Ridiculous Local Tales and Oddities Gathered
A Bay City man who passed a beer check on his wife faces trouble as he tries to avoid divorce. Aunt Clara jokes about Garibaldi monument appreciation. A well dressed man at a Detroit theater seeks two tickets, settling for standing room. A deadliest influenza bacillus figure lurks. avoid the creature. A Southern exchange jokes about a turnip eaten by a 150 pound editor. A German finds a pocketbook with $500 and advertises it fictionally. A girl finds luck stories with a horse shoe under her pillow and wears it with false teeth. She is shocked the shoe was not washed.
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Clara
Garibaldi
Detroit
North Dakota
Cuiiaco
Wabash Avenue
Fanny
Augustus
Sam’suestion
Ann
Chicago
Pieter
Smith
Soldier and Stone Wall Parallel Recounts Bold Stand
A compact reflection contrasts a soldier’s resolve with the unyielding permanence of a stone wall. The saying implies even the bravest hero loses momentum before an immovable object. The piece uses a wry, proverbial tone to juxtapose human vigor against geological steadiness.
Warren Stone A Career of Public Service and Leadership
A portrait of Charles Warren Stone born 1843 rising from farm labor to Williams College taught school and practiced law in Warren Pennsylvania He served in the Pennsylvania House and Senate, led harbor protection efforts at Erie, chaired the Pardons Board and became Secretary of the Commonwealth in 1887 His record shows firm leadership, legal prowess, and strong party loyalty making him a capable governor candidate for the dominant party.
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Commonwealth
Charles Warren Stone
Warren F. Stone
Massachusetts
Greene
Stone
Mary Williams
Lawrence Academy
Williams College
Union School
Warren
Warren County
Erie
Mississippi
Brown
House of Representatives
Pennsylvania
Venango
Crawford
Great Lakes
Secretary of War
Geary
Marine Hospital
Soldiers’ Home
Nisi Prius
State Senate
Senate
General Judiciary Committee
Ways and
House
State Reporter
Supreme Court
Henry M. Hoyt
Board of Pardons
United States
John S. Mitchell
Gov. Beaver
Prison Congress
Boston
Curious, Varied Global Snapshots Across News and Trivia
The column surveys odds and ends from 19th century notes: a fourteen-year-old widow. a full-grown deer a foot long. “Just For Fun” social club in New York. Haiti war costs around 16 million dollars. a Pittsburgh probate will. a New York man jailed for unpaid marriage debt. Mexican citizen pledging stock for Chicago fair. New York State’s 25 million annual welfare outlay for criminals and vagrants. Brazil’s municipal hospitals and 14,000 indoor patients at Misericordia. a Saventuck housekeeper’s two hearts in a fowl. Oklahoma attraction for Black emigration. Maine spruce gum yields 150 to 180 dollars per barrel. bucks found dead with locked horns. Natchez woman makes candy from sweet olive flowers. Wyoming law on equal pay for teachers. England’s longest frosts and mid-January snow. nicknames for new states. Minneapolis Runway immigration notes. St Helena as political prison for Zulu chiefs. Tory burlesque mood. Prof Happen on Papuans dying out and selling artifacts.
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Columnus
London
New York
Pittsburgh
Mexico
New York State
Brazil
Misericordia
Rio Janeiro
Saventuck
Oxlahoma
Maine
Bushey Park
Eng
Natchez
Miss
Wyoming
England
North Dakota
South Dakota
Washington
South New Guinea
Believers Hear Much About Neighbors From Rumors
People who accept all they hear tend to hear many things about their neighbors to believe. The idea suggests a propensity to trust rumors and form judgments based on reported whispers rather than verified facts.
Kemp's Balsam Proved Best Seller In Letter
A February 1 1887 letter from Victor New York urges O F Woodward to send 3 gross Kemp's Balsam 50c size with samples. The writer claims Kemp's Balsam outsells fifteen other cough remedies ten to one and notes common availability through druggists at 50 cents and one dollar, offering a sample bottle.
