Insights on Authors, Leather, and Ancient Tanning Practices
A long extract surveys authorial craft and writing process, quoting Mr. Boo and discussions of Without Home. It shifts to observations on tanning, leather use in Thebes and India, and the biblical tanner Simon at Joppa, noting ancient tanneries and related crafts beside Nile trade routes.
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Thebes
Victis Stein
India
Simon
Joppa
Peter
Cornelius
Ous
Dort
Mediterranean
Nile
Europe
Shora
Simon the
Prohibition Speech at Williamston Temperance Meeting
A Williamston temperance meeting reads from county papers to publish sums, then Lizzie Alexander presents a sermon on prohibition. The speaker cites Bacon Hale Guthrie Holland and Gladstone, arguing prohibition is moral and practicable, urging adherence, local option, and high license, concluding with a call to vote against liquor to thwart the devil’s work.
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Mr. Eorror
Williamston
Temperance
Mies Lizzie Alexander
D. W. Hw
G. W. Aspinsoy
W. A. Berts
St. W. Rogan
Jacob
Lord Bacon
Matthew Hale
England
Guthrie
Wris J. G-Holland
Gladstone
Noah Davis
New York
Saya
Lehea
Cannon Farrar
Omon Hood
God
Alexander
Napoleon
Rps
Herbert Spencer
Thornby
Massachusetts
Supreme Court of the United States
Daniel Webster
Rufus EB. Chaatese
Webster
Choate
Tuney
United States
Justice Grier
McLean
Herrick Johnson
Homiletic Review
Dr. Johnson
Maine
North American Review
Petroleum V. Nasby
D. R. Rocke
Toledo Blade
Portland
Conner
Chamberlain, Dingley
Perban
Supreme Court
Wolcott ‘Hamlin
Internal Revenue
William P. Frye
Congress
Jas
G. Blaine
Cyrus Hamite
Turkey
George William Curtis
Harper's Weekly
Jawa
Crafts
Champion
Menetekel
The
New York Tribune
Washington
Tasful
Lagy
Chicago
Howard Crosby
Brooklyn
China
Madagascar
Chesterfield
Theodore Frelinghuysen
Horace Greeley
Eve
Judas
Albert Barnes
Gerritt Smith
Socrates
Miletus
Athens
Marital Mosaic Ends In Elopement At Jonesborough
In Fayetteville Georgia on June 5 Justice Tomlin witnessed a marriage between Nathan Starnes and Mia Erica Hamby. The union followed a long sharing of families near the Jones borough road as Hamby and Starnes households intermarried across generations. After Hamby senior’s death, a missing Hamby daughter spurred a dramatic pursuit and the groom forcibly escorted the widow to seal the match. The couple now reside at the Starnes residence amid widespread congratulations.
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Fayettevinle
Justice Tomlin
Nathan Starnes
Mia
Erica Hamby
Jonesborough Road
Clayton County Vine
Hamby
Starnes
Bambys
Starnexes
Sumber
Miss Starnes
Poarrishes
Br. Starnes
Hambya
Mr. Starnes
House of Justice of the Peace
Jonesborough
Thia
Squire Tomlin
Treckon
Hambye
Staroes House
The Turkey Buzzard and Town Life Reflections
A long fragment describes the turkey buzzard as a scavenger to be disliked and outlawed in Southern states. It narrates hunting ethics, urban dog behavior, and a stream of anecdotes about farm life, schooldays, and village characters, mingling humor with social criticism.
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Agsic
Mra
Shay Mims
Ita
Sosa
Bingham
Acworth
Itonen
Meither
Nother Dog
Man Under the Bed Prank Ends in Sleepless Night
A wife asks her husband to check under the bed after lights out. He searches, finds nothing, and jokes there is a man under the bed. The wife demands proof, he reveals a man is under the bed, she dismisses him and goes back to sleep. Elmira Gazette reports.
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Abe
Elmira Gazelle
Inventions Mystery Telescope Discovery Story
An accidental discovery by Dutch spectacle makers leads to the telescope's origin. A boy and his father view distant church lights through glass pieces, inspiring spectacle maker to build the instrument later refined by Galileo. The tale notes the device astonished Venetian elites.
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Lipper
Galileo
Yeuia
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Ian
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Without
Acores
Lousea
Hfr. Hoe
Ulrug
Glee
Ral
Prohibition
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Bird
Georgia
Florida
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Meyer
Hardy
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Bridget
Hans Obrigtian Anderson
Tam
Hans ‘Anderson
United Presbyterians
General Assembly
Paul Gladstone
Memphis
Avent
Pitteburg
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