Peckatone mansion in Virginia linked to early colonial era
Guests from the Piney Point Hotel toured Peckatone near the Potomac, a three story brick manor dating to 1660 with ties to Cromwell era patents and colonial families. The house, once ruined, was restored by owner Horace Kirkwood, preserving walls, wine vaults, and a grand lawn amid oaks. Washington, Madison, and Monroe are said to have visited in youth.
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Piney Point
Virginna
Jake
de Sho
Washington
Potomac
Mount Pleasant
Ewat Fairmont Park
Leonard Calvert
Maryland
America
Horace Kirkwood
Cromwell
Nicholas Jarnes
Charles I
Henry Corbin
Corbin
England
Corbins
Turberville
Taliaferro
Brown
Peckatone
Kirkwood
William Penn
Pennsylvania
Patrick ‘Henry
Virginia
Gen
George Washington
Madison
Monroe
Items of Interest from Early News Clippings
A collage of short notes covers women guards on Prussian railways paid 12 to 19 cents daily, a Maryland Jones family reunion with 876 Baltimore branch lines, a Westfield man arming on a gunshot accident with his grandmother, a newly found Oregon range cave with stalactites, Free Methodist revival in Pekin Illinois, ivy theft from Yale class of 1886 gifts, a bizarre train Bible sale in Iowa, questions about the Macon grand jury and McLean censorship, a child’s prayer for “one hundred brothers and fifty sisters,” and other curious anecdotes.
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Jones
Maryland
Baltimore
George Simmons
Westfield
Ill
Sway
Oregon Range
el Paso
Mammoth Cave
New York World reports record homing pigeon flight
A Newark pigeon owned by William Bennett set a world record by flying 866 miles in four and a quarter days. The silver male Sergeant Dunn, hatched April 5 1884 and bred from German military stock, was liberated July 18 near Montgomery Alabama and returned to Newark by July 22. Overall this bird has flown 4829 miles in various races under federation rules.
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New York
Newark
William Bennett
Duane
Montgomery
Ala
Sergeant Dunn
Bennett
Morgantown
N. C
Altoona
Steubenville
Federation
Charlotte
N. Y
Dyspepsia Cure Promoted by Dr Holt’s Kitab
A health note praises a remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia. Testimonial from R Lynn of Macon Georgia recounts decades of illness resolved by Holt's kit. Howard, president of Andrew Female College, and Davenport’s Hall’s Drug Stores are cited as sources.
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I. R. Holts
Dean Syn
Yu Ao ii
Lynn
Macon
Holt
Howard
Andrew Female College
Cuthbert
Davenport's
Hall
Dried Peach Buyer Offers Trade Overcash Market Value
An Ameri cas dried fruit dealer who has served farmers for fifteen years announces he will pay the highest market value for dried peeled peaches in exchange for dry goods clothing or shoes or similar goods. With money scarce and dull business he aims to close out a fair line of summer goods and move them at near wholesale prices.
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Florida Tonic
Foster S. Chapman
Landmarka of the
Georgia
Ose
Orlando
Florida
Anny
Urtinto
Fla
Guiun
Binall Bottlow
Itteksce
Macon Medicien Company
D. P. Holloway
W. B. Oliver
Ovo Modandar de Arrington
Americus Hits
Chas. Heneally
T. Wheatley
Americus
Salty Wade
Allen House
Preston, GA
JR. Allen, Partl Ie
Pro Prietor
CR. McCrory
Bllavlette
TELMS
JMR
Westbrook
M. D
Americus, GA
Geo. P. Rowell & Co
Newspaper Advertising Bureau
Spruce St
Song
Cts
Wison
Wilson Brog
Easton
Parry
Fediigs
Smitie & CO
Ersand
COUIS
Brratay
Philadelphia Times
Yale
Chicago Tribune
Iowa
Des Moines
Kentucky
United States Court
McLean
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Bea Newark Sirdina
Atlanta
J. H. Black
H. Hawkins
J. A. Cobb
C. A. Huntington
J. W. Wheatley
American
W. T. Toole
Samuel McGarrah
W. H. Tondee
Toole, McGarrah & Tondee
Grenge
Boaihead
Toole
John R. Shaw
Forsyth Street
Ameri
Cas
S.m.cohen
Cotton Avenue
Bank of America
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