Santa Claus Comes to Middleville in Snowbound Christmas
In a white Christmas tale from Harper’s Young People, Middleville awakens to a snowstorm and a delayed Santa. Petish and Molly fear no Santa, while Aunt Sally and Uncle Frank secretly deliver stockings and gifts for Rad Don Molly Petish Berry and parents. Breakfast with a joyous surprise follows the midnight rescue.
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Don
Rod Burnell
Santa Claus
Father
Pettish
Molly
Berry
Middleville
Petish
Academy
Mae
Rad
Mr. Burnell
Sally
Frank
Middleton
Mid
Uncle Frank
Maria
Aunt Sally
Papa
Mamma
Biddy
Mrs. Burnell
Subscribing for Philadelphia Weekly Press Offers Broad Pennsylvania News
The piece urges readers to subscribe to the Philadelphia Weekly Press outside their home paper to gain access to broad general news and the fullest Harrisburg and Pennsylvania reporting.
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Philadelphia Weekly Press
Harrisburg
Ely's Cream Balm Promises Cure For Cold Ailments
Yield not to misfortune. Ely's Cream Balm offers treatment for catarrh hay fever and related head colds. It claims to cleanse nasal passages reduce inflammation restore sense of taste and smell with a few applications and full course. Sold by druggists for 50 cents with mail option from Ely's Cream Balm Co. Owego NY.
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Ely
Ely’s Cream Balm Co
Owego
N. Y
Saving Steps A Prophecy Of The Breakfast Table
The New York Graphic argues for a redesigned breakfast area to cut steps in homes. It envisions a table with drawers and compartments for dishes and condiments, allowing a person to cook and warm meals from a seated position, saving labor and strengthening minds and bodies.
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New York Graphic
Portrait of President Arthur and the role of humor
The piece compares President Arthur's cosmopolitan bearing to Garfield's bucolic charm and notes his refined, capable demeanor and convincing blend of intellect and kindness. It then defends American newspaper humor as a light, cheerful sauce that pleases readers and brightens daily life.
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Arthur
Garfield
Mary Clemmer
The
Independent
Charles Lamb
Sidney Smith
Oerce Smith
Evarts
Town Keeps Up With Four Newspapers
A Virginia editor quipped to a stranger that a small town needs four newspapers to keep up with the town, illustrating local press habits and competition.
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Virginia
What Is Man Interesting Observations About the Human Anatomy
The New York News describes gastric juice dissolving foods yet not harming living stomach fibers, while dust pervades everywhere. It notes the eye’s cleansing fluid, breath transforming to life giving air, and the body’s proportions and elemental bases, declaring man the lord of the earth.
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Century Magazine
Washington
Geo. W. Cable
Louisiana
W. D. Howells
Lucy M. Mitchell
America
OPERA
New York
Richard Grant White
Goo
Eliot
Robert Browning
Frederick W. Robertson
Dean Stanley
Matthew Arnold
Christina Rosetti
Cardinal Newman
Wm. D. Howells
Henry James, Jr
George W. Cable
Thackeray
Hawthorne
George Eliot
Kickens
Longfellow
Whittier
Emerson
Lowell
B. C. Stedman
Charles Dudley Warner
W 1. Howells
Mark Twain
Edward Eggleston
Henry
Dr. Holland
Wyatt Eaton
Century
THE
Century Co
Union Square
New York News
Earth
The Nostrum Fallacy Reconsidered in Child Health
Dr. F. L. Oswald argues against drugging sick children and urges natural remedies. He condemns routine prescriptions and stresses relief through environmental changes, outdoor activity, and simple, healthy routine adjustments.
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Nature
Boston Hygienic Institute
F. L. Oswald
Philadelphia Weekly Press Plans Expansion This Year
The Philadelphia Weekly Press states it will continue its popular features and add new ones to remain a desirable family journal. Specimen copies are mailed free.
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Philadelphia Weekly Press
Restoration of Boston State House Underway
The restoration of the old State House in Boston Massachusetts is now in progress.
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Old State House
Boston, Mass
MaIL Office Ad Promotes Printing Services and Legal Blanks
Book and job printing offered with power presses and ample type and stock. Produces STERS HAND BILLS BUSINESS CARDS BILL HEADS CIRCULARS PROGRAMMES LETTER HEADS STATEMENTS WEDDING CARDS BLANKS LEGAL BLANKS Deeds Leases Mortgages Judgment Notes and more. Orders by mail promptly attended to.
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N Iil
End of the World Happenings Hint at Decay in Yonkers Journal
Column compiles a mosaic of quoted witticisms and notices from the Yonkers Gazette. It notes diverse items from politics and religion to technology, celebrity birthdays, and a reflective tale of an old trunk and shared memories.
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Boston
Yonkers Gazette
Coal Transportation on Western Rivers
A report on the Pittsburgh to New Orleans coal trade notes the Ohio and Mississippi as vital cheap waterways. It describes winter ice hazards, river currents, and the vast harbors and costs, claiming water routes exceed railways in efficiency. The piece cites G. F. Muller in Harper's for January.
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Ohio
Mississippi
Pittsburgh
Gate City
Cairo
Allegheny
Lake Erie
Monongehela
Upper
New Orleans
G. F. Muller
Harper’s
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Warren
Ce. Beeman
Justice of the Peace
Allen Block
Ball & Thompson
Beaty Block
D. I Ball
C. C. Thompson
Wm.swanson
Johnson’s Exchange
Wilbur & Schnur
Front St
Postoffice
W. W. Wilbur
WM. Schnur
Brown & Stone
First National Bank
Warren Pa
H. &. Brown
R. Brown
C. W. Stone
H. EH
BROWN
L. D. Wetmore
CHAS
HH. Noyes
Wetmore & Noyes
Second Street
H. Noyes
Johnson, Lindsey
Parm Lee
Johnson
P. Johnson
W.M. Lindsey
J. Co
Parmlee
Dinsmoor & Cable
Attorneys At Law
Water Street
Scofield
C. Dinsmoor
JAS, Cable
R. B. Stewart
Hezeltine & Davis
Hickory St
Union School
Henry Cobhmann
J. M. Davies
Iomeopathic
Liberty St
the Baptist Church
Sextus Keller
A. Cogswell
City Meat Market
Front Street
Parmlee & Henry
G. WH. Leonhart
Tobacco, &c
Carver House
D. M. Davis
High Street
Court House
G. B. Evans
the Century Magazine
Scribner's Monthly
Oil City
N. W. Penn
W.H. Longwell &«& CO. Publishers
A. Siecel & Sons
A. Siegel & Sons
People's Shoe Store
J. H. Davis
Watson & Davis
Bloch
Warren, FL
Fred
Mabel
Will
Lucy Gray
William O. Stoddard
A. Mintzer & CO
Jamestown
Christian Smith
Warren, PA
Man
Green
Judge Black
Col. Ingersoll
Presbyterian Church
Grandpa
Grant
President Arthur
White House
Col. Rockwell
Exclid Avenue
Cleveland
House of Representatives
Congressman Farwell
Cincinnati
Jimmy
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