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Victor
N. Y
O. F. Woodward
F. E. Cons
Golden Specific promoted as cure for drinking problem
An advertisement claims a Golden Specific can be added to tea or coffee without the drinker’s knowledge to cure alcoholism, including severe cases, with no side effects and guaranteed results. It offers a circular from the Gold en Specific Co. and lists 185 Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, for confidential inquiries. Also notes a saying about courting with lamp down and lists mushrooms and French peas in containers from Goodrich & Fehlman.
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Golden Specific Co
Race Street
Cincinnati
Goodrich & Fehlman
In Woman's Name The Ninth New York Artillery Song
A Civil War era homage by J H DeVoe to women helpers, praising nurses from the field at Petersburg and Washington, urging men's votes to free their mothers wives and daughters while recalling loyalty and gratitude to the women who cared for wounded soldiers. It laments women in chains and hallmarks the goddess light over Bedloe's tower as a call to remembrance and action.
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Woman's Relief Corps of
South Dakota
J. H. DeVoe
Ninth New York Artillery
A.C
Washington
Bedloe’s
Financial disadvantages of women teachers in public schools
The piece argues that women instructors face systemic pay gaps and heavier non teaching burdens. It contrasts male officials earning higher salaries with female teachers who endure long study periods, cadet pay, and starvation wages while maintaining appearance. It highlights invisible costs of teaching and the moral pressure to appear proper.
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Chicago
Mary H. Krout
Chicago Inter Ocean
Literary drift and literary figures in 19th century notes
Henry M Stanuey sells forthcoming book for 200000. Lewis Moras seen as heir to laureateship in England. Louise Chandler Mouton commands high poetry prices. Bert Ginbert boasts rapid opera writing. Guaps tone drafting six magazine pieces including Tennyson review. Howe recalls Atlantic Monthly editorship. Ward hires private secretary. personal letters only. Margaret Deland types, answering letters by machine. Charlotte M YonGee published hundredth book. starting cento first. Hysuparp T Smith sold song Listen to My Tale of Woe for fifteen dollars. Europe rights offer ten thousand dollars. Browning cited as Jewish descent. family names noted. Laneley Thackeray's secretary diary from 1860 offered for sale.Diary reveals Thackeray’s conversations, opinions, peculiarities.
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Henry M. Stanuey
Lewis Moras
England
Louise Chandler Mouton
GinBert
Guapstone
Lord Tennyson
Howe
Atlantic Monthly
Humphrey Ward
Margaret Deland
Charlotte M. Yongee
Hvusparp T. Smith
War Department
Washington
Europe
Robert Browning
Rothschilds House
Browning
Germany
Wiedemann
Laneley
Thackeray
Labor’s Earned Reward and Fair Play in Government
The passage laments machine politics and vows a future when public funds cease to subsidize those tools. It asserts honoring diligent workers and promises a broad, just principle that the laborer is worthy of his hire, guiding the Republic toward firmer establishment and peaceable perpetuation.
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Republic
The Crowning Work of a Noble Organ ization
At the sixteenth annual Maine State Grange meeting in Belfast Ex-Governor Robie argues that empowering women is a core Grange goal. He praises equal membership and rights, urging recognition of women in industry and citizenship alongside men. The page also contains assorted jokes and anecdotes from various voices.
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Maine State Grange
Belfast
Robie
State Grange
Order
Grange
Progress of Women Across Spheres and Cities
The Woman's Press Club of New York has fifty members while women hold patents for 1900 inventions. In Britain 2,000,000 women voted in municipal elections. in Paris 5001 funded the Women's Rights International Congress. Elizabeth Gardner Klumpke and Rosin won medals in Paris. A Bengali women’s magazine is edited by Mrs Ghosal. Annie Southworthy of Vassar won a seat on a school committee in Botetton Massachusetts. Fourteen of Iowa’s country superintendents are women. Miss M A Booth joined the Royal Microscopical Society and will edit its Observer. The Woman’s University Club in New York admits only graduates. Barnard College will house a library and club room for about 25 members led by Miss Helen Dawes Brown. Demorest Georgia, dubbed the woman’s town, bars gambling saloons and brothels. efforts to secure women’s suffrage in town elections will be renewed.
