Rail Schedules Tie Oil Regions to Pittsburgh and West
The notice details the Nov 22 1869 services from Oil City to Pittsburgh with Day Express and Night Express, plus connections at West Penn Junction and Kittaning. It lists schedules for Oil City, Kittaning, Emlenton, Parker, West Penn Junction, and Pittsburgh, including connections to Corry Irvington Blairsville and Jamestown Franklin routes, plus Silver Palace sleeping cars on night trains. It also outlines TL Creek and Allegheny River Railway timings from Nov 15 1869 with express, mail, and accommodation trains between Corry Titusville Oil City Tidioute and Irvington, including surface transfers and arrival times.
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Oil City
Pittsburgh
Kittaning Accom
Emlenton
Kittaning
West Penn Junction
Parker Accom
Parker
West Pean
Corry
Irvington
Franklin
Jamestown
Franklin R. R
West Penn
R. R
Blairsville
Titusville
Petroleum Centre
Tidioute
Irvineton
of City
Petroleuum Centre
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
Atlantic and Great Western Railway
New York
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Erie
Cleveland
Buffalo, Corry
Pittsburg
Allenheny Valley Railroad
Philadelphia and Erie Railway
John Pitc Vatrn
Genie
Dreaming a Ballad of Kisses in Twilight
A speaker longs for a calm embrace and a kiss from a beloved. The poem envisions dreaming tonight and asking for a kiss in return, while inviting a twilight ballad as sweet as a smile to carry the moment.
Senate debates on Fifteenth Amendment disability removal and southern attitudes
Senate discussion on Nye Nye amendment to remove disabilities for those who aided the Confederacy. Cameron argues to delay removal until southern shift occurs. references to Georgia Florida and South Carolina, black suffrage, and northern hypocrisy. Also includes columns on Prohibition era rituals and Henry Clay's son Theodore's institutional life, plus unrelated notes on McFarland and a cathedral cross stunt.
Two Rodrigues Brothers Scale Cincinnati Cathedral Spire
In Cincinnati on Suh two Spaniards named Rodrigues climbed the cathedral spire at Plum and Eighth to repair lightning rod insulators. Father Purcell had advised scaffolding, but the brothers proceeded with a complex ladder system and general spectators watched from the streets.
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Cincinnati
Rodrigues
Edward Purcell
Plum and
Eighth Streets
What Defines a True Gentleman in Christian Virtue
A gentleman is more than form and ease. it rests on Christian virtue. He aims to treat others as he wishes to be treated, respects everyone’s position, avoids offensive topics, and hides others' defects. He shuns superiority, boasting, ridicule, and vulgar habits to prevent hurting others.
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Santiago
Adam
Riek
Locke
Nashville
New York
Robbery on the Jamestown Road Strips Reverend Bourne
Rev. A Bourne of Halsey Valley Tioga Co was attacked by two robbers while walking toward Fluvanna after leaving Jamestown. He lost $40 a watch a chain and other items, had clothing torn off, was left on the road and later guided to Fluvanna by a passerby. Police had not yet arrested anyone.
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Jamestown Journal
A. Bourne
Halsey Valley
Tioga Co
Fluvanna
Corry
Jamestown
Bourne
LV Everyone Growing Older at the Same Time
A concise, reflective note on aging shared in a local column with a wry tone. It frames aging as a collective, universal process affecting community members and readers alike.
Quotations and aphorisms from a bygone era
A dense collection of maxims, witticisms, proverbs, and riddles. It blends moral exhortations with wordplay, odd questions, and crumbly facts, mentioning figures like Cleopatra and ideas on virtue, love, work, and folly in a mosaic of era language.
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Brown & Schnur
Attorneys At Law
Liberty Street
G. W. Scofield
Warren
W. D. Brown
Hi Bes
WM. Schnur
C. C. Thompson
Second St
Beecher & Copeland
Carver
Hickory and
Water Streets
Warren County
H. F. Williams
J. A. Partridge
Warren, Penna
Rufus B. Smith
Smith & Thompson
Warren Pa
DR. R. Fuller
Sheffield Depot
Sheffield
Russel
Kulytf J. Loomis
Allen & Reeves
Water Street
Hunter
H. Allen
F.D. Reeves
G. W. Allen
J. N. Schnur
Russell House
J. A. Neill
Watson & Davis
W. C. Coburn, M. D
J. W. Potter
White’s Hotel
N. B
Venango
Forest Counties
Stebbsly
Culbertson, Bowman & Wood
Youngsville
Warren Co
J. A. Cutserrson
D. C. Bowman
G. R. Woop
George Reig, JR
Second Street
J. B. Brown's
Laugboots
P. & W. Martin
Cortland Street
Greenwich
Washington Sts
Peter Martin
WM. Martin
George Ball
J. H. Mitchell & CO
Carver House
Ww. Mitchell
H. A. Jamieson
Brown & Stone
Johnson’s Exchange
Jenna. R. Brown
C. W. Stone
Johnson& Brown’s
Wetmore
J. KR. Clark
Greenland Brothers
Keystone Block
Charles Dinsmoor
Justice O the Peace
Wilbur & Allen
First National Bank
W. Winpur
S. T. Allen
Philadelphia & Erie Rail Road
Warren Ee
RTE
Exy
Irvington Creek
Allegheny River
R. R. Alfred L. Tyler
Gene
Uperintendent
Avimg
Peter Masterson
Erie Railway
Zuommisse
Atlantic
Dunkirk
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Rochester
Dayton
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Galion
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Akron
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Lake Shore Railway
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West
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New Eugland
England
New England
Erie Railway Company
Jersey City
271 Street
Lise
Vickers
Firte
L. D. Rucker
WM. R. Barr
Gen
Isupt, A
G. W
Pass
Allegheny Valley Railroad
Little Darling
Darling
Senator Cameron
Senate of the
United States
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Connecticut
Nye
Cameron
Ohio
Mr. Drake
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The
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Theodore
Lexington Lunatic Asylum
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T. H. Clay
Honduras
John M. Clay
Running Horse
New York World
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Richardson
WIT and Wisdom
Cleopatra
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