Sign at the Lincoln Train Museum, Gettysburg, Pa., August 12, 2011.
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"The Haines Shoe House. Ice cream, tours. Next exit, right to 462, then right to Shoe House Rd."
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"Certificate of Weight. Finger points to your exact weight: 109. Date this and keep for reference: ________. The Electrical Advertising Scale Company. Office: 97 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa."
Printed on the back of the card: "If thou do the contrary to that which someone will shortly whisper in thine ear, thou will have good fortune."
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"Champaign Co. Agricultural Society, member's ticket, 1865. D. W. Todd, treas. This ticket is not transferable."
Handwritten on back: S. Whistler.
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"The Kurtz New Wrought Iron Fire Escape, with burglar alarm attached. The best in the world for hotels, factories, colleges, seminaries, schools, &c. Cheaper and five hundred percent more efficient than any other. Is simple, wide, strong, safe, quick, and certain. No obstruction to windows or shutters! No disfigurement to buildings, and almost instantly ready for rescue at all windows and roof[s] in a perpendicular line, without regard to the height of buildings. John G. Kurtz, patentee and manufacturer, Milton, Penn'a."
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