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Woman's Press Club
New York
Patent Office
Great Britain
Columbia College
Municipal Council of
Paris
Women’s Rights International Congress
Turek
Annie Southworthy
Vassar
Botteton
Mass
Iowa
M. A. Booth
Longmeadow
England
Barnard College
Helen Dawes Brown
Demorest
Georgia
Tur
Brazil
Flensberg
Prussia
Antwerp
France
Judea
Jerusalem
Russia
Palestine
Liverpool
Tue
India
Robert Brownine
Dante
Sig. M. Cornacchia
F. Pellegrini
The
Transatlantic
Biblioteca Universitaria
Bologna
Magliabecchiana
Florence
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Warren Mail
E.cowan & CO
E.owan
W.cowan
D.cowan
R. John Hepburn
Warren, Pa
Liberty St
Ilbur & Schnur
Hazeltine Building
W. Wilbur
WM. Schnur
Inant Carle & Peterson
Attorneys AT Law
Water Street
Scofield Block
Dinsmoor
Jas. Cable
C.A. Peterson
Arren
Thos. W. Arird
Water and
Liberty Streets
William H. Allen
Allen & Higgins
Allen’s Block
Second and
Liberty Sts
M Walkerman
Qneida Market
Liberty Street
Udlow House
L. Agnew
Market and
Second Sts
A A. Schofield
Exchange Block
J. A. Love
Ofice
Warren, Penna
Short Streets
Third St
Tom E. Church
A W. Dunkle
F. KR. Scott
W G. Trunkey
Attorney AT Law
Judge Scofield
W W. Freeman
Haveltine
Stone & Rice
First National Bank
H. Eb, Brown
Notary Public
R. Brown
H. Ek, Brown
W. Stone
W. E. Rice
Ane
Wright Block
Centre Street
Corry, Pa
Bowman « Bole
John F. McPherson
Hickory
Gotsex D. Clara
Verback Block
N. Yates
L. G. Noyes’ Drug Store
Warren Savings Bank
W. A. Greaves
T. Neill
Exchange
Crawfor
Forest
Venango Counties
J. Muse, Or
Johnson's Exchange
Etmore
Noyes & Hinckley
Second Street
W. D. Hinckley
L. D. Wetmors
H. Noyes
W.D. Hinckiley
BA & Thompson
Beaty Block
D. A
T.aw
Johnson’s Exchange
Story
P. Johnson
W. M. Windley
Parmles
Capital
L. D. Witmore
M. Beecher
Cashier
Oldhstar
Ae Bank
Dagland
Ireland
Scotland
National Line
Tron
Hamburg
Bremenavre
Gothenburg
Christinia
Copenhagen
Smu
E. O. Graham
Nurseryman
Rochester
N.Y
J. K. Ronne
Hickory Street
D. Shear
Spring Goods
ROYAL
Royal Baking Powder Co
Wall St
Carter L
Carter
Carter Medicine CO
Pitcher’s Castoria
C. W. Stone
A Warren Statesman
W. 8. Kirkpatrick
St Jacobsll
Boonville
St. Jacobs Oil
H. M. Clark
St. Libury, Ill
St. Jacobs
Henry Beckemeyer
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore
Mark
Petersburg
Woman’s Journal
Covrisex
Mai
Mail Job Office
Warren P.O
Chloe
W. J. Henderson
E. A. Trent
America
Egbert L. Bangs
Drake’s Magazine
Earth
Sylvester Baxter
S. S. Times
N. Y. Sun
Valentine
Cupid
Paw
Mortimer C. Brown
Yankee Blade
University of Michigan
Stuart
Trinity College
Cambridge
Santee Agency
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