Wild Harry the Welsh Mountain band robber reformed lover tale
A long narrative in Harper's Magazine traces Wild Harry Birt leader of the Welsh Mountain gang, his courtship of Ada Rheinbold, the raid on a farmer’s home, and his capture. Ada endures prison years for his reform, they marry after his release and move to Arizona. The tale blends crime, romance, and redemption with legal proceedings and Websteran anecdotes from a contemporaneous observer.
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Buzzard Brothers
Berks
Chester
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Welsh Mountain
Henry Birt
Birt
Wild Harry
Ada Rheinbold
Reading
Ada
Hirt
Sha
Onge
Helen
Dasso
Sates
Whid Farry
Old Rheinbald
Arizona
Shah
Jyet Adh
Harry
Red
Wild
Jack
Diller
Odods Diller
Ditler
Bfarry
Tucson
Sanford’s Radical Cure for Catarth and a Cat Killing Incident
An ad touts Sanford’s Radical Cure for catarrh with herbal ingredients and a full treatment for a dollar. In a separate scene, three men ambush a cat at dusk, one fires a pistol causing a wound to a bystander while a lantern holder is injured. the cat escapes.
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Canada
Sanford
Jeb
Wells Health Renewer Promoted Despite Impotence Claims
D. Park & Sons in Cincinnati and Napoleon advertise Wells Health Renewer as the greatest remedy for impotence and general vitality. Peter L. Cole was sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary for killing John Harmon, who was criminally intimate with Cole's wife.
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Druggis Ohio Depot
D. Park & Sons
Cinci Amati
Napoleon, D. C
Peter L D. Cole
John Harmon
Trial Bottle of Dr King New Discovery Promoted
All throat and lung sufferers are urged to call at Laubach and Donnelly's Drug Store for a free trial bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. The excerpt also notes Wagstaffe’s incorrigible swagger and a domestic exchange about murder and money, plus a nod to Eelsgh Syrup to avert bronchial illness, priced at 25 cents.
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DR. Moore
Roller & Wilgon
Dri
E. Quinbys
A. H. Teunt
L. Shibley & Bro
Jewalates
S. E. Cor Public Square
Residencie
North Buckeye Street
Jery Fox
Laubach & Donnely
Laubach & Donnelly’s
Dr. King
Descent from Journalism: Ochiltree and a Great Dispatch Tale
John Russell Young recounts Colonel Ochiltree’s desertion from journalism and a famed telegram story. The party, including Jim Beany, visits the Grand Hotel telegraph office to witness a dispatch cost of sixty thousand five hundred dollars sent to the New York Herald. The Houston Telegraph protested, and the tale positions Ochiltree among notable editors of the era.
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Colonel Ochiltree
John Russell Young
Tom Ochiltree
Europe
Jim Beany
Cafe Anglais
Jim
Bennett
Ths
New York Herald
Ameran
Houston
George
Texas
Houston Pelegraph
Leadership by virtue not force in early American thought
This excerpt argues that true leadership rests on natural ascendancy and honest majorities rather than coercive campaigns. It cites Washington and Jay as examples who did not seek power, contrasting with schemes to win votes through graft. It concludes that selfless public service, not self promotion, secures capable leadership.
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Mr Webster
Annapolis
Hom
Webster
Shakspeare
Web
Curtis
Sjtampshire
Mr. Webster
Congress
Theophilus Parsons
Salem
Boston
Parsons
Joan HB. Lat. Robe
Harper's Magazine
Washigton
Jay
Fue
Washington
Oose
Borror
Rumor of Rheumatism Cure at Lynn Fruit Store
A reporter visited 67 Market Street in Lynn to check a claim that J. Levett’s fruit store owner cured rheumatism with a “great remedy” for his father. Levett’s son says the elder Levett was previously in severe pain but now feels well and free of rheumatic pain.
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Mobil
Cassis
Oinnn
Harris Remedy
ST. Louis
Lynn
Mass) /ts
R J. Levett
Market Street
Levett
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D. W. Kember
Childs
Post Office
Barrett & Opden's
Aquila Wiley
Joun C M’clarran
Wiley
J. Re. Woodsworth
Postoffice
Wilson Sorr
Wooster,o
West Side Public Square
Wayne County National Bank
C. M. Yoctn
Taggart Yocum & Taggart
Wooster
Ohio
Mee
Public Square
Quinby
McSweeny & Parsons
Attorneys AT Law
Jacobs’ Tron Block
Hiram B. Swartz
Downle’s Block
Vhlo
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M'Clure
Martin L. Shyser
Wiéclure
John RB
McKinney
Lucas & Werler
Southwest Side Public Square
L. Q. Jeffries
John Podeffries
James Jeffery
Jaw
West Salem
Wintyre County
Tio
Joan Wayne
Ailjemiing
Octouth
The
J. T. Gable
Gable
Els. Dowell
Johnsons Bank
Alfred J. Thomas
Daw Wooster
Orrick Seeands Moor
Tickson
Publi Sequare
BB. McClure Attornes
Law -Gillee
Buble Square
Caogiaty Oillees
S. BR. Bonewitz
LAW -Ofce
JT Taylor's
West Liberty Street
Asordalty
Wat, Warbins
Canal Fullton
Waste County
Miuta
Spee Fabattenbog
Theeral Venstinagee
Wayne Ad Stark Cognties
Physicians
Geo. A. Kelley
M. D
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LautAch & Bevard
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North Market Street
Episcopal Church
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Geo. Liggett
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PostaMee
North Market
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Archer Honge
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Orrville Banking GO
Orrvilile
Strauss
Pamther Amd
Penn Husiness
Jacob
Brenneman
Degvoignes
Kpge Barrett
Ato T
John HL Houser
Fanner
Jacob Ault
Farmer
Arrauss Dry ¢Roods
Danieli Shisler
Farmiig Implements
Taylor
Attar Wy
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Brennemans
Bank Teller
O.K
Mannafactaor
Sioy
Brant
Olldes
Singer Manufacturing Co
the Singer Manufacturing CO
Wyt
Heaton Latare
Newark
Holler & Wilson
C. P. F. Risch & CO
Wobster
O. P. F. “Risch & CO
Great One Price Clothiers
Square
Exchange Bank
Wayne
Parte
Valeria
Valentine
Q Boys
Farr
Mary A. Barr
Harper's Weekly
Rheinhold
Zopesa
Brazil
Coster
Onifio
Butt
Fountain Hill Nursery
Yas
Frutti and
Ornnamental
Brees
Popotans Hat Nursery
Orrvile
Fies Facot Gardner
Will Beresford
B. Baird
Newkirk & Lagvett
GJOME
Cedar Valley
RYE
Walsey
Rene Frog
New
K. Bojvman
Titan
Il Am
America
Sassau St
York
Stinson & Co
Portland, Maine
Burdock
Hertus
Foster, Milburn & CO
Buffalo
N. Y
Tatpacu & Donnelly
Edward Myers
Standout, N. S
Kingston, N. S
Freesat
Roundout
New York
Kennedy
Oaenl
Callard
Bulmark
At. Tenther & CO. Pattsburgh
B.C Smith
Freswent
Peedricksburg
Eberly
Smithville
S.J. Kirk Wood
Clerk
Mus Board OF School Examiners
Wayne County
Mareh
Marc
Kirk Wood
Wonster,q
Jansii
Hoofland
Dijon
Johnston, Hollow
Rey
Philadelphia
Heiskell’s
Worcester
Wagstatle
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Wagstaffe
Wassiey Republica
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I&c
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Danie Thanki
Endian Igisittin
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