Farmer Buys Goldsmith Maid Then Learns It Was a Pool Bet
A Michigan farmer named Rodman travels to East Sag inaw to see Goldsmith Maid race. He erroneously buys the mare for 900 dollars at a pool sale believing he purchased the horse, then discovers the bid was a bet and retrieves his money after a crowd and a police intervention. The tale ends with Rodman vowing to never trust a pool again.
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Taxtre
Mr. Rodman
Michigan
Goldsmith Maid
Judge Fullerton
East Saginaw
R. Rodman
Rodman
Francis 8. Smith
N. Y
The Grasshopper as a Comic Botanical Oddity
A satirical profile of a grasshopper labeled Gryllus vulgardy and its English ancestor virid desimus, mocking science prose with exaggerated traits. The piece compares field damage, anatomy, diet, and habits, contrasting farm pests with city grasshoppers in a humorous Topeka Commonwealth excerpt.
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England
Grylius
Theodore Tilton
Gryllvs
Kansas
Buckrg Hey
Gryliuses
Viridissimusser
Topeka
Han
Commonwealth
Wills and Wonts Rule Woman’s Bizness and Mood
A humorous essay contrasts a woman’s “wills” and “wonts” with male patience, praising decisive nature as essential to life and marriage. It notes men admire firm resolve, while questioning if women are truly ruled by willpower. Also a cheeky aside about fashionable young ladies in libraries preferring light summer reading and style over substance.
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Wimmin
Josh Billings
N. Y
Cream Puffs and Floriculture Tips for Home Use
A kitchen recipe explains cream puffs with flour butter eggs and custard made from milk flour sugar and eggs plus optional vanilla or lemon. The household column adds vase care with white sand and water to keep cut flowers fresh, plus floral pyramid arrangements and tips on pruning roses and use of sand sculptures.
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Health Journal
Floriculture
Line Stock Journal
Ife
Prince & Co organ ads and vintage tonics page
An assortment of 19th century commerce items including Prince & Co 8 organ descriptions with pricing, Reed's Temple of Music Chicago address, quack medicine warnings about Dr. Pierce's Extract and Walker's Vinegar Peruvian, and finance ad copy from Wall Street brokers. The fragment ends with a nail advertisement.
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Reed
Temple of Music
Chicago
Wiznorr's Tonto Cure All for Chills and Health
Unfailing remedy hailed as cheap safe and prompt for chills with no doctor visits no prescriptions and no heavy bills. Ibis praised as friend of the poor enabling earning a living and of the rich to enjoy wealth. Waecock Finnay Co. New Orleans proprietors advertise for sale by cradleists.
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Wiznorr
Tonto
Ibis
Waecock, Finnay & Co
New Orleans
Tae Lirrin Corroran Feast in September Magazine
The September issue promises an entertaining feast for readers of all ages with a choice variety of original literary matter. Subscription price is $1.50 per year with chrome to subscribers. Premiums are offered to join clubs. Single issues are fifteen cents. Published by Joan EB Mu, Chicago.
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Tae Lirrin Corroran
Joan EB. Mu. Ler
Chicago
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Pience
Jamaica
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Castle
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California
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Tam Nogravestere
Horsa-Nam Co
Rice
Boston
Young Inca
Hagan
Lyon
Kathalion
Pat
Horsea
Upham
Ganson Moormserr
Lauldiana
Mall
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T. Popham & CO
Puladkelenia
Edwards Lester
Sumner
Osgood & CO
Sonth Clark St
Lil
College OF Law
Northwestern
Henry Booth
Lyman Trumbull
James IX Doolittie
van Buren
Akjende
Novess Medicii
Richmund
Ludde
United States
Ziegler & M' Curdy
Husker
Address City Novelty CO
Brb Street
Plain, Pa
America
Robert Wells
Vesey St
P.O
Broadway
LS &C
Willeendi Doz
P. O
Cheonos
FTC
Indiana
Elinois
E. C. Bridgman
Barclay Street
New York
Ee Adee
ATC Cire
Bristol
LaSalle St
Piuma & Co
South Ath St
Phila
HES & Elby
Harrite Bunyee &c Boxier
Norris & Co
Canton
Ohio
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Covert
Quen
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Ill
Optic’s New Books
High Rock
Idomo
Kluy
Sunny Shores
Young America
Italy
Austria
LEE & Shepard, Publishers
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Olive St
Milwauker
Yean Gy
the Sum
New York City
Catal
Allister
Philo
Exit Carson
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Hunt &Co
A. Park
Clark Street
A Livingstone
Africa
ORB
Addreas Bian Book CO
Srn
Buffalo
Cat Lopuoto
Hato
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Py Banborn
Mouroe Street
Ilr
Swapaper Union Reprera
Menin Garae
Pater
Zerma
Livingstone
Peru
H. A.W. Black Burn
Griswold Street
Detroit
Mich
Strange Dexiccs. Co
Joan Worth &,Co
Louis
Addresa
J. FY
Song Monarch
H. R. Paluen
L. O. Emerson
J. R. Parnex
Oliver Ditson & Co
Chas
H. Ditson & Co
B’dway
Seltzer
Agenta
Wheeler & CO
Bang Street
Cleveland
Lordere
W. W. Hallock
General Western
Jackson Sr
J. Walker
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Mississippi
Missouri
Illinois
Tennessee
Cumberland
Arkansas
Red
Colorado
Brazos
Rio Grande
Pearl
Alabama
Mobile
Savannah
Roanoke
James
BR. H. McDonald &C
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