad Life
A humorous piece describes brakemen as railway workers on freight and passenger trains. It contrasts the easygoing passenger brakeman with the grim silent freight brakeman who curses a rear end helper but often rises to importance. It notes night gatherings where brakemen discuss road affairs and critique officials.
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Penooyah
Century and St Nicholas Offerings Highlight 1882
The October Century closes its twenty fourth volume with portraits of Lowell Sontag Newman Emerson Wagner Twain Lincoln and Woolsey plus 358 engravings and 960 pages. St Nicholas 1882 part two with Donald and Dorothy Hoosier boy and drummer boy stories appeals to children. Subscriptions end November 1882 with back numbers offers.
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America
James Russell Lowell
Henrietta Sontag
Cardinal Newman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Wagner
Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln
Woolsey
Yale College
St. Nicholas For Children
Donald
Dorothy
Mary Mapes Dodge
Edward Keggleston
Harry M. Kieffer
St. Nicholas
St Nicholas
Tur Century Co
New York, N.Y
Court ruling limits husband’s involvement in feme sole cases
The Supreme Court holds a feme sole trader need not have her husband joined in suits for her debts. The piece also notes that calling a man eminently respectable implies wealth over a million dollars, while lower figures label him merely an esteemed citizen. An advertising line urges Yes Tooth Powder from Johnson & SrEGFHR ib.
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Supreme Court
It Is a Clear Vegetable Hair Restorer for Hair
It is a perfect hair restorer that removes dandruff, restores natural color, and encourages new growth without harming health unlike other preparations. It promises to turn light or faded hair to a glossy brown in days. Sold by Smith, Kline & Co and Hall & Ruckle.
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Smith, Kline & CO
Philadelphia
Hall & Ruckel
New
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Warren
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A. D. Woon
D. PF
A. Wheeelock
MM. Orr
Clarendon
Waxelbaum Block
Cornelius
Yarver
Cc. W. King
Y Cobham
Berhea Warren
W. A. Greaves
J All & Thompson
Attorneys At Law
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Warren, Pa
I. Ball
C. Thompson
Nobury Public, Dist
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Ilbur & Schnur
Law
Front Street
Postoffice
W. W
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Prown & Stone
First National Bank
H. BE. Brown
R. Brown
C. W. Stone
H. E. Brown
Insmoor & Cable, Attorneys At Law
Water Street
Dinsmoor
JAS. Cable
Reverdy B. Stewart
Richard B. Stewart
Physicians and Surgeons
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Hickory
Tinanner
Court House
Abble Evans
R.J. M. Davies
Liberty Street
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H. Leonhart
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Arren Hotel
D.M. & P. F. Davis
A. McFarland
Prop’r
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Daily Herald
Globe
Union
Weekly Herald
Washington
The
NEW York Herald
Broadway
Ann Street
New York
G. W. Neasse «& CO
Little Valley
N.Y
L. G. Noyes
Sores
A. Siegel & Sons
Coats
Warren High
Durin
W. M. Lindsey
A. B. Miller
Warren, A
J.H. Eddy
M. Beecher
Cashier
Warren CO
U.S
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Ireland
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Jane G. Austin
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Pilate
Charles J. Peterson
Chestnut St
George P. Orr & CO
Warren, Penna
Warren County
Paradise
Earth
Pompadour
T. B. Aldridge
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PFPA
the Boss
Bradford, PA
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A. L. Wales
the Home Mutual Life
Pennsylvania
D. G. Morse
Erie
Crawford, Venango
Forest
McKean Counties
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A.J. Hazeltine
L. Fr. Watson
O. H. Hunter
A. J. Hazeltine
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M. B. Dunham II
Nesmith
Jas. Clark, Jr
Albert Kirberger
N. G. Harkins
Grossenburg’s
Hickory Street
Union School House
Arrea, Pa
W.C. Rowland
Ty. K. Dear
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A. WW. Mooroe
Ile
Illinois
David Davis
David
Burlington
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Man of Meats
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