First Coal Oil Lamps Among Georgetown Family Heirlooms
A Georgetown family preserves rare early coal oil lamps from America’s infancy of electric and gas lighting. They own both a brass imitation candle lamp and a glass lamp prototype, among the first brought to America as curiosities before rapid lamp improvements. Washington Post reports these specimens symbolize early lighting innovation and family heritage.
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Georgetown
America
Washington Post
A Pansy Fable Among French and German Children
A quaint fable explains the pansy by flower petals and sepals. The five petals split into plain and gay, symbolizing a family with a husband wife and four daughters including two stepchildren. The largest gay petal stands for the wife, two small petals for the daughters, and the plain petals for the stepchildren. Removing petals reveals an old man silhouette with a flannel wrap in a bathtub pose.
Scotch Macedons and the Highland Society Dinner Pranks
A London Highland Society dinner showcases famed wit transfer tales as Scots feign Shakespeare and Milton to prove Scotch ancestry. The lively anecdote reaches a peak with one man delivering an even bolder, more daring note, prompting amused reactions from the assemblage.
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Perce Domoro
London
Highland Society
Shakespeare
Milton
Fright Car in Mazico Burdens Patient Animal
An excerpt describes a distressed animal bearing a heavy load with stoic endurance. It notes generations bearing burdens and hints at a broader societal or national reflection on hardship and resilience. The passage emphasizes quiet strength despite adversity.
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Mazico
Burroi
Death and Deserter Thompson Executed by Potomac Army
A veteran recounts a firing squad execution near Weldon railroad. Thompson, a deserter and former U.S. Navy officer, was shot after a card game with guards and a staged coffin. The tale includes banked bribes, guard duties, and the solemn march of the dead.
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Maryland
Thompson
Vedette
Weldon
Ninth Corps
United States Navy
Army of the Potomac
Washington
Tip
Zip
Saul
Meutenant
Thompson Top
Satanic Parade Hero Danforth Leads Bainbridge Fest
Elliott Danforth long prominent in politics and law, a summer resident of Bainbridge, Chenango county, served as grand marshal at a Buoday School festival. He rode the spirited horse in blue attire with scarlet sash, bowing to 2000 children as music urged a "Hold the Fort" procession, then stepped down to observe.
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Elliott Danforth
Danforth
Bainbridge
Chenango County
Mr. Danforth
Lucifer
Satan
Traveling man from Lynchburg helps with baby on train misstep
A Lynchburg man assisted a young woman with packages and a baby on a Southern train to Charlotte. He followed to the station as she greeted friends, but after the train pulled out she left him with the baby. The man warns to be cautious about new acquaintances on trains.
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Lynchburg
Richmond Dispatch
Charlotte
N.C
Sta Amall Station
Two Wicked Cities Warns by Booth Over Chicago and New York
Salvation Army head Gen William Booth denounces Chicago and New York as the world’s two wickedest cities. He says vice and pleasure swamp them, churches lack power to curb sin, and a wave of wealth breeds luxury and idleness that dulls awareness of danger to families and children.
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William Booth
Salvation Army
England
Chicago
New York
Vico
Medical Men Amaze Over Unique Heart Lung Case at Niagara Falls
In Niagara Falls on November 23, a 60 year old African American man named Allen collapsed after driving a kicking horse. Autopsy revealed a three inch growth in his heart and left lung, though the heart was large yet healthy and pneumonia was present. The preserved organs will be discussed in medical journals as a remarkable case.
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Niagara Falls
Allen
Dopford
Wording of Rudimentary Home Remedies for Pain Relief
A fragment advises treating wounds from rusty nails by placing woolen rags on live coals and sprinkling brown sugar over them while holding the wound over the smoke until pain fades. It also claims to relieve horse colic by holding burning resin under the animal’s nose.
DOG MEMORY REVEALED IN IOWA REGIMENT TALE
In a Washington office scene, Pensios Commissioner Ware confronts a brigadier general from the Civil War era who asks about a bulldog named Major once belonging to the First Iowa unit. Ware recalls the dog and a shared past with the aggressive, reckless recruit, now in formal uniform.
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Pensios
Ware
Washington
First
Iowa
Major
Daya
Iola Register
Dreamed of Gold and Then Found It on Farm
A Cabarrus county farmer named Sternes says a dream by his deceased wife guided him to a spot on his farm where he found a rough lump of virgin gold the size of a man’s thumb. his son showed several small gold lumps and quartz fragments.
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Charlotte
N. C
Cabarrus County
Sternes
Notice to creditors of Exoolslor Oil and Fertilier Co
Notice to all debtors of the Exoolslor Oil and Fertilier Company to settle by the stated date. The company’s affairs must be closed and all debts paid promptly. W. F. Cox, President, October 8, 1902.
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Exoolslor Oiu and Fertilier Company
W. F. Cox
Mtave
Beoambar Luchaatye
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