Transit Timetable Fragments Show Regional Stops and Times
A fragmented timetable lists multiple city names including Titusville Dunkirk Frewsburg Irvington Grand Valley and Pittstfield with arrival and departure times across early to late day. Entries reference ex and gen timetable segments with abbreviations and scattered city pairs.
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Titusville
Grand Valle
Garland
Pittstfield
Youngsville
Irvington
Warren
Russelburg
Fentonville
Frewsburg
Falconer’s
Fredonia
Dunkirk
Buffalo
Pittsfield
Grand Valley
L. A. Clute, Ass
Golden curls ride the rustic swing in summer tale
Under chestnut trees in June a troop of bright eyed children roamed. A girl with gold ringlets rode a swing while others played near a rippling stream beneath green branches and grapevines with a robin singing in spring.
Tilden Hendricks reception mocked as political spectacle
A critical New York press roundup denounces Mr. Tilden and Mr. Hendricks for a disputed post election display. The Times and Tribune call the demonstration hypocritical and unmanly, urging Democratic honor and acceptance of the Electoral Commission decision.
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New York
Samuel J. Tilden
the Tribune
Tilden
Democratic Party
Mr. Tilden
Gramercy Park
Patrick
Oregon
Pelton
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Messrs
Hendricks
John Kelly
Tammany
Kelly
James B. Beck
Kentucky
France
Republic
Pay as You Go Promotes Prosperity and Low Prices
The argument favors cash sales over credit noting that quick sales with small profits plus liberal advertising build steady growth. Credit leads to bank extensions and bankruptcies as nonpayment causes protests and forced restructures. Cash-only shops attract customers with lower prices and fewer losses.
Truths and Trifles: A Patchwork of Wit and Warnings
A humorous sampler of quips and observations on trust, debt, manners, love, and society. The piece mixes proverbs and satirical lines about newspapers, printers, fashion, and everyday life, featuring playful jabs at credit, dogs, girls, and merchants.
Last of Table Rock at Niagara Crumbles Into River
The long known Table Rock at Niagara broke away in two falls, one on the 14th of ultimo and another on January 1, 1829, with the 60 ton mass and half the original rock plunging into the chasm. The event, felt five miles away, resembled an earthquake and left trees standing in the river where the rock once rested.
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Niagara
Maiden Walk
Farmer's onion defense plan backfires on potato bugs
A farmer tried to deter potato bugs by planting onions between potato rows. The bugs ignored the onions and ate cardamon seeds, driving the farmer to vent his frustration in the woodshed.
What Causes of Drunkenness, The Whiskey Question
An exchange asks about the causes of drunkenness and asserts whiskey causes much of it. The writer notes whiskey, if consumed undiluted, can lead to heavy intoxication, while mixing other drinks may hasten the effect for those in a hurry.
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George
Wedgewell
Doughty
Squire
Squire Temple
Barton
Helen
The Whistle Trick Ends With a Lime Shower
A mason named Pat, tired of a window trick, finally drops a hod full of lime on the prankster joiner who mocked him. The incident, recounted by Family Herald, ends with Pat shouting to whistle for more tar.
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Pat
Paddy
Family Herald
Be kind to the book agent lays him to rest
A poetic fragment urges tenderness for a book agent, inviting readers to lay him gently to final rest beneath willow branches, while noting his father mother and peaceful youth and hopeful prayers for welfare.
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New England
Puck
The Singers Of A Seven Foot Corn
A humorous exchange mocks Mr. Redman of Lycoming County claiming a corn seven feet high. The piece imagines his height, footwear, and weather woes, joking he could forecast storms from such a corn.
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Redman
Lycoming County
Signal Service Bureau
Washington
Kansas
Night’s Weeping Winds Across a Grieving Sea
Poem lines describe mournful winds and rain at sea. The speaker notes sea tears moving to the restless water and compares collective sorrow to a nation's grief, portraying somber, reflective mood and imagery of tears and waves.
Modoc Tribe Shows Progressive Change Through Mission Schoolwork
The Modocs, in the Nation a little over three years, send under-20 children to Quapaw Mission School run by Asa Tuttle and wife. After a year there, older children read and spell well and many have converted to Christianity. Chief Bogus Charley praises life here and a Sabbath school moved General Butterfield to admit progress, while Modocs farm and craft bows baskets and mats for exchange rather than whisky, showing partial self support.
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Quapaw Mission School
Asa Tuttle
Bogus Charley
Butterfield
Kansas City
Animal Charades in Billings Style by Josh Billings
A humorous set of quip style observations on animals and their traits. Each line offers comic traits from cats dogs parrots ants flies roaches ducks hens horses serpents crabs and a cuckoo attributed to Josh Billings with playful misstatements and anthropomorphic humor.
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Cuckcoo
Josh Billings
Mary Clemmer Ames a Popular High-Pa yed Washington Writer
The article profiles Mary Clemmer Ames as the era’s leading newspaper writer, earning $30 weekly from the New York Independent and Cincinnati Commercial. It notes her independence, polished home on Capitol Hill, refined social circle, and evocative writing on motherhood despite having no children. Her Monday receptions attract Washington’s elite.
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Mary Clemmer Ames
New York Independent
Cincinnati
Capitol Hill
Washington
Upscale party scene ends with fall from window
A fashionable uptown gathering ended with a young man pitched out a back window. Rumors of an earthquake spread before authorities confirmed seventeen tons of earth had been scooped out by his collar during the rapid descent.
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Beatty Block
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Merck & Cu
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Scoffield
Warren Pa. Co
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F. D. Reeves
WM. W. Hazeltine
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Junius R. Clark
Chas
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Allen &Fhompson
Tidioute
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TPI
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Wow
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Struthers, Wells & CO
A. Ruhlman
Baltimore
Third Street
R. Miles
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Fisher Block
J. E
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Pu Byseker
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Mr. Byseker
Guy Co. Irvine
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Table Rock
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